16 weeks and a super bowl win later, we know the new England Patriots were probably aware tom brady was using underinflated footballs, or do we . Lets talk live in the cnn newsroom. Good morning. I am Carol Costello. Thank you for joining me. Tornados batter americas heartland and the threat is not over yet. Large twisters like this one shredding the plains. In all, 46 tornadoes reported and some as late as 3 00 in the morning. Homes in splinters this morning, and then there is the rain. And roads look like rivers in oklahoma, and new flash flooding still a concern today. Chad meyers is tracking the storm and joins us from atlanta. Good morning. Reporter the crazy part about yesterday was all the way from western nebraska all the way down to texas we had tornadoes on the ground. There are 46 reports, and that doesnt mean 46 tornados technically, because one guy could have looked at it this way and reported a tornado and then another guy reported the same tornado. The tornados will continue through sunday. Debris launching into the sky. Mike we have a roof that just flew through the air and i dont know where it came from. Tornados reeking havoc in the plains. Residents in the heartland i got to back out of here waking up to disaster and in Oklahoma Kansas and nebraska. I saw two clouds meet as one, and then we could hear the sound of a train, and our ears started popping because of the air pressure. For the first time in history, the National Weather service declaring a flash flood emergency in Oklahoma City. The massive storm causing up to 8 inches of rainfall in a matter of hours. The main airport in Oklahoma City shut down as employees and passengers evacuate through a pedestrian tunnel. You need to take shelter immediately. This is a large tornado which is continuing to grow in size. South of Oklahoma City the hardest hit, and lightning flashing through a wall of clouds as tornados rip roofs off buildings including the side of this hotel. At least three residents in critical condition, after a tornado flattened a mobile home park, and the tornado emergency, including the city of moore where just two years ago a massive ef5 tornado killed dozens of people and demolished thousands of homes. The jet stream has changed direction from the southwest now, and the moisture out of the gulf of mexico and the dry air this way and all the way through the plains for the next four days Severe Weather today, into tomorrow, and into saturday. Its going to be one day after another. Even into sunday, slightly further to the east and some of these tornadoes happen after dark as late as 3 00 a. M. And you probably will be speaking and make sure you have an app on your phone that can wake you up if a Tornado Warning is issued for your area. Thank you so much. Turning to sunday nights attack in texas. Investigators chase leads overseas and a slain gunman returns home. Nadir nadir nadir saofy will be buried today. And authorities are looking at a british hacker and believed to be linked to simpson. Reporter good morning, carol. We are learning much more about Elton Simpson, and i want you to take a look at this video precipitation video itself is ainnocuous and its from 2012 and its a fundraiser, but we see Elton Simpson and we get a sense of his personality. We have been hearing all week he was mild mannered and he is calm and you see it and hear it in his voice, and we are hearing the fortitude of his faith in the video. It recharges your iman as well when you come together and you pray five times a day for the brothers and it provides for you a form of weaponry to go out in the world and it will shield you he converted to islam while in high school to stay out of trouble, and thats why family supported him in his choices as he studied it as he became a man, and a evangelical pastor was a friend, and he believes this violence in texas, it may have felt like a logical step for Elton Simpson. Here is what he says. I was surprised but not shocked. I wouldnt put it past him because i understood the sincerity of his beliefs, and he expressed to me admiration and specifically bin laden, he used the word hero. Reporter simpson and his shooter friend the one that went with him to texas, if they were directed or inspired by isis specifically their connection to the british hacker authorities want to know how closely they were all aligned. Thank you. Next hour on capitol hill lawmakers look at the alarming evolution of terrorists recruitment and the use of social media. And one of those testifying before the committee will be Cnn National Security analyst, peter bergen. He joins us live from the national bureau. You run an Organization Called the new America Foundation and that studies Online Activity. What can you tell us about the Online Activity that attracts Young Americans to turn to be radicalized . We looked at 62 cases of people in the United States who have been involved in syriarelated militant activity whether trying to go to syria, or helping others get to syria, or fighting there. The 62 individuals 8 out of 10 of them are active online, communicating as Elton Simpson did with people in isis overseas and onefifth of them are females, and this is unprecedented, and the holy wars overseas did not attract females, and so its interesting that women are kind of volunteering to be part of them. We also found they are all over the United States, and we found cases in 19 states, and the fbi director has said there are cases in 50 states and of course many of them are not public as of yet, and we also found these were a young group of people which explains our social media, and quite a number of teenagers, including girls as young as 15 so thats the profile that i will be discussing today, carol, with the committee. And the other thing that your foundation found, there is no Common Threat among these young people. I guess the only Common Threat is they are young, and they become radicalized online and thats it. Yeah they are from every ethnic group. Take the case in garland texas, an pakistani and half american in terms of birth, and we have seen caucasians and somalian americans, and bosnian americans, and thats what is difficult for Law Enforcement, and the one group we are not seeing is syrian americans fighting in syria, and its every ethnic group from every state and that adds to the complexity for Law Enforcement, and the good news is the people we are seeing going to syria are not returning to United States and very rarely have they come back and the problem we are seeing is people who are inspired by isis as we saw on sunday night, and that is a problem, but at the end of the day, those two guys are dead and they didnt succeed at all in what they planned to do. Peter pwur thank you so much and i know you have to testify before that committee, so thank you for joining us this morning. Still to come the deflate gate is out, and it found tom brady sort of likely could have known about the deflated footballs. Should he be suspended . Well talk about that next. [ male announcer ] he doesnt need your help. Until he does. Three cylinders, 50 horsepower. Go bold. Go powerful. Go gator. When broker chris hill stays at laquinta he fires up the free wifi with a network thats now up to 5 times faster than before so he can rapidly prepare his presentation. And when he perfects his pitch, do you know what chris can do . And that is my recommendation. Lets see if hes ready. He can swim with the sharks hes ready. La quinta inns suites take care of you, so you can take care of business. Book your next stay at lq. Com la quinta i take prilosec otc each morning for my frequent heartburn. Because it gives me. Zero heartburn prilosec otc. The number 1 doctorrecommended frequent heartburn medicine for 9 straight years. One pill each morning. 24 hours. Zero heartburn. Patriots fans an nfl Commission Report finding Quarterback Tom Brady likely knew footballs he was using during the first half of the afc title game were underinflated. The most damming evidence Text Messages. Talk of cash free shoes and autographs from brady. Here is one of the text exchanges from october. Mcnally, tom sucks, and i will make that next ball an expletive balloon. And he brought you up saying you must have a lot of stress trying to get them done. Interesting, right . Now what . To help answer that question sports guru andy scholes. I want to start with the language in the wells deport, and its used to say this based on the evidence it is probable than not that tom brady was at least generally aware of inappropriate activities and not exactly an indictment or strong language. What is it . Generally aware, and they worded it like that because there is no concrete evidence, there is no video of somebody taking air out of the footballs, and no eyewitness of it happening, and nobody ratting in the organization and its a mountain of circumstantial evidence and you showed the Text Messages and then you have the Text Messages between one and brady, and the fact he would not turn over his Text Messages or emails, and he speaks to duh skreupl 63 multiple times more than 25 minutes at a time, and doesnt make brady look very well, and it doesnt really go well with his whole story that he knew nothing about the deflated balls. And why did they have to hand their phones over . Because they were team phones. And brady said its my phone, and i am not giving you anything. Doesnt the commissioner still have to act and do something with tom brady . There is a camp that thinks trb is going to be suspended, and others think he wont. I think he will. Back to bountygate with sean payton he basically said i know nothing about this and i am not going to cooperate with your investigation. He got suspended for the entire season. Is deflated footballs as serious as bounty season i dont think so but he is saying i dont know anything about footballs and i am not going to cooperate with the investigation, and he will be suspended maybe for the opening game of the season thursday night against the steelers and its the most watched game of the season generally up until the playoffs, and its going to have much less appeal. And steelers fans sreulwill be rejoicing. Mr. Kraft is a powerful owner, and wont he put pressure on the commissioner to not do a thing . They are known to be good friends, and kraft, as soon as the report came out, he was ready to go ready to challenge it and saying i cant believe the nfl is not using the atmosphering condition, and saying the colts balls one of the guys called himself the deflator. Yeah the circumstantial evidence is so great. I couldnt believe the patriots tried to play that angle. Its going to be interesting what tom brady says about this. He is he going to say i was wrong or is he going to stick to his guns and say i know nothing about it . It will be interesting to see. Still to come you aint seen nothing yet. That threat coming from an isis jihady after two gunmen open fire in texas. Well talk about that next. This allergy season, will you be a sound sleeper, or a mouth breather. Well, put on a breathe right strip and instantly open your nose up to 38 more than allergy medicines alone. So you can breathe and sleep. Shut your mouth and sleep right. Breathe right. Getting older shouldnt mean giving up all the things she loves to do. It should just mean, well, finding new ways to do them. Right at homes professional team thoughtfully selects caregivers to provide help with personal care, housekeeping, and of course, meal preparation. Oh, that smells so good. 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Lets talk about that with a republican congressman, a member of the House Foreign Affairs committee. Good to be back with you. Do you think training 5,000 rebels will make a dent in the fight against isis . Some of the Syrian Rebels are not focused on fighting isis and they are focused on taking out assad. That is an added challenge as well that focus. 5,000 may very well be well short of what is needed to take out isis and it will be good to have more trained Syrian Rebels on the ground bringing the fight to isis but we certainly have to go about this with the reality they are being out manned and out gunned and some of the Syrian Rebels we are training are not focused on defeating isis. Not like you can train them in a day, right . Well right, and isis members right now are getting reallife battlefield training as they operate. They have been for several months gaining realworld experience on the ground and getting training is one thing and applying it is a whole other thing, and isis continues to recruit additional members, so an estimate that says isis has tens of thousands of people fighting on their behalf you know every day that number seems to be drastically increasing. Lets talk about the recruitment, and i want to turn our attention to the texas attack right now. And we know one gunman exchanged tweets with the british hacker and one tweet was aint seen nothing yet. How concerned should we be . Its a threat and there were two women that had every spwepbtial of detonating Pressure Cooker bombs in new york and u. S. Citizens consider themselves to be citizens of the islamic state. And people in dallas are talking about what happened in the last few days and all across america we have individuals who are becoming isis sympathizers and we need to boost our intelligence capability to foil these attacks before they happen and we have to secure our entry process to insure that anybody that leaves that we have accountability when they come back and as well as foreign fighters that tried to gain entry to the United States and so theres a lot we need to do and we have to defeat the threat overseas if we dont want to face it here at home. What more should we be doing to do that . We have a twostar general on the ground in iraq for example, and a lot of people know who was the military general in charge of the surge in iraq and Everybody Knows it was general david petraeus, and he was given the flexibility and resources that he needed to accomplish his mission, and we have a twostar general on the ground right now who when i asked at a Foreign Affairs committee recently whether or not that general has the authority on his own to be able to authorize using a navy s. E. A. L. Team or army rangers or green berets and what was answered back is the twostar general on the ground can make a recommendation and we are relying on Iraqi Military and Law Enforcement to finish the job in iraq, and many of them wont even show up to work, and they dont fight like american soldiers that fight for the love of country, and so we need to insure that the thousands of troops that we have on the ground are being well led with the flexibility they need to accomplish their mission and we need to bring Coalition Partners into the fight every day. You are saying american troops need to take over the fight, more groups on the ground to defeat isis in iraq. Is that what you are saying . No, as far as using American Military i am saying when we can use special Operations Forces and i dont support an occupation, and there is no need for an enduring ground operation, but under the cover of darkness we have a navy s. E. A. L. Team that is capable of coming after the sunset, and for us we can leave before the sun comes up. It seems at times like our special operations when operating on the wellexecuted operations it seems like they are invincible and i do support the use of u. S. Special operations, and when there is a target we are capable of taking out the best. Still to come Mike Huckabee and others running for the white house are worth millions of dollars, and well talk about that next. [announcer] everyone works hard for a reason. Working together,we can help you prepare financially for when two becomes three. Wells fargo. Together well go far. Introducing new flonase allergy relief nasal spray. This changes everything. New flonase outperforms a leading allergy pill so you will inhale life. When we breathe in allergens our bodies react by overproducing six key inflammatory substances that cause our symptoms. Most allergy pills only control one substance, flonase controls six. 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Hillary clinton is worth 15 million, but her husband says she understands her pain. You wont see her acting entitled. She got in her van, and he drove to iowa and new hampshire, and she went around and talked to people. I think its the best way to start a campaign because thats the way you hear how the American People see themselves and what they want. Clinton is not the only wealthy candidate who is playing up their Humble Beginnings. My mother was out working extraordinary hard two, sometimes three jobs at a time as a domestic trying to stay off of welfare. She was very thrifty and, i mean she would drive a car until it wouldnt make a sound, and then she would go and collect all her dimes and nickles and quarters and buy a new car, and people say, how does that woman buy a new car . She knew how to manage money. I grew up blue collar not blue blood. Get ready for an allout attack on 1 from both sides of the aisle. Good morning. Good morning. Does this sort of stuff work . I dont think the American People begrudge a politicians success. These are people that came from more Humble Beginnings and brought themselves up throughout their career and thats an american Success Story that is appealing to a lot of the electorate but as you look book in history, the roosevelts and kennedys we had wealthy politicians achieve great success, and its not a hindrance to be wealthy. Thats absolutely true. I always wonder why candidates dont say, you know i made loads of cash and its fun and i like it and i want to enable you to do that too, and i kind of remember what its like to be humble but i really dont. Is that too honest . That may be a little too honest for the politicians, carol. But i do like them to tell their story, Mike Huckabee and ben carson they came up from their startings, and Hillary Clinton she has been in a bubble so she has to break through more to have that relatable moment with the voters but its not like these folks have been born with silver spoons in their mouth. As you said they may have to dig back in their memory to remember what its like to go food shopping with everybody else and the like and as long as you are able to connect on the what voters care about. How long will it be before one of the candidates shows up in a hunting outfit with a gun . Probably not too long, and there are a lot of candidates that do enjoy getting out there and shooting. Thats good. I like it when they do it in real life. Thats fine. Or candidates drinking a beer or that sort of stuff. I guess, you know i think at this particular time i guess its early, and you want to show your personality and you want to show your humble roots and you dont want to talk much about the issues but i wish the candidates would. Talk about the issues . Yeah. They are out there talking about the issues. I dont think we got to the meaty campaign yet, and this is the introductory phase. They are just trying to get out before people especially those not named Hillary Clinton, who is so famous and well known, but everybody else needs to introduce themselves and tell their story and where they come from and we will get into the summer where they will roll out specific policy proposals, but i dont think this is the meaty part of the campaign yet. We appreciate it. My pleasure. Still to come in the newsroom, the decision to charge six officers over the death of freedddie gray now being called into question. The Baltimore States attorney facing more criticism this morning, and sources telling cnn the investigation by bald more police into the death of freddie gray does not show the same. Lets bring in cnn national correspondent, Suzanne Malveaux on the ground in baltimore. Tell us more. Reporter a number of developments this morning, and first you mentioned, one of them the mayor saying she wants the help of the federal government to investigate the entire Police Department for possible civil Rights Violations if they used a practice of Excessive Force of stopping people and false arrest and imprisonment and these types of things and we have seen it in places like albuquerque, and most recently cleveland, and this is going to take more than a year to complete but what we may see before the year is up the Police Department getting the body cameras everybody is talking about, and she wants to have every officer armed with one of those by the end of the year, and not surprisingly carol, behind the scenes and behind closed doors, a battle already taking place between those who are in the States Attorneys Office marilyn mosby, and the base being presented or the preparation for the case and the Police Department those who have seen the investigation and the report from the Police Department saying look they dont believe that what they have seen so far really supports the case the prosecution is making against these six officers. They say the autopsy will not show this is a homicide and they also have charges that they say evidence that will support, perhaps, manslaughter but not seconddegree murder and finally, carol, you have the issue over the knife. Attorneys for at least two Police Officers say they want to physically see it and they filed a motion to see the knife, and this was a knife on freddie gray and was concealed at the time he was arrested and a state law says a switchblade is illegal to carry, and the Baltimore City code says what is called a springassisted knife is also illegally, and thats what freddie gray had, so literally the attorneys say show us the evidence and the knife, and that is also in play. A lot of things going on behind the scenes carol, to set in motion what is going to be happening by the 27th which is the possibility of the indictments, and everybody waiting to see what will happen next. Suzanne malveaux thank you. 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And sometimes even prevent it from happening in the first place. To learn more or support the cause go to huntsmancancer. Org. All right. We have a statement now from tom bradys agent. As you know the wells report kind of sort of said tom brady knew about the deflation of the balls, and here is what tom bradys agent had to say, its a significant and terrible disappointment and its omission of key facts suggest the investigators reached a conclusion first and then determined socalled facts later. For reasons unknown the wells report omitted nearly all of toms testimony, most of which was critical because it would have provided this report for the context that it lacks. The rest of the states very long statement, and we will read more to you in the next hour of newsroom, and we will have a sports attorney talk about this and tom brady is going to say he is completely innocent of this and it gets more interesting. The defense team for Dzhokar Tsarnaev could rest today but not before calling a highprofile witness in an attempt to spare the bomber his life. Cnns Deborah Feyerick is live to talk about this spausable star witness. Reporter the star witness is a sister who wrote a book. She is sitting in the court in the front row on the defense side waiting to be told whether in fact she will be able to testify on behalf of tsarnaev. She is a staunch proponent against the death penalty, and prosecutors do not want her to take the stand, and Defense Attorneys want her to take a stand. They talked about the super max tpau seulilltyl prison where he will be sent and he will be kept in solitary confinement for 23 hours out of every day, two phones calls a month, 15 minutes each and those are phone calls to family members, and being kept isolated from everybody else for the rest of his life. Prosecutors say, look its not clear whether he will be sent there, and perhaps there are lawsuits against the conditions at these prisons because they are seen as so harsh on inmates, so thats unclear, but they wanted to portray what it would be like. Carol, one interesting thing, you look at the two cases, and the first one was really all about the heinous crimes that were committed at the Boston Marathon but this part of the trial has really been about the personalities behind that tamerlan the older brother, the aggressor and wanting to go fight jihad, and his younger brother who by all accounts were extremely well liked by his teachers and friends and his family and it was a strict family back in russia, and its creating a disconnect in the mind of jurors to see the young man who had so much going for him to commit the crime, and a brain expert testified yesterday that really people grow up modeling the behavior of their family, and and he could not you talk about sister and i interviewed her not too long ago about the death penalty. She could be a very powerful witness. This is what she does debra. She posed this to me ask yourself if you could kill the killer. If the answer is no you do not believe in the death penalty. So i would guess if some jurors really ponder this question and im sure they are, its reinforced by a catholic nun in very catholic boston that might make a difference. Theres no question about that. The conversations everyone is having whats the worst punishment . Is it the next 60 or 70 years in prison without contact with human beings. Is that the better punishment . Is death the better punishment . All these the jury will have to decide. The judge making it clear. This should not be an emotional decision this should be a moral decision. As you say, carol, based on your conversation with this very famous nun, its going to be a tough one. Debra feyerick reporteding live thank you. Still to come americas first four star female general said when she joined the army she wanted to jump out of airplanes. She did that and more. Sharing strategies for success. First on this newest episode of somebody has to do it mike to his hometown in baltimore where they had a flag so big it takes a village to raise. What do you think about the constant conversation about adapting another National Anthem. Changing the National Anthem adopting another piece. So hard for the average person to sing. We didnt give up on it. Going to the moon was tough and we didnt give up on it the Civil Rights Movement was tough, we didnt give up on it. What kind of argument is that. I retract the question. I think we should make it harder. The original star spangled banner is somewhere in the smithsonian but there is a replica at the fort. Vinces passion inspired in me the same passion to raise the same size flag that inspired the National Anthem. You want to raise the big flag. Got to raise the big flag. Sure. From what i hear its a big flag. Flying 17 by 25 flag right here. Big flag. Here is the deal raising the flag well need everybody here to help catch it when it comes down. So thats the deal. After that we can raise the big one but its a team effort. Well need some visitors, too. I was just thinking to myself i love fort mchenry. Its one of the most beautiful places in america and impressive too. Somebodys gotta do it tonight on cnn. Ike that bricks on your face . Try zyrtec®d to powerfully clear your blocked nose and relieve your other allergy symptoms. So you can breathe easier all day. Zyrtec®d. Find it at the pharmacy counter. [ male announcer ] whether it takes 200,000 parts 800,000 hours of supercomputing time 3 million lines of code, 40,000 sets of eyes, or a million sleepless nights. Whether its building the worlds most advanced satellite, the space station, or the next leap in unmanned systems. At boeing, one thing never changes. Our passion to make it real. With xfinity from comcast you can manage your account anytime, anywhere on any device. Just sign into my account to pay bills manage Service Appointments and find answers to your questions. You can even check your connection status on your phone. Now its easier than ever to manage your account. Get started at xfinity. Com myaccount there are just over 200,000 women serving in the u. S. Military right now. First Lady Michelle obama says if any of them wonder how high they can rise in the ranks, they should look at this woman. Ann dunwoody reached four star general. Leadership strategies from americas first female fourstar general. I sat down with the general to talk about trail she blazed and what it takes to succeed. Im not the first one. When i got promoted i said i may be the first but im certainly not the last. Now three others two in the air force and one in the navy and im sure more in the making. Thats not nearly enough. They didnt integrate women into the regular army until right after i joined the army in 1975. So women denominator didnt have the opportunity to have the same career path as their male counterparts as i did. The army i think, is about to open all roles to women, including combat roles, including army ranger program. There are some who say thats crazy. What do you say . The guidance actually from the secretary of defense at the time was that all services would open all career fields and schools to women unless they could come back and justify why not. I believe that if a woman is capable, she should be given the opportunity. What is that standard and what can happen . This is a dangerous business you know is that they lower the standard to accommodate women coming into these fields. Do you think they would do that . Hard to say. Theres a lot of standards that havent been officially documented they are just known. I think they are doing a lot of homework. The army do i know they have done preranger training and weve had women go through there successfully with i believe, similar washout rate as their male counterparts. We have i believe eight in Ranger School right now. I never wanted to be a ranger. I didnt want to go in combat arms. I wanted to jump out of airplanes. Did any soldier say you dont belong here. What are you doing . No. It was more subtly. What was it . I had long blond hair when i showed up but i wore it up in a bun. They said bobby pins and berets could be hazardous when jumping out of an airplane. I said really . They wanted me to look more like them. I used masking tape and taped it up. It looked ludicrous. I wanted to be ann dunwoody when i came home. You write in your book we did not have to act like a macho man to be successful. We did not have to forsake our femininity. Why is that a concern . Sometimes women think when they are in an all male environment, they have to act like the male. They have to start cussing or smoking or drinking sixpacks or be rough. I didnt find that the case at all. The thing about the military and im sure its true of every profession. People want the best athlete on their team. If youre going to war, you want the fastest runner and the best paratrooper. So if youre the best paratrooper, running as fast ultimately the good leaders say i want carol on my team. Sharing inside what it takes to get to the top in the military. The next inside newsroom starts right now. Good morning. Im Carol Costello thanks so much for joining me. The power of terrorism, the perils of the internet. On capitol hill alarming evolution of terror recruitment and use of social media by groups like isis. Among those who testify national