tractor trailers flipped after a string of tornadoes ripped across mississippi and alabama. we can t account for everybody and it just is hard. plus, the terrifying survivor stories. this woman hiding in a freezer. deadly explosion at a chocolate factory in pennsylvania. at least two people dead. one person found alive under the rubble, but others still missing. the blast so big, it rocked nearby buildings off their foundations. vladimir putin s nuclear escalation. russia now moving tactical nuclear weapons to belarus right on the border with ukraine. how the white house is responding tonight. former president trump s first big rally since announcing his run for president. thousands of supporters lining up for hours. what he now says about the looming indictment in manhattan. kidnapped in haiti. this american couple held for ransom. their relatives in the u.s. now pleading for help. we re going to find you and we re going to bring you home. plus, the former stud
the da alvin bragg. according to a senior law enforcement source, that letter is just one of several hundreds threats bragg and his office have received in the last few weeks. this comes as the years-long hush money probe into possible indictment, which we could learn more about next the grand jury is expected to reconvene on monday. as for trump, he appears to be capitalizing on the chaos waco, texas, right now. sources tell nbc that the ex president is keenly aware of the political opportunity created by a fight with bragg. trump has repeatedly tried to downplay the investigation witch hunt carried out by a political enemy. i asked legal experts ryan goodman and andrew weissmann this investigation is serious. ex president would like you to believe. just listen to what davis, the attorney for trump s former fixer michael cohen, told my colleague symone sanders-townsend earlier today on this network. if this case goes forward and that still and if this
today secretary mayorkas during a budget request hearing reaffirms the border is control contrary to raúl ortiz has said. do you disagree with the head border patrol agent when he said the border is not secured. congressman i have testified to that issue. so you disagree with your chief of border patrol? i respectfully do in that regard. mayorkas wants an increase in the dhs budget $800 million for new technology and hiring 1400 more people to help secure the border but here s how republicans responded to that proposal. we could give you money to hire a thousand new board earth agents. nobody wants to work are. mr. secretary this budgeted proposal is an insult to americans. you failed in your jobs. those calls are nothing new for mayorkas. he s faced calls to be impeached. mayorkas had said by their standards then no administration has ever had operational control. ranking member and democrat benny thompson came to his defense. under this definition again
before the election, you have made the payments today and it was because of the election, and because of trump s embarrassment. it doesn t matter what trump does, it was because of the election that it was an election violation. i am not a lawyer the chairman said, it does matter that if it was something other than exclusively the campaign then it is out of paid in campaign funds. my question watching that is that is that a preview then of the legal argument that they are than trying to make? yes and no. i think that the subpoena has switched gears on a number of different occasions that they attempt to go on, and indeed, they pursue this in terms of giving the indictment and moving forward i think that is one of the most straightforward things that they can respond, with primarily because, at this point, we don t necessarily know the clue and legal charges. so if he does go with that campaign file which most people expect him to do, that probably is one
heartbreak goes so much deeper. at least 25 people are now confirmed dead in mississippi. another person was killed in alabama for perspective in all of this, consider this fact more people have been killed by tornadoes and the past 24 hours than in all of last year in the united states last hour, i spoke with mississippi democratic congressman bennie thompson, whose district includes some of the worst damage from the storm. here s what he had to say. it was devastation beyond imagination. uh first of all, we had no lights in the entire community. uh people were absolutely stunned at what had just occurred. and so as the night wore on, it was clear. that this was something, uh, that people have never seen before. congressman thompson also told us that tomorrow the head of homeland security alejandro mayorkas, will visit the area along with the fema administrator. cnn s nick valencia, is in rolling fork mississippi. nick ah, good to see you back on the air. i know that devasta