Tournament. All that and smashing world record too, early today starts right now. Good morning. Happy monday. I hope the weekend was good to you. Especially with whats ahead. Multiday threat of severe storms. Large hail and damaging winds in the Southern Plains could be in store. Nbc meteorologist bill karins is tracking it all. Baseball almost softball hail in areas of oklahoma yesterday. That threat has ended pushing into areas near arkansas. Later on today well be worried about an additional threat of large hail, damaging winds and even a few tornadoes. As we go throughout tuesday and wednesday tornado threat is much greater in texas possibly even all the way down to louisiana. All those details and show you the millions of people at risk coming up later. The russian government arrested hundreds of protesters as the crackdown began after thousands of russians across the country took to the street rallying against corruption. Now the u. S. State department is condemning the arrest. A