time for 5 things to know for your new day. kathy hochul will reportedly announce she s lifting the state s indoor mask mandate. senate minority leader mitch mcconnell criticizing the rnc for censuring liz cheney and adam kinzinger and for describing the deadly january 6th riot as legitimate political discourse. mcconnell says the attack was a, quote, violent insurrection and it is not the rnc s job to single out party members with different views. some houston area residents woke up to white supremacist flyers on their car windshields and front doors. the flyers included racist messaging and caricatures depicting african americans as negative racial stereotypes. the harris county sheriff s office is investigating the incident. and some good news out of
the russian intent in 1939, to dominate all of finland. the fins were ready, i think the ukrainians were ready, we ve helped them. i think that s probably how this ends up with some kind of neutral status, but we ve got a long way to go. we ve got to continue the fight. above all, wolf, we, the west, need to support the ukrainians so they can create the conditions for a sensible settlement here. you ve got to give the ukrainians a lot of credit over these first 33 days of this war. admiral james seretas, thank you so much for joining us. thanks, wolf. coming up, escaping the siege in mariupol. families who could barely see out their car windshields are talking to cnn about the horrors they witnessed back home. i ll be joined by a local official as the city s mayor accuses russia s military of genocide. yes, genocide. that s next.
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this storm system did produce several reported tornadoes across the area, also down into parts of missouri there were reported tornadoes there as well. close to 500 reports of severe weather including damaging winds and also very large hail. out of iowa we have reports of baseball size hail creating holes into the side of homes and also car windshields were damaged due to that hail. lightning in the city of chicago, a big issue as well. we saw several lightning strikes out here. that line of storms produced so many flight cancellations across the region. we expect severe weather to continue today across interior portions of the northeast down into ohio. outthere the main concern today is going to be damaging winds and it c produce significant damage. it could bring down some tree branches. we could be looking at power outages out there. it stretches down into parts of arkansas. by the way, tropical depression, one formed off the coast of florida. a tropical storm watch is in effect.