Correspondent camila were now joins us live now from San Bernardino County camila, tell us what youre seeing and how theyre able to battle this blaze hey, fred. So right now the priority is protecting the homes in this area were near the running springs mountain community. Its an area that is already under an evacuation order, so people had been told to leave. So the proof that you see here behind me, what theyre doing is structure detection. Theyre waiting to see where this fire is going to come from. And what i was told as you see those holes is behind the trucks. Well, those are the holes is that they wrap around the homes. So right now what theyre saying they have not lost any homes and they want that to continue to be the case because the problem with this fire is that there are many factors working against the firefighters. Theres about six 100 personnel on the Ground And Theyve asked for more people, but the Weather Conditions are really not helping this area. Weve had tripledig
flattened. hundreds of thousands are without power and our derek van damme standing by in the hard hit town in arkansas, with the latest former president trump will appear in court tuesday after being indicted by a manhattan grand jury. what we know about the charges he s facing and how we expect that court appearance to play out there s some much needed good news when it comes to the economy. the trends that show inflation may be moving in the right direction. undefeated season comes to an end and one team mounts an epic comeback haywire, standing by live in houston with the highlights. we re starting, though, with the severe weather ripping through the middle part of the country. this was the scene across seven states friday afternoon. at least five people are dead. dozens more injured, there were over 50 sightings of tornadoes, including 22 in illinois, 12 in arkansas, eight in iowa and illinois. 200 people were inside the apollo theater in belvedere when the roof collapse
Have more to share later on. I want to bring in our senior crime and justice correspondent Shimon Prokupecz shimon, what more are you hearing there . We know that this happened before the bank was open around 8 30, which gives us a little bit of a clue of what may have been going on and who the suspect who is now dead is right. And by all accounts at this point based on what were hearing from witnesses and Law Enforcement, this is quite a chaotic scene. Police officers arriving and then within minutes that they were there they had encountered. According to police. They were fired upon. There were gunshots , and then we have seen indications where glass has been broken at the front. What appears to be the front of this bank has happened. As you said around 8 30 this morning before the bank was open for business. Were hearing from people inside the bank having to hide inside the vault the banks vault to try and protect themselves and police. We believe this point encountered the gunman a
esther told police he was scared to death when he saw the team at his doorstep, saying he fired his gun because he thought the team was trying to break in. this is a photo of ralph at the hospital after the shooting. he is miraculously back at home recovering. his mother spoke this morning about what happened. listen. he went around the doorbell, and he was supposed to stay outside and his brothers were supposed to run outside, get in the car, and they and they come home and that was what was supposed to happen and why he was standing there. his brothers then run outside, but he got a couple of bullets in his body instead of a couple of twins coming up out and giving him a hug. shot in the head but survived. cnn s lucy cavanaugh is following all of this for us, lucy. what are the charges that are being levied against the suspect this morning? well, sarah, this whole incident took place effectively on the porch of that home behind me. the focus now is on this alleged gunman 84
the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. we begin this hour with the deadly outbreak of tornadoes that ripped across much of the south and midwest beginning yesterday afternoon. just over the last few hours, the death toll has more than doubled. 21 people are now confirmed killed by the storms and all more than 50. tornadoes have been reported in seven states, at least 12 of those tornadoes. were reported in arkansas state of emergency is in place in the hardest hit areas, including when the devastated arkansas town that you re seeing right there. cnn s derek van dam is with the latest from arkansas. jim. i was just talking to my crew a moment ago , and the scene behind us reminds us of being on the set of a major blockbuster movie. i mean, just look at what we have with this destruction coming out of wynne, arkansas, that is a church steeple that was blown off by this tornado. look at the incredible damage in front of that building just in front of us here. we have el