new york city. alex murdaugh in the initial hours now of what will be a lifetime behind bars. the judge piling on during sentencing calling the double murder defense an assault on the judicial system. we ve got a live report coming to you in just a minute. plus, reports that president biden has now tapped some of the most successful track governors in the country to help lay the groundwork campaign. and fury erupts again at a town hall in east palestine, residents whose patience is clearly being tested to the limit nearly a month after that toxic train crash. this has touched my family. this has touched my friends, and it will touch me for the cellular level when i get diagnosed with cancer, als or whatever is going to come down the road if i stay in this contaminated, toxic town. more on that and the failure of norfolk southern s ceo to show up, the second time he s avoided coming face-to-face with those residents. but we begin in south carolina with today s dramat
nbc news correspondent morgan chesky is in little elm, texas, just north of the dallas. what are you seeing where you are? it doesn t look good behind you. reporter: yeah, chris, it has been a wild 24 hours for these people, and we saw these line of storms approach yesterday evening. tornado sirens were going off all over the dallas-fort worth area. what you re seeing behind me is the remnants of a grocery store. it was a combination of tornados and powerful winds that really did the brunt of the damage oaf the last 24 hours here, chris, and i can tell you that in texas, officials are now reporting five confirmed tornados. louisiana also reporting another tornado, but it was what this wind did in between that, as you can see here, caused a lot of the damage, more than enough to rip the roof right after covering multiple cars down below, and i have to tell you, chris, that right now this threat is far from over here.