Charleston and stories of other church burnings. What investigators are finding as they dig through the ashes today. Plus beachgoers frantically screaming to loved ones get out of the water, another another victim is pulled under. You know jaws took place over the fourth of july holiday. How safe is it to swim this holiday holiday . We are following a number of quickly developing stories this hour including the burning of another black church in South Carolina and a monumental shift in u. S. cuba relations, but we begin with the National Lead. Federal, state and local Law Enforcement stepping sup security they will be out in full force at landmarks and transportation hubs from coast to coast as americans celebrate our nations independence. Lets get right to justice correspondent pamela brown, who is live in new york. Why are intelligence officials more concerned now than in previous years if as they say, there is no specific credible threat. Well theres a few reasons, jake intelligence
Im zain asher. And im errol barnett. Thank you for joining us. This is cnn newsroom. We want to begin this hour with severe storms just hammering parts of the midwestern United States. Millions of people are being told to keep a close eye on the weather over the next 24 hours. Our meteorologist derek van dam is bringing us details because it is a dangerous situation for many people. Specifically we are talking about most as a line of severe thunderstorms has moved south and east of the kansas city area. In fact, Jackson County missouri there was a brief touchdown of a tornado, which is really a suburb of kansas city. We can get to the visuals of this to see this exact tornado from the air. You can just see some of that debris being pushed around. There was minor damage. Theres some transformers being blown out. Again, this is 20 miles or 32 kilometers southeast of kansas city metropolitan area. Snapped trees, power outages, damaging vehicles as they were sliding in to each other at a l
This may be the most complex counterterrorism operation ever put in place for this holiday weekend. And tonight, the nypd is deploying special forces tight police and bomb sniffing dogs. The u. S. Military on heightened alert taking serious precautions fearing its force maze bes may be targeted by isis sympathizers or terrorisms. Ill ask congresswoman Martha Mcsally what she is learning retired colonel, and our correspondents and analysts theyre also standing by as we cover all the news breaking right now. First lets get the very latest from our justice correspondent pamela brown. Pamela. Reporter well wolf intelligence officials are more concerned about this fourth of july because of how much of an impact isis now has on social media. The recent global terror attacks and how difficult it has become to detect attacks before they happen. That concern is leading to boosted security across the country. With heightened concern this fourth of july major cities like new york are deploying Ra
there in macon, georgia, and what we understand from that from an nbc affiliate wmgt says it was ruled an arson, authorities now seeing if it is a hate crime. the same day on this very same june 23rd we take you to fruitland presbyterian church in gibson county tennessee. officials believe lightning caused that fire according to the jackson son. the next day an arson in charlotte, north carolina officials saying that is also a hate crime. two days later in warrensville south carolina glover grove baptist church with a congregation of only 35 people at that church destroyed. a federal official telling the associated press it does not appear intentional. the same day finally here greater miracle temple of a apostolic holiness a tree limb fell exposing live electrical wires. that bring us last night s fire
church in greeleyville south carolina. the building is a total loss. all that remains are the outside walls. so far. investigators suspect lightning may have caused the fire. there was plenty of it in the area tuesday night. a forensic report of lightening strikes show four strikes occurred in the immediate vicinity of the church all around the time the fire was raging just after 7:00 p.m. eastern. it was just two weeks ago that nine worshippers were shot and killed in a charleston south carolina church. that shooting by a white 21-year-old say he wanted to star a race war. since then at least six black churches have burned in the southeastern united states. a fire at the glover grove baptist church cause undetermined. two more in charlotte, north carolina, in knoxville tennessee, both caused by arson. the cause of makesen georgia s recent fire is undetermined. a fire at a tal has year church