it s 10:00 a.m. in new york. i m lindsey reiser. i ll be joined ace this hour by yasmin vossoughianríz mississippi. she ll have much more on the tornado devastation in a moment. we re also covering major stories around the world. ine1 israel, massive protestsç(% against prime minister benjamin netanyahu. tens of thousands filled the streetsrcnç after the country s right-wing leader abruptly fired the defense minister for challenging netanyahu s plan for overhauling theq judiciary. this morning, sites are grounded and hundreds of thousands on strike. here in new york, backñ1 on indictment match in the president trump caseñr of hundr% moeschlp involving stormy danie. a jury is expected to resume today. we have another report of another witness. we re live. but we begin with the zi. yasmin. reporter: thank you, linsey. in this smalli] town of rolling fork, at the alabama border, desperate recovery efforts are continuing days after a wave of tornadoes tour throughe1
we actually have 18 ofe1 tho sculptures around town. chain sawlp carved sculptures, teddy bearse1 carved from cypre trees around town. that is something we do each year atqq our festival. in october, we have the festival, the great bear fair whiche1 e1commemorates, 1900 be hunt that president roosevelt came on in rolling i]fork. he dv not kill a bear. that led to the naming of stuffed toy bears as teddy bear s. if you think about them,q all o your stuffed animals are just a stuffed giraffe or elephant, or whatever. but ifi] you ve got ako■ bear, a teddy bear. and that came from here. a lot of history and a lot of tradition and family coming together amidst all of this