of june on thursday morning. good morning, i m bill hemmer. hello, dana marie. red, white and blue works. dana: i will tell you about an asteroid in a similar situation at the white house and when i got called by the situation room and my reaction. save that for before we go. i m dana perino. this is america s newsroom. we have a lot of news here. want to show you southeast alabama. a small town getting hit by a fourth tornado in four years. bill: no reports of any major injuries. dana: another tornado reported in queen city, texas. the wind was so powerful it blew cars off the highway. then look at this. bill: that right there is in arkansas. golf ball size hail spilling into an department store. fox weather talked to the folks in the middle of all of it and it happened in the blink of an eye. i lived in the midwest my whole life and never experienced something like this where the weather literally goes from 85 degrees to 71 immediately and then clouds are rollin
shawn. army sergeant daniel perry says he fired that day in self-defense. he claims that the protesters surrounded his car while he was driving through downtown austin and basically ran into a black lives matter protest. his lawyers argue that he had the legal right to open fire after one of those demonstrators raised an ak-47 and pointed it right toward him, so he feared for his life. christina coleman has the very latest. christina? reporter: hi, eric. texas governor greg abbott says he has requested the state s board of pardons and parole to expedite its review of this this case after army sergeant daniel perry was convicted of murder for killing air force veteran garrett foster, a black lives matter protester. it was an emotional day in court after the verdict came down on friday. members of foster s family could be seen crying and hugging the attorneys that they worked with. some eyewitnesses strongly kiss piewpted perry s claims in this case. they testify that foster
upset because the black lives matter group didn t help deal with the fact that they have so many problems in seattle that their business is failing. so not only do you have lack of support but in practice things are not working out as they thought they would. we also have more news on the republican front. take a look here. all washington wants to do is fight with each other instead of fighting for the people that put them in office. my dad taught me you have to choose your battles. i m choosing the biggest one of my life. i m going the run for president. dana: if you are keeping score at home add another name to the list. miami mayor announcing he is running for president as the 2024 gop field keeps growing. rnc chairwoman ronna mcdaniel. how do you feel about the idea of everyone into the pool? it does keep growing. do either of you have an announcement to make? it does keep growing.
in my family, i would want the entire world looking for her or them. so just an obligation, i think, between winona county and all the volunteers. reporter: detectives say on march 31st kingsbury and her children s father dropped the kids off at daycare around 8 a.m.. the the police chief says kingsbury then came home around 8:15 a.m. but then never showed up for work. investors said the father of her children told officers he left kingsbury s home add at around 10 a.m. in her 2014 dark blue chrysler town and country minivan, and when he got back to the house, kingsbury was gone. police say right now there are no suspects or persons of interest in this case. officers, though, appear on the focused on where kingsbury s van traveled that day, and they really want tips from the community. arthel? arthel: i hope they can find resolution. c.b. cotton the, thank you. eric? eric: china s military is holding lee days of war games