thank you. there it is. one of the hugs. incredible people. incredible stories of survival. cnn will continue to bring it to you. i want to bring in now my colleague john vause who s here live with me in lviv. john, we re going to talk about what s happening. but you know, you ve been in war zones before. you re here now. it s incredible to be here because it s like a bubble here in lviv. there are some buildings being sandbagged and the police headquarters is sandbagged with barricades at the front in preparation for something. but being here just seems to be sort of an isolated pocket from the rest of the war. and makes you wonder why. why is the east being so heavily pounded by russian forces but here it s not? why have they cut the supply lines from poland into this country? communication lines. that kind of thing. because we know at any moment because we had the oil
live cal fire update? i was thankful to get my wife and kids out when i did. we re live on the scene for you. in the nick of time, this family is safe but others house burned. tonight as the fires rage, incredible stories of survival. and i m meteorologist drew tuma. unhealthy air for the bay area. i m spencer christian. our heat wave is easing up a bit but air quality is getting poorer and poorer. we ll give you a closer look as abc7 news at 6:00 begins now. burpining homes and wildfir.
on choicehotels.com like this: surf s up. earn a fifty-dollar gift card when you stay just twice this summer. or.. badda book. badda boom. book now at choicehotels.com ainsley: we are back with a fox news alert. states of emergency across the midwest as these twisters are ripping through iowa overnight. come here. there s a tornado. come here. look, there is another one forming to the left over there. brian: clean-up is underway from the worst year in tornado alley since 1950. pete: we have team coverage this morning meteorologist janice dean is tracking the storms. we begin with ellison barber live from dayton, ohio, with incredible stories of survival. ellison, good morning. hey, pete, brian and ainsley. yeah. when we started the morning yesterday, the national weather service was saying that they had confirmed 8 tornadoes touched down in ohio alone.
fire ripped through this community taking 90% with it, we re hearing incredible stories of survival. we talked to one man who chose not to leave and live to tell about it. everything around us was on fire, and we knew it was time. reporter: while everyone else in paradise was fleeing the fire, brad weldon decided to stay put at home and fight it himself. for the first few house reporter: you re using this garden hose? this garden hose, one out there, one in the front. one on the roof and one out by the shop. reporter: so how much help do you have? you have me and my 26-year-old helper. my mom s caregiver. reporter: inside, his 89-year-old mother, norma weldon, who is blind. she didn t want to leave, so the two men went outside to fight the blaze as it closed in on them. there were times when we were lying on the ground pouring water on ourselves so we didn t burn. reporter: was there ever a point you thought you were going to die? oh, yeah, quite a few. repo
admit someone because they are going to become a citizen or because any are a resident or because they are a refugee. again, one of the things that is unfortunate about this and has a legal component is, united states for a very long time has tried to take certain refugees precisely because they are the victims of our enemies. the victims of terrorists or brutal regimes, the victims of the very people that we want to fight and stop. so as long as you do that correctly, you are on the right side, at least according to u.s. law and policy, which is creating a space for those people. if you create that space federally, that is the whole u.s. that s not overridden. it is understandable folks want to make sure that s secure. in essence though, that security component is not a new part of this debate. that goes back to our founding. ari melber, thank you very much. up next, we re learning much more about the victims of friday s attacks here in paris and not just 129 who died, but those w