tornadoes struck across oklahoma, kansas, and iowa, causing widespread damage and climbi claiming the lives three people. right now, more than 16,000 customers are without power across oklahoma as strong winds brought down trees and power lines. joining us now from oklahoma is scott gibbons. deputy sheriff, thank you for being with us. what are the conditions on the ground there this morning? much better than last night we got some visibility we got crews working to clear debris and power lines off the roadway, giving us access that we didn t have last night to some of the more rural areas, addresses and locations that we weren t able to check to our satisfaction last night. just how significant is the damage i know overnight there were concerns about people being trapped in their homes where does the search and rescue effort stand this morning? we don t have any outstanding folks that we believe are still entrapped that we re aware of. that may change just based on the
lost data was due to a planned tech migration and that the texts investigators wanted were not actually among those that disappeared. let s bring in former federal prosecutor and lead counsel in the first trump impeachment trial daniel goldman, he is now running for congress in new york. daniel, what do you see here? what we know is that a homeland security inspector general asked for these text messages and now we are learning from this homeland security inspector general, it s a letter from this person, saying that they were destroyed according to them after this request. what does that tell you? well, first of all, let s remember these letters are not written lightly to congress. i am sure that the inspector general notified the secret service that they would have to send this letter if they did not get better compliance and they didn t, but more importantly and to the point, there are a lot of questions that this raises. they claim that it was a phone migration system
condemned trump that day are still working for him. also tonight, democrats were accused of lying about a 10-year-old pregnant rape victim. now that the story is confirmed, what it tells us about the terrifying future of reproductive rights in america. jfk said the torch has been passed. now another generation of young americans is saying loud and clear, pass the torch to us. we begin the reid out tonight with january 6th committee s eighth public hearing. the final chapter for now of a damning and horrifying story about donald trump electrifying a violent mob to block the transfer of power on that fateful day. one must imagine trump is watching or rather hate watching every second of these hearings. i mean, they are about him, after all. now we are learning about trump s attempt to possibly influence witness testimony. this week congresswoman liz cheney revealed that trump called a witness in the panel s investigation after one of the previous hearings. today chairman be
Out in the open. Crazed faces illuminated by torches, veins bulging, racism. Ant chanting same bile across europe in the 30s. Thats what we heard the words of the president of the United States that stunned the world and shocked the conscious of this nation. He shed there were quote some very fine people on both sides. Very fine people on both sides . Nearly two years after charlottesville President Trump has struggled to denounce the protesters and stood by his comments at the time. Racism is evil. And those who cause violence in its name are criminals and thugs. You look at both sides, i think theres blame on both sides. You also had people that were very fine people on both sides. Not talking about the neonazis and White Nationalists, they should be condemned totally. If you look at what i said, you will see that question was answered perfectly. I was talking about people that went because they felt very strongly about the monument to robert e. Lee. Charlottesville revealed visible
At least eight current and former officials are set to testify, each one tells a key part of the story. The most anticipated appearance comes on wednesday when the ambassador to the European Union, Gordon Sondland, is set to appear. Newly released transcripts reveal that sondland had multiple conversations with the president , he could pick up his cell phone and call him about efforts to get the ukrainians to investigate joe biden. Sondland revised or reversed his original testimony and admitted he made clear to the ukrainians they would not get any aid unless they launch and investigations. The wall street journal reports sondland kept several top officials updated on that quest for investigations. The report is based on a review of emails which means that a paper trail exists tying the scandal directly to the white house. And most significantly there are Big Questions this morning about president Trumps Health after an unscheduled visit to Walter Reed Hospital over the weekend that c