good wednesday morning. i m erica hill. i m jim sciutto. tornado warnings in effect for parts of the southwest. this after severe storms yesterday. more than a dozen tornados reported tearing across the south. look at these pictures here. homes, buildings disappearing. we ll speak with the mayor of deerpark, texas. new this morning, germany will send those leopard 2 tanks to ukraine and it comes as the u.s. is sending abram tanks to ukraine. bottom line, is it enough? we begin with those destructive tornados slamming parts of texas and louisiana. rosa flores is in pasadena, texas, with more. rosa? reporter: this tornado activity was so powerful. let me show you what we re seeing on the ground. this was a power pole that simply snapped. if you look down, you ll see a mangled piece of metal wrapped around parts of the debris and the rest of the pole is back here. beyond the pole you see it s shear devastation. there s a trailer that s turned on its side. it s upside dow
burial in the royal vault alongside her husband prince philip in windsor this evening. as we are watching traditions that go back centuries and updated by the queen s agreement grandmother, queen victoria in 1901. the queen s casket will arrive at windsor castle, with the procession ending outside st. george s chapel. she will be the first female sovereign there. we will be bringing you the committal service for which some of the music was composed by the former chapel organist who is believed to have taught young princess elizabeth to play the piano. hundreds of world leaders, including president biden and more than 2,000 dignitaries joined the royal family for the queen s state funeral at westminster abbey. the 13th century seat of the church of england and where 25-year-old elizabeth was core nated 75 years ago. the queen said her funeral should not be long and boring. it was just about one-hour long, managing to be both personal and a world-class good-bye, including a
are they going to roll over or say republicans are cheating white wing extremists literal i have a plan to steal the next presidential election they are not making a secret of it. the right wing control supreme court may be poised to rule on giving state legislatures, yes, you heard me that correctly. state legislatures the power to overturn presidential elections. just think, if that happens, the 2024 presidential election could be decided not by the popular vote, or even by the ache critical condition chauvinistic electoral college but by state legislatures. many of them republican controlled. jesse: hillary thinks the supreme court is going to dump the electoral college. that s not going to happen. democrats are getting into their bag of tricks a little too early here. usually you lose and then you claim you got cheated. hillary is premature election denying. bill doesn t have that problem. so, where s the media? this makes three elections that hillary says has been 1208
dollars into failed programs that do little to solve the issue, we ran through the numbers and the amounts spent are just staggering. san francisco spent an astonishing $100,000 for homeless person. new york shells at $58,000 per year for her homeless person, but it hasn t helped. a recent report says homelessness in the big apple has seen the highest level since the great depression and chicago spends about $9,000 per homeless person. the unmanageable homelessness problem putting the mcdonald ceo in a tough spot. they ve been trying to entice employees back to headquarters in chicago and called on city and business leaders to address problems that have arisen since the pandemic. everywhere i go i m confronted by the same question these days. what s going on in chicago? there is a general sense out there that our city is in crisis. the truth is it s more difficult today for me to convince a promising mcdonald s executive to relocate to chicago from one of our other offices
brittney griner is pleading guilty to drug charges stemming from that february detainment at the moscow airport. she faces up to ten years in a russian prison unless negotiations can get under way for a prisoner swap. more on the reporting from the new york times overnight that former fbi director james comey and his deputy mccabe were both subjected to intensive, intrusive irs audits during the trump presidency. the odds of a single person being selected for that kind of audit are one in 30,000. for two men who basically had the same job, well, it s kind of like winning the worst lottery. certainly raising suspiciouses about the trump appointed leadership at the irz. we begin with keir simmons. how are the people reacting to this shakeup? another at the top of their political leadership. reporter: there will be those who are breathing a sigh of relief. there will be those who are disappointed because he s a colorful character. there are people and many people who liked