stalk an ex-girlfriend. he made eight bomb threats nationwide and in the process tried to frame the woman with whom he had broken up. i want to bring in cnn s brynn. we know from his rather disturbing twitter feed that thompson hated president trump and professed to be a progressive while bigots on the right have been getting a lot of attention, there certainly is no shortage of antisemites on the left. do they consider his motive for the threats? stated in the criminal complaint was to get back at the ex-lover. the antidefamation league said today thompson planned on running for mayor in st. louis to, quote, fight back against trumpian fascism. he even tweeted bullet points of what he d run his campaign on. he tweeted a number of times and joined panels even, the video you re seeing, on race bias issues. in regards to those threats he allegedly made, federal authorities connect him as you
st. louis. explain what you ve been witnessing. we watched the sit-in and member of the protest scoot up as trying to advance on police. reporter: that s right, about an hour ago a couple hundred protesters marched from the church to here to the u.s. courthouse and it s not so much competition now but protesters, including cornell west and others have locked arms and maybe you ll see, sitting down in front of the police officers. for a few minutes there seem to be a little bit of a push. but the tactic has changed. cornell west has said that he is committed to getting arrested, other protesters, they want to fill the jails here in st. louis to, again, keep pressing the system to acknowledge, you know, justice for african-americans and unarmed black men in particular. across the bore, the black men and women killed by police. so far, it is very organized. kind of reminiscent of what we
people, kind of everybody knows everybody and it s kind of hard to walk through walmart without being asked for medical advice or being told what happened the other night in the emergency room. so people can come down to a place like memorial hall and actually expect that some neighbor or some friend would know what had happened. so that was the hardest part, trying to answer questions that you just didn t have the capability to answer. are there plans to rebuild st. john s? is that financing going to be able? the town is committed to doing that? well, mercy health system, which is based out of st. louis, their administration, the top ceos and all have been here today and yesterday and are fully committed to bringing us back as a newer, better hospital. it s just hard to lose your home. most all the hundreds of thousands of people here in joplin have lost their personal
i actually talked to him the night before the tornado and his little brother called me and said that he was trying to get home in it and that severe hail had hit his car and nobody had heard from him and that was roughly about right ten minutes after the tornado went through joplin. and i actually live in tulsa, and i was in my car on the way to joplin as soon as i got that from my youngest son. well, i hear that he was in the car with somebody else who has survive. is there any way to use that lead as a way to help track lance down? well, that lead was actually how we found the car, lance s car, and where a start point. before that, there were just massive searches in i mean an 8 block by 25 block radius. all my friends, my ex-wife s friends, my wife s friends, my friends, everyone was just looking for him. and through that kid being found at freeman hospital, we were able to locate the car, as soon as he came to, he got life flighted out of freeman hospital here in
father s day. some of the aim areas hit yesterday with some of the strong storms, you can see here, our thunderstorm forecast for our day, call for the threat through the midwest, portions of the plains states, getting to the northern rockies, anywhere shaded in the red, that includes st. louis to des moines, heading your way back towards omaha. there we go around the black hills of south dakota, watching for the threat here for the day being damaging winds. those winds could get in excess of 60, even 70 miles an hour. the threat for large hail and we can t even rule out an isolated tornado or two. south of all of that stormy weather, we have the heat. that s a big story for us, continuing here, heat advisories through the lower mississippi valley, that includes new orleans, jackson, mississippi, up towards memphis, even around st. louis where we have an excessive heat warning here. that s not just for today but also into our monday. because we ll be talking about heat index values get