Im zain asher. And im errol barnett. Thank you for joining us. This is cnn newsroom. We want to begin this hour with severe storms just hammering parts of the midwestern United States. Millions of people are being told to keep a close eye on the weather over the next 24 hours. Our meteorologist derek van dam is bringing us details because it is a dangerous situation for many people. Specifically we are talking about most as a line of severe thunderstorms has moved south and east of the kansas city area. In fact, Jackson County missouri there was a brief touchdown of a tornado, which is really a suburb of kansas city. We can get to the visuals of this to see this exact tornado from the air. You can just see some of that debris being pushed around. There was minor damage. Theres some transformers being blown out. Again, this is 20 miles or 32 kilometers southeast of kansas city metropolitan area. Snapped trees, power outages, damaging vehicles as they were sliding in to each other at a l
was on fire i really thought that wow, the lightning must have hit it. because they were talking about storms all afternoon. but sources close to the investigation tells nbc news he s not sure where the governor got her information. while there was lightning in the area, he said there is no confirmation it actually hit the church. last night s fire was the seventh to occur at a predominantly black church in the south. only three have been determined likely arsons at this point and none has been ruled a hate crime. joining me now, joy, what is the scene like down there? reporter: well, essentially, chris, you just encapsulated it. there was a huge disconnect between governor nicki haley and here at mount zion ame church. we saw that it was a lightning strike. number one, we re not sure who the we is. and the mayor of greeleyville as well as the state senator
of these churches have bushld due to arson and due to hatred against african-americans. is it true? no, it s not. and the headlines, black churches burning, there are also white churches burning as well. believe it or not, there are two media entities. you have to give credit where credit is due. the los angeles times and the washington post, one writer at the washington post set up somewhat of an incomprehensive list to see of the 14 incidents that have occurred in the past two weeks, how many of those are arson, how many of those are hate crimes how many have been like accidental or lightning because mount zion they said that was started by lightning. now what has been discovered is that out of all of these incidents, there are only two confirmed cases of arson. others are being investigated as lightning strikes, accidental and nothing, megyn, nothing is
of fox news it s the kelly file with megyn kelly. we set out to do some fact checking after media outlets started running dramatic headlines with what they are calling a series of suspicious fires at black churches in the weeks since the charleston shooting. the latest, mount zion ame church. it s the seventh fire in weeks leading to suggestion that hate crimes are to blame. in the newspapers like the baltimore sun we see headlines like black churches burning. the washington post said why racists target black churches. and in the new york times they point out that black churches in south carolina is the latest to burn. it sounded like an epidemic so we asked dana lash to comment on it. dana good to see you tonight. so thank you. the suggestion is that all
file with megyn kelly. we set out to do some fact checking after media outlets started running dramatic headlines with what they are calling a series of suspicious fires at black churches in the weeks since the charleston shooting. the latest, mount zion ame church. it s the seventh fire in weeks leading to suggestion that hate crimes are to blame. in the newspapers like the baltimore sun we see headlines like black churches burning. the washington post said why racists target black churches. and in the new york times they point out that black churches in south carolina is the latest to burn. it sounded like an epidemic so we asked dana lash to comment on it. dana good to see you tonight. so thank you. the suggestion is that all of these churches have bushld