good morning to our viewers here in the united states and all around the world, it is thursday, may 26th. i m john berman live in uvalde, texas. brianna keilar is in washington this morning. 19 children and two teachers were killed behind me at the robb elementary school. i want to show you what s happened here overnight. you can see this new memorial has sprouted up, flowers all around the sign, balloons and now just in the last few hours these crosses, one for every one of the victims here. this was a vigil overnight where the community came together. so many pain. so many tears. this is a small town, it has a small town feel, just over
good sense as far as whether or not there will be an automatic recount in the commonwealth of pennsylvania for the statewide race, the statewide senate race. one thing i want to note is that for the recount, counties required to count on a different type of machine or they could hand count, it just has to be different from the original type of tabulation that they re currently doing right now. so secretary of state, do you think, i think with state law, you have to make the call by next thursday may 26th on the actual recount. do you think it s going to be up until then or do you think you ll make the call tuesday, sooner than that next week? unofficial returns come to me on tuesday, then i ll have a very good sense but all the votes might not be counted by tuesday. but i think we ll have a really good sense by tuesday. i m required by law to send out a press release 24 hours before that thursday deadline. so we ll have a good sense
i m christine romans. serbia s greatest war criminal captured. i m kiran chetry. a lot on the table, the global debt crisis, trying to negotiate middle east peace and finding a new boss for the imf. a federal indictment looms for john edwards. i m ali velshi, accused of using campaign cash to hide a sex scandal. his lawyers are publicly blasting the justice department on this american morning. good morning, everyone. it is thursday, may 26th, a very busy morning. both in the u.s. cleaning up after these tornadoes and also big international news this morning. we have breaking news out of se serbia. serbia s president is confirming the arrest of former serbian commander ratka mladic. fugitive he has been since the 1990s. he is accused of
this morning on world news now, mean season. the deadly and violent tornados hitting the middle of the country go down in history. and even more stormy weather is now slowing down recovery in the hard-hit city of joplin, missouri. it is thursday, may 26th. good morning, everybody. i m rob nelson. and i m peggy bunker. we are hearing astonishing stories of survival from these storms including the trucker who got hit by a twister. his rig smashed to bits. but the driver did live to tell about it. one of many incredible stories. you see cars just being picked up like that tossed into the air. mother nature s power is astounding. we ve seen that over and over again in the past couple of days. heartbreaking. also in this half hour of
a spa and gym. we ll take you inside on this american morning. good morning to you. thanks so much for being with us on this thursday, may 26th. welcome back. what a whirlwind few days it s been for you right there in the heart of what s going on joplin, missouri. it continues. and more bad weather. another night of meteorological mayhem as tornadoes wreaked through the region. from louisiana to the great lakes. oklahoma s governor declaring a state of emergency in 68 counties hit by tornadoes. this video taken by storm chasers is about as close as you can get. 16 people were killed in the latest round of storms. in memphis tornado warnings ringing out again last night, the sirens sounding. you can hear them there as the sky grows darker by the minute. an ominous sky, a funnel cloud that was in the distance. the national weather service warned people in memphis as well as nashville to take shelter and in some cases to evacuate. right there, you got it. we ve got a