and activating the national guard as the storms gutted entire communities. she spoke about the destruction earlier today. i have had the opportunity over the last couple of hours to speak with both the homeland security secretary as well as president biden, who have offered a tremendous amount of support anything that arkansas need from a city county state and federal perspective, i would say that everyone is working in total lockstep and we re going to do everything we can to make sure that people of our state are back on their feet again. and more devastation in several other states, including indiana and illinois. people are waking up to their homes and businesses destroyed their neighborhoods littered with debris. but the threat is far from over. some 70 million americans are now bracing for more severe storms. today cnn has teams tracking all of the latest developments from these destructive storms. derek van dam is in wynne, arkansas. at this hour. derek to you first. w
the mexican drug cartels suspected of kidnapping four americans and murder of two oco of them the gulf cartel turn in five of its men beaten up with their hands tied behind their back inside of a black pickup truck appeared alongside of them come a hand written apology note which says, they decided to turn over those of directly involved in the events and they acted under their own decision-making and lacked discipline. just a few hours later, reports surfaced from mexico it had arrested the leader of the gulf cartel. a crackdown on groups killing hundreds of americans over fentanyl. but don t be fooled the president of mexico made the stunning, yesterday. here, we do not produce fentanyl and we do not have consensus to produce fentanyl. why don t they come of the united states, take care of their problem of social decay? kayleigh, the address preposterous nature of that, is mind-blowing. the thing i keep thinking about, there is no way he would make that audacious comment u
white house and key members of congress. reports the energy department now joins the federal bureau of investigation in saying the virus likely spread via a mishap at a chinese laboratory the energy department conclusion is the result of eight new intelligence is significant because the agency has considerable scientific expertise in overseas network of laboratories but some of which conduct advanced biological research. that s a big 180 from the insistence of democrats and the media the lab leak theory was a conspiracy. cooks very, very strongly leaning towards this could not have been artificially or deliberately manipulated. just weeks ago doctor anthony fauci rejected the conspiracy was man-made in a lab in wuhan china. i get this with donald trump is still pushing the debunked. i m really sorry the lab leak has become such a distraction for so many people. because frankly we still don t know. there is no evidence of. escape from the lab it sounds like something from
them coming up plus, ron desantis bid to make a splash in washington barely made a ripple now with red flags for the campaign piling up the governor heads to south carolina but the poll just as tough by donald trump beating him by 20 points and fox news is on the hook for that $800 million settlement no question, it s a hit to their bottom line, but will it change the way they do business but, we start with this, in a country where guns outnumber people, a sickening pattern is emerging more americans doing what we all do all the time, going to the wrong house, getting lost on the road opening the wrong car door making simple mistakes but now, getting shot over them it happened again early tuesday morning in texas when a houston area teenager traveling with members of her cheer squad thought she was getting into her own car before realizing it was someone else s, she tried to walk away, but it was too late i was trying to apologize to him for accidently getting to the