oh good morning. you should have woken me up like your last hit me. i hope your wig reason why you re here to shake me awake. good morning, everyone. welcome to cnn this morning. it is sunday. april 2nd. i m like, why is he looking at me? i m amarillo walker. april fool s day was yesterday. i m victor blackwell. thank you for spending some time with us this morning. here s what we re watching. it s just surreal. you know, you just everything you ve worked. we ve lived in this house 44 years and you know everything we worked for. paid for it. it s gone. it s gone. communities across the south and midwest are cleaning up after powerful storms ripped through at least seven states. the damage is catastrophic team is live in arkansas ahead of fema s arrival there. we have new cnn reporting on the mood among former president trump s advisers ahead of his court appearance tuesday that concerns about where a potential trial could be held back to work. how pope francis is spending thi
Now at 11 00 another night of powerful fastmoving storms. Drenching rains and heavy winds brought down big trees including this one on the ben franklin parkway. And it was a dangerous situation in cowan township chester coun county. Two drivers pulled over during the worse of the storm only to have tree fall on top of their cars. One person wound up in the hospital. Meantime, Power Outages are men full across the region tonight. The storm knocked out traffic lights in wilmington, delaware, and thousands are in the dark night. And break ins right now hurricane arthur is getting stronger. Arthur is now a category two hurricane and those along the coast of North Carolina are preparing for landfall. It has been another wild night of weather. Good evening, im jessica dean. Im chris may. Right now peco is reporting more than 125,000 outages majority them in chester county. Delmarva about 8900. We have Team Coverage as we keep our eye on the storm tonight. We will begin with meteorologist kat
Meantime, Power Outages are men full across the region tonight. The storm knocked out traffic lights in wilmington, delaware, and thousands are in the dark night. And break ins right now hurricane arthur is getting stronger. Arthur is now a category two hurricane and those along the coast of North Carolina are preparing for landfall. It has been another wild night of weather. Good evening, im jessica dean. Im chris may. Right now peco is reporting more than 125,000 outages majority them in chester county. Delmarva about 8900. We have Team Coverage as we keep our eye on the storm tonight. We will begin with meteorologist kate bilo in the eyewitness weather center. Kate . Chris, its been couple of rough nights across the delaware valley. Last night frequent lightning over 10,000 lightning strikes tonight it was mostly the wind that played a major role in damage reports all across the region and you can see we still have storms coming through at this hour moving through new england and ri
Reporter many people showed off their patriotic pride wearing red, white and blue. Its nice to have, you know, the shows for free for the holidays. Its a great time. Reporter billed as the largest free concert in america, this festival was all about celebrating freedom and music. The entertainmentfilled night featured some of the music industrys top artists like nicky minaj, Jennifer Hudson and hometowns the roots. I like the show. Very nice. Reporter what has been the best part of today . Probably the roots. Reporter with an estimated 500,000 people jamming out, there were bound so be some problems. At one point in the night, witnesses say they saw a fight break out and people started to scatter. Officers on foot, bike and horses rushed to the scene to control the crowds. Mass ive amounts of people here. Reporter things eventually calmed down as people waited for the concert to end and fireworks to begin. Happy july 4th. Reporter he was too cute not to add to the story there. You see
People just started rushing out of the parkway here. You could see the horses therely its Philadelphia Police mounted patrol and you may be able to see some people coming out right now. Nicky minaj is on stage and stopped her set actually for a few minutes because there was a report of a scuffle and an officer even being tackled, and what i noticed was people just rushing all the way out. It was such a steady flow of people that i was actually pinned between a young family as we were trying to get in to do our live shot pinned up between them an gate. So kind of a scary situation here but the Philadelphia Police rushed in and it looks like things are under control or heading towards control but you know what, this is a good event. A great time out here too despite this situation. We want to show you some of the highlights from the night so far. They are your hometown house band legendary roots are back with the sound track at the wawa welcome america philly fourth of july jam. Once aga