morning. today s thursday. i know today actually is don t rush time because it moves fast , right too fast too fast. but it is thursday. thank you for joining us. everyone caitlin is off a lot to get to won t we start with five things to know for this thursday, april 20th 2023. we re gonna start with the tornado outbreak striking oklahoma. at least two people are confirmed dead in the town of coal. significant damage, reported the supreme court, delaying its decision on myth of kristen until tomorrow, the justices seeking more time to assure ruling that could impact the accessibility of the abortion pill across the country and a judge here in new york, ordering mark pomerantz to testify today before june. jordan s house judiciary committee, pomerantz is a former prosecutor who once led the manhattan d. a s investigation into donald trump s business dealings also happening today, twitter says it s going to remove you know those check marks. we have one. with legacy blue check
shot because of it. they re gonna have spears that they never thought about in their life that now they re going to think about all the time there is this culture within america that shoot first ask questions later. what is going on in this country? at least two people are dead this morning after severe storms tore across three states overnight tornado left down trees and power lines, creating challenges for first responders to find those trapped in a number of emergency crews all over this area. look at all the damage. the inflow is insane. access to the comment. abortion drug kristen still legal, at least for now, this is a really uncertain time for the abortion rights movement. pandora s box of potential legal issues. real question is, will they hear it? and where are they headed on this? we don t want a supreme court justice in our bedrooms, telling us what to do. not can you hear me? now? can you hear me? we saw a missile land very close to our vehicle. thousands have al
weather from south texas, all the way to wisconsin and across the midwest to tennessee meteorologist derek van damme. he is tracking the storm for us, and the damage is already done. good morning to you, derek. the national weather services has is warning people that last night the storm was behaving a radically and it was hard to predict. so where is it going now? yeah extremely erratic. in fact, the storm s almost working intendant together and one absorbing the other. we can step through the storms. there s oklahoma city, and you can almost see the progression of the tornado as it forms. but there was another tornado trying to form just to its north cycles through and then drops yet another tornado to its north and east so complicated, making it very challenging to issue warnings. but listen to what people had to contend with here. in oklahoma. a large tornado barreling through central oklahoma wednesday. the tornado is just to our south right here . damon is pulling in tremendous
corny derek. yeah i wouldn t want to be anywhere near where that storm chaser or meteorologist was. that s too close for comfort for me. the storms were acting very erratic . at one time, there was actually two super cell thunderstorms that we re feeding off of each other one became the dominant storm and dropped yet another tornado very terrifying overnight period for residents of oklahoma. take a listen a large tornado barreling through central oklahoma wednesday. the tornado is just to our south right here. damon is pulling in tremendous inflow into it continuing to produce damage. we have large hailstones being pulled into the tornado as well . the tornado hit cole oklahoma , killing at least two people, a local official told cnn. very very intense, very slow moving. tornado tornado left down trees and power lines creating challenges for first responders to find those trapped. there were over 150 storm reports
season doesn t begin until this week. what what does that make you expect? anything going forward? is that indicator or not necessarily. not necessarily an indicator. there have been years when we ve had a very active winter or spring and then um, the tap has shut off and it s been much more difficult to get all of these ingredients to come together for the remainder of the season. so um, certainly were concerned about how active it s been so far. but that s not necessarily an indicator of what we ll see over the coming weeks and months. it was interesting because of people like you doing your job. the chancel even likelihood of severe weather was forecast pretty well in advance . you know, realistically is there is a limit to what people can do isn t there if it s some massive tornado barreling and. well, the we certainly encourage people. um in the days leading up to a tornado to think about,