outage .com. earlier we spoke with a storm chaser who arrived in a town south of rolling fork, mississippi, right after the tornado touched down here he is this tornado was one of those tornadoes that went 0 to 100 very, very quickly. it started out just outside of town and probably about a mile southwest of the town before it was impacted as just a cylinder cone tornado, and it quickly grew with every lightning flash into a huge at least quarter mile wide wedge tornado and i actually didn t realize how close we were to the town and the path of the tornado was taking until it was too late. when i crossed the road in front of us. that s when i could see all the debris being lost it up into the air by all of the power flashes and the lightning and i arrived on scene literally as the tornado had just exit town, and there was there was just a constant scream for help while it was pouring down the rain, thunder and lightning still around, and we just went to the nearest homes that you know
only people here in east palestine zip code only. others in the surrounding area in a town south of here say they are being forgotten. president biden s transportation secretary writing to norfolk southern ceo quote norfolk southern must live up to its commitment to make residents whole and also must live up to its obligation to do whatever it takes to stop putting communities, such as the east palestine at risk. not everyone in this town is scared or feeling sick. we spoke to the head of a youth basketball league here in town. he said he had to cancel a hoops tournament over the weekend robbing of a chance to compete. kids that have been in school in person, guys, for a week. our sports program in east palestine has had a series of cancellations that have drastically affected our sports program. we had a series of tournaments that bring in a ton of revenue for our district. how much? about $40,000. that was canceled because of the hysteria around this whole event. because no tea
me. how do they sell their homes? that s the question. we re live in east palestine with more. norfolk southern ceo is taking a lot of heat. he returned here on saturday to meet with local officials and residents are still very nervous and don t know what to believe. the government says the air and water are clean. some are not sure about that. we spoke briefly to our colleague. he did not hold a press conference. here to support the community and if you ll excuse me that s where i m headed now to meet with some community members. like i said, only briefly. norfolk southern is handing out $1 thousand checks only to people in the east palestine zip code only. in a town south of here they say they re being forgotten. we re not getting any of the help. it is not even the financial part of it. that won t fix this. it is the principle of it.
of the illegal immigration happening mexico to texas right now. no overnight landings of new boats last night in south florida, which is the first day in a while. but there were two boat landings 24 hours ago in the florida keys a town south of key largo. like all illegal migrant arrivals, they re detained, put on buses and brought here for processing at the customs and border protection facility. down in the florida keys from key largo to key west they re witnessing often daily arrivals. migrants stranded on the highway waiting to be picked up by police or sheriff s deputy. straining locals and feds. migrant encounters have surged 500% since october 1st including boat loads of haitians like this one that landed off key largo tuesday. roughly 400 cubans who landed in
officers on saturday had desires to join the taliban. they say it was written in a diary along with desires to die a martyr. the teenager is in custody after pulling out a machete in the attack on three officers near times square on new year s eve. they were treated at hospital and have since been released. police are still trying to determine what prompted the attack. it s not clear if the suspect viewed jihadist propaganda. he hadn t formally been charged with a crime as of sunday. a storm system that s causing life-threatening flooding in the western u.s. is moving east, putting more than 15 million people under winter weather alerts. at least two people have been killed by flooding in parts of california over the weekend. firefighters used a boat to rescue five people trapped in their cars on saturday night in a town south of los angeles. here s what one firefighter said about the flooding.