times of tragedy in times of crisis, they stand up and they show up. mississippi s governor visits a town flattened by a powerful tornado for the neighborhoods that were leveled . the recovery is only just beginning. political turmoil in israel, benjamin netanyahu is under pressure from his own government to halt plans on judicial reform. now we re hearing an announcement on that could be imminent. we alive in televisa and jerusalem. with the latest and the manhattan grand jury is expected to continue its investigation and donald trump later today we will ask our political analyst if an indictment is likely. live from cnn center. this is cnn newsroom. with rosemary church. good to have you with us, and we begin this hour in the southeastern us, where millions are under the threat of more severe storms, bringing large hail and damaging winds to areas already struggling to recover from an earlier rash of storms over the weekend, at least 10 confirmed. tornadoes strike mississip
Wicked weather this week between heat and rain storms and winds in excess of 100 mile per hour in texas, houston, where at least seven are confirmed dead. And hundreds are still without power. Katie, how do things look there now . A new shift of workers have arrived this morning and their work is underway after some cleanup crews worked through the night and theyre trying to board up a lot of the shattered windows in some of the Downtown High Rise Office Buildings and hotels. And you can see the work is cut out for them and there are a lot of windows theyre going to have to take care of, all of this damage, caused by the strength of 100 mile per hour straightline winds that hit right in downtown houston. The cleanup and power Restoration Efforts are likely to take weeks, not days. More than 500,000 people in Harris County here are still waking up in the dark. Its a huge concern as we enter the stretch of 90 degree days coming up. Weve been speaking with a lot of people on the ground be
tennis shoes, a shirt and jeans . that is all that is tangible that he has left to his name. he told me that right there is where he was sleeping. and on friday he felt tremendous fear he could feel the tornado coming his way and then the winds hit, according to meteorologist from the national weather service, they could have been as strong as 170 mph. this was an ef for their thinking. and then he felt those winds attempting to suck him out of his own home. the clear spot which you see is where i was at laying down. this was your home? yes. and where were you at? when the right in this area where is cleared and had a mattress sold me? but it flew off and then the blanket. i mean, not a blank, but carpet. just wrapped around me, and i was right there. why everything was lifted and torn off. and. i
people have been evacuating. i visited some of the shelters already. and one is full, one just re-opened, and we re prepared to open others if need be. as y all have been reiterating over and over, do not take this storm lightly. evacuate, prepare your homes, be mindful of your family and your loved ones. julie: the governor has been doing such an excellent job providing updates to its residents every three hours and sticking to the plan that people need to heed the warnings. by the governor julie: sorry, go ahead. no, the governor has crisscrossed the state julie: yeah. to reemphasize this message. and i know both our senators and local congressmen have been doing the same thing as are county commissioners and all of our local officials. julie: these deadlines are serious, because once the winds hit, emergency rescue teams
what happened is we had a storm system producing winds of 50 miles per hour sustained. even reports of 70 to 80 miles per hour. there were already fires in the area. when those winds hit, this thing took off in a hurry. it really spread rapidly. this video by michael, he put this up on facebook. last night. he went through these flames, had very little look at the house burning. a beautiful house. this is going through his neighborhood, trying to escape. it s about a four-minute-long video, and just 12 hours, it already has a million hits on facebook. it s one of the most harrowing escapes you ll ever see from a fire. it actually ends when he s trapped at a tree. you don t realize he s safe, and later on he posted that he did make it out of the flames. at times as he was driving, he would talk about the immense heat in the vehicle. there s a dog in the back, you can hear the dog panting because it was getting so hot in the car, and there were trees that were falling. the big question