Drivers stranded meteorologist Angie Lassman is tracking it all for us another guilty verdict ree re related to a School Shooting at a Michigan High School the gunmans father convicted of Involuntary Manslaughter a leitchive report to how il is responding to Chuck Schumers stunning speech. Calling all curl friends helping young girls learn to love their curls, one doll at a time and Justin Timberlake bringing a lot more than sexy back fans losing their minds and screaming hi, hi, hi, at a surprise performance of n sync. The debut of their newest song leaving them feeling like theyre in paradise. Its friday, march 15th. Early today starts right now good friday morning to you glad youre with me. Im Frances Rivera breaking overnight, deadly storms tore across the midwest and southern plains, knocking out power to tens of thousands and bringing tornados and massive hail at least two people were killed in ohio. Emergency crews in one ohio county reporting a tornado and estimated halfmile wide, crossing the highway over 13 million were under tornado alerts with more reports of twisters in indiana, kentucky and texas. Indian police according to the National Weather service, weather service, the massive wreckage is likely from a tornado up to half of the buildings in nearby selma may have been damaged. Giant hail fell thursday night in texas and residents in kansas dodged pieces the size of golf balls. For the latest on all of this and what to expect today lets bring in nbc meteorologist Angie Lassman. Yesterday quite a busy evening hours and into the overnight. Of course we saw about eight tornado reports, and you can see the two that you just mentioned. Winchester, indiana, the time frame was 5 00 to 7 00 we saw tornado warnings first for winchester at 7 39 20 to 25 minutes between both of these warnings being issued and the tornados moving through u the good news is we are arent seeing any more of thoses watchs or warnings anymore. Todays severe risk smaller but still not zero we have a bulls eye around austin and san antonio tuscaloosa to jackson, also the greatest potentials going to be for some of that large hail. And well watch for the wind gusts and of course a few tornados as well heres the deal. The system will continue to work its way to the east. Well still be unsettled across much of this region, watching this even as we get into the weekend. Well hear from you a little bit more, a little bit later thank you, angie james crumbley, the father of Ethan Crumbley has been found guilty of Involuntary Manslaughter a michigan jury found he was guilty for failing to prevent the rampage that killed four students in november 2021. Crumbley bought his son the pistol he used in the shooting and failed to safely store it. Now he faces up to 15 years in prison last month his wife jennifer was found guilty on the same charges. Their son is currently serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole. In the shadow of war, a diplomatic rift is opening between the United States and Israel Senate majority leader chuck schumer, the highestranking jewish ej jewish elected official. If he remains in power after the war begins to wind down and continues to pursue policies that test existing u. S. Standards for assistance, then the United States will have no choice but to play a more active role in shaping israeli policy by using our leverage to change the present course schumer is the most prominent american lawmaker yet to hint at conditioning American Economic and diplomatic support for israel lets go live to claudio lavanga, whos following the story for us good morning has netanyahu responded yet . Reporter good morning, frances. As far as weigh know, he hasnt responded, but the likud party responded that israel is not a Banana Republic but proud of its choice of Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu other leaders have condemned schumers remarks. First of all, benny gantz, the war cabinet said he erred in his remarks and wrote, and i read that israel is a robust democracy, and only its citizens decide its future and leadership any external interference on the matter is counterproductive and unacceptable also the former Prime MinisterNaftali Bennett wrote on his own x account, we are an independent nation, not a banana public, with the threat of t threat of iterrorism on the west israeli politicians are not the only ones to criticize schumer also u. S. Republicans have accused schumer of meddling with israeli affairs, while he got this report of key democratic senators, as per the white house, yesterday, john kirby held a press conference and said the white house was notified about what schumer was going to say, at the same time, it is up to the israelis to decide the political future of their country. Frances . Claudio, thank you. The situation in haiti is growing more and more dire by the day, as the chaos and violence in the streets escalate among those scrambling to leave are hundreds of american citizens our Gabe Gutierrez reports from the neighboring Dominican Republic reporter a catastrophe is unfolding in haiti each day people running for their lives. The Gang Violence in portauprince now trapping americans caught in the crossfire. Hundreds of stranded u. S. Citizens registering with the state department we just want to go home reporter missionary jill dolan and her family are stuck in a makeshift motel near the shuttered main airport shes desperate to get back to the states in time for her daughters wedding we did hear gunfire outside this gate, and it was very scary, and we all went running and turned out the lights and hid in our room until it went away reporter amid concerns of a mass exodus from haiti, the Dominican Republic is increasing patrols along its border and the u. S. Is considering temporarily housing haitian migrants at Guantanamo Bay like its done before in the Dominican Republic border town, haitians were briefly allowed to cross into this close closed off market. But we saw bus after bus deporting them if they went too far. This mother of six told us she was desperate for food we dont have work we dont have a president. We have nothing, she says. The oou. N. Announcing its launching a humanitarian bridge in the sky to bring in aid across the border into haiti we also met a man who says hes from miami but as he recently visited family in haiti, a gang overtook his bus, leaving him with no passport and no way out. They took all my stuff, my documents, my bags, my phones, my money that i had in my pocket reporter this is the edge of chaos. Humanitarian crisis at yet another border and our thanks to gabe for that report. Former President Donald Trump spent much of thursday inside a florida courtroom, where his lawyers tried to get the criminal charges related to classified documents found at maralago thrown out, but the federal judge denied the motion. Mr. Trump maintains he did nothing wrong. I took them very legally. And i wasnt hiding them we had boxes on the front of, and a lot of those boxes had clothing, were moving out, okay, unfortunately, were moving out of the white house. Meanwhile, in new york the District Attorneys Office says they do not oppose waiting 30 more days to start mr. Trumps hush money trial Court Filings show thousands of pages of documents were only recently turned over to trumps attorneys. That trial is scheduled to start later this month turning to colorado where the biggest snowstorm to hit the state in three years dumped two to three inches per hour it left drivers stranded residents were working overtime to clear the rapid snowfall from driveways, sidewalks and even trees. I think im going to be out here two more times. Reporter today probably. Its very stiff theres a lot of water and a bus carrying 60 women on a ski trip from denver was stuck for more than 15 hours on the highway. Some without their medicine. By thursday afternoon, the group was finally back on the road lets check back in with nbc meteorologist Angie Lassman, who is tracking this storm for us. This is Something Else at this time of year, too. Yeah, its a march snow Winter Wonderland across parts of colorado as theyre waking up this morning good morning to you, frances we do have 5 Million People under these winter alerts this morning. The snow had slowly start to taper off. But we could pick up maybe another 6 inches or so in some of these spots across the region but for the most part, people in denver will see it wrapping up meanwhile, feeling like april. Baltimore, 73 degrees. New york is going to hit 66 degrees. We keep it feeling like april as we get into tomorrow and well slowly see our temperatures get back to normal as the end of the weekend and early n roanoke today. We head to the 40s for cleveland, and detroit hits 53 degrees. And thats a look at your forecast, frances, back to you coming up, why lyft and uber could cruise out of one major city and were back in a minute with alec baldwins push to get his manslaughter case tossed out manslaughter case tossed out. Wh . Does he need to go to puppy school . 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