tornado watches and warnings are in effect right now for parts of mississippi all the way to georgia. it comes as the death toll is rising after those massive storms. toward through seven states, and now at least nine people are dead. dozens more injured. there were over 50 sidings of tornadoes, including 22 in illinois, 12 and arkansas aid in iowa. in arkansas. three people are dead after the violent storms swept through that state. the national weather service has confirmed at least two tornadoes have touched down in the state. girl out of commotion and stuff that it was just over. i go outside, and it's crazy as people get blood all over their faces. three people were killed when an apparent tornado ripped through sullivan, indiana, first responders work through the night to clear the streets so they could get to the places hit hardest. and illinois baseball sized hail damage. some vehicles so badly that they had to be towed from the roadway. but the hardest hit areas a small town of wynne, arkansas, four people have died there. meteorologist derek van dam is there and he shows us the damage. we are in badly devastated wynne, arkansas , where electrical vehicles and companies are on the scene, trying to assess the initial damage here that the mayor described has literally split his town in half, and we are standing directly in that path from this devastating tornado. i want you to see behind me. this is a home. that is a living room, and that's somebody's piano. there's no music being played there. today this house has been vacated. there have been injuries overnight. there were active search and recovery efforts taking place we've walked around this area. the win high school here in arkansas, home to the yellowjackets. their home football field was decimated by this tornado, and i want you to see it from the air because you can notice the indiscriminate nature of a tornado and how its path of destruction is very concentrated , literally, like peeling back the skin off of an orange. took the artificial turf and ripped it off of their home field. but on the other side of the football field, it was left untouched. so we're some homes, but the areas where it hit hardest, of course, completely devastated and we have seen just the true nature of how incredible mother nature can be . it is a scary morning as we get first light and get a idea of just how bad this tornado really was. toppling trees, overturning trains. taking vehicles and sweeping them across the ground. and also just taking out electricity and communications within this area. just get a load of the destruction from the wind high school directly over my right hand shoulder. terrifying moments. fortunately, there were no students within that school because the tornado occurred in the evening. i'm cnn meteorologist derek van dam in wynne, arkansas, just devastating to see illinois now where dozens of people had to be pulled to safety after the roof collapsed at the apollo theater in belvedere, first responders arrived in minutes to what they are describing as absolute chaos . one person was killed. cnn's adrian broadus is joining us live from outside the theater. more than 200. people we understand were inside when that roof came down. what more do you know? we know those folks who were inside of the apollo theater. we're here for a concert having a good time, victor, but at least 28 people. all right. we've been having some technical issues as you might understand getting out from that area. if we can get adrian back live, we will bring that to you. um but as we said the description from first responders with that there was absolute chaos there when they arrived. now we know that the severe weather threat is not over there, firing up this morning across the country, cnn meteorologist brittany ritz, his tracking it from the weather center, where specifically should we be watching right now ? watching the southeast now for strong storms, their sub severe which is great, but one or two may get to that point where we're talking about wind gusts over 60 mph and some small hail later this afternoon. then we start focusing on the northeast , where we have more of that tornado threat or the storms throughout the southeast, currently no watches no warnings in place, so we're watching them slowly start to weaken but will ramp up again once we bring in some afternoon heating, so you'll see those areas highlighted in the hello, where we're a little more vulnerable for that severe weather threat again, all hazards in play just as they were yesterday. just not as likely so areas up across the northeast syracuse, pittsburgh, new york back into philadelphia under that slight risk where we have a few tornadoes possible, but this is more what i think is going to be a damaging wind threat so throughout the southeast, that system tracks further down to the south. tallahassee jacksonville, charleston, savannah up into wilmington's dealing with some stronger storms throughout the latter part of the morning and into the afternoon, but once we get into the evening, that system clears, we get on up into the northeast. here we are. saturday afternoon. two o'clock we get initiation around that area of low pressure. you see how that line starting to bow out a bit. that's the wind threat that i'm talking about with with and then that line, then we have to focus on the threat of isolated tornadoes. that's 67 o'clock eastern time. once we get to about 11 o'clock midnight, the front moves through our precept, then starts to switch over. to snow 57 tornado reports over the last 24 hours, folks from minnesota on up into texas back across the southeast. we are already over 150% of average for tornadoes, mind you were not even to peak season yet peak season comes into play. april may in june. so folks were really starting to get this spring weather kicking in. we have to watch this closely into the upcoming hours, especially across the northeast . alright. we certainly will. brightly ritz. thanks so much. donald trump is expected to travel to new york on monday and then voluntarily surrender the next day to the manhattan district attorney. this will be a first in u. s history for a former president. that's right. and security is tight in and around the courthouse ahead of tuesday's arrangement, that is when we expect the lengthy indictment. against trump. to be unsealed. cnn's katelyn polantz joining us now. hi, caitlin walk us through what we can expect next week. tuesday is going to be a really big day for donald trump. he's going to arrive in new york city. we believe on monday and then tuesday has a full slate of activity where he will be facing the criminal justice system for the first time, this highly unusual scenario where there is the district attorney and others wanting trump to be treated just like any criminal defendant, and he will have to go through the process, just like anyone would who is facing an indictment and heading to trial and yet this is done. old trump so things will have to be different. he is a former president of the united states, the first ever to be charged with a crime like this, and so what will happen as he enters that courthouse, he will be processed just like any criminal defendant, but then he will walk down into the courtroom and there will be cameras lining the hallways. we already know that we don't know yet if there will be cameras inside the courtroom, but we do expect there to be quite a bit of a bubble around him. much of the courtroom has already been or the courthouse has already been. locked down and we know that there will be strict secret service presence around him, even armed guards and we also know that he is not expected to be handcuffed at this point in time whenever he's walking to the courtroom to face his charges. trump's attorneys say that they're going to file a motion to dismiss. tell us more about that. right well, they're saying that that is what they plan to do that they're going to want to get these charges thrown out, but no one has seen the charges yet. they have not seen it. donald trump does not does not know what he is charged with, and neither do we, as we are awaiting this. what we do know is that he is facing 30 or more crimes. potentially it looks like that will not all be misdemeanors. that would be very unusual if they were so. that means that he's very likely facing at least one felony charge very serious type of criminal charge, and we know that his team is saying that they're going to try and get these charges thrown out. but that is ultimately up to the judge. the judge in this case will have lots of work to do before any trial would occur after donald trump pleads not guilty. the judge will get to look quite closely at what those charges are and decide that whether the law allows it to go before a trial. alright, katelyn polantz appreciate your reporting. thank you. so the courthouse where trump will be indicted is now under 24 7 blanket security so far, mayor eric adams says the city has seen no credible security threats, but they're still vigilant, possible protests and unrest. let's bring it now. polo sandoval local, state and federal officials are now working on security ahead of trump's arraignment. what do we know? because i imagine there's some things that are not public, but for as much as we know, explain. and our colleague caitlin touched on it briefly. let's expand a little bit on what it's going to be just major logistical and also security considerations that will certainly be seeing. in fact, we have been seeing for the last several days in terms of the first security. i look to my right. i see some temporary lights that were set up to my left. you see officers that are still posted. the entrance of the manhattan district attorney's office. rainer shine , 24 7 as we heard from officials. we are expecting that increased police presence. those court officers are being asked to work through the weekend to make sure that the building remains secure ahead of next week. and then also what? you don't see that behind the scenes intelligence efforts right now by officials. to flag any potential threats online that we should mention that mayor eric adams office saying that there are no current today have not identified any existing threats at this point, but they certainly continue to monitor and then of course, the logistics that come with all of this. they continue to work securities. you have secret service and nypd. they have moved former presidents in and out of the city before process that is quite normal will be unprecedented because this will be a first for the law enforcement officers tasked with keeping everything safe monday and tuesday. authorities have quite a busy weekend ahead of them. polo sandoval. thank you, okie house republicans are lining up to defend the former president. but there are some powerful members of the gop who have so far 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it's really interesting to look at what republicans are saying immediately after news of the indictment broke, we saw several top house republicans and senate republicans come to his defense , as well as some of trump's 2024 potential 2024 arrivals. now i think it's really interesting to note that house speaker kevin mccarthy, one of trump's top allies on in congress, tweeted right after the indictment. came out. he wrote that alvin bragg has a reportedly damaged our country in an attempt to interfere in our presidential elections, and later, he wrote. the american people will not tolerate this injustice and the house of representatives will hold alvin bragg and his unprecedented abuse of power to account now. other house republicans meet similar statements of support. we also saw jim jordans, the house judiciary committee say that it was outrageous and we could expect potentially some more action from some of these committees to rally around donald trump. i will note, though it is notable that the two top senate republicans senate minority leader mitch mcconnell and senate senate minority leader or senate minority whip excuse me, john thune both silent on the issue after this, but a lot of this support also extends beyond congress. we're seeing his rivals like governor. desantis, who has not been willing to go this far yet also come out and support donald trump he tweeted as well on thursday night. he wrote the weaponization of the legal system to advance a political agenda turns the role of law on its head. it is un american. he later wrote. florida will not assist in an extradition requests, given the questionable circumstances that issue with the source backed manhattan prosecutor and his political agenda, so clearly a lot of support for the former president. and i will add victor tomorrow that this is what donald trump's team wants. they think that this could potentially be beneficial to him in the long and of course, we don't know what the long term effect of this indictment will be, but they're currently enjoying a lot of the support from people on capitol hill and republicans beyond alright. elena. train for us in washington. thank you so much. let's bring it down. cnn senior political commentator and former republican congressman adam kinzinger and cnn political commentator karen finney. good morning to you both. congressman let me start with you. do you know enough yet to agree or disagree with some of your former republican house colleagues that this is political. no no, and they don't know either. i mean, look, it's one thing to say, hey, let's take a look at what this indictment says. i mean, it's the rule of law. that's kind of an important thing. but to see people like lindsey graham jump out there and cry on tv, begging for money for him, and to see some of my other colleagues that seem to have read an indictment that even donald trump himself haven't haven't read. they don't have the proper information. look there. maybe you know, once we actually see what this indictment is there, maybe then a point at which they come out and say, look, this looks like anybody else wouldn't have been charged with this. but we're not there yet. and the rule of law and, frankly, the impartiality of the law. so important that just you know, i would recommend to my colleagues. they may not take my advice here, but just take a deep breath, you know, give it a potato or two and let's see what this says before you go out and make these statements yeah, the indictment that we know is coming. karen of a former president is a moment, right? it is something worth marking even before we see the indictment, but there's some members of congress who are speaking in such absolutes and even with some stunts of handing out ham sandwiches, and we don't know the charges. we don't know the underlying evidence. we don't know the facts. and they're saying that you can throw this whole thing out. no you're exactly right, victor, and we are, but here's what we do know we do know that when this case was a federal case, it was bill barr at the u. s department of justice. who shut it down. we know that, uh, grand jury made up of ordinary americans had to hear the evidence from all sides and make and take a vote to get to bring this indictment. so it's not just alvin bragg and you know so much of what's happening. it's so bad for our democracy to see republican leaders literally undermining our democracy and our democratic institutions. the very by the very constitution, they swear an oath to uphold and defend, and i think it's critical in this moment that democrats just continue to do their jobs, no fundraising, no gimmicks. no popcorn. so far, we haven't seen any anything like that. which i think one or two have maybe done fundraising, which i wish they would not do that, because this is a very serious moment for our country, and we should treat it as such. that was going to be a question. we know that the former president has raised, they say more than $4 million in the day after the indictment, but they're democrats also was sending those fundraising emails . you say that that's not only bad form, it's just and inappropriate for the moment. correct it is inappropriate for the moment we shouldn't be fundraising off of this. this is we should treat this with the level of seriousness because again while i mean, think about the fact that we spent a couple of weeks here, sort of debating whether or not this case should even be brought. that is how low donald trump has brought us to the point where someone who committed a crime potentially very serious crime, one that may have influenced the outcome of an election were debating whether or not you know that that's the right case that should go first or second. think that, but rather the underlying principle is this is about democracy. this is about the rule of law and or democratic institutions, so we should treat it as such. sometimes silence speaks and we have not heard from the minority leader mitch mcconnell in the senate. we have not heard from the minority whip john thune. congressman what do you make of their silence at this moment, are they i think you said take a potato or two, which i've never heard. but i think from the context i understand what you mean. or is this from two men who really aren't feeling donald trump and we're going to jump to his defense, no matter what, the indictment said. yeah i mean, i think i think it's kind of look , every member of congress. i can tell you with maybe a few exceptions because i can kind of pull the curtain back and let you appear inside. they all wish they didn't have to comment on this. they all wish that this wasn't happening, and they always frankly that somebody would write it on a white horse or unicorn. and donald trump wouldn't be a factor and he wouldn't run for president again and, you know, maybe ron desantis could write in and just saved their lives, but they're unwilling to actually say what needs to be said like they're waiting for somebody coming on a white horse, and they're the ones that you know, are among the people that can come in on these white horses. so i think in in, you know mitch mcconnell's case, and john thune's case are doing the right thing, which is they don't want to jump to any conclusions until they know what's in that indictment. and then they can come forward and make a statement. they very well, then may say that this appears to be political. they very well may say this appears to be very legitimate, but at least we'll have the facts in front of them, and i think people will take their word. then with a lot more gravitas and people that jump to conclusions without you know, frankly, having any idea what's in this indictment besides what we've kind of heard through the grapevine, speaking of making a statement, congressman, um do you think there's any chance that donald trump slips into and out of new york without some gesture or statement of defiance or self declared martyrdom? what do you expect on tuesday? i expect there's no chance he doesn't make some kind of a statement, unless the only caveat here is if the judge in essence threatens him or says, like, hey, you know we're going to put a gag order on you. if you continue to go out and do this, then maybe his lawyers will say, hey, don't say anything, but no. i mean, look, donald trump is going to try to raise money on this. we've already seen that he is raising money on this. he's a professional victim, the most powerful man in the world that happens to be the victim of almost every circumstance that can ever exist. says a lot for his character that he is again a constant victim, and he's going to play that card. he plays it quite successfully, honestly, and it's going to help him in the primary, so i expect he's going to make a spectacle. if he doesn't it will be probably because his lawyers told him that he just simply can't do that. all right. adam kinzinger, karen finney, thank you. thanks. right now. back to our top story. a tornado outbreak is so far blamed for at least nine deaths across the country. in illinois. dozens of people had to be pulled to safety after the roof collapsed at the apollo theater and belvedere. first responders arrived in minutes to what they are describing as absolute chaos. one person was killed. and cnn's adrien brody is joining us now live from outside that theater. adrian i guess i should be surprised that just one person was killed. looking at the damage. what do you know? as far as right now, that is what we know. at least one person was killed, at least 28 others injured now the range of injuries varies. according to officials. at least five were described to have what were called severe injuries. they were also transported by ambulance. and if you look behind me, you can see where the sign of the apollo theater has fallen. what i want to look from above, take a look at our view from above, you can see where the roof collapse. now there were tornadoes throughout the state of illinois. but there has been no confirmed tornado here in belvedere. we are west of chicago, about an hour and a half. give or take. meanwhile here on the ground, you can see there is going to be a massive cleanup happening, which is already to the left of me. starting today, there are bricks scattered along this stretch of the street. there's shattered glass. there's glass in the parking lot where we are so as folks walked through their walking extremely gender early around the neighborhood. you can see where trees have fallen, and even when we were setting up my photojournalist, jake notice that a tree in the near distance was shifting. so this is the beginning of cleanup. but what we do know at least one person has died. 28 others injured. they were all here last night for a concert at the apollo theater back to you just tragic situation. adrian brought us thank you very much. abided administration is 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in the efforts to secure your brother's release, and, like paul whelan, evan herskovitz is being accused of espionage. but like we said, it's the first time in american journalist has been detained in this way since the cold war. what do you think draskovic's family can expect to happen next? well it's really difficult to say. i mean, there are some obvious similarities between you know how this has started. each case is very different in terms of how hostage taking of this sort of goes down, but we can see that the fsb has arrested both paul and evan that he is being held in lefortovo, just as paul was, and then these sham espionage charges, but exactly what will happen next is uncertain. it will be a couple of months. i understand. before he has his first hearing, and this happened with paul, as well of those hearings got put off and off over a year and a half before his trial actually happened. so of course, i'm sure his family is hoping that something can be done to get him out of lefortovo before they have to endure a sham trial. um from what i understand, it doesn't look like the russians would even begin negotiations if they're open to it until you know a sham trial takes place and herskovitz is tried and convicted. is that your understanding? well that has been their patterns so far. and quite frankly, when i heard about the news about evan, i mean, you know, we had two reactions. first, of course, great sympathy for him and for his family to have to go through this ordeal. we know all too well how this can go, but also shocked that russia would show itself to be so weak as to resort to, uh, trying to pull off another hostage taking like this. i don't know what they expect to accomplish, but it doesn't look good for them on the world stage. sure sure. and i understand that you and your family are concerned. earned for ah, you know the well being of your brother because he's not been able to make his usual daily calls to your parents. and this was as of thursday as i understand it. what do you think is going on? and do you think the detention of ceviche is playing into all of this? you know, that was my first thought when that happened, but we actually think now that this is as you know, the first the wagner group and now the ministry of defense or recruiting in the prisons to get people to send to the front line on their war on ukraine, and i believe that paul may have been sent off to the side to a hospital. as he has the last couple of times the recruiters came around to the to the prison camp so that he can't see what's going on and report out about that. so we are hoping you hear from him soon, but it's always worrying when we lose contact with him like this. um look, we know that the biden administration was able to secure the release of brittney griner and, of course, trevor reid. and of course, it was a bittersweet moment for your family because i'm sure you were hopeful. but paul whelan was not released as a part of these prisoner swaps. what do you believe it's going to take to bring the likes of your brother and girls. covic home. you know, that's a really good question. um i've had some very pointed conversations with officials within the government in the last couple of days. just trying to find out where where things stand for paul and i have faith after these conversations that you know, good and smart people are working, and they have been across two administrations to try to solve this problem. it is particularly difficult these espionage charges they allow russia to do a lot of things. um behind the scenes, you know, hold hearings and trials in six cred and that sort of thing. it becomes very difficult to know what they're up to. um i do believe that everyone is supremely irritated by the fact that evan has now been arrested as well, and i'm sure there's going to be some doubling down on efforts to get him out. but i have to say you know what's helped us through all of this has been the support of the american people. folks writing to paul trying to do everything they can to keep his spirits up. i mean, over over £40 of mail was delivered to the prison just a couple of weeks ago. letters from all across america, people of every different political stripe trying to support paul. we don't have the backing of a large sports conglomerate or media, you know, um media moguls, and that sort of thing, um, you know, and we're glad to see that evan is getting so much support right out of the gate. and we hope that, um, that folks remember that you know for an ordinary family like like us and our brother who doesn't necessarily have all that shame, backing that those letters that you're sending those those messages are worth so much to him and thank you for your support £40 of male that's a lot of support and weight as well. elizabeth whelan. we only wish you the best and hope that us well can keep your spirits up. thank you. and of course, we'll continue to follow this and draskovic's detainment. thank you. major blow to fox news channel. a delaware judge ruled friday that dominion voting systems historic $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against the network will go to trial later this month. and this means that some of fox news is highest ranking executives and most prominent hosts could be called to testify about the 2020 election lives that were promoted on the channel. cnn's marshal cohen has been following the details of this case for us all right, marshal. take it from there. victor there is no other way to put it. this was a huge loss for fox news. this is not what they wanted to see yesterday in this huge ruling from the judge, they wanted to avoid a trial. they argued that they were fully protected under the first amendment. but the judge ruled yesterday in a 130 page ruling that this case will go to trial. and unless there is some sort of last minute settlement, which is always possible jury selection is going to start in less than two weeks now, remember victor this is all about fox's decision in 2020 to embrace the big lie to put people on their channel that we're pedaling the false claim that dominion rigged the election. let me read for you. a quote from the judge about that exact matter. this is judge eric davis down in the delaware superior court, he said, quote the evidence developed in this civil proceeding. demonstrates that it is crystal clear that none of the statements relating to dominion about the 2020 election are true. and victor. i'm not the one who put crystal clear in all caps. that was the judge. he is saying here that dominion had already proven that this was false, and that will be up to the jury to decide if it was defamation. victor i was gonna ask that who chose the capitalization there, but 100 and 30 pages that is very detailed. marshal cohen. thank you for the reporting. you bet. today loved ones will say their goodbyes to two more victims of this week's nashville school shooting. we're going to have the full 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chance for the first time ever tomorrow. but iowa, south carolina last night had all the makings of a heavyweight title bout in order to get there, the unstoppable caitlin and her hawkeyes taking the undefeated gamecocks and aaliyah, boston battle of the last two national players of the year. sold out crowd in dallas. in the end, it was the 2023 edition coming out on top. clark was lights out all night long set in a national semifinal record scoring 41 points for a second straight game. aaliyah, boston had eight as iowa holds on to win 77 to 73 snapping south carolina's 42 game win streak. the hawkeyes headed to the national championship for the first time in team history. now in the early game ls you trying to put an end to a final four curse? if you will owen, five all time entering the night, they were down nine to virginia tech after three and then it clicked. the tigers start in the fourth quarter of 22 to 3 run their dynamic duo of angel reese and elect alex alexis morris 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same pair same pair, and i've gone back to an older pair of shoes that i want rhode island when we when we want an answer tournament there, but it goes by well beyond that, because today i've got on your my be the lion t shirt underneath with a pair of me and the lion underwear because i'm i need to be reminded during like, this is pretty stressful. there's a lot of pressure here. you got to remind yourself that you're not only a dragon, but you're also you're a lion. yeah no, i'm not superstitious like coach on sometimes a little bit. stich is how about you, victor and amra. any lucky outfits that you guys wear, make sure did you make sure to ask him that he actually changes out that underwear like every game? oh, no. he wears the lucky dragon adult underoos as they have been called every game adult under ruse that will stay with me. coil wire. thanks so much. thanks coy. good to see you and thank you for watching is much more ahead in the next hour of cnn newsroom fredricka whitfield 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