Tom brady, according to his assistants is very very particular about the air in his footballs. The nfl now saying the team that went on to win the super bowl may have cheated to get there. Good afternoon, everyone. Im jake tapper. We have breaking news. Severe weather, a tornado on the ground in oklahoma. Youre looking right now at live images from our affiliate kfor. Meteorologist Jennifer Gray joins us now live from the cnn Weather Center to talk about this breaking story. Jennifer what are we looking at here . Ominous skies in oklahoma for sure. Thats caddo county. We were watching a couple of minutes ago what looked like a funnel cloud. You see its broken up a little bit. That funnel cloud has lifted. But these are ominouslooking skies. We have an active tornado you see that funnel cloud in the middle of your screen those are earlier pictures. But thats a scary situation. If you are in caddo county in oklahoma find your safe spot get into your storm shelter if you have one. Put as many walls as you can between you and the outside. There is that Tornado Warning. Caddo county thats until 3 15 central time. For the next 15 minutes or so it is impacting cities of cement also cyril and its moving to the northeast. Oklahoma city needs to be on the lookout for this in the next hour or so. Because this weather is not going to let up. Well see offandon showers and thunderstorms pop up throughout the rest of the evening. The afternoon as well. This is all part of a larger system impacting states like oklahoma, kansas, as well as texas. These storms will continue to fire up through the afternoon and evening hours. All pushing generally in the west to east or southwest to northeast direction. So we are going to see the potential of very gusty winds, damaging hail as well as the possibility of tornadoes. So just as weve seen just the past hour 30 minutes, we could see more of that as the evening progresses. Thats right. In fact the chopper pilot just saying the cloud were looking at there, the one thats so ominous, is getting larger and lower to the groufend. Ground. Thats from our affiliate in oklahoma. Jennifer will continue to track this storm for us. Thank you so much. Lets turn to the National Lead. Investigators currently feverish ri retracing the steps behind these two men behind that terrorist attack in texas. Theyre looking into what if any ties they may have to other isis sympathizers here in the United States. One of the gunmen appears to have been in communication with a british isis recruit in syria and an american jihadi based out of somalia. Now investigators are Digging Deeper into simpson and their media activity. Thankfully the only two People Killed were the gunmen. Both men believed to have driven from phoenix to garland, texas. They came there with the intention of opening fire at an event featuring controversial cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad. Pamela brown is live in phoenix where friends of the attackers are being interviewed by the fbi. Pamela we just learned investigators also questioning members of a mosque that both men attended. Reporter thats right, jake. We should say the fbi is not officially commenting. What weve learned from talking to people here on the ground in phoenix, the fbi agents have been interviewing members at the mosque. Theyve been interviewing family members of at least one of the gunmen, alton simpson. The fbi is trying to piece together how one of their subjects slipped through the cracks and was able to drive from here in phoenix to texas and launch this attack. And Law Enforcement want to make sure there are no other associates who also want to launch an attack this as were learning an isis fighter in syria who may have played a role in the attack tweeted out a warning just recently warning of other attacks to come in the west. Tonight an ominous warning from a key isis operative who u. S. Investigators believe could be connected to this weeks shooting in texas. You aint seen nothing yet, the tweet thought to be from an isis recruiter and hacker. One u. S. Official says hussein is quote, a real problem and could be inspiring other americans to launch attacks in the west. Hes been somebody that they can follow that they can get information from and it would appear that he possibly helped instigate this attack in texas. It would appear that he might have had some foreknowledge of this plot. Reporter the british hacker is believed to now be in syria. In britain, he was convicted of computer offenses. Hussein was linked on twitter to one of the two attackers of the Prophet Muhammad cartoon exhibit, Elton Simpson. U. S. Investigators are still trying to determine what degree hussein inspired or had a role in the attack. Hussein tweeted, the nights have been sharpened. Soon well come to your streets with death and slaughter. A Law Enforcement official tells cnn, investigators were led to open an investigation in recent months. Law enforcement are able to use all available resources to keep tabs on him. He was monitored but not under constant surveillance. This is a lone wolf attack. You have two individuals that dont appear to be part of a broader conspiracy. And identifying those individuals and keeping tabs on them is difficult work. Reporter officials believe simpson and sufi drove from phoenix to garland, texas. Guns in their car were bought legally lyly according to officials. The inside of their apartment was relatively barren. They did retrieve at least one hard drive which is now being noised. Analyzed. A neighbor close with the family say theyre in shock. Did they have any indication that he had extremist leanings, that he sympathized with isis, anything like that . None. No indication at all. Such a big surprise to the family. Reporter and i asked about how the family had no idea about his extremist leanings considering simpson was the center of a terrorism investigation and charged by the fbi for wanting to go to somalia. But im told at that time the family didnt take it seriously. They thought he was just mouthing off and they felt like the fact the judge dismissed the charge backed up their feeling that it wasnt anything serious. I spoke to the brother of Elton Simpson today. He was visibly shaken up and he called what happened tragic. Pamela brown, thank you so much. Appreciate it. Lets turn to our other breaking story in baltimore. Mayor stephanie rawlingsblake saying this morning she wants to make sure police in her city are held accountable so Something Like what seems to have happened to freddie gray does not happen again. And as part of that effort the mayor is asking the department of justice to investigate her own Police Department. Evan perez is now live for us in baltimore. Evan is this a signal from the mayor that she doesnt trust members of her own Police Department . Reporter jake, i think its a reflection of the general distrust of the Police Department which the Police Commissioner described himself to us yesterday saying that he knows theyre part of the problem. The mayor called for this pattern and practice investigation by the Justice Department. This would be the third investigation into this case that follows the freddie gray case. The Justice Department is investigating the death as well as carrying out a Compliance Program for the Police Department. And so now this would be a much more invasive look at this at what is happening here with this Police Department jake. Evan perez in baltimore, thank you so much. In our politics lead today, he is the newest member of the 2016 club and hes well known to many, including, especially conservatives. So why isnt Mike Huckabee doing better in the polls . He has a theory. Hell explain it to us next. 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Here in this small town called hope i was raised to believe that where a person started didnt mean thats where he had to stop. I always believed a kid could go from hope to higher ground. Joining us the latest member of the 2016 republican class, former arkansas governor Mike Huckabee. Sir, as always good to see you. Thanks for joining us. Thank you, jake. Great to be with you today. I covered you as you remember when you ran for president the first time back in 2007 and 2008 for a different network. In the years since then you have been become a rather big tv star on fox. You have very high name recognition, high likability among Republican Voters and yet in the latest quinnipiac poll of likely iowa caucusgoers out this morning, youre running fifth. Why do you think youre not on top . Well i think until yesterday, a lot of people didnt believe i was going to run. And no how many crumbs i left on the trail to make it obvious i was headed to this direction, its the constant thing we faced. Well tell me hes going to run and ill think about it. I believe those numbers will change. But the most important thing at this point is now i can tell people without any hesitation, i am running for president. Im not just thinking about it. Im doing it. And i know why im doing it. Ive done this before and i know how to lead and govern. I think people deep down want someone who can lead this country. If youll permit me a horse race question. In order for you to win the nomination youre going to have to have a bloc of voters you win and expand it. In 2008 you were the clear favorite among evangelical voters, christian conservatives. In 2016 that space is really crowded. Theres dr. Ben carson, Ted Cruz Marco rubio, scott walker, Rick Santorum and youre all vying for that bloc of voters. How can you differentiate yourself from all the other candidates competing for those christians . First of all, i think among evangelical christian, im not somebody whos just started talking about the message. This is who i am. And i have a long history of being consistent with this. But heres the secret my support in 08 and i think in 16 is not limited to evangelicals. I believe the heartandsoul support i did have and have today is represented by the working class people across america who feels that washington is utterly disconnected from the lives they have to live. You said as president , i promise well no longer to contain jihadism well conquer it and deal with jihadis as we would deal with deadly snakes. What exactly does that mean . Where would you send troops that we dont already have troops . Its not just about sending troops. Its about arming the kurds which we should have done from the beginning. They never asked us to come fight their battles for them. They just said would you give us some weaponry so we can fight ourselves . And we never did it. We never showed up. We put red lines in syria that we later erased and said, theyre not really there. We picked the wrong side in egypt not once but twice and we pushed president al sisi in the arms of vladimir putin. Time and again, our complete disastrous Foreign Policy has led us to a world thats much more dangerous. So its not just about are we going to send troops all over the place . Its are we going to target the people who are out to kill us . And well make it very clear. You hurt an american and were coming after you. And not just put an economic sanction on you, were taking you down. You also said yesterday, quote, the Supreme Court is not the supreme being and cannot overturn the law of nature or of natures god. If the Supreme Court ends up ruling in favor of samesex marriage ruling that samesex marriage bans are unconstitutional what are you proposing states do . Well, i think states have to decide do they follow through with legislation and create a law . The Supreme Court cant create a law. They can invalidate one. But even then the legislative body and the executive branch has to enable legislation. Executives have to sign it. They have to enforce it. The courts cant do that. The constitution is pretty clear about the limitations of the court. And if the court could overrule the other two branches of government in this or any other issue, then we have turned the court into the super branch of government. The constitution didnt do that nor did the founders ever intend it. In january, sir, you rented out your email list to a Group Selling hidden cures for cancer embedded in bible verses for the low price of 72. Dont you lose credibility by attaching your name to things like that . Well, i never signed that letter. I have a huge email list that i developed over many years. And we did, in fact, rent it out to entities. But, my gosh thats like saying that you run some ads on cnn, do you personally agree with all the ads on cnn . I doubt you do. Im sure there are some for catheters or adult diapers, theyre not products that you use or you necessarily believe in. I dont hold you responsible for that. And in that same way, i dont think people who understand how advertising works would hold me responsible for something that i didnt personally sign up for or endorse. With all due respect, sir, i think thats a false equivalence. Were talking about medical devices, catheters and adult diapers, and youre talking about something that i think a lot of people would consider to be huxsterrism interms of bible verses curing cancer. I just say that if people buy the advertising space, whether its on your channel or in that case it was in essence my channel, it doesnt mean necessarily that im personally identifying with it anymore more than i would expect you identify with anything and everything thats sold on cnn. My guess is you probably dont control all these things. And i didnt run that part of my company. Governor huckabee, thank you so much. Hope to see you on the campaign trail. Good luck. Im sure you will. Thank you, jake. Following the breaking news in our National Lead ominous pictures f