tornado outbreak wreaking havoc across much of the midwest and south friday. there are now at least 50 preliminary tornado reports in seven states. at least 10 people have been killed and dozens of others are injured. most of the deaths are in arkansas, where the damage is catastrophic reports of at least a dozen tornadoes there. governor sarah huckabee sanders , declaring a state of emergency and activating the national guard. as the storms gutted entire communities. she s expected to give an update on the storm damage at any moment now and the hardest hit areas of arkansas. that was the town of when. we don t know what s left . all my neighbors house is about destroyed. my two boys are out now trying to help dig people out of their homes. little rock also bearing the brunt of these storms, the city s mayor, telling cnn today that entire neighborhoods were flattened. impact is devastating . i just came out of nowhere. clearly no, it was coming. everyone took cover, as relate
Crackdown because there were threats against journalists who are going to say anything to report anything that was um, yeah, antithetical to what vladimir putin would want publicized and now recently, white house spokesperson john kirby said yesterday that americans need to get out of russia because, as we see now there have been many who have returned or many who have stayed . uh, what are your thoughts about western journalists as a whole who are inside russia? and particularly now that gert devic has been detained. what do you advise them to do? well sadly, i would advise them to leave the country there s really not much that that one can do if putin decides to take more hostages, all it does is it just exacerbates the problem as much as we d like to have accurate reporting for every single person out there? they re human beings with their you know, wanting freedom and having families and so on and so forth, and i don t think that anyone should be put in harm s way, and
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To see you again, so can can you help people understand why this time this american journalist is targeted? but it s pretty straightforward that this is hostage taking plain and simple. putin wants to have a high value american hostage by taking a wall street journal reporter accomplishes that. why does he want hostage because he wants to use that hostage use evan as a trading chip. um for other russian people who have been arrested, there s been a number of russian spies and other um, money launderers and others who have been arrested in the in by the united states and around the world, and putin wants to restock his supply of hostages if you remember the there was a previous hostage swap of the basketball player, and now that that she s home? yeah brittney griner now now they need another one. and so that s what this is
It s clear. putin is not playing by any set of rules. they re just all rule books have been torn up. you don t arrest western journalists. even stalin didn t and here we have putin doing it without any shame. bill browder. thank you so much. we ll leave it there for now. coming up. a flurry of republican lawmakers were quick to line up behind former president trump after he was indicted, but there are some top party members who have yet to defend him. that s next. next on behind t the series. let me tell you about the greatest roster ever assssembled monster the outlaw and you can t forget about the boss. sometimes you just want to eat your heroes subway series greatest menuf all time. check that. that s pretty good. yes cryg. are you taking tt? and what was that? that no, don t worry about that. here we go. the right question