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john: but first, president biden s sweeping vaccine and mask mandates and the mounting legal challenges against them. i m john roberts in washington. sandra, good to be spending a friday afternoon with you. sandra: we made it, happy friday to you, john. sandra smith in new york. supreme court hearing a two-fold argument. at issue, whether the federal government can force large private companies to either fully vaccinate their workers or subject their staff to weekly tests and mask wearing on the job. justices will look at whether healthcare workers at federally funded facilities must be vaccinated. a decision could come in days and could effect nearly 100 million americans. john: more on that. owner of a louisiana grocery store chain part of the coalition challenging the private business mandate, sandra. sandra: first to david is outside the supreme court to begin the hour. how are the justices leaning? at this point it appears to be a mixed bag. a little bit ....
roof there is just gone. and that s what it looks like in mayfield as you go block to block. there is destruction like that across the state of kentucky and across the region. it all started friday night with the first twister touching down in arkansas and striking a nursing home. one person died. the governor called incident a miracle as the swarm of twisters tore a path 20 miles across kentucky. a candle factory was leveled with 110 people working a night shift. it s unclear how many were inside at the time. rescuers crawled over the dead to get to the living, a disaster scene. and we know it smelled like scented candles. eight confirmed dead. eight unaccounted for. in dawson springs, kentucky, the death toll stands at 13. there are still 100 people missing there. home after home destroyed. the mayor estimates 75% of the town is gone and described the scene in one word, chaos. right now more than 50,000 kentucky residents are without power. 18 counties are reporting ....
weaken into a tropical storm when it makes landfall in california tomorrow but still, officials are warning millions of people the storm s path do not take it lightly. arthel: preparations are already underway in the region. normally dry areas that could see several inches of rain. california is not used to tropical storm s. the last one to hit the state was in 1939. the l.a. county sheriff s department is doing all it can to get people ready. together it we are working to perform and prepare the community with this impending or pending storm. we hope the storm does not cause any damage. and more importantly there is no loss of life. but we will prepare for worst-case scenario. father mother meteorologist adam klotz is adam, we are always hoping it s not as bad as originally predicted, how s it looking now? the goodness as this continues to weaken as it is running into colder water braid this is exactly what we expect that this was never going to be one of the rea ....
week and by far the best of my life. the run of a lifetime. the beach started falling out of its mind. long beach scoring three wins in three days. in three days. and they showed it all week. reporter: by the end of that streak, just six days after munsen was sat, he and his boys are putting an extension. punching a premium ticket for the last dance for coach dan. long beach chstate university. right they are. long beach state is going to face off against number two seed arizona on thursday and i m certainly rooting for them. on that mote i wish you a very good night. for all of our colleagues across the network, thank you for staying up late with me. i ll see you at the end of tomorrow. very happy to have you here. this is a story about us. this is a story about the united states. it s always been a story about us. but in telling this story what you quickly find is there are stories from all over the place. there s a bunch of stories from all over the world that ....
us. but in telling this story, what you quickly find is that there are stories from all over the place. there is a bunch of stories from all over the world that keep unavoidably getting dragged into it, whether we like it or not. so even this is about us, you have to start, at least for a second here, with poland. just a few days ago, mayor of the capital city of poland, the largest city in that country, he held a press conference. he announced at the press conference that the city of warsaw will be setting aside tens of millions of dollars in its new budget to build bomb shelters for people in that city. now poland is not currently at war. the capital city of poland is not getting bombed. for them and for us, that s a good thing and an important thing, because poland is a member of nato. so if somebody was bombing poland, if polish citizens, polish civilians needed to use bomb shelters in the capital city of that country, that would be very bad news, not just for polan ....