First, at this hour, Vice President Kamala Harris finally visiting the southern border. 93 days after she became the point person on the crisis. Her trip comes during a record surge in illegal crossings in the United States. Hello. Im john roberts in washington, this is america reports. Good to be back with you again today. Seems like we have a busy news day every day. Today is. Im Gillian Turner in for sandra smith. Vice president harris is on the ground in el paso. Thats where youll recall that we saw one of the most heart breaking videos from this Currents Iteration of the border crisis. You can see Border Patrol footage from april. Shows smugglers scaling a 14 foot fence and dropping two girls on the other side. The smugglers completely abandon the girls leaving them defenseless, alone in the desert outside el paso. John critics point out the epicenter of the border crisis is hundreds of miles away in rio grande. The white house says el paso was a perfect case study. The Vice Presi
arkansas governor sarah huckabee , sanders declared a state of emergency as the storms ripped through several towns. she spoke about the destruction a short time ago. i ve had the opportunity over the last couple of hours to speak with both the homeland security secretary as well as president biden, who have offered a tremendous amount of support anything that arkansas need from a city county state and federal perspective, i would say that everyone is working in total lockstep and we re going to do everything we can to make sure that people of our state are back on their feet again. but the storm threat is not over. a new round of severe weather is threatening 70 million americans today. cnn has teams following all the latest developments from these deadly storms. let s begin with derek van dam. he s live for us in hard hit. when arkansas derek what s the situation? yeah fredricka. you know the devastation here is immense, quoting the mayor of when arkansas, he said. it s lik
old audrey hale hale had just gunned down 39 year old children and three staff members. a warning. what you re about to see is disturbing. it begins with officers, injuring the covenant school after receiving the first call at 10 13 am. three happening. one more. let s go. metro police. mm. i mean, you know me. i don t know where he is. police door. bathroom, bathroom, small bathroom. next. let s go. door door with me with me. hold the door. yeah. next. this. open it. i got it. i got it. let s go. right now. let s go, go right cover left! cover luck, right. let s take this with him this. no that s locked. take this story. take this store . take it . it s upstairs. sounds like something. i don t know. right? personnel, pbs. that is chilling video. cnn s amber walker is in nashville and emma emma, before we talk about this heart stopping footage. we know that national police just gave an update in the last hour. what did we learn? we just heard from the chief of police from the
was a picture behind the door and i couldn t get out the door and i managed to get out there and then one of the neighbors came and got the debris out from in front of the door. sure he said that god protected her as the glass fell around her within her bed, but i want you to see the roof that is no longer there as this opened up and revealed the tornado twister above her during that terrifying moment sunday morning. back to you. damage just highlights the destruction. those powerful tornadoes. derek grant, dan, thank you. it is the top of the hour you were live in the cnn newsroom onboard. sanchez bianna golodryga. america s children have been failed once again and just over 24 hours later, enormous transparency of how another school shooting unfolded yesterday in nashville, metro nashville police have released stunning videos of the 14 minutes between the initial 911 call and the takedown of the suspect, identified as 28 year old audrey hale. surveillance video from the sch