threatening to destroy them. classified documents found at former vice president pence s home. washington wonders who s next. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m christine romans. good morning. we begin with a wave of reported tornadoes, more than a dozen of them, wreaking havoc across southwest texas and southeast louisiana. oh, my god. in the suburbs east of houston, only one injury reported, remarkably. but officials are calling the damage catastrophic. house is gone so the whole top section of the house is completely ruined. so it s toast. the house will be torn down now. kind of hard to take but, hey, we re alive. that s the main thing. we all ran to the restrooms and just watched the whole building fall. luckily the restrooms didn t fall. that was the only thing that kept us alive. reporter: numerous cars and tractor trailers overturned. buildings smashed. roofs torn off. one nursing home had to be evacuated and power