begin this hour, with the rising death toll from the tornado outbreak that has ripped across much of the south and midwest just minutes ago, officials in illinois confirmed for more storm related deaths, the overall death toll over the last 24 hours now jumps to 21 lives lost more than 50. tornadoes have been reported in seven states. in the south and the midwest. the state of emergency now blankets, much of arkansas and the national guard is rolling into devastated communities. there are reports of at least a dozen tornadoes touching down in the state. these images are of the hard hit town of wynne, arkansas, and that s where we find cnn s derek van dam. jim i was just talking to my crew a moment ago, and the scene behind us reminds us of being on the set of a major blockbuster movie. i mean, just look at what we have with this destruction coming out of wynne, arkansas, that is a church steeple that was blown off by this tornado. look at the incredible damage in front of tha
lying. tucker carlson was one of those hosts, according to court documents. now, a week after that giant payout to dominion, tucker is out at fox news, is he the sacrificial lamb or was there something else going on? fox news didn t give a reason and tucker isn t commenting, but we do have media reporter dylan byers with us to tell us all that he has so far gathered along with an expert in cable news to tell us what this means for viewers of the channel does anything change but that is not all. both cnn and nbc news have also made big media moves today, nbc that is. news cnn fired don lemon, he says he was blind sided. the network says he wasn t and comcast, the parent company of msnbc fired nbc universal ceo jeff shell after an investigation into, quote, inappropriate conduct. in a statement, shell said he deeply regrets an inappropriate relationship with a woman in the company. joining me now is nbc news senior reporter jane timm, and puck senior correspondent dylan byers.
want the plant back, with everything it had? or what you re going to have. i will be dumbfounded if you find anybody other than for pure sentimental reasons saying i d rather have a coal plan. i ll end by telling you another quick story. when we move from scranton, when coal died in scranton, everything died in scranton. and my dad wasn t a coal miner. my great grandfather was a mining engineer but my dad was in sales, and there was no work so we left to go down to delaware. i told you where those oil plants were. but i remember driving home when you take the trolley in scranton, going out north washington and adams avenue, within 15 blocks we didn t live in the neighborhood, the most prestigious neighborhood in the region, in the town where the scrantons and other good decent people lived, there was a you d go by a wall that my recollection was somewhere between 15 and 18 feet tall. and it went essentially a city block. and you could see the coal piled up to the very top o
what, if anything, will they do? will anything actually change in this moment as we ve asked every single time before. the parents of these 19 children, the loved ones of all 21 deserve answers to these questions and they deserve action. we re talking about people like stephen garcia and jennifer lugo. their daughter ellie was killed in gold blood, a little girl so excited about the pool party she was going to have for her tenth birthday next week. sweetest girl you ve ever had the chance to meet. told her we were going to have a party and her face just lit up. that was the last time i saw her. i won t see my daughter again. hear with me from uvalde, texas is jose diaz-balart and gabe gutierrez. gabe, what do we know now that we didn t know yesterday or when we woke up this morning? reporter: chris, good afternoon, yes. the key question, how did the initial officers at the scene engage, in their words, with this gunman. we now know the texas department of public safety
Especially during political campaigns. look at all the violence in these blue states, look at all the gun violence this is why gun laws don t work. when you look at the data, can you just explain what you saw? at nationhood lab, we look at a lot of data that regionalism matters because in the united states regions are very different, and we do it using original settlement maps to understand the true cultural differences between the regions, and we knew that gunviolence would have enormous regional differences from prior scholarship, and we looked into it, and indeed it s enormous regions of the country that i guess you would call blue regions are among the safest places and amongst the most dangerous ones are some of the red regions, particularly the deeper low land south, with rates for things like gun deaths, overall suicides and homicides that are four times that of the regionally settled area around what s now new york city or, you know, two and