Be close to death without it. Our exclusive sitdown with one senator. A lot to get to this morning. We start with that explosive reporting on the nation s top military leader. Head of the joint chiefs of staff, general mark mille sharing concerns about a potential nazi germany eraesque coup, general milley reportedly describing weeks after the election like a reichstag moment. Milley looked at the pre s supporters and farright extremists taking to washington on that million maga march, describing what he saw as brown shirts in the streets. Phil rucker and carol leonig. Mark murray, senior politics editor, courtney cube, and mark jacobs, nbc military analyst. Mark, there are some experts in this book that we now can report that demonstrate how real milley s fears were, right? a description on the evening of that million maga march you referenced, he called mcmaster to ask if a coup was eminent asking bluntly, what the f am i dealing with? he then began to strategize how to block donald
morning. it s saturday. april 1st. i m victor blackwell. april fool s day, huh? hi victor. i m amarillo walker. thank you. so much for spending a part of your saturday with us. here is what we are watching this morning. we don t know what s left. all my neighbors house is about destroyed. my two boys were out now trying to help dig people out of their homes. at least five people are dead and of hundreds of thousands are without power. this morning, i met a tornado outbreak across several states. we are live in hard hit kansas and tracking the threat for more severe storms, as tornado watches remain in effect this morning. the challenge for the nypd is going to be protecting everybody s first amendment right, allowing everybody to have their voice heard. and to do so in a way that keeps the peace. new york city is preparing for president trump s first quarter appearance after he was indicted by manhattan grand jury. what we re learning about the charges and how this historic m
citizens right now, and it s time to go if you re there, and administration is urging us citizens to leave russia after reporter for the wall street journal is detained accused of espionage case stands and what this says about the current state of us russia relations. details about the cdc team that got sick while investigating the cause of the train derailment in east palestine, ohio that was carrying hazardous. chemicals. we begin with people in the southeast, waking up to the threat of severe and dangerous weather, tornado watches and warnings are in effect right now for parts of mississippi all the way to georgia. it comes as we re getting a better look at the destruction left behind after those massive storms or through seven states over 50 tornado sightings have been reported. at least five are now dead. the powerful storms blew through when arkansas, killing at least two people and trapping dozens inside their home, leading town officials to send out a call for neighbo
tornadoes with max gorden and little rock, arkansas and adam in the weather et cetera we start off with more on the roof collapse and belvidere, illinois and this is just a terrible story. it is a terrible story here. it is static, people be waking up this morning, get here in downtown. the chaotic scene of cleanup crews, cleaning up the debris from what we believe to be a tornado last night but you just mentioned 200 people inside apollo theater or the morbid angel concert. a pan over to see what we are seeing, jacqui there are people out here, there is a roof and there is a car underneath roof. it underneath here. we have sound from a witness inside. take a listen to everything that unfolded inside of that concert. there are people in there. i did a witness when i first got here they did have a people out on stretchers in front of the apollo theater look like they re trying to get ambulance access and emts to that. that was definitely something i did in fact witness. ther
we have live team coverage of the damage with nicole valdez in coraville, iowa. we are starting in belvedere, illinois, just terrible news we are hearing all morning there. jacqui and griff, sad situation here in belvedere. people were out last night with their loved ones enjoying a concert. they should be here downtown getting coffee, hanging out at local restaurants but instead a chaotic scene behind me as you can see. cleanup crews on the ground clearing up the debris from what we believe to be a tornado. i will have patrick pan over so you can see what i see here. there s a car beneath the roof here. it just paint the picture on how the storm system that ripped through the community was. 265 people inside of the apolo theater last night when the storms came through. in fact, we had a chance to hear from a witness who tells us how everything unfolded inside, take a listen. i would say there was 100 people, i did witness when i first got here that they did have people o