tornado outbreak wreaking havoc across much of the midwest and south friday. there are now at least 50 preliminary tornado reports in seven states. at least 10 people have been killed and dozens of others are injured. most of the deaths are in arkansas, where the damage is catastrophic reports of at least a dozen tornadoes there. governor sarah huckabee sanders , declaring a state of emergency and activating the national guard. as the storms gutted entire communities. she s expected to give an update on the storm damage at any moment now and the hardest hit areas of arkansas. that was the town of when. we don t know what s left . all my neighbors house is about destroyed. my two boys are out now trying to help dig people out of their homes. little rock also bearing the brunt of these storms, the city s mayor, telling cnn today that entire neighborhoods were flattened. impact is devastating . i just came out of nowhere. clearly no, it was coming. everyone took cover, as relate
To see you again, so can can you help people understand why this time this american journalist is targeted? but it s pretty straightforward that this is hostage taking plain and simple. putin wants to have a high value american hostage by taking a wall street journal reporter accomplishes that. why does he want hostage because he wants to use that hostage use evan as a trading chip. um for other russian people who have been arrested, there s been a number of russian spies and other um, money launderers and others who have been arrested in the in by the united states and around the world, and putin wants to restock his supply of hostages if you remember the there was a previous hostage swap of the basketball player, and now that that she s home? yeah brittney griner now now they need another one. and so that s what this is