nearly a mile wide and stayed on the ground for more than an hour. leaving nothing but destruction in its wake. bill: it touched down near rolling fork, mississippi. a town of 2,000 people. that community is wiped off the map. sandra: houses reduced to rubble. some ripped off their foundations. the storm had winds reaching 170 miles-per-hour. that s strong enough to send cars and power lines flying through the air. bill: satellite images. on the left a picture of rolling before the storm hit. on the right is what happened after ward. an elementary school, trees, homes, cars, all of them are now gone. sandra: leveled. a church left unrecognizable with the steeple blown off. the scope of destruction is hard to fathom even for those who lived through it. it was dark. call for help. it was quiet. to hear those little kids hollering help. it s devastating. i look around town and i m saying i know we can rebuild, but what do you do with the devastation? what do you do w
detained in a kremlin crackdown on these antiwar protests. there are also reports of some demonstrators rounded up and immediately drafted into the rush sharon armed forces. it s setting off a flood of flights out of russia. nick peyton walsh is with us. it s called a partial mobilization of citizens. how is that playing out? reporter: it seemed pretty clear and forgive the siren noise around here. so much of ukraine constantly under threat, attack. it seems to be playing out initially pretty badly for the kremlin. the first issue they have to overcome is what to do with these thousands of potential recruits they re going to send to the front line that might already be being sent to the front line. they lack equipment to supply the regular army. this was a gamble and it s not going the way he hoped. the flights some of them full. military age males trying to get out of the country. they don t believe this mobilization is necessarily partial. the restrictions this will just
Terrorist assault on israel this weekend has climbed to at least 22, and that number may rise on top of that, tragic news. The white house announced today another 17 americans remain unaccounted for. And the white house expects the number of known american hostages taken by hamas to we know that a number of those americans are being held hostage right now by hamas. I think we all need to steel ourselves for the very distinct possibility that these numbers will keep increasing and that we may, in fact, find out that more americans are part of the hostage ctpool. Hamas is believed to have taken around 150 hostages, and the group is threatening to execute those hostages one by one in retaliation for israeli air strikes that hit gazans in their homes. The scale and the brutality of this crisis is without modern precedent. Today m as israeli troops clear the sites of hamas attacks near gaza, the scope of this weekends violence became clear. Soliers were seen recovering scores s of bodies. 2
Hunter biden about to appear in Federal Court in delaware. We expect he will plead not guilty on that felony gun charge. At the same time, here in new york former President Donald Trump about to head downtown. It is day two of his civil fraud trial. Also in new york, the crypto king, Sam Bankmanfried, appears for day one of his fraud trial. Well watch it unfold together coming up. Breaking news from overnight. Sitting u. S. Congressman carjacked at gun point in the Nations Capital. Good morning. Im bill hemmer. Dana has the day off today. Welcome to a big show to our colleague and friend, gillian. Gillian im good. Thank you for having me back for day two. Im Gillian Turner and this is americas newsroom. The victim identified as henry cuellar. As he was parking his car tonight three armed assailants approached and stole his vehicle. He wasnt harmed and working with local Law Enforcement. Thank you to metro pd and Capitol Police for recovering the congressmans vehicle. Lets go live to Gr
Again in this new speakers race . Youd have to ask them. I dont know. Im just going to focus on doing the work im supposed to do. I think this is a question to the institution itself. I know in the past the other leaders together all believed this should never be in play, but im not worried. Thats Kevin Mccarthy brushing off a question about the future of his speakership. It comes a farright member of the house triggered a vote that could remove him from his leadership post. Well have the latest on that fight inside the republican party. Also ahead well bring you a recap of day one in Donald Trumps Civil Fraud Trial here in new york city including the moment that seemed to enrage the former president. Plus, hunter biden will also be in court today. Well go through the new developments in that case as well as the Impeachment Inquiry into his father, the president. Good morning and welcome to Way Too Early on this tuesday, october 3rd. Im jonathan lemire. That mornings for starting your