killer tornados continues. we start tonight with that developing news from capitol hill. just a few hours ago, the january 6th committee unanimously voted to refer trump s former chief of staff, mark meadows to the full house for criminal contempt. the vote comes on the heels of the new bomb shell revelations found in the very e-mails and text messages meadows himself exchanged before and on january 6th. committee members were taking pains tonight to point out the pivotal role meadows played. mr. meadows put himself in this situation. he must now accept the consequences. it certainly appears that mr. meadows played a key role in events that culminated in the violent attack on the capitol and on our democracy. mark meadows has committed a crime. in this case, a premeditated one. no one is above the law. not even a former president s chief of staff. i expect the justice
summerville, funeral services scheduled to start at the top of the next hour thank you. you re welcome. meanwhile, the recovery effort is beginning across the midwest. killer tornados struck multiple states on thursday and survey teams are on the ground there this morning trying to assess the amount of damage obviously, but the tornado was an ef-4 the second most powerful. cnn s nick valencia is in fairdale illinois what s interesting here is nick the one survivor who lost her home and she got help from facebook. i mean if you have any doubt about how good people can be this story is going to change that right? yeah. even in tragedy there s always seemingly somebody willing to help. it was just that case for lauren hin chi. she lost everything. her house was destroyed because of that ef-4 tornado that ripped through this community. so she took to facebook to vent her frustrations and really ask for help. that s exactly what she got. we have a friend s camper
report. get all of the day s political news each and every weeknight. jenna: today dozens of torn add tornados in the last 24 hours, especially in the chicago area. that s where we find garrett who is live in manhattan, illinois with the latest from the ground there. gary? the death toll from these midwest storms yesterday just reached eight people as officials in match michigan announce two deaths here. this is in illinois. you can see behind me, this was a 10,000 square foot warehouse. it was standing here yesterday housing all of this equipment, cars, trailers, until an ef 2 tornado with 120 to 130 mile-per-hour wind just plowed right through there. you can see the track here of the debris that goes for miles during the fields.
in the studio with us. that s right. our storm system still on the move but the severe weather risk pretty much over examine done with for today. we had a concern early this morning of the damaging winds being possible, actually across the new york city area and surrounding areas and also some large hail but all in all, that pretty much is over with. the storm system has moved on out. we do want to talk about the severe weather t yesterday, though, because it could potentially be historic. multiple reports of tornados. right now the reports by the storm prediction center is 68 reported tornados. now, national weather service crews will be heading out and surveying the damage, of course, and they will determine whether or not that number is the number of tornados we saw yesterday so they had to confirm the tornados and if that is the case, it could potentially be one of the top five worst november outbreaks in terms of tornados but that s what we re looking at. it s a little unusual t
them. plus, we re at the scene of a raging california wildfire this hour threatening thousands of homes in los angeles. crews are trying to direct an attack on the blaze. plus, violence exploding in turkey. could have the same kind of impact as the arab spring. cnn is on the ground for you. i m wolf blitzer, we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. you re in the situation room. the death toll just rose again from the latest round of killer tornados to hammer oklahoma. authorities now say at least 18 people were killed, including an 8-year-old girl whose body was found today near the deep fork river. oklahoma city was hardest hit by the twisters that barrelled through the state friday night, less than two weeks after a monster tornado struck. since the storm passed, residents of oklahoma city have been dealing with a new threat,