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joe johns, have a great rest of the weekend and safe travels. you, too. on this memorial day, i want to begin on cordova, alabama. it hit on the morning of april 27th by a powerful ef-3 tornado, and then the very same day ef-4 tornado hits that same town that night. cordova, alabama, is not the town that you see here in some of the video, some of the aerial pictures here and satellite images. a lot of folks have certainly lost their homes, but as we told you on friday, the cordova mayor jack scott is invoking a ordinance that rejects any trailer which is being offered by the federal government to folks whose homes have been destroyed. and jack scott is saying emergency or not, the law is the law. and as we showed you on friday, none of the folks in cordova are none too thrilled about the 50-year-old ordinance. we will talk to some folks live in a moment, but first, listen to this. what i suggested is putting the fema trailers in my backyard, because of the mayor, ....
Said you can t hold kids for more than 20 days. now the dhs secretary needs to take responsibility, the call is a positive development, in terms of the call with reporters, does the dhs secretary needs to honor their commitment to taking children from their parents has a questionquestionable the d secretary needs to find ways to reunite them with their parents, pending their immigration status being reviewed. i want to go back to some of the points you just made. our cnn political director joins us now, because i want to get to the substance of this call with reporters and the hhs secretary. so david, let me go to you now on the headlines out of this call, including, what i saw, now they re saying the number is 3,000. so it s up from the last time we heard. 3,000 kids possibly separated. and potentially much larger. we were talking in the realm of ....