begin this hour, with the rising death toll from the tornado outbreak that has ripped across much of the south and midwest just minutes ago, officials in illinois confirmed for more storm related deaths, the overall death toll over the last 24 hours now jumps to 21 lives lost more than 50. tornadoes have been reported in seven states. in the south and the midwest. the state of emergency now blankets, much of arkansas and the national guard is rolling into devastated communities. there are reports of at least a dozen tornadoes touching down in the state. these images are of the hard hit town of wynne, arkansas, and that s where we find cnn s derek van dam. jim i was just talking to my crew a moment ago, and the scene behind us reminds us of being on the set of a major blockbuster movie. i mean, just look at what we have with this destruction coming out of wynne, arkansas, that is a church steeple that was blown off by this tornado. look at the incredible damage in front of tha
Appear bond. it is a process jim , that is very sort of run of the mill very business as usual for officials here, but given the nature that of the proceedings here, and the fact that the defendant is the former president the process will certainly not be normal monday. come tuesday will certainly expect crowds certainly expect the cameras here, jim it will not be normal. that s correct. polo sandoval thank you very much. joining me now, cnn law enforcement analyst jonathan wackrow. jonathan great to see you. um, you know, we ve been saying this over and over again. the arrest of the former u. s president is unprecedented. lot is unprecedented with donald trump, of course, and that s an understatement in many ways, but this is going to be something that the american people just haven t seen before, and the secret service will be on hand tuesday, expected to be on hand tuesday to ensure his safety. um how do you think they re preparing for? what will be, you know, pretty wild day down a
Intelligence committee but someone who wanted to divert from russia situation. the process jim was just talking about. when you re in the room and intelligence briefer gives you a document, top secret document that says, for example, russian official, russian diplomat caulking to u.s. person number one, that s how it reads. and you say in the case that i m familiar with, you re the fbi director, i need to know who u.s. person number one is because i need to know who is communicating inappropriately maybe with the russian diplomat. that goes into a formal process. the briefer doesn t just say, well, that s john doe. you have to go back and make a formal request. your name is logged. when she made those requests, she had to know this is going to appear until the end of time, that her name was at that point potentially searchable. so to suggest that there was some sort of underhanded process here is not appropriate. she did what a lot of intel guys do. panel, thank you. thanks, guys.
They are meticulously logged. we are seeing intentional deception, phil mudd. you want to take a general issue, which people have about surveillance. what are you collecting there in the spy world and when is my name up for your own offer within your agency or outside and what was done specifically here. to jim s point, if rice wanted to leak this, if they wanted to do something sneaky, why would she have gone through the normal challenge of having it unmasked and created a paper trail of her own deception. sure. if you look at this case, let me pick up on what was said. i ve been in the room when the fbi director requests unmasking of a name. believe it not the fbi can t determine the name in that intercepted communication. the director of fbi has to go through that formal process jim just identified. as soon as susan rice asks for