the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. we begin this hour with the deadly outbreak of tornadoes that ripped across much of the south and midwest beginning yesterday afternoon. just over the last few hours, the death toll has more than doubled. 21 people are now confirmed killed by the storms and all more than 50. tornadoes have been reported in seven states, at least 12 of those tornadoes. were reported in arkansas state of emergency is in place in the hardest hit areas, including when the devastated arkansas town that you re seeing right there. cnn s derek van dam is with the latest from arkansas. 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 that building just in front of us here. we have el
tropes that like sinister jewish , you know, money puppet masters or orchestrating international events, and the trump campaign itself is using that puppet master language and fundraising emails. oren segal, an executive at the anti defamation league, which fights anti semitism, told me the trump campaign s emails have quote increasingly promoted potentially problematic language often used as anti semitic dog whistles. including calling soros puppet here or puppet master. now i ll just i ll just say in closing. it is, of course, possible to responsibly talk about george soros, soros and his donations. i mean, he s a major political democratic donor major player in this country, but calling him a puppeteer or puppet master. i think is not good, as the former president might say, himself, just ugly old tropes that are thrown thrown out there, daniel dale. very important fact. check for us. thank you so much. we appreciate that context with the nation s first criminal indictment of former
criminal justice should operate in new york meth it s frightening. people are up in arms about it. but this was his campaign. this is what he ran on. he made these promises. he said he didn t think that gun crimes should bring jail tucker: that s strange. he is a left wing democrat and a soros puppet. i thought left wing democrats were for taking people s guns away or is kyle rittenhouse the only gun criminal in america or farmers with shotguns in their closet? that s an interesting question. who will get arrested. he talks about how his dad had an illegal gun. he had it for safety and protection. it was okay. i guess other people who have guns maybe it s not so good.
days ago, a student at temple was murdered bringing his car home. they shot him. why? no reason. the wrong guy. why is this happening? one man, the d.a. in philadelphia, got the help of george soros and is pretending this is not happening. there s a notion that there s a big spike in crime. there s not. that s not true. there s also not a big spike in violent crime. neither one of these things is true. basically we don t have a crisis of lawlessness. we don t have a crisis of crime. we don t have a crisis of violence. that is a category that includes gun violence. tucker: stop with the air quotes, soros puppet. and she s surrounded by
temple university in philadelphia was murdered bringing his car home. they shot him. why? no reason. the wrong kind of guy. why is this happening? one man, the d.a. in philadelphia, got the help of george soros and is pretending this is not happening. notion that there s a big spike in crime. there s not. that s not true. there s also not a big spike in violent crime. neither one of these things is true. basically we don t have a crisis of lawlessness. we don t have a crisis of crime. we don t have a crisis of violence. that is a category that includes gun violence. tucker: stop with the air quotes, soros puppet. meanwhile, sandy cortez, who commands a disproportionate amount of attention, who knows why, but she is surrounded by federally funded bodyguards that