this comes amid heightened fears that russia could escalate their war against ukraine. as the country waits to see what is going to happen in the fight over abortion rights, we re going to look at the moves states are already making in anticipation of the ruling. parents across the country are scrambling to find baby for formula. what s behind the shortage, and what s being done to replenish the supply. and a good saturday morning to all of you. it is saturday, may 7th. christie, so nice to be back with you. thank you for having me. we appreciate you welcoming that 1:45 alarm. i know it s not easy. for you, anything, and now we re going, adrenaline s flowing, got calf ffcaffeine. we ve got an hour under our belt. we can do this. thank you. let s talk about president biden. indeed, he is touting economic gains in the new u.s. jobs report, while visiting a manufacturing facility in ohio on friday, but he s also addressed what is at the top of mind for so many am
Already getting at this point. yes, the system is not moving very fast. it will be hours of dealing with these rain showers, not only in the mid atlantic, areas of pennsylvania, new jersey, washington, d.c. but also the southern end of this storm. so you still have some of those showers and thunderstorms trailing across areas of florida as well and some of these areas picked up tremendous amounts of rain in just the last 24 hours. every single one of these cities broke a rainfall record yesterday with how much they picked up in a short period of time. columbus and cincinnati, ohio, as well as d.c., the dulles airport breaking a rainfall record yesterday. in addition to the heavy rain, we also had severe thunderstorms. we had five tornado reports over 160 damaging wind reports and over 60 hail reports. some of them were as large as tennis ball size hail. more severe weather is expected today. it s mainly going to be across the southern tier of that initial system, so areas like tampa, m
the national and louisville. let s bring in chad myers at the cnn atlanta center. what is the latest? it goes all the way from illinois all the way down to georgia, alabama, as far west as louisiana and far north as virginia. on the backside, it s snowing up in squad cities. that s not atypical. you need cold air to clash. a couple areas still on the ground, to the north of chattanooga by bradley and north of cleveland in tennessee. and then another couple storms here popping up, not that far from cape girardo. that is harrisburg, illinois. right in the middle of a new tornado watch. that town that got hit so hard a couple of days ago. all of this area is under severe weather today. there will be a severe thunderstorm watch, tornado watch, and many warnings going through the night and probably into 10:00, 11:00 tonight. that means, keep it tuned here to cnn. chad will take the lead on this one. we ll keep a close eye around the country. in other news, a shocking example o