this is an incredibly unforgiving environment down there. tornado terrace through a small town in texas causing significant damage. devastating through the whole community. storms bring large hail and severe flooding to colorado. it s my family. the mysterious identities of george santos bail backers in his criminal case had been revealed. why didn t you change the conditions of your bail or bond? their identities will be made public regardless. welcome back to the white house. india s prime minister meets with president biden at the white house. modi focused on the global challenges facing the two countries. e-cigarettes making unusually high number of children sick, with an increased number of calls to poison control. we ll tell you why. if you like a reclamation project, you ll love what paul orpello is overseeing at the hagley museum. no other postindustrial site reimagined in this way. a great story of resiliency. this whole hillside erupted ba
story . i m anderson cooper. last week at tokyo s haneda airport, a jal airbus collided with a smaller aircraft. five crew members on the coast guard plane died. but amazingly, all 379 people on the airbus survived. they were safely evacuated before the plane was engulfed in flames. investigation into what happened is still under way. it got us thinking about that miraculous story of survival that happened 15 years ago this month. us airways flight 1549 took off from new york s laguardia airport heading to charlotte, north carolina. there were 150 passengers onboard and 5 crew members, including the pilot, captain chesley sully sullenberger. it should have been a quick two-hour flight. but soon after takeoff the plane collided with a flock of geese. both engines went out and the plane headed down. captain sullenberger acted quickly, heading towards the hudson river for an emergency landing. his decisiveness saved the lives of all 159 people onboard. but this potential trage
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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
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