live. reporter: what we saw on the hill is of things to come. gop lawmakers appeared to eager to settle a few scores in the process, set the table for a major take down on the line. first up, it is twitter, former brain trust trying to explain away what gop lawmakers called election interference and partnering with intelligence agencies and lying and betraying the public trust. i think you guys got played by the fbi. twitter should have reinstated the post account immediately. what some called twitter s censorship regime which often labeled fact as disinformation, like you know the hunter biden s laptop story? i will be the first to admit that we didn t always get it right. we all know now. this was not russian disinformation. it was not disinformation. no, it was not. and as you can well imagine, gop lawmakers were slamming twitter today. marjorie taylor green saying to the executives, you discuss me. nancy macey saying, thank god for elon musk, who in the he
portions of mississippi and alabama or live in the weather center. awarding to the west, vladimir putin says he will station nuclear weapons in belarus. and risking it all for the american dream, a rising number of pregnant women and minors make the dangerous trek through panama for a chance at asylum in the us from cnn center. cnn newsroom with laila harre. we begin with a massive cleanup underway in the southeastern us after powerful storms that spawned deadly tornadoes barreled through mississippi and nearby states friday night, at least 26 people were killed and dozens injured. the secretary of homeland security is set to tour the area later today and in the past couple of hours, president biden approved the mississippi governor s request for a major disaster declaration to get federal disaster. eight. flowing as quickly as possible. the mayor of heart hit rolling fork saying his city is gone. here s congressman bennie thompson, describing the destruction in his home stat
effect at this hour in multiple mississippi counties. those warns are bound to pop up in alabama as well as the storm system keeps moving east. we ll have breaking news, updates on what transpires across the south as the show goes on. tension with the teheran are growing for r the second day in a row. u.s. forces were under attack by irairanian proxy group. an american contractor was killed and several u.s. forces were wounded. our chief correspondent, jonathan hunt, is live on how the u.s. is responding. good evening, the u.s. still has troops in syria. they have been there since 2015. there are around 900 troops on t tthe ground and they are und attack once again tonight. fox news learned there had been injuries in these new rocket attacks in eastern syria. believed to be carried out with iranian weapons. on thursday, a drone attack again using iranian equipment killed one u.s. contractor and wounded several u.s. troops. prompting retaliatory strikes by american forces
explaining quote to protect your life and take cover. now a former mayor of rolling fork also described the tornado hitting his home, telling a local television station at the tornado blew the windows out of the back of his house and the sharkey county sheriff s office reporting several gas leaks and people still trapped in piles of rubble. mississippi governor tate reeves saying in a twitter post that search and rescue teams are active right now, and that more ambulances and emergency assets are also being sent to help those who have been affected. the governor also saying quote many in the mississippi delta need your prayers and god s protection. and this storm is not over yet. let s go now to fox weather meteorologist jane men are for the very latest on the track of the storm. jane hello, marianne . yeah definitely. just a devastating night. we saw these storms really start to fire up once the sun went down and tracked across mississippi, where we saw the worst of the dama
all covered for you. it is packing winds up to 115 miles per hour at this point and where i am now in central florida is expected to get worse overnight as we are on the air now so stay tuned, we have got it covered for you. you have to see this moment. this moment is from earlier. it is on the southern tip of pine island earlier today. check it out, if you will. whoo! whoo! you got to be kidding me! you got to be kidding me right now! and the threat is not over yet. there s still people who are out there sheltering in place. gaoept know their condition. we don t know if they re in a safe place now. there are power outages up to almost 2 million people across the statement we have our correspondents and our crews fanned out over the state of florida. bill is in punta gorda. brian todd is in largo. jerry is in bradenton and jeremy the weather center. bill, ace understand you re on lockdown tonight. you ever seen some of the biggest action with the wind and rain. what are