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
Need time to prepare, so the coordination was most likely between the d. a s office and the nypd. ideally you wouldn t want a arraignment on a friday. you know? should there be large crowds, you know that made transcend into any type of civil unrest. you don t want that bleeding into the weekend. you want to be able to be prepared earlier in the week. you have a law enforcement all the law enforcement stakeholders coordinated and able to address any type of issue that rises now to that point, nypd is focused around the courthouse, but they have a remit citywide and you know, there could be incidents that happened outside of trump tower on. you know, monday evening, there could be things that happen over you know, after the former president departs, so they have the remit of the entire city, so they want to make sure that they are prepared. but to the to your question again, the secret service did not ask for any type of delay. that s just that s just not true. and jonathan, let me ask
Democratic georgia congressman john lewis, who started this bat by saying he doesn t think president-elect trump is a legitimate election winner. so today on twitter he wrote this. john lewis said about my inauguration, it will be the first one that i ve missed. wrong (or lie)! he boycotted bush 43 also because he. thought it would be hypocritical to attend bush s swearing-in . he doesn t believe bush is the true elected president. sound familiar! wp we did get some more details about the swearing in today, the president-elect will take the oath of office using two bibles, one that he got as a gift at his sunday school graduation in 1955, and another that has been used to swear in both abraham lincoln and barack obama, and we do understand that in trump tower on and off, the president-elect has been practicing his inaugural address with a teleprompter and a podium. jenna: peter, thank you. jon: mr. trump also tweeting back at some brand-new polling that shows him with some