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Severe Weather Threat in the coming hours, from the south all the way up into new york. And the horrific images. The tornadoes slamming communities. Among them, the ef3 tornado touching down in greenfield, iowa. Homes wiped away. Tonight, 45 million americans on alert again, right now across multiple states. And well take you through it. Tonight, the other breaking story. The horrific and deadly Workplace Shooting outside philadelphia. Police now say an employee waiting this morning for coworker...

Severe Weather Threat in the coming hours, from the south all the way up into new york. And the horrific images. The tornadoes slamming communities. Among them, the ef3 tornado touching down in greenfield, iowa. Homes wiped away. Tonight, 45 million americans on alert again, right now across multiple states. And well take you through it. Tonight, the other breaking story. The horrific and deadly Workplace Shooting outside philadelphia. Police now say an employee waiting this morning for coworker...

State law, but rather give broad authority to school districts. >> do you feel like you all got any due process? >> no, maam. due process does not exist in the school system here in alabama. >> reporter: c.j.s parents hired an attorney, but district policy prohibited her from being inside the meeting where they tried to appeal his punishment. charles bell has spent more than a decade studying punishment in schools. >> were literally pushing children out of school. >> reporter: more than 2.6 mill...

>> the police asked me, whose is it? whose is it? theyre saying its yours. im saying, i dont know. i dont know whose it is. >> reporter: police investigated and charged someone else, not c.j., who had no prior disciplinary issues, his attorney says, but c.j. says he spent nearly two months in in-school suspension before getting a disciplinary hearing where his dad said c.j. was given little chance to defend himself. >> were you all allowed to see the evidence against c.j.? >> no, maam. >> were y...

If that were the case, if the state of florida or any state itself could single-handedly alter the curriculum of african american studies, the ap african american studies course or any ap course, for that matter, it would undermine the integrity of the process we have in place. >> i learned a lot. >> reporter: c.j., t.j. and their moms who live in miami say they have been waiting for a course like this. they all attended a teach the truth tour and say they wouldnt know as much about their own hi...

But i think she should have the opportunity to fix this, to work through it, and to show us a potential path. for lack of better words, lets give her a chance at least in the short term. >> do you think that she should, at the very least, suspend or fire the other officers who were part of the memphis police department who were there in that video we saw outside of the five standing around after he was brutally beaten? >> i have only, like you, seen the video. i have not seen the police document...

Necessarily need to join to make money in your life. >> no. youre exactly right. college industrial complex is real. they have force fed a big lie upon society today that we need college more than they need us. and its why they act with such impunity. why you see universities like stanford saying that the word american is harmful language. grand father is racist. they are divorced from reality because they believe that we just wont leave if we get enough. we should leave. why would you pay tens ...

The lava junkies. david culver has more on that. >> reporter: seemingly photogenic from every single. theres a beauty to mauna loas eruption. >> volcanos different every day. every time you go, its always different. >> c.j., driving us to his picture-perfect spot at 4:00 in the morning. the best view, he believes, the rising sun greeting the glowing lava. many hours of sleep sacrificed for a few minutes of perfect lighting, weather permitting. >> yeah, that is superthick. >> reporter: we step in...

Photogenic from every angle, there is a striking beauty to the eruption, especially ascap sured by c.j.kale. >> the cole contain know is different every single time you go. its always different. >> reporter: he drives taos his picture-perfect spot at 4:00 in the morning. the best view he believes is the rising sun greeting the glowing lava. a few minutes of perfect lithe, weather permitting. >> yeah. that is super thick. we step out into the cold rain hoping it will burn off. as we wait, c.j. ad...

All right. welcome back. rivers of lava flowing from the worlds largest volcano in hawaii have stopped just shy of a major highway. but for some its not quite close enough. cnns david culver introduces us to the lava junkie. >> reporter: seemingly photogenic from every angle, there is a striking beauty to mauna loas eruption, especially as captured by photographer c.j. kale. >> its different every single day. every single time you go its always different. >> reporter: c.j. driving us to his pict...