and activating the national guard as the storms gutted entire communities. she spoke about the destruction earlier today. i have had the opportunity over the last couple of hours to speak with both the homeland security secretary as well as president biden, who have offered a tremendous amount of support anything that arkansas need from a city county state and federal perspective, i would say that everyone is working in total lockstep and we re going to do everything we can to make sure that people of our state are back on their feet again. and more devastation in several other states, including indiana and illinois. people are waking up to their homes and businesses destroyed their neighborhoods littered with debris. but the threat is far from over. some 70 million americans are now bracing for more severe storms. today cnn has teams tracking all of the latest developments from these destructive storms. derek van dam is in wynne, arkansas. at this hour. derek to you first. w
going to see even from the outset. i don t i don t mean to minimize and say that it s a week because i don t know what the evidence is. i don t know what the d a s office has. i m just saying the nature of the charges strike me that way. remember that the initial charge we heard about was a misdemeanor and the only if you connected it to a federal case of election whether there was some effort to have money on a federal election campaign report that that was going to be that made it a felony that bothers me when you have to tie knot up to make it a felony, and that s why i say from a magnitude to sort of looking at it that way. i think it s i think it s it may have its issues. but these cases are not the crime. it s the cover up. right sometimes. i mean, that s exactly exactly right, and we ll see. we ll see where it goes. and i think that that we re going to be in court forever, so people need to kind of take a breath and step back because this is just the start. and if you think ther