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Tonight. This is one of the backward and nasty Executive Orders the president has issued. Also today thousands of antiabortion protesters gathered in washington for the annual march for life. Mike pence told the crowd the president would announce a Supreme Court nominee soon and trump hinted strongly at the person hes choosing. The person i pick will be a big, big i think people are going to love it. I think evangelicals, christians will love my pick. And well be represented very fairly. Jeff ze...

Back along the southern border. this time in california with incredible access to an underground network of drug smuggling tunnels that stretch from mexico beneath the existing border fence into the united states. heres ed lavendandera with the story youll see only "out front." >> reporter: for years the vigilance along the southern border has been growing. border agents kriz crossing the remote terrains and urban streets, ground scenters and high powered cameras keeping constant watch. now smug...

This white house. >> at the white house, thanks so much. as politicians bicker over policy, the lives of tens of thousands of children are in limbo. waves of underaged immigrants, mostly from central america are swarming across the southwest border. federal officials are running out of places to house them. >> it is a huge and growing problem this year. some 60 to 80,000 children are expected to cross. ed lavendandera is in dallas. there are a lot of congratulations, what are the big reasons b...

Big-scale glass menagerie, everything coated in ice. atlanta on the left two weeks ago, and now on the right. store shelves are picked clean in the southeast. at least 420,000 customers have already lost power. throughout the country, more than 3,200 flights are canceled. were only really in the middle of this. cnn meteorologist jennifer gray is standing by in decatur. ed lavendandera is braving the treacherous roads. and chad myers is in the weather center. jen? >> reporter: we have seen the ic...

Power. most people in decatur still have power, but this is the concern. look at this branch. you can see the ice accumulating on the branches. this is what were seeing all over town. and this is just a tiny one. imagine those big older trees behind me and even those power lines. it only takes about half an inch of ice to add 500 pounds of pressure to those lines and then they just snap. you lose power. and so thats the concern. we have a good 12 more hours of this, jake, as we go through the ne...

time will tell. >> and mississippis governor is under fire. 200 pardons in his final days. new information on who was set free and what these convicted killers are now allowed to do. we also understand that these are unconditional pardons, which means that their constitutional rights are restored. were going to find out a little bit more about that. apparently, theyre going to be able to vote and own guns. >> 2011 was so last year because 2012 got some stocks on a tear. the dow climbin...

Treacherous terrain and wooded areas to be able to do any kind of reasonable and thorough searching. theyre going to need that daylight to be able to make any headway in that. >> so tragic. ed lavendandera in piedmont, oklahoma, thanks. tornado watches in place in st. louis, chicago and memphis. those could be todays targets. rob marciano is here with more on that. three days now of very extreme weather and tornadic activity as they say in your business. >> last night, i feel like -- we had su...

thanks so much for being with us on this wednesday. good to see everybody this morning. you know the pictures are coming in, new pictures, and the devastation, continues for the midwest. >> thats right. ali velshi in joplin, missouri, where they had a harrowing night. hi, ali. >> good morning, christine, kiran, it is a better morning here. people counting their blessings. a near miss last night in joplin, missouri. everyone taking shelter and bracing for another twister that thanchgful...

Grassroots event, trying to register voters, get people motivated to vote on what they call common sense gun law. so, that is really the point of this. there are a number of rallies. its fascinating to see as you picture the layout in downtown dallas, christi and victor. in the block surrounding it, several more thousands of people expected to descend on downtown dallas this morning to protest that organization. so, it should be a dynamic day here in dallas, for sure. christi? >> ed, good to hav...