good wednesday morning. i m erica hill. i m jim sciutto. tornado warnings in effect for parts of the southwest. this after severe storms yesterday. more than a dozen tornados reported tearing across the south. look at these pictures here. homes, buildings disappearing. we ll speak with the mayor of deerpark, texas. new this morning, germany will send those leopard 2 tanks to ukraine and it comes as the u.s. is sending abram tanks to ukraine. bottom line, is it enough? we begin with those destructive tornados slamming parts of texas and louisiana. rosa flores is in pasadena, texas, with more. rosa? reporter: this tornado activity was so powerful. let me show you what we re seeing on the ground. this was a power pole that simply snapped. if you look down, you ll see a mangled piece of metal wrapped around parts of the debris and the rest of the pole is back here. beyond the pole you see it s shear devastation. there s a trailer that s turned on its side. it s upside dow
more about those who did not. lives and families forever changed. evan kicks off our coverage in hazard, kentucky. tell us what you ve been seeing. reporter: we have been by this creek in route 128 in perry county, one much hardest hit counties. you can see the water level that they are still dealing with here after this flood that came through. this creek flooded over, you know, eight or ten feet from here, taking a whole house with it and knocking out the bottom of this building to mime right. the water level has been going suspend. we have been rain throughout the day. you see the yellow road sign is our guy. it was raining smorng and the water to the top of that rock and emerge that sign but come back down now. there is more rain in the forecast and a flood watch is in effect for tonight. the problem is the creek is really high and they can t take much water. nobody is expecting a flood surge like we saw on thursday that was a historic flood surge but it won t take much
investigation and possibly chill witness cooperation. jessica schneider is here with the breaking details. what has the judge agreed to release? reporter: the judge has already made one crucial decision here. he says that he will unseal some relatively minor filings from the doj and this was something that the doj had said would be fine in their court filing, so the things that will be unsealed. it includes the department s motion to seal the warrant documents, also the court s order granting that motion to seal, and the criminal cover sheets here from the warrant application. the search warrant affidavit. so, those are relatively procedural, general information documents that will be unsealed. crucially, though, any information in those three documents that contain information about doj personnel, like names and contact information, that will all be redacted. so likely, what we re going to see later this afternoon won t contain anything substantive. it will just reveal som
progress in his battle with covid, the white house facing new scrutiny for its handling of the growing monkeypox outbreak. we ll ask secretary becerra if it is time for the u.s. to declare this virus a public health emergency an update on the tragic boat accident that left 17 people dead including an infant off the coast of the bahamas. good to see you on this monday morning. a lot happening. americans struggling to find relief as the heat wave blankets the country from coast to coast. this morning looking out west firefighters working around the clock to contain a wildfire that began on friday near yosemite national park forcing thousands of people to evacuate that area. and then over to the east coast. several high temperature records broken on sunday alone. boston hitting triple digits. 96 in hartford, connecticut. joining us is a producer in washington d.c. for us and joining us is correspondent george solos. talking about the containment of the wild fire amidst the b
after a year of coronavirus, senior government figures tell say we should have locked down earlier in the autumn. i love you. no, you don t. know, i don t-u and a red carpet of british talent and diversity is among this year s oscar nominations. good evening. germany, italy, and france are among several european countries that have now suspended the use of the oxford astrazeneca covid vaccine. it follows cases of blood clotting reported in some people after having the jab. so, is the astrazeneca vaccine safe? experts here say it is, and the number of blood clots reported after the vaccine are no more than those typically reported within the general population. and the world health organization says there is no evidence of a link between the vaccine and reported blood clots. our medical editor fergus walsh has more. a public display of confidence in the oxford/astrazeneca vaccine from northern ireland chief medical officer today. by contrast, you cannot have the jab in the i