on tuesday. and pope francis is expected to participate in palm sunday mass at st peter s basilica just a day after leaving the hospital. live from cnn center. this is cnn newsroom. with michael holmes. and we begin with those powerful storms that battered parts of the u. s. and the death toll is rising yet again, at least 22 people were killed, dozens more injured after tornadoes and storms hit on friday and saturday, the latest fatality just hours ago in delaware, and this is what it looks like in wynne, arkansas, where four people were killed. the mayor told cnn. her city was basically cut in half by the damage the storm so powerful it ripped the turf off the football field at the high school. similar scenes in the state capital little rock, where at least one person was killed and 50 hospitalist. many of the tornado s moving so quickly. people had little time to prepare like this driver who rode out the storm in his van. neighbors and neighborhoods and businesses were dec
can thanks for having me. all right in the heart, broken city of nashville, tennessee. funerals were held on saturday for two of the six victims of monday s school shooting families. mourning a popular substitute teacher and the nine year old daughter of the school s church pastor, cnn s dianne gallagher, was there. a very somber saturday here in nashville, tennessee, is a community says goodbye to two of the six victims in that school shooting on monday at covenant presbyterian church, which is the same site as the covenant school where the shooting happened. mourners gathered to say goodbye to nine year old halle scruggs. halle scruggs father is the pastor of the church and on described her as incredibly smart, feisty enough to keep up with her three brothers and her four boy cousins, a love for life that kept her smiling and running and jumping and playing and always on the go. like a nine year old should be just before halley s