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Of the destruction in lee county. you can see here entire neighborhoods just leveled, reduced to rubble this morning, the twisted metal and debris. take a look at that, we were told by an emergency management director this was a real problem for reaching people in several, several hours. this was a cell phone tower pushed over blocking eastbound lanes on u.s. 280. georgia is also feeling the storms impact, at least a dozen tornadoes hit that state causing still more damage. >> the same storm is ...

New this morning, tensions are rising in venezuela as the self-declared interim president juan guaido tries to return home. the opposition leader has called for supporters to protest today. patrick is live in caracas with the very latest. patrick. >> reporter: hey, good morning, john. yes, juan guaido says hes returning to venezuela to save this country and that within a few hours he should be here close to where i am in caracas leading an opposition protest. if hes even in the country at that p...

And many, many of us today without any sleep, many of them without any sleep. >> im sure theyve been up all night and you in the emergency operations center as well likely up all night. when the sun does come up very, very shortly, what do you expect to find? >> its going to give a lot clearer picture of just how significant the damage was and just how heartbreaking it is to see a community that was affected so severely is. and we actually had two separate touchdown. and the national weather ser...

Work so that the work that kay lay talked about continues. the survey teams will be out trying to determine how strong the tornadoes were. they can say it was at least an fp-3 was on the ground here. that means that the wins were at least 136 miles per hour. if that were a hurricane, it would be a strong cat four. so a very strong storm is coming through here, those 23 deaths qualifying this for being the deadliest sunday, the deadliest day for tornadoes in alabama since 2011. a lot of work to b...

Numerous, numerous paid and unpaid fire working hand in hand yesterday. they there are no twords say how great this community is and how they come together when theres a crisis. >> theyre going to need you all to come together right now to see your way through this. just lastly again i know you cant tell us or give us the latest information on the death toll, but we were told it was 23. the sheriff last night said he expected that number to rise. do you still expect that number to go up? >> our ...

Couple of hours ago, its only been a couple of hours. and a system in place, we have a shelter at the red cross coordinated with us to open at providence baptist church. we have on our website a form where people can contact if they are still missing loved once and they need information on doing welfare checks to try to locate those folks. we have not received calls through the night of people in need. a lot of people have been taken care of through the night. >> well thats good if they are gett...

White house to turn over information related to security clearances. so well be waiting to see if they meet that deadline. and of course michael cohen coming back to capitol hill to testify again behind closed doors before the house intelligence committee. john. >> lauren fox for us on capitol hill. thank you very much. as you heard there with the investigations closing in, president trump is lashing out. he declared, i am an innocent man on twitter and he spent two hours in a fiery stream of co...

History. several 2020 candidates have called on her for advice and in search of support. sanders is nor the one of them. >> we have differences. >> youre not interested in any advice from here? >> i think not. >> reporter: and sanders advisers tell me there are still no plans for him to reach out to hillary clinton. they would like to move on from 2016, but theres no doubt that hillary clinton support base remains an important part of the democratic party. and if sanders hopes to unify that grou...

The national emergency system. the last count we had was 23 people killed by tornadoes. has that number changed overnight? >> i would not be able to confirm a number for you. that comes from our coroner and when he gives us statements thats what we rely on. i would not be able to confirm a number. >> i know you have had some 150 people out working the ground over the last 12 to 20 hours. can you tell me what they have been seeing? >> what i can tell you is that we had 150 plus in the field and n...