Least 16 reported along the east coast. The impact is felt across hundreds of miles and more than a dozen states. Welcome to your world this morning. Im del walters. Death and destruction on tuesday. The winter storm that slammed the south brought its rage to the north and the east overnight. In virginia, four people died, the result of tornados. The car lifted about three feet off the ground. It dropped down. Virginias government declared a state of emergency. Took a direct hit. Two adults and a toddler were among those killed. Around 4 dozen tornados wreaked having since tuesday. From louisiana, where a water scout skirted the airscout to a twister that destroyed an r scr. Park. There are family members calling in that have not made contact with loved ones, and they know were in the area. Then to the florida panhandling where an ef3 tornado hit. Winds from Strong Enough in new york city to overturn a tractor trailer on the busy George Washington bridge. In the midwest there were whiteout blizzard conditions. In indiana firefighters had to come to the rescue. We found 30 cars stuck in the snow with people in them. I have been stuck here for about 2 hours. Hundreds of thousands lost power, half in new york and new jersey and we are not out of the woods yet. Nicole mitchell, we were talking this is early for tornados season. Yes, when we look at that tornado country period, its april and may. Its not that unusual to get stuff through the gulf coast in the winter, to get it up through the midatlasentic normally you midatlantic, normally you dont have the temperatures to report it. It was most just tornado reports, over a dozen. When they sort through and pick out what is tornadic. Look at the oranges. They are wind reports. Over 300 reports of wind damage as all of this went through. And some of that storminess the core of the storm on the coastline. Theres rain behind this and snow. This morning, especially in sergio massa, i see massachusetts. Theres a lot of reports coming in. Not only might the alarm clock not have gone off. But you may have problems on the roads as everything is cleaned up. This is where we are at now. Still on the backside of this. This was a front associated with the weather. Behind that we are getting in the area where well get the colder air in, they have transitioned to snow. We can see some of the know in michigan or ohio. The problem is a lot of this is lighter, 23 inches, combineded with yesterday, they have gone over a food. Some goes down into the appalations. Because of the wind associated with the system, its blowing around. We have the weather advisories up because you have the ground problem. As you get eastward theres a flooding concern. A lot of this clears out today. Maybe a little towards the great lakes tomorrow. The in my submission thing about all of this, once we clear there theres days of dry weather. That was a relief. That was a wallop yesterday. Thank you the next primary, the democratic primary takes place in South Carolina in two days. Hillary clinton is holding a town hall in king street west of myrtle beach. She spent part of the wednesday talking about protecting Voting Rights. Bernie sanders is in ohio, and in oklahoma as he looks ahead to supertuesday. Robert ray is live in columbia South Carolina. Bernie sanders catching heat. Some saying that he. Indeed, some people say that, but the reality is that Hillary Clinton in 2008 good 5 of the vote here. Im not sure that hes abandoning it, but taking his fight to other states. Lets listen to what he had to say about that. We have waged a very, very Vigorous Campaign and picked up a lot of support, and we have closed the gap very, very significantly. But this was going to be a difficult day for us. We are not writing off South Carolina. And, dell, bernie has 90 million in the Treasure Chest to keep the fight going. Hes in it for the long hall and is the only contender against Hillary Clinton, and london is in South Carolina stumping. She is in South Carolina, where she has a huge lead. Is there a sense that shes not taking anything for granted this time . I think there is. Though see seems to be playing a pretty tight ground game wherever she goes these days. Shes having closeknit town halls with a lot of africanamerican voters. The south is a popular place for politicians, especially on the democratic side, to get the vote. Probably no more than in the past, if you look back to 2008. Set the stage, how is the battle shaping up for Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders . Theres a lot on the line. 11 states, its huge. What sooump tuesday says this time is it will pick the nominee and the republicans. Usually we know who will be the nominee. This is an odd election season. 22 will be elected on supertuesday nationwide, 11 states. Thats a lot of people. As you can see in South Carolina, its windy, cold and indicative. The clientele that has been rolling through here in the past two weeks. Robert ray for us in South Carolina and Hillary Clinton going into saturdays primary in the south. The senator says hell be backing Hillary Clinton. The Senate Majority leader is the highest ranking democrat, coming after the win in the caucuses. Republicans face off in a debate in houston, donald trump is taking heat. You cant just say, the way some in the race said, you probably know what im talking about in a moment you cant just say when i get there ill hire the smartest people and theyll tell me what to do. Theres a reason why we have civilian controlling the military in the country, okay. Theres a reason why the smartest people are already there, telling the president what we should do. Hes ignoring it. You deserve to know what the next commanderinchief will do. Reporter marco rubio told a rally na trump doesnt have enough experience in Foreign Policy. Ted cruz picked up an endorsement in his own state. Greg abbott is the highest ranking official. The two worked together for more than a decade theres a move to crack down harder on north Koreas Nuclear ambition, planning to implement a resolution. It is punishment for the latest rocket launch by the north. Al jazeera is in seoul. Reporter documents at the u. N. Have been working on the draft resolution since the beginning of january. In the meantime, of course, there has been a rocket launch at the beginning of february, and this is designed as punishment for both of those event. The u. S. Secretary of state john kerry said that these measures will go beyond anything done before. In terms of sanctions against north korea, what they will be has not been officially confirmed. There is reporting coming out of the semiofficial newsagency suggesting that certain institutions inside north korea will be blacklisted, the ministry for Atomic Energy industry. Nada and the Aerospace Organization in charge. Rocket launch that put a satellite into space. China is on board for much of those specific measures. The question is how effective they can be. If you remember in 2013, there was a round of sanctions after a nuclear test. Specifying the freezing of transactions. But three years later we saw what happened. North korea is adept at getting around sanctions. China doesnt want to see north korea collapse. There are questions about the level of enforcement on the chinese north korean border. North korea may carry on with what is a high priority argument that for it, which is to pursue and develop the nuclear programme. That is Harry Fawcett reporting over the past 10 years north korea conducting four Nuclear Tests and launching six missiles, all in favour of Security Council resolutions investors are keeping an eye on shanghai. Shares fell, wiping out gains. Speculation that beijing could be forced to devalue currency. Chinese officials insist they will not do that. It comes after a summit in shanghai. Scott heidler reports from beijing. Reporter the stock markets in china seeing a 6. 4 slump. This is bad news in a year that started off on a bad foot. That is 23 off from what it was at the ends of 2015. 2015 was not a good year for the market. Seeing half of the value in those markets. Another slide again on thursday. Now, what is going to happen moving forward. Its interesting. Within just nine days the most important dates on the political calendar, the National Peoples congress. Fiscal policies will be on the agenda. G20 finance officials. Fiscal policies will be brought up at the meeting. Why this is a big and important topic for the government in china, there is so many individual investors, savings, put into the market. 80 are made up of investors, representing 80 million people. Its a big social issue in china. Some badly needed humanitarian aid has gone missing in syria. U. N. Ensay Stefan Demistura trying to work out what happens. Aid trucks have been blocked from reaching civilians because the area is controlled by i. S. I. L. It all has disappeared raising questions over how the u. N. Plans to meet those in need battles continue on the ground two days before the truce. The army saying it recaptured a city. They were supported by russian air strikers. Al jazeera reports the victory is key to retaking aleppo. That is the town which lies to the south of aleppo. What is significant about the town is its linked between aleppo down south to damascus, and southwest towards hama. Both strongholds from the regime. The town had been taken over by i. S. I. L. Fighters less than a week ago. Now it appears the regime has retaken it. The main route is not fully secured. Part of that is under the control of rebel groups, and the other parts have remnants of i. S. I. L. Fighters, based on information we are getting from inside syria. It shows how quickly territory changes hands in this war. Like we have said. The skies are controlled by the regime and allies in the russian air force. On the ground. In terms of maintaining positions and holding them, that has proven difficult for all sides involved in the civil war, that is why the territories switch hands so often. And that is jamal reporting the fight against i. S. I. L. Specifically excluded from that truce said to take effect saturday morning i. S. I. L. Has been using a flashy social Media Campaign to step up recruiting. Obama is trying to fight back, reaching out to those that know something about sending a message hollywood. Rosalind jordan reports. Go get them. Im going for missile. Reporter top gun, not just one of the biggest movies of the 19le 0s. Movie reel perfect firing position. Reporter its an example of a successful collaboration between hollywood and the u. S. Military. Now the u. S. Government is looking to the entertainment world for advice on how to defeat i. S. I. L. The group uses social media to recruit young wouldbip fighters. Secretary of state john kerry sat with movie executives with advice on how to challenge i. S. I. L. s messaging. In Silicon Valley, i. S. I. L. , who are experts in conveying messages, whether through film or entertainment are worthwhile to listen to. We should seek our advice on thou do the job better. Reporter at the Justice Department on wednesday a meeting to figure out how to undermine i. S. I. L. s message. In the past this has been controversial. Four more Tactical Nuclear weapons. The bombs will go off today. What do you want from me. The truth. Critics hate the glorification of torture and shows such as 24. We need immediate assistance. We are overrun. Reporter its safe to assume the white house didnt work with the studio that made a movie about the 2012 attack on the u. S. Compound in benghazi libya. Experts say the u. S. Governments outreach is understandable. But. Its a little weird to go in a meeting with a bunch mostly older male studio executives to talk to them about how to stop young muslims being radicalized. Movie reel can i be honest with you, im bad new, im not your friend, im not going to help you. Im going to break you. Any questions . Reporter a fictional word of warning that companies and officials might want to heed the president of south africa this morning condemning violence breaking out across several college campuses. A university in south africa closing after protests erupted on the campus. Several buildings burnt. Private security guards tried to break up the crowds. Violence breaking out on a number of campuses, students demanding commission and house, they want to eliminate what they say are its that represent south africas past. Apples efforts to defend its position not to help the federal bureau of investigation. And a surprising republican name that may be on the president s list for the Supreme Court. New developments in apples battle with the fbi over uncrypting the iphone. The company is working on a version that go before it has to respond to a judges order, apple is reportedly taking steps to secure its products. The Washington Post said the engineers are working on enhancements that would make the phones unhackable without the owners help. It would only work on new iphones and require a password. That would create a barrier. Safety for kids and family is important. The protection of peoples data is important. Reporter this is happening as apple fights a court order to unlock the phone belonging to one of the San Bernardinos attackers. Cook explained his reasoning. The only way we know is to write software, that we view as an equivalent to cancer. We think its bad news to write. We would never writ it. Reporter the government insists this would never apply to other phones. Cap insists this is not the case. The issue taking center stage with supporter either side of the debate. Loretta lynch is unching apple to comply. Judges have said the parties must assist if its within their power to do so apple has until friday to file a response, saying it offered significant advice to the fbi about how to get into the phone, but will not go as far as cracking it. Apple is expected to ask the courts to kick it to congress. Local governments are saying they dont want to use the ifob. Iphone. Apples refusal has been cited, failing to help the f. B. I. This is a small amount of phones. Its a symbolic move. If buyers died to go that route. Or others in general thank you ornal Loretta Lynch says the personal Loretta Lynch says the president will need congressional approval to move forward and gas guantanamo, she supports it and says its a challenge and a goal rather than an effort to circumvent the law House Republicans are stepping up a response to the president adds plan, Speaker Paul Ryan says hell take the disagrees to court if they try to close gitmo. The president should rule out taking unilateral action to transfer detainees to our shores, and asking military world to knowingly break the law. He should rule it out and give the country that reassurance. There are reports saying the country already entered into a contract. Reporter the president is reportedly considering a republican to fill judge antonin callias seat. The former federal judge said he has not been contacted. The g. O. P. Nominee could be tricky, preventing any nomination from going board. Forward. Republicans drew a line in the sands over replacing justice scalia. Members of the Senate Committee unanimously agreed. We wrote a letter to senator mcconnell saying we are of the few that there should not be a hearing for anyone that the president nominates. President obama responded wednesday morning. I recognise the politics are hard for them because the easier thing to do is to give in to the most extreme voices within their party. And stand back and do nothing. But that is not our job. Our job is to fulfil our constitutional moves. Republicans say any decision should wait until after the 2016 president ial election. We are comfortable letting the American People speak on this issue. The American People will choose a president in november, and theyll get a choice between a president that is likely to appoint someone in the tradition of scalia, or a president more likely to appoint the type of nominees that we have seen from president obama. Reporter but the president dismissed g. O. P. Suggestions that he is a lame duck in his last year in office saying politicians become lame ducks after the election that is nine months away. These are republicans that say they believe in reading the text of the constitution, and focussing on the intent of the constitution. None of the Founding Fathers thought that, you know, when it comes to the president carrying out his duties, he should do it for three years, and on the last year stop doing it. Senate democrats are backing up the commanderinchief and say republicans will regret shutting the vetting process. Senate republicans are giving a middle finger to the American People and this president. That is why we are confident that this is going to go very badly for Mitch Mcconnell and his republican conference. Reporter meanwhile the white house says president obama is reviewing candidates and will pick the best person for the job, politics aside. When the president gets here, and im confident he will, where hes interviewing nominees, potential nominees in a conversation. Im confident he is not going to ask them which Party Primary they vote in. White house Offici