everything going round and round. >> the clean-up now beginning in the dallas/ft. worth area, and one of the busiest travel hubs in the country is now checking if the planes are fit to fly. new details this morning in the trayvon martin investigation and new questions about whether or not george zimmerman uttered a racial slur before pulling the trigger. we won them all. >> yes, indeed. it was a trifecta. mitt romney sweeps three more contests, moving closer to clinching the nomination, as president obama mentions him by name now. and from russia with love, a whole lot of love. claims in a new documentary that the russian spy anna chapman got cozy with a cabinet member. the fbi is now trying to stomp those rumors out. >> it's like a novel, huh? but up first this morning, texas sized destruction from tornadoes that ripped through the dallas/ft. worth area. as many as 13 tornadoes reported touching down yesterday. one of the twisters caught on tape in lancaster. >> holy moly. look at that. look at the debris fly. oh, my god. please. it's about a block or two away from my house. look at that. oh, shoot. oh, shoot. oh, holy shoot. look at that. oh, my god. the debris is flying. holy moly, oh, my god. holy moly. >> holy moly, yeah. he's probably a little too close for comfort there. it's about as close as you can get. the guy shooting the video, vincent tang, was actually on the roof of his house. >> and then we've got this incredible video to show you. check out your spotlight. that is a semi tractor trailer. holy cow, just being picked up and thrown through the air like a toy. seems like it's right out of the movie twister. look again. look at the distance. i hate to say the trajectory. it's just remarkable to see the power of the winds picking those up. the tornadoes ripped roofs off of homes. obviously, when you see this power, downed power lines seem like nothing. remarkably, even though this kind of power, no deaths reported in the dallas/ft. worth metropl metroplex. the dallas mayor maybe said it best. we dodged a big bullet. >> wow. cnn's miguel marquez is live in arlington, texas, as we take a look at these images. we think, my gosh, the devastation must have been huge. what's the very latest? >> this is a house. this is a bedroom. all of the clothes when this thing struck were sucked out of that closet, it's always amazing to see just how destructive these storms are and yet how precise. there's a house a few feet over this way, one that way, on this side of the street. none of them were touched. our ed lavender spoke to the homeowners here, the lawrence family yesterday, and they took him for a little tour of their home. >> sounded like a bomb went off. it was absolutely crazy. >> we were sitting in the bathtub, and the wind started to pick up. i heard the house start shaking, and this door started shaking. after a few minutes, it left, and we heard people screaming, is anyone in there? is anyone alive? we came out and walked through here. >> reporter: as many as 18 storms hit across a very wide area, and it skipped through the dallas area. national weather service teams are going to be out today surveying the damage, trying to figure out exactly how many storms did touchdown. i want to show you exactly how precise these storms can be. this is the tree in front of the lawrence home. this tree has a few leaves left. if you go just a few feet over to the right, you can see there is nothing. that tree is completely stripped. these storms are incredibly powerful, incredibly precise. fortunately this time, not deadly. back to you guys. >> we're so happy to hear that. miguel marquez live for us in arlington, texas. stand by. we're going to talk to you later in our 6:00 hour. thank you for that. >> it's now four minutes past 5r 5:00 on the east coast. wanted to give you this frantic look at a tornado on the ground near forney, texas, not far from dallas. >> it is coming toward us, you guys. get in the building. >> get in here now, michael. come here, bradley. come here quick. hurry, hurry, hurry. >> so dangerous, right? >> it's one of those things now with everybody who's got a cell phone that may be standing outside just a wee bit too long. after all, when you're look at what ended up being -- >> look at that. that's incredible. >> pretty remarkable. when you look at what ended up being an ef-1 or an ef-2 tornado, don't let it fool you you. it can kill you. let's go now to alexandria steel at the cnn weather center. it's hard to believe, when you see the tractor-trailers being thrown through the air, it's hard to believe it's an ef-1 or ef-2. >> that storm in particular might have been an ef-3 because some of these winds potentially 150 miles an hour. here's what it looked like around 1:00 beginning when this line coalesced, moved through dallas. potentially 13 reported tornadoes there. again, national weather service has to go out. it certainly has been a very fast start to the season. is it extraordinary or out of the norm to see this in dallas? really not this time of year. in dallas, april and may are the peak months for tornadoes there. last april, record setting, shattering the biggest month for tornadoes ever in the u.s., last april, getting off to a very robust season of the t. the problem, the setup we had yesterday that spawned all of the tornadoes is very similar to the setup we have today albeit a little farther eastward. the dynamics are the same. the upper level mechanism, the warm moist air coming up. this could be the trigger, the stationary front. it looks like tennessee could be in the bull's eye today for potentially widespread tornadoes, winds, and large hail. again, another potentially threatening day. we do have rain right now and very strong storms but nothing severe and no watches or warnings as of yet. we certainly will later this afternoon. >> alexandria, thank you for that. keep an eye on things. it is the season. mitt romney is now more than halfway home in the race to clinch the republican nomination, this after the big three, the sweeping win at the primaries last night. wisconsin was a critical 42 winner take all delegates for mitt romney. that gave him 42% there and 38% for rick santorum. if you move to maryland, the numbers flip. quite a trouncing. 49% for mitt romney in maryland, 29% for rick santorum. now look at washington, d.c., if you're wondering why that was such a routing, mitt romney 70%, holy moly. rick santorum dupt doesn't get on the board because he wasn't even on the ballot in washington, d.c. mitt romney does very well in his trifecta. a lot of people like to call that bragging rights. rick santorum is ignoring his republican rivals and says he's going to be focusing on the white house, as is mitt romney. >> the president has pledged to transform america, and he spent the last four years laying the foundation for a new government-centered society. i will spend the next four years rebuilding the foundation of an opportunity society led by free people and free enterprises. >> if you really want to know what numbers count the most, i've got them for you. the cnn latest estimated delegate count. mitt romney is well past the halfway point with 648 delegates. he needs 1,144 to clinch the ultimate nomination. santorum is a long way behind at 264. newt gingrich coming in at 137. and ron paul still hanging in there, 71 delegates he's been able to rack up these last three months. there is a three-week hiatus. >> yeah, a break. >> i think that means that john king gets a day off, maybe wolf bl blitzer gets half a day off, i'm not sure. but coming up april 24th, a biggy as well, connecticut, delaware, new york, and pennsylvania and rhode island also holding their contests. 221 total delegates at stake, 95 of them in new york. that's a real big kahuna, but pennsylvania is big too with 72 at stake. you know whose state pennsylvania is, rick santorum's. >> a whole lot of numbers you were talking about there. >> a lot of math. >> nine minutes past the hour. now to developments in the trayvon martin shooting situation. george zimmerman has hired a second attorney to prepare a defense if needed. that attorney told tv in orlando he's ready for the challenge. >> if you look at the challenges against george, if you look at the media, particularly the national media, you look at the state attorney's office, special prosecutor, u.s. justice department, and craig has been standing in there tall trying to stand up for this guy. i think it's time we have just a little bit more effort put in to putting the truth out and getting george's story out. >> meantime, we have results of analysis of a controversial 911 call that george zimmerman made. at issue, did zimmerman use a racial slur just moments before he shot and killed trayvon martin? >> alina cho joins us with the details. people eat up every minute detail, and this one would be critical. >> people who are following the case closely have honed in on this 911 call, a lot of debate about it. we want to gipp wibegin with th call. this is the call george zimmerman made the night of the shooting. in it, he can be heard mumbling. in it, people say they hear him mumble a racial slur. it can be difficult to hear exactly what he's saying. we want you to judge yourself. listen carefully to the very end of this clip. >> he's running. which way is he running? >> down towards the entrance to the neighborhood. >> okay. which entrance is that that he's heading towards? >> the back entrance. >> sounds like a lot of wind there. you can barely hear what's going on. what exactly did zimmerman say? was it a racial slur? we asked forensic expert tom owen to enhance that portion of the audio to see what he can glean from this? owen says he believes zimmerman did not use a slur but instead said f'ing close. we're going to play it again, but this time it's owen's cleaned up version. we're going to play it for you three times. again, listen carefully. so hard to tell us what he's saying. we brought in another frens ore expert. ed primeau sent us his advanced version. he believes zimmer man did use a racial slur. here's that version. and we're going to play it for you three times. so hard, it's really difficult. three times, you still can't really tell. >> you can listen to it a thousand times, and perhaps somebody could convince you that something was said. a starting point, a friend of zimmerman's actually appeared and talked about the robberies that happened specifically or allegedly by blacks in that community. what do you know about that? >> that's right. according to sanford police, there were eight robberies in that housing development. we want to get to that in just a minute. it really does speak to the question -- just back up for one second about the 911 call. it really speaks to the race issue. >> it's the first time i heard anyone suggest that zimmerman might have been saying close instead of the racial slur -- >> that starts with a "c," right. and specifically, this whole issue -- and the reason why we care about it so much is because of race and was it a hate crime. if zimmerman did, in fact, use that racial slur, of course, that's just going to add fuel to the fire to all of those trayvon martin supporters who are saying, see, this was a hate crime. see, this is racially motivated. >> spt that what the fbi is looking at? >> yes, to your point about the robberies in the area, yes, there was crime in the area. we're looking at that. soledad spoke to a man named frank taffe. he lives in the community. he's a former neighborhood watch captain. here's what he said to soledad about crime in the area. take a listen. >> we had eight burglaries in our neighborhood all perpetrated by young black males in the 15 months prior to trayvon being shot. one of those -- it would have been nine, but george zimmerman, through his efforts of being a neighborhood watch captain helped stop one in progress, documented in the 911 calls february 2nd. my house was being robbed, and george on his night ly rounds, watched this burglary in progress, called sanford pd, waited for them, and helped ensure that nothing bad happened to my house. >> stopped one in progress. is that true? well, cnn did some digging. according to sanford police records -- and this is what we were talking about before. there were indeed eight robberies in that housing development in the 14 months prior to trayvon's shooting. four of them involved black male suspects. another four had unidentified suspects. listen to this interesting detail. there's a 911 call dated three weeks before trayvon was killed. police were called to an address that matches frank taaffe's address after the caller said they saw a black male at the home. when police got to the address, there was nobody there. there's a lot of he said/she said going on. obviously, a lot of competing interests in this story, people who are supporting george zimmerman on one side and people who are supporters of trayvon martin and his family on the other. it really depends on who you believe, when you look at that 911 call -- >> what it should depend on, though, is the facts. it doesn't matter what we believe. ultimately, if this ends up in court, it matters what a jury gets to see. >> and it all hangs on this 911 call. >> don't know that. i strongly suggest a suppression hearing. if it ends up ever in court, and we are jumping way ahead of the game. you have your work cut out for you. >> you're right. i do. >> thank you, alina. still ahead, a member of the president's inner circle seduced by a spy? 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