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0 that does it for this edition of 360. thanks for watching. early start begins right now. tornadoes tearing through the midwest. wildfires raging in the west. extreme weather on the rampage from coast to coast, and the conditions today, perilous. cleaning up the wreckage after a freight train smashes into a truck, the crash causing an explosion that could be felt from blocks away. and the picture that grips the world. the child cut out of a sewer pipe. police say the mother flushed the baby down the toilet. now we get the mother s side of the story. could this really have just been an awful mistake? you see that little guy s face. such a sad picture. good morning, everyone. welcome to early start. i m john berman. and i m christine romans. we begin with a severe threatening weather slamming the nation s heartland. conditions today ripe for more dangerous storms. damaging tornadoes reported for a second night in kansas, and the worries of more are headed their way this morning and throughout the midwest and the plains. this just nine days after the devastation in moore, oklahoma. adrian peterson is following the weather for us. what can we expect today? unbelievable. the wild weather is not just in the nation s midsection. it stretches from coast to coast. a new round of tornadoes ripped through the heartland late tuesday. storm chasers getting these images of twisters in rural kansas. storm chaser sean casey reported as he followed one of the twisters. sean, i understand you re chasing a tornado right now. what s going on? this is my first interview while looking at a tornado. we were hoping it s going to come up onto our road and we will drag right up to the center. casey s team captured this rare and frightening video inside a tornado in smith county, kansas, on monday. the potential for supercell thunderstorms, damaging winds, and hail threaten a number of states from texas to new england today. in the plains, strong damaging tornadoes are possible. in areas littered with damage, meteorologists warn of high wind gusts kicking up and carrying dangerous debris across the area. on the west coast, dry conditions fueling wildfires in santa barbara, california, scorching over 1,800 acres in los padres national forest. in valencia, helicopters attacked the blaze from above as brush fires near magic mountain burned 25 acres in less than an hour. the northeast contends with a much different picture, from snow this weekend to what could be a record breaking heat wave, temperatures rising double digits across most of the region. with the threat of extreme weather coast to coast, there s a high probability of storm chasers capturing more imaging like these. it s really been an unbelievable couple of days here. unfortunately, we re still going to be seeing a lot of changes. over the northeast, we ve seen a lot of changes. temperatures really jumping up. look at the temperature change. yesterday new york, the 60s. today the 70s. and 90s over the weekend. we could still see more thunderstorms today as the cold front sags into the northeast. another threat we re going to be looking at is now, yes, alvin was our first tropical storm of the season. it looks like now go ahead and flip this next map here. we re going to show you the next one is barbara. currently moving northeast at 5 miles per hour hanging just off of mexico. alvin didn t make landfall, but barbara will. 60-mile-per-hour winds gusting to 70 miles per hour. it is expected to make landfall in through the evening. current track, not expected to bring much more than 6 to 10 inches of rain. the biggest threat will be the severe weather outlook across the plains as we look at more severe weather through oklahoma and kansas. thanks, edra. meanwhile, check this out, if you can see it that is. this is a rare dust storm triggering a series of freeway accidents in lancaster, california. authorities say a 60-mile-per-hour wind gust kicked up the sand storm and created near zero visibility and caused more than two dozen vehicles to crash. they had to shut down 14 freeway for hours. and this just in to cnn. michelle bachmann is out. she announced this morning she will not run for a fifth term in congress. bachmann did not give any indication on what she may do after leaving congress, but she says she is not ruling out a future run for political office. new this morning, a notorious french gangster who held guards at gunpoint and used dynamite to escape from prison last month, he is back behind bars. radwan saed was the subject of a dramat dramatic manhunt. also new this morning, the mother of a new baby rescued in china after being trapped in a sewer pipe now says she deeply regrets what she did. police still trying to figure out what happened, what they say may have been just an awful mistake. the woman started to feel a stomachache and rushed to the toilet. after she stayed in the toilet for a while, she gave birth to the baby. she tried to grab something to help herself because there was too much blood. she couldn t hold the baby anymore, and he slid into the sewage through the hole in the toilet. that baby boy is still in intensive care. john, that picture is amazing. this morning investigators still trying to determine what caused a terrifying fire on board the royal caribbean cruise ship grandeur of the seas. over 2,000 passengers found themselves stranded in the bahamas monday halfway through their vacation. many of them have now found their way home. reporter: three days before their vacation was scheduled to end, the first of 2,200 royal caribbean cruise ship passengers returned safely to the port of baltimore tuesday. the grandeur of the seas journey was cut short by a fire on board 3:00 a.m. pretty terrifying at first. in the water, you could see the glow of the fire, but we had no idea how big the fire really was. people were just in shock, and it was early and wondering what was going on. some passengers sid, when they saw life boats lowered, they thought grandeur of the seas was sinking. last year 32 people died when the costa concordia capsized off the coast of italy. carnival triumph stranded passengers off the gulf of mexico. richard burke says the incidents don t spell out a pattern for the industry. they re among the safest ships afloat. reporter: the latest black eye for the industry intensifies the public relations problems they face, but attorney john hiky says passengers have little recourse in nightmarish vacations. if passengers don t have any physical injuries or the threat of physical injury, they re basically under the terms of the ticket and federal statute not allowed to sue. reporter: royal caribbean is giving full refunds and vouchers for future cruises to grandeur of the seas passengers. and some say they will cruise again. a dangerous collision between a truck and a freight train. this morning federal investigators are trying to figure out how it happened. they re on the scene in baltimore where several of the derailed cars exploded and caught fire moments after the accident. the explosion was felt blocks and blocks away as clouds of black and white smoke filled the area. firefighters had to rescue the driver who was trapped in the truck. officials from the railroad told firefighters the burning substances were not toxic. we received word from csx that there s no toxic inhalents, which is really just a reassurance through the area that it s not an unsafe area. you don t have to evacuate. residents of about 70 homes in the area were told they could leave if they felt unsafe, but they were not forced to evacuate. several industrial buildings in the area, as you can see, were also damaged. the state department has not identified two state members of the u.s. embassy in caracas, venezuela, who were shot and wounded at a strip club early tuesday morning. police have no suspects in custody. cnn has learned they were members of the defense attache support team. they were shot after a fight broke out at the club. jurors in the jodi arias trial are breaking their silence, voting to put arias to death for the murder of travis alexander. in the end, the jury could not reach a decision on the fay of jodi arias. a new jury will decide if she lives or dies. but both juror number 6 and juror number 17 voted for the death penalty, and both say they would be disappointed if she did not get it eventually. we have to make sure that she s treated within our criminal justice system fairly. inside my own personal, a little bit of disappointment, but i know we ve done our job as jurors. i would be disappointed, but i m not going to be upset. if it comes to the judge having to decide, i m not worried about what she would decide either. schwartz admitted she mouthed the words i m sorry to alexander s family when it was clear the jury could not reach a unanimous decision. coming up, george zimmerman s defense team loses a key ruling in the trayvon martin 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