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Reporting on the ground for us. ryan mentions georgia. in georgia, one death has so far been confirmed. a 5-year-old was killed after a tree fell on top of a car. dare van damme is in griffin, georgia, with a look at the damage there. derek, what are you seeing? >> reporter: tragically, the one fatality in state of georgia was in an adjacent county to where i am now, in spaulding county. it was likely part of the same tornado that cycled up and down causing the destruction you see behind me. what you're actually looking at is the top roof of a large shopping center. you could see a hobby lob...

Us. ryan, look at that. >> reporter: it is just devastating behind us. and i couldel tell you, in the close county, they have found more bodies but haven't been able to update us. they're doing surveys across the state. but we want to show you how powerful this storm was. i'm six feet tall. look at this metal wraps all over this tree like it is an ornament. this is what we're seeing, signs of destruction all over this city. we are on broad street, which is the main street here in downtown selma. and as you look this direction, you could just see how the storm plowed through this area. we're go...

Experiencing tornados across the country. from california to illinois, here in georgia we've had three days where we've reported tornados including here yesterday. now in spaulding county, there were four middle schools that sheltered in place during this tragedy that swept through here during the afternoon and evening hours. the students had to stay within their schools until the authorities deemed it safe enough for the buses to ship they are home. so that occurred after midnight last night. it has been quite a scene here to see -- to say the least. and nonetheless, a very, very difficult st...

Arizona has referred a case of voter intimidation in maricopa county. they were accused of being mules or someone who stuffs ballot boxes. >> they're taking pictures of them and regardless of what the intent is of these people who are taking pictures of our elections workers, they're harassing people. they're not helping, you know, further the interests of democracy. >> the complaint comes in a state that never stopped chasing conspiracy theories about the 2020 election. candidates for governor, senate and other offices have backed donald trump's lies that that election was stolen. cnn has lea...

>> as for ben johnston and what he has to say about all of this, in a word, nothing. he's refused to answer questions. in an email accused cnn of being on a witch hunt. we went to the spaulding county offices we were told on the phone that he was in a meeting. when we tried talking to him -- >> hey, is ben johnson in. >> he's not. >> are you sure? >> spaulding county under the leadership of an election denier this week. >> now we're learning they believe someone has already tried to discredit the results of this election and it's happening in spaulding county georgia. a fake ballot was found i...