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dozen tornadoes hit the south. the keng's daughter gone. lisa marie presley has died suddenly. what might be the biggest political crisis to the biden administration, a special counsel appointed in the document crisis scandal. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. good morning, everyone. i'm christine romans. we begin with dangerous and deadly storms tearing across the south. 35 tornadoes reported in alabama, kentucky and georgia. at least seven people have been killed. six of the deaths in alabama. the in georgia, a 5-year-old child died when a tree...

Tornado tore through selma, alabama, thursday afternoon leaving behind a trail of destruction. homes and businesses have been torn apart and roads completely cut off by piles of debris. selma's mayor's office posting on facebook that the city has suffered significant damage. >> structural damage. trees down. power lines down and the area's very difficult to access due to debris. they're working house to house and area to area looking for people who may be entrapped and those who are injured. >> reporter: tornado reports growing across the south. in mississippi, georgia, central kentucky more d...

Out to respond as needed. meanwhile, this is all part of a system that is stretching to the northeast and yesterday spawned a rare winter tornado in alabama, the small community of sawyerville. i believe that we have images from there. just showing the damage. authorities have confirmed at least one person died from that tornado that struck midafternoon. and this weather is far from over. back here in texas, temperatures aren't expected to rise above freezing in earnest until tomorrow for the majority of the state. so it will be another very cold and potentially dangerous day here in texas. >>...

Winter tornado, look at that, posed a serious threat. dexter just about 20 miles from my hometown of jackson, michigan. so i hope all my family -- i haven't heard anything differently. but that they're all safe. >> scary stuff. >> thoughts and prayers with everybody back in my home state. >> that's right. also this morning, a beef distributor is responding to abc news reports about the hamburger product known as pink slime. it's a response customers have been waiting to hear. but is it enough? and later this half hour, st. patrick's day weekend is upon us. and america's chief entertaining of...

And a horrible freestyle skiing accident has left one of the sport's pioneers in critical condition. 29-year-old canadian sarah burke was training in park city, utah when she was injured tuesday. she's in a salt lake city hospital, where it's believed she's being kept in a medically induced coma. she lobbied to have freestyle halfpipe skiing included in the olympics, where it will debut in 2014. some north carolina residents are spending the night in shelters after a rare winter tornado ripped through two counties. the twister hit the western part of the state yesterday afternoon, damaging o...