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we have more than 40 tornados reported since yesterday, started in the dallas fort worth area. we do expect the tornado threat to last into tonight and into tomorrow morning. we have watch boxes still out. no tornado warnings to spook of. but we do plan on seeing more throughout the overnight hours. it is quite possible. this is going to continue to head to the east, tremendous amounts of rain, gusty winds, large hail, again, the possibility of tornados throughout the overnight into tomorrow. and this is 4:30 a.m. thursday morning, also have a wintry side to this, with blizzard conditions still ongoing that we've been talking about since yesterday, anderson. >> jennifer gray, appreciate it. joining us now, jefferson parish president. what are you seeing in your parish? how are things? how are things in your parish? hey, it's anderson cooper. can you hear me?

>> i can hear you now. >> great. how are things going in your parish? >> it's a rough day. it really is. the tornado touched down in several parts of parish. and within about an hour and a half, we lost daylight. so, right now we're getting ready to do our second assessment. we're trying to light up blocks. but i'm in an area right now not far from the 9 that the tornado touched down many times. so, there is a lot of destruction. but luckily and fortunately so far, we do not have any fatalities. we've been very, very lucky about that. >> so, because darkness fell so quickly, you haven't been able to kind of access the true extent of the damage or survey everything yet, right? you haven't been able to get to everywhere you'd like to at this stage, have you? >> we were able to initially go

out and do an initial assessment with search and rescue, just trying to identify and make sure no one is caught under houses. neighbors were checking on other neighbors. we did rescue some people. we're going to go through the assessment, look at the damage, talk to more people. and we have teams going out. and we'll be working through the night. that said, goewe're going to br out additional resources. we're trying to light up the block. the whole area is going to park out here. i'm in a hangar right now, but the whole area is dark. so, it's difficult to do the work. but it's eerie in that we're used to having hurricanes here, but it's the same look. people want to help themselves. people are already in the dark, trying to clean their houses, pull stuff to the driveway. it's very sad that we're dealing with this in december whrks we thought we got through the hurricane season okay. >> this isn't normal for december, is it? >> this is not normal for us. tornados are not normal for us. we had one hit last year, and

this one seems like it kind of took the same path. but we are not known to be a tornado kind of area. but, you know, what we say is, these new weather patterns that we're seeing in the last couple of years are very, very different. but for us to have a tornado, this is really, really different for us. >> what's your message to folks in jefferson parish and surrounding areas right now? >> i'm sorry. i lost you a little bit. >> what's your message to folks in jefferson parish and surrounding parishs? >> oh, for tomorrow, we don't want people come sight see. we have a lot of light poles that are down. we have a lot of exposed wires. it's a very dangerous situation. even for us going through it the last couple of hours, we were trying to be very careful. but we're grateful, anderson, that we did not have loss of life. it's hard to look people in the eye -- and i know that look well from hurricanes. it's almost like they're so shaken up. it's a different cry from someone who lost a loved one. and i just thank god i'm not

seeing that cry tonight. i'm seeing a different kind of shock and the way they're going to have to put their life together right before christmas. but it could be so much worse for us. so, we're very blessed that we're not hearing that. >> that is good news. i appreciate your time tonight. thank you. good luck to you and to everyone in jefferson parish. i want to go to -- richard. the pictures tonight have been really disturbing. what's the latest you can tell us about the situation there? >> well, we had some devastation, anderson, in our area parish. our hospital had substantial damage. subdivisions have been pretty well messed up. the hospital i'm standing right now -- of course i'm in the parking lot for employees. i mean, the parking lot was full of people -- excuse me, full of cars. so, the cars have been for the post part towed away. the hospital itself got some damage, where the doctors' offices are. so, we're going to be down for a

minute at the hospital. the area that was hit was near the port of iberia, the subdivision called south port subdivision. and we had mobile homes flipped, houses just completely destroyed, families all torn apart. and it's so funny because when you hit where the tornado hit, it's total devastation. and the house right next to it could be standing nice, like, ever. so, it's a lot of pain. but the good thing about this year is we didn't have any deaths at all. we had some people that got hurt, but no deaths. >> that's certainly great news. i'm told we have video of the tornado touching down in iberia. i just want to play that. >> oh, my god. >> to actually see it like this -- what time was the worst of it? do you know?

>> i would say somewhere around 11:00 -- around 11:30, something like that, is when it got really serious around here. it came around avery alley, which i'm sure you don't know where that's at, but that's where we make tabasco. but it came through there and into the port of iberia. and then it came into the city of iberia. it was pretty serious. we had two tornados that touched down. so, we've got some serious damage here. so, it's going to take a while before people are going to be -- things are going to be back to normal for real. >> at this point, do you feel -- i mean, i know it got dark pretty quick. do you feel like you have a sense of the full extent of the damage, at least you know what the damage is? >> we know pretty much what the damage that we have. tomorrow -- i was talking to the ceo of the hospital earlier, and that's where we're going to have

some serious longevity problems. of course everyone that got damage is going to have problems. but when you're a hospital, you've got to deal with all of these. behind me -- i don't know if you can see behind me, but that's the area where you have all of your office buildings for the doctors. so, this area -- all of this area in the back here is devastated. the windows are out. there's going to be at least some seven months before they can get all that they need. so, we have some problems here. but, listen, you know, today i was with services as well as national guard. i spoke to the governor i'm sure two or three times today. so, we're looking to help the people. everything here is all about safety for the people that we represent. so, we're looking to do that. the governor is all in. as a matter of fact, i will more than likely be communicating with him a little bit later

tonight. >> well, larry, i appreciate -- >> and also -- well, thank you. >> i appreciate your time, and i appreciate all you're doing. we'll check back in with you. we wish you the best there in iberia. still to come tonight, a special report at 10:00 p.m., "sandy hook: forever remembered." i'll show you more on my conversation with four little people who were little kids back then, second grade and fourth grade, ten years ago, specifically we'll talk about what they went through, what went through their minds when they first heard of the shooting and the impact it had on them. and dr. sanjay gupta is going to talk to us about the death of grant wahl and what we need to know about aortic aneurysms and whether the symptoms can b be confused with bronchitis. i had no idea. the e more you learn the more you want to know and then it just fuels that fire. we now live in a place our ancestors have been for

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murder of 20 children and teachers at sandy hook elementary school. earlier, i spoke with four survivors, how the attack still affects them today. it's inescapable. audrey nichols was in second grain. they're now between the ages of 17 and 19. we want to show you more of than conversa conversation and what went through their minds when they heard of the killing of 21 teachers and students in uvalde, texas, this year. every time there's a mass shooting at a school, do people -- do you follow them? do you pay attention to them? do you try not to pay attention to them? >> i still remember the exact time i found out about uvalde. i had just gotten off of a night shift at work. it was at, like, 9:00 p.m. i was in the work parking lot. and my phone had blown up. it was all, oh, moy god, are yo okay. i heard what happened.

i personally try to stay off of the news as much as i can because of stuff like this. but as i was saying, my phone had blown up, and i just kind of knew. >> when you saw that, what did you think? >> i think mostly it was, oh, my god, it's happened again. and it makes me so deeply sad that even uvalde was nearly a decade after sandy hook. even a decade after, not much has changed. and i wanted to hug the uvalde survivors. i wanted to, like, wrap my arms around them. and i wish i could tell them, like, you'll get through this. >> whenever i see stories on the news about uvalde, parkland, or more school shootings, i'm always reminded of the memories of that day.

and all i can think about is my peers who have seen, that still have to go to therapy for this. i fortunately don't have to myself. but seeing that in my peers and on the news, that part really hurts me. >> for you, was uvalde -- >> yeah. it hit really close to home. my aunt actually texted me. and she's, like, sending lots of love. i know today is especially hard. and i actually woke up from a nap that day and opened my phone. and when i opened instagram, that's when i saw that uvalde happened. and i was like, this is so similar to sandy hook. and all the memories and everything just came back up. >> jordan, i understand you were -- were you at an event at the white house? is that -- >> yes. over the summer. i was very lucky to attend an event that was held to celebrate the passage of the bipartisan save our communities act. my biggest memory from that day is talking with a couple of my friends, just taking it all in,

feeling happy and accomplished. and somebody sort of spun me around and pointed over my shoulder and was like, there she is. that's the girl. she's from uvalde. it was this young girl, probably eight or nine. and, you know, short, dark hair, huge smile. and i don't want to say it ruined the day for me because it didn't in truth. but looking at her, just so many emotions just came up inside of me. i just felt sick. i felt like i wanted to cry. and i wanted to go over to her to say something. but i didn't because i was looking at her. and, you know, she was smiling and laughing. and i felt like that day she was happy, and i didn't want to ruin that for her. i didn't want to dredge up these memories that were so fresh. her, i just felt like i was looking at myself. and i just felt so disappointed and just so upset because i felt like nothing had changed, like we had allowed this to happen

again. everything that i had been doing my own gun violence prevention activism for four or so years at that point. and i felt like i'd accomplished so much until that point. and i looked at her, and i thought, what have i actually even done because there's another one of me right there. there's another one of all of my peers. and i just felt like we failed her in a way and failed her classmates. i just took some strange responsibility for it. and i know i shouldn't have, but i did. >> it was interesting. you were talking about seeing the student from uvalde at the white house, and you wanted to go up and talk to her. what would you say to somebody who -- what do you wish somebody had said to you back then? or what would you say to somebody now who's just going through it? >> when i saw her, i definitely wanted, you know, very similar to what you said. that's made me kind of like, oh, my gosh, i think i felt that too. i'm not the only one. i'd like to go up to her and hug her and tell her that she was so

brave and that everything would be okay and that i promised it would be okay. i was living, breathing proof that you could go through an event like this and be okay someday. >> do you believe things will change? do you believe this problem of mass shootings will improve? >> i think so. i have hope. >> what gives you hope? >> just that there's more people like me out there fighting to get things done. >> we wouldn't be here without hope. >> me and serena, we participate in gun prevention activism, and i know you guys have done similar work as well. we wouldn't be doing this if there wasn't an idea that things could be different one day. that's the end goal. and it just involves changing the conversation. >> i'm joined by my colleague

al alisyn camerota. it's called "sandy hook: forever remembered." it airs at 10:00 p.m. eastern. i still can't believe it's been ten years. what stood out to you as you reported this story. >> first of all, great conversation with these kids. they give me hope. that generation gives me hope. they, i think, have a different frame of reference than we do as far as how to move forward. in term of my reporting for this special, these parents are extraordinary. they are extraordinary human beings. even in the depth of grief ten years ago, they started to harness that grief for action and move forward. their grief didn't go away. they were able to do it simultaneously. and what they've accomplished is remarkable. things that people said could never be done. they sued the gun manufacturer. every lawyer they went to said -- as you'll hear tonight -- said it couldn't be done. they did it. they won $73 million. they sued alex jones, as you know, and just won a billion dollars. not only that, they've helped pass all sorts of legislation at

the state level. first, when talking to them, we did have to go back to that awful day and what they all remember ten years ago. so, here's that. >> reporter: it's been ten years. >> it's a shooting and it's at our school. i literally dropped to the ground, and i thought, oh, gosh, this isn't good. >> i was just running into our family van and just flying. >> reporter: since a lone gunman entered season day hook elementary school and killed 20 children and six adults. >> it was so horrific what we heard, my colleagues and children begging for their lives, and the entire time thinking we're going to be next. >> reporter: and a stunned nation was left grieving. >> i was sure sandy hook would change erg. how could you watch that and not decide to do something about it. >> reporter: tonight -- >> don't ever think this couldn't be staged. >> reporter: -- we take you inside the victims' families

battle against harassment and disinformation. >> it was the hardest thing i've had to do since my son's murder. >> their fight for change -- >> how did a kid have his hands on ar-15 semiautomatic assault rifle with a high capacity magazine. >> we have really hurt a generation of kids by not being able to find ways forward. >> reporter: and their vow to stop similar tragedies. >> it's the way that i've chosen to honor daniel, to prevent other families have having to endure a life with pain due to preventable violence. >> and anderson, i want to make it clear that not everything tonight is devastating. there's also hopeful, empowering messages because of how much they've done. and one t of the things that they've done is been able to stop 11 school shootings around the country because of the training that they do, by going into schools and teaching them the signs before they happen. so, you'll hear how they do it tonight. and, you know, i think there is a note of hope from all of these parents.

>> it's extraordinary. ellison, i really look forward to it. 30 minutes from now, "sandy hook: forever remembered" airs at 10:00 p.m. eastern. just ahead, we'll be joined by the dad and step mom of kenny deland, the student missing in france, ahead. ( ♪ ) (snorting) (clattering) (frustrated grunt) i need some sleep. (groang) (growling) (silence)

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now to latest in the missing american student in france. the father and step mom of kenny deland are desperate for information. they've not heard from him in two weeks. we're going to speak to both of them in a moment. french investigators told them deland arrived in france underprepared and was having difficulty making friends. they say he seems to have left the town he was staying voluntarily. >> reporter: social media posts give little away.

just images of a young american enjoying his exchange program in france. but kenny deland jr. vanished 15 days ago without a trace. after leaving the home of the host mother he was staying with. she explains she's only spoken once to kenny's mother, never to his father, but agrees to speak exclusively to cnn without the camera. she told us of all the exchange students she'd had at her home, kenny deland seemed to be the one having the most trouble fitting if had and settling down to life. she's been inundating him with messages, to which he hasn't responded. and she added she had been reassured by that siting of him about an hour south of him in that sports shop because she said it confirmed the possibility and her hope that in fact he'd gone and cut off communications voluntarily. it was taken on december 3rd.

kenny deland spent just over $8 before vanishing altogether, according to his family, leaving behind only facebook pictures of his life in france from paris to the university. the last time kenny deland showed up for lessons here at the university he was studying at was november 28ing. a missing person's report was filed and it emerged he had left his host family that morning. kenny deland hasn't been heard from since. we showed kenny's picture around the campus in the hope that someone may recognize him. when we find kenny's frensd, they prefer not to speak to us on camera but tell us kenny had friends that were exchange students and some that were local. we care about him, and we want him to come back safely, statements that contradict what french authorities have said, that kenny struggled to make friends. >> what i'm telling you is he makes friends and he's easy to

talk to like me. if you don't know my son, then it's tough for you to make some statement, some bold statement. >> one of the things kenny's friends told us is that he may have been stressed about the upcoming exams. is that something you recognize? >> he's in a foreign country. he's a pretty upbeat kid, you know what i mean? so, it's possible, sure. he was anxious. he was -- he wanted to do good. he wanted to prove he could get good grades even on the trip of a lifetime. >> reporter: kenny deland jr. chronicled his journey to france in august. his father still hopes he'll be able to pick him up, as planned, on saturday. >> and melissa bell joins us now. is there any update on the french authorities' investigation? >> reporter: no, none, anderson. we keep reaching out. we're told it's an ongoing investigation, they don't have updates. all we have is the statement from monday confirming that a missing persons investigation is underway, but also that their

working assumption is he may have left voluntarily, pointing to his state of mind, pointing to the cctv footage from a few days after he disappeared. what we did find was the host mother had only spoken to the investigators over the phone. kenny's stuff is still in the apartment. his computer is there. when you go to the university, there are no missing person signs up anywhere. what we have heard from his host mother to his friends is they still hope he will come back, get his stuff, and get on that plane. that may be wishful thinking. on the part of the authorities, it does seem to be that there's a sort of lack of urgency that's bourn of the idea that they think he may have simply chosen to go off the grid. >> joining me now is kenny deland's father, who you saw in melissa's story, ken deland sr. and his step mother. i appreciate you both being with us. i'm sorry it's under these

circumstances. i hope this is all just a misunderstanding and works out. first of all, how are you -- ken, how are you both doing tonight? >> i mean, i couldn't agree more with melissa's statement about the lack of urgency. that's what it feels like from our end. i talked to the fbi today, and i asked the fbi agent, you know, is there -- do you feel like there's any progress? what's the status? and i -- kwoi don't get anywher. and it just feels like the wind has gone out of the sail as far as what's being done to find my son. the more time that goes by, the more worried we become. and, you know, thank god for, you know, investigative journalism, like what melissa's doing. and she's boots on the ground at the university.

and the host mother, this type of empathetic reporting is what helps bring things to the surface and gets awareness out there. it just -- it's very frustrating from our end. >> when was the last time that you guys heard from kenny? i know on december 3rd, he was seen on that cctv footage going into a sporting goods store. and you're sure that's him in the footage, right? >> i'm positive. >> absolutely. >> yeah. so, when was the last time you heard from him? because that was december 3rd. >> so, 11/27 was the last correspondence we had through whatsapp. we were just talking back and forth and i was asking him how he was doing. he was asking me what's new. and, you know, after that, it just went silent. and he was also speaking with jennifer. he also spoke with his mom, carol, on that day. we don't know who to think.

what we do know is, yes, it's characteristic for kenny to like to go hiking, pack a bag and take a hike. but for him to not reach out with no correspondence, this is very uncharacteristic of my son. and this is what creates all the worry that any parent could ever feel. and, as i said, as time goes by, you know, it makes you worry even more. what's being done? is there still resources in the french police to look for him? are they looking for him? what's going on? >> and as far as his room hasn't been checked -- his room hasn't been checked or his computer. his computer is still there. is there anybody you know over there? is there anybody who can go and try to access his computer?

>> that i'm not sure. i know the liaison had met with the host mom, and she checked his room for what belongings were left in his room to find out if what was left indicated he was coming back. and i'm not an investigator, but if i was to look at what belongings were left, especially the college laptop, it feels as though he's going to come back. so, it just makes me worry even more. it looks to me and it appears he was going to come back. where is he? how has he not reached out to us? and if, in fact, nothing is a sense of urgency on their part, then where do we stand? i mean, i just, i can't

understand. >> i'm so sorry we're talking under neez circumstances. i hope you get some information soon. we'll continue to follow it and we'll continue to look into it on the ground as well as with best we can. ken, i really appreciate it, and jennifer, thank you so much. >> i have to -- anderson, i've got to give props to those investigative journalists you have. they're -- they, by far, have made the most leaps and bounds towards the goal of finding kenny. so, props go to them. my hat goes off to them. >> well, we'll continue to follow it. and, again, i hope he shows up and it's all just been a misunderstanding. and you can tell him he's a knuckle head or something. but let's hope he shows up quickly. thank you so much. we'll continue to be in touch. still ahead tonight, we have new details on the death of a prominent sports journalist,

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the wife of prominent sports journalist grant wahl spoke this morning. >> he had an autopsy done here in new york by the new york city medical examiner's office. and it showed that he had an aortic aneurysm that ruptured. aorta is the big blood vessel that comes out of your heart. and an aneurysm is the ballooning of the blood vessel wall. so, it's weak. it's just one of these things that had been likely brewing for years. and for whatever reason, it happened at this point in time. >> dr. gander also said the outpouring of tributes for wahl brings her comfort and that he was loved by many. so, how common are aortic

aneurysms? >> well, they're not that common, thankfully. the aorta is, as celine was just saying, the big blood vessel that comes out of your heart, supplies all these other part of your body. and it's a pretty sizable blood vessel. so, there's different places along the blood vessel where you can have this aneurysm. let me bring up this image here. when you look at where she was describing where grant's aneurysm was, it was right where the aorta leaves the heart. that's where that ballooning occurs. and the walls became thin as a result of that. that's the image on the right there, anderson. when the wall becomes thin, you've got blood coming out of it with a pretty good velocity. it can rupture, or it can dissect. and that seems to be what happened here. let me show you quickly on this model here, anderson. same thing here, again, the heart. this is the aorta here and the big, red blood vessel.

this is the area that ballooned. and that's right in your chest cavity, around your lungs, around your trachea, things like that. so, you can have all sorts of different symptoms as a result of that ballooning as well. as far as how common, you know in 2019 there were around 10,000, 9,900 or so of people who died of these ruptures in a year. mostly in men. things like smoking increase the risk for certain types of aneurysms. but it's rare but catastrophic. >> in the days leading up to his death, grant wahl said he was being treated for bronchitis. are the symptoms similar or could one have led to the other? >> well, we don't know for sure that he didn't have bronchitis. but it is possible that just that aneurysm alone could cause those types of symptoms. if you look at the model and just sort of think, this is where the aorta is, your trachea is sitting right there, for example. people might feel a fullness in the chest, may have difficulty

breathing. there's a whole list of symptoms that people might have that will seem unusual. people might have just back pain or something like that, could have, scratchy voice, shortness of breath, pain in the chest. if you don't know or even think about this sort of thing, you wouldn't go to thoracic aneurysm as being the issue here. so, it can be pretty vague. one thing i'll tell you as well, anderson, he was 49 years old. typically these types of things occur in people over the age 65. but one of the big story is covered here at cnn was john ritter -- do you remember that -- back in 2013. he died. they thought he had a heart attack. he was 54 at the time. he also had a aortic aneurysm that had dissected. that's what led to his death. it's unusual, typically over the age of 65, but can happen younger as well. ukraine's capital under attack by the russians again,

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authorities say they were aimed at the already battered electrical grid. this comes as biden plans to send the patriot missile defense system to ukraine, though it still needs to be approved. joining me now, general mark hertling. what do you make of the patriots? i think we talk about this a while back and you talked about just the sheer cost of each patriot missile is incredibly huge, and it's a really complex machine to operate. >> it is, anderson, and that's what is troubling, and it's also -- you know, the announcement was made i think a little bit premature that the u.s. was considering it, and they were building the package. but i think one of the things president biden has told the secretary, before we approve this, you have to show me the training plan and what kind of targets they'll be firing on. because again, as we talk the cost of each of the missiles you see firing on the screen right

now is between $3 million and $5 million. each launcher. not the missile but the launcher. and the kind of drones that russia is sending into the territory that they bought from iran cost about $20,000. you don't always want to do the payoff or the value on targeting these kind of things, because it is saving lives, but, you know, you would quickly run up a price tag on these kind of patriot missiles. and you have to first train the sole judges on using it and repairing it. i hope the expectation isn't those missile systems are going to be in ukraine next week, because they're not. it requires literally months of training. but i think it's a good first step to prevent any kind of further russian inkucursion lat on. these are used against cruise missiles not drones. >> if it's $20,000 for a drone

that can decimate an electrical system, there's presidotential unlimited amount of drones, isn't there? >> there is. and you've heard of things like drone swarms that were used in the war a couple years ago, but what you have to do is develop anti-drone techniques. ukraine is struggling to find everything that they have in their inventory against russian attack, and it keeps changing. this is what our pentagon goes through when it does an analysis of what kind of things the u.s. military will face so we don't have these last-ditch efforts of trying to keep things together. drones have been on the battlefield for a long time. it's just the way russia is using them, they're not swarms but they're using them against infrastructure. and even if new weapon systems, air defense systems are sent to ukraine, it's going to be very

difficult to find where to place them. that's the other issue. you just don't put a fence up to capture anything that comes into your 1,500-mile territory. they have to be precisionly laid -- it's not a good word. laid precisely so they hit the targets and defend key territory. what russia is doing is hitting everything, so it's difficult to defend targets in that case. >> i appreciate your time, thank you very much. cnn's special report "sandy hook remembered" is next after a short break. that's why we created the northern trust institute, using g advanced analytics and the best financial expertise of our firm to develop advice that is tested and tailored. we help you navigate tax policy, the art world, impact investing, real estate properties, cryptocurrency and beyond. where there's a trend, we're ahead of it. where there's a gap we bridge it. where there's your moment, we help you grab it.

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