good monday morning to you. i'm jim sciutto. some wild weather. right now, homes and businesses damaged, debris scattered across

cities and towns, this after severe storms ripped across oklahoma and parts of the central u.s. this morning, more than 50,000 without power in the region. at least nine tornadoes touching down in oklahoma and kansas. wind gusts equivalent to a category 3 hurricane about 120 miles an hour battering texas. ahead, the latest on the storm's and what's to come. plus, at least two people are dead, three others wounded after a drone attack in ukraine. this as the u.s. is now warning that china will face penalties if beijing provides russia with drones and ammunition, as u.s. intelligence indicates, to aid russia's ongoing invasion of ukraine. we do begin this hour with the latest on those severe storms and tornadoes. cnn's senior national correspondent, ed lavendera is in norman, oklahoma. cnn meteorologist chad myers standing by with the latest forecast. we want to begin with you, ed. some pictures there, just alarming. tell us what you're seeing on the ground. >> reporter: well, it was a

rough night for the residents of oklahoma, who watched this fast-moving storm line blow through and rip across the state. 12 people injured. the good news is, no deaths being reported. and the various storms that were dropping out of the sky throughout much of the night. we are in norman, oklahoma. this is where one of the confirmed tornadoes touched down. the sun is out. residents are now starting to come out of their homes or come back into the neighborhood to begin the cleanup process and to really kind of assess the magnitude of the damage here. and you can see just how ferocious the winds and the debris flying through the air, smashing car windows, this piece of plywood stuck in the tree was ripped off of a home, somewhere around here. and it is just stunning to see the site, in many of these homes, there's cars flipped over a few blocks away from where we were. we were just at one house a little while ago that had the entire back part of the house ripped off. the refrigerator was in the

backyard. just, you know, stunning sights. and this was a neighborhood that took a direct hit from this tornado that touched down here in the norman, oklahoma, area, just south of the oklahoma city area. but this is a storm line, jim, as you mentioned, that really kind of started in the texas panhandle and blew through the state last night. it was moving incredibly quickly. you talk about the wind. there was 114-mile-per-hour wind gust measured in the texas panhandle town of memphis, texas. and all of that system moving through here. so it was a treacherous, dangerous night for many people here, as they are beginning the cleanup process. and of course, this is a rare outbreak of tornadoes in february. this is the kind of scene and site that people here in oklahoma are used to seeing in late april, in may, perhaps into early june. but this is just kind of the way things are right now, when it comes to these weather patterns, the intensity and the ferociousness of the storm is still very staggering for many

residents here to kind of comprehend. jim? >> goodness, so much rebuilding to do there. thanks so much, ed. it wasn't just oklahoma, officials calling this a derecho. is this normal, this kind of year? what's behind it? >> it's not normal for february, but neither is it normal for all of the cherry blossoms to be blooming in washington, d.c., either. i think we're just moving spring a little bit farther and farther into the end of winter as we begin to warm the climate. we're just going to see this. we're going to see the progression of the severe weather start from the south earlier in the year, move to the north earlier in the year. we've had about nine tornadoes, i think, some of them may be the same tornado reported in two different towns, but now this system has moved past st. louis, into indiana and also into ohio for today. not the same type of ferociousness we had yesterday. jim, those storms were moving at 85 miles per hour. not the wind generated, the storm itself, many of them, moving 85 miles per hour from

the southwest to the northeast, giving those residents only minutes worth of warning, even though the weather service was putting these warnings out, mile after mile ahead of the storm. the storms were just moving so very, very quickly yesterday. there's your threat of severe weather. maybe a little bit of a tornado threat into parts of ohio. especially around columbus. central ohio, the siota river valley. but then the snow comes in from new york city. yes, i said snow. even for boston, it could be 2 to 4 inches in those cities by morning, making a slow commute certainly for the people there. part of the cold on the one side, the warm on the other. they don't like to mix. you shake the oil and vinegar dressing together. eventually the oil is going to go to the top, the vinegar goes to the bottom. same idea with warm and cold. they don't like to mix. >> thanks for connecting the dots there. i think folks often misunderstand what's going on here. chad myers in the weather center. we had ed lavendera there in oklahoma. thanks so much. this morning, at least two ukrainian rescue workers have

been killed amid a wave of new russian drone attacks. they've proven particularly deadly there. ukrainian forces are claiming to have shot down several of those drones, but many do get through and cause a lot of destruction on the ground. cnn's senior national security correspondent, alex marquardt is in ukraine. alex, i wonder if you can describe to folks at home what you're seeing there. >> reporter: yeah, at least 14 drones overnight targeting these two different cities in the southwestern part of the country and there were those two first responders who were killed, responding to an earlier drone strike. and at least three people. this speaks to how these drones were sent in in waves. at least 9 out of the 11 that were sent in were shot down. those air raid sirens over kyiv blaring for some 5 1/2 hours, which really speaks to that concern that we saw last week about president biden's visit to

the capitol to meet with president zelenskyy. we are at a pivotal point in this war. there's a lot of talk about the kind of weaponry, there's some saying that they are sending what they believe ukraine needs for this fight right now. not necessarily everything that ukraine wants. those f-16s, which president biden has said firmly will not be coming to ukraine anytime soon. but over the course of -- president biden here, two different u.s. aid packages totaling around $2.5 billion, with what the u.s. believes that ukraine needs for this fight right now. that is primarily going to be artillery ammunition, more artillery pieces, the famous javelins to shoot tanks. but also drones for the ukrainians themselves and anti-drone systems, which come from the russians using these iranian-made kamikaze drones to

fire. a major sticking point, jim, are those long-range missiles known as attackums, which are meant to hit russian targets farther away. forresisting providing those, jim. >> as a whole new wave of weapons do go in, including those tanks, thanks so much. this morning, the kremlin is declining to comment on cnn's reporting china is considering giving russia lethal aid for its war against ukraine. this a u.s. intelligence assessment. china is also disputing the claim, but sources tell us that that intelligence suggests otherwise. u.s. national security adviser jake sullivan issued this warning to china over the weekend. >> beijing will have to make its own decisions about how it proceeds, whether it provides military assistance. but if it goes down that road, it will come at real cost to china and i think china's leaders are weighing that as they make their decisions. >> joining us now, cnn military analyst, colonel cedric layton. good to have you on, sir.

you were an intelligence analyst during your time in the military. i wonder, when you look at this consideration by china, according to the u.s. assessment, what do you believe china's aim is here? does it see an opportunity to bog down the u.s. and its allies in this war? >> yeah, jim, good morning. i think that's exactly what they're trying to do here. we have to keep in mind that china and russia both are looking at this in a very different way, through a very different lens than we are. and what that really means is that they want to create a different world order than what currently exists. so what the china and the russians both are looking at, is they want a world order in which they are the more dominant players. and when you move that into ukraine, this is the theater that this conflict has gotten hot in. and you see in the area around bakhmut and all of these other areas, there is a movement to really bring the mass of the russian forces forward, in all

of the offensive operations that they're doing could really benefit from a chinese reply effort. and if that happens, that would be a considerable escalation. it would also provide the russians with a lot more firepower than they currently enjoy. >> so that's the russian offensive, as it stands. the u.s. view is that they don't quite have what is necessary yet to make significant moves. we've heard of a ukrainian counteroffensive coming. any sense of timing? and is it your sense that they have the weapons, particularly with these tanks going in that they need to make progress? >> yes, so it's really good to hear from the ukrainian point of view that the tanks are coming into the country. they're starting to move in from poland and the swedes have indicated that they're going to be providing some as well, in short order. so that means that the training has progressed quite a bit. it also means that on the battle field, the ukrainians will have

some tanks, but they won't be nearly the 300 to 500 that the ukrainians have actually asked for. that will come eventually, but it's not going to be there in time for a major offensive to benefit from them, a major counteroffensive from the ukrainian side. it's really a dueling clock situation. the russians have one set of clocks, the ukrainians have another. and the russian one is dominating at the moment. >> for the three years since we've been in the midst of the covid-19 pandemic, there's been a debate, it seems, within u.s. intelligence agencies, as to the actual origin of this. whether it emerged naturally or as the result of a leak from a chinese lab. you now have the department of energy seeming to look at some new intelligence to say, well, this is a lab leak here. granted, with low confidence,

but they have changed their opinion. there's debate, the fbi has been there for some time. other agencies go the other way. what do you think is happening within the u.s. intelligence community on this key question here? i mean, is there new, hard evidence from your point of view? or is this a continuing debate? >> there might not be anymore hard evidence. there are certain circumstantial things that we have known about for some time, jim, when it comes to the wuhan situation where the possibility exists that the covid virus was actually the result of an accident in a lab. there is clear -- >> oops. froze up there -- there he is! sorry -- >> -- indicates that -- >> we lost you for a moment there. just maybe you can complete that thought. >> can you hear me now, jim? >> i can hear you now. >> yes, so the basic idea is that i think the -- there's still debate within the intelligence community. there is no hard evidence that i

know of that indicates that it goes one way or the other. but there is circumstantial evidence indicating that there may have been something going on in the lab that the chinese want to keep secret. that may be the basis in part for the department of energy report. >> interesting. we'll continue to follow colonel cedric layton, thanks so much. well, in about 20 minutes, alex murdaugh will be back in court after two days of heated testimony in his ongoing double murder trial. did that testimony help or hurt him? details on how soon the case could go to a jury. that's coming up. and later, first lady jill biden sits down with cnn for an exclusive interview. what she says on her thoughts on her husband running again in 2024. ♪ helpining you discover untapped possibilities and relentlessly working wiwith you to make them real. ♪ because grit and vision working in lockstep

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found the virus may very well have accidentally escaped from a lab in wuhan. that assessment adding to a debate in this country and globally as to exactly how and where the virus originated. cnn's natasha bertrand has been following the latest. natasha, we should note, this is a low-confidence intelligence assessment, but it did change at the d.o.e. they cited new intelligence. do we know why their assessment changed? >> we don't, jim. all we know is that they appear to have gathered some new intelligence that made them shift their opinion from undecided to now believing that the most likely explanation for how this pandemic began was that it originated in that lab in wuhan. now, we should note, of course, as you did, that this is a low-confidence assessment, which means that even though they did conclude that this is perhaps the most likely explanation, they cannot say that with utter certainty, because the intelligence that they gathered, perhaps, is too fragmented, the sources are not solid enough, and essentially, they just cannot come to a more definitive conclusion, based on the evidence that they have

gathered. however, of all the theories that they have examined, they believe that this is the most compelling one. now, that intelligence, of course, was shared with the entire intelligence community and it did not cause other agencies to change their assessments. notably, of course, the cia still has not come to a conclusion one way or the other about how this virus originated. but, you know, ultimately, the u.s. intelligence community has said before that it's going to be very difficult to come to a definitive conclusion about how this pandemic started, without that robust cooperation from beijing, which they have not gotten to date. it has been very difficult, as we know, for scientists and for the international community to kind of gain access to that original site in wuhan where it is believed that the pandemic did begin. according to a 2021 intelligence report, the data that the u.s. has been studying from afar just likely is not going to be sufficient to come to a definitive conclusion about the origins of this pandemic, jim. >> just difficult to imagine the

circumstances, where china would cooperate, with the u.s. on this. natasha bertrand in d.c., thanks so much. well, the epa is stepping up its oversight of the cleanup of the toxic train derailment in east palestine, ohio. shipments of contaminated materials will begin again today, until friday, norfolk southern was solely responsible for cleanup. the epa stopped shipments, so it could review the company's plans, after officials in texas and michigan complained they got no warning that waste from that accident could be heading to their states. cnn's senior national correspondent miguel marquez joins us. this is part of the aftermath of this. now you have the waste from the spill, where does it go? some of it's already being processed in michigan and texas. but, where's the rest of the stuff going to go? do they have a plant? >> the stuff that is in michigan and texas will stay there. the rest of this, we're talking about millions of gallons of water and thousands of cubic yards of soil that needs to be removed from that area will go to two different locations at the epa has signed off on, that

is accustomed to dealing with these sort of chemicals and disposing of them in ohio, two different towns in ohio. one is just south of there, east liverpool is just south of east palestine. but, look, it's all indicative of how things that are happening in east mapalestine are having this outsized effect. whether it's high school sports teams canceling games in the east palestine area, "the wall street journal" reporting this weekend that retailers are -- have stopped selling water that is bottled, about 30 miles away from east palestine. and then you have this situation in texas and michigan, places that normally handle these sorts of situations and these sorts of chemicals, being -- the government there being upset that they didn't have word that this stuff was coming. it is a mess in east palestine, but officials there from the epa to the state government to the county government to the city, all of them now working seemingly in conjunction to figure out how to try to clean

this thing up. drilling wells around the area that was most contaminated to figure out if and when and how that plume of toxic materials is se seeping into the ground water and moving. as they have all said, this is going to not takes weeks, months, it will be years of monitoring this, all of this as this toxic mess from a derailment seeps into our toxic politics, as well. the house now saying that they are going to hold hearings about the biden administration and tl lack of response or poor response to this. and the senate now saying that they want to call the ceo of norfolk southern to the senate to explain himself. the senate obviously trying to focus on norfolk southern's role and how all of this played out. so i think we're going to hear many, many weeks and months of this toxic derailment to come. jim? >> well, it would be nice if the investigation was actually about what happened, how this happened, how to prevent it, but, sounds like politics will rule the day. miguel marquez, thanks so much.

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minutes from now, the alex murdaugh double murder trial resumes in south carolina with the defense expected to call four new witnesses to the stand

today. all of this after murdaugh himself, who is accused of killing his wife and son, wrapped up six more hours of testimony on friday. randi kaye is outside the courthouse in walterboro. randi, i wonder what the focus of these new witnesses is likely to be today. >> i bet the jury is probably wondering that, as well. we are expecting four more witnesses. i understand, there will be a pathologist coming to speak on the stand today, as well as a crime scene investigator for the defense. so the jury will get to hear all of that. but of course, they're still processing, jim, quite a bit of alex murdaugh's testimony, for the first time after 20 months, he finally came clean and admitted that he was at the kennels where the murders took place around the time of the murders back on june 7th, 2021. he said he was down there for just a couple of minutes. he told the prosecutor he drove the golf cart down there, was down there at 8:47 p.m. -- left there at 8:47 p.m., and drove up

back to the house, was at the house around 8:49 p.m. he said he went down for a nap for a short bit after that, but his phone started showing activity again at 9:02 p.m., and a lot of activity. 283 steps, which had the prosecutor very curious. but it wasn't just all of those steps. it was a flurry of phone calls. here's the exchange from friday about that in court. >> finally having your phone in your hand, moving around and making all of these phone calls to manufacture an alibi. is that not true? >> that's absolutely incorrect. it is an absolute fact that i am not manufacturing an alibi, as you say. >> how do you remember so much detail about everything else, but you don't remember what you were specifically doing to generate 283 steps while you're making all of these phone calls in the same four-minute period. >> i never manufactured any alibi in any way, shape, or form, because i did not and would not hurt my wife and my

child. >> and that timeline is so key, because prosecutors believe that maggie and paul murdaugh were killed at 8:49 p.m. that fits right into that timeline, he got to the house, he says, at 8:49 p.m. and all of those phone calls, as you saw there, the prosecutor believes were set up to serve as an alibi. there was really one other moment that struck me on friday, when the prosecutor asked alex murdaugh when he was at the kennels, were the dogs barking? were they showing any strange behavior, as if maybe somebody was there they didn't know. a strange smell, perhaps. and alex murdaugh told the prosecutor that there was noble else around that they department know. nobody else around for them to scents. direct quotes. in a way, depending upon what the jury believes, he could have been telling the prosecutor there was nobody else with my family at the time of the murders except for me. >> let's speak now with former

prosecutor, current director of the south carolina victim's assistance network, sarah ford. good to have you on this mor morning. >> thanks, jim. we're coming to the end of this. the prosecutor's case, largely circumstantial. there's no witnesses, no weapon. something that they conceded in their opening arguments, making the case that circumstantial evidence is not a problem, it's as good as direct evidence. i wonder, has the prosecution in your view overcome that hurdle in its case so far? >> i think the prosecution has. i think it's been difficult and i think that most of our opinions have changed as we've gone along. and it's a bit of a roller coaster, seeing a case presented, you know, with the state and now hearing from the defense. but i think that overall, the state has presented enough evidence for the jury to consider and i think that it will be difficult for them to exclude those things. reasonable doubt is a difficult hurdle to reach. but i think with the evidence that was presented, especially with alex testifying on friday,

really solidifying a lot of what the state has presented, inadvertently, i think it will be a difficult hurdle for him to ignore. >> the defense clearly thought it was to their advantage, as was murdaugh, to his advantage to testify. and there has, some criticism of how the prosecutors handled that. some talk that murdaugh being a hero was able to pairy some of their questions successfully. do you agree with any of that? >> i think that creighton waters did a great job with what he was given. alex murdaugh was always going to get up there and do what alex murdaugh does. watching him testify, you could clearly see why he was so effective at stealing from his clients and lying to people for so many years. and i think creighton waters adjusted to that and let him talk. and i've always said, you know, went someone's doing your job for you, you let them talk. that's what creighton waters did and overall, it was very effective. >> the lying, in effect, is part of the prosecution's case here.

because they're arguing that he's been a liar and he lied to police where he was on the night of the murders, there must be a reason for that. murdaugh was making the case that because he's an addict and as a result of that, he had paranoid thoughts. was that an effective response to that prosecution argument? >> i don't know that he had any option, jim. he and his lawyers have been peddling that theory for a long time now and i think he had to really go with that. you know, i don't know how effective that's going to be. you know the opioid crisis effects so many people directly and indirectly in our country, and i think it will be hard to imagine for a lot of people that what he described is something that we can understand as someone who has been addicted to opioids for 20-plus years at that level, and being the type of lawyer that he is and was. >> goodness. quite a case. sarah ford, thanks so much for helping us out. still ahead, a cnn exclusive with the first lady.

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course, is such a big, important part of president biden's life and his decision-making process. and we had the chance to talk to her about that re-election bid. and she ultimately said that it is a decision that is up to the president himself, but noted that in her mind, the decision essentially has been made. >> your husband was asked in an interview if he was running. and he joked that he had to call you to find out. >> was this recently? >> it was recent. so we're going to the source. when's an announcement coming? >> he says he intends to run, so nothing's been planned yet. i think he's been so busy with being in ukraine, handling some of the crises at home. i think he's not -- he's putting that first. he's putting america's business before he's put ting his own.

>> but has the decision been made amongst the family that he's going to run? >> it's joe's decision. and we support whatever he wants to do. if he's in, we're there. if he wantsed to do something else, we're there too. >> is there any chance at this point that he's not going to run? >> not in my book. >> you're all for it? >> i'm all for it. of course! >> so the first lady essentially saying there that she believes that ultimately he will decide to run for re-election. of course, biden is well known for engaging in these extended deliberations when it comes to major political decisions. we've seen these drawn-out processes in the past. so everyone is looking for each of these signs, these signals, whether he is moving closer to the run. and the first lady indicating that she is all for it. we sat down over the course of the past few days multiple times with the first lady as she traveled through africa,

visiting namibia and kenya, trying to highlight a few issues, trying to highlight the importance of women in democracy as well as trying to shine a spotlight on the drought that's been impacting the horn of africa. she traveled yesterday to a rural village that's been impacted by this drought, all of these things we will be covered and take you along the way for when we air this interview a little bit later in the week. >> will be a fascinating look, for sure. arlette saenz, thanks so much. you can watch the rest of the wide-ranging interview with first lady jill biden later this week. cnn prime-time "jill biden abroad" airs this thursday, 9:00 p.m. eastern, here on cnn. a new poll this morning among economists suggesting that the direction of the u.s. economy is, well, confusing. jobs are surge welcome corporate layoffs in some industries in particular are mounting. red-hot inflation has cooled a bit, but not nearly enough. mortgage rates continue to inch higher. it's a lot of information, some of it conflicting.

cnn's christine romans here to make sense of it all. it really does seem like economists haven't quite figured out how this is all going? >> it's just a big riddle. and when you look at this forecast, this poll of these business economists, you can see that they're all struggling to come up with a consensus for what could happen here. here's a good example. i looked at their gdp forecast for q4 to q4. for this year, the range is so wide, there's either a recession -- that's a real recession, minus 1.3%, or a pretty fine charitable 1.9%. you look out for next year, either a stall in the economy, barely positive growth, all the way up to a very strong 2.6% economy. so it just shows you kind of how all over the map these economists are. for all of the reasons that you just mentioned. all of these different statistics. we have a strong underlying economy. 8 interest rate hikes by the fed meant to cool it, but inflation still too high here. so there's a lot of kind of hand wringing about where we're going and what happens next.

i think where you can find a consensus is nearly 60% of these respondents, these economists say there's a 50/50 chance of a recession this year. still worried about all of that medicine from the fed. one of the words that the nab used is diffused. all of these estimates are very diffused. meaning, there's just all over the place, because really smart people looking at a lot of different factors. there's no play book for this coming out of a covid lockdown and the huge consumer demand we've seen, plus a war in ukraine. there's just no playbook for this, and i think you can see that reflected in these economist's forecasts. >> that says it all. most economists say there's a 50/50 chance. they don't know, right? >> right, they don't know. >> it's hard to figure it out. christine romans, thanks so much. >> the technical word is maybe. maybe. >> yeah. >> goodness. well, still ahead, a popular comic strip pulled from hundreds

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a single federal judge could rule as soon as today on a lawsuit seeking to block the use of abortion pills nationwide. the judge in question is a trump appointee known for his anti-abortion views. his decision could halt more than half the legal abortions now being carried out across the country. our senior legal affairs correspondent paula reid joins me now. one judge, enormous national implications. i imagine the possibility of supreme court review at some point. where does this stand now and where does it go? >> well, jim, as you just noted, the majority of abortions in the united states are now medication abortions and this is certainly the most significant abortion case since the supreme court overturned roe last year. now, here, a group of anti-abortion rights medical associations and doctors has sued to block the fda's decades-long approval of mifepristone, which is the first drug in the medication abortion process. of course, the fda does not want any sort of injunction.

they're saying, look, this would have a dangerous precedent. and a group of democratic attorneys general has also supported them, noting the impact that this would have on abortion access nationwide. specifically, the availability of this drug has been particularly critical in providing access to abortion in low income, underserved, and rural communities where procedural abortion may be unavailable. and eliminating access to this method, they say, will result in more abortions taking place later in pregnancy, further increasing costs and medical risks. and we could get a decision, jim, any day now. >> so, tell us what we know about the judge in this case. you often see what appears to be judge shopping for cases like this. but what do we know about this one and how he came to be the decider on this. >> judge shopping, forum shopping, it is absolutely, you are right, something that folks on both sides of the aisle do, especially when they have a case that is political sensitive, particularly one on abortion. and judge kacsmaryk, he is a trump appointee, conservatives

have really targeted his small amarillo division in the larger northern district of texas, because they believe that they will get favorable rulings there. some people have even referred to this division as the graveyard as biden policies. if you look at the work he did, even public comments that members of his family have made, abortion rights advocates do have reason to be concerned about the ruling here. and look, even a temporary injunction, restricting access to this medication would have significant ramifications for abortion access nationwide. >> yep. after already some of the states, the ones in red there. have banned abortion by doctors. paula reid, thanks so much. newspapers across the country are dropping the dilbert comic strip after its creator went on a

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>> this is the cast of "everything, everywhere all at once" and thatt is at the scree actors guild. michelle yeoh was the best actor, and ke quo quong became the best actor and is that a good predictor for the oscars? >> yes, it does. this is actors and actresses for their performances and you should take in "everything, everywhere all at once" and you

have jamie lee curtis for her supporting cast, and also, the actor that you will remember from "indiana jones and the temple of doom" when we first saw him, and then "goonies" and he said it was difficult for him to find roles, and listen to what he said on the stage. >> i was told that if i would win tonight, i would become the very first asian actor to win in this category. when i stepped away from acting, it was because there was so few opportunities, and so, thank you so much to all of you in this room and everyone who contributed to these changes. >> so you can feel the emotion, and so much emotion and great speeches last night. on the drama side, we also have brendan frazier there for "the whale" and beating out austin

butler who we have seen who won to bafta, but this could mean something different at the oscars and on the tv side not a surprise that "white lotus" won the big award for jennifer coolidge, and a lot of emotion in her speech, and folks love that show, and the actors were on the red carpet and we had a lot of great commentary and "abbott elementary" won for best comedy. jim? >> you get the best assignments. thank you for bringing us all of the stories. top of the hour this monday, and i'm jim sciutto, and homeowners are cleaning up after the severe storms ripped through the parts of the central u.s. after storms tearing up home