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effect for parts of indiana and ohio as severe storms moved across the west. you can see what appears to be a funnel cloud in the distance there. hours earlier, the same storm system unleashed at least nine tornadoes across oklahoma and kansas. at least seven tornados hit oklahoma alone. >> this is just outside of oklahoma city. officials say at least 12 people have been injured and the national weather service says preliminary data indicates the tornado that hit this area was at least ef-2. more than 200,000 homes and businesses still without power across several states. listen here as one woman describes the moment the tornado hit. >> before i could even blink, i could hear the wind. all the back windows where the kids bedrooms are, i could hear them crashing, busting out. i got up and then the wind just

threw me back. and i'm screaming. it was like a blizzard inside the house with all the debris flying. i was screaming for my kids. you know, because they were in their bedrooms. i didn't know if they were hurt or anything. >> cnn senior national correspondent is with us now from normand, oklahoma. it is scarier and more jarring when it happens at night and all you have is the sound and the power is out. what are you seeing around you? >> reporter: yeah. i have always said that is by far what makes these nighttime tornadoes the most fearful thing because you don't know what direction it is coming from, how much time you have to react. a storm of this magnitude, even though people knew it was coming, it was hard to prepare for. you can see the magnitude. this is what appears to be a large storage shred ripped to

shreds here. this took a direct hit from the tornado. what really the story of this particular storm system has been is the intense winds that started in the texas panhandle where at one point a 114 miles an hour wind gust was reported in the small town of memphis, texas. the sustained winds as it came through here was 70 to 80 miles an hour. that is just a terrifying storm system that blew through here. so the fact there is only 12 people injured and no fatalities is really stunning. earlier this morning, we met tabitha, a 10th grade geometry st teacher in a high school in oklahoma city told us she was home alone and hours after the storm had passed, she was still shaking. >> i went to walmart not maybe an hour earlier, groceries for

the week and whatnot. got home, got them unpacked, turned on the news because i knew there was weather. and i was like, oh, there is a tornado headed this way. i heard the sirens go offen and thought, i will go in my safe space. i grab my cat. and i thought for a second, i may not have a house. >> you can see the windows blown out. you see that hole on the side of the house there. that is flying debris, a piece of two by hour, some other piece of wood that literally just shot through the siding there. the impact of that is indescribable. that's why we talk about 12 people injured. that's the amount of debris flying around this neighborhood when the store hit. >> yeah. the recovery and the rebuilding will be significant there. just look at those images. thank you. well, that tornado watch is

in effect for parts of indiana, ohio and now kentucky. derek van dam is here for us. the severe weather just isn't letting up for these parts. >> reporter: keep in mind that some of the storms that rolled through where ed is located had wind gusts of over 75 miles an hour. there are 15 reports of that. that is a category 1 hurricane. incredible to see that whipping through the midwest. now it has its eyeing set on the ohio river valley. this is a level 2 of 5 where you see the shading of yellow. look at the large cities. louisville, cincinnati, colu columbus. the threat is coming to an end from west to east. this is the low pressure. but ahead of it, that is where we're getting that spin in the upper levels of the atmosphere. that's allowing for the showers and thunderstorms to become severe. in fact, we have our latest watch box which includes parts of northern kentucky as well as western and central sections of

ohio. here is a look at the latest warnings, severe thunderstorm warnings north of the cincinnati region. you can see a tornado warning to the west and east as well. currently moving through. the threat percentage, this is kind of like your likelihood in a sense of seeing a tornado, 5% chance where you see the shading of yellow from a particular point surrounding that by a 25-mile circumference. this is also producing snow on the colder side of it. we had a snow drought in new york city. only a half an inch so far this season. well, that will change tonight. 3 to 5 inches coming your way. up to 10 inches in providence, rhode island and it keeps lining up over the west coast with more blizzard conditions across the state of north carolina. >> thanks so much. the energy department says it now believes a lab leak in china is most likely the cause of the covid-19 pandemic. now, before now, the department said it was undecided on how the virus emerged.

>> besides updated intelligence for this new assessment now a caveat. the energy department has low confidence in these findings. china, predictably is furious and pushing back. david, you were in wuhan in january of 2020 where the first covid cases were detected. there was a theory back then that the virus had emerged at a massive food market there and then travelled to animals. tell us about how china is now responding, though, to this new report. >> you hit it when you said they're not happy with it. this infuriates them. this is one of the most sensitive issues for the chinese government. and it's been so sensitive going back to april 2020, a few months after the initial outbreak that they launched this relentless propaganda campaign to try to counter the narrative, to try to sew doubt and deflect blame. it has been mostly successful within china and it muddied the waters there. but the reaction from the

foreign ministry is one of -- at least really quite frankly we have seen many times before, which is they're telling the u.s. to stop smearing china and stop politicizing the issue. also worth noting today, they point out the w.h.o. conclusion after their field visit in 2021, and they say that the w.h.o. field team determined that it was highly unlikely that a lab leak was the origin of covid-19. that is true. the w.h.o. field team did say that in their conclusion to that field visit. the issue is can w.h.o. also went on to ask for a second follow-up field visit, and the chinese said no, that's not going to happen. they did not let that team back into wuhan, china. and we're hearing from some of those scientists that were a part of that and they told me early on they asked for data from the chinese officials on the ground and that data was never handed over to them. >> david, thank you for the

reporting, and stay with us here. cnn national security analyst is joining the conversation. she's former assistant secretary at the department of homeland security. juliet, how much credence should people give a most likely report from the energy department in which they only have low confidence? >> right. and not much. and i'll just be clear here. you have to look at the totality of the intelligence community's assessment. so it may be confusing to people who haven't been in this role. i have been a consumer of intelligence my entire career. so you have four -- so what happens when there is a question like this is different intelligence communities assess what they know and what they have determined. you are going to rely on the expertise of certain intelligence agencies over another. so a perfect example is a marty time threat, you lean more heavily on the coast guard than

tsa. right now here is the scorecard, so to speak. you have the department of energy at low confidence, the fbi at medium confidence. four intelligence agencies more likely than not on the natural relief side and an overall national intelligence review also in the same, most likely that it was natural. these are all caveated, so we don't know. the truth is we don't know. but the idea that an energy department switch to low confidence is -- changes the calculation or should be used politically is just -- it's a misunderstanding of how the intelligence works. >> so juliet, how should we read these qualifies then? because the fbi had deemed this moderate confidence, that this began in a lab. now we have this information from the department of energy low confidence. >> right. so these are all just levels of caveating because intelligence is something that had to be

consumed and then assessed by analysis. here is where i start. not a single intelligence community member, nor the w.h.o., believes it is purposeful bioterrorism. i want to make that clear because this report is being manipulated to suggest that china was purposeful. all the -- the lab leak theory is also an accidental theory. it is that someone got infected in the lab and then it starts to spread. so between the lab leak and -- and -- and natural causes, the second point is we won't know because china, of course, views this as a threat to whatever narrative they -- the narrative they want to put out. so we don't have full transparency. and, so, the question now is what do we do with this? why does it matter? it matters, obviously, because you want labs to be safer and to

know what had happened. does it change -- does it change a narrative about how each individual country responded? probably not. and the reason why we want to be careful about how we interpret this is because, as we're reporting, china's reaction does matter. if this was a lab leak, it's very different to them than if this was in, say, a market or natural causes. so, but, i -- maybe i have been in this role too long. i'm comfortable in the space of we don't know yet, but the totality of the intelligence community believes more likely that it was natural causes. and all of the intelligence community believes that it was not bioterrorism. >> david, talk to us more about wuhan. you have been there three times since the initial outbreak. >> right. >> talk to us about the research labs there. there is more than one. >> there are.

there are several. and two in particular that i have gotten the focus of those skeptical of how the chinese have handled this. to juliet's point, the idea this was manufactured and intentional, that this lab leak then is the source of covid-19 and that this is what the origin theory is rooted in, you can put that aside and you can say perhaps it is accidental and then the amplification point where it had that point is marketed. but look at the labs. you have to look at the circumstantial evidence of where they're located. one of them is a 30-minute drive from that first amplification point, the market. the other, just two blocks away. the other thing that undeniable, that all of this is the early handlings or mishandlings from the chinese government. we covered these extensively. there was the silencing of whistleblowers. one of them being a doctor a few days before he ultimately died from covid-19. he was simply trying to warn friends and family that this was

a strange mystery illness going around. that got screen shotted and went very public and got him in a lot of trouble with local police. so there was, certainly from the local government in wuhan, an effort to stop the rumors, as they put it, from being spread and to keep this quiet. that is ultimately what folks are looking at here as the real culpability factor, even beyond how this started is how it was mishandled and the coverup that followed. >> yeah. i remember you covering that. i believe he was an opthalmologist at the time. it was heart-breaking to see what happened to him. i think the overall concern here is not just necessarily pointing the finger at who is to blame here. we know this virus originated in china. we know we will see future viruses in pandemics to come. and the fact that china has not been transparent in terms of allowing investigators in i think is a bigger concern. >> yeah. that's exactly right. and you don't get time back in a

pandemic. so exactly as we're all saying, whatever the genesis is, there is a moment when this can be contained, and china knows that, right. so their failure to act, we call it the squander time, right? the january, possibly december. the dates are still up in the air, of 2019 or january of 2020 when they start to notice a respiratory disease that is spread very quickly and is killing. they are not transparent about that. there is no politics about this. they call in the w.h.o. they allege in early january of 2020 that they're concerned about this new outbreak, but it is not causing any deaths. that can't possibly be true, right? china was sufficiently concerned that they begin to notify. by early january, people like me who read this stuff are starting to get concerned. and, so, if you look at a containment period, china's lack of transparency is responsible

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president biden has been hinting that the launch of his 2024 re-election bid could be just around the corner. >> it appears he has the backing and support of the first lady if he decides to run another term. we have the details with an exclusive interview with jill biden. >> there is no doubt first lady jill biden plays a huge role in president biden's life and also his decision-making. and over the weekend while we were traveling with her in africa, we had the opportunity to ask her about the president's possible re-election bid. the first lady said it is ultimately a decision left up to her husband, but in her mind

it's happening. >> 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 recently. so we're going to the source. where do things stand? when is an announcement coming? >> well, he said he intends to run. so nothing has been planned yet. i think he's been so busy with being in ukraine, handling some of the crises at home. so i think, you know, he's putting that first. he's putting america's business before he's putting his own. >> but has the decision been made amongst the family that he's going to run? >> well, it's joe's -- really, it's joe's decision, and we support whatever he wants to do. if he's in, we're there. if he wants 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. president biden is well known for engaging in these extended deliberations when it comes to his political deliberations. it was that heading into 2020 and the same way heading into 2024. the first lady there did offer the family support for the president should he decide to run, but she also left an opening for him should he decide to get a better route. we traveled with her through africa, visiting kenya. and we will have more of that interview coming up. thank you. ron brownstein is a cnn senior analyst. ron, good to see you. the first lady supporting the president's decision. it would have been huge news if she said, no, i'm not into it. how big a deal is this from joe

biden? >> well, not only does she support it, but in her mind, she said in her mind the decision has been made. we're in kind of a strange position on the democratic side because on the one hand, you know, we see consistently in poland there are a large number of rank and file democrats who are skeptical about biden running again. that was evident in the polls that continue to come out. they worry he's too old. on the other hand, there is no institutional support anywhere in the party for a challenge. i mean, you know, normally you would look at those numbers and say, well, if some ambitious new politician would make a name for themselves by challenging. but i don't think anybody else would be as strong as him in '24. so he has lots of time to make his decision. but i think democrats, the institutional force of the democratic party are comfortable with them running again and are

expecting that as the outcome. >> that's the democrats. let's talk about potential republican kondcandidates here. ron desantis has not said what he's doing, but a lot of speculation about whether he will announce what he's doing. he has a legislative session about what he's going through. there is a book coming out, a lot of focus through him. you wrote about him recently and you said in many areas where he could have been grasping for suburban voters and talking about the economy and some of his establishments in florida, he is, instead, going full maga and focussing on culture war issues. talk about the question you raise in your piece about whether he can run on trumpism without being trump. >> right. i mean, this is the fundamental tension in the possible ron desantis candidacy. and certainly he has the same excuse that george w. bush had in 1999 about delaying an announcement until after the

legislative session. but he is doing all the kinds of things you would expect of an eventual candidate, the swing around new york and pennsylvania and illinois last week. he will be in california this weekend and texas. so he's giving himself the capacity to run. but what's striking, though, is there is a fundamental tension to the way he's presenting himself to a lot of republican strategists. the appeal of desantis is the thought that someone who is less personally polarizing than donald trump, he could win back the white collar suburban voters and really move those states out of reach for the gop since 2016. on the other hand, as you note, the way he's choosing to define himself in the republican primary is not so much as a confident administrator and someone who kept the economy moving, he's defining himself as a culture warrior. you talk to pan america and they

say what he's doing to control speech in kindergarten through college, there is no precedent for it in american history. and obviously there are other issues like permitless carry and a six-week abortion ban in florida. on the other hand, he is signaling he doesn't want donald trump get to his right on the cultural issues. but the question is even if he wins the nomination, does that undermine what is supposed to be his core strengths? the ability to win back the culturally moderate white suburban voters. >> this rule the rnc is requiring to require every participant in the primary debates to pledge to support the eventual nominee, i wonder how difficult that's going to be for, let's say, if liz cheney gets into the race, the potential she would say, yes, i would support donald trump or governor hutchenson who said

trump's activities around january 6th disqualified him. of course, will trump even make the pledge? >> you are putting your finger on the core irony here. many people are interpreting this rule as an attempt to put sh shackles and constrain donald trump when this rule may benefit donald trump. we all know from his history as a developer in new york, we know how much weight donald trump puts on commitments he makes and written commitments. the idea he would sign this to get on the debate stage and not find a reason to renounce it later if he thinks that's in his interest, that's ridiculous. i think everyone would expect that if trump feels he was badly treated or just doesn't like losing, if he does lose, in fact, he would find a way out of this commitment. on the other hand, this commitment might preclude from the stage soft of the voices that would make the sharpest voices against trump like liz cheney or some of the other

governors and former governors like harry hogan who are thinking about running. this is interpreted as a way to put constraints on trump. in the end, he might be the beneficiary of the rnc pushing this requirement. >> there seems to be some growing question as to whether or not there is a specific republican policy in terms of providing aid for ukraine. for the most part, democrats seem to be supporting. i would be fair, republicans, too. but we are hearing more and more prominent names continue to raise concerns about a blank check and even about the threat that vladimir putin poses. let's play this sound from desantis last week on fox news on this issue, and then you will hear how former vice president pence responded. >> the fear of kind of russia going in to nato countries and all that and steam rolling, you know, that has not even come close to happening. >> i would say anyone that thinks that vladimir putin will stop at ukraine is wrong.

>> what do you make of this growing divide and rift within the republican party over the future of aid for ukraine? >> so interesting. first of all, it is a reflection of what i was saying a moment ago, that desantis steems to hae made a calculation, he will get to his populus right on any issue where he can help it. it was surprising to a lot ofci enthusiastic about them that he moved so far in the trump direction, skepticism toward aid of ukraine, not only for the specifics but as a signal of this broader dynamic that trump may be exerting a magnetic pull on him in a way that weakens him as a candidate. but this is where the ukraine fight is going to be fought out initially. you might see it with the senate republicans being for supportive and the house republicans being more skeptical.

but the divide between mitch mccome and mike pence and nikki haley that say we have to show strength, stand up against putin and russia versus this conservative neo-trump view of marjorie taylor greene and potentially ron desantis saying, you know, this is not our fight, i think that latter group will be very loud in the house, and it will have an audience in the presidential primary. and then you will have this more traditional. that's where the fight will unfold first rather than the republican party unifying against one position where they could pressure joe biden. >> always good to have you as part of the team. nasa and spacex scrubbed today's launch of a new team of astronauts headed to the international space station. we will explain why next.

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president biden's response. but the white house is saying he's satisfied with what has been done so far and has no plans to visit the site of the catastrophe. give us the details on what republicans are intending to do right now. >> yeah. we're actually seeing a split in how house republicans and senate democrats are dealing with the aftermath of this issue. focused on the biden administration's response to this issue and what has been done, what was not done in the run-up to this and what should have been done. letters were sent to the environmental protection agency details exactly what happened here. also the possibility of hearings. the administrator of the epa potentially could appear before house controlled committee. also pete buttigieg, the transportation secretary, is someone republicans believe could be forced to receive about this matter. now, there are at least three house republican committees moving forward on this, hoping

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well, we have a tragedy to tell you about from the southern coast of italy. today a priest gave last rites on a beach to multi time bodies after a boat went down. the white bags cover just some of the 63 people who can killed, among them, a 3-month-old baby. >> police in calabria released this video of the wooden boats the people were in. it was caring 150 people before it hit rocks and tore apart. 80 people died survivor were from iran, pakistan, afghanistan and turkey. a show of support for the children impacted by turkey's deadly earthquake, hundreds of soccer fans, look at this. they threw stuffed animals on to

the field during a match in istanbul. >> game was stopped 4 minutes 24 seconds to correspond with the time that an earthquake struck southwest turkey february 26th. the toys will be sent to surviving children. and chants to protest president erdogan's government to which many believe has been slow and insufficient. on lighter news, a victorious and proud moment for victor's alma mater howard university. >> for the first time in 30 years, the men and women's dive teams were the champs. howard's team were awarded outstanding coaching staff of the year. >> 1.5% of african americans represented in college swimming there could be a lot more of representation in college swimming. with us, you know, making a statement the way we did this weekend, i feel like we can do more.

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