>> we're trying to figure out casual way. i am taking incoming fire for the vest. >> we said it with as great. very middle age. >> you said it's the minivan. >> the minivan of clothes. >> i'm following on radio. thanks, guys. >> it's a tornado. >> bill: a monster tornado decimating parts of me is miss and alabama from over the weekend killing at least 26 people along way. what a path of destruction there. tough news on monday. i'm bill hemmer in new york. dana has the day off today. sandra, thanks for being here. >> sandra: it is the one of the deadliest tornadoes to hit the state of mississippi.

nearly a mile wide and stayed on the ground for more than an hour. leaving nothing but destruction in its wake. >> bill: it touched down near rolling fork, mississippi. a town of 2,000 people. that community is wiped off the map. >> sandra: houses reduced to rubble. some ripped off their foundations. the storm had winds reaching 170 miles-per-hour. that's strong enough to send cars and power lines flying through the air. >> bill: satellite images. on the left a picture of rolling before the storm hit. on the right is what happened after ward. an elementary school, trees, homes, cars, all of them are now gone. >> sandra: leveled. a church left unrecognizable with the steeple blown off. the scope of destruction is hard to fathom even for those who lived through it. >> it was dark.

call for help. it was quiet. to hear those little kids hollering help. it's devastating. >> i look around town and i'm saying i know we can rebuild, but what do you do with the devastation? what do you do with this? >> bill: too much of that today. in amiri on the ground in mississippi is charles watson. >> good morning, bill and sandra. a lot of people here in amory have the same questions. what do you do with all the debris and devastation? three days later they are making progress in terms of cleanup. but as you can see, they still have a lot ahead of them in terms of cleanup. look at this neighborhood that we stumbled upon this morning. basically obliterated. you can see tons of trees just

down hanging onto people's roofs and on people's lawns. over here the home looks like it is split in half. workers are trying to clear debris from that structure this morning and trying to get this place back together. we have also got utility workers who apparent will i have come in from tupelo trying to upright a lot of utility polls and get the power lines back up so these folks can have power and work through this disaster a little bit better and more comfortable. when you see all this devastation, you wonder how people made it through. we've spoken to a ton of people here in town and asked them what it was like being in this powerful tornado. this is what one woman told us. >> the back door realized one of the dogs was left out. bring her is. as i bring her in my husband is like get in the tub. he gets me in that tub and is on

ton -- top of them. it was so dark and loud i was scared. i was scared for my life. >> fortunately there are no deaths reported here in amory, which is miraculous when you see the extent of the damage. they aren't out of the woods just yet. the city of amory says that there is a boil water advisory in place because the city's water department took a direct hit from that tornado. the police department in town has set up a command center where they are taking donations. we've seen tons of folks drop off water and food and just really try to do whatever they can to help their fellow man. such a tough time. you see a lot of folks in this community coming together trying to help one another. >> bill: charles, thank you. we'll be with you throughout the morning and into the afternoon and days to come, charles, thanks for that. so many times when you see

devastation like this, when the people who live there come back they look for pictures and they look for jewelry and then oftentimes they just leave. a lot of people are going through that today. >> sandra: a man we heard from a moment ago in amory talking about the destruction left behind. we know we'll rebuild but what they have in front of them now is a huge undertaking, what will be the next weeks, months, years ahead. this isn't just mississippi. there is video coming in from georgia where they declared a state of emergency there. alabama, tornadoes just ripped through. >> bill: we're listening to the governor from mississippi earlier today. he said people died on the west side of the state and east side of the state. it encompasses the width of mississippi. we have guests coming up this hour. one of the women we'll talk to describes her climbing into a bathtub two seconds before the

storm hits and those two seconds saved her life. >> sandra: so many stories like that. husband and wives dying together in each other's arms. horrific to wake up this morning and waking up to this for some time to come. >> bill: we'll be on this story throughout the day and longer. six minutes past the hour. >> sandra: the border crisis taking a deadly turn with two incidents in 24 hours. officials say they found one person dead in a texas rail yard over the weekend. they suspect human smugglers walked a group of migrants inside a cargo train a day after two migrants died inside crammed rail cars not far from the border. alexis mcadams is live in mission, texas reporting throughout the weekend from there. alexis, what's the latest on the ground? >> we're talking about those two deadly human smuggling incidents that happened hours apart in eagle pass, texas. if you look at the screen now you can see on that side of me that's a close look and a live

look at our drone team that they are seeing now in eagle pass, texas, the rail yard where both incidents are stemming from at this point. the cartel members put migrants on the train cars and locked them inside hoping they could get into murder parts of the united states. it was 100 degrees and hotter in the cars. they could not breathe or get out. look at the photos. a little closer to what we saw over the weekend. some of the pictures from the fire department at the latest incident that happened saturday afternoon. one migrant from mexico dead in the boxcar near eagle pass. 11 others were on board. 17 migrants were found trapped inside this shipping container after someone called 911 saying that several migrants were suffocating in that train you uvalde county, texas. horrible cases. two migrants have died in that case and a dozen needed medical treatment. sources tell us the migrants

boarded the train to be smuggled to different parts of the tech as. the cartels do this on a daily basis. >> mayokas, president biden, they aren't taking this border security situation seriously. unfortunately, these are the things that happen every day. people are smuggled in the back of tractor trailers, being treated in harsh conditions and it shouldn't be happening. >> no surprise another busy weekend here. fox drone team captured a group of 50 migrants crossing into south texas, a few of the more than 40,000 migrants who crossed into the u.s. at the southern border in just one week. in florida two migrants flew from cuba to the u.s. on hang gliders. they landed at a florida airport to be taken into custody by border patrol. back live in mission, texas, migrants finding different ways to get smuggled into the united states given the cartels all the money they have. the cartels don't care if they show up to the u.s. alive or

dead. one more thing to mention. the night these migrants died on friday night. the president of the united states was in canada talking about securing the northern border. people in texas say he should focus on the southern border first. >> sandra: a lot of that last week. more on the alarming rise in deadly human smuggling at the southern border with former mexican president fox here on "america's newsroom" coming up next hour. >> bill: he has a lot to say. stand by. here in new york a grand jury meets again today as it weighs a potential indictment against the former president, donald trump. house republicans calling out the manhattan d.a. alvin bragg for his refusal to testify about the investigation. andy mccarthy wrote about it over the weekend. good morning to you. saw your piece. here is your headline. alvin bragg should suspend is trump pursuit. you say bragg should stay in his lane. i guess the simple le interpret

your piece you are saying it's a misdemeanor he wants to elevate to a felony. can he or will he do it? >> yeah, the reason, bill, he needs to stay in his lane. the only way he can make it a felony is by invoking federal law that he doesn't have any jurisdiction over. while i think he is quite right to make the point that the federal congress doesn't have any oversight authority over him and that he should object to their effort to try to subpoena him to appear, at the same time he ought to be mindful of our vertical separation of powers in this country between the federal government and the state government. he doesn't have any authority to enforce federal campaign finance laws. that's only the beginning of his problems. that's a legal problem. he has also got a significant evidence problem. i don't think what -- whatever you think of what trump did here in this hush money arrangement, it is not a campaign finance

violation. and the other thing is we probably know why he did what he did, assuming there were bookkeeping curiosities, he is probably trying to keep it from his wife and keep it from the voters prior to the election, which whatever you may think of it, it doesn't make it felony campaign finance violation, which bragg doesn't have any jurisdiction over in the first place. >> bill: james comer on cnn on sunday. he said it's about politics. >> i don't believe that bragg would be doing this if donald trump were not running for president and that is something we would like to ask mr. bragg as well. would you be doing this if he weren't a declared candidate for president of the united states? if so, if this is the reason you are doing it, it is a political investigation. >> bill: i don't know what your position is on that. however, there are other investigations that could be more damaging if they come to

fruition in a legal sense january 6th, the mar-a-lago documents, right? >> yeah. look, i think comer has a point. i just think we have to be mindful of what the separation lines are between the two governments. he is entirely right that bragg is pursuing this only against trump and only for political reasons. i think it would be better to look at bragg as an elected progressive democrat than to look at him as a law enforcement official because he is not in an appointed position. he ran for office and he told people in manhattan if they gave him the office he would use his power against trump. i don't blame comer for complaining about it. if i'm a democrat watching this, obviously you look at this very weak case in manhattan and you think about the other cases that they have that the special counsel is running, for example, on the mar-a-lago documents and january 6th, and if i'm a

democrat not only watching this but somebody who cares about the rule of law, i would rather see those cases go forward than this one. >> bill: the ping-pong that went back and forth last week a lot of people were guessing -- we're guessing now -- does the grand jury return an indictment or not? >> i think right now they sound like they are having a problem with it, bill. i don't think they would bring one today. i would be very surprised if we got an indictment today. >> bill: we'll be in contact. thanks, andy, nice to see you. >> sandra: president biden slamming the brakes on a road trip to talk about his economic agenda, or talk up his economic policies as his approval rating on pocketbook issues continues to tank. the white house says the delay is a coincidence. is it? >> bill: a new poll showing people of philadelphia are fed up with rising crime.

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>> bill: president biden gearing up to tout his record on the economy as new polling shows americans are pessimistic on where things are headed. peter doocy has that story from the north lawn as he begins a new week. nice to see you, sir, good morning. >> good to see you. happy monday. we are going through the press release we got friday that said there would be an investing in

america cabinet meeting today at the white house. there is nothing like that listed on the president's schedule. unclear how involved he is or if that's still going to happen. we know that starting tomorrow cabinet officials, including the president, will start fanning out to 21 different states. you have some battlegrounds on there like michigan and nevada, ohio, pennsylvania. some blue states, california, delaware and new york, and some red. tennessee, arkansas, oklahoma, among the stops. and the white house pitch comes as americans are growing disheartened. 21% of those polled by the "wall street journal" say that life for our children's generation will be better than it has been for us. 78% do not feel confident in that. the big drag on these polls is the economy. a majority, 54%, describe the economy these days as poor. policymakers are not seen as making things much better. 47% say the state of the economy

will get worse over the course of the next year. that's more than triple the 15% who say the state of the economy will get better. the white house knows that lately when talk in the news has been about the economy, it has been about runs on the banks. they want to try to clang the subject and that starts tomorrow, bill. >> bill: we'll watch. nice to see you from the north lawn. peter doocy. >> it's total devastation. it is the wreckage like i have never seen. it is only a miracle of god that there are not hundreds of fatalities in our town and our area. it's houses leveled, houses completely destroyed. businesses. >> sandra: that's a pastor in rolling fork, mississippi finding a silver lining after a tornado ripped through the small town. the community starting to pick up the pieces.

satellite images show the scope of the devastation, it is breathtaking saying quote, there is nothing left we hear from many of the residents there. our next guest's home is in rolling fork. it was completely destroyed. they were hiding in a bathtub before the tornado swept over and were not hurt. joining us now is casey shea and parker perry. thanks so much to all of you for joining us. our hearts go out to you and your community and all you've been through. how are you doing this morning? >> sandra, we're hanging on. we are exhausted physically, emotionally. we're heartbroken for ourselves, our neighbors, for our whole community, but we are all blessed just to be here. >> we're alive. >> sandra: amen. really, your town is where this devastation began and can you sort of give us an idea of how that night unfolded for your family? it started out by hiding in a

bathtub and trying to find each other because the devastation you said was so bad you couldn't find each other or recognize your own home. >> that's correct. shay and parker had gone to a nearby town vicksburg. a friend of mine, joseph, had come over. we were in the den and joseph said casey, do you hear that? i said it was just -- it did not sound like the typical train. it was just a loud wind. he said i need to go home and check on donna, his wife. and he walked out the door, i ran. got in the bathtub. maybe had five seconds to get in the bathtub and another 20 seconds everything was gone. i didn't know that shea and parker were at home. they were in the driveway and that white truck you see panning. they survived in that white truck. i survived in the bathtub.

after everything was over, joseph had gotten trapped in our car port. shea and parker were trying to find me. i kept swimming that i was in the bathroom. didn't know where parker's bathroom was. >> parker, so difficult for all of you. we are so glad you're okay. 12 years old. how are you doing? and what has all of this been like for you, parker? >> it was pretty scary but i think i'm fine. >> sandra: of course you are. you have your parents on either side of you and you are so strong. you will have so many stories to tell for quite some time and be stronger for it. dad, this was incredibly difficult on you trying to find members of your own family and you have family next door, a brother and sister-in-law. once you accounted for yourselves you went looking for other family members. what has it been like for you?

>> i don't know how to explain it. parker and i pulled in the driveway and it was instantly as i put the truck in park it hit. i didn't have a clue a tornado was coming. like casey said, it seemed like seconds later it was over and when i pulled in i was looking at our house and ten seconds later the truck is completely turned around and smashed up against everything and we get out and look around and there is nothing left. you know, i just -- you assume the worst because there was nothing there. i could hear her screaming and hollering. i can't find her. it is just panic because she is like i'm here in parker's bathroom. i can't find parker's bathroom. next thing i know joe is walking through and he is disoriented and he is trying to get out to go help his wife, donna.

and then i hear my brother screaming. it was just -- it was a lot just in one moment trying to think back on it. that we made it through and we're alive. >> sandra: and you have each other. now what? you pick up the pieces and, you know, as we have seen so many times with such great levels of destruction, these towns rebuild. what do you see the next few weeks, months, what does it look like for you and your family? >> just even an hour after the storm, people were coming to our rescue. the resilience of this town is amazing. neighbors helping neighbors. people that we have no idea who they are showing up helping out. we're trying to help other people. other people coming to our rescue. and the number of people that

are in town to help is unbelievable. i've never seen anything like it. our church was pretty much unharmed. we were able to have worship sunday morning. probably one of the most powerful worship services we've ever attended. god has a plan in all of this. we don't know what it is. he saved our lives and saved the lives of our families. others were not so lucky. so we know that he has a plan in all of this and we are going to wait and see what he does with it. >> sandra: parker, will you help out your parents there? you look strong and help them through this, right? >> like casey said, just if you were at the houseworking, it is every few minutes somebody is coming by do you need food, help, bring equipment down to help you. it is a constant of people from not only across the nation, it

is amazing. >> sandra: god bless all of you and you are a wonderful family and we wish you the absolute best, you and your community and your families. >> thank you, sandra, for having us. >> sandra: thank you. >> we have to work with china. we have to work with india and we have to find a way ultimately if we can resolve the war in ukraine to work with russia. russia is a huge emitter. >> bill: john kerry's plan. work with beijing and moscow on climate issues. marc thiessen will take that on in a moment. taylor swift fans heading to court. can they win the battle over tickets to see their gal? can help your business get a payroll tax refund, even if you got ppp and it only takes eight minutes to qualify. i went on their website, uploaded everything, and i was blown away by what they could do. getrefunds.com has helped businesses get over a billion dollars and we can help your business too.

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>> bill: fox news alert. major banking deal, first citizens striking a deal to take over the deposits at silicon valley bank after svb's stunning collapse earlier in the month. the biggest bank failure since 2008 sent shock waves through

the markets. we're in a rough and tumble stock market world. at the moment we are higher at the open, almost 300 points. take that. >> sandra: there has been a lot of uncertainty. you were gone last week. the dow still at 32,500 and hanging in there. the market is not telling us that there is impending doom for the banking system. not yet at least. >> bill: that's right. hanging on with everything thread. "wall street journal" says climate for failed bank regulation, writes one question that deserves probing is whether misplaced priorities of the san francisco federal reserve bank caused it to overlook financial risk hiding in plain sight because they were fulfilling the san francisco fed social and climate agenda. to be continued. a combination of poor oversight and bad management at the bank and you are 0 for two at silicon

valley bank. >> sandra: it brings up a lot of questions and shareholders want to know. if sows are making the right decisions for shareholders or for the betterment of climate. they need to be honoring shareholders' risks and rewards the most. >> bill: job one. it should be. check this out. >> our president has tried hard to separate climate from the other issues that are real that we obviously have with china. we can't get bogged down by that because this is a universally-felt challenge to the planet and it is important that the two largest economies in the world work to try to resolve it. >> sandra: climate czar john kerry encouraging collaboration with china and russia despite rising tensions with our two biggest rivals on the world stage. let's bring in marc thiessen, fox news contributor. i can't imagine he has anything

to say about this. listen to john kerry. he says separate all the bad stuff these guys are doing, we need to work with them on climate. i mean, what is your reaction to that, marc? >> my reaction is thank god for george w. bush who defeated nipple 2004. there but for the grace of god goes the president of the united states. think about this. china unleashed a virus that killed over a million americans. they are stealing our intellectual property. committing genocide against the uighurs, crushing freedom in hong kong, threatening taiwan, they are in -- launched a no limits partnership with russia, the largest land invasion of a foreign country in europe since world war ii and john kerry says we can't get bogged down by all that because we need to work on climate change? if you wanted evidence that climate obsession is a mental disorder, you could have no better evidence than john kerry's interview he gave.

we can't get bogged down with war and genocide because we have to save the planet. give me a break. >> sandra: what message does this send to china and russia? >> the message it sends is you have to get out of jail free card. you have something that john kerry and joe biden want, a climate deal. so we're not going to get bogged down in all these other things. we want to get that climate deal. they can dangle a climate deal in front of john kerry and the most gullible man in washington who cut the iran nuclear deal with certainly sign a deal with beijing on climate and sweep all the troubling issues like genocide and war and everything under the carpet. >> sandra: here we are making major financial risks when it comes to our banking system, when it comes to our federal reserve, and here we are you can put it up. the greenhouse gas emissions totaled by china, 27%, united

states less than half that, 11%. e.u.7, russia four, brazil free, the rest of the world 36%. why are being so hard on ourselves here at home, marc, and not going harder on china? >> we should be going harder on china. the reality. climate change is real but not an existential threat to humanity. humanity can adapt and build levies and we can mitigate the effects of climate change. cl climate change won't destroy the world but what could is a third world war with klchina and russ. he has his priorities all wrong and this administration has its priorities all wrong. >> sandra: amazing to hear that interview with john kerry. thank you for joining us this morning. >> bill: taylor swift is back in

arenas, nationwide. some of her fans are heading for the judge in court gearing up for the first hearing in the lawsuit against ticket matter after last november's concert ticket fiasco. william la jeunesse is live on the story in l.a. >> the hottest ticket in town is one almost nobody can afford, right? cheap seats forte lore swift concert 400 to 500 in the upper deck, $3 thousand for the floor. fans are blaming not the singer or soaring demand but ticketmaster and live nation. today's hearing is more about scheduling than the merits in the case. but the argument is this, ticketmaster is a price-gouging monopoly that controls ticket sales, secondary market and not doing enough to stop the bots and scalpers from scooping up all the tickets. the suit claims that thousands of fans who pre-registered waited 8, 10, 12 hours on the phone online and got no tickets

while scalpers and preferred customers with capital one credit cards did. some in congress accused ticketmaster of abusing their monopoly power. the ceo apologized for handling the swift concert release blaming a cyberattack for shutting down their system. >> we apologize to the fans, we apologize to ms. swift. we need to do better and we will do better. >> lawyers for the fans argue that live nation's power in the entertainment industry extends far beyond making tickets inaccessible through exorbitant fees and website failures. their monopoly impacts the safety of fans, ability of smaller businesses to compete. waste taxpayer money and control over artist's careers. it is hard to unwind this thing because ticketmaster has exclusive deals with the best concert venues and stadiums who

get a cut of the fees so singers who may want a different venue can't. the best ones are all taken so they have to use ticketmaster. >> bill: got it. see what the judge has to say today. whether or not we get a decision. could be some time. thank you in los angeles for that. >> sandra: her fans will have to shake it off. >> bill: that's hard to do for him, right? >> sandra: he just got it. >> bill: he plays on every pun possible. well oh he see how it goes with taylor swift. >> sandra: we continue to monitor these disturbing new images in from afghanistan. it shows lines upon lines of american military equipment left behind to the taliban after the botched withdrawal. it is stunning. and cleanup continues in mississippi after monster tornadoes flattened entire communities there. we'll take you there live on the

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>> sandra: the taliban released photos of the u.s. military equipment they seized in august of 2021 restoring as many as 300 destroyed military vehicles. meantime house foreign affairs committee chair michael mccaul says antony blinken to case a subpoena today if he refuses to turn off classified documents on the withdrawal. >> i care about the veterans and gold star mothers and who had a suicide bomber in his sights and wasn't given permission to engage. that's what i care about and why

if they don't deliver by monday close of business, i will serve that subpoena. >> sandra: this was the worry. >> bill: two things, the pictures from over the weekend turn your stomach to think about how much equipment was left behind, very little effort to get it out of there. the second thing is the parents who have now been -- now they know a guy had shoot to kill order told not to take the shot. and they will join us in a little bit here. >> sandra: more on this ahead with the parents of marine corps staff sergeant hoover, one of the 13 american service members killed in the airport bombing in kabul in august of 2021 coming up in the next hour. >> bill: a tough loss there. less than two months from now before philadelphia elects a new mayor and votes on all 17 city council members seeking re-election. the off-year ballot comes as crime rises and recent polls show almost 2/3 of voters say

philly is seriously on the wrong track. a small business owner and a philly voter and a phillies fan. good morning. brandon, tell me what has gone so wrong in your town. >> first of all, brandon, be mcfly stands for be motivated comes from loving yourself, hello, right? i am the top motivator in the world and your sober messenger and sober for five years. one of the problems is this, right? as a community leader and front liner activist, sober messageer, motivator, i have been in two incidents. none of these guys reached out yet. how can you say that you are for the community and not reaching out to those who have been hurt representing the community? front line in the community? i got robbed at gun point by two guys september in 2023. nobody reached out. hello.

okay? i survived an assassination january 31st of this year. nobody reached out. hello. that's one of the problems right there, okay? these teachers need to get paid more. i speak on public school to prison pipeline. there are students that are going to the next grade level but haven't seen a teacher all year. hello, okay? as a matter of fact, i was teaching in the youth study center. shout out to michael scott bringing programs in. i was one of the first programs he brought in. those young men and women stated that they were on drugs when they were committing the crime and they were on drugs when they got locked up and there are more than just weed and liquor. they are on hard drugs. >> bill: drug addiction and public education are your two big issues there. put the numbers up. robbery and gun issues up 20%. burglary and commercial issues

up 40%. theft from cars up 32%. terrance you have lived in west philly all your life. 25 years in business there you run a t-shirt shop. congratulations on that. why do you think that city has failed so significantly, terrence? >> thanks, bill. before i begin first i have to say to all those that are fasting during ramadan. i feel as though we need leadership that is unapologetically committed to uplifting and empowering the weak links we have in our communities. one of those links bringing the focus on is education. you have 57% of the current philadelphia -- 52% of adults

functionally illiterate and 67% are low literal. 40% of adult people in philadelphia struggling to fill out job applications and -- >> bill: that's a failing population. you have an election coming up in mid-may. you haven't had a republican as mayor in philadelphia in 71 years. hum. >> i'm not really sure if it's a political, democrat or republican situation. more if we put aside the politics and try to unite and focus on what the problems are, which is crime, education, i think increase in programs to get these kids the option to be able to empower themselves. i think the average kid in

philadelphia we would prefer to have other options but if you combine poverty and low education, then the result is going to be violence or crime. i think in any city where you have that combination. >> bill: i think you have the right message. may 16th is the vote. we'll watch it from here. terrence and brandon, i think your message is right on. good luck to both of you men. i know you want to do well for your people in your community. thank you, guys. we'll talk as we get closer to the vote. thank you. >> sandra: bipartisan agreement on the hill. more lawmakers support a nationwide tiktok ban. how that stands in congress and who is not on board. customizes your home insurance, here's a little number you'll never forget. did you know that liberty mutual custo— ♪ liberty mutual. ♪

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>> sandra: lawmakers on both

sides of the aisle seem united with opposition for tiktok many calling for a nationwide ban. not everyone on the hill is on board. grady trimble is live on the hill at this hour. who is not on board? >> that would be progressive congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez. more on that in a second. over the weekend house speaker kevin mccarthy tweeted it is concerning the ceo of tiktok can't be honest and admit what we already know to be true, china has access to tiktok user data. house will be moving forward with legislation to protect americans from the technological tentacles of the chinese communist party. as we mentioned aoc not on board. she made her first-ever tiktok this weekend expressing her support for the app. she didn't mention that tiktok's chinese parent company bytedance funneled a 6 million contribution aligned with the hispanic caucus of which she is a member.

lawmakers with serious concerns about the app aren't sure if an outright ban is the right move. >> ceo when asked questions about the parent company of tiktok bytedance was cagey in his answers and should give everyone pause. the ultimate question is what do we do moving forward? is it an all-out ban, forced sale? we have to make sure we are protecting in particular young people who rely more and more on tiktok to get their news. >> even some republicans don't want to ban the app. they want more comprehensive data privacy law applying to tiktok but other media companies. >> sandra: interesting stuff. grady, thank you. >> bill: that's terrifying video we're showing the moment a twister ripped through a high school in mississippi. severe weather warnings across the south today after massive tornadoes and powerful storms