star stormy daniels. michael cohen, a key witness in the investigation, sat down with cbs news this weekend and said the case is about more than his >> yes, i lied to congress. at the direction of, in coordination with, and for the benefit of donald j. trump. and if there's anyone out there that thinks that that lie is going to prevent me from being the credible witness that i am based on the documentation, the testimony, the e-mails, the recording, it's not going to happen. >> reporter: new york remains on high alert ahead of tuesday's arraignment at a manhattan courthouse. cbs news legal analyst ricki klieman. >> he will be given a booking number. at the time he receives that booking number he is officially, quote unquote, under arrest. >> hopefully this will be as painless and classy as possible for a situation like this. >> reporter: most republicans are offering trump support, including florida governor ron desantis, who slammed manhattan district attorney alvin bragg. >> this guy is doing politics. he has an agenda. that is not the rule of law.

>> robert costa joins me. you've been speaking to a number of politicians. how do these criminal charges affect trump's presidential campaign? >> reporter: many republicans publicly are expressing outrage about the indictment but privately there's a lot of political calculation going on with donors and elected officials wondering if trump is now increasingly vulnerable in the 2024 republican race. some donors told cbs news today that they're thinking about recruiting some new namds to jump in. one target, virginia governor glenn youngkin. >> robert costa for us in new york city. thank you. now to the weather. today more dangerous storms are forecast for a wide swath of the south and midwest. large areas of both are already in ruins from a violent system that fueled torrents in at least eight states, causing multiple deaths. cbs's omar villafranca is in hard-hit wynne, arkansas about 100 miles west of memphis. omar, good evening. >> reporter: good evening.

cars, homes, even schools were damaged by this deadly storm. and check this out. this is part of a high school stadium's speaker system. that stadium is about a quarter mile away. this system raked across the region and left a multistate path of destruction. weekend storms dropped more than 50 tornadoes in the south and midwest. this giant funnel cloud was recorded ripping through north little rock on friday. in wynne, arkansas people spent palm sunday cleaning up debris after a tornado hammered the small town 100 miles west of memphis. the only way into curtis mcnelly's house is through a blown-out window. >> so whose bedroom is this? >> this is my son. >> reporter: a powerful tornado destroyed his home. >> we are all hunkered down. >> reporter: but he survived with his wife, two kids and mother-in-law by hiding out in this hallway. >> my daughter, we told her to keep her head down, but she

don't listen. and she told me she thought we were in heaven with the angels. >> she thought it was over. >> she thought it was done. for a while i did too. >> reporter: more than a d peop are dead sct tdo roared through several counties on friday. the same system killed one person in belvidere, illinois when the roof of a packed concert hall collapsed with 200 people inside. in ohio powerful winds knocked a tree down onto a house, killing a 13-year-old. >> this is crazy. >> reporter: and in delaware one person was killed when a tornado touched down in sussex county. back in wynne there won't be monday classes at the local high school. >> when i walked out yesterday, i didn't realize that would be the last time i would teach in this classroom. >> reporter: teachers and students are praising the wynne school superintendent because the superintendent allowed students to get out early and

get away from the path of the storm. many people here are saying that saved lives. jericka? >> omar villafranca for us. thank you. well, today christians around the world marked the start of holy week. at the vatican pope francis presided over palm sunday mass, marking the start of a holy week and the end to a sudden health scare. here's cbs's chris livesay. >> reporter: palm sunday, a week before easter, and pope francis is back on his feet. "i too need jesus to caress me,n his homily in st. peter's square. the last time we saw him here was wednesday, before the 86-year-old was rushed to rome's giamelli hospital for trouble breathing. it was bronchitis, and by friday he was already well enough to

baptize a baby in the same hospital. miguel angel, just a few weeks old. and on his way out the next morning he signed a boy's cast and embraced the distraught youn en he feeling, he quipped -- "it seems like i'm still alive." today in st. peter's he did struggle through a nagging cough and hoarse voice as he read the homily. and he had help from a cardinal during altar duties. nothing new since he began suffering from knee pain last year. you can feel a collective sigh of relief amongst the thousands of faithful here. their prayers answered to hear their upontive speaking in st. peter's square and not lying in a hospital bed. >> reporter: shelly is visiting from phoenix. >> you seem moved. >> i am. very moved. it's very spiritual. you don't realize how it makes

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>> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." i'm jericka duncan in new york. thanks for staying with us. former president donald trump is set to arrive here in new york city. he is expected to be arraigned tomorrow in a manhattan criminal court. sources say he'll be charged with more than two dozen crimes related to hush money payments made to a former adult film actress right before the 2016 election. well, mr. trump will become the first former president in u.s. history to be fingerprinted and have his mugshot taken. it's unclear right now if trump

will be handcuffed during his arraignment. but the nypd is bracing for possible protests. 35,000 new york city police officers will be on duty in uniform on tuesday. robert costa has more. >> reporter: what do you expect? >> mayhem. i expect complete and total mayhem. >> reporter: former trump lawyer michael cohen will along with all of us see something surreal this week. a former president arriving at manhattan criminal courthouse to take a mugshot and be fingerprinted, all as protesters gather outside. >> this is his worst fear. being mugshotted, fingerprinted, being referred to as a felon. >> reporter: trump keeps projecting confidence, but you sense fear. >> oh, yes. not fear. he's petrified. >> reporter: during trump's 2016 campaign cohen made hush money payments to adult film star stormy daniels to keep daniels from going public about an alleged affair with trump.

seven years later the alleged falsified records of those payments and trump's role are at the center of trump's indictment. cohen, who has served a prison sentence for trump-related crimes including the payments to daniels, is the key witness in the case that has sparked a firestorm. michael, if you met someone in an elevator and they said hey, michael, i'm not sure i should take your word on all of this because republicans have attacked your credibility, what would you tell them? >> i'm not asking you to take my -- to take me for my credibility. let the documents and the evidence speak for itself. >> 11 million pages of documents. i built a great company. they've got nothing. they've got nothing. think of it. >> reporter: trump has been busy speaking for himself as he once again runs for president. >> our opponents have done everything they can to crush our spirit and to break our will. but they've failed. they've only made us stronger.

>> reporter: trump's lawyer in the new york case, joe tacopina, tells cbs news that his client has done nothing wrong and sharply criticized cohen's credibility. cbs news legal analyst ric iema s ys, i s it's not so much the crim up of thr:orlis believe it ll be an open and shut case. >> the district attorney alvin bragg has a very tough road ahead. where alvin bragg has issues is going to be with the court. you're going to have a judge who is going to have to rule on the legality of this case going forward. this is not going to be a simple case. >> reporter: and don't forget, she says, this is just one of several ongoing investigations of the former president, including a special counsel probe of trump's conduct around january 6. >> donald trump has some very

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tonight when the university of connecticut takes on the cinderella team from san diego state. it will be a bittersweet night for announcer jim nantz. he'll be calling his final college basketball game after being the voice of the final four for, get this, 37 tournaments. >> take camera 10.more on that >> hello. jim nantz. >> reporter: after more than four decades in college basketball. >> what a feeling this is here tonight. >> reporter: revered cbs sports broadcaster jim nantz -- >> for the win! oh! >> reporter: -- says he's ready to give up the best seat in the house. >> he'd better hurry. puts up the shot. and he hits it! >> reporter: his enviable run ending in the city that sparked it all. >> houston represents everything to me. the city gave me my shot. and i wanted to be able to exit

stage right from the same city that launched my career. >> reporter: home to a team that launched his love of college basketball. >> the first basketball game i ever attended was on december 31st, 1968. my father would take his 8-year-old boy to go see houston play a game. and houston won that game. with no idea that years down the road i'd be living out my dreams through that basketball program. >> reporter: we had a chance to reflect on it all before his final ncaa tournament began. jim telling me he first dreamt of a career in sports broadcasting at age 11. >> that was when i first became entranced by listening to these voices of my youth. >> reporter: who were the voices? >> afternoon. i'm pat summerall. >> it was pat summerall. >> touchdown giants. jack whitaker. >> jack whitaker. >> several of the biggest names in baseball remain unsigned. , curt theyere gnto., dick

jueth. obsessed over it. >> good week for houston this past week with two big wins. >> reporter: his first chance came at the university of houston as the basketball team's p.a. announcer. introducing the cougars line-up. he'd also host a coach's show and eventually cover the team. >> the university of houston basketball team opens their 1981-82 season tonight. >> reporter: that team had which players? >> well, it was the embryonic stages of phi slamma jamma. a very special time. >> there's the steal. >> that would be hakeem olajuwon. that would be michael young. >> there's drexler! >> and that would be clyde "the glide" drexler. and i gave him his nickname, la to. carlyle on the follow.

and duke has done it. >> reporter: his first ncaa tournament game would come in march of 1986. duke against old dominion. >> i'm jim nantz aalong with bill raftery -- >> my partner on the air was bill raftery. now all these years later i'm going to call my last game. and along with grant hill bill raftery will be sitting right there by our side. so it's all come full circle. >> reporter: jim will fb, having called 354 ncaa tournament games. a part of 37 final fours, crowning a record 32 champions. >> chalmers for the tie. got it with ten seconds! unbelievable! >> reporter: his voice the soundtrack for so many iconic march madness moments. >> this is the point where he always hits it! >> reporter: and the players behind them. >> i've always had this thought. that tape of their game is going

to be watched by them years down the road. and someday they're going to show it to their grandchildren and say you know what, grandpa played in the ncaa tournament once. i have the tape right here. listen to what they said about me then. i want to represent them. their kids. this is an important part of it thea tournt jerome gives it . far side. hunter! hits the three to tie it! >> reporter: as for the moments he remembers most? >> the chris jenkins shot for villanova in 2016 to beat north carolina at the buzzer. >> jenkins. >> gives it to jenkins. for the championship. yeah! >> it was rewarding and fulfilling because i was calling it in perfect symmetry with grant and raft. you've got the shot that nearly dropped, gordon hayward. >> it's hayward pulling it down. getting it around. zubac. at midcourt. launches the shot. oh! >> it was probably an inch too

far. >> would have been unreal. >> it would have been the greatest finish in the history of the tournament and arguably the greatest sports finish of anything all-time. >> reporter: and seeing as we were on a basketball court, jim even tried to recreate the moment. >> here we are, 13 years later. gordon hayward. you know there's no chance i can get it that far, right? i'm going to give it everything i have. here it goes. here's the shot! wow. >> jim, that was close. >> that was on line, wasn't i? >> that was on line and that was pretty close. >> reporter: of course the call that jim may be forever known for is one uttered before the ball is even tipped. >> hello, friends. >> hello, friends. >> hello, friends. >> reporter: the same words he's used to welcome audiences for more than two decades. >> hello, friends. >> reporter: inspired by his dad. who jim lost to alzheimer's in 2008. >> it's actually 100% rooted in a son loving and aadoring his father. i said dad, this weekend i'm

going to look into that lens and i'm going to say "hello, friends. jim nantz here. and that hello friends is for you because you have nothing but friends." i walked out of his room. probably within minutes he'd already forgotten it, to be honest. now, dad has been gone a long time, but it stays. and i'll tell you why. i feel like i'm talking to him. i want to look into that lens, and i want to see for just a flicker of a second, i want to think about my dad, who supported me and believed in me and made all these dreams feel like they were attainable. >> reporter: dreams his mom continued to see jim realize up until her death back in october. his parents forever a part of his motivation to achieve. > they lived every single second of little jimmy's dream. and all i've ever wanted to do my whole life has been pre predicated on one thing. make my parents proud.

>> that again was dana jacobsen with jim nantz. you can watch the ncaa championship game tonight right here on cbs or stream it on paramount plus starting at 9:00 p.m. eastern. the "overnight news" is back in two minutes.

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others. >> reporter: douglas morgan has long tackled barriers and broken through, becoming the first black city attorney in nevada. and in the male-dominated casino industry chairing the gaming control board. the first. doing it all got her there. >> i think we know as moms you can pack a diaper bag, pack a lunch, have everything planned and something is not going to go as planned. and i think those kind of skills definitely transfer into running a sports team or running an organization. >> reporter: douglas morgan says she's proud to be a role model but it's not enough. >> success for me would not be being the first black female president of an nfl team and there not being any others for the next 10 to 15 years. it's really truly being able to open doors, to allow other people to have the same opportunities and a seat at the table. >> but you will soon have people who say it's because of you. >> that would be a tremendous blessing. >> reporter: danya bacchus, cbs news, las vegas. and that is the "overnight news" for this monday. for some of you the news continues. for others make sure you check

back later for "cbs mornings" and follow us online anytime at center in new york city, i'm jericka duncan. this is "cbs news flash." i'm matt pieper in new york. get ready for pain at the gas pump. saudi arabia, along with other major oil producers, says it is cutting production rates. the cuts of about a million barrels per day will start in may and last through the year. nasa will announce the next astronauts to go to the moon today. the first since the apollo 17 mission in 1972. three americans and one canadian will make up the crew of artemis 2. a ten-day mission to the moon and back that will take place no earlier than november of next year. and lsu wins its first

women's basketball national championship, defeating iowa by a score of 102-85. uconn takes on san diego state in the men's final tonight. for more download the cbs news app on your cell phone or connected i'm matt pieper, cbs news, new york. an unprecedented week for the american presidency. an historic first.a foer presid his arraignment on criminal charges. >> you have not heard a single trump defender stand up and say oh, that's not the donald trump i know. >> the latest on donald trump's return to new york, his legal fight, and the politics of the moment. >> unbelievable. also, path of destruction. multiple deaths in several states after that violent tornado outbreak. >> i'm omar villafranca in wynne, arkansas. we'll show you how a family of five survived a violent tornado even after their home was

destroyed. >> and there's a new weather threat in the forecast. in nashville final respects for 9-year-old will kinney, one of six murdered in last week's school shooting. >> they're coming. they're coming. >> cbs's mark strassmann is there. >> reporter: so much indiscritea uny polarized by wto plus, pope francis returns to the vatican, just in time for holy week. >> i'm chris livesay in st. peter's square where pope francis is celebrating palm sunday mass after making a swift recovery. and later, triumph and heartbreak. there's no stopping march madness, even though the calendar says it's april. >> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." good evening and thank you for joining us. tonight new york city is bracing for what could be two tumultuous days.

on monday former president donald trump is expected to fly from florida to new york. then on tuesday he will be formally arraigned on criminal charges in a historic indictment that remains under seal. today in west palm beach mr. trump gave a thumbs up and waved to supporters from inside his suv as he left his golf club. he has not appeared before cameras to address his indictment, but that is expected to change soon. cbs's robert costa is outside trump tower in manhattan. robert, good evening to you. how do things look right now? >> reporter: good evening, jericka. new york remains on high alert ahead of former president trump's return to this city on monday. he will be here at trump tower ahead of his arraignment on tuesday. then later tuesday fly back to florida, where he plans to speak with reporters at mar-a-lago. >> he's gearing up for a battle. >> reporter: former president trump's lawyer joe tacopina vowing an aggressive legal strategy ahead of tuesday's arraignment. >> the team will look at

every -- every potential issue that we will be able to challenge and we will challenge. and of course i very much anticipate a motion to dismiss coming because there's no law that fits this. >> reporter: the charges remain under seal but a source familiar with the indictment tells cbs news that former president trump will likely be charged with falsifying business records in the first degree, a felony stemming from alleged hush money paid to adult film star stormy daniels. michael cohen, a key witness in the investigation, sat down with cbs news this weekend and said the case is about more than his testimony. >> yes, i lied to congress. at the direction of, in coordination with, and for the benefit of donald j. trump. and if there's anyone out there that thinks that that lie is going to prevent me from being the credible witness that i am bsed on the documentation, the testimony, the e-mails, the recording, it's not going to happen. >> reporter: new york remains on high alert ahead of tuesday's arraignment at a manhattan courthouse.

cbs news legal analyst ricki klieman. >> he will be given a booking number. at the time that he receives that booking number he is officially, quote unquote, under arrest. >> hopefully this will be as painless and classy as possible for a situation like this. >> reporter: most republicans are offering trump support including florida governor ron desantis, who slammed manhattan district attorney alvin bragg. >> this guy is doing politics. he has an agenda. that is not the rule of law. >> robert costa joins me now. i know you've been speaking to a number of politicians. how do these criminal charges affect trump's presidential campaign? >> reporter: many republicans publicly are expressing outrage about the indictment, but privately there's a lot of political calculation going on with donors and elected officials wondering if trump is now increasingly vulnerable in the 2024 republican race. some donors told cbs news today that they're thinking about recruiting some new names to jump in. one target, virginia governor glenn youngkin. >> robert costa for us in new york city. thank you. now to the weather.

today more dangerous storms are forecast for a wide swath of the south and midwest. large areas of both are already in ruins from a violent system that fueled tornadoes in at least eight states, causing multiple deaths. cbs's omar villafranca is in hard-hit wynne, arkansas about 100 miles west of memphis. omar, good evening. >> reporter: good evening. cars, homes, even schools were damaged by this deadly storm. and check this out. this is part of a high school stadium speaker system. well, that stadium is about a quarter mile away. this system raked across the region and left a multistate path of destruction. weekend storms dropped more than 50 tornadoes in the south and midwest. this giant funnel cloud was recorded ripping through north little rock on friday. in wynne, arkansas people spent palm sunday cleaning up debris after a atornado hammered the

small town 100 miles west of memphis. the only way into curtis mcnelly's house is through a blown-out window. >> so whose bedroom is this? >> this is my son. >> reporter: a powerful tornado destrohi. >> we are all hunkered down. >> reporter: but he survived with his wife, two kids and mother-in-law by hiding out in this hallway. more than a dozen people are suh several counties on friday. the same system killed one person in belvidere, illinois when the roof of a packed concert hall collapsed with 200 people inside. in ohio powerful winds knocked a tree down onto a house, killing a 13-year-old. >> this is crazy. >> reporter: and in delaware one person was killed when a tornado touched down in sussex county. back in wynne, there won't be monday classes at the local high school. >> when i walked out yesterday, i didn't realize that would be

the last time i would teach in this classroom. >> reporter: teachers and students are praising the wynne school superintendent because the superintendent allowed students to get out early and get away from the path of the storm. many people here are saying that saved lives. jericka? >> omar villafranca for us. thank you. well, a new weather threat is already on the move. let's bring in meteorologist at the weather channel with more on that. good evening. >> good evening, jericka. we're still tracking severe weather right now. the risk of damaging winds and tornadoes, even including the fort worth and dallas area, all evening long. then our next severe maker is actually dumping snow right now across the west. mid-winter conditions across the wasatch moving to the rockies, the northern rockies, and it breaks out toward the plains. could bring us record-setting snow in duluth, maybe even minneapolis as well. but maybe a foot to maybe a foot and a half, the higher elevations we go. but this same system, it's not just a snowmaker. it's going to set up the atmosphere to bring enough energy and shear or winds to give us more tornadoes.

so four days after our latest tornado outbreak we could have some of the same real estate deal with yet another tornado outbreak coming up this tuesday. jericka? >> some areas just can't catch a break. thank you, paul. >> the "cbs overnight n

>> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." well, today christians around the world mark the start of holy week. at the vatican pope francis presided over palm sunday mass,

marking the start of a holy week and the end to a sudden health scare. here's cbs's chris livesay. >> reporter: palm sunday, a week before easter, and pope francis is back on his feet. [ speaking non-english ] "i too need jesus to caress me, to come close to me," he said in his homily in st. peter's square. the last time we saw him here was wednesday before the 86-year-old was rushed to rome's gemelli hospital for trouble breathing. it was bronchitis. and by friday he was already well enough to baptize a baby in the same hospital. miguel angel, just a few weeks old. and on his way out the next morning he signed a boy's cast and embraced the distraught young parents of the daughter they lost overnight. when asked how he was feeling, he quipped, "it seems like i'm still alive."

today in st. peter's he did struggle through a nagging cough and hoarse voice as he read the homily. and he had help from a cardinal during altar duties. nothing new since he began suffering from knee pain last year. you can feel a collective sigh of relief amongst the thousands of faithful here. their prayers answered to hear their pontiff speaking in st. peter's square and not lying in a hospital bed. shelly is visiting from phoenix. you seem moved. >> i am. very moved. it's very spiritual. you don't realize how it makes you feel. >> reporter: while some pundits feared this latest illness could mark the end of his papacy, he's now back on schedule for events leading up to easter and beyond. chris livesay, cbs news, rome. well, now to nashville,

the site of last week's deadly school shooting. today a funeral was held for the fourth of six people killed. grieving family and friends remembered 9-year-old william kinney as someone looking forward to playing baseball this season and for being quick to laugh and always inclusive of others. cbs's mark strassmann is in nashville. >> please hurry. >> they're coming. they're coming. >> reporter: nashville's school massacre. another muzzle flashpoint about guns in america. six people killed, three of them 9 years old. >> these large mass public shootings, they represent about 1% of gun violence nationwide. >> reporter: michael anestis runs new jersey's non-partisan gun research center, one of its inescapable conclusions -- >> where there's more firearms there's more firearm injury and death. >> reporter: america has about 400 million guns in private hands. gun violence like heart disease or opioids qualifies as a public health crisis.

during the covid pandemic the u.s.earms micidee on average gun vioe more than 100 americans a day. just as unsettling, guns are now the number one cause of death among children. >> every shooting has this vast ripple effect that affects so many more people and tears apart families and communities. >> reporter: nashville is now one of those communities. like parkland, like buffalo, like uvalde. so much indiscriminate carnage in a country polarized by what to do about it. >> save our kids! save our kids! >> reporter: thousands of tennesseans last week demanded state lawmakers limit access to guns. unlikely in a state where gun rights are expanding. at the federal level -- >> it's not just legislation that solves these problems. >> reporter: it's paralysis. >> i have gone the full extent of my executive authority to do on my own anything about guns.

>> reporter: nashville's shooting sparked this congressional dust-up between democrat jamaal bowman and republican thomas massey. >> are you listening to what i'm saying? >> yeah. calm down. >> calm down? children are dying! 9-year-old children! >> reporter: nashville's grief is still raw. weekend memorial services for evelyn dieckhaus, hallie scruggs, and william kinney. >> reducing gun violence should be the number one priority for our country. anything less, we are failing our children. >> reporter: mark strassmann, cbs news, nashville. straight ahead, china flexes its muscle and money in cambodia as it carves a path of global influence. and fitting finale. the underdogs and top dogs taking a shot at march madness glory.

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finally tonight, the lady tigers are the new queens of the court. today lsu women's basketball team won the national championship against iowa 102-85. from bracket busters to buzzer beaters, march madness has lived up to the hype. so now we're down to just one more game in this remarkable run. cbs's elise preston takes us to the court. >> reporter: crazy, chaotic and all number one seeds knocked out. if there's anything this march madness tournament has shown us, anything can happen at the big dance.

san diego state's men's team clinched their first ticket ever to the title game. when aztecs guard lamont butler sank this buzzer beater saturday. stunning florida atlantic university and basketball fans everywhere. >> pull-up, man. i'm just glad it went in. we're going to the national championship. >> reporter: the cinderella aztecs will face powerhouse university of connecticut monday in houston. the huskies, who cruised to the championship game by outscoring their opponents by an average of 20 points, are chasing their fifth title. >> johnson gives lsu the lead! >> reporter: for the women a first national championship for louisiana state university. >> here's clark. a deep one. >> reporter: the tournament has been a shot to stardom for hawkeyes standout caitlin clark, the first player to score a 40-point triple-double in ncaa tournament history. for the lsu tigers angel reese is their go-to player. she already owns a conference

record for scoring 33 double-doubles. this march madness bringing twists and turns as basketball enthusiasts await that one shining moment. elise preston, cbs news. and that is the "overnight news" for this monday. reporting from the cbs broadcast center in new york city, i'm jericka duncan. ♪ this is "cbs news flash." i'm matt pieper in new york. get ready for pain at the gas pump. saudi arabia, along with other major oil producers, says it is cutting production rates. the cuts of about a million barrels per day will start in may and last through the year. nasa will aannounce the next astronauts to go to the moon today. the first since the apollo 17 mission in 1972. three americans and one canadian will make up the crew of artemis ii, a ten-day mission to the moon and back that will take place no earlier than november of next year. and lsu wins its first women's basketball national

championship, defeating iowa by a score of 102-85. uconn takes on san diego state in the men's final tonight. for more download the cbs news app on your cell phone or connected tv. i'm matt pieper, cbs news, new york. it's monday, april 3rd, 2023. this is the "cbs morning news." preparing for court. former president trump will be arraigned this week on criminal charges. his new comments overnight about his upcoming hearing. damage and destruction. at least 50 tornadoes ripped through the south and midwest killing dozens. as people begin to clean up, a new storm threat is on the way. lsu has captured its very first national championship! >> last team standing. lsu dominates iowa for the women's college basketball title.

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