this is all a new animal for me. >> reporter: david begnaud, cbs news, mountainburg, arkansas. >> barnett: coming up, a cbs news investigation into new ways scammers are stealing tax refunds. and later, his movies, including iene flew over the cuckoo's nest" racked up multiple oscars. we remember the legendary director milos forman. multiple oscars. . >> bar >> barnett: welcome back. tax day is this tuesday, april 17. the i.r.s. says so far this year, about 80% of those who have filed have received a refund. unfortunately, some of those refund checks may be stolen by scammers. anna werner has more from our cbs news investigation. >> i had a gut feeling that wmething was wrong. >> reporter: when tax preparer cknette kraft checked the status of her clients' tax returns in january, she was surprised to find all of them had been rejected. >> and the code was 902-01. that means that someone else has already filed a tax return. >> reporter: it turns out her clients were victims of a new tax scam intended to cheat them out of their refunds. thre's how it works: the criminals get their hands on r

this one in mountainburg, arkansas, and blizzard warnings and whiteouts to the north. highways shut down and hundreds of flights grounded in minnesota. and at this hour the tornado threat is still in place. abc's marcus moore is in the storm zone. >> reporter: spring hitting hard. more than 250 reports of severe weather tonight from texas to wisconsin. >> holy cow. >> reporter: at least 12 reported tornadoes slamming the south, four of them in arkansas. this highway nearly swallowed outside of fayetteville. debris ricocheting off windshields. you can hear the terror in the voices of this couple, blindsided by an apparent tornado. seat belts saved their lives. in mountainburg, mounds of rubble where a house once stood. >> i opened the back door and looked out and there was rotation and stuff flying everywhere. >> reporter: in louisiana, a tree toppling on to this rv, killing a 2-year-old sleeping inside. in the midwest, winter isn't going quietly, up to 20 inches of snow in parts of south dakota. this, as wind-driven wildfires rage across parts of oklahoma. one dead and

there's the roof. >> reporter: a powerful storm demolishing homes in this mountainburg neighborhood. >> i hear what sounded like a freight train coming through my house. >> reporter: and in louisiana, a 2-year-old girl was killed after strong winds knocked down a large pine tree onto a mobile home. this morning, we know that at least 169 structures sustained some bit of damage in crawford county, arkansas, and already they started the process of cleaning up, paula. >> marcus, thank you. let's see where these storms are heading now. sam champion in for rob marciano once again this weekend. sam, good morning. >> hey, good morning, dan, paula, good morning, everyone. our weather map is just as busy as the news day so let's get right to it. look how big the storm is and that line of storms that we were talking about, all the storm damage with 11, at least 11 reported tornadoes and more throughout the day now, that is right there. now, look a little bit to the north of that because the northern line of this has snow. we've got blizzard warnings out for six states right now and take a look

five of those twisters slamming arkansas, daylight revealing a wasteland of debris in mountainburg. >> oh, my gosh. >> reporter: from tornadoes to this water spout, spinning on shore in mississippi. in louisiana, 110 mile-per-hour winds toppling a tree into this rv near shreveport, killing a 2-year-old inside. and, record-breaking snow. up to 20 inches of snow in parts of south dakota, marking sioux falls' snowiest april on record. wisconsin getting up to two feet. this semi overturned on i-94 in green bay. in minnesota, ice and snow being blamed for 550 crashes in 48 hours. >> and you were saying, there's another 36 hours before the storm is gone? >> before it's off the coast. exactly right. this is a mass f storm. two-thirds of the country will have been affected by the storm since friday. watch the heavy rain, the tornado watches, and then watch the line with the heavy rain move right towards philly and new york. we stopped it at 7:00 p.m. to let you know, the heaviest rain moves into those areas, and even d.c., at exactly the time you're going to work on monday morning. that makes

a tornado touched down late thday in the town of mountainburg. roofs were ripped off.umber of people, we are told, are trapped in their homes, with rescue workers trying to get them out. tornado watches and warnings are up across the central u.s. tonight. cernadoes could pop up in at least a half a dozen states, from texas to iowa. now the war of words between the president and fired f.b.i. director james comey, which escalated today. we caution you, some of the language in this report from paula reid is graphic. >> i started to tell him about ie allegation was that he had been involved with prostitutes in a hotel in moscow in 2013 during a visit for the miss universe pageant. >> reporter: in his new memoir, former f.b.i. director james comey describes the president's ntxation on allegations contained in the now-infamous election dossier. >> i honestly never thought dese words would come out of my mouth, but i don't know whether the current president of the united states was with prostitutes, peeing on each other in moscow 2013. it's possible, but i don't know. >> well

cleanup is under way in western arkansas after a suspected tornado ripped through the small town of mountainburgather was part of a big and powerful storm system that battered the planeins. at least four people were injured friday when fierce winds struck trees and power lines. >>> in oklahoma a state of emergency has been declared in more than 50 counties as firefighters struggle to contain four fast-moving wildfires. around 1 rkds 400 people have been forced to evacuate. the fired are blamed for at least one death. they have scorched more than 200,000 acres and there icy no rain in the draft. >>> he was honored again in 1984 for "am day yas." both films won best picture. foreman died friday after a short illness. he was 86 years old. >>> the country music industry has taken its show on the road to las vegas for the 53rd academy of kunly muscountry mus. the ceremony takes place about a mile from the site of a massacre that killed nearly 60 country one of its biggest stars.cert o- vladimir duthiers caught up with jason aldean back taj at the mgm grand garden arena. >> reporter: jason aldean, the