yazoo city you need to take cover.day through here if the folks at the national weather service are right. >>> first, the congressman during and allergies in the spring. -- the congressman who once threatened to throw a report off the balcony and break million in half, quote, like a boy, unquote, could spend decades in prison, but not for those "like a boy" threats. the new york republican michael grimm pleaded not get to fraud and perjury charges. federal prosecutors say he dodged several state and federal taxes by hiding more than a million dollars in sales and wages at a restaurant he bowing bought in 2006 after retiring from the fbi. today fbi officials ripped interest their former colleague for dishonoring the fbi code. >> as a former fbi agent, representative grimm, should understand the motto, fidelity, bravery, and integrity. yet he broke all three of those, and nearly every truth. in this 20-count indictment, representative grimm honored a new motto, fraud, perjury, and obstruction. >> after the court formally

especially if you are near yazoo city you need to take cover. a lot going on today.o watch where the warnings are right now. this means business. this is not issued very often so one of these watches are issued, you need to take it seergsly. if you're in mississippi, north western alabama into tennessee, this is in effect until 9:00 p.m. central time. we have a warning in effect in northeastern missouri and up to iowa. this is a large area that we will be watching as we go through the next 24 hours. this will all be moving east throughout the afternoon and evening hours. we're getting into the heat of the day. this is when things start to hat up when you start to see storms turn severe in a second. monitor the weather situation and be on top of this because this is extremely dangerous. tornado warning, tornado possibly on the ground. if you are in that area, take cover now. >> definitely better to be safe than take any unnecessary risks. thank you. >> well, next, a major change in strategy in the search for missing flight 370. what led the change and what is next in

but right after that he had to get to yazoo city where the marchers had congregated. by the time he got back there there was a large rally going on for black power spill. some of the speakers like willie ricks and ernest thomas were using very provocative rhetoric. king was trying to pull it back into its core principles and given a beautiful, moving speech about how they could not get there guns that night, molotov cocktails. tnc and a brighter vision. he saw that day coming in mississippi. is so worn down at that point by trying to bring everyone under his white arms that he wondered if he could still work with the organization's. >> and what were the other dramatic tensions are seminal moments during the march? >> the major incidents of violence. this is just the few days before the end of the march. a few days after the violence. after the philadelphia violence king and others have the attention of -- petition the federal government. the state of mississippi is not adequately protecting. we need a federal presence as it exists. many protection of u.s. marshals, th

this is the line of storms that moved through and dropped tornadoes from yazoo city in jackson, alabama, and they ever overnight through places like tuscaloosa and birmingham. now take a look at where the moderate risk is, it's a lot of the exact same areas. generally you have a tornado system go through, and then things are clear behind it but so many of them people doing their cleanup and rescue and recovery they're dealing right right now, the atmosphere is getting reloaded to see another batch of storms move in. this is a look at the satellite image you. can see this cloud cover here here. you see that clearing. that allows the surface to heat up and gives us the potential to explode again and that's what we're watching. two tornado watch boxes we're watching ruth now. one in north carolina, one here out across parts of southern mississippi, both or these expire at 9:00 p.m. local time but these storms here so far across parts of southern mississippi and in toward the panhandle of florida, they all have hail and wind. i think in the next hour we'll see some of these begin to get the

line of storms cutting from just around vicksburg and yazoo city and tupelo. now today's moderate risk, most of the tornadoes right across almost the exact same area, moved to the east by 30 or 40 miles, but this is a look at the satellite image. you can see this cloud cover we had dealt with from yesterday's storm now has cleared back out here again. the sun is shining, heating the atmosphere up and reloading, and that's why we're watching the next threat in this kind of exact same spot across parts of southern mississippi. tornado watch box here and also north carolina. this one here where we could see possibly some of the larger tornadoes today, and none of them starting just yet but i think possibly by the end of this hour we could be seeing that. >> when does this calm down? >> it's been such a slow-moving system. a big area of pressure across the atlantic is not letting it move quickly. we still have to get through today. take a look how far north this goes, all the way to michigan. a tornado in illinois, one in north carolina already. tomorrow, goes tow

at least one twister has been reported on the ground in yazoo city, mississippi. the national weather service says some 24 million americans are now at risk of severe storms. at least 16 people have been killed. 14 of them in arkansas. that state's governor will join me in a few minutes. and look at this stern warning in tupelo, mississippi, just a few minutes ago. >> still on the air. we're still on the air. this is a tornado emergency for lee county. this is a tornado ripping through the city of tupelo as we speak and this could be deadly. let's go to the tower cam. it's a damaging tornado on the ground. right now. everybody in the basement now. basement now. let's go. let's go. >> we have our correspondents and storm chasers that are tracking this weather emergency in realtime. much more on just what happened in tupelo. let's go to our meteorologist jennifer gray. tell our viewers what they specifically need to know right now. >> well, wolf, this is developing minute by minute. we have tornado warnings in effect all across the south for mississippi stretching i

in yazoo city, a 9-year-old girl drowned after being swept off of her back stoop by flood waters. >>lympic sprinter oscar pistorius is back on the stand this morning defending himself against murder charges. you are looking at a live courtroom shot. this is in pretty orous south africa. he said he was trying to protect his model girlfriend when he shot and killed her at his home. it was on valentine's day of last year. let's bring in erika. we know pistorius broke down crying in the courtroom. did we see more of that emotion today? >> yes. we certainly have. of course, we can't actually see him speaking on the stand because the judge closed off the witness box from the cameras. but you can hear the emotion in his answers. his voice, soft spoken and cracking at times. while his testimony yesterday focused on apoljuicing to the family detailing his hard childhood and talking about how he is tormented about panic attacks. today seems about establishing the status of the couple's relationship in the days leading you up to the shooting. he read back a slew of text message exchanges betwee