martha? >> martha: hopefully we get more details on the injuries and the cameras that you bring up, bryan. thank you. bryan llenas. let us know if you get more breaking details. we're waiting for information hopefully leading to catching this individual. with bring in with that, ray kelly, the former new york city police commissioner. he's the longest serving commissioner ever and the old people to hold that post twice. commissioner, thanks very much for being with us. good to have you here today. >> thanks, martha. >> martha: we're getting details now. there's a question about an arizona plate. they got a bag he left behind. they know his build, how he was dressed. what is your assessment? >> all of this is good information. i think the description of the van or the u-haul probably came through the 577 tips hotline. that will be helpful in this case. this individual will be identified i think pretty quickly. it does underscore the concerns that the people have about the new york city subway

. >> "the story" starts right now with martha maccallum. >> martha: i'm martha maccallum at fox head quarters in north. president biden in battleground north carolina at this hour. a state he lost by one point to president trump back in 2020. big republican senate primary going on there. that will happen in mid may. everybody is starting to watch this mid-term movement here. so the former president's pick is leading the pack in north carolina. this is to replace senator burr, who is retiring. the pick by president trump is getting leverage there. here's. biden's new numbers at record lows today. approval according to quinnipiac at 33%. that is not a good number according to gallup. he is leading support from a reliable voting block less than seven months to go to the mid-terms here. young voters definitely losing the luster with regard to the president. down 20 points in both of the millennial group and the gen z group. something to turn around. let's bring in marc thiessen, fox news contributor and mark penn, former clinton adviser and chairman and ceo. great to have you with us. i

martha? >> martha: peter, thank you. we'll watch as the briefing gets underway and the questions are laid out for jen psaki that will happen in a little bit. here's marc thiessen, the former chief speechwriter for former president bush. good to have you here today. >> good afternoon, martha. >> martha: it's tough to listen to this back and forth about semantics. i understand there's sort of official definitions of things like genocide when you talk about war crimes and the world court. but it's pretty daunting to look at to face the images that we're seeing coming outs of ukraine today. everybody can see what is going on here. >> yeah, you look at it, you know it and you see it. we've seen the images of bodies in the streets with bullet holes in the back of their hands, women that burned to death after being raped in front of their children. mass graves with bodies sticking out. genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes. whatever you want to call it, they are atrocities and they're prosecutable. the problem is that t

>> hi, martha. the ukrainian troops are taking back territory around kyiv, the capital, and also in the north, but it has not been without a devastating amount of loss of life. the mayor of a small town outside of kyiv says that 300 civilians have been killed, so while russian troops are retreating from the northern part of the country, ukrainian president zelenskyy says that they will not be able to leave without a fight, especially as they focus their attacks and move towards the eastern part of the country and the southern part of the country. there in the south along the s sea, odessa was the site of an attack just taking place this morning, russian strikes blowing up in oil depot, black billowing smoke blow up into the skies if they're trying to tackle those claims. but mariupol, in the eastern side of the country, is another site that has been continually attacked where thousands of free people remain. they do not have access to drinking water, they do not have access to food, and for weeks th

hi, mark. >> hi, martha. is officials privately and publicly have made it very clear that they believe russia has made numerous tactical mistakes ever since in invasion began. now they're making changes given some of the news that we've seen as this conflict potentially enters a new phase. we learned that russia decided to appoint a new general to handle the operations throughout ukraine. he was previously operating, handling things in southern ukraine. he's a veteran of the russian armed forces. he's been well-known by u.s. intelligence after leading russian forces in syria, even learning the name the butcher of syria for his treatment of civilians. >> what we have learned in the first several weeks of this war is ukraine will never be subject to russia. doesn't matter which general president putin tries to appoint. >> officials say the russians are working to resupply their forces in the donbas region, the southeastern part of the country. the u.s. believes this is part of a strategy shift as they repositio

thank you, martha. we're watching this brooklyn precinct where the man accused of shooting ten people in that subway train incident yesterday will be leaving that building shortly. you've heard a good deal about him, the 62-year-old was taken in to custody about 30 hours after the carnage in that train. he was awaiting arraignment on the charges that pertain to terrorists or other violent attacks against mass transit systems. no indication whether james himself had direct ties to

"the story" with martha maccallum starts right now. >> martha: thanks, john and sandra. good afternoon. i'm martha maccallum at fox news headquarters here in new york city. here's the story right now. we're moments away from the white house press briefing. it's been delayed about an hour from the original schedule. that as there are a lot of questions on everyone's mind. look at this image of this woman on her knees in ukraine. we heard from her yesterday talking about the buried family members that were found and pleading with the world to pay attention to what was going on in her town. ukraine is fighting to stop the killings by murder, by burnings we're learning now, likely far vaccination in mariupol going on, men, women and children. all affected. a haunting image of someone who was burned, had a swastika burned into their skin. so the u.s. today, the biggest move right now is to sanction russia's largest financial institution and largest private bank. >> responsible nations have to come together to hold these perpetrators accountable and together with our allies an

so we'll see if it happens in fact, martha. >> martha: great stuff. jacqui, thanks very much. border officials dealing with around 6,000 apprehensions at the border. that's the average on a daily basis. that is expected to triple, a situation that the former dhs secretary under president obama, jay johnson, says is not sustainable was his word. here we are. bill melugin live in mission, texas where preparations for this influx are underway ahead of the lifting of title 42 in a few weeks. hi, bill. >> hi, martha. good afternoon to you. dhs is projecting that when title 42 draws, we could see 18,000 illegal crossings a day. that would be anarchy here at the border. we'll pull up this video. they started running drills with the national guard, how they would respond to a mass migration event. they've had soldiers in riot gear and simulating if a large migrant caravan showed up may 23 or if there was a surge on top of a surge as being predicted an a bunch of people made a run on the border. this was made by governor abbott saying he will involve the use of the texas military. you

martha? >> martha: thanks, mark. let's bring in retired general jack keane, chairman of the institute for the study of war and fox news senior strategic analyst. general, always good to have you with us. your reaction first of all to this icbm russian test and vladimir putin's contention that it will protect them from external threats. >> certainly a scheduled test. we knew it was going to take place. these are fairly standard procedures to test the equipment that we have and certainly test new modernized equipment as well. russia has a strong strategic deterrence as of the united states. made up of icbms, bombers and submarine launched missiles. they've been modernizing theirs the last ten years. we have not been. ours are atrophying. there's a down payment in this budget to put us on the right track. a lot more is needed to do to get our system where they should be. >> martha: do you agree with president zelensky that says if they had received all of the weaponry that they asked for, they could have been done with

i'm martha maccallum. right now the attorney general garland admitting really what we have been reporting here for weeks on what is about to happen at our southern border. >> do you consider the border in a state of crisis? >> i think as you rightly pointed out, there's going to be a lot of intelligence suggested that there will be a lot more people migrating to the border. >> martha: a lot more people. that's when title 42 is lifted. the polls point to big trouble across the board for the democrats based on inflation, rising crime and that open border issue towards mexico. it could be that the courts might provide a bit of relief for the biden white house in some ways. a judge's decision keeps title 42 in lays for now. that came late yesterday. that could change next month. the supreme court is currently picking up the remain in mexico policy to question whether or not it is supported by our federal laws. we'll break this down for you in just a moment with the arizona attorney general. bill melugin is sta

hi, trey. >> martha, good afternoon. officials in kyiv are calling for last-minute talks to save more than 1,000 ukrainian soldiers and civilians that are underneath a steel plant in mariupol. the deputy prime minister of ukraine demanding that the russians open a humanitarian corridor to let the wounded free. putin told russian's minister not to storm the area. the mayor of mariupol had this to say. >> our brave warriors are defending our city as much as possible. doesn't matter what statement was made in russia, mariupol is and will be ukrainian. >> this comes as new satellite images show a mass grave west of the city. it does sit next to an already existing cemetery. according to local reports, the russians have been moving bodies to this area for what some believe are potential war crimes taking place in this besieged city. the announcement of what putin calls liberation comes as fighting escalates from the north along a curved line to the south. destruction increases each hour. russian forces are using artillery uni

martha. martha: alex hogan reporting from lviv. joining us out from pentagon press secretary john kirby. good to see this morning sir. as alex just reported there are talks going on. but president zelenskyy has said the victory is the only acceptable outcome for ukraine. and that they will not trade any of their territory in this war and in these discussions. you were asked this week how you wanted to see this end. how the united states wants to see this end. just want to remind what you said there, watch this. >> we wanted to end and we want ukraine sovereignty all of their sovereignty their borders as it was before the end of february to be respected. next you say the borders before the end of february to be respected. at that point russia had already occupied it and donbas and crimea do they consider those to be russian territories when you talk about this february lines or ukraine's? >> nodded all. we never observed any russian occupation or ownership over their illegal occupation and presence and crimea. we are talking about a

we'll see you >> martha: thank you very much, john and sandra. i'm martha maccallum. here's the story. a lot going on in ukraine at this hour. tensions boiling over whether ukraine hit a fuel depot inside of russia, which would be an escalatory move. but did the russians do it themselves? that is a big question today. also, the cruelty in mariupol is making it a living hell. then you have the brave red cross workers that were turned back once again today just hours ago. they have 42 buses and they want to get the people still in pair poll out of there. but they cannot get through the russian checkpoints and again they make it impossible and of course they fear for their lives. they net to get people out safely. another big part of this story. experts talking about despite the prevailing narrative, what if vladimir putin actually did not miscalculate? what if what we're seeing was part of the strategy all along? we'll talk about what we mean about him wanting the east part of ukraine and bombarding areas all over in order to get that in a deal. we'll talk about that in

hi, bryan. >> hi, martha. we're starting to see a trend here in eagle pass where mexican authorities have stepped up security, it appears. at least their presence on the other side of the border. it appears to have some effect on the number of migrants crossing here in eagle pass. today for the first time, mexican authorities flew a helicopter up and down the rio grande valley here in eagle pass. there was marines as an increased presence. this show of force comes after texas governor greg abbott cut a deal wit mexican governors to ease up on vehicle inspections coming into texas in exchange for more cooperation on the immigration front. today we also saw handful of immigrants, four adults that said they're from cuba and traveled months to come here. we saw two young boys and four children and parents. last night we rode with texas highway patrol. at about 1:30 a.m., we were in an eight-mile high-speed chase. there were seven mexican nationals inside. the driver of that minivan was just 13 years old. a juvenil

we appreciate it. >> martha: thank you, martha. >> martha: so any minute now, another situation that we're keeping one eye on here as johnny depp has been testifying today. he will be back on the stand in this legal face-off with ex-wife amber heard and we'll take you there live. he is suing her for $50 million after she wrote a newspaper column calling herself a public figure representing domestic abuse. he denies abusing her. he says she attacked him. brian claypool is here. first, to david spunt live from the courthouse in fairfax, virginia. interesting day there, david. >> very interesting day. only going to get more interesting today and tomorrow. the reason this is in fairfax, virginia is because amber heard wrote that op-ed that is published here in fairfax, virginia. johnny depp took the stand at 2:00 p.m. court goes until 5:00 p.m. he's being questioned with what some may call favorable questions by his team. took will be the to you questions, the cross examination from ex-wife amber heard's attorneys. we have the live look of the actor, johnny depp, sitting down right now.

hi, shannon. >> hi, martha. based on the arguments we heard today, make an educated guess that the coach has a good chance of winning. the justices seem to be leaning in his favor. the question is how big of a victory or partial victory that this may be. he says this is about wanting to go to the 50 yard line and pray silently. the school direct says it's more than that. he wanted students involved and he wanted to pray aloud. the justices spent time probing the school district attorneys about what would have happened if he went on the field with a ukrainian flag. what if he kneeled during the national anthem and he wanted to make a protest about social justice. kennedy said he never invited students to join but many did. so the question is did he have a duty to tell them they didn't have to participate. the justices noted the school's own policies. >> i want to make sure i understand the school policy. it appears that teachers are forbidden from either encouraging or discouraging private student prayer. is that

martha? >> martha: thanks, jeff. aloyna is a spokesperson for the international committee of the red cross. she's been on the ground providing aid in ukraine. she is from odesa. first of all what is your reaction when you hear there's blasting and bombings near odesa at this point as well? >> it is an extremely difficult situation. both personally and professionally. i'm now in ukraine together with the international committee of the red cross. i'm concentrating on trying to provide life-saving assistance to people where they need it most. you have shown that the toll on civilians is just huge. we're trying to reach people in the mariupol, reach people in bucha to bring them humanitarian relief. >> martha: you're doing god's work. we thank you. i'm sure the people of ukraine thank you for what you're doing to try to get people some relief from an absolutely unbearable situation. we've been covering the story of these 42 buses that the red cross has that have been trying to get into mariupol to help people there, whic

let's bring in martha maccallum. martha, are you ready? martha: i am ready. brian: put on the music. forget the clock, we know about cracker jacks. but do you know about cracker jill? they are rolling out a new twist to take me out to the ballgame and they are ending with this new ballgame. are you for cracker jill? martha: i think cracker jill is cute. i like whrerng about the cracker jack company. it was a german founder. he might have been canceled if he hadn't made the package red, white and blue. generally they don't last very long. brian: get the women involved, i like being politically correct here. >> beer for less. this is the fourth year in a row. he drinks only beer, water and a vitamin. beer only for lent. brian: it does not get the stamp of approval from the medical communities. martha: the cdc saidf in case you are wondering this is not a healthy way to lose weight. we would not have known that if not for the cdc. brian: a married woman wants to get out of a serious shooting trial. this perhaps is the most unique. let's listen to the woman who s

martha. >> james longman in ukraine. thanks so much. >>> and we are joined now by yevheniia kravchuk, a member of ukraine's parliament and close ally to president zelenskyy. good morning. i want to ask you first, president zelenskyy announced a visit of defense secretary austin and secretary blinken. what do you want from that visit? how significant is it? >> thank you for having me and good morning. i think that visit of blinken and austin is really, really symbolic and probable signal to russia that ukraine will not be left alone with this war. america is clearly, you know, the leader of free world and, of course, we expect, you know, three main things with our close ally and close partner, which is the united states, is it's heavy weapons, it's sanctions on russia and, of course, financial aid. this is three core issues that have to be dealt with right now. why do we need heavy weapon? because part of ukraine is still occupied, and it was occupied, you know, since the february 24th when the full-scale invasion started

and martha, the u.s. military, this is interesting, has been training ukrainian soldiers who had been here in the u.s. before this invasion began on how to use these drones? >> reporter: exactly, david. these drones do require training, but there are ukrainians already in the u.s. on a foreign military exchange program, so they can go back to ukraine and operate those drones or train others. and this is exactly the kind of equipment, plus those javelins and stingers, that the administration believes is truly making a difference. david? >> all right, martha raddatz in washington. our thanks to you, martha, and to james. our coverage of the war in ukraine for tonight. >>> in the meantime, we turn the news back here at home and to this deadly tornado outbreak across several states in the south at this hour. this system on the move tonight. already killing two. one person in texas, another in georgia. 49 tornadoes reported across five states, including four ef-2s across south carolina, mississippi, and texas.

>> martha raddatz with us live tonight. martha, our thanks to you and james. >>> in the meantime, back here at home this monday evening and news of an arrest in the worst mass shooting in sacramento history. six people killed, 12 injured. there is still an urgent manhunt under way tonight. abc's zohreen shah n sacramento. >> reporter: tonight, at least one suspect is in custody after a mass shooting that left six dead and another 12 wounded in downtown sacramento. police arresting 26-year-old dandre martin on charges of assault and illegal firearm possession. >> we are certainly looking into his role in this shooting and his involvement, as well. we are searching for multiple suspects and that is our priority. >> reporter: the police chief telling me they've recovered over 100 expended shell casings and at least one stolen handgun from the scene. a second handgun retrieved at a residence overnight. just after 2:00 sunday morning, police say multiple shooters opened fire after a large fight near a row of nightclubs. officers

martha stewart hi martha. good morning. yr own chickens. >> this is a way. >> i have like 300 laying hens right now and they are laying like crazy. >> go to martha's. >> all these came from my hen house. and what i wanted to show is just nice ways to use eggs, to preserve eggs and to double use eggs this is a double use because we have the eggs out and then color them. >> this is all filled with blown out eggs which you can save year to year. and the secret well this is turned upside down. i'll show you an easy way. if you don't have eggs, you can also use -- this is a dome and that is going to be inverted right here you fill this, just the bottom with some jelly beans. and then you layer green around. and use all the green and some orange and then i'll show you how to to invert it. all around the edge there. >> trying to hurry we got a few down. >> don't mess it up. and use the spoon. >> she's got a cooking show now, savannah's got a cooking show. >> martha, long time listener,t. do you do this little trick with >> no. >>

martha raddatz with us now. and martha, i know prosecutors believe these men were able to dupe members of the secret service. what do we know about these suspects, their funding, their motive? >> reporter: david, that's the big mystery. this was clearly well-funded, despite the fact the men said they couldn't afford an attorney. one saying today he had no money. so, we don't know yet whether someone else or some other country was behind this, nor do we know what they may have been after. david? >> all right, martha raddatz with us tonight. martha, thank you. >>> we're going to turn now to the pandemic. new cases rising in half the country. the omicron subvariant now the dominant strain. 72% of all cases nationwide. and tonight, house speaker nancy pelosi has tested positive for the virus. her office saying the 82-year-old house speaker got her second booster weeks ago and remains asymptomatic tonight. but this evening, questions also about the president. the speaker was with president biden several times this we

but martha definitely understood the concept of soft power. and that has been something that's been a trend for first ladies to use all the way through since the beginning. so the beginning was that martha really was a partner as she had had been with the president all through their marriage and through his years of the revolutionary war where she would go to the camps every year and assist him and try to keep morale up and organize circles and everything. but it was a partnership, it still is. so the two go together. she was not called lady. she was called lady washington which was the term that was given to her by some of the revolutionary soldiers. that was sort of the vestige of the british past, but she was also an example of what a southern lady would be. >> i just think it's really striking. so in other venues, i have actually said dolly madson was the first first lady, and i'm prepare today defend that. martha washington is getting the message, but there's an intentionality from her, so she begins dressing a certain way. and she along

let's bring in martha raddatz tonight, and martha, we saw that russian video showing the damage in mariupol. the blockade around the steel factory. ukrainians inside that james just mentioned. i'm curious tonight, what can these weapons, what can these new ghost drones accomplish? >> reporter: david, the pentagon is sending this brand new kind of drone just out of development, they say will work well in eastern ukraine. it is called the phoenix ghost and is similar to the switchblade drone, that kamikaze-like drone that can be carried in a backpack, launched from anywhere. they are laden with explosives and guided to their targets remotely. the pentagon says the phoenix ghost is designed to deliver a punch. david? >> martha raddatz with us live from washington tonight. martha, thank you. >>> in the meantime, we turn now to the pandemic. and tonight, with millions of americans now traveling on planes and most public transportation without masks after a federal judge in florida struck down the travel mask mandate, we've seen the joy from so many, and still concern from others over the health

but the same thing with martha. how would she dress. that would convey a sense to the outsiders who are not sure this american thing was going to work. and the new americans who are not sure this america thing was going to work. they would be ruled properly and well and came up with ceremonies that tried to combine an almost democratic energy, i think, with some kind of vestige of royalty. and that's why i think lady washington and dolly madison is going to be queen dolly. >> we can't leave the founding -- we need to get more dolly madison, but abigail adams, we always cite her will letter toer her husband about the constitutional convention about don't forget the ladies. any thoughts about abigail and john adams? and moving into the white house? >> they are the first cup toll move into the white house. nobody stayed terribly long. they weren't impressed. i think abigail embodies another part of the partnership. she wasn't interested in what they would call presiding. she adopted martha's ceremonies dutifully, but the role she played wa

well kianna, josephine, and martha? >> and every intersection for that date and time that they gave me, franc cano came up. >> wow. >> for every single intersection, i was shocked. >> but something about that man, look franc cano what. you had a buddy. and she ran into them. both >> i knew that he had a friend. look steven gordon. the >> steven gordon, he had done time for molesting a minor and later for kidnapping. he and cano were inseparable apparently. once the detective pulled up the gps coordinates, where martha was last seen and santa ana, no the gordon. but when she took locations for kayla kianna and josephine? there he was. she check the record and discovered that at that particular moment, was gordon not on the gps monitor, but he was wearing one of the other three print places. and so was cano. the electronics made it absolutely obvious, here they were cano and gordon, driving together, up and down beach boulevard, and santa ana. >> they were on the freeway -- >> they were in the same. car >> the same vehicl

i'm going to go with you, martha, what is your favorite kitchen smell? >> i would say a nice stew with carrots and beef on a sunday afternoon. >> okay, yeah. jesse? >> bacon. >> and then the smell stays for quite some time. >> it's fantastic. that's a smell that gets you out of bed. if you had an alarm clock the project of the odor of bacon i would get out of bread. >> year full of good ideas. >> because i'm short. >> coffee. >> a -- i don't love the smell of chalk coffee but i -- >> i would say rosemary chicken is good. we haven't, that's a good one. yes. sure. >> is going to some mcdonald's because that means there is mcdonald's. when you were a kid and you came home and you could smell mcdonald's -- >> you would have a happy meal. >> it smelled so good. my mom was a terrible cook. r.i.p. what kind of job could you never do? jesse? >> accountant. anything with numbers and the masks my eyes glaze over. i can't do it. >> that wouldn't stop me. >> nobody could be a surgeon. did you ever think about that? >> i could be but -- how like how could you get ove

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the same thing with martha. how would you dress? that would convey a sense to the outsiders, who were not sure this american thing was going to work, and the new americans, who were not sure this american thing was going to work, and that they were being world properly, and we'll. and they came up with ceremonies that try to combine a kind of almost democratic energy, i think, with, you know, some kind of vestige of royalty. and that's why i think lady washington and dolley madison is going to be lady, but she's also going to be queen dolly, yes. >> yes. >> yes. >> so thoughts about -- and we can't beat the founding -- will -- certainly get to more dolley madison -- but abigail adams, we always aside her letter to her husband about the constitutional convention, about don't forget the ladies, when they were putting together the constitution. but of course, in a way, they did. any thoughts about abigail and john adams? >> and moving into the white house. well, yes. and they were the first couple to move into the white house. but nobo

. >> stephen: have you met martha. >> yes, have i know martha very well. >> stephen: you know martha very well, i just asked if you had met her. you don't have to brag. >> let's crush some oreos. >> stephen: take your hands and crush them, like that. >> yeah, that's good. >> stephen: uh-huh, and this will give me my protein. is what this. >> a lot of protein. >> stephen: there you go. >> then come over here, you know what this is? >> stephen: that is two scans of spam what is that. >> no, st dulce de leche. >> stephen: sweetened milk. >> you know if you cook it for an hour or two it turns into caramel. >> stephen: that has been cooking for a couple of hours, sealed but that is not going to slow and cover you-- -- i will back offer a little bit. i'm going to back off just a little bit. >> it's kind of hot. >> stephen: you sure, careful. >> it turns into caramel, buddy, see, look at that. >> stephen: for real. >> martha and snoop are watching us. let's go. right there. there you go. >> stephen: there you go, there it is. >> one for you. >> stephen: now what do we do? >> you have to-- .

martha: and that he would have a lot to think about. a lot of consequences go with that. >> yes, a nuclear war should never be fought, they say, but the kremlin seems willing to fight one. the chance that they will use nuclear weapons becomes dangerously real and what do you think about this with regards to answering the question that he puts out there of potentially using weapons? reed i think that our posture is right where it should be. and the secretary lloyd austin has made it clear in his quiet way that we can respond to anything that vladimir putin does come all the way from deterrence of nuclear war right down to retaliation of use of a weapon including conventional retaliation. and i don't think it is as likely. if he uses a small tactical nuclear weapon around ukraine, he knows that the radiation blows right back and these are threats and i think he will keep pounding them with the artillery. martha: thank you so much, rebecca joining us today we appreciate it. thank you. >> this video shot by fox producers just a short time a

really interesting martha. do you want to have anything on this? i do i look at it as a product rather than personality. although clearly that's it's involved. but product of their experiences um people who have been governors for have tended to be to be decisive right from the start where they they have there used to being an executive and it's say for example when i had an interview with gerald ford a number of years ago and asked him how he made the transition from legislator to an executive as a legislator in a leadership position. he was interested in reaching consensus and success for him was consensus and you can see that in in biden that that's what he's used to if you can get everybody together. that's what what you should should do ford said that he wasn't sure how it happened. but he knew when it happened he said one day that he was he was listening to a group of members of congress and and he said to himself if i were in their position, i'd be saying exactly the same thing, but i'm not and i'm making the decision if you look at trump, w

martha raddatz, abc news, washington. >> all right, still more questions. thanks, martha. >>> turning to the weather, a georgia family is describing how they survived after their home was hit by a tornado. the twister packing winds up to 165 miles per hour roared through their neighborhood near savannah. the family says the home came off its foundation and flipped over three times. >> we felt the home lift up and my wife started screaming, we're flipping, we're flipping. we all walked out with bumps, bruises. i had messed up my shoulder pretty bad, but it's okay and other than that we were blessed. >> unfortunately, their 66-year-old neighbor was killed in the storm. more than 40 tornadoes have been confirmed this week from texas to south carolina. >>> and with that it's time to look at your friday forecast. >>> plumes of smoke are rising in oklahoma as several large wildfires burn, drought conditions and high winds are fueling the flames. so far no major damage is reported. on the radar this morning snow around the great lakes with rain elsewhere in the mi

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