in northern alabama and south tennessee. nearly two dozen reported tornadoes..... tore across -4- states... including a new twister..... just outside of atlanta. "there's the tornado right there. let's go! let's go!" in alabama... the storms.... devastating and deadly.. with home after home.... thousands..... left without power. the death toll now stands... at -9- ... with at least.... -6- injured.... including children. temperatures across the valley are heading down again tonight. 13-first alert chief meteorologist bryan scofield is in the weather center to tell us.. how low will they go? bryan the las vegas valley will be dropping into the upper 30s tonight with some areas into the mid 30s. make sure you protect the sensitive plants and bring the pets inside! after the chilly stat afternoon but similar to last few afternoons with highs into the mid 50s.

three were killed in a mobile home park in alabama. at least a dozen others were injured. there were 13 confirmed tornadoes across f yesterday. alabama, louisiana, mississippi, and tennessee. >>> well, it's likely that president obama will leave office without fulfilling one of his original campaign promises, to shut down guantanamo bay. dozens remain locked up there. margaret brennan got a rare look at the prison. >> reporter: these are the remnants of guantanamo's notorious camp x-ray where hundreds of suspected terrorists were caged in the panic aftermath of 9/11. the 60 remaining detainees whose faces we were not permitted to film, lounge in modern, open cell blocks, eating and praying regularly. over the past eight years, 180 detainees have been released from guantanamo, leaving most of the prison empty. donald trump has vowed to reverse course. >> and we are going to load it up with some bad dudes. believe me, we are going to load it up. >> reporter: admiral peter clark who commands the detention facility says there is room for hundreds of more pne he vowed never to

she kissed a black man in south alabama. it was not rape. it was not even sex into this day day i don't even know exactly. but my father stuck with this client of the way to sadly the electric chair. if i can find it quickly. i'll read to you. i'll just tell you from memory because they pretty much remember it. charles white was executed after midnight in that primary in june of 1939. for the black men were executed that same day. they went to the electric chair humbly, begging for forgiveness. charles white protested that the electrodes were too tight. the people who were about to kill him say it doesn't she realize you're to die? of course. and he said she says will recognize an innocent man this day were his exact words. i hope you have some questions. if so i'll be glad to answer them. >> thank you very much. fascinating story. next we are going to hear from ms. thompson who has read the book called dr. lambro -- delta rainbow. ms. palmer is from memphis. not originally, but at some point her family realized their mistake and moved to te

james benson anhifamily barely escaping after a tornado ravaged their home in rosalie alabama "scared...but i'll be ok..." (emotional)in tennessee, another twister...the young family salvaging keepsakes... losing almost everything.."i screamed at my husband "there's a tornado! there's a tornado coming! grab the kids! grab the kids!" more than six states in 48 hours... at least five people killed... dozens injured.... with dozens of structrures damaged or destroyed..... in breman [bree-man] georgia, high school students sang christmas songs - after a tornado warning forced them to take shelter in the hallway...one of many close calls... during the first deadly tornado outbreak in this country since may.this morning several people are still hospitalized, some of them with critical injuries. the national weather servicw tornados are confirmed in seven states.. and the city of bloomiton, tn confirms that one of its volunteer fighterfighters and his wife were two people killed in yesterday's tornado.jacob rascon, nbc news, rosalie, alabama. a reminder-- winter parking restrictions parking

and nowhere was hit harder than here in rosalie, alabama. i'm standing inside what used to be the town's only shopping plaza. the owner climbed out while several of his neighbors did not survive. barrelling through the southeast, dozens of tornadoes reported from florida to mississippi. late today, pictures showing a possible funnel cloud near atlanta. threatening a major metropolitan area. >> it's devastating. i mean, it breaks my heart. >> overnight the town of rosalie, alabama, devastated. the one shopping plaza, reduced to piles of wood and bricks. the owner, greg day, astonished to be alive. nearby, another survivor, bob wright, hoping to find pictures of his family members, who did not make it. >> i lost two, my brother's boy, his daughter, and that boy's, his boy's girlfriend. >> their mobile home tossed across the highway. three people died, two hospitalized. including cynthia wright. >> how do you remember them? how do you hope people >> good old people. that's about all i can do, buddy. >> 31 reported tornadoes in two days. the pat

i mean, it breaks my heart. >> reporter: overnight, the town of rosalie, alabama, devastated. the one shopping plaza, reduced to piles of wood and bricks. the owner, greg day, astonished to be alive. nearby, another survivor, bob wright, hoping to find pictures of his family members, who did not make it. >> i lost two, my brother's boy, his daughter, and that boy's, his boy's girlfriend. >> reporter: their mobile home tossed across the highway. three people died, two hospitalized, including cynthia wright. how do you remember them? how do you hope people remember them? >> good old people. that's about all i can do, buddy. >> reporter: 31 reported tornadoes in two days, theth of destruction spreading over 550 miles. >> and i thought we were going to die last night. >> reporter: including through polk county, tennessee, where jennifer young, her husband and two sons barely escaped. >> my husband saying there's a tornado coming. there's a tornado coming. get the kids, grab the kids. >> reporter: their neighbors, not so fortunate. two people killed. back in alabama, hope after a f

sessions' office indiets an alabama supply company. at the time attorney general sessions called the case a significant investigation. in a scathing opinion, circuit judge james garrett threw the entire case out and ripped apart the attorney general's office in the process. the judge finding that even having been given every benefit of every doubt, the misconduct of the attorney general in this case far surpasses in both extensiveness and measure the totality of any prosecutorial misconduct ever previously presented to or witnessed by this court. the case against tyco was presented as theft. in a bizarre arrangement, the attorney general's investigation was fueled by money and information from that same client, who was getting ready to sue tyco itself. the judge's order says the misconduct by the attorney general's office included refusals and failures to produce exculpatory evidence, evidence that there was no theft. the judge found a flagrant disregard of the constitutional rights of those accused, what he called completely incredibl

mark strassmann is in rosalie (rose-uh-lee), alabama, where residents are learning the extent of the destruction. ( connor hughes) "there is so much that needs to be done that hughes - like many here in jackson county- has returned to what's left of his home. he's struggling to scrape up the essentials of life. (connor hughes/storm victim i am just trying to locate some bowls so i can get something to drink hundreds of structures were leveled and thousands of people are without power. jim smith lost his business when the twister hit. (jim smith/storm victim) my business is gone, it's no big deal. i'll uh i'll get it all together and re-start." "it's coming right at us! look at this" (fort walton video) (mark strassmann, cbs news, rosalie, alabama) you can see the path of destruction and the severe weather system began here in northeast alabama blew into tennessee and georgia and then headed for the carolinas. (: south carolina) 100 miles north in tennessee, the town of athens is recovering from extensive property damage. ( sheriff joe guy/mcminn county "we are extremely fortunate tha

remember what i was trying to do at least in alabama. c sure. >> according to cases at that moment pre-alabama i am one of the problems so i am trying to reflect for better or for worse and to make it clear. the column i have referred to talks really about evidence showing predominance. does it or doesn't it and there are two things there that are crucial i think in those two paragraphs. one, there was direct evidence that they moved 15,000 people that are all black, okay? two when you look at the redistricting traditional criteria they are pretty weak as applicable to that case. now let's look at 71. the same kind of thing, the same kind of thing. they moved, you have it in the brief too they moved 11,000293 people out and 17,000 so let's look at those people. the ones they moved out for -3/4 or something white and the ones they moved in were -3/4 and something black. it's pretty similar. seems to me they paid a lot of attention to race and then they say let's look at the traditional criteria. the one i mentioned they said they did it t

the alabama, louisiana, mississippi and tennessee from tuesday into wednesday. they left behind death, devastation, and tears. search and rescue teams spanned out across parts of the southeast into the night. >> we got crews out doing home searches, making sure everybody is okay. >> reporter: as residents in alabama took stock of the devastation around them. in the small town of rosalie yesterday, a tornado ripped apart homes and businesses and killed three people waiting out the storm inside their mobile home. jim smith knew one of them. >> it was a friend of mine's that's why my business is gone. it's no big deal. i'll get it altogether and restart. >> reporter: 100 miles north, mark falk, jr., a firefighter, and his daughter sandra was killed when an ef--4 tornado struck polk county in tennessee. >> i loved the five department and loved what it en neighborhoods and the kids. >> reporter: at least five other counties in the state were also hit. the mayor of one of them was moved to tears, sharing the story of a family who escaped the worst. >> a baby was born

the judge called my father in enterprise alabama which is in south alabama away from dry, maybe half an hour today but that then if the road was wet it took half a day. he asked my father to take the case because lawyers in troy had conflicts as you can imagine. my father said of course he would take the case and he did. the judge said reid de troy messenger the newspaper and you'll find out what you need to know and i'm going to read a little from the paper which i got from acra to montgomery. the headline, neat -- killed a was in montgomery and the messenger explained. first sentence a wandering de grogh fortuneteller given the name of cw white was removed from the troy jail for state keeping following his attack on a local white girl. it sounds like authority over according to the paper. kelby the messenger reported volunteered to a detailed confession of the attack and the confession was signed in the presence of numerous law enforcement leaders is. we position called to attend the girl later concurred and i'm quoting from the messenger than the growth had a cop which is dastardl

and rosalie alabama up to 20 builds destroyed, piles of debris all that's left. neighboring polk county, tennessee -- >> and i thought thee were going to die last night. >> reporter: -- jennifer young and her family narrowly escaped. >> my husband said there's grab the kids. >> reporter:a son and mom are recovering mr. the hospital after a storm destroyed their home in tbam. this is what's left their three bedroom trailer, just prunl rescue crews racing against time. >> it was kind of chaotic because we had a lot of community members that was up here frying to dig them out and help them out and trying to get order so we would know what was going on. >> reporter: in winston county, alabama more than 70 the community center next the shelter destroyed. now officials are grateful for the community who are out helping each other. >> everybody is pulling together as team efforts. people are out here trying to help their neighbors they don't even know. >> reporter: alabama's governor has issued a state of emergency across the state, and officials say more than 6,000 hom

washington fans already want alabama. be careful what you wish for. you might just get them in the playoffs here. looking good so far as we look at your top ten teams. alabama should be a lot. ohio state, clemson plays virginia tech in the championship game. washington number four. impressive. the big ten team, michigan, wisconsin, penn state. even though washington won the game you said know, maybe a big ten champion. maybe michigan. did washington change your mind? >> they didn't change my mind but the committee's mind. i don't think the committee has the courage to jump a two-loss big ten championship team over washington but i think that penn state certainly is playing better than this washington team right now. i'm not impressed with the team and the victory like this when you beat a quarterback with one leg and a backup that couldn't do anything. it is the same thing we saw with this colorado team when they lost to michigan and usc. they couldn't do anything without their starting quarterback. it doesn't gain that much credibility in my mind. th

tore through this town of rosalie, alabama. it was on the ground for less than two minutes. >> severe weather pummelling the south yet again. lightning, torrential rain and possible tornado in south carolina a after a deadly outbreak of twisters throughout the region. barely escaping after a tornado ravaged their home in alabama. >> losing almost everything. >> five people killed, dozens injured with dozens of in georgia, high school students sing christmas songs after a tornado warning forced them to take shelter in the hallway. one of many close calls during the first deadly outbreak in this country since may. several people are still hospitalized. some of them with critical injuries. the national weather service said 34 tornadoes are now confirmed in seven states and the city of bloomington, tennessee, confirmed one of their v his wife were the two people killed in yesterday's tornado. jacob rascon, nbc news, alabama. >>> back close to home, we want to get to our weather. doug has a ring side seat for the best show in town.

actually he will be in mobile, alabama for his final leg of his thank you tour in alabama, seems stadium where he was -- probably some of you were there -- that's right. he will be there with senator sessions and some others. >> [inaudible] >> it depends when the vote happens that day. he will be in alabama, then later back in florida. we are not worried about it. >> [inaudible] the president-elect is open to discussing -- [inaudible] you have women choosing suicide over rape. you have major populations dying and destroyed. saying --hn kerry [inaudible] we need more action. >> thank you very much. >> work continued today at the presidential campaign headquarters. the president-elect met with a delegation of the u.s. conference of mayors. he spoke to reporters after the meeting. my name my name is matt cornet. steve benjamin, mayor of columbia, south carolina. tom cochrane, elizabeth, the mayor of burnsville minnesota. , my vice president, mitch, the mayor of new orleans. we had a fairly interesting meeting with the president-elect. it lasted about 15 to 20 minutes and he showed great int

how he ended up in alabama instead. >>> christie's haters. why new jersey's governor is blaming them for a big defeat. >>> giants killers. what a finish. the eagles win a nail biter at the linc. >> announcer: nbc10 news starts now. >>> who killed grace packer, a 14-year-old girl is dead and her mother is under arrest. i'm jim rosenfield. >> and i'm jacqueline london. sara packer is accused of misleading police after reporting her daughter missing this summer. police eventually found grace's body in the woods. her mother is considered a person of interest in her death. and tonight we've learned the mother spent time working in social services. nbc10's drew smith has the latest. >> reporter: this is a complicated case because the clues are scattered across at least four counties. we know other relatives last reported seeing young grace here in northern lehigh county for a picnic way back on the fourth of july. >> she used to get dropped off at the bus right here. >> reporter: it's been a while since neighbors in abington township have seen 14-y

the alabama -- the alabama approach is the right approach and the alabama approach justice breyer is not essential to show a conflict. >> , could and the two that i talked about illustrate what that predominance means and they are pretty much i think pretty much what you said. >> we would agree with that. >> what is it that you said? >> i think what we said -- [laughter] what we said are two things. one that simply because you use a racial target you are not in strict scrutiny and that's from alabama and two a conflict is not essential to prove a claim but three there has to be some pretty strong evidence besides the use of the racial target to put you in strict scrutiny and so. >> may ask mr. gornstein the same question that i asked mr. elias? if we did vacate this on the grounds that is the correct standard what you just said and that's not the standard to district court used, what do you think would happen if the standard that you just stated was fairly applied would anything change? >> we have only done close analysis of three districts as you can see from our brief and in two of

many of them right from alabama. and you know it. it's the greatest jobs theft in the history of the world. there's never been a jobs theft like has happened to us and we're going to untheft it, folks, we're going to bring it back. okay? we're going to bring it back. and we're not going to be taken advantage of anymore by all of these foreign countries. we are going to have a very new policy for a long time. it hasn't been this way. it's called america first. it's now america first. [ cheers and applause ] and if a company wants to fire their workers, leave the great state of alabama or another state for another country, and then ship their new products right back into our country through a very strong border, by the way, there will be consequences. right now they can do that, make the product, bring it in for nothing. you swhau we did with care ye air conditioner, and go buy carrier. go buy carrier. they were great. thousands of people, if you look tat from a family standpoint are going to have a great christmas in indiana. we have

he addressed the crowd in mobil, alabama. he has been and remains defiant, criticizing the media and as usual we'll have more on what he said and the news next announcement: this storm promises to be the biggest of the decade. with total accumulation of up to three feet. roads will be shut down indefinitely. and schools are closed. campbell's soups go great with a cold and a nice red. made for real, real life. >>> we just heard president elect trump vowing to restore hope to our nation. he outlined a litany of proposals but he's already apparently defied the senate republican leadership. senate majority leader mitch mcconnell reportedly asked him not to nominate ryan zinke for interior secretary department. but mr. trump did it anyway. what does this mean going forward? alexander, what does which mean if congressional republicans now have one of their own in the white house who does it his way? >> well it is a disappointment to mitch mcconnell who's played a very active role since the 2012 election shaping senate or republica

they'll play undefeated alabama this saturday in atlanta. gators head coach jim mcelwain questions about possibly leaving florida to go coach at oregon. but he says he hasn't heard from the university and has no plans to leave gainsville. it may be two months away but you can get your tickets to the florida state fair today. and this year when you buy your tickets today, you will get a free gold access pass for express rides on weekends and on february 20th. the florida state fair runs from febuary 9th until the 20th. to buy tickets and to learn more about pricing, head to our website, w-t- s-p dot com. dozens of women go to new heights to break a world record. up next, the incredible video that has helped get the holiday season is here, which means christmas lights all across the tampa bay area. after the break, the top places you'll want to check out. 10 news and the tampa bay lightning want to put you in the stands for the game! make sure you watch 10 news at 11 for the secret word to enter to win two lower level tickets to the tampa bay

. >> in just over day, more than dozen confirmed tornados hit louisianna, mississippi, and alabama. at least five people are dead. mark vast man in rosalie, alabama, where people there are learning the extent of this destruction. >> so much needs to be done that i don't know where to start. >> connor hughes, like many here in jackson county, has returned to what's left of his home. he is struggling to scrape up the essentials of life. >> i'm just trying to co-late some holes and stuff so i can get something to drink. >> hundreds of structures leveled, and thousands of people are without power. jim smith lost his business, when a twister hit. >> my list is going, no big deal. i'll get it altogether and re-start. >> it is coming right at us. >> look at this, you can see the path of destruction and ruin, severe weather system began here in northeast alabama, blue into tennessee, and georgia, and then headed for the carolinas. 100 miles north in tennessee, the town of aspen is recovering from extensive property damage. >> we are extremely fortunate that we have not had a fatality at thi

he'll be in mobile, alabama, the final stop of his thank you tour. then he's off to palm beach florida where he'll spend time at his resort. >> while he says, thank you, president obama is saying be warned. he's nearly naming russian president vladmir putin as the man behind russia's hacking and influence in the election. >> in early september when i saw president putin in china, i felt that the most effective way to insure that that didn't happen was to talk to him directly. and tell him to cut it out and there were going to be serious consequences if he didn't. in fact, we did not see further tampering of the election process. >> and russia has a message in return to the u.s. they say prove it. >> let's bring in elizabeth wahl. hello to you. >> good morning. >> i want to start with what we heard from some members of congress talking about what should be the response to russia to vladmir putin. we have a tweet from senator lindsey graham where he says if you don't go after russia for hacking during 2016 election you're inviting other bad actors to d

. >> in mobile, alabama. more from the president-elect straight ahead. >>> meanwhile, democrats unleash their last ditch effort threatening members of the electoral college. vote hillary or we want you to die. wait, i thought they were against fake news. >>> michelle obama proclaims hope in america is dead. but what do the blue collar workers whose jobs might be saved think of that. one of them is here to respond to that hope at christmastime. "fox & friends" starts right now. ♪ have a holly jolly christmas ♪ and when you walk down the street say hello to friends you know and everyone you meet ♪ >>> 60 degrees and all that snow has melted in new york city. >> all pooling right in the sidewalk where you want to step. >> it's nice and clean water now. it's just lovely. >> good morning, everyone. i'm sure you've already done all your christmas shopping. >> i'm going to do it today online. ship it all. >> coming up later in the show last-minute best gadgets for moms and dads and last-minute ideas. >> i did

under no circumstances would i ever move back to alabama. shortly thereafter, i read "to kill a mockingbird" and thoughtt not know, gee, i did there were people who thought this way in alabama. the reason i'm in alabama now is largely because of harper lee and "to kill a mockingbird." embracengham decided to this history, to embrace the past, and t to use it in a way o move forward. to use it as a painful lesson on what happens when we teach hate, particularly to our children. >> before "to kill a mockingbird ," i would always -- you would feel kind of awkward introducing myself t to another race and trying to get to know them, but i learned that people are people. >> it is coming to the end of rehearsals. they have gone long, everyone is tired. >> it is hard, i'm not going to lie, it has been really tough. i have invested so much time in this. we have got to come together, put on a great show. .e having fun >> all we have to do is have the audience. when you read the book from the contemporary viewpoint, what we want to ask ourselves is not

it was a long way away from the alabama primary. alabama not expected to be a swing state, but what that rally demonstrated was trump's passionate support among working class voters. and it was those voters that helped him on his methodical march to the white house which turned out, of course, to be successful. now, trump has taken somewhat of a different tone in these thank you rallies that he did in the campaign trail, kind of a gentler donald trump in some respects. last night at his rally in florida, he asked the crowd to follow his lead. take a listen. >> you people were vicious, violent, screaming, where is the wall? we want the wall. screaming prison, prison, lock her up. i mean, you are going crazy. i mean, you were nasty and mean and vicious and you wanted to win, right? but now you're mellow and you're cool and you're not nearly as vicious or violent, right? because we won. >> and i can tell you i was at that rally about a year and a half ago here in alabama. at the time, we were wondering if these crowds were coming out j

louisiana, mississippi, tennessee, around alabama. five people were killed and dozens of others hurt. >> i don't know where to start. >> reporter: connor hughes, like many in jackson county sharks returned to what's left of his home. he is struggling to scrape up the essentials of life. >> i am just trying to get some bowls and plates. structures were leveled and thousands are without power. he lost his business when the twister hit. >> my business is gone. i will get it all together and restart. >> it's coming right at us. >> reporter: you can see the path of destruction and ruin. the severe weather system began here in northeast alabama, blew into tennessee and georgia, and then headed for the carolinas. recovering from extensive property damage. >> we are extremely fortunate that we have not had a fatality at this point. i think that's something that we're very blessed to be able to say. >> reporter: the county's mayor became emotional sharing the story of a family who escaped the worst. >> in one of our hardest hit areas, a new ch

mark strassmann is in alabama. >> reporter: rosalie, alabama, population 700, took the storm's first knockout punch at five minutes after midnight. this trailer home flipped and killed three people inside. that runs along state highway 71. one resident told us the lights went out, and then he heard a loud growling sound, and in 10 seconds, all these buildings were destroyed and these semitrucks were flipped like tonka toys. in neighboring ider, we found 14-year-old aubrey williams. her aunt and uncle own this former daycare center where her family rode out the storm. only the bathroom still stands. wind picked us up and threw us, and we went through walls and the roof fell down and collapsed on us. >> reporter: four adults and three children hunkered down here. four of them are in the hospital, including her mother. 100 miles north, 135-mile-per- hour winds raked athens, tennessee. mcminn county sheriff joe guy: >> we have not had a fatality at this point. i think that's something that we're very blessed to be able to say. >> this save-a-lot store, james and sherry long took shelter