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COY WIRE: What's up, everyone?
I'm Coy Wire, coming to you from Houston, Texas today.
Rise up!
I am here covering all the action
at this year's Final Four and the college basketball
national championship game.
I am so grateful to be here with you
to help you jump start your week right here on "CNN 10."
Now, we do start today with some tragic news for our lead story.
The communities in the South and Midwest
regions of the United States were hit by severe tornadoes.
More than 50 preliminary tornado reports were recorded Friday,
and at least seven states and communities across the country
faced absolute devastation this weekend.
Neighborhoods were leveled, with homes and businesses destroyed.
The roofs of buildings were torn off by wind.
And as of Sunday, when we recorded our show,
27 people have been reported dead.
And the threat of more tornadoes had shifted to the Southern
Plains, where nearly 13 million people in North Texas,
including the Dallas-Fort Worth area
face an enhanced risk for severe weather.
The latest destructive weather across the South and Midwest
comes just a week after a severe tornado walloped the Southeast,
killing at least another 26 people
and destroying much of Rolling Fork, Mississippi.
In addition, storms have also knocked out power to
these struggling communities.
When we recorded our show Sunday,
more than 30,000 customers in Arkansas
remain impacted by power outages,
with hundreds of thousands more without power across the South
and Northeast, including 120,000 in Pennsylvania,
73,000 in Ohio.
The governors of Indiana, Iowa, Illinois, and Arkansas
have all declared emergency or disaster declarations
in their states to provide immediate assistance
to impacted counties.
President Joe Biden has also issued a major disaster
declaration for Arkansas.
We'll hear now from CNN meteorologist Derek
Van Dam, who's currently in Wynne,
Arkansas assessing the damage.
DEREK VAN DAM: We are in badly devastated Wynne, Arkansas,
where electrical vehicles and companies are on the scene,
trying to assess the initial damage here
that the mayor described has literally
split his town in half.
And we are standing directly in that path
from this devastating tornado.
I want you to see behind me.
This is a home.
That is a living room, and that's somebody's piano.
There's no music being played there today.
This house has been vacated.
There have been injuries.
Overnight there were active search and recovery
efforts taking place.
We've walked around this area.
The Wynne High School here in Arkansas,
home to the Yellowjackets, their home football field
was decimated by this tornado.
And I want you to see it from the air
because you can notice the kind of indiscriminate nature
of a tornado and how its path of destruction
is very concentrated.
It literally, like peeling back the skin off of an orange,
took the artificial turf and ripped
it off of their home field.
But on the other side of the football field,
it was left untouched.
So were some homes.
But the areas where it hit hardest, of course, completely
devastated.
And we have seen just the true nature of how incredible mother
nature can be.
It is a scary morning, as we get first light
and get a idea of just how bad this tornado really was.
COY WIRE: Former President Donald Trump
is expected to appear in a New York courtroom
tomorrow following a formal criminal charge late last week
by a Manhattan grand jury.
The charges include more than 30 counts related to business
fraud, but the specific details of the indictment
have not been made public.
This is the first time in US history
that a current or former president
has been criminally charged.
But did you know that Ulysses S. Grant
was once arrested for speeding?
That's right, speeding on his horse drawn carriage,
all the way back in 1872.
Now, in response to the charges, the former president
has maintained his innocence and claims that the charges
are politically motivated.
The unprecedented nature of bringing a former US president
in for criminal charges has activated
a complex, choreographed security
effort in the city of New York.
CNN's Shimon Prokupecz is in Manhattan as the city prepares
for Tuesday's arraignment.
SHIMON PROKUPECZ: With an unprecedented indictment
comes immense security challenges.
The NYPD along with court officers, US Marshals,
and the United States Secret Service
are running through logistics of how
Tuesday's historic arraignment of the former president
will go down.
Law enforcement sources telling CNN officials
are conducting a dry run of Trump's movements,
including his motorcade route to the courthouse in Downtown
Manhattan, where he is expected to be arraigned Tuesday
afternoon, how he will get inside the courtroom
flanked by Secret Service.
And what will the arrest process look like?
Will he be treated like any other defendant?
The former president expected to be
fingerprinted and photographed for a mug shot.
It's a massive effort, starting when Trump arrives by plane
Monday, securing Trump Tower, the court,
and the motorcade route.
KENNETH COREY: In this case, though, where you have
a former president and certainly a president with as large
a following as former President Trump,
there's a lot of unique concerns that
are going to come into play.
I think that the bigger unknown here
is going to come in the form of protests or potential protests.
SHIMON PROKUPECZ: Officials are also bracing for protests
after Trump urged his supporters to protest
his arrest when news of the indictment reportedly neared.
So far, the mayor's office says there are no credible threats
to the city.
And out of an abundance of caution,
every member of the NYPD, some 35,000 officers,
are reporting for duty in uniform
and prepared for mobilization.
KENNETH COREY: The challenge for the NYPD
is going to be protecting everybody's First Amendment
right, allowing everybody to have their voice heard,
and to do so in a way that keeps the peace.
COY WIRE: Next, we're catching up with Nelly Cheboi, who
was named CNN Hero of the Year.
Her non-profit organization TechLit
has gained widespread recognition for its efforts
to upcycle old computers and provide tech education
to rural communities in Kenya.
We'll delve into Nelly's experiences
since winning the award and hear firsthand
what it meant to achieve such a momentous victory.
- Nelly Cheboi.
WILLIAM RUTO: We also congratulate Nelly Cheboi.
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COY WIRE: 10-second trivia, who invented
the game of basketball, Jerry West, James Naismith, Abner
Doubleday, or Walter Camp?
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On December 21, 1891, PE instructor James Naismith,
using a soccer ball and two peach baskets,
created what was called a new game of ball.
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Today's story getting a 10 out of 10
is from right here in Texas.
We've had a ball covering what's been
called the wildest Final Four of all time, women's and men's.
Last night in the women's championship game,
it was LSU winning it all.
They've been led all season by superstar Angel Reese
and their Hall of Fame coach, of course, Kim
Mulkey, who has some of the most flamboyant
fashion in all of sports.
You go, Tigers!
Congrats to LSU.
And tonight, right here in Houston
in that stadium behind me, the men's title game.
It'll be San Diego State and UConn
playing for all the marbles.
I caught up with the head coaches from each team
and found out that they are both superstitious.
BRIAN DUTCHER: I wear the same shoes, the same socks.
You know, I'm trying to stay consistent with what
I've got on for every game.
We're on a win streak.
I don't want to change anything.
COY WIRE: Same shoes, how long have you been wearing them?
BRIAN DUTCHER: They've been through two Gatorade baths,
two cutting down of nets.
COY WIRE: Is it true that you've been wearing
a certain same sort of clothing article
for superstitious reasons?
DAN HURLE: Yeah, that's definitely
true, as well as the socks.
But the socks are unremarkable.
They're just a blue pair.
COY WIRE: But the same pair?
DAN HURLE: Same pair, and I've gone back to an older pair
of shoes that I wore at Rhode Island, when we
won an NCAA tournament there.
COY WIRE: Now, I'm not superstitious,
but I am sometimes a-little-bit-stitious.
How about you?
Any superstitions?
One thing we always do, though, because we believe it keeps
the good mojo flowing, is give a shout out every show
to show you some love.
Today's shout out is going to Rochester, Minnesota
Willow Creek Middle School.
Go Wildcats!
We see you, and we hope you and everyone watching around
the world have a wonderful one.
I'm Coy Wire, and we are "CNN 10."