Tornados Strike Central U.S.; Milosevic Death "Natural"
CAROL LIN, HOST: Coming up on CNN, a day after deadly tornados rip through the Midwest, the heartland is not out of trouble yet. Also, the heartbreaking tale of Dana Reeve and the question surrounding life and death. An expert weighs in. And perverted justice, protecting your children from predators who may be stalking them online. It is 10:00 p.m. in Sedalia, Missouri, where there is a tornado warning in effect and 11:00 p.m. in New York, where a murder may have been caught. From the CNN Center in Atlanta, I'm Carol Lin. And if you're just catching up on the weekend, we have got all you need to know. For example, tonight's headlines. This is why they call it tornado alley. Right now, parts of the Midwest still under a tornado watch. Wave after wave of angry storms knocked people out of bed in Illinois and Missouri and battered the central Mississippi Valley. No suicides, no foul play. It looks like former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic died of a heart attack. And that's just the initial findings today. The NYPD believes this is the face of a rapist and a killer, Darryl Littlejohn. Police say a DNA test puts his blood on the body of a young woman brutalized and strangled. And where did you spend this Sunday night? The Bada Bing or Wysteria Lane? The long awaited return of "The Sopranos" went toe to toe against "The Desperate Housewives." Sunday night is now fight night for the two shows. Can the two families peacefully co-exist? Forget about it. And this is just the thing punk rockers hate. Legitimacy. It's rock and roll hall of fame induction time again. And the Sex Pistols won't be there. We're going to tell you why. But up first, it's been no day of rest for those of you in the central Mississippi Valley. Houses and trees and lives turned upside- down in the wake of a ferocious beating by the weather. Kansas, Illinois, southern Missouri clobbered by hail stones the size of baseballs and shredded by tornados. And don't think it's over yet. We know you have to plan for the morning. So Bonnie Schneider is all over the forecast. We're going to go to the Weather Center live in one minute. Right there, she is right now, actually.</s>BONNIE SCHNEIDER, CNN METEOROLOGIST: Carol, here's what we're looking at. We have our tornado watch boxes. And they've actually just been extended now to 4:00 in the morning Central Time. And that's very unusual to have these tornado watches extended so far off into the distance, because the weather has been so violent and so severe today. Taking a closer look at what's happening in Missouri, for example, numerous tornado warnings. They're indicated by the darker orange color you see on the screen. And actually, it travels as far south into Arkansas and then northward towards Illinois as well. So we have numerous tornado warnings at present in an area that is under a tornado warning, as you mentioned, Sedalia. And unfortunately, this county here right through this region here, Hedis (ph) County, was also the site for a tornado touchdown earlier today. We have some video that just came in. We can show you some of the damage caused by this tornado that touched down approximately 4:13 p.m. A woman was killed when the tornado hit her mobile home near Sedalia, making her the third person to die in Missouri over the weekend because of severe weather. Now this twister, which at times was one half mile wide, displaced 100 to 150 residents on a diagonal path from eight miles south of Sedalia to eight miles east of town. So that's according to officials there. So we're looking at this threat of severe weather to continue throughout the night tonight, with a lot of these, what we call super cell thunderstorms. They're actually quite rare, only five percent of thunderstorms are supercells, but what makes these unique and unfortunately, so violent and so severe, that they're often the cause of tornadoes breaking out with rotation in the clouds. And that's what we're seeing out there tonight. Carol?</s>LIN: All right, Bonnie, thank you very much. There are families out there tonight along the banks of the Mississippi with literally nothing left.</s>CAROL LIN, CNN ANCHOR (voice-over): This birds eye view speaks of the horrors. Fierce tornadoes ripped through a 20-mile-long swath straddling the Mississippi River, from Missouri to Illinois. Power lines entangled, strewn dangerously on the ground. And trucks and cars crushed and overturned. The worst damage was along a rural stretch of highway south of St. Louis.</s>RAY EARLS, DEPUTY, FESTUS, MISSOURI POLICE: We have probably five or six houses that are flat. Of course, this partial one here, we had to get a victim out of here. He was in pretty good shape.</s>LIN: Rescuers also rushed to what was once Mike Fieweger's home.</s>MIKE FIEWEGER, HOMEOWNER: My house is right over there. It's one that has nothing to it now. It's totally gone. We were watching the forecast on the TV. And my wife said we should go in the basement. We all went in the basement. And about six minutes later, no house. My truck was in my driveway. Now it's in my neighbor's yard, which is my neighbor there, but -- and then my wife's car is up there. My one son's car is on top, where our bedroom used to be. It's on top of the house now.</s>LIN: Fortunately, the Fiewegers are all fine. That was not the case for a husband and wife in a pickup truck on Highway 61. They died when a twister hurled their truck into a propane tank. Softball-sized hail caused more damage. And heavy rain prompted flash flood warnings across the area. Forecasters are calling for more severe weather through tonight.</s>LIN: Now if you want to know more about tornadoes, how they form, why they form, and see some amazing images of their fury, just log on to cnn.com. A bloody Sunday in Baghdad sparked new worries about religious civil war. Car bombs in a Shi'ite neighborhood killed more than 40 people, but the real victim of today's bombings could be Iraq's hopes for peace. Now in Baghdad, an explosive device was found under a passenger jet at the city's airport. And it is a bad sign for Iraqi leaders if insurgents can sneak a bomb onto the tarmac of the most heavily guarded airport in the world. CNN's Aneesh Raman reports.</s>ANEESH RAMAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): The fires burned after at least six car bombs detonated in Baghdad's Sadr City, home to the capital's largest Shi'ia community. Dozens killed, over 200 wounded in an area where militia loyal to Shi'ia cleric Muqtada al Sadr patrol the streets and show their force, a force that has now come under attack. In all in Iraq Sunday, scores were killed by roadside bombs, rocket attacks, and drive-by shootings. But the attack in Sadr City has devastating potential to infuriate the country's second largest Shi'ia militia. Security is the most important issue facing Iraq's government from the near daily bombs, to more dangerous tactics. Sunday, a source with Royal Jordanian Airlines confirmed that explosives had been found near a plane that was about to take off Thursday for Amman. The major security breach prompted the U.S. Embassy to issue this message that read in part, "As the result of a recent security incident at the Baghdad International Airport, the U.S. Embassy is prohibiting outgoing travel by all U.S. government employees on commercial airlines." Royal Jordanian delayed Thursday's flight by two hours to recheck passengers and luggage, but then the flight took off. And they have continued operations since. Attacks averted, attacks carried out, both overshadowing the continuation of Saddam Hussein's trial. For the first time, defendants were brought in one by one, to testify. Sunday saw three of Saddam's co-defendants. Low-level Ba'ath party officials question the evidence that's been presented. Saddam himself is set to testify later this week. (on camera): For their part, Iraq's current leaders spent Sunday feverishly working to jumpstart a stalled political process, announcing that parliament will convene for the first time on Thursday, three days earlier than expected, and just over three months after Iraqis voted them in. Aneesh Raman, CNN, Baghdad.</s>LIN: Back here in the United States, Democratic Senator Russ Feingold says the government's program that spies on people inside the U.S. goes too far. And now he wants the Senate to take a big legal step, a formal censure of the president. Feingold plans to introduce the legislation tomorrow. A censure would impose no legal punishment on President Bush, but it would give senators a way to scold and embarrass him. A Republican senator today called Feingold's idea political grandstanding. And the White House still argues the president has the power to authorize domestic spying. So we want to hear from you on this subject. Tonight's "last call," should President Bush be censured? Why or why not? Give us a call at 1-800-807-2620. Tell us your first name and where you're calling from. Well, it looks like even the CIA can't escape the long reach of the Internet. A new report says some CIA agents could have their covers blown by what's being posted on the worldwide web. An investigation by "The Chicago Tribune" reveals an alarming amount of sensitive CIA information is actually available online. The information came from so-called data brokers, who charge fees to sort through public records. The newspaper found the identities of some 2,600 CIA employees and private training facilities, even private residences, though it did not publish the identities.</s>LIN: Well, it may seem hard to believe, but party activists are already thinking about the 2008 election. Republicans with an eye on the White House gathered at a conference in Tennessee this weekend. Favorite son and Senator -- Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist won a very unscientific straw poll of delegates. Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney was second. And Virginia Senator George Allen tied President Bush for third. Senator John McCain asked delegates to vote for Bush instead of himself. McCain called the gesture a show of support for the president. Some said he had no heart. An autopsy was performed today on Slobodan Milosevic, known to many as the butcher of Bosnia. Well, he died in a prison cell in the Hague yesterday, awaiting trial for war crimes. CNN's Paula Newton has more on the cause of the death.</s>PAULA NEWTON, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Even in death, with a makeshift memorial on the steps of the tribunal he despised, Slobodan Milosevic's memory seemed to mock those so determined to see him convicted. And no one carries that burden more than Chief War Crimes Prosecutor Carla Del Ponte.</s>CARLA DEL PONTE, CHIEF WAR CRIMES PROSECUTOR: I deeply regret the death of Slobodan Milosevic. It deprives the victims of the justice they need and deserve.</s>NEWTON: Del Ponte was sure she would have seen the former president convicted of genocide by this summer. Coroners and pathologists have determined he died of a heart attack. The autopsy was performed by Dutch authorities with two Serbian doctors at their side. And they all caution these are preliminary results. They are still waiting for tests to determine what triggered the heart attack and what was in Milosevic's bloodstream when he died. (on camera): But no matter how thorough, no matter who was witness to the autopsy, the Milosevic family and some of their allies in Serbia will claim there was a cover-up. (voice-over): That was the message from Milosevic's lawyer, who arrived at the War Crimes Tribunal armed with fresh accusations that Milosevic himself told the Russian government he was being poisoned by his own doctors. The Milosevic family wants an autopsy done in Russia. Del Ponte admits she is frustrated. Years of evidence compiled and presented, dozens of delays by what she calls Milosevic's convenient illnesses. And now, all the controversy surrounding his death.</s>DEL PONTE: What it -- frustrated me the most is the - in the representation of the victims, because that is what they are asking for, that justice must be done. And now it will not be possible.</s>NEWTON: But she is determined to find some redemption for those victims. She is putting more pressure on Serbia to hand over Milosevic's top Bosnian-Serb commanders, still fugitives after all these years.</s>DEL PONTE: The days of Slobodan Milosevic makes it even more urgent for them to face justice.</s>NEWTON: But Milosevic, he has eluded that justice, something that will always weigh heavily on this tribunal. Paula Newton, CNN, the Hague.</s>LIN: A gruesome murder, a shady suspect, now a DNA match. Police say they know who killed this beautiful student.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We caught doctors, lawyers, cops, firefighters, teachers, social workers, you know, really all walks of life.</s>LIN: Those are the predators preying online. Could your teenager become a target?</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I went to bed. I was reading. The next thing I know, there's a policeman at my car door.</s>LIN: Well, you've heard of sleepwalking, but how about sleep- driving? 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