Drug Lord El Chapo Transferred to Juarez Prison
ROMANS: Nearly 90,000 people in Alberta have been forced to flee their homes escaping this devastating wildfire burning an area half the size of Rhode Island. More than 1600 homes and buildings already torched. And as firefighters struggle to beat back these flames, officials are concerned about extremely dry conditions and unpredictable winds. They fear this could just be the beginning of a long, hot summer. We get more from CNN's Paul Vercammen in Edmonton.</s>PAUL VERCAMMEN, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: John, Christine, I'm in front of the evacuation center where many of the fire refugees are either grabbing supplies or spending the night or both. They are all concerned about what has happened to their homes. Some know, some don't. One factor in all of this, the wind, you can hear it. Firefighters battling with it. Now fortunately the wind blowing the fire away from Fort McMurray, that was the town ravaged by the blaze. Quite an ordeal for the families in Fort McMurray and imagine what all of this was like as it blew through there last week in the eyes of a small child.</s>UNIDENTIFIED CHILD: I saw the flames and they were very bad and like the fire, it was like very big. I saw the smoke downtown. And we thought my school was burned down, but it wasn't. It's like very bad.</s>VERCAMMEN: And as we said, you could hear what firefighters are up against. It's that wind. Some 40 blazes in all burning in Alberta, Canada. We've got about 1500 firefighters on the line. Some of them becoming beleaguered, needing a break. Help is coming from Quebec and from New Brunswick. There's already more firefighters here from parts of Ontario. All of them hoping that they get the relief in terms of more manpower and that this wind somehow dies down. Back to you now, Christine, John.</s>ROMANS: It's remarkable.</s>BERMAN: It is devastating there and they could be in for a lot more as the summer increases. It's so early still. All right. Here in the United States, severe weather all across the plains this weekend. Multiple reports of tornadoes touching down in Colorado, Nebraska, Kansas and Oklahoma. Along with hail. Very big hail in some parts of the country. Here's some stunning footage.</s>ROMANS: Whoa.</s>BERMAN: From Colorado. Look at that. Is that real?</s>ROMANS: Looks like a classic EF-2 to me.</s>BERMAN: It is in fact a classic EF-2 twister. I almost can't believe that's real. It looks like a</s>CGI. ROMANS: It's real. Really --</s>BERMAN: Can you imagine seeing that? That is just terrifying. Oh my. All right. So will this severe weather continue today? Meteorologist Pedram Javaheri has the latest.</s>PEDRAM JAVAHERI, AMS METEOROLOGIST: John and Christine, good morning, guys.</s>ROMANS: All right, Pedram. Thank you for that. The governor of North Carolina has until the end of today to respond to a letter from the Justice Department challenging the state's controversial new transgender law. Governor Pat McCrory says he will answer the letter before the deadline, but he complains U.S. officials did not give him enough time to stop enforcing the law or to repeal it altogether. At stake more than $800 million in federal education funding that could be pulled from North Carolina schools.</s>GOV. PAT MCCRORY (R), NORTH CAROLINA: They gave the ninth largest state in the United States, the Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department, three working days to respond to a pretty complex letter and to a pretty big threat. Well, we don't think three working days is enough to respond to such a threat. We are really talking about a letter in which they are trying to define gender identity. And there is no clear identification or a definition of gender identity. It's the federal government being a bully.</s>ROMANS: The Justice Department has warned North Carolina its new law -- a law which requires transgender people to use public bathrooms corresponding to the sex on their birth certificate. The Justice Department says that's a violation of the Civil Rights Act.</s>BERMAN: Ferguson, Missouri, swears in its new police chief today. Major Delrish Moss, the longtime spokesman for the Miami Police Department, is taking over nearly two years after the shooting death of Michael Brown. Moss says the Ferguson Police Force needs diversification. And his first order of business would be to increase interaction between officers and young people.</s>ROMANS: All right. The jailed drug kingpin El Chapo is closer than ever to the U.S. border this morning. He was transferred from his maximum security prison over the weekend. El Chapo's attorney has claimed their client wants to be extradited to America as soon as possible because prison conditions in Mexico are making him ill. Our CNN's Boris Sanchez reports he could get his wish very soon.</s>BORIS SANCHEZ, CNN CORRESPONDENT: John and Christine, one of the most notorious criminals in the world on the move this weekend. Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman now closer and closer to U.S. soil. Mexican authorities confirming that El Chapo was transferred from a central Mexican prison to a maximum security lockup in Ciudad Juarez. That's just a few miles away from the United States. The exact reason for the transfer is still unclear. But officials on both sides of the border tell us that they have been preparing for months for the extradition of El Chapo to the United States. The drug kingpin had been held at the Altiplano prison, the same one that he fled last July in that brazen escape through a series of tunnels that garnered international attention and sparked a huge manhunt. He was finally captured of course in January. Returning to the prison after his recapture. The transfer to Juarez interestingly comes just one month after attorneys for El Chapo said that they were eager and looking forward for him to be extradited to the United States. Now attorneys walked that back in an interview with CNN last month actually saying that the whole thing was a ploy to get try to get El Chapo transferred because the conditions in the prison that he was being kept were unbearable. Making him ill. El Chapo, once he is extradited to the United States will go to court in Brooklyn, New York. He's said to face charges for murder, kidnapping and torture as well as importing more than a quarter million pounds of cocaine into the United States -- John and Christine.</s>ROMANS: A quarter million pounds.</s>BERMAN: It's a lot.</s>ROMANS: Wow.</s>BERMAN: All right. New Jersey sold the only winning ticket for Sunday's $429.6 million Powerball jackpot.</s>ROMANS: Wow.</s>BERMAN: The winner has not come forward. Whoever it is will take home the third most valuable lottery ticket ever sold in the United States of America. Your winning numbers, if you happen to be the one who bought that ticket at this Trend 7-11 are 5, 25, 26, 44, and 66. The Powerball number 9. Those seem like such obvious numbers.</s>ROMANS: I know. I know. But I guess only one person got it.</s>BERMAN: I guess .</s>ROMANS: A better investment than a lottery ticket? The stock market. The first week of May wasn't much to write home about. Could a rebound be in store this week? We'll get an EARLY START on your money next.