[Cuomo:] Welcome back to NEW DAY. Prosecutors could file hate crime charges against a white supremacist who opened fire at two Jewish facilities in Kansas, taking three lives. Now, the 73-year-old suspect has been described as a raging anti-Semite. This morning, we're learning more about him and more importantly the victims. CNN's George Howell is in Overland Park, Kansas, this morning George.
[George Howell, Cnn Correspondent:] Chris, he has been described as anti-Semite by the Southern Poverty Law Center, a man who for most of his life has been very vocal, especially online, about his hatred towards Jews. However, officials say of the three people he shot and killed last Sunday and families he terrorized, all were Christians. None of them were Jewish.
[Dispatcher, Overland Park Police:] Four or five shots have been fired into the front door. There's male with a shotgun.
[Howell:] The chilling 11 calls as three victims are shot and killed at two different Jewish facilities near Kansas City.
[Dispatcher, Overland Park Police:] Subject shot a female in the parking lot.
[Howell:] The alleged gunman, Frazier Glenn Cross, also known as Frazier Glenn Miller, a name well-known to the Southern Poverty Law Center which tracks hate groups. They say he's been long tied to white supremacist groups. Posting hate videos online, expressing anti-Semitic views like in this interview with Howard Stern.
[Howard Stern, Radio:] What is the biggest problem with the Jews?
[Frazier Glenn Cross:] They control the government, they control the mass media, they control the Federal Reserve Bank. And with those powers that are committing genocide against the white race.
[Howell:] In the aftermath of it all, we're learning more about the victims. Terri LaManno, occupation a therapist, her family calls a beautiful soul. Fourteen-year-old high school freshman Reat Griffin Underwood who loved to sing. And his grandfather, Dr. William Corporon, who was there to support his grandson an incredible loss for a family who has shown so much grace and courage in the face of incomprehensible crime.
[Unidentified Female:] I'm strong because I have faith and I know that god did not do this.
[Howell:] It's so hard to hear what these families have gone through. Cross has not yet been formally charged but we do expect to see him face federal hate crime charges filed later this morning Kate.
[Bolduan:] We'll obviously watch what happens there. But I think you point out a very important point, George, is to focus on the families, focus on the victims, focus on that daughter and mother who is going through something completely unmanageable right now.
[Cuomo:] Yes, for all the First Amendment protection we have, what motivated these actions does not deserve a fair hearing.
[Bolduan:] Evil is not OK.
[Cuomo:] No.
[Bolduan:] Let's turn to some weather now though this morning. Overnight, extreme weather tearing through the South. Meteorologist Indra Petersons has been tracking it all for us all morning, Indra.
[Indra Petersons, Ams Meteorologist:] I mean, lot of times when people heard the words "straight line damage from winds" and they don't pay attention as much as they want to hear the word "tornadoes". But here's exact reason why. We're talking knocked 30 mobile homes overturned from straight line winds yesterday. Thanks to the storm system that's making its way across the country. So, let's talk about where that system right now. Where is that threat? We're looking at the damage from straight line winds possible from Norfolk, all the way back down through Florence, places like Jacksonville, we're going to have that threat again for severe thunderstorms as all of that energy really kicks up, especially in the afternoon again. Look at this. Look at the temperature difference. This is the reason we're talking about severe weather. Warm temperatures along the East Coast, but just behind the cold front. Look at the 20s and 30s right now and may want to look the actual snow making its way through, yes, this late in the season, looks like Cincinnati already seeing some soft flurries. So, here's the frontal system looking for heavy rain in the south, spreading into the northeast, lasting throughout the day. Not clearing out until overnight. Look closer. Even that cold air is filling in bringing in flurries to Philly. Even New York City overnight, the bulk of it, yes, probably 2:00 or 3:00 in the morning, may not even noticed it, but that cold air makes its way down in the Southeast. So, this huge temperature drop makes its way through. Heavy rain will be there. But more importantly, the cold air, the temperatures drop another 20 degrees by tomorrow. It felt so good for like a day, right?
[Bolduan:] It will be back.
[Petersons:] It will be back.
[Bolduan:] The roller coaster continues.
[Petersons:] I like the positive attitude.
[Cuomo:] You said the cold was gone. It wasn't coming back.
[Petersons:] When did I say that?
[Cuomo:] Science.
[Petersons:] Rewind.
[Cuomo:] Coming up on NEW DAY, too deep. The robot sub going too far, too fast right out of the gate. So, we're going to look at the challenges searchers now face the deeper they have to look.