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Two Tornado Watches Issued For Central Oklahoma; Million Moms March Gathering In D.C.; Militants Storm Iraqi Prison, Kill Five Guards And Free About 40 Prisoners; GOP Hopefuls in South Carolina; WHO: Liberia is Ebola Free; Nepal in Recovery. Aired 3-4p ET

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POPPY HARLOW, CNN ANCHOR: Three o'clock here in the East Coast. I'm Poppy Harlow. Joining you from here, we are following breaking news for you this hour right in the middle of the country. America's heart land right now a wide streak of danger and possibly heavy damage is cutting across the central United States. You are looking at live pictures coming to us from our affiliate KFOR in South Central Oklahoma. Two new tornado watches have just been issued.

That is very large hail and more of it is on the way. There's some thunderstorms, very large hail possibly tornadoes. If you are in that zone Southwest Kansas, Western Oklahoma, parts of Northern Texas as well, you will want to keep an eye on the sky for the next few hours through 9:00 p.m. That is when the warning goes through even though the risk of destruction has lessened just a bit. This is Norman, Oklahoma. Tornadoes touch down there just a couple of days ago and it is really been nothing short of miserable since then. Heavy rain and flooding closed down the city streets even the interstates there. That's where we find our Ryan Young. He joins me now from Oklahoma City.

Ryan, I've been looking around you -- I mean devastation. The last thing that this area needs is to be hit again.

RYAN YOUNG, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, obviously some of these people are trying out of there. They have been trying to clear their -- this building right here. All their belongings they could salvage after the storm hit here a few days ago. In fact, we're going to walk you over, Poppy.

If you look back at this direction, you can see the power of the storm. It ripped the roof off this place and the folks who live on the inside said they had to make it into the bathroom and put a mattress over their head and brace for the impact of the storm.

Let me just say this right here. This green trash can -- there used to be two of them. One of them is on the roof. It was tossed up there where someone -- everyone said they could see it rolling down the way and then one of them bounced on top of this roof.

We talked to a woman a short time ago who said everything she owned has been just ripped apart, taken away and she's happy to have her kids and pet turtle.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: One shirt, one pair of pants and then nothing left. We didn't get -- I -- we have -- we're wearing the same clothes that we came in out of storm in.

YOUNG: So --

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: We have nothing.

YOUNG: They were saying there were not enough donations.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Not enough donations. I can't even have (INAUDIBLE) (post) hotel stays. I can't help -- do anything with my vehicle. I mean I had to go beg people for (metal) to get another hotel for my girls so they didn't have to sleep on a cot or the floor (discharged) down here.

YOUNG: There is goes for the two kids. We're in the inside. They came back a few days later. They found their pet turtle and they were just so happy to be able to go through this stuff that they have left. I mean if you look here you can see how the roof has collapsed in this building. The folks on the inside said they were praising God to be alive at this point.

Now that the storm is rolling in and we can actually see heavy lightning in the area, they said they wanted to get out of here but they didn't want to go through another experience like that but you can understand with more storms headed this way why the folks are nervous about tonight.

HARLOW: Yes, absolutely. They are. We're going to keep everyone posted as we get these updates minute by minute here. Ryan, stay with me but I also want to go to the CNN Severe Weather Center. Pedram Javaheri is there talking to us about the big picture here. And as I understand it that the warning now for these tornadoes extend until 9:00 p.m. Central Time. Is that right?

PEDRAM JAVAHERI, AMS METEOROLOGIST: That's right. The tornado watch there, Poppy, I get -- talking to you is right across that area into 9:00 p.m. central time. And you look at pretty expansive math here. It's about 16 million people dealing with the severe weather. The concern at this very moment is not as high as we think. It will be in coming couple of hours. You think about the month of may. You know what happens historically. Large tornado outbreak have occurred as recently just a few years ago, we had 138 tornadoes between the 24th and the 26th but this was what Poppy was talking about when it comes to an expansive area until 9:00 p.m. Central Time for 7.8 million people that includes Dallas that includes Oklahoma City. We've seen some 1,600 lightning strikes in a 60-minute period across this region of the country over the past hour so this is pretty remarkable when you think about the severity of the storm. At this point, just the tornado watch. Now, what this means, of

course, the conditions are favorable for a tornado to form. You take a look at the map across eastern portions of Oklahoma, across South -- areas of South Dakota and Western Kansas, tornado watch in place there as well. This far more sparsely populated about 197,000 people. But again, we expect these storms to really fire up later on into afternoon and potentially evening hours so that really becomes a concern when the sun goes down across this portion of the world.

But -- now, zooming out for you to get a look at this so wintry weather aspect to it as well, pretty impressive snowfall across the portions of high rockies.

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Could see the cold side of the storm there as well, Poppy, but parts of South Dakota maybe up to two feet of snow before Mother's Day is done with so pretty impressive setup.

HARLOW: Alright. Pedram, thanks so much. I want to go back to Ryan Young, who's with us in Oklahoma, City. And, Ryan, you know, Pedram mentioned may -- and when you think back in 2013 it was May 20th when that horrible, horrible tornado struck more of Oklahoma killing 24 people. What are the residents doing there to stay safe and, you know, protect themselves as much as they can until this warning is lifted at 9 o'clock tonight?

YOUNG: Well, there's something that was -- that sort of -- that touched all of us. The people who lived in this building said the disaster here wasn't big enough to get a large assistance so people are not coming in with donations. So a lot of people who lived here who were living check to check have no place to stay.

In fact, a woman was talking about basically using recycled metal to be able to pay for a hotel stay for their kids. And I don't know if you heard that but that's thunder rolling in. We're seeing heavy lighting kind of cascading in.

Now even if (INAUDIBLE) I've started, you can see the rain that is starting to fall in this area. So people said they wanted to get out of here.

Before they have to deal with this again. When you look at this direction and see what they were left with.

HARLOW: Yes.

YOUNG: And this is just one block, obviously. You can see that they were just trying to get out of here and get some place dry because, obviously, they don't want to try to get with mother nature twice in a week's span.

HARLOW: Ryan, stay safe. I appreciate the reporting. But if you do see lightning -- I know it's dangerous there with the satellite -- so you and your crew stay safe. Appreciate it. Thank you.

YOUNG: Thank you.

HARLOW: Well, on this Mother's Day weekend, a big protest, mothers gathering today in Washington, D.C., marching as one to the Justice Department and demanding an end to what they call racist police brutality in their community. Many women in this so-called Million Moms March are the mothers of sons killed in police shootings, including the mother of Michael Brown.

In Baltimore this afternoon, a march last night will be followed by one next hour held by the youth of Baltimore. They're beginning at town hall there -- right there outside city hall. As we saw last weekend as well, also other events they are holding their - hoping to bring peace and healing to the city after so much unrest. Sara Sidner has been on the story throughout. She joins me now.

So, Sara, you've been there all week. And now, we have this neutrality beginning next hour one day after the Justice Department. Loretta Lynch came out and said they're going to do a separate investigation of the Baltimore Police Department. What's been the reaction on the ground there to that?

SARA SIDNER, CNN CORRESPONDENT: It's interesting. I mean there are some folks who say, "Good." They want to see a top-to-bottom look at the department. They want to see exactly what has been beginning on in that department from the inside out as opposed to the other way around. We know this department has paid out fair amount of money in civil suits in the past and then you have this incident with Freddie Gray, where he died in police custody and now six officers are charged.

We were at the youth rally earlier today at the Baltimore City Community College. There were a few dozen people who showed up for that getting ready to march. They will end up here at this park and they talk about different things. And one of the things we're noticing (INAUDIBLE) there's a lot of people pushing this #bmorereally.

And basically what you're hearing from some of the (users) that they feel afraid from the police in their own neighborhood. Never mind the fact that some of the neighborhoods and the neighborhood where this happened with Freddie Gray, their crime rate is high. I mean there's been several shootings over the last week or so since Freddie Gray died. But certainly there is this idea that they have to now move towards healing. And protesting is great but they have to do more to try to move towards getting the city to move forward together.

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HARLOW: One of the -- when you say that, Sara, one of the questions that I have is how do you do that when you have such a disconnect even -- you know, you've got the police department, the union, the police union coming out yesterday and saying, "OK."

SIDNER: Right.

HARLOW: "We welcome the department of justice investigation but we think they should also be investigating the Mayor." So you've got a huge divide among city officials.

SIDNER: Right. Yes, there is a divide there too and obviously the police union is going to support its officers. And, you know, they basically said, "Look. We feel like the Mayor has said some things and has done some things that isn't right." They want to see the department of justice look at her office as well.

Right now though we're hearing from the DOJ. It's going to be focused in -- very focused on the police department itself. Very similar too. And I know you have covered a lot of what happened in Ferguson -- very similar to what happened in Ferguson looking at patterns and practices of the department to see if there's any Civil Rights violations or a pattern of practice of civil rights violations

against the people of Baltimore.

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Also you have this new allegation towards the State's attorney, the Chief Prosecutor here. Five things -- five things that the attorneys for these six officers are saying, and we heard some of that from the police union saying she has a conflict of interest in many different ways and that she should recues herself and her office should recues itself from this case. I don't think that's going to happen unless it is a force majeure. She has been very clear that she feels like there is absolutely no conflict of interest and her office can go forward in this prosecution, Ana?

HARLOW: Sara, thanks so much. Appreciate it. And we're going to back to Sara and back to Baltimore with (INAUDIBLE) bring you that live rally that is happening the youth rally in next hour.

Ahead right here in the NEWSROOM. ISIS claiming responsibility for a big prison break in Iraq. One that may have freed dozens of harden militant some facing terror charges. We'll talk about that, next.

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HARLOW: A particularly violent and deadly day in Iraq today. That is the sound of car bomb exploding right in Central Baghdad killing four people, wounding more than 25 others. This happened right near a crowd of Shiite Iraqi residents. They were getting ready for a traditional pilgrimage. In just the past few moments we saw that ISIS has claimed responsibility for that bomb.

Elsewhere in Iraq, a few dozen prisoners, some of them hardened terror suspects are now free after is militants stormed a prison and killed five guards

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and set 40 of the prisoners free. ISIS posting on social media that their fighters attacked the prison and broke out their fellow militant. Our Nick Payton Walsh is following it all from Beirut and filed this report. NICK PATON WALSH, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Differing

accounts of exactly what happened at the (INAUDIBLE) jail on outskirts of Baghdad in the (Vihala) area and it clearly is and according to ISIS, a quite complex operation from their perspective. They claim that this started when 15 IEDs were detonated on military and security vehicles on the outskirts of that jail enabling, of course, (hails) around the inside and then to what they refer to as liberate 30 they say of their knights.

Now differing figures from officials though perhaps suggesting that actually it was a riot inside the jail that triggered unrest and allowed people to launch this jailbreak. We don't know exact numbers. There are clearly dead in this and there are, at least it's fair to say, 40 inmates who have escaped.

Nine of them according to officials were facing terrorism offenses. Now, we don't know who they were or what level of significance they have in the ISIS hierarchy but

obviously significant enough for ISIS to seek -- to let use -- this level of resources to try and liberate them here.

Now, obviously, a man hunt is under way. Difficult though given the nature of terrain and how close ISIS held areas are to where this actually happened. And it is some degree significant too geographically because this is an area of the (INAUDIBLE) which is supposed to be free of ISIS presence. Clearly, they were able to project power to the outskirts and then launched this jail break too. And, clearly, as well ISIS is after some not great news territorially in the past losing control of Tikrit in the north of Iraq clearly here keen to be showing they are on the offensive or able to, at least, get their people out of Iraqi detention.

Once again, no clarity on who they have managed to release but it goes back to a tactic they used at the very start of ISIS' campaigns in 2013 that liberated many extremist militants on the Abu Ghraib instead of in the outskirts of Baghdad. They're back at it again perhaps looking for freshman power or to get veterans back their ranks.

A troubled time certainly for the militant group here but clearly able to project power on the outskirts of Baghdad and what should be an Iraqi government stronghold. Nick Paton Walsh, CNN, Beirut.

HARLOW: Nick, thank you for that. I was bringing Peter Bergen, CNN National Security Analyst. Peter, first I want to talk to you about what we saw happened here. This isn't actually the first time we've seen ISIS sort of facilitating carry out in major prison break, right? They did it Abu Ghraib. And I just wonder do you think that the most critical thing this tells us is that it is chaotic in terms of the Iraqi Security Forces trying to hold things together?

PETER BERGEN, CNN NATIONAL SECURITY ANALYST: Well, yes. I think probably they've done is (many) times. And in fact, they announced the campaign to do this back in, I think, late 2012, it was called Breaking the Walls Campaign, and they announced --

HARLOW: Yes. BERGEN: They were going to do this which was taking as many of the

prisoners as possible. And of course, these prisons hold, you know, some of the most hardcore members of the organization. And the whole movement arguably is coming out of prisons, whether it was (Kambuk) of the American Prison and the various Iraqi prison breaks we've seen since the U.S. withdrawal. But we're not (INAUDIBLE) -- we've seen this in countries other than Iraq. I mean we've seen this repeatedly in Afghanistan and Southern Afghanistan, in Kandahar. We've seen this Pakistan, the Pakistani Kalabham. We've seen in Yemen with alarming regularity, which is one of the main reasons the Yemeni prisoners in Guantanamo have not been returned to Yemen and the Obama administration is looking for other countries to take them.

So, it makes sense. So, I mean -- so like, you know, if we're (INAUDIBLE) about the, you know, (robos) asked why did he robbed prison or robbed banks because, you know, that's where the money is so the --

HARLOW: Yes.

BERGEN: Yes, these guys are breaking into prison because that's where their comrades are.

HARLOW: It's interesting because in this comes at a time when we keep hearing about ISIS not gaining more ground and losing key regions like (Dekrit) and then you see this sort of an increase even FBI Chief James Comey talking about it this week of devotees to ISIS here in the United States. You see what happened in Texas with that attempted terror attack last weekend and tying it to ISIS. Where's the disconnect?

BERGEN: Not sure it's entirely a disconnect. I think that in Iraq, they're losing ground. But they've also -- they went -- they had a serious operation of Ramadi.

So, yes, they can be opportunistic. The Iraqi government has control all of Iraqi territory. The ISIS can move around and select targets of opportunity. But in terms of what Director Comey said about the ISIS kind of inspirational movement in the States, it exist. I mean he has previously said that there are cases ongoing in 50 states and near America where I also work, we've identified, you know, publicly available document showing 19 cases -- 19 states where there have been cases involving 62 people some of them try to join ISIS.

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Some try to join new servers to the al-Qaeda. And so, yes, you're seeing something of a real spike in these cases here in the United States.

HARLOW: And as you said in your testimony in Washington, D.C. this week, you're seeing more women, more females rising up and saying they do not fit any ethnic profile so this is becoming much more widespread. Peter Bergen thanks so much. I appreciate it.

BERGEN: Thank you. HARLOW: Don't miss Blindsided. How ISIS shook the world. It is a

special report by our very own, Fareed Zakaria, again. Blindsided. Monday night 9:00 p.m. Eastern and Pacific only right here on CNN.

And we are keeping a very close eye on what we began this hour telling you about the dangerous weather across the central plains across a number of states, Oklahoma, Northern Texas, Kansas, all under a tornado watch including Colorado. We're going to bring you the latest on that when we return.

Also, one of the most notorious dictators toppled in the Arab Spring is a free man. We're going to explain why a court has

decided to release Egypt's former president, Hosni Mubarak, from jail.

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HARLOW: Almost four years after he was ousted from power following the Arab Spring uprising, former Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak will be allowed to walk free. A Cairo court gave Mubarak credit for time served after he was sentenced to three years for corruption. The decision has outraged opponents who believe that he should be held accountable for the deaths of hundreds of people during those Arab Spring protests. Our Ian Lee reports on this from Cairo.

IAN LEE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Poppy, while the former president was found guilty of charges, he'll be walking free according to state media. A judge sentenced him and his two sons to three years but will credit them for time served. The judge ordered them to pay over $19 million.

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When Mubarak first appeared in court in 2011, the nation ground to a halt. Egyptians couldn't believe their eyes when they saw the president appear in court. Now the trials have become a matter of fact. The nation seemed indifferent, more concerned with their daily lives. That's not to say there isn't anger over Mubarak being released. The families of hundreds killed during Egypt's revolution still demand justice. No one of rank has been held accountable. June 4th, the Cairo court will decide whether they'll accept the final appeal in a case that charges Mubarak those protesters' deaths. While Mubarak's sons have passed a low profile that's previously being released, the former president has been more high profile calling into a popular TV show telling them Egyptians they should support the current president. The question is if he's openly free, what role will citizen Mubarak play? Poppy?

HARLOW: Ian Lee for -- in Cairo this evening. Ian, thank you for that.

Also, I want to show you these images we're getting out South Central Oklahoma. We're keeping an eye. I think we have some live pictures. We'll try to get them for you. That's the chopper shot you see but it was very, very -- dark skies there in Central Oklahoma watch in this tornado warning that is in effect until 9 o'clock Central. We'll bring you more on that in a moment.

But also this in politics, nearly every major GOP contender for the White House is at a meeting in South Carolina today but one very big name skipped it. We'll tell you who, we'll tell you why next -- the first (beat) from the streets of Glasgow to the Scottish Highlands. See why Scotland is one of Anthony Bourdain's favorite places in all new Part Unknown episodes airing right here Sunday night 9 o'clock. Here's a preview.

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ANTHONY BORDAIN, CNN HOST, PARTS UNKNOWN: The Scottish highlands; one of those (INAUDIBLE) beautiful places on earth. You get to wear cool clothes, shoot animals, drag them back, cook them and eat them. Problem is there's hills.

After that hill, there's another hill and then another one and another one and another one. Eight months ago, no way I would have made this walk. You would have carried me home by now. the Scottish highlands for me, the most islands, physically challenging episode of my life. It hurts. It hurts a lot.

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HARLOW: All right, we're keeping a close eye on the severe weather across three states. A tornado watch has been issued for part of Colorado, Kansas and Nebraska. We're also (inaudible) on northern Texas there as well right in the danger zone. Just to be clear, this does not mean tornadoes have been spotted. It just means conditions are ripe for them. These watches are in place until 9:00 central time tonight. Tornadoes did touch down just to remember a few days ago in Oklahoma and Texas.

All right, to politics now, nearly all of the Republican contenders for president are in the early primary state of South Carolina today making their pitch to voters. A noticeable exception though, Jeb Bush is not there. He's somewhere else. The former Florida governor hasn't officially announced that he's running but he certainly sounded like a candidate while delivering this commencement speech today at Liberty University in Virginia aiming his message directly at a key voting block, Christian conservatives.

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JEB BUSH, FORMER FLORIDA GOVERNOR: But it's not only untrue, but it's also a little ungrateful to dismiss the Christian faith as some obstacle to enlighten thought, some ancient irrelevant creed wearing out of its welcome in the modern world. Whether or not we acknowledge the source Hebrew scripture in the New Testament still provide the moral vocabulary we all use in America and may it always be so.

(END VIDEO CLIP) HARLOW: A dozen other GOP hopefuls are taking the stage at the freedom summit in South Carolina today where Chris Moody is there. Chris, I think it's interesting when you look at some of the big names, you've got Jeb Bush out there, Rand Paul, Chris Christie. What's the calculus here? Why do they they decide this wasn't where they needed to be?

CHRIS MOODY, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Let's set the stage just a little bit. Here in South Carolina there are thousands of conservative activists in a theater here in Greenville listening to speech after speech, really a marathon day and it's an opportunity for the candidates to get their message out to those people and meet them. These are the folks that are going to be knocking on doors for you if they support you in the primary.

Now, for the candidates who are are not here, let's say Chris Christie he is really focusing a lot in New Hampshire. He feels that his efforts really better suited there and were moderate state. In the case of Jeb Bush he had an opportunity to speak as you mentioned, at Liberty University. The largest evangelical college in the nation, and when you get an invitation like that, to speak out their commencement address, you don't turn it down. It was an opportunity not only for him to reach out to evangelical voters but also to have the limelight there for himself.

HARLOW: That's a very good point, you know, looking at the list of people, who have spoken there, to give their address at Liberty University, you had in 2011, you had Rick Perry, you had Mitt Romney in 2012, you had Ted Cruz, I mean, this sort of a steppingstone it seems to making a presidential bid. What has stood out to you most though among those folks that are in South Carolina who have taken the stage there today?

MOODY: You know, Ted Cruz lit up the crowd. Take a listen.

[00:15:35] TED CRUZ, PRESIDENTIAL CANDITATE: I would encourage each of you to ask every single candidate that stands up in front of you, you say you disbelieve these principles, show me. When have you stood up and fought for them? When did you bleed for them? What have you accomplished? If you say you oppose Obama Care, when have you stood up and fought to stop it? If you say you oppose President Obama's Unconstitutional Executive Amnesty, when have you stood up and fought to stop it?

MOODY: Now, that's something we have heard from Ted Cruz before and will continue to hear it in the future. It's really his way of being able to hit the other candidates without naming them by name.

HARLOW: But here's the thing, Chris. When I looked at the shout of crowd and just to be clear here, that's an entire, you know, I'm not seeing the entire audience but it did not look like a diverse crowd. One of the key things for the GOP candidate this time around is going to be the Hispanic vote, the Black vote, being able to get that. Is it represented there at this forum in South Carolina?

MOODY: I wouldn't say entirely representative although there's a number of African-Americans here. Some of them on the stage speaking. There was something that they spoke about when they introduced the conference this morning. They were saying we can't only speak to ourselves. We also have be able to speak to other folks.

The speakers before the main events, the candidates or the hopefuls, they said, "We need to be looking for candidates who cannot only speak to you here in South Carolina but speak to people all over the United States. And that's what we need to be looking for in the candidate." That was surely the message, so I think that's on the minds of the people that are hearing speeches today.

HARLOW: Absolutely. Thanks so much. All right, Chris, I appreciate the report. And for all of our viewers, make sure to check out Chris's blog. It's appropriately titled "Being Moody." It is all the absurd wacky whimsical corners of political life as we head into this 2016 campaign and also the holds of congress. That's at cnn.com/beingmoody.

Well, coming up. It is a historic day in the fight against Ebola. Very good news on that up next.

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[00:15:40] HARLOW: The World Health Organization just today saying that the entire country of Liberia is Ebola free. Forty two days have passed since the last case was confirmed, officials say, this is a major milestone for the West African nation with once reported up to 400 new cases of Ebola each week.

More than 4700 people have died from Ebola in Liberia alone. In the meantime, an Ebola survivor who was declared completely free of the disease was stunned to learn that the virus was still living in his eye. He spoke with Anderson Cooper about how he found out and how he recovered.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: As the disease progressed I began to have problems with my visual acuity. So that's how we measure how well I'm seeing and my sight started to go bad it became clear that was a different animal. And that we was aggressive and whatever had been unleashed in my eye was not going away quickly. And one morning as this progress evolved I woke up and realized that my blue eye had turned bright green. And this was a surprise. Immediately concerned that I had been or I was at risk of transmitting to family members and to friends.

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HARLOW: And it begs the question, how could the virus be lurking in his eye if he was supposedly completely free from Ebola. CNN, Chief Medical Correspondent, Dr. Sanjay Gupta explains.

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DR. SANJAY GUPTA, CHIEF MEDICAL CORREPONDENT: The first question a lot of people asking is how could this virus survive in his eye even though he had been declared Ebola free? This was interesting that Ebola free what the doctors typically are saying by that is when they have checked the blood over a couple of days. They check at once and wait a couple of days, check it again, there was no evidence of the virus. But with regard to the eye, the eye along with a few other parts of the body can sort of insulate itself from the immune system.

So if a virus is present in the body it can sort of hide out in certain places including the eye. So what happened in this case over a couple of months after he was declared free of Ebola his eye started to become painful. He subsequently went to the doctor and they did sort of an interesting thing. They first because they knew he had this history of Ebola they looked at his tears and area around his tear ducts and tried to see if there was any Ebola was present, and there wasn't. Then they put a needle directly into the eye and when they took out some of that fluid they actually found a high concentration of Ebola.

So that was probably what was causing his symptoms, his painful eye. And after they did that test, they went ahead and checked his tears again and found that he did not have any presence of Ebola again in his tears. So the point here that he really did not appear to have any public health risks. A concern of spreading this virus to other people including the doctors who were doing this procedure. It is worth pointing out that the idea that Ebola could survive in the eye even a few months after someone developed the infection is not new.

Back in 1995, one of the outbreaks in central Africa they showed a few patients who in fact had that virus stay in their eye even a few months later. So he is getting medication to try and treat this and it's an experimental medication and so far it seems to be working. I do want to share to you this image again just take a quick look. His eye changed colors. It went from blue to green and then while he was getting treated it started to go back to its normal color.

People with blue eyes you mean though don't have pigment in their eyes. They are just sort of scattering the light that is shining into the back of their eye. People who have darker eyes have some of that pigment. When his eye changed color, could it been the virus itself causing some of that pigmentation, it could have been the inflammation, it's unclear. Usually, people who have a viral infection of the eye, they have a permanent eye color change if they are going to develop that at all. But again, in his case, it seems to be going back. As more details come to us, we'll certainly bring them to you. Back to you for now.

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HARLOW: All right Sanjay, thank you very much for that. We're keeping a very close eye on the severe weather across parts of Oklahoma, Texas, Kansas and Colorado. A tornado watch is in effect until 9:00 central time. We'll keep you posted on that.

Also, the Pittsburgh doctor helping the homeless in the streets. Instead of house calls Jim Withers he sees his patients under bridges, in alleys and along river banks. And he is this week's CNN hero. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

DR. JIM WITHERS, CNN HERO: Street medicine is bringing medical care right to the homeless where they are under the bridges and along the river banks, abandoned buildings.

Safety net. Anybody home?

It's going to the people. Can you make a fist? That hurt. I've been walking the streets of Pittsburgh for 23 years to treat the homeless. When I started I was actually really shocked how ill people were on the street. It was like going to a third world country.

Anyone home?

There were run away kids, 85-year-olds, pregnant women. And they all have their own story.

What hurts the most?

UNIENTIFIED MALE: This knee is so swollen.

[00:15:45] WITHERS: Once you get to know the folks out there, I knew that I had to keep going. Are you doing OK Medically? And now we've managed to treat over 10,000 people. Did they put staples in or stiches? Infections, diabetes, cancers, it just goes on and on and on. All right. I'm glad we saw you.

UNIDENFIED MALE: Thank goodness.

WITHERS: The folks that are willing to come us, we have a mobile medical need then we have drop-in centers.

Just opened again. We connect with the person. You've got friends. We'll be there for you. Then we advocate with them to get their insurance, get housing and care, wherever they are. They are also within our circle of love.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: And you did so much for me.

WITHERS: It really is a wonderful feeling that people in the street are beginning to get a voice in healthcare.

Good steady. You've got a good heart. It's something that we should take pride in and we can actually treat people the way we want to be treated.

ANNOUNCER: CNN Heroes, everyday people changing the world is brought to you by Subaru. Love is what makes us Subaru, a Subaru.

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[00:15:50] HARLOW: In Nepal, repair and recovery following that tragic earthquake, the 13-day period of mourning has now ended and the people there are just trying to pick up the pieces. The death toll stands at 7800 people, 3,000 of those in the Kathmandu region alone and hundreds are still missing beneath the rubble. Recovery is just beginning. Some Kathmandu shops are opening, traffic is once again filling the streets and our own Sumnima Udas has been reporting from her home country of Nepal and tells us more about the devastating loss and how it felt to her going home to see it all.

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SUMNIMA UDAS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: I'm not sure what I was expecting to find here. Parted, an ancient complex of temples and palace where my ancestors lived for generations. So much of it now devastated. This is where I used to happening out all the time. I would bring my friends especially from those abroad to show them the beauty and magnificence of Nepal. And so much of it is like this, in complete ruin. Ten years ago I spent a year making a documentary on the elicit trafficking of art in Nepal.

This is Ganesh, the lord of removal of all obstacles. And as you can see he's behind bars because so many of Nepal's Gods and Goddesses have been stolen. Then much of Nepal as you see them like this cage.

This time it was nature taking away centuries of history within seconds. Human beings being reminded how small we actually are. You've come to evaluate and that's when you realize almost every corner that you turn there's something that's been demolished. The impact of this tragedy on Nepali's society and culture is significant. These temples, the sculptures inside them, they are not just artifacts, they are worshipped. Nepalese believes these sculptures are not just sculptures.

They actually are manifestations of Gods so there's this whole ritual performed every morning. As you can see here, they are bathed and fed. You see the rice over here. They are garlanded with flowers, they put is (inaudible) this is all part of our living culture. There's so many of these all over the area, all across Kathmandu and Nepal. What's lost is intangible. Somewhere in the back of my head, I always knew I would have to cover this story one day. An earthquake in my homeland is something I've have always feared. Now that it's happened, it's heartbreaking to see Nepal, a country already struggling economically, politically, now set back by at least a few decades.

Sumnima Udas, CNN, Kathmandu, Nepal.

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HARLOW: And to all members, if you want to help the people of Nepal after this tragedy, go to cnn.com/impact.

Coming up next. Take a look at this video behind right behind me. It happened, it was taken during the earthquake and it is shocking. It captured the terror of climbers caught on Mount Everest right when the avalanche hit right after the earthquake. I spoke with the man who shot the video and survived. That's next.

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HARLOW: In the villages and towns beneath the peaks of Mount Everest, recovery from Nepal's devastating earthquake has barely begun. On April 25th the earthquake made an already dangerous situation even worse, case in point, take a look at this video. It was taken just seconds after the earthquake hit.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Go, go.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Are you okay?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yeah.

HARLOW: Jost Kobusch is the climber who shot that remarkable video and he is here with me now to talk about it. You survived through that, what was it like for you going through that? Did you think you were going to make it?

JOST KOBUSCH, MOUNT EVEREST AVALANCE SURVIVOR: Well, you know, first of all, it was so unreal and it was this moment I was asking myself is this a movie. And then later on when we hit, it was the first time in my life I was thinking am I dying now.

HARLOW: So how did you protect yourself?

KOBUSCH: Well, you know, first of all, I was even thinking should I move now? Does it really change or matter if I move now because that was so gigantic that I thought maybe it was just going to wipe me away anyway. But my sub-consciousness just started to just jump behind (inaudible) and get my head down. And you know, it's the worst spot to be behind in this moment I was not thinking anymore. We're behind that tent and when it hit us, my friends were under the jacket because it was a big blast. You can imagine it like when you're on the highway and driving 200 kilometers per hour and holding your head out of the window, you don't get any air in your lungs. And it was the same feeling.

HARLOW: No air in your lungs, I know one of the people in your climbing group who you became friends with on that expedition died.

KOBUSCH: Yes. well, you know, he didn't make it out of the tent. And he was just blown away with the tent, it was flying a couple hundred meters and then hit a rock and it broke his skull.

HARLOW: I'm very sorry. I mean, you guys were so lucky to make it out of there alive. There has been talk that the climbing season on Everest might be cancelled altogether because of this, because of routes that can't be rebuilt and some Sherpa's, fearful for their own lives understandably, do you think that is likely?

KOBUSCH: Well, when we were there, somehow we were already sure afterwards that nobody is going to climb anymore this season. And that's also later on we noticed because of the activities, because of the aftershocks and the ice fall is very a fragile mass of crevices where the route was destroyed up there. So it's not really possible to walk up. If you don't fix a new route, there's no way. HARLOW: You know, the fear after a tragedy like this is once the

cameras aren't rolling there anymore, once Nepal isn't in the headlines what happens. What do you think is needed most to help Nepal rebuild? And what do you want to encourage people to do to help?

KOBUSCH: Whoa. That's a quite tough question actually because I myself all goes to Nepal again and I will help my friends...