-- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com breaking news. president barack obama surprises troops and the world showing up in the afghan war zone days after he won a landmark health care bill. at this hour, the president is returning home on air force one. it was his first trip to the white house admits it's afghanistan as president. still unclear when the hello, everyone, i'm don lemon. the secret journey began in the guantanamo bay detention facility will be closed. middle of the night with the what to do with the inmates at president leaving camp david and flying out. gitmo has been a dilemma since soon after touching down, he met it opened. with afghan leader, hamid karzai it seems incredible, but one then met with military officials solution may be found in a libyan president. at bagram air base and spoke to nick roberts goes where no

journalist has ever ventured to a crowd of 2,000 u.s. troops. go for this exclusive story. >> if this region slides backwards, if the taliban retakes this country, al qaeda >> reporter: behind these walls, can operate with impugntive, then more american lives will be at stake. moammar gadhafi's son, fighters the afghan people will lose their chance at progress and who once waged war on his father in bosnia, afghanistan, and prosperity. and the world will be significantly less secure. beyond. it is the middle of the night. as long as i'm your commander in we're about to become the first chief i'm not going to let that journalists to enter the prison. happen. that's why you are here. i've made a promise to all of as we go in, it is almost surreal. you who serve. it feels like anything but a i will never send you into jail. we arrive during family visits. harm's way unless it's life for the prisoners is so absolutely necessary. i anguish in thinking about the relaxed, wives can spend the sacrifices that so many of you night, many children conceived make. here. an easy-going strategy the that's why i promise i will never send you out unless it is regime has relied upon to win necessary, but that's only part the prisoners over. of the promise because the other

part of the promise is that when >> they can stay with their it is absolutely necessary you wives, you know, see their will be backed up by a clear families. sometimes they go to their homes mission and the right strategy and go back to jail with and you will have the support to finish the job to get the job treatment, you know. drink, food, visits, books, tv, done. and i'm confident all of you are going to get the job done right here in afghanistan. radio. al jazeera. >> okay. back to the president and that cnn. >> reporter: you give them a lot. >> yeah. breaking news in a moment. it's not guantanamo here. other breaking news concerning the weather. straight away to jackqui jeras. no. >> reporter: these creature comforts would not be enough to a toshd tornado on the ground? >> right. charlotte. seven miles to the northwest of earn the trust needed to bring there. local law enforcement as well as trained spotters have seen this about the peace agreement. which he turned to one-time ally tornado. here's that area that we're talking about right here. of osama bin laden. secretly he was brought back to if you know where paw creek is that's the location of the tornado moving to the north and libya. promised he wouldn't be east around 40 miles per hour. if you live in huntersville you need to be taking coffer arrested. and so became safal islam's go immediately. this is a very dangerous between for prisoners. situation in a populated area. when he first walked in to the this is within that perimeter jail, his former brothers in

area of the interstates in the charlotte area. arms were shocked. we're making calls and trying to find out if there's damage or >> surprised. when they entered the room injuries as we continue to follow this story, we'll bring you more information. don? started to -- just, try to >> thank you. we'll get back to you in a little bit. meantime, back to our other focus, zoom, is it real? news, president barack obama's seeing the same person? meeting with president hamid it was a shock for them. karzai lasted a half an hour at they insist that i should be the presidential palace. arrested with them. yeah. atia is in kabul. >> reporter: humor aside, his job was deadly serious. tell us what went on during this meeting? >> reporter: well, don, let's talk about the significance here >> i they i was there to help them, and it's just the first first. president obama, first trip to meeting of many to come. afghanistan since he's been sworn into office. >> reporter: he kept careful president obama avoided coming notes of the meetings, which he has given exclusively to cnn. to afghanistan, even though it was a big part of his foreign policy issue during the campaign they are scrawled on libyan in 2008. 2009 was an incredible year here in afghanistan. internal security note paper. it was a year with the presidential campaign and presidential campaign that was some details are too sensitive marred with allegations of to tell, so he blacked them out. >> there were a lot of obstacles fraud. president obama seeming to try to distance himself from and problems and oh my, you president hamid karzai. there were tensions between his wouldn't believe it. >> reporter: nine months into administration as well as the negotiations, al qaeda's

karzai's administration, but leadership is so worried. today obviously a significant they try to derail the peace day because president obama did come to afghanistan. process. posting this al qaeda video on especially after he's already promised to increase the u.s. troop level by 30,000 additional the internet. >> translator: we announce a great step forward toward a holy troops. victory, a group of jihadists today's visit actually solidifies the fact that the u.s. administration is now from the islamic fighting group in libya are integrating with al acknowledging really that president hamid karzai is the qaeda. >> reporter: it wasn't true, but president of afghanistan, that he saw the danger in this he did win those elections in propaganda and risked his own 2009 and will be the president of afghanistan for the next five safety by sending an open, defy years. both men, obviously knowing that yant letter to al qaeda's neither of them can be leaders. successful without each other's >> i questioned their idea of help. jihad. this is crazy. don? >> atia, what does this trip mean to the obama/karzai it's not islamic. it's against the understanding. relationship, if anything? >> reporter: his risk would >> reporter: well, it's a big leave him vulnerable to attack, deal right now when it comes to the obama/karzai relationship. but after 2 1/2 years it paid it was very well known that there were tensions between both off. more than a simple peace president obama's administration as well as president karzai's agreement. the libyan jihadists issued their manifesto. administration. people on both sides basically more than 400 pages of complex jabbing the other side with religious arguments that

comments here and there, remarks here and there, in fact, people challenge point by point the very justifications al qaeda within the afghan government implying that they don't need uses to recruit young men to the u.s. government's help in certain events. today obviously the two of the violence. >> translator: i have over 20 men together side by side, a years' experience in the libyan photo op in afghanistan. islamic fighting group. >> reporter: this prisoner was picked up in jordan where he was they did meet in washington last spring, early summer. a commander running a cell. this is a big, big step. president obama coming to the he'd previously fought in presidential palace, a place that president bush in the past had come to at least twice afghanistan. hid out in sudan and yemen. meeting with president karzai and, in fact, having a press >> translator: we came to the conclusion that trying to conference with both afghan and establish the islamic state by international media. using violence and fighting was today's trip by president obama not the way forward. obviously a very short trip to start with, we looked at because of security reasons. sharia law. many people actually questioning there's no evidence in the koran why he couldn't stay longer. don? >> all right. or sayings of the prophet that atia, thank you very much for what we were doing was right. that. after meeting in private the two presidents spoke with >> reporter: he and others reporters. president karzai began with some prisoners want to win over young words of thanks. islam radicals to their new >> i suffice at welcoming peaceful code. on page 203 the code quite president barack obama to boldly states, jihad has ethics

afghanistan with pleasure and and morality because it's for once again, expressing my the sake of allah. gratitude to the american people this means that killing of women, children, old people, for giving afghanistan the christian priests and taxpayers' money for the businessmen is wrong. >> translator: this code will be rebuilding and reestablishing of interest in everybody in the islamic world. we're an experiment, of course, institutions in afghanistan. but we hope what we have done >> i want to send a strong could be duplicated all over the message that partnership between the united states and muslim world. >> reporter: the impact of the afghanistan is going to code is already being felt. cnn has learned that the british continue. we have seen already progress security service, mi 5, is with respect to military handing it out to radical campaign against extremism in the region, but we also want to islamists in britain and an continue to make progress on the american group will use it to process of ensuring the combat extremism in the united states. agricultural production, energy safal islam wants the message of production, good governments, peace to spread wherever al rule of law, anti-corruption qaeda gets recruits. africa, the middle east, even efforts. all these things resulting in an the united states. and that's where he is heading. afghanistan that is more

>> i believe radicalization is prosperous, more secure, independent, is not subject to not part of islam. it's very dangerous. meddling by its neighbors. i'm going to fight radicalization through a process a transition will be able to called de-radicalization. occur so that more and more if someone decide to be my security efforts are made by the enemy, this is his problem and afghans and so we very much has to face the consequences. it's as simple as that. appreciate the partnership. >> reporter: the first real test >> let's get some perspective on for this new deal will be back this and go right away to our in libya. man at the white house, dan just a few weeks after our lothian standing by. dan, the president is coming off perhaps his most successful week prison visit the men we met inside were released. in office after the health care their reward for writing the victory he had last weekend. why visit afghanistan now? recantation theorists. what's behind the timing here? depart from violence to peace. >> reporter: well, that's right. a very big week for the president last week. then now making this trip. >> unbelievable. we're told this is something that the president wanted to do cnn's nic robertson, his exclusive reporting there. for some time but no specifics as to why he chose this weekend. he's the question. are there lessons to be learned however, senior administration from libya's handling of these officials say that this is a critical time in afghanistan. extremi extremists? there's nic robertson right there, going to join us in a few the u.s. recently wrapping up minutes with more on how libya won the hearts and minds of this offensive, marja offensive, these hardened fighters and what where they were going after the the u.s. might be able to learn taliban, the u.s. believes that from their experience. great reporting, nic, see you on it was a very effective the other side of the break.

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overcome fear and i am confident keller graduate school of management, that better days lie ahead. you'll have a professor with you every step of the way. >> reporter: in summarizing the meetings, u.s. officials were traveling with the president told pool reporters there that whether you take classes on campus, they were very productive and online, or both, useful and that they tried to you get the same attention, the same curriculum, and the same quality. set the stage for what's next. of course, as you know, the president did invite hamid 85 locations nationwide and online. karzai to come here to washington in may, don. >> hey, can we talk about some discover how to grow the business of you... of the polls on what at keller.edu. americans -- i think we've done polls, dan, on the attitude toward the afghan war. is it still high up there? >> reporter: as you know, there has been a lot of opposition to the war in afghanistan. amazingly it does appear americans are growing more optimistic about the war in afghanistan for the first time opposition to the war dropping below 50%. in fact the latest cnn opinion research poll shows 48% of americans favor the war in afghanistan, 49% oppose it. and as to whether or not they approve of how mr. obama is handling the war in afghanistan,

55% now, compares to 51% in january, 42% in october. >> we can bet all of this, though -- this was planned to come on the heels, dan, of the health care vote. all of this is to bump up the president's favorability rating or how people feel he's doing his job. some people are saying maybe he feels like after this health care vote he's gotten his moe joe back or getting his mojo back. have you heard that? >> reporter: i have not heard that. the administration has always pointed out while this may not have been on the front burner, not something you see on the front pages of the newspaper eve day or leading the newscast, that this administration has been focused on afghanistan at the same time as dealing with health care. they like to point out the president has to be able to walk and chew gum at the same time. >> dan lothian, thank you very much. we appreciate it. make sure you stick around, the viewer i'm talk to. we'll have much, much more on president obama's visit to after

stan. we'll have an update on exactly how many u.s. troops are there and how many more are expected as part of the president's surge strategy. there's severe weather across the southeast tonight. including a tornado warning right now in charlotte, north carolina. you saw our jacqui jeras during our breaking news. we're hearing there are reports of damage. jacqui is checking on it. so we told you about nic you're looking at a live picture of carolina. robertson's exclusive look at weigh in on your stories. how libya reforms jihadists. i'm on twitter looking at your comments. is libya on to something that could work in other countries? when you least expec. a regular moment can become romantic. and when it does, men with erectile dysfunction nic robertson joins us now from london with more on the story. can be more confident in their ability to be ready nic, thank you so much for joining us. even you, i think, were with cialis. surprised by some of the with two clinically proven dosing options, you can choose reporting, what you uncovered once you started on to this the moment that's right for you and your partner. 36-hour cialis and cialis for daily use. story. >> yeah. it's story? >> yeah, it is surprising, cialis for daily use is a low-dose tablet because these -- the libyan you take every day, so you can be ready anytime government and this group fought the moment's right. a really intense war and even >> tell your doctor about your medical condition though the libyan government and all medications and ask if you're healthy enough doesn't like to accept it, back for sexual activity. >> don't take cialis if you take nitrates for chest pain, in the 1990s, a lot of the as this may cause an unsafe drop in blood pressure. prisoners in this group were

>> don't drink alcohol in excess with cialis. murdered inside jail. so, there has been a huge trust side effects may include headache, upset stomach, deficit there, if you will, this group was trying to kill moammar delayed backache, or muscle ache. to avoid long-term injury, seek immediate medical help gadhafi, trying to kill his son. for an erection lasting more than 4 hours. so the very fact they would get together and talk about it and >> if you have any sudden decrease or loss then come up with something that in hearing or vision, stop taking cialis and call is so radically different to all your doctor right away. >> 36-hour cialis or cialis for daily use. these groups aligned and close ask your doctor if cialis is right for you. to al qaeda in the past is huge. some of these guys involved in you can be ready for your moment with cialis. writing this document are really respected on the insides of al qaeda and the taliban. these guys have clout and weight. so what they say really carries for something. >> so the question is, will this make a difference then for -- when it comes to u.s. foreign policy or just fighting the war at sharp, our goal on terror overseas in afghanistan, in iraq? could something like this make a difference in those efforts? >> well, you know this one muslim group into theth in united states that we mentioned in story there, they are trying to create a website so that they can -- they can stop young muslims in the united states turning radical and trying to go and join al qaeda. one of the thing these want to do is put out this -- this text

because it is a religious text. when al qaeda goes to fight and gears up its people to go and fight, it is done on a religious pretext. here you have the strong islamists who come one another religious understanding of how to get what you want, not through fighting but through political means some, by using that, it is going to be powerful and seeing it have an impact in moroc morocco, maur right taine ya, tune niece ya, places were al qaeda is trying to build up a strength and following in afr a africa. for the lib yans it is important. you look at the young men from the middle east going to fight is to reproduce every color in the world on tv. u.s. troops in iraq, a big percentage of them were libyans, introducing quattron quad pixel technology. lib yans and saudis. it adds a fourth color, yellow, so the libyans have their own to the standard rgb color system, internal problem this deals with that problem, too. >> nic robertson, again, great creating a vast array of colors reporting. thank you very much we you can't see with your tv's three color technology. appreciate you joining us tonight. president obama trying to but, you can see this. rally the troops in afghanistan, but this time, he did it in

person. whoa! oh my. [ male announcer ] quattron from sharp. you have to see it, to see it. [ engineer laughs ] . we did not choose this war. this was not an act of america wanting to expand its influence, of us wanting toed me until somebody else's business. we were attacked viciously on 9/11. >> we will go live to afghanistan after a big surprise visit by the commander in chief. give you some live pimps now, breaking story tonight on cnn. weather news from north carolina, reports of tornado, a as we told you at the top of the show, breaking news when it tornado touching down. want to talk to our jacqui concerns the weather. we want to go to jacqui jeras jeras, meteorologist tracking following tornados. >> the tornado warning in the story four. details now moments away. fifty-eight different individuals are using, effect. tornado very likely still on the ground tracked by local law enforcement as well as trained storm spotters. this is just to the north and east of charlotte right now. see on radar that little hook or this little area in here. that's the spot we're concerned of. the most recent report where the tornado was located was near

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that storm was showing some signs of weakening a little bit, or go to lifelock.com. but now we're starting to see the red come back in there. we'll continue to monitor this situation. a tornado very well could be on the ground right now, still at this point moving toward the kanapolis area. this is north carolina. >> we'll check back with you. viewers, stay tuned. jacqui has good information, these stroke patients are working this tornado you are getting cutting-edge they are hearing about. >> if you see it or have damage, neigh gets technology. send me a tweet, get on my facebook page. by gently assisting patients' we're having a hard time getting repeat movements over and over information. we're hearing law enforcement is this so-called robotic therapy helps rebuild connections between the brain and the rest busy as well as local affiliates there. >> i put that on twitter for you of the body. >> the robot adjusts as the as you were doing that. i knew you couldn't do it patient gets better. yourself. we want to get back to breaking news now. we're talking about afghanistan. the robot increases the challenge, so the movement needs president barack obama on his to be faster and more accurate. way back from the war zone. with us in washington, cnn this challenge is something the security contributor frances townsend, former homeland patients find compelling. security adviser to president >> some cases, the therapy helped patients regain partial bush. with us pentagon consultant use of limbs once completely

robert mcginnis. the president said this war paralyzed. here at blakedale children's remains absolutely essential to him. hospital in new york, these kids so give us the big picture here. are participating in one of the what -- why this visit at this first controlled studies measuring robotic therapy's time. >> you know, don, it's impact on children. interesting. for one thing it's been 14 >> you got t push. months into this presidency. push. push. >> reporter: researchers say given the blood and treasure because their brains are still that the united states is developing this kind of therapy is especially effective for committed to afghanistan, it's a children with cerebral palsy or little surprises it took this long. i think it's understandable in traumatic brain injury. some respects given the president has been consumed with >> take children who have plat his domestic agenda. you were talking to dan about toad, had an injury, not making the passage of the health care progress to see if the robotic bill. he went and i think it was a therapy can enable them to take very important boost to the the next step up, improve their troops. it also, let's be honest, the function more. so far, we have had very good administration's success in afghanistan with their foreign results. >> reporter: gary tuckman, cnn. policy is very much tied to president karzai. i do. we know that the administration you could be losing bone strength. has been very uncomfortable because of election fraud. can i get it back? (announcer) ask your doctor how to help treat osteoporosis and after all, the burden now with once-a-month actonel. given the u.s. commitment, is on actonel is clinically proven to help karzai. reverse bone loss and can help@i to do this part in this. increase bone strength he has to show that he can to help prevent fractures. secure his own borders, his own so you can get back territory, protect his own some of what you lost.

do not take actonel if you have low blood calcium, people, deliver basic services severe kidney disease, without corruption and drug or cannot sit or stand for 30 minutes. trafficking. so president karzai has got a follow all dosing instructions. stop taking actonel and tell your doctor tremendous burden on hilm. we have to understand president if you experience difficult or painful swallowing, obama was over there to make sure that president karzai chest pain or severe or continuing heartburn. understands what's expected of these may be signs of serious upper digestive problems. him in return for our commitment. >> there are some who question promptly tell your doctor if you develop severe bone, joint or muscle pain, whether or not we should -- the u.s. should trust karzai or rely or if you develop dental problems, on karzai, robert mcginnis. as serious jawbone problems have been reported rarely. do you think we should rely on karzai? you heard fran mention saying it's absolutely essential to to get a free trial offer of once-a-month actonel this process. >> this is his second term, don, visit actonel.com. and he hasn't been terribly and ask your doctor how once-a-month-actonel productive at this point. can help you reverse bone loss. i do believe the president said to karzai, today, the clock is ticking. you know, as you recall back at west point on december the 1st, he told the world that his intent is to begin to withdraw our forces in july 2011. there's a little over a year left before karzai has to get his program in order. is to reproduce every color in the world on tv. now, i will acknowledge that the introducing quattron quad pixel technology. new strategy, which has already it adds a fourth color, yellow,

been launched with marja and to the standard rgb color system, creating a vast array of colors appeared to have been fairly successful. the problem has been trying to you can't see with your tv's three color technology. get that civilian infrastructure, the local but, you can see this. government to function so that it can create jobs and provide whoa! services. that's very slow, and that is oh my. critical to the president's [ male announcer ] quattron from sharp. long-term strategy in that area. you have to see it, to see it. [ engineer laughs ] >> uh-huh. fran, the terror threat in afghanistan for terrorists. what's the bottom line there? still a big threat to the u.s. and the rest of the world? >> it is. don, as we've heard the administration talk about it, think it's correct to say, the terrorism threat is not just in afghanistan. the president talked about afghanistan today. he mentioned and acknowledged the fact it's very much also tied to our strategy within the we are following several region and specifically in developing stories here, are really breaking news. pakistan. the pakistan officials, this is -- looking at video live from carolina now, from the including the army chief of carolinas, i should say, because staff in pakistan, were in there is some severe weather going on there our jacqui jeras washington last week discussing the security situation. they relaunched an effort in is on top of this story. south waziristan. the notion of this working on jacqui, talk about the both sides of the border is president's surprise visit to afghanistan in a bit.

absolutely crucial to a what is going on with you is there a tornado on the ground? successful regional strategy that protects the security interest of the united states. >> right now, we just have >> so, robert, during the radar-indicated tornadoes out president's speech he talked to there, but they have a history of producing some damage in the troops about he knows some of them have to do three, four, western mecklenburg county. it sounds like it was relatively i think he said, deployments over there and that it was hard rural potentially and some sheds on their families back home and he was concerned -- he anguished and powerlines were knocked down. we haven't heard anything about over the decision to send them injuries yet but this continues to be a developing situation and that was the tornado that moved back. sort of two questions here. what kind of stories do you northwest of charlotte. think he was hearing, if any, now the current status on this from the troops there, and is storm is right here, so the this any indication of how long tornado warning, which was in effect for roland county, which they might possibly be there? >> don, you're right. nine years at war almost. includes salisbury, going to some of these young people have ex-sire at the top of the hour. been over there two, three you have a minute 30 left on this one, but now extended over times. not counting their combat tours here into davidson county and in iraq. that includes you in lexington. the stress on the force, which so this is the area i'm most is an all-volunteer force, is concerned about, strong rotation being indicated on doppler incredibly high, and in fact, radar. has a history of doing so so we our suicide rate alone in the army was the worst of any year are going to continue to monitor that storm. the other thing that we are this past year. the president understands that. concerned about is the storm continues to push up toward the i applaud the president for north and east. this could hold together and going over there and b move right through high point encouraging the troops. and into the greensboro area.

i want to show you a couple of the scotories he heard were tower cams, give you a tour of what's been going on. probably heart rendering here is the charlotte area, your accounts of mom and the kids back home miss me, i haven't warnings are done, charlotte, but you are still under a watch, seen a birthday or a wedding which means conditions are anniversary in many years. favorable for more tornados to so the president, as commander occur. in chief, has to be incredibly we will watch things for you there concerned about overtaxing the force that, of course, depends upon the goodwill of the american people to send their sons and daughters into harm way. and so i think that he feels that burden and he promised in that speech today, look, i'm not going to send you unless it's absolutely important. they needed to hear that. >> that's a good way to end this. thank you, robert mcginnis, frances townsend. let's talk about the controversy surrounding the catholic church. we'll tell you what pope benedict had to say about the waning public opinion of the church in the wake of the latest child sex abuse scandal. what was once a steel mill town is becoming part of the

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this is our breaking news story. look at that. you're seeing it as we are. that is carolina.

i want to bring in meteorologist jacqui jeras. you told us about a tornado. this was bright, just what, not more than five minutes ago? it was sunny, right? >> well, it wasn't sunny, but we had calmer conditions in downtown charlotte. there you can see, okay, this is the greensboro camera. all right. there is a storm, if we show you here on the radar, do maybe a split screen here. here you can see the greensboro area. i'm wondering, you know, if this is the storm just to the north of there. that we're looking at. there is some rain which is pushing through that area right now. that's really not ominous. this storm does not have a warning on it north of greensboro and it is heading northeast. that's moving away from the city. see we have a couple other storms lined up and those are all poised to move through that city. so we'll continue to monitor that situation. the tornado warning also continues for mecklenburg county. the storm now, the one that did produce a tornado, we do have reports of some damage. power lines down. some sheds wrapped around poles.

that's what the national weather service is reporting. not necessarily in downtown charlotte, per se. this was about seven miles northwest of the city center. the storm, itself, looks like it's trying to ramp itself back up again. just north now of the kannapolis area. this is moving near enecville northwest of concord. woodley, spencer, sales bury, rockwell, gold hill, faith in the line of this storm. the weather service is reporting this is a doppler radar indicated tornado. this tells us that the storm spotters are probably not seeing something on the ground. when i start seeing pictures like this one out of the greensboro area, that tells me that these are very high precipitation type of tornadoes. so there's a lot of rain associated with them. sometimes you can't see those tornadoes because they do become so wrapped in rain. so with those warnings out there you really need to take them very seriously. just because you don't see it doesn't mean it's not there. you need to get the lowest level of your home, away from doors and windows.

when we have reports of things actually touching down, that is certainly a serious sign. charlotte downtown. you're not under a warning right now, but the watch remains in effect. that's the thick ng we have to remind ourselves, the difference between a watch and warning. a watch means conditions are favorable for a tornado to occur. you need to watch out and be on alert and make sure you know your severe weather plan. when we get a warning like we have just northeast of town, that means that either doppler radar is indicating strong rotation or one has been spotted. >> these are high-populated areas you're seeing this activity in, right? >> well, you know, yeah. this is pretty populated in this area right now. here's the next storm starting to move through charlotte. that's going to start to intensify a little bit, too. the main city center is probably right within this area, but out toward concord and up toward kannapolis, thousands of people

live within this area. >> any flooding threat? i'm checking your twitters here. >> maybe urban flooding. you get big downpours like the one we were seeing up there. looks like maybe we lost that shot that's up toward greensboro. yeah. you're going to start to see ponding on the streets. with the warnings out there you don't want to be driving anyway. >> thank you. stand by. do we have pictures of the tower cam? if we can put that up? jacqui jeras following breaking news for you. look at those pictures. moments a ago, the shot on the left was much, much clearer. see how quickly those clouds are rolling in there. jacqui is talking about the one on the right in greensboro. >> that's greensboro. greensboro, you're under a watch, not a warning right now. see that heavy rain continues to come down on the north side of town. does have stronger thunderstorms. there are more storms to your southwest that could be coming through. if these sirens do go off in the next hour or so you certainly want to go ahead and take shelter. >> we want you to be safe. stand by, jacqui jeras.

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we're following breaking news here on cnn. if you're in the charlotte, north carolina, area, you need to pay close attention because according to our jacqui jeras there's been an active tornado in the area spotted there. and there are some warnings going on and watches as well. jacqui is checking the information for you now. these are live tower cams from north carolina and you see there the dark clouds are hovering. they are looming. we're following it on cnn. stay tuned. our meteorologists working it for you. in the meantime, we want to talk about the winds of change blowing in one pennsylvania town. workers leaving the steel and automotive industries for the clean energy sector. cnn's joe johns takes us on a tour of a windmill blade factory generating green jobs. it's our "building up america" report. >> reporter: this used to be steel country usa with its towering pollution machines. now new jobs in the clean energy sector putting people back to

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