there's the king's signature. >> larry: and jamie oliver's food revolution airs tomorrow night. and we have snoop dogg tomorrow. check out our photo gallery at cnn.com/lar cnn.com/larryking and see me bounce along in the snoop's car. tonight, breaking news. the president makes a top-secret trip to afghanistan, but first, a tornado outbreak in the southeast. this video just in to cnn. it's from our affiliate, wcnc. a mobile home park in belmont, north carolina, took a direct hit. nearby homes and businesses, also torn up. assist very big mess there. you can see lots of downed trees and also some pounding hail. let's get straight to our meteorologist, jacqui jeras in the cnn severe weather with the very latest. jacqui? >> it's been an incredible night. at least 32 reports of severe weather in georgia and across

the kcarolinas. eight of those reports were of tornadoes. these are unconfirmed as of yet by the national weather service. much of the damage between lexington on up towards high point, where a large tornado touched down, at least 20 homes, sturdy homes were damaged here. and at least three people are injured. we're not sure exactly how severe those injuries are. tornado watches remain in effect, and all the action has really been right along the i-85 corridor from west of charlotte on up towards the greensboro area. and that threat continues as we speak. we've got a tornado warning in effect for person county right here, near the state line. and we also have one in towards georgia at this hour. down toward charlotte, no tornado warning just yet, but a severe thunderstorm warning remains in effect and large hail will be very likely. and look at all that lightning, just popping up there. this storm has been intensifying, so we'll have to watch it for that potential of

rotation. now, we do think once we get past the midnight hour, the threat will start to diminish. we've lost our daytime heating now, so things look much better. by tomorrow morning, we'll tell you what you can expect, though. could we see some more severe weather tomorrow afternoon? we'll let you know. >> and much, much more ahead with jacqui coming up. and i'm also hearing we're getting new video in and having time now to survey the damage. so we'll get back to jacqui and get that video that's happening with those tornadoes in just a bit here on cnn. meantime, president barack obama is on a very long plane ride back home after a surprise visit to afghanistan. the secret journey began in the middle of the night with the president leaving camp david and flying out. soon after touching down, he met with afghan leader hamid karzai. then he met with military officials at bagram air force base and spoke to a crowd of about 2,000 troops. >> if this region slides backwards, if the taliban retakes this country and al qaeda can operate with impunity, then more american lives will be

at stake. the afghan people will lose their chance at progress and prosperity. and the world will be significantly less secure. and as long as i'm your commander in chief, i am not going to let that happen. that's why you are here. i've made a promise to all of you who serve. i will never send you into harm's way unless it's absolutely necessary. i anguish in thinking about the sacrifices that so many of you make. that's why i promise i will never send you out unless it is necessary, but that's only part of the promise, because the other part of the promise is that when it is absolutely necessary, you will be backed up by a clear mission and the right strategy and you will have the support to finish the job, to get the job done. and i am confident all of you

are going to get the job done right here in afghanistan. >> the president got in and got out very quickly, the entire visit lasted just a few hours. this visit came as the u.s. ramps up the war effort in afghanistan, and our chris lawrence is live via broadband tonight in the helmand province. chris, you've been embedded with troops on the front line, so how are they reacting to the president's surprise drop-in? >> reporter: well, don, i can tell you, i was in a room full of marines who were preparing to go out on a patrol mission last night when we all got word that the president had come to afghanistan. the reaction, honestly, was pretty much like, okay, i doubt if he's going to come to a base like this one. pretty remote area, dangerous area of helmand province. they got right back to work and went out on patrol. so not much change here. and i think it illustrates that there are two afghanistans. there is the stable, more secure north of afghanistan, where president obama was there last night, and there's down here,

the dangerous south, here in helmand province. and it really points out that the key issue that president obama came here to drive home to the karzai administration and that is accountability in government and corruption. it is those two reasons whether taliban were able to seize control here in helmand province, because the people here felt that there was no other recourse. they didn't have a government that they felt they could trust. everything was done through cronies, through payoffs, through kickbacks, things like that. they felt they had nowhere else to turn, although the taliban justice was brutal, it was, in some form, justice. now the u.s. marines that we've been working with here and seen them work, they are really engaging the local, down at the district level, the district governor, working on projects to de-mine this area. where we're standing right now is probably one of the most heavily mined areas in the entire world. 20,000 people had to flee this area when the taliban took over here and the fighting was going

on. now the marines are down here, trying to get that area de-mined, working with the afghans, trying to build up that local government from the grassroots level, so people have a more stable place to come back to. >> hey, i got to ask you another question here. and real quickly, chris, we have some other breaking news, but you've embedded with the marines for a little while now, so how are they feeling about the overall war effort? you talked about the president's visit, but the overall war effort? how do they feel? >> reporter: i got to tell you, extremely positive. these are a very aggressive group of marines, and they feel like they are really making a difference here. a lot of them are telling me, i remember what this place was like even four months ago. and they're telling me, i can see the difference. maybe people outside don't, but we see the difference and some of the locals see the difference. they feel like they're on the right track and they want more time to carry it out. >> our chris lawrence in helmand province tonight, thank you very much, chris. the u.s. is fighting a war in afghanistan as a direct result of the terrorist attacks

of 9/11. and as of today, there are 83,000 u.s. forces in afghanistan. by the end of the year, that number is to jump to 98,000. in addition, there are about 39,000 troops from other countries with another 10,000 to follow. 1,022 u.s. troops have lost their lives in combat in afghanistan since 9/11. 83 of those deaths were this year. the administration's new strategy is having a measurable effect on public opinion. last november, only 32% believed the afghan war was going well. now that number has spiked to 55%. every president finds out sooner or later, foreign policy is never far from domestic politics. i want to walk over now, i'm going to go over to our political editor, mark preston. he's joining us here in atlanta tonight, usually in washington, working things out, but now he is here. good to see you, sir. good to see you. so, listen, it was a very interesting week for the president. he won on health care, he's got the -- the afghan war.

was this strategic, coming off the heels of that vote? >> look, he had to go to afghanistan. he hasn't been to afghanistan yet, don. and the fact of the matter is, afghanistan is his war. he ran on it when he was running for president in 2008, we'll always say that iraq was president bush's war, afghanistan is now president obama's war. >> i mentioned he had a good week in afghanistan, the health care vote, he won on health care, yet he is still out there selling and he is going to have to sell it, why? >> he has to sell it. and if you look at "the washington post"/abc poll that was just released, 50% of americans do not like this bill. and the fact of the matter is, don, you had a lot of democrats that democratic leaders had to really twist their arms. you had president obama making telephone calls, trying to get their support. a lot of democrats took a hard vote. president obama needs to sell it, and in fact, we'll see him this week, he's supposed to be in maine, talking about health care reform. >> and he's going to continue to do this, and meantime, the tea party express going across the country. he'll have to deal with that as well. mark preston, good to see you here in atlanta. i'll see you soon, sir. twisters tear through north

carolina as a line of storms rumble east. we'll have more on this aftermath and where that storm system is headed to next. this is our breaking news tonight on cnn. and also, they say the enemy of my enemy is my friend. one of our old adversaries has a new approach for helping jihadists put down their guns. what can we learn from libya? plus this -- >> goes on there right here. >> why would negro be there? it should be african-american? >> the census doesn't usually offend, but just one word is stirring up outrage. our panel looks at an issue that isn't black and white. more than one day a week, you're one of fifty million americans with frequent heartburn. try prilosec otc. heartburn occurs when stomach acid backs up into the esophagus. unlike some treatments that neutralize acid, prilosec otc shuts down many acid-producing pumps for twenty-four hours of heartburn protection with just one pill a day. plus, it's the number one doctor recommended acid reducer. treat frequent heartburn for twenty-four hours with prilosec otc. this has been pédifacts for prilosec otc.

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at keller.edu. all right. this is our breaking news tonight. at least three possible tornadoes in north carolina. i want you to take a look at this. it's video of a partially ripped off roof from an industrial warehouse in belmont. it's just west of charlotte. severe storms have soaked the area for much of the day. the national weather service says an apparent tornado toppled trees and brought down power lines, leaving hundreds of people in the dark. and we just got this video in. check it out. this video is from youtube, right? you can see the funnel cloud forming right here, over high point, north carolina, even more evidence that tornadoes descended on the carolinas today. listen. >> [ bleep ], all right. let's go inside. >> jacqui jeras, amazing to capture that you warned people

earlier to get out of harm's way, that this was going to come through. >> yeah, you can see kind of a wide one there. and you can see those transformers, which were blowing. so a lot of people without power tonight. and that tornado threat still ongoing. take a look at this. we've got the watches in effect. the first one from georgia through north carolina. this expires at 11:00 eastern time. the second one expires at 1:00. that includes you into the raleigh area. and things have really been very heated, especially right along the i-85 corridor, since about maybe 5:30, 6:00 tonight. and it's just been storm after storm after storm. and some of these areas have been hit two, three, even four times with severe thunderstorms. in addition to those tornadoes that you mentioned, don, we've also had a lot of damaging winds and large hail, baseball to tennis ball-sized. yeah, that's huge. that in and of itself can cause some major damage. severe thunderstorm warnings still in effect for charlotte. you can see, this is moved on the east side of the town, moving up towards concord and kannapolis. you've already had a storm move

through here tonight, which did cause quite a bit of damage. we're going to take you down into georgia. this is just outside of millageville, and we have a doppler-indicated tornado warning here. that is in effect for another 15 minutes or so. this is a radar-indicated tornado, but a tornado could touch down at any given time. we'll continue to monitor that area. we do also want to mention what's been happening across parts of florida. no watches in effect here, but this really strong line has been pushing through and our wind shear, our wind profiles are favorable, that we could potentially see a little spinup. we'll continue to monitor that situation. the storm prediction center says they don't expect they'll be issuing any watches. we're going to continue to track this storm, don, because this is going to be heading up the coast, believe it or not, and this will cause big problems for folks in the northeast tomorrow. travel delays already abundant today, wait until you see what we've got in store for tomorrow. more details on that coming up in the back half hour of the show.

>> here we go. thank you, jacqui. and stay right there. because just ahead, roundup. we have a roundup of the stories that will be making news in the coming week that you'll want to know about, including a big tech debut. and the census deadline is rapidly approaching. problem is, many people are confused and upset about the questions about racial identity. we'll talk about that, right after the break.

now the stories you'll be hearing about in the week ahead. from the white house to the economy to entertainment, we start tonight on capitol hill. >> reporter: i'm dan lothian at the white house, where earlier this week the president will sign the reconciliation bill, which includes final revisions to the h health care legislation. this after a contention battle over reform that republicans are still pledging to fight.

then on thursday, the president heads to portland, maine, where he'll continue selling the immediate and long-term benefits of the new law. and he wraps up the week on friday in charlotte, north carolina, talking about the economy and what his administration is doing to turn things around. >> i'm poppy harlow in new york. here is what we'll be tracking this week on cnn money. the all-important monthly jobs report is due out on friday and investors are lacking for any signs that the job market is improving. and also coming up, we'll get a key reading on consumer confidence and the auto industry will be back in the spotlight with the latest sales numbers. and the new york auto show also gets under way. we'll be following it all. >> i'm "showbiz tonight's" a.j. hammer. we are expecting big news from usher this week. now, reportedly, he's going to reveal why his marriage fell apart. we're also expecting more fallout in the sandra bullock cheating scandal. will more of jesse james' alleged mistresses come forward? perhaps most importantly, though, i am excited to tell you that beginning on monday, "showbiz tonight" is going to be live every day 5:00 p.m.

eastern, monday through friday on hln, and we are still, of course, tv's most provocative entertainment news show at 11:00 p.m. eastern and pacific. all right. so what's happening domestically and internationally? we start with two members of the our team here. first, chris reedman with the domestic list. so speaker of the house? >> last week at this time, we were counting the votes in washington, we were all here late. tomorrow, she's back in her home district in san francisco. she'll be meeting with seniors at a senior center, addressing their concerns. almost sort of a victory lap, you might say. >> we'll be watching that. and we were covering this huge story about somalia. >> that cargo ship that was hijacked off the coast last year, the one person that was captured, remember, there was a daring rescue. the captain of the alabama hmer was rescued. >> and the ipad goes on sale on saturday. >> like four of these put

together. >> as long as we can get ahold of you when we need you. >> and christine joins us from the international desk. you were talking about the pope holy week coming up? >> pope benedict xvi today, he indirectly addressed a lot of the scandals that are occurring. we'll be listening for any additional comments and looking further ahead, he'll be visiting washington, d.c. on the 15th. >> and a visit from the israeli prime minister? >> exactly. >> what day is that happening? do we know? >> no. >> canada hosting foreign ministers for a group of eight leading industrialized nations. tell us about that. >> so foreign minister lawrence cannon is actually meeting with eight of his counterparts from the group of eight. he's hoping to increase pressure on iran, come up with a more cohesive strategy and the u.s. is still on the same plate. they want to go ahead and press for a fourth round of sanctions

with the security council. >> you'll be watching that. and a lot of stories to watch. too many to remember. >> going back to netanyahu, it's not exactly his visit to the d.c. that we were keeping an eye out for, to be completely honest, they're closing the west bank tonight, so nobody's going to be allowed in and out, except for journalists and those seeking medical attention and it's going to remain closed until april 6th. so what i'm really going to be keeping an eye out for is reaction out of d.c. this week. >> great information. we appreciate both of you. thank you so much. in the meantime, on thursday, the president has a deadline to return the u.s. census forms. it's supposed to be a simple counting of all americans for every ten years, but this time questions about race causing some anger and some confusion. question eight focuses on hispanics, but it prohibits anyone from claiming hispanic has a race. question nine goes even further. it uses the term "negro," which in african-americans find offensive. the census bureau says the language is intended to be as inclusive as possible.

filmmaker raquel spaeda asked new yorkers to look over the census forms. their answers were revealing about race in america. >> are you at all confused by the racial categories that are offered to latinos in the census? >> absolutely. because there are a lot of african and there are a lot of black that are latino and hispanic. what i also see very interesting is under beneath the hispanic, latino, or hispanic organization, you've got a mexican, cuban, puerto rican spot. i was born in puerto rico, all my family is cuban, and on top of that, i'm white. >> i don't know if you've noticed this, but they reintroduced the term "negro" to the black category. when you hear that -- >> like negro or negro? >> negro in english? >> negro is on there? >> exactly! exactly! >> yeah, right there.

negro is on there right now? >> why would negro be there? it should be african-american. >> when you hear the word "negro," what do you -- >> slave! >> it's all politically correct. they're trying to include everyone from negro to black or whatever or whatever. >> so you would choose negro before african-american? >> i wouldn't choose negro, no. >> you would choose african-americans. >> but we were called negroes before we were called blacked and it jumped. >> the easiest category in here is white. why is it so easy? because white people also have very diverse -- >> i always wonder why we're always grouped together as white, although i wouldn't necessarily know what i am. well, give of some indian in there too, but one drop of indian doesn't make me indian, i'm still classified as white. and the discovery of wreckage of a world war ii bomber like this one promps a viewer to send us a message on facebook. ergy.

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were telling you about the new u.s. census form, which is due to be mailed back this thursday. but questions about racein the census have upset many people. earlier i set about with filmmaker raquel cepeda and christian lander, author of "stuff white people like." their comments were very interesting and insightful.

take a listen. what were people's responses, in general, about the census? did they understand how serious it is to the country or what it means for the country, or were they just really sort of taken aback by the language? >> i think because we live in a racialized, an extremely racialized community, people couldn't really get past what the census -- participating in the census does for the community. they were really taken aback and offended by the inclusion of the term "negro," and just how confusing all this -- especially for latinos, i'm a latina, i'm going to check off the hispanic/latina and/or spanish or gin, even though i'm not of spanish origin, but racially, it's confusing. i don't think they took the time out to really help people fill out the form, explain that you could check more than one box. the people i talked to were just stuck on the whole race issue and the confusion behind it to talk about anything else. >> what's the solution here as far as acknowledging race without sort of being labeled

racist? >> well, i mean, it's a tough thing. when i saw the census form and i saw those words in there, you know, for negro, african-american, or black, i was confused. i mean, as a white person, we're desperate to have a black person tell us exactly what we're supposed to say and we'll say it forever, but we're completely confused as well. so as far as a solution goes, to say something like, i don't see color, is ridiculous. that's to say, you don't recognize this person has a heritage, that this person hasn't had a different experience in america than you. and that's completely ridiculous. but at the same time, to fail to recognize that person as a human being is a huge mistake. and that's where racism comes from. >> is it a distraction because of the one or two words that's on the census form, the greater good that comes out of the census may be overshadowed by just this one issue? >> well, and that greater good is important for people watching this to keep in mind. over $400 billion in federal money are allocated based on census information. redistricting is coming up in a

number of states and the number of representatives folks get in the house of reps will be determined by this census. that's real money, real policy implications. i think it's always going to be a challenge to try to take a static snapshot that captures everyone in a fluid environment of race. this country was sort of forged in the fire of race and our future likely lies in it in some way, but no single, simple form can really appeal to and respect everyone's different perspective. two latinos or latinas are going to have a different idea. two black people or a black person and a negro are going to have a different idea. and i hope in the next version of this, they keep that in mind. i hope they also recognize the whole art is really imperfect. straight ahead, a fearful evening ahead for north carolina residents. we'll have the latest on the damage done, the tornado warning in effect, and a live report from emergency officials. and the pope weathered a storm of controversy this past

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breaking news tonight. people across north carolina have a miserable monday ahead of them, picking up after a line of vicious storms tore through several towns. this youtube video is in high point, north carolina, where some 20 homes were damaged.

at least three tornadoes appeared to have really smacked down from the sky, snaked down from the sky, i should say, all over there. fortunately, only one injury has been reported. listen to this a little bit. >> all right, let's go inside. >> amazing video to capture there. delano saw some damage of its own and the storms are packing high winds and hail the size of baseballs. people have been telling us they've seen that. a tornado watch remains in effect until 1:00 a.m. eastern time. 1:00 a.m. eastern time. so, is it possible the worst isn't even over yet? we want to head out to julia day ma, with north carolina's emergency management and joins us now from raleigh, north carolina. what are you seeing there? what's the situation? >> well, don, as you said, it's been a very active evening for most of central north carolina. in fact, just a couple of minutes ago, we had another tornado warning go through the greensboro -- for the greensboro/jamestown area again. so for the area that you were just mentioning that was hit

earlier may be in for some more rough weather. >> we have been seeing lots of trees, lots of -- and i imagine along with those trees, they are taking power lines down. are people dealing with that? are you without power anywhere? >> scattered power outages, but to be honest, things are changing so rapidly, we haven't been able to get a confirmed number for the number of power outages. as you said, a lot of high winds, some tornadoes, some straight line winds, and some of those straight line winds can be just as damaging as some of the tornadoes. >> we reported that there was only one injury into town. what about where you are? seeing any injuries, fatalities? >> no, not in the raleigh area. in wake county, we've fared okay so far. but we've heard reports of a few minor injuries, but don't have any confirmed numbers. so tomorrow is going to be a rough day of cleanup and commute for people living in that area and then it's heading up the east coast. >> that's what we hear. and of course, as daylight comes, we'll know more, really, about what kind of damage we are

facing. >> julia jarema in raleigh, thank you so much. ♪ celebrating palm sunday, pope benedict xvi urged christians today not to be affected by the chatter of public opinion. the pope has been the critic of withering criticism after reports linking him to a priest accused of child molestation. a bomb explodes in greece, killing a teenage boy, injuring his mother and 10-year-old sister. police say it happened tonight outside a government building in athens and police could not confirm the identity of the dead person, but the afghan mother identified him as her 15-year-old son. so far, no one has claimed responsibility for the bombing. the coast guard is calling it a non-credible threat, but security teams scrambled

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riveting. in afghanistan and around the world, fighting terrorists poses problems our army has never seen before. like what to do with the bad guys after you capture them. for our next story, cnn's nic robertson went where no journalist had gone before, to a libyan prison. and what he found behind the walls could change how we handle prisoners in the war on terror. >> reporter: behind these walls, moammar gadhafi's son has broken a peace with hardened gee haddy fighters, who once waged war on his father in bosnia, afghanistan, and beyond. it is the middle of the night. we are about to become the first journalists to enter abu salim prison. as we go in, it is almost surreal. it feels like anything but a jail.

we arrive during family visits. life for the prisoners is so relaxed, wives can spend the night. many children have been conceived here. an easy-going strategy the regime has relied upon to win the prisoners over. >> they can stay with their wives, you know, and you can receive the families and sometimes they g to the homes and come back to jail. we treat them, you know, feed, visits, books, tv, radio. satellites, al jazeera, cnn. yeah. >> you gave them a lot? >> it's not guantanamo here. no. >> reporter: but these creature comforts would not be enough to earn the trust needed to bring about the peace agreement islam sought, which is why he turned to one-time ally of osama bin

laden. secretly, he was brought back to libya, promised he wouldn't be arrested. and so became sayfall islam's go-between with the prisoners. when he first walked into abu salim jail, his former brothers in arms were shocked. >> what a surprise. and when they entered the room, just started to go like this. trying to focus the zoom. is it real? am i seeing the same person, you know? it was a shock for him. and he insisted i should with arrested with him. >> reporter: black humor aside, benotman's job was deadly serious. >> they knew i was there to help them, and it's just the first meeting of many to come. >> reporter: he kept careful notes of the meetings, which he has given exclusively to cnn. they are scrawled on libyan

internal security note paper. some details are still too sensitive to tell, benotman says, so he blacked them out. >> there were a lot of obstacles and problems and oh, my god, you wouldn't believe it. >> reporter: nine months into the negotiations, al qaeda's leadership is so worried, they tried to derail the peace process, posting this al qaeda video on the internet. >> translator: we announce a great step forwards toward a holy victory. a group of jihadist from the islamist fighting group in libya are integrating with al qaeda. >> reporter: it wasn't true, but benotman saw the danger in this propaganda and risked his own safety by sending an open, defiant letter to al qaeda's leaders. >> i questioned their idea of jihad, directly, you know. this is crazy, it's not islamic, it's against the sunni

understanding of islam. >> reporter: benotman's risk would leave him vulnerable to attack. but after 2 1/2 years, it paid off. more than a simple peace agreement, the libyan jihadists issued their manifesto. more than 400 pages of complex religious arguments that challenge, point by point, the very justifications al qaeda uses to recruit young men to violence. >> translator: i have over 20 years experience in the libyan islamic fighting group. >> reporter: this prisoner, tariq durman, was picked up in jordan, where he was a commander running a cell. he'd previously fought in afghanistan. hid out in suzanne sedan sudan yemen. >> reporter: we came to the conclusion that fighting skprinls was not the way forward. to start with, he book withed at sharia law, and there is no evidence in the koran or in the

sayings of the prophet that what we were doing was right. >> reporter: durman and other prisoners say they want to win over young muslim radicals to their new peaceful code. on page 203, the code, quite boldly states, jihad has ethics and morality, because it's for the sake of allah. this means that killing of women, children, old people, christian priests and businessmen is wrong. >> translator: this code will be of interest to everybody in the islamic world. we are an experiment, of course, but we hope what we have done could be duplicated all over the muslim world. >> reporter: the impact of the code is already being felt. cnn has learned that the british security service, mi-5 is he handing it out to radical islamists in britain and a group will use it to combat extremism

in the united states. sayfall islam wants the message of peace to spread wherever al qaida gets recruits. africa, the middle east, even the united states. and that's where benotman is heading. >> i believe radicalization is not part of islam. it's very dangerous. so i'm going to fight radicalization through a process called de-radicalization. if someone decides to be my enemy, this is his problem and he has to face the consequences. it's as simple as that. >> reporter: but the first real test for this new deal will be back in libya. just a few weeks after our prison visit, the men we'd met inside were released -- their reward for writing the recantation theorists, the part from violence to peace. >> cnn's nic robertson reporting. what lessons learned in libya could mean for america's fight against extremists.

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just before the break, we told you about nic robertson's exclusive look at how libya reforms jihadists. i spoke to nic about the stunning turnaround and he explained how it's even more shocking when you consider the group's past. >> it's surprising, because these -- the libyan government

and this group fought a really intense war, and even though the libyan government doesn't like to accept it, back in the 1990s, a lot of the prisoners from this group were murdered inside jail. so there's been a huge trust deficit there, if you will. this group was trying to kill moammar gadhafi, trying to kill his son, saif islam, so the fact that they would get together and talk about it and come up with something so radically different is huge. some of these guys involved in 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, when it comes to u.s. foreign policy or just fighting the war on terror overseas in afghanistan, in iraq. could something like this make a difference in those efforts? >> well, you know, there's one muslim group in the united states that we mentioned in the

story there. they're trying to create a website so that they can stop young muslims in the united states turning radical and trying to go and join al qaeda. and one of the things they want to do is to put out this text, because it's a religious text. because, you know, when al qaeda goes to fight and gets its people to go and fight, it's all done on a religious pretext. but here you have these real strong islamists who have come up with another understanding of how to get what you want, and it's not through fighting, it's through political means. and using that it's going to be powerful. and we're seeing it have an impact in places where al qaeda is trying to build up a strength and a following in the north of africa. and for the libyans, it's really important. because if you look at all those young men from the middle east that were going to fight u.s. troops in iraq, you know, a big percentage of them were libyans, libyans and saudis. so the libyan have got their own

internal problem, so that deals with that problem too. >> nic robertson, again, great reporting. thank you very much. we appreciate your joining us tonight. >> nic robertson discussing libyan's winning ways with converted jihadist. we're getting more and more evidence that tornadoes have struck in the southeast. a funnel cloud sighting and damage from the air and from the ground as well. just ahead, we'll take you on a tour of the severe damage in the south.

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