on the top of the hour here, good evening, i'm don lemon. massive tornadoes have left behind grotesque piles of splinters and dust across mississippi and alabama. state officials still don't know exactly how bad it is. one tornado touched down last night near albertville, alabama. one woman narrowly escaped death when a large tree branch crashed through her bedroom ceiling while she slept. mississippi may file a state of emergency tomorrow, making federal assistance possible. yazoo city, mississippi, probably took it the worst. governor haley barbour says 100 homes in the surrounding town and county are no longer habitable. ed lavandera is there tonight. now people are witnessing the magnitude firsthand for themselves. >> reporter: and everywhere you go across this area you can really see the intensity of the damage and the areas that were

hardest hit. we spent the day driving around yazoo city, about 100 miles north east of here into the other hardest hit area of mississippi, chocktaw county, a little town where a little community outside of that town is where three of the youngest victims were killed by this storm, three young girls, ages 13, 9 and 3 months. we drove along the road where their homes once stood, and don, what we saw there was absolutely amazing. homes that just don't exist anymore. one of the mobile homes where two of the 13-year-old and the 9-year-old lived doesn't exist. it was blown away over the treeline. we spoke with the girls' grandfather who told us we don't know where the home is now. that continues. another couple that owned a popular grocery store right there, six people inside that grocery store, don, when the storm hit. they said they had no time to react and the store just exploded, throwing ron sullivan

some 15 feet across his store. >> you always talk about you hear the train. there was no train. there was a bomb. that's two customers were walking in the door approximately five feet away from me. when they opened the door t hit and blew me back and we're just lucky to be alive. we're very thankful. >> reporter: what goes through your mind when this is happening? >> two things, please don't let anything else fall on me and i hope my wife is okay. >> reporter: don, it's really been interesting in that area where we were today in chocktaw county, we heard that from several people that they had no time to react. they knew the storms were coming. the warnings had been put out there, but it's very hilly terrain, with massive trees overlooking so it's not like you can see over the horizon and see a tornado coming your way so it just felt like out of the blue these storms had fallen right on where they were. we talked with another cup until their home, they had tried to jump into a braathroom and thei

home was moved literally 40 feet off of the foundation. absolutely amazing. >> ed lavandera, ten dead so far and let's hope that is it with this. thank you, ed. lingering weather from the deadly storm cell is prompting tornado watchers in southern florida at this hour. our meteorologist jacqui jeras following the storm's track and joins us with the latest. what's going on, jacqui? >> we are watching some active weather across central parts of florida, and also the mid-atlantic states as well. we've got a watch here across parts of maryland, west virginia and virginia, it includes you into washington, d.c., and we're monitoring this area through the carolinas for the potential of severe thunderstorms popping up over the next couple of hours. we'll start out by showing you the radar kind of close in, into just to the northwest of d.c., where these thunderstorms are becoming very intense, and there you can see some severe, damaging fwhinds winds in excess

of 60 miles per hour. a thunderstorm watch included tampa, st. pete, extending near ft. myers and the palm bay area. we've been watching this intense line. we had two waves that moved through earlier today, one that moved through gainesville causing some tree damage and power lines down and also getting word north of tampa there are some power lines down here as well. this is a very intense line of storms and we could see winds in excess of 70 miles per hour and that in and of itself can cause serious damage. if you get the severe thunderstorm warning you need to take it seriously and stay indoors until that's thank storm passes. the severe weather threat extends from parts of pennsylvania, all the way down through florida, through tonight and we think the energy is going to pull offshore so no severe weather anticipated tomorrow but our low pressure system here is going to stall out, so it's going to be cool, windy and wet in the northeast, and that's not real fun for your morning commute tomorrow. >> better stay tuned especially at 10:00, jacqui will tell you

what it will be like for your commute tomorrow. we want to go to west virginia where president barack obama attended a memorial service a couple of hours ago for those 29 coal miners who died earlier this month. ♪ the workers were killed in an explosion, the nation's worst mine disaster in decades. placing miner helmets atop 29 white crosses. president obama talked about the men who chose to take on such dangerous work. >> all that hard work, all that hardship, all the time spent underground, it was all for the families, it was all for you, for a car in the driveway, a roof overhead, for a chance to give their kids opportunities that they would never know, enjoy retirement with their

spouses, it was all in the hopes of something better. and so these miners lived as they died, in pursuit of the american dream. >> the president also called for better safety measures for coal miners to prevent future disasters. protesters rallying against arizona's new immigration law today, governor jan brewer signed the measure, requires police to question anyone they believe might be an illegal immigrants. legal immigrants have to carry their papers on them at all times. police say they'll exercise restraint but critics call this racial profiling. >> what is reasonable suspicion? i mean are we going to get pulled over just for a broken tail light or just because of the color of our skin? and if so, is everybody going to get stopped, white people, you know, are they going to be looking for europeans as well or is it just the brown people? >> reporter: what do you have to say to those zmernz. >> they're really unfounded.

the arizona law enforcement community is made up of many hispanics, and the state of arizona has a very high hispanic population. we've never had a policy of racial profiling, in fact, quite the contrary, it's been outlawed. >> the new law takes effect this summer. immigration has returned as a hot topic in washington right now. so we want to bring in political editor mr. mark preston, always good to see you, sir. there he is, smiling as usual. so mark, first question to you. democrats now want to move immigration back to the forefront as a political priority here. republicans are saying they don't want it at least many of them are saying that. here's what we heard today on cnn's "state of the union." take a listen. >> here's the problem with trying to deal with an immigration reform bill now, candy, from a realistic standpoint and legislative standpoint. we know, because what have we tried to do back in 2007 that

trying to deal with the immigration issue, particularly those here illegally today is not practical because we still haven't sealed the border, and until you secure the border, trying to really have an overall reform package on immigration just simply can't be done. >> mark, here's a question. are we looking at in the works here a partisan battle over immigration shaping up? >> you know, don t really seems that way, and in fact, we might have the first casualty of the democratic talks of this immigration reform legislation they're talking about, trying to get through during this election year. you had a senator from south carolina, a republican by the name of lindsey graham working with democrats on energy, on climate change. he seemed to be able to serve as the bridge to try to get an energy bill through. very complicated piece of legislation. when he heard that democrats wanted to try to push through immigration reform, he said this weekend that he is pulling out of talks on the energy bill. he says that democrats are just

playing politics on immigration, and there's no way that you're going to get an energy bill through as well as an immigration reform bill, two very complicated subjects. >> let's talk about this issue because we spoke about it last week, when it concerned with goldman sachs and talking about this again this big issue for the foreseeable future, financial reform. what's happening op. capitol hill this week? will democrats have the votes to get the package through the president wants? >> let's give you the tick tock quickly. we heard this on the sunday show this is morning. it appears republicans and democrats are getting closer to some kind of deal on financial reform. however, they don't appear to be at that point yet and in fact, they're probably right behind me on capitol hill trying to hammer out those details. tomorrow, don, we expect a vote in the senate, this is what you call a test vote, something that will happen in the late afternoon, if democrats are able to get the 60 votes needed tomorrow afternoon on financial reform, then we're probably off to the races. however, if you were to hear republicans this morning talk, they said that they're not going

to deliver the votes, and remember, when scott brown from massachusetts was elected back in january, he gave republicans that very important 41st vote to prevent democrats from trying to get through any piece of legislation that they wanted >> mark preston, thank you very much. see you tonight at 10:00 p.m., okay, sir? >> thanks, don. the lengths some people will go to get work, a long line of people camping out on the streets of new york for days just to get an application. ♪ earth tones by sting and some of music's best, as they raise their collective voices to sound off to lawmakers. sting talks with me one on one coming up. and don't just sit there, been a part of the conversation, logon to the social networking sites. i'm reading your comments right now. black one! where? [ vrrroooooomm! ] black one! where? [ vrrroooooomm! ] black one!

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this is what it looks like when you're hungry for work. this is in new york city, those

pictures that you're looking at. some of these people have been camping out all weekend for the chance just to fill out a job application on monday morning. most of these people have little chance of getting a job, not because they're not qualified, there are simply too many other people competing for the same opportunity. cnn's susan candiotti has the job description for us. susan? >> reporter: if you are lucky, this is where you want to wind up getting inside this door, because inside that door if you're one of 750 job applicants, you will get to apply for a job as an elevator mechanic. they're only going to hand out about 100 applications, and you'll start off as an apprentice, if you're lucky enough to get the job, earning maybe $15 an hour. if you get the job full time as a full-fledged mechanic you could earn up to $40 an hour. jeremy fernandez you were number one in line. people have been camped out since before dawn on friday. how long have you been out of work? >> i've been out of work for six

months. we started to hear friday morning at 4:00 a.m., and we're here until monday at 9:30, just waiting to get the application, just a chance. that's all, that's all we want, a chance to get a good job and provide for our family. >> reporter: you really were lucky to be number one in line here. >> lucky, no, maybe determined. >> reporter: to make number one. >> yes. >> reporter: and this is where you've been staying for the past couple of nights? >> this is the house, entrance a dress, number one and two. this is the living room over here. >> reporter: let's take a look inside. one reason why an impromptu tent city has been set up in this neighborhood of queens new york, a 10% unemployment rate in new york city right now. this gentleman is one of the unemployed. you've been without a job for how long? >> a near year and a half. >> narrator: the last job you did was? >> construction. >> reporter: construction to possibly getting a job as an elevator mechanic, is this your dream job? >> not really but there's an opportunity right now, and i

just am here trying to see if it will happen for me. >> reporter: this is andrew grenevic. he used work in a deli. do you think you can pull this off? >> with all of my family experience and everything in electrician unions i think i can. i'm hoping i get the job. i've been unemployed for two years, and this is like the last hope i got to go for. >> reporter: the union jobs sore sought after, whenever a call goes out, lines like these are not uncommon and these lines sore long they stretch over so many blocks we can't show them to you at one time. come monday morning, 100 of these job applicants may be lucky enough to start a new career. susan candiotti, cnn, new york. on the flipside, we're talking about goldman sachs in this economy, maybe making billions, but it could come at the cost of its credibility.

after years of denying accusations that it was making money as the housing market imploded in 2007, documents released just this weekend prove otherwise. they show goldman sachs profited from the mortgage meltdown by betting that mortgage securities would go down in value. it is the latest evidence to back up a federal civil suit that goldman was defrauding its investors and tuesday the firm's top brass will have to answer to a senate subcommittee. still on wall street goldman sachs continues to keep its gold standard reputation as a top investment bank around so here to explain why is samuel hastings, professor emeritus of banking in harvard business school. thank you for joining us. i see this as wall street, maybe it is, neighbor isn't, wall street versus main street thing. i think when most people hear goldman sachs they know it as a financial firm and that's what it's about. explain in simple terms why goldman sachs is so important and why we're talking about it so much. >> yeah, i can do that.

goldman sachs affects all of us in our daily lives. for instance, it provides the brokerage services to the pension funds and the 401(k)s that a lot of us are invested in. it's also providing research and other services to those pension funds. it is also raising money for cities and towns where we have something at stake, and it is, of course, very active in making, facilitating new issues of stock for companies that many of us work for or where we get goods and services. >> okay, so listen, as an outsider, you look at the list of goldman alumni, it's a very influential list who have's who of influential politicians. quickly on this list, hank paulson is on this list, and the former treasury secretary, jon

corzine is also on the list, former governor and senator of new jersey, robert rubin, another treasury secretary, josh bolten, bush's chief of staff, on and on. how much influence does goldman have in washington? >> it has a lot of influence in the nation's capitol, no questi question about it. the people who have worked for them the past and now situated there as well as through the lobbies, lobbyists who goldman and other investment banks have hired to promote their interest. don't forget either that they have an alumni group that is now in powerful positions all over the united states and all over the world, so they can influence through any number of different channels. >> yes, so listen professor, you study investments, in your opinion, is there some culpability on the part of

goldman or do you think that they are just sort of a scapegoat for the overall frustration and resentment and outrage toward wall street going on in the country right now is. >> well, i i'm sure there are elements of both, the resentiment towards goldman because it is the preeminent investment bank in the world, and also a lingering resentment at the whole investment banking community, but i think goldman must know that the perception of misbehavior is almost as damaging as the actual conviction of a felony, not a felony in this case, a civil suit, a civil suit in terms of their reputation and brand name, so i think that this is going to be something which goldman is going to have to live with for quite awhile. >> thank you, sam hayes, prove sore emeritus of investment banking at harvard business school. get out and enjoy your day now, sir. >> thank you.

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okay so listen, this is going to be, you're going to be hearing a lot about this in the coming months because when californians go to the polls in vote, to smoke or not to smoke recreationally. tonight a preview of the first of its kind hotel where smoking it is welcome. we did a story about the normandy hotel in los angeles, thinking of catering towards users of medical marijuana. here's what the owners are doing, hoping the rooms will stay full if golden state voters decide it's time to legalize marijuana in november, not just for medical marijuana users. take a look.

the normandy hotel right there at sixth and normandy, a great neighborhood. so we want to know what it's like to see the first hotel that caters to pot smokers? let's go in and meet the owner, john evangelista are you john? >> hey, don. >> reporter: this is really cool, man. i like these. >> good to meet you. crystal chandeliers. >> reporter: that's original? >> i think it's original from about 1926, when it was built. >> reporter: the normandy and california have come a long way since hollywood's golden era when alcohol was illegal. now, not only is medical marijuana legal here, but the state may be on its way to allowing adults to use it just like liquor. already there is interest. what are you guys doing here? >> we're actually looking at the building, walking around having a look. >> reporter: what do you think of his idea? >> i like it a lot. this is the only hotel that

allows that, that's huge. >> reporter: a tour of the four-story 106-room hotel reveals a major overhaul is needed. you got a lot of work ahead of you. >> yeah, that's true. >> reporter: he hopes to be ready if voters aprove the ballot measure in november but medical marijuana users are already welcome at the hotel. i'm don, nice to meet you. it smells like pot in here. >> yes, it does. >> reporter: can we come in? caroline uses pot medically to relieve aches and pains, stemming from complications from four c-sections. this is where you sflif. >> yes, it is. >> reporter: so you're a medical marijuana patient and you can use it here? what does that mean to you? >> it means a lot to me because i have not only safety but i'm comfortable here. i don't worry about nobody coming into the room disturbing me. i don't worry about no chaotic people knocking on my door, asking me for things. i don't worry about the police coming into my room telling me they need to search for something or being arrested. and that's one thing that a lot of medical patients really look forward to.

we have nowhere to go. >> reporter: but the owner hopes people like caroline soon won't be confined to their rooms to smoke, ba new roof deck is in te works. >> the lobby is nice and the ballroom is nice, but the roof is really, you know, it says this is the dream. >> reporter: a dream he hopes to realize even if californians vote no. there are downsides to legalizing drugs and some fear the impact of more and more medical marijuana users on their community but others say you can't ignore the reality. many legit businesses are cashing in on cannabis during these tough economic times and those who cover the marijuana industry say in the 14 states that now allow medical marijuana, pot businesses are taking up vacant storefronts and providing local towns much needed revenue. that is according to like the learner, publisher and editor in chief of "cush" magazine and

dailybuds.com. thank you for joining us. first of all, we're not just talking about places that sell to patients who use marijuana as medicine. there are a lot of businesses like your magazine for instance that are making money from marijuana legitimately like some in the food industry. i see ads in "cush" for a place called ganga gourmet. >> yes, so many businesses from restaurants to all different facets of the business, not just distribution of the cannabis but the real estate, and all the different facets of the business. >> let's focus on the shops that sell medical marijuana. we've compiled some of your data. you say in your conservative estimation according to you, there are at least 3,000 dispensaries, boutiques, caregivers, whatever you want to call them, whatever your name for them in varying states that sell medical marijuana, on average, each place employs about seven people and serves 10

to 300 patients a day. is that right? >> that's correct. in fact, there's over 30,000 jobs that have been created most recently amongst the states of california and colorado by themselves. >> some people can serve as many as 300 per day. how much money are the places making a ay? >> they go from 10 patients a day to 300 patients a day but there's two different facets here. colorado is a for-profit state and california cis a not-for-profit state. it's a business, absolutely a business. we're talking about the gold rush of 2010. >> local towns and states are they collecting taxes? you observed that states are learning from each other such as colorado, you saw what was happening in california, and you decided to do things differently. explain that. >> in colorado, there's over 100,000 patients right now that have paid the state fees of $90 per person, that's over $9

million. as reported last week in the "usa today," it's gone from 270 new patients per day in colorado to 1,000 patients per day which brings $90,000 a day into the state just in registration fees for the cannabis patients, not, let alone the registration fees of $5,000 apiece for each and every collective that is opened in denver, colorado, so it's bringing an enormous amount of revenue into the state of colorado. it's got commercial real estate has been taken across the board. it is doing a huge boost to the economy and you're talking about over 30,000 jobs that have been created with no federal assistance but these are the revenue generating, tax generating dollars and putting people to work. >> i want to talk to you about work. you personally visited more than 2,000 dispensaries across the country. can you tell me stories of people economically saved by marijuana that they've been able to find legal work from pot? >> yes, on dailybuds.com, the

largest social network for medical marijuana there's story after story, then and now stories of people unemployed two years ago, people on welfare, people that were on various assistance programs that did not have work, that did not have income, could not feed their families and are well employed within this industry right now and a lot of them also have health benefits and so forth with the primary caregivers and collectives they work with. their lives have changed. >> very interesting interview, very interesting story covering it. i'll share my experience with you on facebook, our blog as a matter of fact, we'll put that on, glenn, if you're listening, the blog producer, let's put that on the blog i'll share my experience about the pot hotel or potel. president barack obama's big task at hand, filling a vacancy on the nation's highest court. we'll tell you about a governor who may be on the short list. ♪

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year before sonia sotomayor was nominated. in afghanistan more than 80 girls and teachers suddenly became ill at three girls schools last week. authorities are trying to determine if they were poisoned by taliban militants who oppose education for girls. afghan officials were able to gather a sample of a gas which they suspect was used to make the students sick. the girls reported a strange odor in their classrooms, then complained of dizziness and nausea. mississippi officials are still assessing the damage from a massive mile-wide tornado that ripped through yazoo city and other communities. the death toll stands at ten including sadly three children. a state of emergency could be declared soon. no deaths reported in alabama but one medical center reports treating about 20 people for storm-related injuries. d.c.'s national mall was the stage for muse which can a message today. thousands gathered for a climate rally, which featured performances from stars like bob

weir from the grateful dead, john legend, the roots and josh stone. organizers say they hope the big names and the big crowds will tell lawmakers to act, because the effort to end global warms has been waiting long enough. >> we've been really dragging our feet, and so this is going to send i hope a little message to the u.s. government and to congress in general that they need to pass climate legislation, good climate legislation and they need to do it now. ♪ >> among the activists, musicians at today's rally, sting seen here last year at you united nations concert now lending his voice to help the environment, something he has long supported. earlier he and his wife, trudy stiler spoke with me before his performance at the climate rally. they want big government because it's the only way to make the changes that are needed before it is too late. take a listen. >> why are we doing this? >> reporter: yeah. >> we've been in this struggle

for over 20 years, trudy and i, you know, trying to get the message out, and as you can see, this is like a green tea party out there, people who care, people who care about clean water and fresh air for the children to breathe, food that doesn't kill you, a better planet, a safer planet and it is a tea party movement. >> yeah. trudy, what do you think about what he said? >> a real one. >> well, of course i agree with him, not because i'm the little wife, but because we've been on this mission together, we went to the rain forest in the '80s, we've been a foundation for 21 years now, and really speaking on behalf of the people who are in the rain forest whose rights are being abused and exploited by big business it's very hard to see that and we care passionately about all those indigenous groups that we've met and become friends with over the years, so that our rain forest

fund really fights on their behalf. >> are what do you think of what he said, it's a green tea party, what do you make of that? what are you saying by that, sting, and then you can respond, trudy. >> well, you can see the enthusiasm out there, and people are here to really tell big government that we want big government to make big decisions about the most important problems we face, and also to pressure corporations to behave properly as consumer, but we're asking for big government, basically. >> you want big government? >> of course we do. this is a huge problem and only government is going to solve it. you know, the man in the street can do a little bit, but big governments need to make decisions. we need to stop clear-cutting forests, protect the forest. it's the simplest way of cutting greenhouse gases. >> either of you can respond, what do you make of those who say that, who question climate change or global warming, because trudy, you said you have

been in the fight for years. >> well, i addressed the u.n. general assembly five days before they went to copenhagen and there was a great feeling from the representatives of the u.n. that something was going to happen in komen hag copenhagen all of our hopes were dashed when not one government member was prepared to say, not one government leader was prepared to say we are really going to do something about climate change. we're going to cut our carbon emissions by "x." nobody came forward and that was just a terrific, terrible waste of time and resources and money, and has left everybody feeling i think quite rebellious now that we really, this is the time, we cannot wait any longer. we have to really lean on our governments to do something because i think that we're going to maybe not in my lifetime but towards the end of our children's, we're going to reach a tipping point that we will no longer be able to support life

on this planet earth. i believe in that defiantly and passionately and strongly. >> so i think the climate skeptic, is somebody who jumps out of the 20th floor of a hotel and for 19 floors he tells everybody, hey, it's fine, nothing's wrong. he's crazy, but i can't imagine a more serious problem than climate change frankly. >> i was going to say because we've been part of the rain forest foundation for two decades now that we really see that the carbon emissions could be cut by up to 25% just by halting deforestation now. that is something that we could do cheaply, and quickly, if we had this global accord to say this is what we all agree to do, just in a year, this could be ended, the deforestation could stop between 12% and 25% of our carbon emissions.

>> sting, you're going to be singing tonight. what are you going to sing and maybe you can hum a few bars for us? >> i'm going to sing a song called "fragile" which is appropo and "message in a bottle" also and "driven to tears" fennish with "one world is enough." ♪ one world is enough for all of us ♪ ♪ it may seem a million miles away but it gets a little closer every day ♪ come on, trude. >> i'm allowed to sing in the car. >> hey, guys, thank you so much, we appreciate you joining us, okay. >> good-bye. thank you >> thank you. >> what a nice couple. thanks to them again. i really enjoyed that. i hope you did, too, at home. a high school student battling cancer teaches his classmates a life lesson about love, perseverance and what's truly important. you should see this story. you will not forget it.

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you have probably never heard of high school senior conner olausson, but this week, he touched the hearts of the entire kansas town. he died the other day. it wasn't a shock nor a surprise. he had been battling cancer for a long time. his friends knew conner did not think he'd survive to the end of the school year. so they did something extraordinary. they made sure conner got his diploma. >> bottom line, my kids -- i'm proud of you guys. when we go in there, we're going to be strong for our kids. we're going to be strong for our kids. >> he -- when he was diagnosed, i looked him in the eye and i said, you will graduate with your friends. he said, i know. it was a foregone conclusion that this would occur. >> you ready? >> let's go. we're going to do this, conner. >> basically we were finally

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