harrisburg. it's a path of destruction. 250 yards wide and more than seven miles long, encompassing over 200 homes. harrisburg's mayor is joining me live in a few moments from now. meanwhile, after storms in missouri and three more in tennessee, steven is amazed that he was not killed when a storm flipped his mobile home in kentucky. >> i got up, took two steps off the couch, and then me and the two dogs that i have and the trailer started rolling down the hill. you can see what is left. after i rolled five times, i mean, i can remember everything about it, i was -- once it hit the ground on the fifth time, everything just -- i saw daylight. i don't know how i'm here.

>> in just a few moments, a tornado survivor remembers his mother who did not survive. and we are just getting word that a plane carrying american and british pro democracy workers has left cairo. they were accused of cementing unrest in egypt. they were ngos who were the target of a government crackdown last december. all face charges of fraud. the crisis further strained ties between new egyptian government and the united states. meantime, in syria after weeks of fighting, rebel of the free syrian army today pulled out of the district of the embattled city of homs. and that did nothing to stop the heavy shelling of homs. dissidents describe it as a blood bath and residents without

food, water, or medicine. desperately needed supplies could soon be on the way. the international red cross says the syrian government has given it permission to enter homs tomorrow. he made his name as a pugnacious critic and what he saw, today, andrew breitbart's outspoken voice has been silenced. he died unexpectedly in los angeles. he rose to prominence with controversial tactics. shirley sherrod and igniting the scandal that led to the scandal of congressman anthony weiner. the report backfired of sherrod when inflammatory remarks had been edited. in fact, she had said just the

opposite. andrew breitbart got his start working on the drudge report and later "the huffington post". he was just 43 years old. late this morning the senate did away with a republican measure that would have undone the government's contraception mandate and then some. it would allow employers to disapprove of anything that they found immoral. while many are gratified, mitt romney is not. he came out strongly in favor of the so-called conscious amendment only after telling a reporter that he opposed it. >> i'm not for the bill. but, look, the idea of presidential candidates getting into questions about contraception within a relationship between a man and a woman, a husband and a wife, i'm

not going there. team romney now says the presidential hopeful misunderstood the question. much more on this and our "fair game" segment later in this hour. so have you been on google lately? today is a big day. google is changing the way that it handles all of the stuff it learns about its users and account holders. it's not collecting any more data that it ever did instead creating separate user profiles on each of its sites and services. it's actually combining them. if you object, you can still edit or clear your browsing history and if you don't sign in to begin with, google will not know who you are. we'll return now to the horrific scene across the midwest. the hardest hit area, harrisburg, illinois. you can see it's devastated by an ef-4 tornado.

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this time yid the town of harrisburg, illinois was learning about the the damage it sustained. today harrisburg is starting to think about what it will take to rebuild. eric gregg will be front and center in that effort. he's the mayor of the community of some 9,000 people in the southern end of the state. he's going to join me shortly. but, first, from washington, i'm joined by the head of the federal emergency management agen agency, craig fugate. >> good afternoon. >> can you tell me what you can do for the city of harrisburg? >> right now the officials are still focused on the initial response and starting to do the assessments. as we work with the states to decide what assistance needs to help the recover, it can be

disaster loans and joining them to do disaster assessments. >> at what point do you jump in with assistance? >> when the state tells us they need us. we were contacted yesterday and i think with these tornadoes, as devastating as they are in the communities, in the cases of all of the states, they were able to meet the response needs and focus on that part of the response. we've been in contact. we've been able to keep up to date with the states. when they request us, we're able to go. but the good news story is, as strategic as they are, they are managing the response and did not require federal assistance for that and so the question is, what will be needed for recovery operations. >> you know, as we look at these images, we're totally devastated by the damage. what do you think of in a situation like this? gosh, we ended up lucky because this could have been much worse.

>> >> i think we've heard from the story and things like noaa weather radio, they can get the alerts when they are sleeping. not all storms are going to occur when we are awake. it reinforceses that and they are looking at potentially more severe weather tomorrow across parts of the ohio and tennessee valley areas. so this threat, again, as we move in the springtime, should be a reminder for everyone else, knowing what to do if a tornado warning is issued. we may not be able to prevent the damage but hopefully we can reduce the loss of life. >> and what should survivors be doing right now to shore up their own situations? >> well, in many cases if they have insurance is to get with their insurance companies to find out what the next steps are

going to be but for right now a lot of the immediate needs are being provided by the volunteer faith-based communities. again, as they work through those first hours, first days, the question will be their insurance, what is not insured and their assistance that our volunteers are providing in those cities. >> you're intimately familiar with the situation. what do you think their needs are going to be? >> well, it's going to really come back to how many people didn't have insurance. the one thing we can't even begin to address is w any assistance is the loss of life and tragedy there. our folks are dealing with that today. that won't be an easy thing to get through. but with the financial impacts, it really comes back to what are were the uninsured losses and what will be the extraordinary loss that governments are facing. we will do those assessments as requested but really the first

step right now is our thoughts with the families who have losted loved ones and those injured by the storm. >> absolutely. as we listen to the folks speak, i've got to tell you that the resilience is incredible and they are going to consider major expenses and they've incurred a lot of loss. so does your organization also help with that? >> well, it's always done by each state. that's why we will work with the state as they request assistance to work with that. the biggest focus was again on the search and rescue and life focus done with local backups. several governments have looked at additional resources that are needed. we've really transitioned from that response and recovery to see what may be needed to support that recovery. >> pll fugate, thank you for taking the time to speak with us today and good luck to you. >> thank you. a harrisburg man lost his

mother in the tornado. >> your mother was she rescued out of -- obviously there was no building here. did they find her in the rubble here? >> i'm not really sure. the officer that i've seen yesterday morning that told me she was in the ambulance, at that point in time i was so relieved that she had been found so quickly that i didn't even ask. so i don't know if she was like laying in the street or dug out of the rubble. i honestly don't know. >> reporter: they were able to put her in an ambulance and your wife who is a nurse was able to go on that ambulance ride. she had a gash on her forehead but did you think that she was sort of okay? >> at that point we had no clue that her injuries were life threatening. we felt at that point that she was going to be okay, you know. >> reporter: when did you realize that she was not going to be okay? >> approximately an hour later when my wife came out of the hospital from the emergency room and said the doctors told us it doesn't look good. i mean, that was a pretty severe

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as we've been reporting, conservative blogger andrew breitbart has died. he was just 43 years old. a hero to the political right for promoting what he'd like to call citizen journalism. bright part had plenty of critics as well. let's talk about his life and his legacy with joe polack. he's the editor-in-chief for breitbart.com. joel, thank you for joining us. i know this is a friend of yours so our condolences to you as well. i think it's incredible that you're taking the time to spend

some time with us today. if you can please tell us, what do you know about his passing? were you there at the time? was he ill? >> andrew was not ill and it was very unexpected. in fangt, i had been speaking to him throughout the day and the evening. had he been e-mailing new stories, new leads, new tips and very engaged in the websites that are going to condition and relaunch and grow stronger. andrew was putting his heart and soul into the websites. it was just a normal hardworking day and it was unexpected. i went to the hospital as soon as i found out that something had happened and unfortunate leanne drew had passed away. >> i know that people are just shocked by his passing. had he been ill at all? >> not at all. his scooter had broken down at the gym so he was getting a lift with somebody else back to the office. andrew was very active. he was having a competition with a friend of his as to who could

lose more weight on the atkins diet. he was taking care of himself. he looked great. it was just sudden and unexpected. >> so let's talk about his life. he seemed to enjoy the spotlight. did he revel in all of the controversy? >> no, andrew revelled in the people that he was standing for and used the controversy as too tool to advance their stories that were being forgotten in the mainstream media. that's how we met. in 2009 i brought him a story that i found for the political blue print for how obamacare had been written. he said, why hadn't the media heard about this. we got it into the media and that was the beginning of obamacare. mainstream media would look the other way when there was a story that they didn't want to report. he was a happy warrior. he didn't court controversy for its own sake.

>> he was quite a controversial figure, also. a lot of people are talking about the shirley sherrod incident and how he handled that. do you think he ever rethought his tactics on that issue? >>. >> i'm going to do ann drew breitbart and ask if cnn has rethought its tactics on the issue. cnn brought shirley sherrod on the wake of what happened and invited her to stay whether she wanted to shut his website down and what she wanted to do to get back at him and andrew used to joke that if he had a life story, he would call it the anderson cooper story because he felt like anderson cooper set up a narrative about the shirley sherrod story completely opposite of what had he done. >> well, unfortunately, andrew is not here to talk about this.

how did he see himself? >> andrew saw himself as a happy warrior, a guy that was mostly happy-go-lucky, who loved southern california even though he was conservative in a liberal community. he was rightly indignant. he got angry when he felt that people were being drowned out or victimized by the mainstream media and felt a passion for standing up for them. there was no story too small or no person too small. andrew was taking calls from people all day and all night. that's how he saw himself. a person who could have been living an easier existence but chose to be out there because he didn't see anybody else doing it. whether they were from the right or left, andrew had friends on the left who came forward and joined him and were part of what we are doing. they realized that he was a person who fought for them when they were struggling to be heard. >> certainly gone too soon. joe pollak, thank you for

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relentless government of homs. 22 people have been killed in homs and 15 others in the country. cnn's nic robertson is joining us. how significant is a rebel withdraw from bara arma? >> reporter: it's been hugely significant. tens and thousands of civilians down to 4,000 now. this is an indication for the free syrian army and all of the opposition supporters that rely on the army in the other parts of the country for their protection. it's an indication that they cannot hold out against bashar al assad's forces so particularly in those areas and communities, the government already surrounds and can easy

cut off. it's going to be a grave concern for all of the civilians they've left behind. all they know so far is that the government forces are going house to house hunting people down. there are a lot of concerns, very significant at many levels. >> nic, there's word that the process has permission. >> what they say is they have described intense negotiations involving the government and opposition elements to go into barba and syrian red crescent organization that they should be in a position to go in earlier tomorrow morning. their going to bring in relief supplies but they have no idea

what they are going to find or what the security situation will be for them. and they don't know what they will offer on the ground and they don't know where they are going to be able to take the people and a lot of unanswered questions still at this time. >> all right. nic roberson live in lebanon. could romney's turn off the right? >> the idea of presidential candidates getting into questions about contraception within a relationship between a man and a woman, a husband and a wife, i am not going there. >> but he went there anyway. romney makes a gaffe at a

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developments as warranted. meantime, mitt romney is having a winning weekend. he's won michigan, arizona, and wyoming and has a head start of super tuesday. he was asked if he supported a controversial amendment allowing employers to deny coverage for birth control and religious grounds. >> i'm not for the bill. but, look, the idea of presidential candidates getting into questions about contraception within a relationship between a man and a woman, a husband and wife, i'm not going there. >> but you see, he did go there. so could this gaffe cost him next week? i'm joined by robert zimmerman and gentry collins. this isn't the first time romney's bun geled just when he's had the momentum going for him. let's listen to this. >> i drive a mustang and a chevy

pickup truck. >> ei like being able to vid services to me. >> he was able to say he's actually for the amendment but will this blunder hurt him and will it be seen as flip-flopping? gentry? >> no, i don't think it will be seen as flip-flopping. it will be seen for an error, which it was. this is not a flip-flop. he's been very clear that he does not support forcing religious institutions like the catholic church that oppose contraception. but he was also trying to say that that doesn't mean we should get into our bedrooms and say to men and women that they can't use it. he is simply saying, as most republicans are, that the catholic church shouldn't be forced to pay for it. >> gentry? >> go ahead. >> actually, i'm going to say,

he may not be in our bedrooms but he's peaking through the windows. because what he supported would give any employer, despite religious background, the right to deny a person receiving health insurance, the right to not just contraceptive care, cervical cancer care, it would allow any employer to block any health care that they block for his or her own employees. but what really will hurt romney is not the fact that he flip-flopped but is taking the position to appeal to the extreme right wing of its party and it loses all credibility. >> the santorum campaign says that proves that romney is not a real conservative. are they justified in attacking romney over this. >> no, they are not justified. as i said, governor romney has been very clear about his

position. let me clear with respect to the general election. this is not a right wing issue. religious freedom is a mainstream issue. and i tell, 36% of those voting catholics believe that the church should be given ex sem shun in this case. >> gentry? >> you know something, the reality is, let the republican party make this the key debating point. but when you have rick santorum who said he would throw up on president kennedy's speech or newt gingrich who wants to abolish child labor laws, mitt romney who is add voe indicating deportation you have a republican party and great tradition of reagan playing to a

right-wing fringe. >> gentlemen, let's switch gears. santorum is not on the ballot in virginia. will that help romney? >> of course it's going to help romney. >> it couldn't hurt him, i'll tell you that. >> we're in a delegate fight at this point. the delegate fight will not be wrapped up on super tuesday. when it's mathematically possible for any candidates to have bound delegates to secure the nomination is april 24th. mitt romney won three quarters of the delegates this week and governor romney has a step up in respect to delegates which is what this fight is all about now. >> actually shall the real -- >> i want to talk about president obama because we were just watching him there.

he's in new hampshire today. he's talking energy and in the economy. it's not an official campaign stop but how important is this visit for president obama? >> i think the visit is very critical. certainly because as we deal with the issue of rising gas prices and the issue of our slow but building recovery, he's got to keep congress very focused and the nation focused on the steps to rebuilt and and not just domestic oil drilling but at turn tif sources of energy, green job development as well. let's not forget new hampshire is a swing state. that doesn't hurt either in these visits. >> not only is new hampshire is swing state, obama's approval numbers are lower than they are in any other swing state in the country. this stop is too little too late. he calls it an official stop but i think the country sees through that. this is on the same day that is going to have the 100th fund-raiser. he's becoming a campaign ner

chief and what we really need is leadership on this economy. this president is not providing that. >> do you know something, it's time to add. >> robert zimmerman in new york, thank you very much, jerk for joining us. so with all of the bad news on cruises lately, many are beginning to wonder how safe they are. just last month the "costa concordia" capsized and another ship caught on fire and had to be towe d-back into port. . why don't you use bengay zero degrees? it's the one you store in the freezer. same medicated pain reliever used by physical therapists. that's chilly. [ male announcer ] new bengay zero degrees. freeze and move on.

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was extremely black smoke so we knew something was going to happen so -- excuse me. they sounded the alarm. >> that was sailing in pirate-infested waters. but perhaps no other image elicits more fear or raises more questions about cruise ship safety than this. the costa concordia" capsized. it's operated by the same company as "allegra" and in its wake the cruise ship industry is under a microscope. congress is holding meetings on this issue. this was the statement on wednesday. >> the first announcement came on telling us that it was nothing but an electric failure and everything was under control. >> so we felt very betrayed, very much lied to.

>> lizzie is on capitol hill and she's been closely watching this congressional hearing. lizzie, today is day two of the cruise ship hearings. who did lawmakers hear from today? >> zoraida, today is an overview. they are getting a sense of where the coast guard sits and making its point that cruise shipping is very safe. it's been handled by the italian authorities but the coast guard is keeping in touch with them and one of the things the admiral testifying about, these ships are enormous. when you think about the "concordia," it had 13 decks and it's like a moving apartment building. while there were technological leaps and bounds made, they can't control the human factors. like who said what when and how passengers were informed about what to do on board. >> you know, we know that these

ships sale all over the world with people from a lot of different countries. who actually ensures their safety? >> this is the big question. there are sort of three different camps you want to put this in. remember, we're at the 100th anniversary almost of the sinking of "the titanic." after that there was a draw and again you have ships that sail in many different countries and a lot of competing and conflicting regulations. there are a couple of areas under real focus right now and i want to highlight the ones that they are because we may see regulations. number one is a question of a safety drill. right now regulations say you've got to have one within 24 hours of setting sail. the american citizens you heard from never got a safety drill because the "concordia" crashed five hours into their dinner. how do lifeboats deploy? there are lots of lifeboats on

these ships but they are on each side of the ship and only dispatch when the boat has reached a 20-degree angle. the "concordia" tipped more than that. from the time the captain declares abandon ship, you're supposed to have half an hour to get off. >> i know a lot of people would like to see those safety drills actually happen the minute that they get on board as well. all right. lizzie, thank you so much for that report. the film "bully" is meant to educate kids about the realities of bullies. one girl is trying to change the rating. she has put together a petition and she's joining us live to explain why she did this. it's coming up next. ♪ are you guys okay? yeah.

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bullying. we've seen it at work way too many times. the powerful painful source behind the senseless deaths of too many children and it has to stop. it's a subject of a new documentary, appropriately named

"bully." >> they called him a geek. some kids told him he was worthless, to go hang himself. >> this is some powerful stuff. the message this documentary sends is clear but the motion picture association of america, or mpaa, has slapped the documentary with an r-rating which threatens to keep out teens, the exact audience that stands to benefit the most from seeing this documentary. some famous names and powerful people tried to get the rating changed to pg-13, including the film's influential distributor. but the mpaa rejected the appeal. now it's the bullying victims who are taking action. katie butler is leading the way and she joins us live from detroit. thank you so much for being with us, katie. you actually posted a petition -- >> no problem. >> -- on change.org and the support has been overwhelming. how many people have signed that

petition so far? >> 162,000. >> and i know you were bullied, too. can you tell us your story? >> yes, i can. when i was in seventh grade, i identified as a lesbian, and i still do. and i was out in my school. and there were not a lot of people that were in support of that, and one day i was putting my stuff away in my locker and a couple guys came up behind me and started calling me names and using horrible derogatory language. and i tried to get away because it was a really, really scary situation like a lot of kids are put in now. and they slammed my finger in my locker. and ended up breaking my fingering. >> now, katy, you saw the documentary. how did you feel when you saw it? >> i think it's an absolutely

powerful, wonderful movie because these are real kids, and they're telling their real stories. >> now, there are some people who believe that this should be rated "r." when you watched it, did you feel that way? >> no, i don't think this movie should be rated "r" at all. i think pg-13 is a very good rating for it. >> well, actually, you went as far as to say by refusing to change the film's rating to pg-13, the motion picture association of america is acting like a bully, too. that is a very bold statement. why do you say that? >> because they're not letting the people who need to see this movie, the kids who are being bullied and the bullies see the movie. >> now, my understanding is that the problem with the movie is that it uses some foul language. so, the motion picture association of america has issued this statement, they say the rating board has assigne bully an r rating for some

language, not as an indicator of the quality of the film, but in order to provide parents with an adequate information on the level of content contained in the film. as with any movie, parents will decide if the film is appropriate for their child's viewing so to be fair here, catty, isn't the mpaa just doing its job? shouldn't i have a right as a mother to decide whether or not my 13-year-old should be seeing that peeve? >> yes, i also think you as a parent have the right, if the movie is rated pg-13 or if it's rated pg no matter what it's rated the parents still have the right to decide whether their child gets to see the movie or not. >> all right. >> the language in this movie is part of what makes it so powerful. >> it's something that i would imagine kids your age can actually relate to. for the record, i think you're doing an amazing job. congratulations to you, and good luck. >> thank you so much. and coming up, this leggy

blonde posed for "playboy" and was in very high demand. she wasn't just a supermodel. she was also a super donor. her incredible story coming up next. [ wrapper coming off a vending machine waffle ]

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women looking for donor eggs often seek out someone young and good looking. catherine fit the description perfectly. thelma gutierrez has her story. >> in the world of egg donation, she was a pioneer. catherine havarin was a at all leggy blonde who had some of the most south after eggs in southern california. fertility specialist dr. wissot called her a super donor. >> what made her a super donor? >> it was the number of times that she donated. she was in great demand.

take one look at her. she's an actress, a model. she's beautiful, she's tall. >> she was a playmate. >> she was a playboy playmate, and she got everybody pregnant. that was the bottom line. >> i met the super donor 11 years ago when the industry was still in its infancy. catherine was married with two children of her own. she told me she wanted to help other couples become parents. in doing so, catherine would donate her eggs, a part of herself that carried the same dna as her own kids. babies born of those eggs would be half hers biologically but raised by vangers she would never meet. during one of her many egg retrievals with the doctor, catherine allowed me to witness the delicate procedure. >> the needle goes into the follicle. >> that was more than a decade ago. i was curious to know just how many of those eggs became babies and if she thought about it much. >> do you ever think about the potential children that you

could have out there? >> all the time. it's amazing like when you're walking down the street and you see somebody that looks something like you with blonde hair and green eyes, could be. >> if we do the math and you went through ten cycles and each cycle netted 36 eggs, you're talking about nearly 400 eggs out there. how many live births that you know of? >> i believe there's ten. and there's a set of twins. >> so there's at least ten that we know of. >> right. >> but the potential for many more. back then there were few restrictions how many times a woman 0 could donate. now the standard is three for the safety of the donor. today women are paid on average $10,000 a cycle. it was much less for catherine. >> it wasn't a lot at that time. i think it was maybe $1200, if that. >> $100. you're having to give yourself the shots, having to go through retrieval. that is not an easy process sewed no one could ever say you got rich off of it.

>> no, no, no. >> but now she's a bit more wistful. my son was killed five years ago. that will really flooded back to this. great that if my daughter did have a brother. not that i want you know them to go looking for him. no one will ever take his place but to know maybe she would have a brother or sister out there. >> does that strong urge ever come to you? >> it's a strange urge like you want to in one way but in the other, i don't want to intrude on anybody. >> several years ago, a child who wanted to meet the egg donor did reach out to dr. wissot. >> we did contact catherine and she was open to it and then the patient never follow up. >> so there is that curiosity there. >> yeah. >> you wouldn't shut that door. >> absolutely not. i think it's very important to keep it open. >> looking back, she says she's glad she was able to help so many couples. >> i've never felt any regret. >> she says her only hope is that the children are living

wonderful lives. thelma gutierrez, cnn, los angeles. >> we thank you for watching. "cnn newsroom" continues now with brooke baldwin hi, brooke. >> hello to all of you. i'm brooke baldwin. a busy day. a busy day. roll it. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com two more families got the news today that their loved ones won't be coming home from the war. two american soldiers shot and killed in afghanistan. we're told a couple of gunmen approached these soldiers including one wearing an afghan national army uniform. this is just another round of violence there since word got out that the u.s. troops burned those korans. and senate democrats today killed a controversial republican health insurance plan and what it would have done would have allowed employers to refuse provide insurance to cover birth control and other services they disagree with on moral grounds. debate very much heated on both

sides. >> but it seems as if the other side of the aisle in all the discussions we've been having for the last year about jobs, about appropriations bills, about the debt ceiling, about moving forward on reconciliation, all come down to one thing -- let's get rid of reproductive health care for women. >> the vote to table the measure was -- >> this is all about contraception. my gosh, that's not what it's about. it's about the right of people with religious beliefs to practice their religion unmolested by government. >> the vote to table the measure 51-48. and after three weeks here, three weeks of relentless shelling, a hard hit area in the city of homs may be getting some relief. red cross says it's gotten permission to take food and

supplies into the war-torn baba amr neighborhoods. government forces moved in today. the opposition says it pulled out to the give civilians a break from the attacks. president obama speaking at a community college there. this is new hampshire. he talked energy, he talked gas prices which by the way, jumped yet again today. the 23rd day in a row. tonight, the president will be in new york for a wave of private campaign fund raisers. and google, google is watching you. the internet giant is combining 60 different privacy policies all into one from sites it runs like gmail, youtube. this thing goes into effect today and the changes will give them new ways to track you and gather information unless you specifically say no thanks. the company says it will lead to more personalized services but critics say it is a serious privacy invasion. and andrew breitbart has

died in california at the age of 43. his lawyer says the brash conservative blogger died overnight of natural causes. reports of his death just totally exploded this morning in media circles and echoed on the campaign trail, as well. >> a huge loss in my opinion for our country and certainly for the conservative movement and our prayers go out to his family. i'm really sorry 0 hear it. >> we're going to have more for you about 15 minutes from now. of also, one student is dead, another critic little injured after a stabbing today at a chicago alternative school. police say the two teens were attacked at the school's front door and we know a 17-year-old suspect is in custody. no word yet as to what led to the stabbing, why this happened. the school is for students who have been expelled or suspended from a public school. and police in maine have now located the body of a florida firefighter who had been missing

for just about two weeks. they found the remains of jerry perdomo on property that police say belonged to the family of daniel porter. porter is now charged with murder in this case. court documents showed porter owed him money and the two made death threats to one another. the warning sound, tornadoes are on the ground. this is frankfurt, kentucky, this is video shot overnight, the second straight night of violent weather in the region has now left total number we will have the 13, 13 dead in illinois, missouri, kansas, and tennessee. hundreds are hurt and survivors are now having to assess just what's left. >> we immediately jumped in the car, came out here. basically, the same time, we walked down through here and discovered there was no apartment. it was gone. >> where is that apartment? >> it's right back over there

where there's a van and then a car. >> heavy damage is being reported in illinois, missouri, kentucky, tennessee, indiana and kansas. a federal judge says no to requiring graphic warning labels on packages of cigarettes and other tobacco products. a new federal law would have required written warnings as well as alternating images including a corpse, smoke infected lungs on some of the packages. companies sued saying the warnings would be cost prohibitive and dominate the packages. the judge says the requirement violates freedom of speech. a lot more in the next two hours. watch this. one of america's biggest banks is floating the idea of a new fee. and this one just a banking check account. could your bank be next? i'm brooke baldwin. the news is now. >> i crawled over all this stuff and came out to here. >> powerful tornadoes devastate lives as folks brace for another wave.

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about. no signs of walls, no ceilings here, shelter damaged like thissing is being reported in illinois, missouri, kentucky, tennessee, indiana, kansas, hardest hit we talked about this for just about two hours straight yesterday, harrisburg, illinois, where the tornado packing a 180-mile-per-hour winds killed six people. don lemon is on the ground there in harrisburg. you cover stories like this and it's one thing for us to see the images to play out on television. quite another to be there in person. how is everyone doing? >> reporter: yeah, it doesn't really translate ever on television, right? when you see it, brooke, you see it at home and once you get out here, it's really just unbelievable. let's show since you asked how are people doing. i think this is a good example. look, see the back hoe over there? if i'm quiet enough, you can probably hear a little bit of the back hoe. you see the guy up there on the roof putting new singhs on and

trying to shore up whatever they have left. that's how people are coping here. they're trying to put one foot in front of the other, those who were spared just to be honest and they're trying to get their lives back together and trying to at least secure whatever it is that they may still have. a lot of people here don't really have a lot. 200 to 300 homes were damaged and six people lost their lives in this area where i am. >> 200 to 300 homes damaged. we saw the images also of the med center in town. one wall totally wiped out. what about help? are they getting the help they need? >> reporter: they are getting help. and you know, i want to talk to you more about help because i think they're going to need a lot more of it. they have a lot of people who are helping out. but they're also going to need a lot more time. a lot of people feel pressured by the time constraints put on them by the local officials to get everything packed up. i want to introduce you and our audience to patty anslinger, she

and her 91-year-old mother at home at the time the storm rolled through. she put her mom in the tub and got on top of her and saved both their lives. >> is this the tub where you guys were? >> yes, it is, right here. yeah. we hunkered down right there. she was in the back, i was over here. we had all these abrat tus to help us out with, and we just ducked and i think i put like towels and stuff over our heads and that's the only time we had. the warnings, sirens went off and we had about two minutes to get into the bathtub and get covered and then it was here. >> reporter: so that was this morning, brooke, that they gave them about 12 hours. they've got about six, seven hours to go. and i think, i really hope that local officials will give them a little bit more time to get their things out because that's all some people have. this is a strip mall where i'm

standing. you can see a couple media guys here. look at this truck. you can see the complete undercarriage of that truck. that's a pretty big truck. it shows you how strong these winds are. yeah, you see that just to the left of that, it's not a good shot but that's the ridge up there that neighborhood where miss andslinger lived. that's where the six people died. half a mile wide this thing. when you introduced me, 1 180-mile-an-hour winds enough to bend steel girders like that that hold these buildings up. >> we were talking to a reporter yesterday and he was talking about a piece of plywood had essentially sliced into the concrete in the side of that strip mall to prove the point of how strong those winds were. don, thank you. we're thinking about everyone where you are, of course. chad meyers, correct me if i'm wrong, we were talking about the tornado yesterday being an ef-4. you have some images before and after and also amazingly, thanks

to google, showing how that tornado kind of hopped, skipped and jumped around town. >> sobering. right here, it was a 170-mile-per-hour the preliminary numbers yesterday. after the weather service took a second look today, they said that's probably 180-mile-per-hour storm. here's parisburg, here's carrier mills, 5:00 in the morning, the tornado touched down one mile north of carrier mills. this was okay. it touched down in farmland. it was 100 -- probably 150-mile-per-hour storm, about 100-yard wide bowling ball headed to harrisburg. it stayed on the ground through this farmland into the town of harrisburg over lisht, that strip mall that don lemon was just talking about is right there. that will bowling ball rolled right over all of these homes over that strip mall and out to the other side of harrisburg. take a look what those homes look like right now. from this perspective, we're turning you around so you look from the northeast. there are the homes that were all built here.

now let me take you to the aerial pictures of that exact image. that's what that neighborhood looks like right now from the helicopter from yesterday. the shot coming through the bowling ball, that tornado right on through from the west to the east. and now, one more shot, sean, we're going to take you over here to where don lemon is standing. there's the strip mall before the tornado. almost looks like a landing strip. that the what that looks like right now. believe it or not, the way the picture was taken, i can take you right to that trucking that don lemon was pointing at on its side right there. there's that same truck right there. this is what that mall looks like. >> when he show the damage and you see some homes destroyed, some not, is anal jill like a bouncing ball with forward momentum so once it hits the ground it pops back up. >> an f-4 stays on the grounds. it was skipping in the fields to

the west of the town but when it touched down, it was down and stayed on the ground. the randomness means it was probably a multivortexed tornado which you just see one big cone. inside there's more than one suction spot rotating around. if that suction spot got your house, it may have missed your neighbors as it moves around. so those different pieces of internal wind are bigger than maybe some -- you may see the whole cone being 200 yards wide but the biggest part play be only 50. it's like a tornado inside a tornado. >> chad, thank you. a lot of you are wondering how you can help. you can help those affected by the tornadoes. you can go to cnn.com/impact. there you'll find ways you can help those in need. cnn.com/impact. and now to remember those debit card fees bank of america tried to impose late last year? that didn't go through, but the bank is back with a new fee. we'll break down the figures for you after this quick break. cleaner energy, to s,

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at it again adding fees to customer accounts. we all remember the last time the bank tried to impose that $5 monthly charge for just using your debit card. yeah, that didn't work out leaving behind though a battered image for some banks. now bank of america testing out another fee program. alison kosik, do tell. what are they trying to do this time? >> they're trying to impose fees, but it's really going to depend on what kind of account you have. according to the "wall street journal," what bank of america is doing is testing this sort of new fee schedule ranging anywhere from 6 bucks to $25 for a new bank of america checking account. this program is being tested in a few states in arizona,

georgia, and massachusetts. apparently according to bank of america it's being received welby assumers. but there is a way to avoid these fees. have you meet certain requirements, you have to maintain a minimum balance, do online banking, take out a mortgage at bank of america. one thing i want to be clear about, bank of america's nationwide checking accounts currently have fees so what bank of america is trying to do is just restructure the fee schedule at this point. >> so just so i'm clear, this wouldn't affect people with already existing accounts. you mentioned new accounts. >> exactly, yes. >> okay. and so bank fees across the entire industry though, allison, they keep popping up. they're more common. why is that? >> what's happening with the banking industry these days, it's being hit hard by the weak economy, the new government rules limiting how much revenue they can bring in through fees. so far the bottom line with is it means the banks are making let money and banks are businesses just like any other.

they need to make money. you look at their annual sales, they fell by the double digits last year. they said they're going to cut 30,000 workers. what they're trying to do is more fees. bank of america is not alone in this. you see checking accounts having fees. you look at how many checking accounts actually have fees compared to 2009. in 2009, 24% of accounts had those fees on the checking accounts. compare that to 2011, up to 55%. you know what? they're businesses like any other. we don't like it. they're trying to find more ways to make money and it's not just b of a in this situation. it's industrywide. >> it's a trend. they're hurting apparently, as well. allison, thank you very much. and now to this one. this much is certain, andrew breitbart never shrank from a fight. he died overnight in los angeles of what his lawyer is calling natural causes. he was only 43. so, you know, no two ways about

it, this guy relished verbal combat. i want us all to look at something vintage andrew breitbart. this was shot last month in the washington, breitbart confronting the occupy movement. >> behave yourself. behave yourself. behave yourself! you are freaks and an-i mals. you're freaks and animals. behave yourself. behave yourself. >> this is not some isolated incident here. wherever andrew breitbart went, the volume just seemed to go up and up. the name breitbart is possibly better known to us in the media perhaps than to anyone else. here's something our viewers might recognize. this is james o'keefe. remember this? he's the undercover provocateur funded by andrew breitbart. is expose of a.c.o.r.n. pretty much established the end of that community group. media critic howard kurtz pointed out some of his biggest

so-called scoops were not necessarily solid journalism. >> had he not had a tendency to go too far on occasion, i think he would be remembered more as a successful warrior on behalf of causes on the right. but in the example of shirley shah rod who your viewers may recall, he had posted an incomplete edited video that made her appear to be saying racist things when her message was exactly the opposite. not only did he do that, but he never really apologized for it, and that's the reason i think that he actually leaves behind a mixed legacy. >> despite some criticisms such as that, breitbart often found himself called upon to offer political analysis. he appeared this week on piers morgan tonight. >> how much was rick santorum to blame for his failure to win in michigan. he had a poor debate by common consent. people didn't like the attack on

kennedy's speech even though he clarified it later and sort of backtracked a bit. nobody seemed to like this snob attack on president obama for the college thing, even though friends of his tried to explain what he really meant. the triple whammy wasn't helpful, was it. >> i would argue that he missed an opportunity. newt gingrich is the candidate who during his flurry there awhile back was attacking the mainstream media. and this week, they came out to try to frame him just as herman cain was known as the 999 candidate, they very well made santorum the 666 candidate, the guy that's worried about satan and all that type of stuff. he could have used this moment to pivot to the issue of religious liberties in this country and where many conservatives are feeling barack obama is attacking the concept of the separation of church and state, but instead, he played to unfortunately form. >> still on the screen, that was tuesday. that was one of his final interviews pep died around midnight of what his lawyer is

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soldier, the other apparently a language instructor working in the south of afghanistan. an official gave a few more details saying that this instructor was there to teach the afghans english, had apparently been there for a year and they found documentation upon him to suggest links to the taliban suggesting perhaps this was a long-planned operation. they also confirmed that both of the dead were americans. i should point out this goes right to the heart of the keith point of america's exit strategy here. they have to be able to trust the afghan soldiers they're working alongside. they're training to take over security across the country. without that, nato can't withdraw. with these instances three now in just over a week, one of which two americans were shot dead in the heart of the securest part of afghanistan's interior ministry are beginning to erode that trust. if that happens, that could put the exit strategy in trouble. >> nick payton walsh, thank you so much. as gas prices continue to go up, so does gas shop.

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the retail gas business, would, that advantage has now completely disappeared. >> the price is lower than everybody else right now. the price i'm buying almost 20 cents higher than anybody else. >> today this station is selling unlead rel for $4.27 a gallon. normally the station owner says his prices are ten cents a gallon cheaper than any other station in the neighborhood. but just down the street is a 76 station selling unlead regular for $4.25 a gallon. two cents cheaper than this unbranded station. here is why. branded gas stations sign agreements to buy gas at a price the refinery sets. unbranded independent stations can shop around and buy gas from anyone. they normally rely on surplus gas which usually else is for as much as 15 cents a gallon less. >> unbranded gasoline is kind of what's left after the branded stations are able to market their product. so technically, it's a leftover

product. and it gets priced that way. >> when surplus gas is scarce because of greater demand from the branded stations, the price that unbranded stations pay rises much faster. this station's wholesale gasoline cost has jumped 0 cents in the past month. times like this can be a financial struggle for independent nonbranded gasoline stations. in fact, the owner of this station says he's losing money selling gasoline. only being kept afloat by profits from his convenience store. casey wian, cnn, los angeles. casey, thank you. and senate democrats today stopped this republican measure that would have undone the obama administration's contraception insurance mandate. this was a 51-48 vote. the measure was tabled. discussion on this one was very fierce though. take a listen. >> the issue here senior protecting the conscience clause and the religious beliefs of the american people. >> every step of the way it

seems as if there is an assault on women's reproductive choice. >> this is tyranny. it is the political bullying of a religious group. >> it would allow any employer to denehealth service to any american for virtually any reason. >> having a conscience clause exemption used to be something the democrats and republicans all agreed to. now it's not. >> we defeated an amendment that would have historically taken away something that women in this country have counted on for decades. and that's the ability to make their own health care choices. >> he coming cup here, a 41-year-old teacher, an 18-year-old student. the teacher quit last week to be with his former student. coming up next, you're going to hear from the student's mom. stay with us. carfirmation.

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now to this one. this california woman has moved in with her boyfriend. no big deal except for the fact that just last year, this young woman was a high school student taught by the 41-year-old man who is now her live-in lover. she turned 18 in september, but her mother has called police suspect agimproper relationship actually began some time before the girl was of legal age. george warrant from our affiliate kxtv has their story. >> a teacher at enochs high school quit his job last week, the same week that he moved into an apartment with one of his students, a senior. 41-year-old james hooker has known jordan powers since her freshman year. and he told the modesto bee that they as a couple are just following their hearts. but even though she turned 18 in september, her mother believes that hooker has committed a crime. >> james hooker has been texting jordan over the summer. do i have concrete proof of that. there were text messages back

and forth as a minor. on the first day of school, there was a phone call. i do have proof of that. that's pursuit. in my opinion. some type of intent. lease nos summer class, there's no reason they should have been texting back and forth. >> tammie powers became aware of the relationship last month and she says the real shock came last week when hooker arrived at her house while she was away to move jordan's things out of her bedroom. >> i couldn't believe that he would have the audacity to come in to a child's home, his student and pack her room. >> tammie has turned her facebook page into a warning for other parents. >> clearly, he has a disconnect and bad judgment. and i don't want another sund to be in this position or another family. ever. >> again, that was george warren, kxtv. so the former teacher and student respond the to the accusations there was something improper going on when she was underage and they were just on

"good morning america" today. >> i think they're just digging for something that wasn't there. of course, they're going to be curious. i know for a fact there's nothing. >> i don't think i look at her as a student at all. i think we are sharing a life. >> people don't agree because of the age difference and because he was a teacher and i was a student. but i think it's a normal relationship. >> the mom, tammie powers told "good morning america" that she found that there were 8,000 text messages, 8,000 between the teacher and her daughter when she was a minor. coming up, it's called game change. the movie about sarah palin and john mccain in their run for the white house against barack obama. we're going to talk live with danny strong, the screen writer and producer of the hbo original movie after this quick break. hello, sir. ...and a touch of sweetness. you'll be delighted to discover how good they taste. get your free sample of quaker oatmeal squares on facebook.

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the 2008 campaign. it ends with barack obama in the white house. but there is a story you may not know. it's the behind the scenes sniping between the clinton and obama camps or the rush job on vetting sarah palin by the mccain campaign. mark halperin and john heilemann put all of this together in a bet seller called "game change." now the book has been turned into a highly anticipated is hbo original movie that premieres march 10th. the movie version hones in on the mccain/palin campaign. here are some of the major players. have you julie and moore as sarah palin. ed harris as senator john mccain, and woody harrelson plays receive schmidt. he was mccain's campaign manager. here's just part of the trailer for you.

>> i'm not sure how much she knows about foreign policy. >> suc actually see russia from land here in alaska. >> oh, my god, what have we done. >> it wasn't my fault. i wasn't properly prepped. >> this might be the -- >> she's on the verge of a complete nervous breakdown. >> tell me what to say, what to wear, how to talk. i am not your puppet. >> we do need to mention full transparency's sake, both cnn and hbo have the same parent company, that being time warner. i want to welcome coexecutive producer of "game change" danny strong. nice to meet you. you've been an actor in everything from what buffy, gilmore girls, seinfeld. >> one of my first gigs, seinfeld. >> now we're doing politics. i want you to first as we mentioned the book focuses on the whole arc of the campaign both obama, clinton, mccain, palin. you chose in this movie to hone in on specifically mccain/palin.

why? >> there's a lot of great movies in this book. we only have time enough to do one. we ultimately thought that the story of sarah palin and how she was picked and what happened subsequently wasn't just one of the best stories in that book, but one of the greatest political stories of all time. it's truly a unique dynamic exciting story. we genuinely believed it would make the best film out of everything. there was also a sense, too, that you know, the story of barack obama would be a great movie as well, but that movie should be told after he's out of office. and that to do that story right now it would be very difficult for it not to come across as an infomercial for his re-election and it would be immersed in politics supposed to story telling. >> maybe that's something else you have up your sleeve for a couple years from now or perhaps next year. >> who knows. >> i did watch the film on monday and really my favorite was woody harrelson. i just want to play another slip. you have woody harrelson playing steve schmidt. julie and moore playing sarah palin. take a look. >> we don't want you to talk to

anyone till after the convention. because no one knows anything about you. if you answer these ridiculous allegations, you'll be defining yourself in a defensive posture. >> isn't the press defining me right now? >> no new story lasts mo are than 48 hours anymore. news is no longer meant to be remembered. it's just entertainment. >> that was when sarah palin you know, had really wanted to respond to a lot of reporters. i just want you to in terms of the meat part of the film, you focus on how a lot of these other vice presidential candidates get vetted for months and months and she goes through a five-day process. talk plor about that. >> the vet happened unusually quick and it had to be done at the highest levels of secrecy because they were worried if it got out that they were trying to vet sarah palin, that it would kill the entire surprise of presenting her for the first time. so in having a vet in total secrecy, you're not able to do a

thorough vet because you can't question her political enemies or reporters in alaska. it limits who you can talk to. it turned out to be a great disadvantage to them. >> as part of the vetsley is portrayed as lackluster world knowledge. there are parts in the film when they talk about do you know what the fed means. it's not fed government, it's federal reserve and why we're in iraq versus afghanistan. the packet in the movie they have her memorizing answers to the debate. >> sure. you know, she was in -- it was a unique position in which she was immediately you know overnight thrust into the national spotlight. and she had never been a national figure before. she had never been under that sort of pressure and that sort of scrutiny and she certainly wasn't as prepared for it assay someone like joe biden who had been in national politics all his life. so put agindividual like that makes for a really dramatic and exciting story. in many ways, it's a pygmalion

tale of how they're trying to get her to become a national candidate almost overnight. >> how did you get your information? how did you corroborate what we saw in the film actually happened? who were you talking to? >> first off, i used the book as my primary source. it's an outstanding book, was not refuted when it came out in 2010. i went out and interviewed 25 members of the mccain/palin campaign, people at every single level of that campaign from the lowest to the highest levels of the campaign and pretty much spoke to almost every character portrayed in the movie except for mccain and palin who denied my requests. i interviewed many people hop weren't portrayed in the me of. i got a huge swathe of people who lived the events of the film. >> talk about mccain and palin because they're not seeing the movie. sarah palin releasing a statement saying it was a false narrative. palin's political action committee releasing this video mocking your film. i want to read part of the press release reads "game change" is the most recent example in a long history of facts being

distorted for profit. her former aide, jason recker denouncing this whole film and says you backed out on this promise to show him the script ahead of time. here he is. >> february 3rd, i called him. i said i'm very uneasy with the trailer. it does not represent the narrative i remember. i'd like to see the movie and be able to respond to. when reporters is started calling me, he said hbo denied that. i don't understand why. >> did you back out on that promise? >> no, i never promised him or anybody anything. i certainly never promised to show him the script ahead of time which is what he's claiming right now. as far as asking if he could see the movie, you know, about four weeks ago when he called, we're going to show the movie to governor palin and we offered to show the movie to her because she's one of the main characters portrayed in the film and said she could bring any of her aides she so desires and governor palin denied that offer. >> premieres march 10th.

>> hbo. >> yes. >> danny, strong you so much. >> thank you. >> now this. i am a huge, huge space nerd. so big that this next segment is one of my favorites. one of my favorites of the day. nasa needs a few good folks to test out space food. we got nasa to send us some samples. you're looking at it. chad meyers and myself doing a little taste test next. last yed enough plastic water bottles to stretch around the earth over 190 times. each brita filter can take up to 300 of those bottles out of the equation.

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so, nasa wants your help top test space food. it's kind of like a space food camp. right now, astronauts don't stay in space very long. so they eat a lot of dried food. but nasa wants to make the food a little bit better, give them viable alternatives, more options if they have longer missions. so they're choosing out regular folks to test out this food and chad myers fellow space geek is here to tell me first and foremost, and thank you jessica king and kristin again for getting all this food fedexed from hawaii for us. let's begin with and sorry the deadline was yesterday. >> it is. >> let's go through all of this. first, what does it take to become a space food tester? >> have to have a bachelor of science. you have to be a smart guy. >> engineering, biology. >> just to be a taster. but the food looks good. it looks better than this. whatever this is. here's a pair of scissors. chipotle snack bread. this is the old stuff.

this is what they're eating in the iss because you can't cook in space. >> what is this? chipotle snack bread like, go ahead. >> hmm. >> some of this stuff like this, this is -- this is shrimp. doesn't that look lovely. >> let's back up because the whole premise of this whole thing is hopefully, we talked to sfroents and they're hoping to get up to mars in our lifetime. they would be on mars for an extended period of time. they want to be able to eat better healthier microwavable food. >> correct. and they're going to be so long, they don't want food fatigue. you can't eat that for four years. but they want to make foods that are better, foods that are a little bit more tasty and appetizing. they are putting these people, eight people actually for four months in their own little mars pod in new york saying only eat this stuff, tell us what you think. >> okay. >> here's the stuff. >> why don't you start with this

one. >> why don't you start with the eggs because that really looks -- >> that looks delectable. okay, mexican scrambled eggs. you're trying the sweet and sour chicken. >> i'm hoping it tastes like chicken. it doesn't. >> can i smell first? >> jessica, you were right. >> this is going to be the quietest segment of all time because there's no moisture in there. i won't be able to talk. are the eggs awesome? >> they're okay. so they were looking for people 21 to 65. >> they want real people. they want real people with experience. like somebody that actually might be an astronaut. people with experience maybe in submarines. they want emts, people that can save your life if you're sick. there's not going to be anybody going in and out of these pods. they're putting real people in these experiences to see whether that really tastes like a pork chop. >> it's amazing.

they take these syringes. i'm not going to use it, but basically what they do is they would take this mank go peach smoothie. there's a little bit of velcro. >> float around. >> so they attach this in whatever they're in. how do they store the rest of it. >> what do they do with the water, with the waste, how do they get all of this stuff up there for a four-year where you can't grow anything problem. that looks like real meat. >> look at that. >> that comes part like meat. >> can you guys get in close on this. >> a little bit of poi and you might have the something there. how do they sore? this is going to be stored still probably freeze dried. >> it's not bad actually. >> we should have started with that. but then the beans are there. >> we'll get to it. >> so they have to cook this in space. they want things to not look liking this when an astronaut has to eat this for four years, more like this. this has all been developed. the food is ready to go and there for them to eat for four months. somebody has to drop out.

there's going to be alternates to go back in and out. >> would you do this? >> for $5,000 for four months? i'm going to pass. it's $5,000. that's all they get paid. >> but it's part of history. and you could potentially be helping people who ultimately go to mars. >> but i have bills. >> bills to pay. this is is cool. >> this is great. >> the pork chop's really good. chad meyers. >> tastes like chicken. >> it does. thank you so much. there you go, the space camp food test. now, to this. >> top of the hour here. i'm brooke baldwin. deadly tornadoes claim another victim. also, new acts of revenge over the burning of korans in afghanistan and the showdown over birth control health coverage in the senate. time to play reporter roulette. we begin with don lemon in tornado ravaged harrisburg, illinois. don, we just got word now that a kansas man a