-- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com live from studio 7, i'm suzanne malveaux. want to get you up to speed for this friday, march 2nd. what you are about to see is so horrific. this is syria. it is a gathering of protesters. it is in the city of homs. now, they're inside a covered building chanting. they are voicing their anger, their frustration over the government. they have been protesting for some time. well, suddenly something is fired into that crowd. and explodes. i have to warn you, the video you are about to see, it is graphic and people are killed.

it is horrific. it is bloody. it is chaotic. a witness tells cnn that in that scene, what you are watching right there, 16 people died in that crowd. that witness says it was caused by a shell that was fired from syrian military forces that are now surrounding that city. [ crowd noise ]

we are allowing this video to play out so you can get a sense of what is taking place inside syria in the city of homs. the kind of chaos, the kind of fighting and the kind of determination that is taking place there from people who are trying to overthrow their government. i want to bring in nic robertson. we know, nic, that cameras, reporters are not allowed in syria right now. but you're watching developments from neighboring beirut in lebanon. you see this video. and we can't imagine this here. taking place in this country when you have demonstrations, and all the sudden the shelling starts. the explosions. and people are dying all around you. what can you tell us about what happened earlier today in that video that we just saw? >> reporter: well, this was an anti-government rally, if you will, that had been forming. friday's a typical day of protests in syria where everyone who's associated with the opposition will come out and protest typically after the

prayers in the noon or the middle of the day. that's what this is. we understand this is in the small town near homs called rastan. that's where we believe that this shelling took place. but it's not the only killing today. 16 people directly targeted in an unconsciousable, unbelievable and unspeakable attack on civilians just protesting. shells, not bullets, but big artillery shells. more people have been killed just north of there. four there. another ten people killed just north of there in the area around idlib in the very north of the country. and elsewhere in homs, 14 bodies have been found killed in the streets. that according to activists who've been perpetrated by government mily shahs, the shabab, going house to house taking out people and killing them, shooting them in the streets there. >> nic, it is hard to understand

or even get a grasp around what these people could be feeling when they are protesting the government. are they expecting that you are going to have snipers? that you're going to have shelling in a place where people are now gathering? is this almost something where they know this is a life or death situation? >> reporter: in many cases, they know that they could be tempting fate. but they also try to do this in safer locations. inside buildings. sometimes demonstrations are often held at night. they're held in areas where snipers can't see in. but they would not be expecting artillery shells to rain in down on them. this is, essentially, we saw yesterday the neighborhood, the free serbian army pull out of there, finally leaving 4,000 civilians behind. they said they could no longer defend them. what seems to be happening is assad is taking the same tactics and now moving it to a new area. this area of rastan is what we

understand. the people of rastan are now experiencing what the other people were experiencing. we know today the government said the emergency services, red cross and syrian red crescent wp could go in and aid those 4,000 people. guess what? the convoy has been waiting in the city of homs all day. they haven't been allowed in with their medical supplies. seven trucks of medical supplies, humanitarian supplies, blankets. all of that much needed, that's not been allowed in. we're just seeing the same tactics replicated somewhere else. these people until now, they would not have been expecting artillery shells. now they know they can expect that to come every day as it has in other places, suzanne. >> they desperately need the help there. obviously we're going to be following this. the situation, the dire situation of those people inside of syria and the new video, the carnage and just the tragedy of what is taking place on the ground close to what looks like is developing into a civil war

inside that country. we're following breaking news on the weather front here. chad has got the very latest. i understand there is a tornado that has touched down in -- is that true? alabama. >> yeah. a couple of them, actually. now moving into tennessee. not that far from huntsville, alabama. this is going to be a dangerous day. if you're from illinois all the way into georgia. as far west as louisiana. as far north, probably, as west virginia. it's a big storm. we already have a couple of tornado watch boxes which means conditions are ripe for storms that could contain tornadoes. but there are tornadoes on the ground. one near new market, alabama. that storm right there. get a little bit closer on this for you here. just north of huntsville, new market. one there moving over the border with a tornado on the ground. aurora and hutland, tennessee. farther to the north, that's hillsboro, tennessee, and hanging limb, tennessee, on the one that moved through cookville. confirmation of damage from that storm. many of these storms will put down tornadoes today. you need to know your safety

spots, where your children are, what to do when the alarm goes off. probably it will. we probably could see 50 to 100 tornadoes on the ground today before this is all over. let's hope nothing gets hit and no one gets hurt. that's not likely. you need to take precautions. make sure that safe place is your house is ready to go today. it's not anything wrong with putting helmets on, motorcycle helmets, bicycle helmets, whatever it might be and covering yourself up when you hear warnings for your area. >> we'll be wachling closely. thank you, chad. high school kids are back in class today in chardon, ohio. that is where three students were shot to death on monday. a teenager, also a student there, is now charged with their murder. last night was basketball night for chardon high. the first game since the deadly shooting. their opponents from madison high school wore special t-shirts to show support. a nationwide man hunt is on the way for an armored truck driver who allegedly killed his partner and made off with more than $2 million.

authorities say that kenneth conias jr. looked into extradition laws in canada and mexico. police still believe he's here in the united states. his partner was found shot to death inside the armored truck in pittsburgh yesterday. almost 1 in 4 homeowners now with mortgages owes more than what their home is worth. that's according to to a new report from core logic. we are talking about more than 11 million homes. the number bumped up last year because of the falling home prices. hackers with chinese internet addresses were able to seize control of nasa computers. a new report details the security breach at nasa that happened last november. an official says the hackers gained access to sensitive files as well as employee credentials and had full functioning control over the computers. it was one of 13 successful hacking attacks, n nasa reporte last year. all right.

so here's your chance to talk back. one of the big stories of the day, gas prices. what do you think should be done about what we're looking at here? all these high gas prices. they've climbed for more than 24 straight days. right now the national average is around $3.74 a gallon. folks watching the oil industry, they say we might be paying as much as $5 a gallon by the summer. so higher gas prices. they're impacting just about all of us here. earlier this week i was in arizona. met a hot air balloon guy, small business owner who says when the gas prices go up, propane used to fly the balloon also goes up, too. >> it seems like whenever the gas prices go up, propane prices shoot up as well. just a few years ago we were less than -- we were about $1.85 a gallon. now it's 2.$2.99 a gallon. kind of overnight. >> reporter: how long have you been doing this? >> i've been flying hot air balloons for 28 years now. one of the luckiest guys around. >> reporter: bottom line, how does that affect your profit? sfwl kind of takes any profit away. right now most companies are

operating at break even. >> all right. so what's the answer? the solution? energy maverick t. boone pickens says that america has got the cheapest energy in the world. we shouldn't be whining about $5 a gallon gas. he says the united states desperately needs an energy plan. >> we have enough now to get control of our energy destiny in this country because we have vast reserves of natural gas. when you move your trucks, i'm interested in trucks. i'm not interested in your car so much. but i want the 8 million 18-wheelers over to natural gas. when you do that you'll cut out 3 million barrels a day imports. 3 million barrels a day off of opec, 60% of what we import from them. we could accomplish that with 8 million trucks. you can do it within five years. all you need now is leadership. >> all right. so where is the leadership? president obama, he's asking congress to end billions of subsidies to oil industries. instead give incentives to find clean energy technologies.

republicans in congress are saying it's not going to bring down gas prices. gop presidential candidate newt gingrich says he can get gas to $2.50 a gallon. but can one person really impact the global price of crude oil? we want to hear from yo. what do you think? what should be done about high gas prices? leave your thoughts at facebook.com/suzannecnn. here's a rundown. some of the stories we are covering. first, the red cross gets permission to deliver food and medicine to syrians caught in a humanitarian crisis. i'm also going to talk to a cruise ship passenger who spent the last four days on a ship with no working bathrooms. ugh. conservative commentator rush limbaugh calls a college student a slut. when he weighs in on the debate over birth control. that student says he's gone too far.

they're cleaning up from one round of storms. facing the threat of another. they're at risk of another outbreak today. want to get the latest in the recovery and the forecast. sandra endo is in harrisburg, illinois, one of the areas that was hit the hardest. chad myers is tracking the storms.

want to start with you, chad. what areas are we looking at today that are high at ris snk. >> right here. new market, alabama. it's not a big town. maybe a couple, 300 people. you need to take cover right now. a tornado emergency is issued for you with a tornado. a large and deadly tornado on the ground right now heading into this northeastern part of alabama. new market the town that we're most concerned about. here's the doppler signature. we have one color here, blue. one color, red. the red, think of it like a -- your stoplights. that means you can only see the cars leaving. the wind is leaving here. the wind is coming here. that rotation indicates obviously a tornado is on the ground. because this is an awful lot of rotation here. we do have it confirmed by police. this was meridianville. kind of like moorsville, already damage being reported there by the police. in new market you have to take cover right now. there's no time left. >> all right, chad, thank you. cleanup is just beginning from this week's tornadoes and storms.

sandra endo has part of the story from harrisburg, illinois. sandra, the devastation absolutely unbelievable. people have so much work ahead. people lost their lives, their family members. but you can see people are pulling together to try to pick up the pieces of their lives. what are you seeing on the ground now? just how extensive is this job? >> very extensive, suzanne. when you think about the magnitude of the destruction, you can take a look for yourself at the storm that came through here wednesday and the damage it did to this community. the hardest hit community in harrisburg, here. take a look. this used to be a strip mall. clearly it has just been leveled to the ground. cleanup crews now, suzanne, are racing against the clock. they're anticipating more bad weather for today. but the sheriff here says that he is calling off a lot of the volunteers who have come to help this community because here's why. take a look at this loose debris all over the ground. piles of it. nails jutting out from studs. they're worried that if a storm comes and picks up the wind, which it has kicked up in the last half hour or so, this stuff

is going to just fly through the air like daggers. and we saw a lot of the destruction and devastation, communities trying to come together to clean up and pick up what they can before this anticipated storm. and you can see the path of destruction, this tornado tore through this community. and those residents there in the distance are cleaning up right now, suzanne. trying to salvage what they can. and they say they are bracing for more to come. >> sandra -- >> this is the living area. great room. or was. as you can see, they tore out brick block out of the fireplace. i think my father-in-law was in here on the floor when the wall came through a little bit here on him. the next door lady got it much worse, even. she was tossed in the air for a little bit. i saw her yesterday. she's alive. that's the good thing. >> reporter: when you hear about

residents tossed in the air, just to give you an idea, suzanne, of the sheer force of 180 mile per hour winds that tore through here wednesday, take a look at this truck. it has just toppled over because of the wind. also the wind just sheering and crushing metal appliances like this one. this used to be an appliance store here. you can tell the cleanup effort is going to take days and weeks to come. suzanne? >> sandra, it must just be so gut wrenching, the fact that people there are now anticipating more severe weather ahead. how are they coping? >> reporter: absolutely. we took a look at the residents there that have completely have destroyed their homes because of these tornadoes. and they are putting over tarps from the areas that they can save. and they're trying to get important papers, pictures that they're trying to salvage because they don't want those rains to destroy even more of their homes. >> thank you so much, san zra. we've got to go directly to chad. i understand there's a tornado that is heading to a school right now. chad, what do you know?

>> it's buckhorn high school in the middle school area. the same storm i was talking about going to new market because they're right together. here's what i want you to understand, people. i don't want you going to get your children when you hear a tornado. because the children are going to be much better off in the school than in your car as you're going to pick them up. so the school officials know what to do. they know where to put these children. and you're much better off not being in your car and not having the children with you in your car when the tornado hits. so this is going to take place all day long. we're going to be talking about storms headed toward schools. people are going to panic. please don't panic. please don't panic. we do know already now just in my ear that the buckhorn high school has damage already being reported by a spotter. so there's a lot going on there. police officials going on there. it's going to be a tough day. now that we know that a school got hit, obviously a school that was in session. >> chad, we know that there was a tornado that actually hit a school in that area that you were just warning folks about. >> that's correct. just south of newmarket. sarah, zoom into this storm here.

this is the storm. it had a little better rotation a little bit ago. click one more time. we should be able to find the town of newmarket. not showing up. there it is. here's the town of new market. the storm did roll just to the south of new market itself. that would take it right across that campus. >> where is that, again, chad? can you explain in alabama? >> where is that? >> extreme northeastern alabama. you'd see georgia, chattanooga and then huntsville. right there, that storm right there is the one that will eventually cross over and move into tennessee. there are a couple other storms here to the north of chattanooga that are also rotating where we had tornadoes confirmed earlier. we're going to talk about these tornadoes all day long. best to keep a radio on. the best thing to do is have weather radio. if you don't have one yet, you've got a couple areas if you're living in other areas than here. pick one up. the local fire department will help you program it if you can't figure it out. >> do we have any idea? it might be too early in the day to know this. are these the kind of tornadoes we're talking about that have the power and punch that we saw in the last 24, 48 hours in that

same area? >> yes. they do now. right now they have that power. because they're all by themselves. i talk about this big dog, little dog thing. if you put one big dog and one bo bowl of food, the dog stays big. you have one bowl of food but 30 dogs have to share that one bowl of food, the dogs don't get as big. they don't get fat. there's not as much food to go around. when you have one cell out there, one storm by itself it gets to be the big dog and eat all the moisture. eat all the energy. later today there'll be many more storms bouncing around and they'll be all sharing that moisture. they won't be so big. these right now could be easily ef-3 or ef-4 tornadoes. 150, 200 miles per hour. >> if you're in that area, what should you do? essentially be taking cover? >> yeah. the first thing to do is take care of yourself. take care of your pets. make sure they're inside. these storms are well warned. we had 15 to 20 minutes warning to get this stuff done. get yourself inside. get yourself inside a safe place. stay away from windows. if you can see the outside you're in the wrong place.

you want to be in a room that doesn't have windows. if you don't have that the best place to be is in the center part of your house or strongest part of your house. lowest level you can. if you have a basement, basements are always better. you always want to be below ground if you can be. if you live on a slab, find the center part of your house and get down as low as you can. cover yourself with blankets. put a motorcycle helmet on. put your child in a baby seat. put them in the car seat. because if that baby gets jostled around, that car seat, there's a lot of protection. that's what it's made for. if you get jostled around in a car crash. that's why there are baby seats. the safest thing for your child as well. >> thanks, chad. this is going to be a very big story. we're looking at severe weather hitting some of the same areas from earlier in the week. these do like like they are powerful tornadoes. thank you, had. imagine four days with no running water, little food, nothing but miles and miles of ocean surround ing you. my next guest and almost 1,000 others, that's what life was like aboard the costa allegra.

it's a cruise ship that lost power after an engine room fire earlier in the week. the ship finally reachedland yesterday in the seychelles islands. joining me by phone, gordon bra bradwell. one of the ship's passengers. unbelievable what you've been through. a lot of us have been imagining what it would be like to be in your position. can you tell us what it was like to be on that ship with no electricity, no water for days? >> suzanne, i'm having difficulty in hearing you. >> can you tell us, gordon, what it was like to be on the ship in those conditions? what were the conditions like? >> well, they were rather -- rather stringent, obviously. we were without fresh water. we were without plumbing. we could not take showers. we could not flush the toilets. we had absolutely no

air-conditioning whatsoever. the ship was almost four days without power or any electricity. it was completely dark at night. so it was a basic human existence. >> did you stay in your cabin in your rooms or was it too hot? what was it like inside those cabins? >> in many cases, the temperature within the cabins both day and night were inexcess of 110 degrees fahrenheit. so most of the passengers had to sleep on the very top deck of the ship. >> and what were the conditions like? you say that they did not have working toilet facilities. how did you bathe? how did you manage that? >> well, there was no bathing. and one of the great joys that i experienced when i got off of the ship yesterday was to be able to take a shower and shave. there were no bathing possibilities. the toilets had to be used, but

they were not pleasant haven't being used without the possibility of flush toilets. so, as i say, existence was rather primitive. >> did you eat? were you able to eat or drink at all? >> we were able to have a subsistence diet. morning, noon and night. lunch, breakfast and dinner consisted of dry sandwiches. white bread with perhaps a slice of cheese or a slice of meat in between. the cruise line was able to provide enough fresh water. so we were very fortunate there. we had fruit juices and fresh bottled water. as far as food is concerned, mostly dry sandwiches with some food that was flown in each day by helicopter. >> i know you're off the ship. that you were on the island of seychelles, and that's a beautiful place.

i've got to ask you, would you do a cruise again? >> oh, yes. that's not a problem. this is just one of those aberrations, of course, that will occur every once in a while. it is certainly not anything to deter a seasoned traveler from doing it again, no. that's not a problem. >> all right. well, you're a good sport about it, gordon. i understand you're headed to the sudan. best of luck to you in your travels. hopefully you'll get there safely without any incidents. thanks again, gordon. good to see you. we are going to go to severe weather. it is happening throughout the country. but in particular states, alabama being one of them where we already know that a tornado has touched down and has actually hit an area school. more of the information after a quick break.

i want to bring you to chad myers. more severe weather that is breaking throughout the country. chad, first of all, tell us what you know that's taking place right now on the ground. >> i know we focused on alabama because we had that tornado on the ground right through that high school south of new market, alabama. that's in the northeast corner, extreme northeastern corner of alabama. actually not that far from -- maybe 50 miles from chattanooga.

let's broaden our o focus a little bit. even though that's one storm on the ground there are going to be more storms. even right now right there would be harrisburg, illinois. remember that town from all weekend? well, that's the same cell right there. that little box, that has boxed up with a tornado potential for that area. people that got hit over the weekend and a couple days ago are going to get hit again as these storms continue to fire. even though we have a red box here. tornado watch box here and one down there in parts of tennessee, i expect we could get 10 to 15 watch boxes today covering up almost the entire tennessee and ohio valley. possibly all the way down to the gulf coast. >> a watch box. does that mean that a tornado is likely to hit or it's going to hit. what does that mean exactly? >> great question. my mother has lived with a meteorologist for 48 years. trying to tell her what watch and warning, what they mean. she still doesn't get it. a tornado watch is a big area probably the size of a state. it is issued, this watch is issued for hours and hours. sometimes ten hours long. that's a watch. that means conditions are

favorable that a storm might fire up, that might rotate, that might go on the ground. that's what all those mights are. that's what the watch box means. the warning is when the sirens go off. it's a tiny little area small as a county. these warnings are only for about 15 to 30 minutes. the warning means either a tornado has been spotted on the ground or a tornado is indicated by the rotation of the doppler radar that they're seeing and saying that's enough rotation. that's past the threshold. the whole storm is rotating. a tornado could be on the ground right now. so warning is the worst thing. the warning is the longest word compared to watch. warning is the longest one. warning is the bad one. you hear warning for your town, you need to take cover. you hear watch for your area, that means get things ready. make sure the basement's clear. make sure you have everything ready in case a warning is issued. >> all right. chad, thank you. we're going to come back to you as soon as we've got more information. thanks again, chad. rush limbaugh making a living by making some pretty outrageous comments.

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she wants you and me and the taxpayers to pay her to have sex. what does that make us? we're the pimps. >> all right. so on his program yesterday, he takes it one step further. >> so ms. fluke, and the rest of you feminazis, here's the deal. if we are going to pay for your contraceptives and thus pay for you to have sex, we want something for it. and i'll tell you what it is. we want you to post the videos online so we can all watch. >> well, now the woman who was the focus of limbaugh's tirade, she is speaking out. georgetown law student sandra fluke appeared on "the ed show" on msnbc. >> based on what limbaugh said, what doesn't he know that he needs to know? >> i think what's been said publicly today is all he needs to know. is that this is really inappropriate. this is outside the bounds of

civil discourse. >> the backlash over his remarks reaches all the way to capitol hill. angry democrats, they're calling on republican leaders now to respond. dana bash is following the story for us. dana, i understand you have new information regarding speaker boehner involved in this controversy. >> reporter: that's right. you just said that democrats have been calling on the house speaker and other republican leaders to respond. well, we first reported this morning that the speaker actually is doing just that. take a look at this. through speaker boehner's spokesman, he says the speaker obviously believes the use of those words was inappropriate. as is trying to raise money off the situation. those words, he's talking about obviously, are rush limbaugh's which you just played. and the fact that the speaker is calling on rush limbaugh -- calling rush limbaugh inappropriate is a pretty big deal. you don't really have republican leaders doing that with regard to one of the most successful mouthpieces of their party. but the second part of his statement is interesting as well, suzanne. saying that trying to raise money off the situation is inappropriate. he's talking about democrats who

have in their effort to really put a spotlight on this issue sent a fundraising note, trying to raise money from their donors on this whole issue. not just about sandra fluke but the broader issue as well of -- of contraception and access to contraception for women. >> yeah. so how could this play out? i know there's a larger debate and the senate rejected an amendment regarding this. how does this connect to limbaugh and these comments that are being made? how are lawmakers actually dealing with this? >> reporter: it connects very much. as you said, this issue is front and center in front of congress just yesterday in the senate. the senate actually rejected. it was a republican measure that would have overturned the heart of this, which is the obama administration's rule that says that employers must provide free access to contraception. we have been reporting for some time that religious affiliated institutions say that that flies in the face of what they believe in. so this measure would have effectively exempted those institutions. that measure failed. but there was a lot of discussion about this on the

floor of the senate and more broadly on capitol hill. look, republicans are calling this an issue about religious freedom. the first amendment. democrats say, no way. this is simply about women's health and republicans attacking women's health. >> dana, finally, do we think this is the kind of debate that's going to have some legs? that it will last for a while? or is this thing kind of going to go away? >> reporter: well, when you have people like rush limbaugh keeping the story alive, if you talk to democrats, they are -- when you talk about the pure raw politics of this, they couldn't be happier. not with what he said, but happier with the idea of keeping this alive. because they believe that although there was some backlash against the president from some democrats about this whole rule to begin with, you look at the way the democrats have handled this on capitol hill. they clearly believe that this is a big plus to trying to get women in particular riled up and motivated this election year. women who might not have been, you know, that enthusiastic about going back to the polls for barack obama. not just democrats, independent

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they know. >> looking at and assessing some of the damage in the neighborhood. you can see it's going to be a lot of cleanup in this area. >> thanks a lot, ckarla. we continue to look for more information about any possible injuries or people trapped in homes. we've had that on down the road with that storm as it moved toward meridianville. let's continue to track the storms up here to the north in jackson county. the tornado warning continues there. you should stay in your shelter, north of high top, in the high top area towards lake view and cherwood. here's the state line into tennessee. this storm still a very dangerous storm with the potential for golf ball-size hail and a tornado. we haven't had additional reports we still have a tornado on the ground. we always continue to monitor, of course, the scanner traffic. national weather service, the chat from the weather service, gives us instant messages here from the jackson county ema. there again, hands are full here. probably going to see some mutual aid out there with assistance from one county to another with the -- with the

search and rescue out there that continues in parts of limestone county and into madison county. let's go to jeff castle. what's the latest from the storm tracking center, jeff? >> brad, actually this just came out. tornado warning does continue for franklin county, tennessee, and jackson county, alabama, until 11:00. national weather service doppler radar continued to indicate a tornado near jerricho or about 14 miles south of winchester moving east now at 45 miles per hour. again, this is a storm just out of the hytop area. i'm going to switch over to weather service radar which should give us just a slightly better view. >> want to go to hovette dixon. he just rode out the storm in the suburb of huntsville. he is on the line with us. can you hear us? >> yes, i can. >> what happened? >> actually, i guess about an hour ago i was sitting here working doing some homework on my computer. all of the sudden the power went off. all but my television. the power went off on the computer. i immediately got breaking news

that there was a tornado in the path. and it actually hit in less than probably about, i'd say, five miles from my area. it touched down first in east limestone county. which is pretty much similar to the path that it traveled back on april 27th of last year. so it came and hit all the areas in my particular area. i immediately took cover. went in my daughter's closet. grabbed my home phone, my cell phone and kind of took cover and kind of followed the news blogs on my cell phone. >> were you by yourself in the closet? >> yes. i was home alone. >> and when this tornado hit, what did you experience? what did you hear? what did you see? >> one of the things, one of the key things that let me know it was serious was the loud wind. it almost seemed like if it was trying to lift my roof off the actual -- off its frame. then the windows were rattling. i immediately kind of pulled my front door closed and i locked

the front door and ran to my daughter's closet and got in the closet and kind of took the tornado position and positioned myself where i could actually follow the actual news blogs on my cell phone. >> so you were actually able to read your cell phone as this tornado was passing over top? >> yes, ma'am. it was in and out for us, the signal. so i would get a dead network here and there. when it did kick back in it would automatically have the news blogs on. ironically, my television in the living room was the only television that was on in the house. kind of stayed on. from a distance i was kind of listening for the news from the front room. from the closet. so it kind of gave the sirens. of course, you heard all the sirens. you heard the ambulance sirens and police sirens and things of that nature that were in the area. it kind of gave me an idea this definitely was kind of like deja vu of what occurred here last year. >> you were in your daughter's closet. you're basically scrunched down in this position here trying to follow the blogs. how did you know when it was all

over? when you came out of the closet, what did you actually see? >> it was that quiet calm. it immediately stopped. of course, the real heavy downpour of rain. i kind of opened the closet and turned on the television in my daughter's room. they had kind of gave me an idea that it was out in meridianville, probably about 15, 20 miles away from my area in which i live. so that kind of gave me an idea that it was pushing away from where i was. so i kind of followed it, turned back on the television, went in the little room and walked outside. several neighbors were out assessing their homes. no severe damage. just judging by what i see on the television, the damage they have reported is not too far from where i live. >> when you emerged from the closet, your home was not that damaged? what did -- did you see any kind of structural damage? >> yeah. all kind of debris that was in the yard as if it was blown from other areas. people's trash cans and things of that nature. of course, garbage cans turned over and all of that. i think down the street my

neighbor had one tree that may have -- a small tree that had kind of blown over. i did attempt to leave to go get my daughters from school. of course, as i left, police were out. ambulance were out. pretty much personnel that was out. they asked me to return back to my home and give it about 30 minutes before i attempted to go check my daughters out. >> do you know if your daughter's safe, hovet? >> yeah. they're fine. they reported all schools on television. they're fine. i did have an opportunity to get through at that particular school, personnel at that school that said all is well. i definitely know the panic that sets in when it comes to that. a lot of times we have the misconception that school is not the safest place to be. me in my experience as an administrator, i do have faith that where they are is probably safer than where i'm at here at my home. >> hovet, thank you so much.

glad to hear that you are safe. i want to go to mark smith. he's a church leader in the same town -- we just lost the church leader, i understand, but we will get back to him as soon as we get him. a group of students are huddled together inside of a church. they are taking cover and inside the same place where that tornado just hit in huntsville. we will talk to him and see how those kids are doing and in the meantime i want to go to chad to tell us where we believe the tornado is, what's the path of this, and how big is this thing now? >> if it is still on the ground, it's now into tennessee. it's crossing over the border into the west of chattanooga. but we are getting reports now -- and these are coming in

slowly, but towns, cities, and counties are thinking about releasing their children from school so they can go home. huntsville city is going to release kindergarten at 1:00 and everybody else at 1:30. if you have kids in school, you don't want kids home alone, right? and there's nobody there. so if you hear about this, you've got a call a neighbor, hey, when my son gets off the bus, make sure he goes to your house. i can't i'm at work yet. go ahead. >> i want to talk to our affiliate about what is going on? >> reporter: i talked to sheriff deputies and they say that along patterson lane there has been eight or nine homes damaged. thankfully there are no reported injuries at this time. we are also seeing some downed power lines and right now it's pretty tame. we haven't seen any rain or hail or anything like that. just earlier when my

photographer were drivinging up here, everything seems to be fine in this particular area. i also talked to some people with their homes damaged and one woman told me that she was -- she did not have a shelter so she went straight to her bathtub and thankfully she was okay. all of her pets are with her. she's doing fine. so we'll have the very latest updates for you the moment we get them. go to waff.com for the updates as well. reporting for 48 news. >> thank you. things are calming down temporarily. okay. we're going to go back out to carla, carla who was out there in east limestone area. carla, what do you have for us now? >> reporter: i am actually here at the intersection of fords chapel. fortunately i was able to talk to a few neighbors not too long

ago and they were just talking about how everything sounded whep the storm went through. one lady said she was coming back from the gym and everything was fine. she could hear the siren go off but there was no rain. as soon as she went into the house, it sounded like an airplane came over her home. it happened twice. it came in two waves. and so it was just very scary for this neighborhood. again, this is kind of the same neighborhood hit during april 27th. they say they are all fine but lots of trees down. behind me a power line is down as well. so this road is blocked. you can see the caution tape put up as well. actually, i'm here in the parking lot of ford chapel's chirt and they are being asked to pick up their children. i can see the parents up there now as they take the little ones with them to take them to a safer place. again, if you have a child here at ford's chapel, pick them up now. some of the neighbors, again, here in the neighborhood, they

were telling me that they are okay but they are worried about their neighbors one block up the street here. it's the neighborhood still rebuilding from april 27th. they got hit again. some of their friends live in the neighboring neighborhood. hopefully later once we can get through this area we can check on that neighborhood as well. but, again, lots of debris in the roads. i haven't heard of anyone being hurt. so that's a good thing. but it looks like the clean-up process begins once again. jeff? >> all right. thank you, carla. i'm looking at weather situations. things are um kaing down for the moment but we don't expect that that is going to continue. these storms are likely going to move out and maybe last until 3:00, 4:00 this afternoon before we get more development. watching very closely a cold front coming from the west which will bring another round of severe weather as we take you into the latter part of this afternoon and this evening. again, things are not going to

be over by a long shot even though they may quiet down temporarily. a tornado warning until 11:00 with jackson county in tennessee. you can see that is north of skots borrow. that is left of a storm that moved through meridianville and we had one that moved through the limestone area. >> i want to bring in mark smith. he's in a church with 90 kids. i believe they are preschoolers who are in a basement. can you hear me, mark? >> yes. >> mark, tell us, are you safe? are the kids safe? what is happening? >> yeah, everybody is safe at this point. the kids are in the process of being released to their parents. it appears that the storm went through the first half like it

did in april, through the southeast part of our church i stead of the northwest corner of the playground and some of the portable buildings have some damage but most of the damage has houses to the southwest of us, including the church and the developments in that area. there's telephone lines down, trees snapped off, et cetera. >> mark, if you would, take me from the time that you first realized that you had to gather those kids to get them into the basement. how did you hear the warnings and how did you make that happen? >> well, the mother staff directors made that happen. i wasn't actually here at the church when the storm went through. i came up as soon as i heard that there was issues. so the mother straf directors have tornado protocol or any

thunderstorm protocol where they will usher all the children to the basement which is an underground concrete structure with a floor above it. so it's a safe place and it's opened to the community and we had quite a few community members come and take refuge there. >> and how long were they in the basement as this storm passed over? >> well, from any time that there is a tornado warning until that is lifted. so i don't know the exact time but i would imagine it was well over an hour, maybe close to two hours. >> how are the kids doing now? >> from what i can tell, the kids are just fine. the adults are a little rattled since we just went through this last april. this isn't nearly to the extent of last april but it still is not a settling thing.

>> this is the second time that your church has been hit. is that right? >> yes. april 27th last year it went through and took out three of the four buildings on the church property including the 203-year-old chapel. >> it's got to do something to your nerves. >> yeah. i think it does something to everybody's nerves. >> and right now the parents -- give us some information here. their kids are safe. where can they be picked up? should they be picked up now? >> yes. several of the roads leading into here are blocked off because of damage. i know that the road between sparkman high school and highway 53 is closed off because the storms went through there. however, you can get to forge chapel road and turn up to the high school. you can also get there from the

west. the parents are coming in behind the church and take picking up their kids here in front of the church because there are telephone polls on the chapel road. >> have you heard from any parents about whether or not these kids are coming home to homes that are damaged or even destroyed? >> i haven't heard anything about that yet. >> and the kids, i guess are they being fed and comforted or are they running around? >> no, it's always orderly. the directors are very experienced. so i'm sure the kids, other than, you know, hearing talk from the parents, they really -- you know, everything is pretty much regular. so they are fine. like i said, they are in the process of being sent home. >> and, mark, just finally here,

when you look outside of the church, what are you seeing? >> a lot of the playground toys thrown around, picnic table benches thrown around, chairs. the fence is down. the pavilion back behind the church on another person's property is destroyed. there are some houses just to the south that have parts of roofs missing and trees and telephone lines down. >> all right. well, mark, again, we thank you for watching. keep a good eye overall of those kids, the preschool program obviously lucky that there is not significant damage there, that the kids are all safe. it is safe to get to the church and to pick up the kids. that's the best thing to do at this time? >> yes. >> all right. mark smith, thank you very much. we appreciate it. we'll be getting back to you to see how that works out for the families. i want to bring in chad again. what do we know about the latest reports of tornadoes on the

ground and where they hit so far. >> to the west and northwest of huntsville. that's where they touched down. they traveled north of huntsville into this area. we know that the high school was slightly hit. there are vehicles damaged outside and windows in the building that are blown out. no injuries to that school. no injuries at all. everyone was inside and in a safe place. that's good. right now i don't have one storm on the ground officially reported confirmed. we have tornado warnings because some of these storms are located. but it takes a threshold to get a tornado to come down. just because a storm is rotating, it doesn't mean that a tornado is going to come out of that storm and the momentum is like an ice skater. you get it in the middle and the tornado can fallout the bottom. so right now this is a storm that moves across alabama.

this is georgia and here is chattanooga. to the west of chattanooga, could travel to the north. but if you remember, what he was talking about, this is a very hard hit area when tuscaloosa was hit. they kept going in this area. that's the damage that he's talking about. so there's the storm. when you see these storms moving on the radar and they go back and they move, that's only to show you the direction that they are going. obviously they are not going back and traveling. the last frame that you see will always be the current frame when they go backwards to the southwest. that's the oldest frame and then the newest frame here. it would make a difference if you're living here and it was coming this way. that is why we show you the animation. >> do we have any sense how big these tornadoes are?

>> and they have the first damage, that's the crazy part about income a newsroom. you hear about damage and send your crews out and what you're seeing here is 50, 80, 100 mile-per-hour winds. i believe this storm got much more intense to the east of 10 or 20 miles and it's going to be significant damage to the east of where you're seeing it here on up towards the huntsville area and new market where it was on the ground and it could have been easily 140 mile per hour storm. >> chad, how do you anticipate whether the storm, the tornadoes are getting bigger and becoming more severe? you see the damage but you believe it's going to be a lot worse than some of those other areas? >> the doppler radars now are so sophisticated. they are going different directions, have different

signals. this is not your grandfather's radar. it's a new radar system that can actually find debris in the air. it knows the difference. the radar will tell you the difference between raindrops coming down and the debris in the air. it's called a debris balance. that's the tornado itself. it's picking up stuff, throwing it in the air, and throwing it out later. we saw the debris in the air. it doesn't get in the air because of wind blowing it up. it needs to be sucked off the ground by a tornado and that's what happened east of here. >> chad, we'll have much more on severe weather and storms hitting the area. >> high school kids who are back in class today, that is out of chardon. three students were shot to death on monday. a teenager also a student there

charged with their murder. i want you to listen to the words of a teacher and coach who chased the shooter out of the school. the community now calling this guy a hero. >> i prayed with them, i wiped their tears. god was with them. i don't know why this happened i only wish i could have done more. >> republican senator olympia snowe sent shockwaves throughout washington and she's going to retire after more than 30 years in congress. this morning she explains why. >> and i am as passionate about that calling today as i was the first moment i arrived in congress. what has changed, regrettably, is the partisan all or nothing atmosphere in washington. so especially as i turn 65 last

week, i reflected on whether i wanted to commit an additional six years in the united states senate given that my next term would likely have been my final term and i do not see the polarization that now stands in the way of getting things done changing any time soon. >> snowe is one of six moderates that is not going to seek re-election. a nationwide handhunt is on for an armoured truck driver who allegedly killed his partner and made off with $2 million. kenneth looked into extradition laws in canada and mexico. police still believe he is here in the united states. his partner was found shot to death in pittsburgh yesterday. we are following breaking news as well. severe weather taking place. tornadoes touching place on the ground in alabama and moving

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i want to go directly to chad who has more information on the severe weather and the tornadoes touching down. what do you know? >> don't have anything on the ground right now, i don't believe there are tornado warnings and if you hear the sirens going off, take cover, absolutely. the radars that we're looking at our typically five to six minutes old. so in those five minutes there's nothing that i see now. five minutes from now something certainly could be and ten minutes from now it might not give you a warning. so that's why the warnings are put out just in case. i believe we are in a lull for a couple of hours until the sun comes out. the sun is going to come out and heat the air. it's rare to have a tornado at 11:00 in the morning. and it is even more rare to have

a tornado at 5:00 in the morning because that's the coldest part of the day. storms usually happen in the hottest part of the day. it goes up like a hot air balloon and the clouds build and build and build and turn into thunderstorms. west of chattanooga there is a curve back here that this could still have some debris problems. it could be a circulation right here to the west of downtown chattanooga. right there. this should travel to the north of chattanooga. there are a lot of other things over here. you have all kinds of things. people live in this corridor. chattanooga, you're not in a tornado warning right now. you definitely need to take cover with this storm. i don't see it on the ground but there's a new sweep right there. come on in. here's what we look for when we talk about a hook echo. it's a signature on a doppler radar. maybe you can put the doppler on there, too. this is the hook that what happens as the storm rotates

like this and the radar comes down and you see precip here, this down here is the most dangerous part of the storm because the whole storm is rotating and turning. it becomes a mesocyclone. but you'll see what i am looking at are two distinct colors. one going one way and one going the other way. with that type of signature, if you're towards jasper or north of chattanooga, when it gets close you need to take cover, for sure. >> chad, we'll get back to you in a moment. we're following breaking news out of syria. the carnage, explosions, protests against the government. the desperation of the people on the ground there as they continue to face attacks by their own military.

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you are about to see something that is a horrific scene out of syria. it is a gathering of protesters in the city of homs. now, they are inside this covered building chanting and voicing their anger against their own government. well, suddenly something is fired into the crowd and explodes. i have to warn you, the video that you are about to see, it is graphic and there are people who are killed. >> people are running, they are

screaming, they are trying to gather the wounded and the dead as they try to take cover. this is a city that has been under siege. these are people who live in their community. they are protesting their government. and they are being attacked. a witness tells cnn at least 16 people died in this crowd that was caused by a shell that was fired from the syrian military forces that are now surrounding homs. that is the city that is under siege. we're in contact with our correspondence in homs. also, how many more people may be dead or wounded. so far we know that 16 were killed in that attack alone. other nic roberson saying that attacks are going on as they desperately try to fight for their freedom. we also have news about the international effort to get food, medicine, and supplies to those people.

yesterday there were shipments allowed into the city. the challenge now helping those people who need it the most. on the phone is a spokesperson for the international community of the red cross. first of all, you see what is taking place there. you see how desperate the situation is. the red cross, the red crescent, have those trucks been able to get inside? >> unfortunately, we were not able to get in today. we were promised to bring in a convoy of aid and would allow us to evacuate people out of the baba amr. but we were unable to enter and the security situation did not allow the convoy to go. so we are still negotiating that access and we're on stand by outside of baba amr, probably tomorrow. >> who is blocking the trucks from getting through? >> it's a complex situation, of course.

there's a lot of the syrian authority told us that told us that we could not come in. so that call came from the syrian government. >> we heard have a syrian activist who told us that he thought the army is keeping the workers and red cross from getting inside to prevent them from seeing essentially dead bodies or evidence of possible executions. what are you hear about that? >> well, it's much too early for us to comment on that. when we make those observations, we make them ourselves. it's to bring in aid and get a sense of what is going on. certainly not in a position to confirm anything. right now the priority is to bring aid to a population that is living in very extremely difficult conditions. >> do you feel confident that bringing in that aid, that the

people are safe, or is this a situation that has become too dangerous? >> well, it is a serious situation. the fighting has been going on for weeks now. we need a minimum guarantee to make sure that there's a minimum guarantee of safety for our staff. two people were killed in the line of duty in recent weeks. so it's a dangerous environment clearly and that's why we can't just get in without the green light of the syrian authorities. without that kind of security guarantees, we just can't operate. >> and simon, essentially what do the people need there on the ground the most? what are you trying to get to them? >> well, the medical situation is really critical in terms of people being able to get the treatment that they need, pregnant women, access to medical care, very critical. and then people can get food, water, the shops that are open

are extremely expensive. people are having difficulty getting daily goods that they need to go on. food and soap and things like that nature. >> simon from the red cross, thank you very much for your time. please let us know if those trucks can get through, if there is any progress on the ground there. it seems like it's certainly a desperate situation for the people there waiting for that aid. thank you, simon. high school kids went back to class in chardon, ohio today, just days after the shooting rampage that left three people dead and two others wounded. the 17-year-old is charged with aggravated murder. i want to play for you emotional words from a guy, a coach a. study hall coach at the teacher who sees the shooting, he takes action, and the community looks at this guy and they say, you know what, you're a hero.

he doesn't necessarily agree. >> it's an emotional time. to the victim and their families, i want to say i'm sorry. my thoughts and prayers are still with you. the families of demetrius and russell, i was with them. i prayed with them, i wiped their tears, and i know god was with them. i don't know why this happened. i only wish i could have done more. i'm not a hero. just a football coach and study hall teacher. the law enforcement, first responders that came to their aid that day, they are their heroes. the chief, thank you for the training that we received.

we all wish we never had to use it but we used it and it worked. to the teacher and support staff that carried this training out and went above and beyond that put their kids before themselves, i thank you. you are the best that america has to offer. a while back i read a book about tel aviv in israel and the mayor was so adamant that the very next day the markets be opened. to show that terror and evil would not win out but the way of life would not change, their faith will not change. i'm here to tell you that tomorrow our schools will be opened. our teachers will be there, our administration will be there, our parents and community. but more importantly, our children will be there.

i can't tell you how great these children are, how great these kids are. i want to leave you now with some scripture. matthew 5:14. you are the light of the world, a town built on a hill that will not be hidden. the light of lamb and put it under a bowl. put it on a stand and it give lights to everyone in the house. the same way that your light shines for others, that you may see your good deeds and glorify your father in heaven. >> that guy brings tear to your eyes. high school students are focused on two things today. remembering the victims and struggling to get back to normal. our cnn ted rowlands is there. >> reporter: suzanne, if you can imagine, a very emotional day here as students return to school for the first time for a full day of school. yesterday many of the students came back for a while with their parents but today they are in

their classes for the very first time. we are in contact with a senior at the school giving us the flavor of what is going on inside and it's a very emotional day. he said that it's first period class and they made pancakes. they are taking it very slowly here. he said that the school is different in that the cafeteria -- this is the room where, of course, the shooting took place on monday, they have painted the walls and they have rearranged the tables in the cafeteria except for the table where those four boys that were shot were sitting. those three boys that died were all sitting at that table. they've left that alone and it is covered in flowers. he said that they started with the principal talking to the students and then a moment of silence. there are grief counselors on hand along with dogs there to help comfort the students. clearly, suzanne, they are going very slowly as they reintroduce the children back into a sense of normalcy. today, of course, the first day of school, they will have the weekend off.

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at the top of her class at north miami high school, she a valedictorian while she waits for acceptance letters from top schools like harvard and dartman. she is also waiting for

deportation. she says she deterves to stay. >> i love school. i love education. i'm the valedictorian of my high school. i've been here since i was 4. i am america. seeing my community and congress person is giving me hope that maybe there are people that will help me. >> u.s. immigration enforcement and customs agency have issued this statement about her case as well as her sister who has also been ordered to leave. as daniela have reserved the right to appeal an immigration judge's decision, ordering them to return to colombia, they will not take action against them. upon conclusion of their appeal, immigration and custom enforcement will remove this matter to decide whether an exercise of discretion is warranted. daniela is joining us from north miami where there are a lot of

people, daniela who are supporting, who are rallying behind you. we saw the rally earlier today. tell us why -- why is it important for you to stay? >> it's what i've worked for since i was 4 years old, is to be a better person, to live the american dream, you know, that i feel like i've earned it. i've worked hard in school. i've worked hard coming into my community, tutoring kids, helping my fellow peers and they show me that they care and i'm grateful for the help that everyone has given me. >> you sound like an amazing student, an amazing young woman. i don't even know how you get a 6.7 gpa but you are the top at the top in your school. you are very active in your

community. how do you respond to critics by saying, well, if your family doesn't follow the rules, that a judge has order you back to be in colombia? >> well, unfortunately, that's just how the system works. but when my family came here, we tried from the very moment that we came to start our legal proceedings and it's been an ongoing battle and unfortunately, that's the what the decision came to on monday, you know. >> what will you do if the judge decides that you have to leave? >> i really couldn't understand another life. colombia is my heritage and my roots but this is all i know. >> what do you think it means to be american? >> i think that you have the freedom to express -- the freedom for happiness and pursuit of life and that's what i deserve, you know, my

happiness in college, my happiness and parents to be in the medical field, you know. >> what are your goals? i understand you have some pretty heavy ivy leagues coming after you, harvard, yale, dartman, waiting for those acceptance letters, yes? >> yes, i'm actually waiting for seven schools and they will come out roughly around april 1st and which ever one accepts me, i will be glad. i love them all. and i just want to go and take premed classes. i want to major in cellular and medical biology and go off to medical school. >> have any of those colleges reached out to you? do you see any sense of hope? you have a lot of support from your principal and school and community. do you think this can go another way? >> i hope not . i really haven't heard from them. this has been going on for a matter of days. it's been four days, you know. >> it must be shocking.

your brother serves in the military. he's carried out duty in iraq and afghanistan? >> he actually did a tour in afghanistan and he recently got back in november. >> were you shocked to realize that your whole life could turn around like this, turn upside down? how did you react? >> yes, of course. on monday when i was hearing the court's decision, i was in a state of constant shock. i sometimes am as the judge is delivering his final sentence i'm just thinking, well, what am i going to do in colombia? what future do i have there? the education is differently. they get out at grade 11 and we get out at grade 12 so i wouldn't even know how to apply -- the scholarly things that i've learned here, i wouldn't know how to apply it in colombia. >> and you would miss your

friends and you would have to leave everything. your friends, family, community. it's all you've known there in florida. >> yeah. >> well, daniela -- >> yeah, at north -- >> please, go ahead. >> i'm sorry. i was just saying at north miami and international back lor yet program, we're all a tight-knit family and they've made it possible and my whole world would come apart if i weren't allowed to stay here. >> daniela, thank you so much. we really appreciate you talking with us. we know you have a lot of support in your community. obviously, let us know what happens in your case and in the next couple of weeks. i want to also take a look at perhaps the legal options here in this case, whether or not there are any. joining us from new york is michael wild, an immigration attorney and former prosecution attorney. michael, is there anything that daniela can do?

the judge says she has to go back to colombia? is there some loophole or room here where that doesn't have to happen? >> there is not just a lot of wiggle room but there is a tremendous obligation that her lawyer has. i had the privilege of speaking to her attorney. this demands attention. congress could legislate a private pill if it had the tenacity to do it and co-siuld n a green card over to her. we see entire community and schools coming forward and look at how she speaks and the greatest stock of character that we want, the person that achieves that academically, who's brother would bear arms to live here. the government could actually in its discretion stop the removal proceedings and also a judge could ultimately award something. there's something called deferred action where the

government can go forward independently but everything started and defer taking action going on this young lady's plight. >> i'm sorry. but does she have time for any of those options there? we're looking at weeks away before she's got to leave. >> absolutely. this is exactly what these remedies are for. a lawyer could have put in the request for prosecutorial discretion for the government to stop this effort. now that there's adverse press, the merit in equities, her brother's service to our nation goes forward, i think there's plenty of room for the lawyer and we're going to work together. as a community and the immigration lawyer's association and a professor of law where i teach in new york, i'm sure there are a lot of students coming up through the ranks that are going to want to roll-up their sleeves and help out as well. this young lady deserves it.

when you look at the economy and politics here, she deserves to be here. i spoke to the lawyer. the lawyer said that the prior lawyer put a violence against women's act because the mother had some kind of abuse. can you imagine after that case is denied to literally put a postage stamp on her forehead and send her packing? this is completely out of character for our nation. i know they will do right by her. >> michael wildes, thank you. we're going to follow this to see if in fact her attorney and you guys can work something out so she can stay here. thank you, michael. four years ago, after record turnout, we're going to tell you why president obama has the support of african-american voters in his bid for re-election. with less chronic low back pain. imagine you, with less pain. cymbalta can help. cymbalta is fda-approved to manage chronic musculoskeletal pain. one non-narcotic pill a day, every day,

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black voters showed out in november 2008. many going to the polls for the first time. can the obama campaign energize voters again? we take a look at our what matters segment today. >> there is a framed newspaper story on the wall about president obama when he won the 2008 election. >> i want to capture this for my family because, again, it was so his store kell. >> but this year he's not sure he wants to vote again african-americans have been hit hard by the economy with black unemployment almost double the rate of whites. >> i've held three or four different jobs at one time. when you have a family you need to support, you will do whatever

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that sounded. we're not hearing of any injuries right now but again lots of damage, particularly to a neighborhood that just was hit and april 27th, almost a year ago. they had the clean-up process to go through again. >> that's a pretty bizarre picture when you see a pillow up in a tree. do you know if any neighbors had a warning before this thing hit? >> reporter: well, they had a warning from meteorologists all morning long and of course a lot of people in alabama know about whether radios. we've been talking about that since april 27th. so a lot of the families had that. but i don't think they were expecting the storms to come through as early. we had light storms this morning but nothing -- no one, i don't think, expected anything like this. but a lot of these neighbors got into their shelters. one woman told me she got into her bathtub and they were save. >> carla, thank you so much. excellent reporting throughout

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it's cost nasa more than $17 million in recent years. what are we talking about? hackers. a recent security breach gave hackers "full functional control" of nasa computers. john, what is going on here? >> yeah. you know, suzanne, you would think that besides the cia that perhaps nasa have would have the most secure data systems in the world. according to a report just released, nasa lags far behind other federal agencies in protecting its data. in one of the most disconcerting events, apparently last march, around this time, a computer, a laptop computer was stolen that contained algorithms for command and control for the international space station.

now, nasa says that at no time was the operations of the international space station in any way in jeopardy. but it pinpointed some of the breaches. in fact, there were more than 5,000 security incidents that nasa has investigated over the past couple of years. and one of them out at the jet propulsion laboratory was the one where you just referenced where hackers apparently with those i.p. addresses in china had access to very sensitive jet propulsion laboratory systems which would have allowed them to modify, delete, or copy sensitive files. now, folks out of the lab in california told me that they are always under constant attack but that the bottom line in all of this is that they are continuing to try to step up and to respond to all of these ongoing threats. suzanne? >> aig