the official rules of golf, if the gator hadn't moved, he would not have been able to move his ball to a safeer spr spot, and s good to know. what do you think of this? >> i hadn't seen that. that seems like an outtake from "caddyshack," but i know one caddie who earned his steak dinner tonight. >> he could have been a steak dinner, though. thank you, john wertheim. appreciate it. hello, everyone. don lemon here top of the hour. thanks for joining us. tonight much of the midwest bracing once again for an onslaught of dangerous weather less than 24 hours after a deadly series of tornadoes ripped through the region. >> in a second, the whole house was gone. we were looking up at blue sky. >> terror from the skies. we've gotten so many ireports from you out there. please stay safe tonight. we want you to be safe. this is the exact same weather

system that could hammer millions more people as darkness begins to fall, so stay tuned, we'll keep you updated. the threat of tornadoes through much of the central time zone. for many the damage is already done. 122 reports of possible tornado touchdowns yesterday and overnight. most of them hit kansas, but parts of nebraska, oklahoma and iowa are in rubble today, too. the most impacted communities has -- impacted community has to be woodward, oklahoma. five deaths are blamed on the storm outbreak, all of them in woodward. they include a father and his two young children who died inside their mobile home. two others died in a car. woodward's mayor says the storms knocked out part of the emergency siren system. jack jackie jarris joins me now. we're not out of danger yet. where are they now? >> we're focusing on minneapo s

minneapolis/st. paul. conditions are favorable for tornadoes to develop. we do have a report of a wall cloud. a wall cloud is that low-hanging kind of wedge from the big parent storm, and that's where a tornado would drop out of. so no funnel has been sighted but the wall cloud is there, and this is in lester prairie, so carveer, mccloud and wright counties under a tornado warning and this storm is moving in a northerly direction. it's this entire line here around st. cloud and westward that we'll be watching. this should be moving into the twin cities likely within an hour, so you need to be on high alert. these thunderstorms are just to your west and some of them are rotating. that certainly is a concern at this hour. there is also a threat of tornadoes farther south, st. louis down into little rock, arkansas. these storms have been more linear, as we call them. they're just kind of lined up. when we see that, we tend to see more straight line wind damage than tornadoes, but there is enough rotation in the atmosphere and unstable

conditions that isolated spinners, so to speak, could be popping up. so another severe weather situation unfolding. this is going to continue into tonight, don, and even tomorrow parts of the northeast will see severe weather and temperatures will be soaring. we're talking 80s, maybe even 90 in places like boston and new york city. >> we want to go back to woodward, oklahoma, a town where the worst of the storm systems happened. damage just incredible, isn't it in. >> reporter: it is. luckily it's a narrow swath, but that narrow swath got hit incredibly hard. we're in this neighborhood where there are several, several homes, especially on this block, that are completely destroyed and unlivable. we're at the lord household where they just brought in some heavy equipment and they're trying to get this one car which is somewhat driveable out. this is a home of 2,000 square feet, four bedrooms, two and a half baths completely blown away

by this. last hour you heard the story of paul lord, the patriarch of the household here. i want to introduce you to his son, and chad, your dad was telling us how you were holding onto his hand, the tornado sucked him out of the house and you found him lying there with a big gash in his head. tell us how that went down. >> sigthe sirens started going . we got out to the street so we could get to shelter. paul got in the middle of the street, and i looked over my shoulder, and if you look over here, the debris was right there and the storm was already here. so i told my mom, my sister, her husband and my kids to get into the bathroom. you know, it's too late, it's here. and dad started coming in, and, you know, i grabbed him to start pulling him into the front door, and we were approximately about right there where the bricks meet and the storm took him away from me. and i got thrown into the house, it threw me down the hallway, and when i hit the end of the hallway, i finally made it to

the bathroom door. i opened the bathroom door and there was nothing on the other side of the door. and something knocked me down. all this took place 10, 15 seconds. it was super quick. >> his grandson is your son, i assume? >> yes. >> buried under appliances? i mean, this is an incredible story. now the whole community coming together, including more in wait of heavy equipment. what's going through your head right now? you've got to be in shock. >> a little bit of shock. it hasn't exactly set in yet what all is gone. we were searching through the rubble and my mom had found a teacup that was her mother's, and that slowed her down for about 10 minutes. she just sat down. the whole house is gone, and her mom's teacup absolutely harm free. there's nothing wrong with it. >> we're so grateful that everybody made it out alive. yourself and your father made that point several times.

i know he was looking to move, anyway, but you've got a lot of workload ahead of you and we wish ut very best. thank you very much for sharing your story. >> rob marciano, thank you very much. at one point, all 300 people who lived in thurman, iowa had to evacuate. we learned that the tornado that touched down there was an ef-2. it was half a mile wide with winds up to 130 miles an hour. it left a path of destruction 10 miles long, destroying or damaging three-fourths of the homes in thurman. for some, their houses were obliterated in a matter of seconds. >> that piece of iron had to come from some building. it was no straight wind, it was just a regular twister. we were in the bathroom, like they always say, and the roof went here. the good lord was with us. he sure was. it's about more than you can

bear. >> also very scary moments in the town of increase tcreston, . this is what they're dealing with this evening. a hospital's roof blown off. thankfully, no major injuries reported. patients were relocated to other hospitals. it mainly struck rural areas except for wichita, kansas. one tornado smashed into a mobile home park there. about one-quarter of the homes destroyed. about half of them damaged. but here the worst reported injury was a broken leg. some of the most striking images came from salina, kansas, about 90 miles north of wichita. the emergency management director for this county says three tornadoes touched down in the span of about an hour and a half. a taliban prison raid allows hundreds of inmates to escape

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well-coordinated attacks struck kabul and three other afghan provinces today. insurgents targeted embassies and an air base used by the u.s. military. government forces head back. in all they killed 19 of the 20 insurgents and suicide bombers nearly all before they could detonate their vests. as one commander put it, they got nothing. but our mohammad janjun says he heard more explosions in kabul

tonight. troops battled insurgents in eastern afghanistan. only two civilians died. 15 afghan police officers were wounded. we have another developing story in neighboring pakistan to tell you about. it is a nationwidemanhunt -- nationwide manhunt for escaped prisoners today. 21 are high-profile militants who will likely return to the fight. the attack lasted two hours. in syria, you might as well ask what cease fire? helicopters and artillery shell the homes again today in what is supposed to be a u.n.-ordered halt to the fighting. at least 23 people were killed across the country today. the government blames armed terrorists for breaking the

peace. for the first time ever, the new leader of north korea has addressed his leader. kim jong sun's televised remarks came during a massive celebration. he says his country has the fire power to prevail in any war. this just days after country's failed launch of a long-range rocket. the massive celebration marked 100 years since the birth of the country's founder, kim's grandfather, kim il jong. here they are lining up for the traditional class photo and they hashed out issues like poverty and the u.s. war on drugs. the president spoke, saying he has decided to let cuba attend the next gathering. >> why hasn't the united states

done more to promote democracy in the region because you don't allow in the arab spring but it seems like you're not dealing with some of the problems here in latin america. the next questioner said, why are you being so hard on cuba and promoting democracy all the time? >> news from the summit was overshadowed by a scandal involving u.s. secret service members involving bringing prostitutes back to their hotel. a disturbing story out of northeast brazil. investigators have arrest tleed people who have confessed to n cannibalism. and he his wife and mistress are members of a cult who killed eight of their victims in order to, quote, purefy their souls? along with the remains of the victims, police found a five-year-old child of one of the victims living at the home.

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bill cosby is speaking out, and when he does, people listen, and he's talking trayvon martin, gun control, even president obama and his critics. so let's talk about that with goldie taylor, managing editor of goldietaylorproject.com and the goldie taylor project, right? i want to show you, goldie, what bill cosby had to say to candy crowley today on state of the union. candy asked him about the president's supporters who are disappointed he hasn't accomplished more since taking office. >> i'm disappointed that people who don't look at the woes and

the trouble given to this man. people blatantly speaking out against his color, wasting time, starting up new stories about whether or not he was born here, saying things that they can't prove and i feel sometimes, not all the time, that it's like watching -- his job, people want to make it as difficult as the one siphisict had. >> it's bill cosby. is he right? could the president have done more. >> i think if we parse this out, mr. cosby makes some great points about the level of

partis partisanship we've seen over the last three years. you haven't seen this kind of divide, at least politically, for several administrations. so people have begun to wonder, what is the root of that? is it the president's race? is it simply that we had a rise of populism in the country where working class people felt overtaxed and overburdened by a big government and this is the administration in charge? there are probably a myriad of reasons. but i think that mr. cosby makes the point that this president and this congress couldn't work together in a meaningful way to really push forward. >> i sit there and i watch him. he starts talking about greek mythology and someone who is troubled. i wondered, bill cosby, who has been in the public spotlight tore a long time and has been very vocal, and does he at this point, is he in a position to make those sort of grandiose

statements? he can say what he wants to, but is that sort of simplistic about the president. i'm sure there's some truth to what he's saying, but it's probably a matter of timing as well when it comes to the economy and what people are facing, so people are struggling and therefore frustrated and take their frustrations out at the person who is at the helm. >> that is absolutely true. you and i both grew up in bill cosby. >> hey, hey, hey. >> "the electric company,"" the cosby show," so i have great regard for his enormous contribution entertainmentwise and on the civil rights front because he's always spoken out about issues that are important. but it seems to me that over the years there have been sometimes when i've had a challenge with things he's had to say, specifically about the african-american community. some of the sort of things that he would term were tough love, i think, were more damaging than anything else. and so does he have the right to his platform?

absolutely. he has earned our hearing out. he is iconic worldwide. but to also think that that means we can't disagree with him, i think that's unfortunate. >> yeah, it is. you should be able to agree or disagree with anyone and listen. if you can't clean up your own house, you can't talk about the person's house next door. >> don't get out there and mow the lawn if you haven't cleaned your house. >> stand by because he's talking trayvon martin and gun control, part of the conversation we had last night on the air. we didn't get it finish because of the breaking news and we're going to talk more. we're back in a moment. ♪

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only at the sleep number store, where queen mattresses start at just $699. we're talking about bill cosby and the big issues with goldie taylor here, of course, political analyst and managing editor of the new goldie taylor blog. bill cosby is saying things that causes people to sit up and listen, of course, even though they may not agree with him or maybe they don't want to hear him, but people do. he spoke on the trayvon martin case and he really emphasized the gunning. here's what he said to candy crowl crowley.

>> i'm a person who believes that that gun, the gun, all around this united states, when a person has a gun, sometimes their mind clicks that this thing will win arguments and straighten people out, and then in the wrong hands and the wrong mind, it's death. it's wounding people. people who don't have money to buy a decent meal for themselves yet someone will put an illegal gun in their hand. >> all right. we talked about the right to bear arms. no one is debating that. that is a right. i have to say i agree with him. i think a gun emboldens some people. it gives people a sense of

bravado, just, i've got a gun. >> i've seen guns waved around in my own family when i've been out and about on the town in the hands of the wrong people. he makes an incredible point about that. i think mr. cosby has had violence strike his own family, his son was murdered. i've had the same kind of tragedy strike my family, so i understand his resistance about it. it isn't the presence of a gun, it's the condition of our humanity, our humanity towards ourselves and to our fellow man. >> what about the access to them? if you make it tougher for everyone to get guns -- not make it impossible -- but doesn't that -- would that help the wrong people getting guns? >> we have had a number of laws hit the books in this country over the last 20 years, including the brady bill and other things. not a single one of them has

dried up the source and supply of illegal guns on our street. in fact, they have increased. my brother was murdered with an ildeal g illegal gun. three years later that same gun killed in texas. they're not going down and getting fingerprints, they're selling .22s for $20. >> so do you think doing something with guns is on the wrong end? it should be with illegal guns? >> the focus ought to be on illegal guns because to focus on people with legal guns really just runs afoul of the constitution. but we need to make the focus on illegal guns, but more than that, as we said last night, the number one predictor of gun violence is persistent poverty. so until we begin to really put our arms around these communities, put in the rights supports, like quality-based

education, someone who has hope for themselves and a positive economic outlook because they're educated, they're much less likely to involve themselves in gun violence or be the victims of gun violence. >> my dad carried guns, right, and i picked up one as a kid. that was the last time i did that because i got the you-know-what of a lifetime. i've always been afraid of guns, and the only time i ever really picked up a gun was to do a story about guns. so guns are not a part of my life. any time i see someone way gun -- can i talk about you? >> absolutely. >> you always carry, right? >> absolutely. >> i'm afraid of them. if i was with you, i would not want to be in a car with you with a gun. >> i grew up with them. we were all sitting in the family room one night -- we grew up in east st. louis, an incredibly violent town. lots of poverty all around. a man walked in our back door to hold our family at gunpoint. my uncle raised up with his gun

and the man turned around and left. and my mother had a permit to carry, i have had one since i left the marine corps many years ago. >> that's different. you were in the marine corps. i understand what you're saying, but if someone walked into my house, god forbid, do you want me to help you get it? just don't kill me. >> i think the difference is i was a single mother raising very young children alone in a house. so having a weapon that if someone came into our house, you know, they were going to have to deal with mama bear. andi i have kept that permit an that gun the whole time. >> good for you. i have my grandma's cane knife. it's a sugar cane knife from the '70s. don't mess with me, i have a cane knife. thanks for talking to me. i appreciate it.

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afghanistan today. they targeted an afghanistan safe zone which includes the u.s. and other embassies. also targeted, an air base in east afghanistan where u.s. military is housed. in all, at least 19 insurgents were killed. forget the cease fire in syria. government helicopters and artillery shelled the city again today, three days into what is supposed to be a u.n.-ordered halt to the fighting. a monetary team is on the way. the news agency blames armed terrorists for breaking the peace. president obama and other leaders across america have wrapped up the week-long summit in columbia. they wrapped up technology, the economy and u.s. war on drugs. president obama says he hasn't caved under tremendous pressure to let cuba attend the next

gathering. it was overshadowed by u.s. secret service members accused of bringing prostitutes back to their hotel. the u.s. is bracing for another potentially dangerous night of storms from the same system that left five people dead in oklahoma. look at these pictures. there are 122 reports of possible tornado touchdowns yesterday and overnight. most of them hit kansas but parts of nebraska, oklahoma and iowa are in rubble today, as you can see. we're monitoring the skies for you all night long here on cnn. this week in washington, the spotlight refocuses on what's become a controversial and, to some, a very confusing topic, taxes and revenues. millionaires and secretaries. the so-called buffett rule is a big ticket item for president obama in the name of fairness for the middle class. here's athina jones. >> well, don, simply put, the buffett law would impose a

minimum effective tax rate for 30% for people making a million dollars or more. it takes its name from billionaire warren buffett who says his secretary pays a higher rate of taxes than he sdchlt buffett doesn't think that's fair and neither does the white house, so this a big thing they're pushing this year. if this goes into effect, and that's a big if, there are millions of americans who pay more. this will go into effect for 50 or 60,000, and the white house pointed to 77,000 house holds that in 2009 paid less than 30% of their income in taxes. we're looking at thousands of people being affected and not millions. the joint committee on taxation has studied how much revenue

this would actually bring in if affected. they estimate it would bring in just $5.1 billion next year and $47 billion over the next ten years. if you look at those figures, that represents just a tiny, tiny fraction of the deficits we expect to see in the coming years. on the budgetary side it wouldn't have much impact. on the political side, the obama white house certainly thinks it does. so even though we don't expect it to pass in the senate, don't expect the white house to drop this. they think in whole issue of tax fairness is something the middle class can relate to, so we expect him to continue pushing this idea this election year. don? >> all right, athina, thank you very much. videos by that agency that oversees washington's spending. a cnn exclusive head of the committee is looking into the embarrassment. that's next. and hurtle us all into space. which would render retirement planning unnecessary.

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said, they invited us to capitol hill today, a sunday, and what he did was give us a sneak peek behind the curtain, so to speak, where they're going through documents, and now former gsa administrator and other top former officials there who were responsible for that lavish conference that included that overthe top talent show, videos and to the tune of 84,000 taxpayer dollars. the investigator on this was informed 11 months ago on this, so one of the questioned i had was whether he thinks the white house knew about it and covered it up. >> we do not have, if you will, the specifics of who told who in the white house something. that's to be discovered. but again -- >> and that's probably what you're going to be asking martha johnson. >> that's partly what we'll be

asking, but you know you're there for a reason. you're the eyes and ears of the president through the process. the chief of staff and the other individuals, we want to know where that process failed. >> we've heard about so much of this excess spending, don, but they showed me two things i haven't heard before, and one of the investigators had in his office a coin the gsa had made that cost taxpayers $6500 and a souvenir book that cost us $8,000. >> where does this end? that video -- this video is unbelievable just in itself. every time something else comes out like this commemorative coin, it's outrageous. look at that. i have to ask -- there's the clown. this conference took place during the obama administration, which has admitted, dana, they messed up and lots of heads have rolled. but over-the-top spending on this particular conference didn't start with this white

house. will the gop chair look into gsa spending during the bush years? >> right. well, tomorrow it's just going to be officials involved in 2010 conference, during the obama years. that includes taking government property and even more. i pressed the gop chairman, why not invite bush officials? he says he intends to, but tomorrow is just about president obama, and specifically said it's obama's promise to stop excessive spending and why that didn't happen. i also pressed him about his role, because when he and other republicans took over the house in 2010, they promised to hold the executive branch accountable specifically to spending, but this was almost entirely uncovered by the inspector general and not congress. so i asked if he was asleep at the switch. >> i've heard from conservatives

to liberals say it's wonderful that chairman ison and other committee chairmen on the hill are looking into this, but where were you all before? >> it's a good question. this is a situation where we weren't given a heads up 11 months ago by the i.g., but understand, dana, we have 120 people between the majority and minority on this committee. the i.g. is 12,000 people. by definition, we rely on a vast majority of the information to come from inspector generals, in some cases from the 3,000 people at the gao. that's part of our process is we leverage those people, and often there is no hearing because the matter is taken care of at that level, too. >> now, one of the things that ison suggested he would ask at the hearing is the gri. the fact that it happened at the

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service, for $1 billion. i have to say -- i started reusing this pen again because i just did. it had nothing to do with facebook. but business insider put out 11 start-ups that they think, katie, might be the next billion-dollar baby and you have picked three from the list. give us the first one. >> the first one you're going to love because i know you're a huge angry bird fan. this is kind of the obvious one. the makers of angry bird. i want to point out angry bird's by the numbers. 700 million plus downloads to date, don. also, an angry birds space came out three days ago. 10 million downloads. there is a cartoon series coming out, there's even an angry birds movie on its way and people are still obsessed with angry birds,

still. they were one of the top 10 obsessions on yahoo on top of two last year. it was reported that $2.5 billion sale by zynga did not go through last year, so this is going for at least 3 billion if it does sell. >> sorry. i was playing angry birds. okay. so i'm so goofy. sorry. pick number 2. >> all right, so that just got awkward, and notice there is a delay. all i hear is ranangry birds an i'm sitting here for like 15 seconds. ab & b, air bed and breakfast. this is a web site that if you have extra space or a room available and you want to rent it out, it connects people. they are looking for places when

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i was adopted, and i felt that i wanted to adopt a kid that needs a home. my son was in foster care for four years. i was his 12th home. but from the minute michael and i met, i knew right away that we were going to be a family. i thought everything was going great. but after a month michael was removed from my house. i was instantly cut off from him. >> finding that family for that child, it's nothing short of a miracle. >> let's go. we need to get ready for the horses. >> and sometimes families are faced with barriers because of a myth or a misunderstanding causing the kids to stay in the foster care system longer. being that gay or lesbian individual or couple makes it much harder. my name is david wing kovarik. i adopted from the foster system. now i help other gay and lesbian individuals realize their dream of becoming parents. we're working together with you

on that. i want to make sure you've got that family to family kind of support. i've worked hundreds of cases side by side social workers. we covered a lot of information last week. i've trained thousands of foster parents. it doesn't matter if you're gay or straight and we do it for free. >> he figured out how to get us over that finish line. our family wouldn't have adopted each other if it hadn't been for david. >> i'm fighting for the right of that child to have that family. >> daddy, is tonight movie night? >> it's why i keep doing it every single day. >> the middle east has the oil. africa, diamonds. but no one can touch the united states when it comes to bourbon production. kentucky produces 95% of it. in a struggling economy, that's something to brag about. just think of all those jobs that will never be outsourced. here's cnn's poppy harlow. >> reporter: it's almost as old as this country.

>> nectars of the god. >> reporter: bourbon. and perhaps not since prohibition have this many people wanted to drink it. what has happened just in the past few years to bourbon? >> oh, it's going through a renaissance. you know, the development of super premium bourbons have got people looking at bourbon. you know, exported bourbon around the world. people from australia, germany, the uk, the far east. they're discovering bourbon. and liking it. >> reporter: the great grandson of jim beam took us on a tour of their distillery on kentucky's bourbon trail. this is bourbon country. >> yes, ma'am. right where we're standing, within 65 miles of where we are, 95% of the world's bourbon is produced. >> reporter: there are more barrels of bourbon in kentucky right now than there are people. 4.7 million barrels ageing in the bluegrass state. >> we have almost 2 million barrels of bourbon ageing here

at our facility. >> reporter: but why the surge in popularity now? >> because it's got a story to tell. it's america's native spirit. it has heritage. it has authenticity. people want to hear those stories. >> it's the way i got in. >> reporter: or maybe it's the "mad men" effect. >> doing my best here. >> bourbon was considered your dad's drink or granddad's drink. nobody fooled with it much. we're starting to see the growth. it's going leaps and bounds. >> reporter: or maybe it's the women. >> we're learning the female market is a big market there. for years everybody neglected the women because they never thought they would drink bourbon. >> reporter: the growing middle class in china, in india, how much does that play into premium brands selling better overseas. is that a big driver of this? >> yes, it is. it's a very important driver. as the consumers in markets like india and china emerge and as their income grows, they will convert from their local spirits to international spirits. >> reporter: a wobbly local economy could jeopardize that.

last year alone almost $1.4 billion of liquor was exported from america. almost 70% of that was whiskey. and a big portion, bourbon. why? because you can't make it just anywhere. in 1964, congress decreeed bourbon a big product of the united states. like scotch comes from scotland. >> it's as american as it gets. >> reporter: and america still sells. is this the busiest year you've had yet? >> oh, yeah. >> reporter: no question? >> no question. we're proud of this homemade, hand crafted product right here. >> reporter: working in this industry, how do you feel? >> i feel secure. i know i can come to work because i know there's demand right now. i hope it stays there. >> reporter: makers mark shipped out more than $12 million of bourbon last year. jim beam churns out 180 bottles a minute. the kentucky bourbon trail gets

450,000 visits a year. this is one thing you can never outsource no matter what. >> no matter. that's just something we do right here in kentucky. we've been doing it for over 200 years. we'll be doing it for 200 years in the future. >> reporter: in claire mont, kentucky, poppy harlow, cnn money. >> cheers. drink responsibly. coming up tonight at 10:00, the right speaks out. the conservatives. they call me and this network liberal. a show for democrats in the white house. that's the nice stuff they have said. i'm going to ask them why. join me again tonight 10:00 p.m. eastern to hear the fireworks. i'm don lemon at the cnn world headquarters in atlanta. see you back here at 10:00 p.m. eastern. cnn presents begins in just a cnn presents begins in just a few minutes. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com