wireless and good, old-fashioned journalism. >> eric: maybe we should say a remember remembrance to those poor soul who is perished. >> thank you? >> jamie: have a great day. >> tornadoes! >> it lasted...: 3 to 4 minutes, probably, what seemed like an eternity. >> you really can't explain it. i mean, you can hear it, you can feel it. i -- i didn't know -- i thought the house was going to go. >> no major injuries, which is the greatest thing. we can rebuild the houses, we can rebuild the town. we can't rebuild those lives. not all communities were so lucky. at least five people were killed in a 24-hour blitz of tornados in the midwest. right now, a dozen states are facing new threats of new severe storms. we go to thurman, iowa, where as much as 75% of the town has been

destroyed. and mike tobin is in wichita, kansas, where they for still trying to assess the damage. we start with mike. >> hello there, shannon. i will give you a look at a typical scene around the heartland. you can see the trees are down. you can hear the chain saws working as people are clearing the debris. as this tree fell over, it looks like it wrecked this guy's porch. he lost part of the trailer, any way to a hole in the roof inform oklahoma, a stringer picked up amazing video of a multi-vortex tornado, forming in the sky and ultimately reached down to the ground. sadly, in oklahoma, we can report that there were five fatalities. this is woodard, 12,000, it took a direct hit. what we are hearing about the fatalities, at least some of them are people who didn't heed the warnings or have anywhere to g. they attempted to ride out the storm in a trailer.

the trailer took a direct hit. in kansas, there were a number of direct hits. the boeing company took a direct hit. spirit aerosystem, their crew got to safety. there was a trailer park that has been wiped out. but the people took the storm seriously. they all got into shelters before the tornadoes arrived. the emergency management people here in kansas are happy to report, no fatalities across the state. it was 10:00 when the sirens started to wail and the tornado took over the sky. it was black at the top, at least because it carried so much water with it. after the tornado passed, we didn't see the hail that oftentimes comes. what we saw was a lot of water. so much so, at least in the area we were, all of the streets were knee deep with flooding. let me top it to my colleague in thurman, iowa. >> hey, here in thurman, iowa, a

small town, 75% of it destroyed. 90% seeing some kind of damage. town of 238 people. but you can see this tornado cut through. they had a tornado warping here. and fortunately, no injuries or no major injuries and no fatalities in this town. they think because they had the warning, everybody took that message to heart. you can see now what is happening, the chain saws are going all over town. everybody out helping their neighbors now, clean up debris. the red cross is out, as they do. they get out so quickly, passing out water and cough and food to people who might need supplies. a lot of damage across this town, essential to the homes and the trees, as you can see. and also, there is a community center down here that had a roof on top of it. that is completely gone and now in a pile of rubble down here, across the basketball field. you can also see the power crews. they have been working here all night long because the power's out to the entire town.

they have been working to get the power restored. not restored just yet. but they think they can have that done by later on today. they quickly got in here and started the work. they had a curfew last night and the community came out in full force to see what they can do. wanted to point out that there is a threat for severe weather, the same storm system pushing farther off to the east and on this map, anywhere where you see the yellow is, there is a slight risk of severe weather from texas, stretching up into the great lakes and there is a red bull's-eye, a moderate risk for severe weather, including minneapolis and eau claire, wisconsin, and madison and toward lacrosse and ames, iowa. we could be seeing more severe weather as we pass through the day today. shannon? >> shannon: we will stick you with for the updates. members of the gsa, the general services administration, who are under fire for a spending

scandal, will face a congressional hearing tomorrow. we are getting word what have we may or may not hear then. steve centanni has more. >> the sparks will fly in the first of four congressional panels, beginning hearings on the waste of taxpayer money by the general services administration. the latest twist involves the head of the gsa western region, jeffrey neely who organized the lavish conference in las vegas that cost more than $800,000. according to roll call, they owned a facility that was perfectly suitable for a large conference, but they didn't use that. neely's attorney said he doesn't need to come to d.c. to testify because he will plead the fifth but darrell issa says he should appear. >> we are looking at getting to the truth and how widespread this is. our questions will have to do, not just about this one even, but about the culture of the gsscpa how to change t. we believe that neely should be

able to answer some of those questions and we are hoping he will. >> the agency was embarrassed by a number of videos, showing gsa employees flouting spending habits in a talent contest in a lavish training conference in a las vegas hotel for 300. an event that the agency itself admitted was over the top. expensive suites were used for parties, commemorative coins were handed out and velvet boxes. neely could face criminal charges because services were not competitively bid. the hearings begin tomorrow, before the congressman darrell issa's house oversight and government reform committee. the white house says the president was outraged when he heard of the abuse. the gsa says steps have been taken to prevent anything like this from happening again. >> shannon: now fallout from a secret service scandal. 11 agents have been placed on administrative leave.

the agency's looking into allegations that the agents took prostitutes to their rooms in a hotel in columbia, where they were preparing for the president's stay in columbia. five military personnel staying at the hotel are being investigated for curfew violations. morthe developments in a live report from columbia. that scandal has threatened to overshadow the summit in columbia that president obama will wrap up with a news conference he is getting pushed back from those in latin america who want to legalize drugs to end the drug trafficking problem and counter violence. fox news will carry the president's comments live in the 4:00 p.m. eastern hour today. a new fox news poll shows president obama and mitt romney in a dead heat if the general election were held today.

key strategists in what appears to be the general election campaign came out swinging on the sunday shows. peter doocy has more. >> hi, shannon. rnc chairman said that governor romney is clearly on the path to the nomination, even though speaker gingrich and congressman paul are still in the race. senior romney strategist said that his candidate hab the presumptive nominee for a week. he stood by the number, 92.3, the percent women account for the number of jobs lost under president obam aaccording to the campaign. it. >> more men than women lost jobs before president obama tooka was and more women lost jobs after he took office. the fact that more men lost jobs before he took office is a bad thing. we have the highest poverty rate for women in 17 years. >> several independent fact checkers contested the 92.3%

nbut timothy -- tim geithner did not. >> this crisis was a very damaging crisis, hurt everybody. it began, as you know, in early 2008. a lot of the early job losses in 2008 affected men because they affected construction and more -- manufacturing. as the crisis spread and state and local governments were forced to cut back on services, fire a lot of teachers, that caused a lot of damage to women too. >> david axel rod for the obama administration cam pape said there are more cuts to education on the way, if governor romney is elected. but governor romney's team framed things differently. he said the choice in difference will be a pro-growth economy, in the romney association or a government-run society in a second run with president obama. >> shannon: thank you very much. there are 3 g.o.p. candidates in theerate, but all eyes are on

the presumed matchup between mitt romney and president obama. what are the strengths and weaknesses of each? great to see you both here. >> great to be here, shannon. >> shannon: david, i will let you start offer. what is the best argument for president obama being re-elected. >> he put a floor under the economic situation that could have been a depression. we are seeing the economic indicators going in a positive direction. we are at 8.2% unemployment, down from highs, going to both women and men losing jobs, both before obama got into office and leading into his first couple of years. we are reversing that trend and all economic indicators are pointing in a positive way with 25 months of proactive growth. and jobs and adding -- excuse me, reducing the unemployment rate. i think alms, we saw consume --

also, we saw consumer confidence going up as well. >> shannon: adam with that salesmanship job by david in mind, how do you make a case that mitt romney is the better candidate? >> mitt romney is the better candidate because the last four years have been a dismal failure. our debt and our deficit have skyrocketed. our 8.2% unemployment is too high, after a failed stimulus, after a failed obamacare that will be overturned by the supreme court. and after all of these enormous gaffs. just the past week, clown shows in las vegas. we have prostitution scandals in columbia. we have, of course, the hot mike incident of a couple of weeks ago, all reminding voters what a failure the obama administration is -- >> if they are trying this cynical war on women, which nobody is buying. they are trying a very cynical beat the rich, which nobody's buying and they issue scaring grandma and granddad and

nobody's going to buy that. he is less 40% among independent voters. it's over. guess what? it is not going to be close. this guy's heading for an enormous defeat-- >> reporter: all right. david, some folks are buying the messages because this is a dead heat at this point. we know the polls will fluctuate, but that message is resonating with some people because this is a neck-and-neck race. how does the president deal with the high gas prices, the green companies that the administration has poured money into that have fallen apart and other fawktors as well. how will the administration respond? >> not by pedaling, as we heard from adam geller on gloom and doom. we faced almost a depression in 2008-2009. and the president stood fast in doing -- using all resources available, public/private partnerships with the auto industry, bringing g.m. and

scriesler back as well as other advances and not only domestically, but on the foreign policy front, with bin laden and al qaeda so we can be on the road to prosperity -- >> are we on the road -- [overlapping dialogue] >> both the american public and women. we are going to be supporting and have been supporting equal pay for women, which we see governor walker tried to repeal last week, even though -- romney was in wisconsin -- >> have you not heard about the enormous gender pay gap in the white house. >> we are pushing forward on what ises and not negative-- >> reporter: adam, i want to ask you, very quickly, final word, how does mitt romney and his campaign spin away from the accusation that he is out of touch, wealthy and all about wall street and big money and big spenders and that he doesn't connect with the average american in his struggles. >> good question. >> look at the average american and the struggles under obama.

look at the fact that women are paid significantly less money in the obama white house. look at the fact that women have suffered under the obama administration. look at the fact that the obama administration, in their failures on foreign policy, have allowed the muslim brotherhood to rise all over the place. >> what does that have to do with women? >> it has to do with the fact that they're taking over in the middle-east and taking away all rights of women, david. that's the president's foreign policy! that's the war on women! have him pay the women in the white house as much as he pays the men. by the way, the last four years -- >> and [overlapping dialogue] >> shannon: gentlemen! gentlemen -- all right. we certainly are not going to unify the two of you. but we appreciate you, david and adam, both coming on to debate what happens in the general election. >> it's a pleasure. >> thank you. >> thanks. >> shannon: a major insurgent attack in kabul, afghanistan, right now, suicide bombers and gunmen are targeting embassies

and buildings and hotels in 3 government cities. two attackers, we are told, have been killed. but so far, no reports ever civilian or nato forces killed. should have you to show photo-i.d. before you vote? that's become a heated debate. the department of justice has come down hard on a new law in texas, saying it will discriminate against minorities. and do you think stay-at-home parents get the same respect as parent who is work outside the home? tweet us. we will read some of your responses, coming up. wake up!

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>> reports of nearly 100 tornadoes sweeping across the midwest, five killed in one that tore through woodward, oklahoma. and it is not over yet. we have the chief of operations for the national oceanic storm prediction center. can you give us an overview of the amount of dec that we saw yesterday? >> well, this was certainly a

widespread outbreak from north western oklahoma oak to kansas and nebraska and especially southern iowa. we have received many reports of damage and some loss of life. i think it is important to note that this storm system is not yet -- not yet dfnl we have another risk area today. folks certainly need to pay close attention to the forecast watches and warnings to come. >> shannon: is it the same area? has it shifted geographically? or is it the same folks? >> it has shifted to the east today. the area of enhanced threat extends from north eastern iowa and southeastern minnesota and western wisconsin. however, there is a threat for isolated to scattered severe storms from the great lake states through the missouri valley, east texas and western louisiana. so covering a very large area. and the potential for tornadoes, very large hail and damaging storms and winds.

>> shannon: is it unusual to see the amount of tornadic activity that we saw yesterday? is it normal? >> we see tornado outbreaks like this, unfortunately, almost every year, especially in the spring time in the transition season. we have conditions over large areas and the dynamic weather pattern will continue. so this won't be the last time we talk about the severe weather in the upcoming weeks and months. we thank you for lending us your expertese and warning for more possible tornado and thunderstorm activity today. thank you so much. >> my pleasure. >> shannon: north korea's new leader has addressed the nation for the first time, looking to assert himself with a military show of might after a failed rocket launch. we go to pyongyang. >> shannon: in a rare first speech to his people, his

message is very clear, the military is first, above all. >> at center stage, the prized missile arsenal. short, medium and long-range rockets on display. they don't always work, but for the regime here, they always send the right message. >> shannon: strong words from u.s. ambassador to the u.n., susan rice, condemning that missile launch. according to rice, the international community is not taking the development lightly. joining me to discuss the impact of the failed launch and what we saw today, a retired four-star general from the army, general jack keen. always good to see you. >> good to see you. >> shannon: let's start with the failed launch. very provocative. didn't go well for the north koreans. what are we to make of that. >> it's amazing, given the fact that advanced rocket technology has been around many, many years and they can't seem to get it right that. tells you something about their competence. but they do have a nuclear

weapon. they acquired most of that with the cooperation of the pakistanis. the danger of this, other than the obvious deliverable system of a nuclear weapon, which is its intent, is that normally when they have a humiliating event, they try to do something to regain some international stature, particularly with a new head of state here. so they doll something in the upcoming weeks, whether that is some provocation with the south koreans or something as serious as a nuclear test. but something will be in the offing. >> shannon: today, we saw kim km jong umrn speak. there are thousands of people there. they rolled out what appeared to be a newer, bigger missile, although we don't know if it's a fake or exactly what it is. could that be the additional provocation or the message coming after the failed launch saying, look, we have something bigger and better. >> they may have dragged that

out for the raid and not intended to do that before. our intelligence services have had concerns about their capacity to build an intercontinental ballistic missile. so that may be what they are saying. but more interesting, he made a speech -- his father never made a speech in the entire time he was head of state. i am not suggesting that this is a warming on the parliament of korea, reaching out to its people and the international community. but it certainly is different. >> shannon: he continued to talk about strengthening the military and how north korea has to continue to advance and be powerful in that respect. but he talked about having a more prosperous nation and there would be wouldn't be the struggle that the north korean people have held. but a lot of folks see those two things as inconsistent. the government spends a lot of monomilitary might and developing the missile it's whether they are successful or not. but by most account, the people continue to suffer. >> that's the tragedy.

certainly. we have been concerned about this country for 60 years, it's a totalitarian state, isolated. he talks about three priorities, the military, the military and the military. that's all at the expense of his people, which is so sad. and the kind of lives that they lead and the fact that they are not attending to improving the quality of their life experience. that will continue. these guys are only interested in one thing. that's the preservation of the regime. that's why they have a nuclear weapon t. grnts preservation in a way that it did not for saddam hussein because he didn't have one. and the other thing that is so dangerous about him is sitting right close to seoul, within 25 miles of thousands of artillery pieces that could devastate that city. we will always have concerns because of the regime they are and the value they's have and the weapons capables that they have. >> shannon: the world will continue to watch very closely. general, thank you very much. >> good seeing you, shannon.

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>> shannon: we are tracking a tornado danger, over a dozen states. the initial weather service has received 97 reports of tornado this is weekend. part of a deadly storm system that has called five people. peter doocy has some of our top stories. >> those five people were killed in woodward, oakec, while the tornado hit while many people were sleeping. in thurman, iowa, as much as 75% of the town has been destroyed. a scandal involving secret service agents on the president's trip to columbia has expanded to members of the military. the defense department says five military perm are under

investigation for curfew violations at the same hotel where secret service agents allegedly brought prost tewsitutes to their room. gsa executive jeff jeffrey neely will be in a hearing on capitol hill. but his attorney said he will plead the fifth. five other witnesses are expected to testify, however. don't panic about today being april 15. tax day isn't until tuesday because the government offices in washington are closed tomorrow for emancipation day. those are the top stories tomorrow. >> shannon: a little extra break to get it in. thanks, peter. >> there is no dispute on this issue. there is no reason that we should allow it to distract us from our collective responsibility to sure that our democracy is as strong, fair and inclusive as possible.

let me be clear once again. whatever reason might be advanced, this department of justice will oppose any effort -- any effort to disenfranchise american citizens. >> shannon: the legal fight over the voter i.d. law in texas has heated up to a boil. the justice department has demanded that state lawmakers turn over their work papers, relatessed to the new law. but the state attorney says those are privileged communications and the justice department insists the law, which would require most volters to have a photoi.d. would discriminate against minorities. we have two members of the texas congressional delegation. gentlemen, welcome to you both. >> good to be with you. >> how are you? >> shannon: congressman, i want to start with you, several of your colleagues sent a letter to a state senator in texas, decrying this law. you didn't sign on to that letter. do you approve or disapprove of this law?

>> well, i disapprove. but the state has the voter -- has the interest to prevent voter fraud. i don't have a problem with that. we have to uphold volter confidence. but the problem is that there is a state law -- and i say this as the former state election officer in the state of texas, as the secretary of state, the law calls for publics up from 2 years to 10 years and $10,000 and there is federal law that calls for up to 5 years penalty in voter fraud. the problem has been this. in the last 10 years, there has been only one case of impersonation. most of the problem is invalid voting. the law does not address that. we outto find, there is a problem if we call one case of voter fraud in 10 years in in-person voting a problem, let's sit down and do it in a bipartisan way, instead of saying this is the only way we

can do it. >> shannon: congressman gomer, why is the new law necessary? >> first of all, you don't catch people that are not required to use voter photo-i.d. i know that eric holder is such a busy man. he said he didn't have time to read the arizona law before he sued arizona. i am sure he hasn't had time to read the crawford versus marion county election board case from 2008, where justice stevens wrote the opinion and said the law, indiana law, after which texas modeled its law, was constitutional. it was fine. if you can't afford a photo-i.d., you will get one free. but we have to use photo-i.d. have you to have a photo-i.d to see eric holder. is he more important than a secure election around the country? i don't think so. otherwise, we are back to the

days of chicago in 1960 and lyndon johnson, but historians say, it's probably true, being in a cemetery, writing down names of people who needed to vote and his campaign manager saying, hey, we can't read that tombstone, but this man has every bit as much right to vote as anybody else in this cemetery. we need to get away from those days. >> shannon: you mentioned that there hasn't been a lot of crackdown or legitimate cases where people have been convicted. your texas attorney general says that both the justice department and the texas a.g.'s office have prosecuted and won convictions, these are his words -- in scores of cases. is that not accurate? >> well, i think what we is talking about are the invalid cases. there are a lot of voter fraud, but we are talking about in person, when someone goes up and we need an i.d. or they are asking for a photo-i.d. i understand that the supreme court has said that a voter i.d.

is constitutional. i don't have a problem with that. it's the type of voter i.d. that you have. keep in mind that one of the things we saw, if you look at it, there is 81 counties out of 254 counties in the state of texas that did not have an office to get a voter i.d. keep in mind, one of the state senators that said that some people have to travel up to 176 miles round trip to go up there -- and by the way, only 49 of those offices across the state of texas actually have an office. so there is a problem with what type of photo-i.d. i support a voter i.d., but it depends what sort of voter i.d., judge not accept an amendment that allows any state-issued i.d.? but they presented that. again, if this is such a problem, i think there should be something that both democrats should work with the republicans. but unfortunately, they deny most of the democratic ma'ams to

extend the number of voter i.d. that we could use. >> shannon: congressman, gomer, very quickly, closing word to you? >> well, i know a lot of these things that henry's pointing out. he's a terrific guy and he has a lot of sensitivity for the voters. but we make those available. we ought to be able to work something out to get that done at the post office. butul -- all of these things were said in 2008 in georgia, where they had the voter i.d., more african-americans voted in 2008 than in mississippi, the same year. and mississippi didn't have the photo-i.d. requirement. it is not as scary as people think, unless you are trying to commit voter fraud. i look forward to working with henry in the future. >> shannon: thank you. we thank you both. we look forward to hearing about your unification activities, working together and make something progress. >> that's my good friend, louis.

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>> i can't think of a time when i felt it was more important to defeat a sitting president. today with barack obama, i think he has been an unmitigated disaster for the country. >> shannon: former vice-president dick chain weharsh words for president obam a. he made the comments in a wyoming republican convention yesterday. it was his first public appearance since his heart

transplants last month. he spoke for more than an hour and walked on stainless steel without assistance. millions of people use twitter every day to share their thoughts. we here at america's news headquarters use it here on our show. congressmen are also accepting messages to folks back home. not all of them get it right. let's talk about who is best and who needs more coaching. we have a former white house internet and e-communications director. >> thank you very much. >> shannon: i want to talk about senator chuck grassley because he is very good natured. but he admits that he flubs the tweets. but it indicates that he is doing them himself, which is important to a lot of folkings. >> it's authentic. it's live, it's realtime. in fact, some like to poke fun, but we are talking about it today as a result, so he uses it

effectively. >> shannon: he says he's not a good typist and iphone changes his words, but we do know that it's from him. all right. who is on twitter in capitol hill? >> basically, we identified via a recent study, capitol tweet, 456 members of congress on the house and senate are on twitter. and they are using it effectively. we analyzed about 3 mill whereon tweets, 600,000 mentioned overall. we are looking at a lot of different aspects here. but they are using it live in realtime to talk about legislation, to talk to constituents and to use it as a tool to communicate with the folks about their issues and the things they are trying to promote. >> shannon: you have categories. when it comes to influence, have you senator bernie sanders. >> right. there is a tweet level, which analyzes a couple of things. influence and engagement that senator sanders, an independent, did top the list and senator mccain, also led whether it came to popularity and trust.

so these are constantly changing. we look to the specific moment in time. but it's interesting it see how it changes over time. >> shannon: as new people join the conversation as well. >> that's right. >> shannon: you mentioned popularity. senator john mccain and the house speaker john bainer and then jim demint and then bernie sanders and then have you former speaker, nancy pelosi. >> and so folks that are in the mainstream news reflects offline. so because of folks like to harry reid from nevada and nancy pelosi and mccain, all out in the weave, no surprise, their numbers should be higher. >> shannon: several names come up on the list for engagement. is that folk who is tweet back? have conversations? what does that mean? >> that could be a combination of mentions, it could be retreats. it could be things that people are sharing. do they trust what is coming out and how do you push that out to the members. >> shannon: any advice to give to a member about how to use

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>> new developments from the deadly tornado outbreak in the midwest. at this hour, iowa's governor is heading to storm-damaged areas to survey the dfnlg he has made disaster declarations in two counties. in therman, iowa, it is 75% destroyed. and more thunderstorms and possible tornadoes are expected today. the embarrassing scandal surrounding president obama's high-profile trip to columbia is growing. secret service agents have been sent home for alleged prostitution and now five military members are being investigated. how distracting has it been for

the president? we go to columbia for the latest. >> hello, shannon. the secret service agents were sent back to the states and placed on administrative leave, the military personnel, confined to their rooms after an embarrassing incident, involve prostitutes that has all but drowned out what the president hoped to be a many of increased trade and jobs. the message before president obama got here might not have have been drawing so much attention, if the leaders had concrete rupts. the incident occurred wednesday, two days before the press got here. an agent either refused to pay a woman he brought back to his room or refused to pay the guest charge that the hotel assesses. in the ruckus, other agents with other women emerged from their rooms. and a spokesman said, quote, we regret any distraction from the

summit of the americas that the sum summit has caused. the u.s. and canada, the only countries here who object to cuba's participation. the columbian president santos said this should be the last summit of the americas without cube amount of i think, by inviting cuba and pressing cuba for more democracy and more freedom within cuba, it's a better way to achieve what we all want. >> several leaders have praised mr. obomba -- or pressed mr. obama on the drugs crim -- drugs decriminalization. it creates a $400 billion market that dwafers economies of these countries and creates violence that they frankly can't control. >> live from columbia, thank you very much.

>> shannon: new images coming in minute by minute of the violent and deadly storms in several states. there could be more severe storms on the way. we have live coverage come coming up on this developing story. >> golf ball-sized hail. wake up! that's good morning, veggie style. hmmm. fohalf the calories plus vgie nutrition. could've had a v8.

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>> captain barry crawford's main weapon was a radio. he's a combat controller going behind enemy lines to find targets and landing zones for special ops as they conduct raids in afghanistan. on thursday he was given the military second highest honor for valor, the air force cross for his actions may 4, 2010, when his unit, paired with afghan forces, was ambushed. >> captain crawford took decisive action. once the pilot had eyes on his position he remained exposed. >> he guided 33 aircraft and 40 air strikes during the 14-hour ambush. >> as the helicopters were coming in due to bad weather they were unable today the h will. z, my teammates, afghans and special forces. i had to get their eyes on me and most of out into the open.

i knew i would be a target but it was worth it because we were able to get them out and save their lives. >> he helped evacuate three wounded afghan soldiers. no u.s. troops were killed or wounded. it wasn't just him doing his job. >> if everyone didn't go above and beyond what was needed we would have suffered catastrophic casualties. >> he's safely back in the united states, attached to the maryland air national guard, studying to be a pilot. his next battle will be from the sky. jennifer griffin, fox news. we begin with a fox weather alert. new reports of damage and destruction from dozens of tornadoes that swept the midwest. i'm shannon bream. we begin hour two of american news headquarters monitoring new threats of storms and tornadoes in several states. five people have been killed,

dozens hurt and some towns report widespread deduction. mike tobin is in wichita, kansas. >> this is an upclose and personal look at the destruction. this is the kitchen of tim where they were riding out the storm when a tree crashed through the house and left a cut in the roofnd a soggy mess of insulation on the floor of his home. let me bring in tim right now. tell me, where were you when you first started hearing the tornadoes were headed this way? >> sitting here on the couch. and sirens went off and we went up to the storm shelter and then got the kids in there. i walked up the stairs and started watching the storm come in, trees were toppling and i went downstairs. >> what made you finally deciding to down. >> when the neighbor's tree across the street tipped over. it was a sign to get downstairs. >> you were a storm chaser, so you know to respect tornado

warnings. >> yes, sir. >> everyone's all right? >> everyone's all right, all the cats, birds, fish, dog. >> all things considered, there's a lot of destruction, you probably lost the home but your family's okay. >> yep. they can rebuild a house but you can't replace family. >> shannon, you hear that story over and over. here in kansas, lots of destruction but you have people who respected the tornado warnings, respected the force of the storms, so despite the destruction, the emergency management crews are happy to say no one in the state of kansas was killed. >> thank you very much, mike. in the town of you. >> in ohio, 7. >> iowa, 75% of the up to was wiped out. rick reichmuth is at the scene. >> 75% of the structures here destroyed by a tornado that hit this town around 5:30. you can see the damage left

behind. this is a small town, around 238 people. most of these people living here all their lives and have never seen anything like this. the playground, where the kids would come and play and hang out is destroyed. so many trees that are gone and laying on top of the power lines and on top of people's homes and cars. now they're beginning the process of cutting the trees and finding belongings. the amazing story is nobody was significantly injured or killed. that's because they believe the warning came just in time. the town's mayor setting off the alarm because his son told him, dad, there's a tornado warning coming for our town and the dad went to the fire station and set off the alarm. people had just enough time to get out of harm's way. they say it lasted around 5 minutes from the time they heard the alarm to the time it was all done. they walk out and these are the

images they see. now, they have a long stage ahead of them as they begin to clean up but they're happy no died or significantly injured in thurman, iowa. >> a new fox news poll shows president obama and mitt romney in a dead heat if the election was held today. key strategists from both sides came out swinging on the sunday shows. peter doocy has more. >> they're still running for president but their names were absent from almost all political chatter making this the first real weekend of the general election campaign. friday president obama released his tax returns showing he paid a 20.5% effective tax rate which is lower than his secretary. now, the so-called buffet rule is one way to make wealthy

americans pay equal or greater shares than the people on staffs to reduce the deficit, the president is far short of the 30% touted as a baseline and he has no plans to pay extra on his own. >> that's not the way we operate our tax system. we don't run bake sales. it's not about volunteerism. we all kick in according to the system. >> on the topic of taxes governor romney filed for an extension on his return which his team says a normal for millions of americans. they say he won't release more returns than the normal nominee. >> in 2008, john mccain released two years of tax returns n2004, john kerry released two years of tax returns. and in 2012, governor romney will release two years of tax returns. he's complied with the laws and is going over and above the

disclosure laws. >> he doesn't know if there will be a push to name a running mate for romney earlier rather than later to have somebody else help fund raise and campaign as was reported earlier in the week. >> shannon: thank you. ann romney, quote, has never worked a day in her life. democratic strategist hillary rosen apologized for the words but it reignited the fight. >> great to see you both. thank you for coming in. >> why is president obama the better choice for women? >> well, he's a better choice for women because the fact is i believe ann romney is correct women care about economic issues and they're not only about fair and equal pay in the workplace but all women care about the price of milk, whether they can

afford to take their child to a doctor and educated them. i think frankly president obama put forth policies that are helping to recover the economy from where the republicans took it. >> why would mitt romney be the better choice for female voters? >> i think romney knows about job creation. that's something this president clearly doesn't know about. and he hasn't run anything except be a community organizer. he hasn't even run a candy store. our foreign policy, with respect to israel, syria, middle east is melting down. mitt romney is clear he recognizes israel as our strongest ally and moms care about keeping our children safe. finally, back to the job creation point, women comprise two-thirds of all new businesses. they create businesses in this country.

again, that's something that mitt romney knows something about and clearly this president with 8.2 unemployment and 1.7 economic growth in the years he's been in office? this doesn't work for moms trying to put food on the table. my daughter has lacrosse three days a week and i'm driving carpool. $5 of gas every time. thank you, obama, what are you doing for me and the rest of the moms. >> how does he answer those questions? everybody's concerned about gas prices. moms do a lot of running around. >> they're the ones that are more -- that's why we get into a false -- first of all, all women are not monolith iic but women carry the largest sharing of doing a lot of work and economic issues of filling the car with gas, being in the grocery store and taking the kids to the doctor or having to make sure they can go to school.

the fact of the matter is with republicans' policies that almost destroyed this country and took us back to where we were almost at the great depression, and we have -- governor romney is calling to go back to -- wants to tax the middle class, who have been the stable of what the country has been is going to continue it fight. he's created jobs and stabilized the economy and saved the auto industry -- i was stunned when governor romney was in michigan and never said how glad he was to see the auto country on the road to recovery. he created 200,000 jobs impacting 50 states. >> i'm glad she brought up obama care. that's an important issue for women. when i go to the pediatrician all i care about is it creating more hassles, more options? that's more negotiation i have to do with the pete transition about what's going to be covered w obamacare, more bureaucracy,

more hassle and less choice. >> i'm glad you raised that. the fact is you're lucky to be able to go to the doctor and pay for tests. with the passage of healthcare legislation, the number of parents that can keep children on health insurance until 26 is critical. even more, preventative -- >> well,. >> we all want our children to be working but not everybody has the luxury. that's one of the things that has been part of the discussion in the last few weeks. more importantly than anything is the preventative care that was passed and included in the healthcare so parents don't have to think about -- i meet parents every day, last week a farmer said my child had a cold and i couldn't afford to take them in. it turned out to be pneumonia. well, with the preventative care that was in the obama healthcare package, parents don't have to make a choice about having children immunized and take them in for regular checkups.

>> how do we pay for it? ed the county road. >> you talk about recent active health, i don't know we're going to pay for it. >> we've got to leave it there. women are diverse and we have all kinds of opinions and we like to share them. >> healthy discussions are always good. >> we love hearing from you at home. today we've asked about the ann romney controversy. do you think stay-at-home parents get the same respect as parents who work outside the home. tracy says absolutely not. it's an expected, thankless, unpaid job that requires patience, organization, energy, love. mary ann said i felt like i didn't deserve as much respect but now that i work as an rn i look at how important those days were for my children and i wouldn't change it. there's time for you to give us your two cents and we'll read

more later on in the show. president obama is calling on presumptive republican nominee to release his tax records. the president released his records dating back to 2000. in 2011, $160,000 on a $790,000 north north income. romney filed for tax extension on friday north korean's knew leader addressed the nation today during a military parade in pyongyang. this after a embarrassing failed rocket launch that had the world focused on north korea. >> shannon, a possible new missile and a leader who speaks, just some of the developments today. we were there. the parade marked the 100th 100th anniversary of the birth of kim ill sung. along with tens of thousands of troops there was a lot of

threatening military tear hardware. among the missiles rolled out, one that locals said they hadn't seen before. to us it looks substantial. when expert told us it could be an intercontinental ballistic missile but others suggested it was a propaganda dummy. precisei siding over this all, the new leader of this country >> this thursday will mark pope benedict's 7th anniversary at pope. during the blessing in st. peter square he asked for strength and prayers. on monday, pope benedict turns 85 and plans to celebrate with his older brother. a violently prison break, taliban militants bombed their way into a facility and we'll get a look at who they helped to free. >> to north korea and iran,

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>> shannon: this is fox news alert on the extreme weather. the mayor in a town in oklahoma says they suffered five death but everyone else is accounted for. the governor of iowa is set to tour storm damaged areas this afternoon in his state. a massive hunt is underway for close to 400 escaped prisoners from a jail in pakistan. taliban militants blasted into the prison with rocket-propelled grenades and automatic weapons. among the freed were 20 men described as very dangerous insurgents. >> a official calls the meeting between iran and world powers constructive but israel's preliminaries has iran got a pass when it comes to nuclear ambitions. joining us to talk about the international challenges is mike owe o'hanlon.

>> the book touches on so many areas because the world is so complicated but start with iran. the powers will meet again in may in baghdad. what do you make of israel's contention, the prime minister, that iran bought five more weeks to work on the nuke program. >> as long as we don't give in to that concept and lighten the pressure, we can avoid that. there's no doubt iran has at least two possible motives. one is to do a deal because the squeezing is intense. as the israel official worries, just a play for time. the way that can be successful is if we somehow treat the beginning of negotiations as a major concession in and off itself. if we keep the oil sanctions due to kick in this summer in place, we'll be okay. and we have not changed anything about the projectry. >> this is not something new to this administration. these problems with iran have

been going on. how could you couch how this particular administration has done? >> iran's fascinating for president obama and my coauthors explore that. president obama campaigned as the guy who was going to establish day taunt with dictators. that was hopeful at the time. of course president obama went along with the iranian regime trying to reach out to them in the early months in office until he stole the election. a lot of people were critical that he was open to improve relation. the good news is that since that time. he's tightened things up and has used as leverage the fact he tried to improve relation with iran. when iran had no interest in that, people knew who to blame. that's why initially russian shah and china went with the tighter sanctions. this is a work in progress

because they're no longer going along and iran hasn't stopped the nuclear program. it's been reasonably good so far but it's only gotten us to a point where we have to put pressure on iran. >> turning to afghanistan, a source of major controversy with this administration with withdrawal plans and other steps. we have word this morning of violence across the country with numerous attacks and different things that the details are still coming in but it does not sound good. >> this is the kind of thing the taliban knows how to do and how it plays here. they spend six, seven months, the tommy since the last attack planning this. we hope the violence is modest and casualties are few. but generally speaking they create more of an aura of major

damage than they cause. suicide attackers or nonsuicide attackers suffer the greatest number of casualties and the security forces do most of the work putting down the attack. that's my expectation today. bottom line, we have to remember kabul accounts for less than 1% of the violence nationwide, it's a safer capital city that than bagged, mexico city. and it's the afghan army and police doing the good work. having said that, it's a bad day and i would be silly if i denied that. >> we're hearing positive reports about how their security forces responded. best of luck to you on the new book. >> six person team from the un will arrive in syria's capital. since the cease-fire it's estimated 15 people were killed, the most recent in homs this

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>> shannon: tracking the tornado dangerous threaten a dozen states. the national weather service received 97 reports of tornadoes this weekend. a deadly storm system that killed five people. peter doocy has your top stories. >> the five people were killed in the town of woodward, oklahoma, where the tornado hit at 12:18 a.m. when most were sleeping and may not have heard the warning. in western iowa a local emergency official said as much

as 75% of the town of thurman has been destroyed. >> a scandal involving secret service agents expanded to members of the military. the defense department says five military personnel are under investigation for curfew violation at the hotel where second service brought prostitutes to their home. jeffrey neely will appear but plead the fifth. five other witnesses are expected to testify, however. don't panic about today being april 15th. tax day is tuesday, the 17th, because government offices in washington are closed tomorrow for emancipation day. those are the top stories right now. >> shannon: thank you very much. insurgents in afghanistan launched a widespread attack across the afghan capital and

three cities targeting government buildings, embassies and hotels. the worst attack is the worst in months. dominic is in kabul with the latest. >> shannon, indeed a spectacular attack just a week ago the international security assistant forces said taliban would never launch another attack like this. they've been disrupted too much. but here we are and we've seen a similar attack we saw on the u.s. embassy back then and it's taking them by surprise. telling that it's had little tactical impact because the only people that died in the attack are the militants. the minister of the interior saying 11 militants killed and 23 civilians injured. it started 18 hours ago and it's still going on in two separate parts of the city. a neighborhood where a lot of ex patriots live and also just a little bit down the road toward

the parliament building there are gunpoints going on there. at 1:30 in the afternoon, rockets in the direction of the diplomatic quarter, the u.s., british and germans target. also, in other regions around the country. my colleague, geraldo riviera was in the embassy when it came under attack. he was with the u.s. embassador and he told him he's seen this before and it had a familiar feel. take a listen. >> pretty similar at this stage. high profile, questionable effectiveness. i think this is done more for the splash than a serious attempt to carry out a military operation. but, again, we'll have to see. >> reporter: what's interesting here is the fact

that the taliban is claiming responsibility, shannon, but in reality it often does that when it's the work of anybody else. the americans believe this is probably the work of the network that's like the likes of al-qaeda than the taliban, though. the arecanies are supported by the secret service. we could see more attacks like this and that's a big worry. >> shannon: thank you very much. senator son rick santorum suspended his campaign. how can you see the still under settled race impact things. with us, poet pete sessions.

>> great to have you. >> thank you very much. >> how much does it impact what do you have to do, depending who is at the top of the ticket. >> it matters as to how integrated we become. when a nominee sets his sights on the president, that's his goal. what he will do is talk about how we're going to present the republican plan. the republican plan is about growing jobs, it's to make sure we listen to americans, and in a open process, begin to build back the american dream, city by city, and with elected officials who want to have americans succeed. that's what we'll do as members of congress and join the president or our nominee. >> does it present different challenges when you have an incumbent democratic also running in the race for the white house with the rest of your members on the down ticket? >> sure, but president obama leads by dividing. he divides the country whether

about healthcare, taxes or energy. to republicans will have an opportunity to state clearly how we believe this country should be led with a consensus towards making americans not only stronger and better but for the future of our children and grandchildren. that's what republicans and mitt romney will do also. >> you had a great year in 2010. a midterm election that you had to go back decades to find anything similar. what do you think will happen this time? it will be hard to repeat. >> it's hard to repeat the numbers. it's not hard to repeat gaining the majority. we intend to, through a series of talks with the american people, who show them how john boehner and -- john boehner as a budget on the floor and how we're look over the horizon to make sure we're competitive with the world and prepared for the

future. that's what republicans are doing, maybe jackie with a walorsksi in indiana. we've them positioned all over the world to maintain the majority. >> you had a lot of redistricting to deal with. how do you tackle that. >> first of all, it's a political exercise. many states we had no control over. what we did is went in and looked at swing seats, seats that had, over the last three, four, five cycles, gone back and forth between republicans and democrats. we hardened those seats. i think 15 republican seats have been taken out of contention. that means we can focus on seats we want to pick up. aplayed quarterback through school. we'll be on office and grow the seats through messaging, of working with the american

people, talking about how to grow our economy and jobs and job creation. america's eager for this. and we will talk to women about the kind of future they want to have in this country making their own decisions in healthcare, having job creation and making sure their daughters stand a chance to be equally successful. >> you had great success in this position. again, some road blocks from a lot of things the house got passed never seeing the light of day in the senate. how frustrating is that. >> of course it's frustrating to timeout the things -- for instance the budget. the senate has yet to do a budget in over 1200 days. we need to remember this is a process that we're going through. house republicans show up to work every day, we have an open agenda that goes through what we call regular order, which means we have hearings and read the bills. and then we present them to the american people. senate democrats are blocking for the president.

the president doesn't want these bills before him. he leads through a divisive process to divide the country rather than bring us together. republicans and through mitt romney, if he's our nominee, will lead through a consensus building to people understand what they'll get instead of meaningless hope product the president keeps touting. >> thank you for spending some time with us. >> there are a lot of unpaid tax ins california and the people who owe might surprised. the list of the top 500 debt beat taxpayers owing $233 million. the top, cofounder of cnet. they owe almost 10.5 million dollars in taxes. pamela anderson son, lionel richie and girls gone wild producer joe frances. a lot of focus is on the 2012 race but a conservative

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>> hi, everyone. we want to bring you up to date with our storm system that yesterday produced over 90 reports of tornadoes across the midwest, including oklahoma, kansas and portions of nebraska. today once again we're seeing that risk for more severe storms. we have a tornado watch across southern missouri and arkansas and that means that conditions are favorable for thunderstorm to develop that could produce tornadoes. the storms are headed eastward and we'll keep you posted. no tornado warnings but we have a large area that could see severe weather from minnesota to texas and tomorrow, interior portions of the northeast. >> shannon: thank you celebrate

april as the month of the military. sherry hill created operation that's my dress. it provides free designer dresses for teens of military families. it's about making sure they go go to the prom in style with a great dress. joining us to talk about their experience, lisa and sabrina french. mother and daughter. thank you for joining us. >> thanks for having us. >> lisa, i want to start with you. let's talk about the cost of prom. we've had stories earlier today on fox talking about the fact people are talking about spend 1,000, $2,000 or more. how daunting is that? >> well, being it's her senior year, $1,000 for a dress is a high cost to pay nowadays. thankfully we don't have to now that she got a dress from the uso and sherry hill. >> shannon: how did you find out about the program and getting involved and, sabrina, tell us

about your dress. >> actually we are volunteers with the uso and as soon as the information came out, we were aware of it so we were excited and she signed up. >> shannon: you all volunteering with the uso, you know what it's like but ear you're reaching out and helping others. what does this program mean to folks like you? >> well, it's a great program because the uso is a great organization and now they've made the opportunity for many more girls to attend prom who may not have been able to prior to this event. there were several girls who were overwhelmed with the thought of getting the free dress because they couldn't afford to go to prom. now, thanks to the uso and sherry hill, there's a lot of girls going to senior prom who may not have been able to. >> sabrina, tell us about your dress and the process of

selecting it. >> well, the process of getting to select it was cool because we went to the uso and they had all the dresses laid out by the sizes. then you could see all the colors and gorgeous dresses and it was so exciting. and i picked my dress because my favorite color is blue and i looked on line at sherry hill's website and i had found out they were coming and i loved them. this is my favorite dress. >> shannon: i'm sure you will look beautiful. we wish you all the best and hope you enjoy prom with your friends in style. thank you thank you for being volunteers for the uso as well. >> our best to you. >> thank you. >> shannon: this takes getting to know your constituents to a new level. more on these politicians, crowd surfing next. this is delicious okay...

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day. >> back to tony perkins. we're talking about conservatives voters. you were talking about how things were shifting the last few weeks of the primary race. there have been a lot of momentum behind rick santorum. he bowed out. what do you make of where his voters and backers may go? >> well, a lot of that depends on mitt romney, whether or not he reaches out to embrace the ideas and principles and picks up the message of rick santorum. the enthusiasm was around the message, not necessarily rick santorum. it's important in this election cycle, the turnout. voters, social conservative voters, are not the same as republican voters. they're motivated by things bigger than party and they want to identify with a candidate. when you look at the united states senate, harry reed

blocked many good things coming out of the house. regardless of who the president is, the senate will be critical and there are a number of good conservative candidates for the senate that i think people who supported men like rick santorum can identify with men and women running for the senate and there's where a large percentage of the focus goes. >> shannon: it will an uphill battle to retake seats in the senate. how tough do you think it will be and what do you think the odds are of success? >> i think they have a pretty good chance of success. there are more democratic seats having to be defended than in the past. the last couple of cycles, the republicans have been on the defensives and they're on the offensives and you have good candidates in texas, in nebraska, missouri and other parts of the country that i think may see some good success which can maybe not give total control but possibly working

control of the senate. that's going to be extremely important. but mitt romney, he needs that enthusiasm and whether he can get it directly or indirectly, it takes people supporting candidates they can identify with and believe and embrace the same message. >> shannon: quickly because we only have a you few seconds. how much impact do you think the vice president selection will have on mitt romney's ability to bring in conservatives? it's. >> huge. as we john mccain, he would have had zero enenthusiasm had he not picked sarah palin. it sends a message there's someone to connects with the tea party voters. >> shannon: thank you for your time. for any politician you know you've made it mainstream when you're spoofed on "saturday

night live" but the executive producer offered mitt romney a chance to host the comedy program. no word from the romney camp but even if we don't see him himself, we'll see plenty of coverage like this from last night. >> oh no, guys, gingrich is here. >> uh-oh. >> i can't believe sees still in the race. i heard his campaign is completely out of money. >> uh-huh. >> oh, man, look, he's stealing nuts! >> oh ... nut stealer. hey, can i admit something to you guys? >> sure, you're among friends. >> romney care is just obama care. there you go. >> i knew it! >> i can't believe none of us could beat you. >> i can't believe it took so long to win. hey, one more time. ♪ ♪ another turning point, a fork stuck in the road. >> i'll direct you where to go.

>> so make the best of this dance and don't ask why ♪ ♪ it's not effective but it's - die. >> it's always unpredictable but in the end what's right, this campaign was the time of my life ♪ ♪ >> shannon: always entertaining. we love hearing from you at home. we've been asking do you think stay-at-home parents get the same level of respect as those who work outside the home. chas says no but it's always been like that. angela says trade places with a stay-at-home mom and you'll be begging to go back to the office. joe writes, i don't know about the outside the home but my wife gets the utmost respect in the home. her job is way more difficult. thank you so much for sharing. we love to hear from you. that's it from us here in