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kansas. some of the worst of the storms bore down hard in wichita. we have fox news team coverage with mike tobin and maria molina. we begin with mike. >> reporter: hi, heather, this county has been declared a disaster because of all the destruction. i can show you some of the destruction. this is the fiongs for a trailer home. behind me here is the trailer. it was knocked off the foundation by the force of the storm rolled over on its side. the only thing that stopped it the trees here. you hear the sound, that is the buzz of chain saws. just about everywhere you look, chainsaws is cleaning up this debris, all the trees that were knocked over by the force of the storm. weather was quite swaev in oklahoma. storm chasers caught funnel clouds reaching down to earth. the greatest loss of life. you mentioned that a moment ago,

five people or possibly more were killed in woodard, oklahoma. that is where a tornado made a direct hit on a town of about 12,000 people. the people that didn't survive didn't heed the warnings and to go shelters. the tornado destroyed about 89 homes and 13 businesses in that particular town. the mayor of that little town says he has never seen devastation this severe. of the 100 tornadoes that touched down, most of them raked across uninhabited land. that is one reason the small of life is small relative to the number of tornadoes that touched down. the other reason we're hearing is people respected the warning. they got to the shelters and tornadoes passed overhead. >> harris:, thank you very much. >> gregg: incredible scene.

so what is in store for folks living in the storm ravaged states? maria is live in the extreme weather center. >> good to see you. actually once the storms get through the areas we see high pressure move in and bring sunshine in to help cleanup efforts. but we're still tracking this dangerous storm system because it's bringing severe weather for today and always as we head in tomorrow. we have a brand-new tornado warning i want to point out in southeastern parts of south dakota and runs for 30 minutes. 3:30 central time. this storm has a history of producing a tornado. it has been spotted and possibly be on the ground. if you live in the county -- it has a history of producing a tornado. we do have a tornado watch across south central portions of missouri and northwestern parts of arkansas.

tornado watch means that conditions are still favorable out there for the thunderstorms to produce some tornadoes coming down and wind gusts. you have to seek shelter immediately. this tornado watch does go into effect until 6:00 local time. we'll continue to monitor the storms as they keep pushing through missouri and arkansas. for today we have a large area that will be seeing the strong storms from minnesota all the way down in through parts of louisiana and southeastern portions of texas. the greatest risk area is the area shaded in red. if you live and minneapolis and western parts have wisconsin. you do have a great risk to see longer track tornadoes and more dangerous wind gusts. that is something we'll be tracking, as well. northeastern portions of iowa where we're it will push eastward and guess where it's headed in into the northeast in parts of western pennsylvania

and also upstate new york, buffalo and pittsburgh and charleston, strong storms tomorrow with possibility of seeing severe weather from some of those storms. we're not looking very dangerous tornadoes, but isolated ones will still be possible. those can still cause damage. we'll keep an eye on that. the latest is up to 12211 reports from yesterday's's outbreak -- 122 outbreaks. it's amazing that no more people weren't injured or killed. thanks very much. >> we want to hear from our viewers. if you have xeiktd pictures of these fierce storms, send them to us. log on to foxnews.com. click on the ureport section. be very careful but do not put yourself in any danger. >> heather: in just about half an hour from now, president obama is scheduled to set to the

microphone in colombia. he is wrapping up his visit for the summit of americas. white house announcing a new free trade agreement with colombia but the meeting ending without a joint declaration to the visions among the dozens of world leaders there. all of developments likely to be overshadowed by a scandal involving the secret service. wendall joins us with more. >> reporter: 11 secret service agents sent home and placed on administrative leave. five military personnel confined to their rooms and may face disciplinary action. they have offered apologies but it's an exaggeration it overshadowed the summit, u.s. reporters have talked about nothing else. the incident occurred late wednesday or early thursday and refused to pay for a rom he brought, refuse to pay the guest

charge the hotel accesses. other agents with other women and local police became involved. it was all over before mr. obama got here. his personal secret service detail wasn't involved but the leaders have had their own differences. president obama has faced pressure from several latin american leaders by decriminalizing drugs. its tough place for a u.s. leader to be when u.s. demand is such a big part of the problem. the president wanted to talk about increasing trade to create more u.s. jobs. aides announced the colombia free trade agreement will go into effect a month from now thanks to steps that colombia has taken to guarantee worker rights. >> heather: we'll carry that event when it happens.

thank you very much. >> gregg: the taliban claiming responsibility for a series of deadly coordinated attacks across afghanistan. insurgents billing it as prelude to a spring offensive and striking kabul and targeting nato bases and government buildings. we're learning some of the militants were reportedly dressed as women. dominic is streaming live from kabul. >> it's not the first time they tried a tactic like this and continuing to use it because it's so effective disguising them dressed in burqas as women. with security with regards to women, they don't check them. but they will have to look very hard at this. 11 hours ago it started and it's still going on believe it or not. much less scale. afghan national forces engaged in a gunfight in a neighborhood

of the capital. that is neighborhood where patriots that live and work at the embassy also live and media live out there, as well. it all started about 11 hours ago with a series of rocket going into the areas around the u.s. embassy, germans and russians as well. there was intent to storm the parliament and presidential palace but it wasn't just the capital. it was across the country, as well. we're hearing that all 11 militants that were involved in the attack, haven't been captured so far. good colleague geraldo rivera was in embassy when it under attack. this is what he had to say at the time. >> pretty similar at this stage. high profile questionable

effectiveness. it was done more for the splash an a serious attempt to carry out a military operation, but we'll have to see. >> reporter: you know what, that effectiveness even though there have been low casualties here. we're hearing about people injured but we haven't heard any civilians or the security forces dying. it is still spectacular, it goes to the heart of the country and undermines confidence in of the afghan national security forces can handle the security issues here. just a week ago, the united states signed a key memorandum of understanding with the afghan forces, night raids was the most effective tool to crack down on militants. questions will be raised whether they can handle the job that needs to be done especially if combat troops are pulling out at

2014. >> employees of the federal agency under fire for wasting taxpayer money will be on the hot seat tomorrow. top gsa leaders will be there to answer questions from the congressional panel. the very agency whose purpose is to expose government waste is under investigation for throwing over the top parties with complete disregard to the cost. steve centanni is live in washington with more. >> reporter: tomorrow begins three days of intense hearings on this gsa scandal including four different panels in both the house and the senate. the latest confrontation, the head of gsa's jeffrey kneelly that organized that conference in las vegas, when according to the roll call, they owned the facility that was suitable for a large conference but failed to use it. darrell issa that is

spearheading the hearings wants him to testify but his attorney say he'll take the fifth. the entire culture of the gsa will come under scrutiny as well as the obama's administration appointment to the agency. >> you need to political appointees in order to go in and reflect the president but have to have the confidence. is that one of the questions, are you going to put people in that reflect what your stated goals in including not wasting the american's people money. >> they were embarrassed by number of videos flouted go spending habits. this wre part of a talent contest. the agency itself called over the top. the contracting for services at that event is now coming under questioning whether they followed federal law under competitive bidding. the first of the hearings begins

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>> heather: time for check of the headlines, massive search in oklahoma looking for more victims of the massive outbreak of tornadoes. at least five people are dead. dozens hurt and forecasters warn the threat is not over. >> accused of acting like a dictate they are columbia. bolivia's president is calling for cuba to be in future talks. and north korean new leader kim

jong un marking the hundredth anniversary of his late grandfather. comes on the heels of the long range rocket test. >> gregg: could the changing the nature of the work force be holding back the recovery. take a look the employment report. adding 120,000 jobs in the month of march. that is down from previous months. some are suggesting this may be an indication of a slow down and now two researchers blame the we weak numbers on demographics. they point to government statistics showing the labor force is growing about half the rate in 20 years ago in large part because of our population is also growing at a slower rate. that ask what they argue. they concluded slow growth will hinder the job market. let's put that to ed.

i looked at the paper and corresponding projections, do you buy it? >> not at all. it's funny we he have a professor from harvard and professor from princeton. normally when you read something from those universities you buy it on the face. i don't buy it whatsoever. there is really little to say what they are saying? >> 70 million americans were born up to 1974. the baby boom generation. oldest group is now just reaching age 65. but here is the problem, there are a lot of people out of work. it's not that they are dropping out. gregg, we talked about it before. when you look at the unemployment numbers, it has to do who is looking for work within the last four weeks. we're at 8.3%. when somebody drops out from looking it falls off. if you look over the last 12 months, that number is about

14.5% of people who are actively looking for jobs that can't find them. so it's not because people are disappearing from the work force we don't have jobs to give them. >> gregg: what about the jobs going overseas, ed? >> there is an impact there. that has a lot do with our tax structure and why jobs are outside of our borders. that doesn't have a big play why we're seeing less jobs here. the number one reason is because they are not created. remember that movie field of dreams, you build it and they will come. create the jobs, we'll fill them. >> gregg: loss of jobs doesn't account for the demographic argument made in this academic paper. look, the president is fond of saying, he is not others, that tsunami caused a serious disruption. what about that? >> gregg, i went back. that statement really bothered me. this is time when he was blaming everything and everybody except

his policies. i called up analysts that were in the automotive industry and all the major investment firms one said it had a minor impact for a four-five week period there is no truth to that statement. >> gregg: what about rising gasoline prices? >> it hasn't impacted the economy yet in terms of job growth but it will at some point start to impact certain companies that use a lot of fuel. that is probably going to started to happen at some point, but the number one reason is lack of clarity, too much regulation and obviously our wonderful healthcare policy that we have in place right now. >> gregg: what about gender and education? >> i thought about that. i'll tell you yit right now, it has to do with qualifications. as an employer this is a buyer's market. i can find people that have a lot of experience and hire people for a lot less than i used to because its soft job market. i don't think gender has

anything to do with it. i think it has to do with more with qualifications. i want to point out. in the jobs report that was out the week before, one area that grew the most, very surprising were people hiring those individuals 55 years of age or older. again this report doesn't have a lot of facts to support. >> gregg: i think you have thoroughly debunked this academic paper. i wouldn't visit harvard or princeton anytime soon. >> heather: coming up george zimmerman is charged with second-degree murder in the shooting death of unarmed 17-year-old trayvon martin. some say it may be hard to prove zimmer salesman guilty. our legal panel weighs in next.

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i'm maria molina. we do want to update you from storm situation that produced hundred tornadoes yesterday. today it's bringing in a severe weather risk further off to the east from portions down from minnesota to down to eastern texas. we already have thunderstorms that producing reported tornadoes in nebraska and currently wouldn't in effect until 4:30 eastern time. 3:30 central daylight time which is local time. that does include northeastern bauham county in south dakota. you have to seek shelter when these tornado warnings get issues for your counties. we do have a tornado watch in effect for parts of southern missouri and portions of northwestern arkansas. what this means that conditions are still favorable out there for thunderstorms to produce tornadoes, large hail and damaging winds. we're still seeing the severe

weather risk. right now within this watch, it's currently no tornado warnings but we'll continue to track the storm systems as we have a large area that could see severe weather today and we'll keep you posted throughout the rest of the afternoon. >> heather: thank you. people in parts of iowa waking up this morning to a frightening scene of destruction. small town of thurmarn appeared to be hardest hit in the state. rick riechmuth has the tragedy details. >> 75% of the structures were destroyed zroid that hit the town around 5:30. you can see the small town. a town of about 3800 people. most of them living here all their lives. the town's playground the place where the kids would come and play and hang out. it's destroyed. so many of the trees are gone

and laying on top of the power lines and on top of people's homes. on their cars. now, they are beginning that process of cutting those trees up and digging out and finding their belongings. amazing story is that nobody was significantly injured or killed. that is because they believe the warning came in just in time the town's mayor signature off the alarm because his son told him, there is a tornado warning coming for our town. dad went off to the fire station and set off the audible alarm. they had just enough time to get out of harm's way. they say it lasted around five minutes from the time they heard the alarm from the time it was all done. they had walked out and these are the images they see. they begin a cleanup process but resolved to do it and happy that no one died or significantly injured in thurman, iowa.

>> gregg: trayvon martin shooting suspect george zimmerman is sitting in a florida jail. he is charged with second-degree murder in the 17-year-old's death but some legal analysts say it will be very difficult to prove that zimmerman acted with malicious intent that is required for a conviction. while on the defense side, florida's stand your ground law could come into play, as well as the standard self-defense. let's bring in our legal panel, julie jackson and bob massey, legal analyst. bob, let me start with you. this is it. this is the affidavit in support of second-degree murder. it is very brief. i must say as a lawyer, i was suspecting some substance. where is the second-degree murder in here. where are the elements that constitute the crime. where is the probable cause, where is the intent to kill. it's nowhere to be seen?

>> that is what obviously what motivated this arrest, gregg, because ultimately you should not only arrest because of probable cause but to prove beyond a reasonable doubt in the circumstances, even in joey and i communicating today, you know, they better have some substantive witnesses in order to properly prosecute prosecute and meet the burden they have to meet for second-degree murder. in the affidavit it surely doesn't give much. >> gregg: if second-degree murder is defined killing it's not where here. alan dershowitz, said this is not only thin, it's irresponsible. what say you? >> you know, first of all i share your concern and bob's concern is scarce and there is little there.

having tha said that, all you have to do is plead to make they are not. >> you think it's sufficient here? >> it's a tough call. this is what they are going to do at trial. we know they are going use the stand on the ground law to get immunity. >> gregg: they are not going to get that far. this will be dismissed unless you beef up the affidavit. in fairness to the prosecutor in this case, she says that the very end, we have more evidence, but she doesn't state what it is. >> you would hope they do have more evidence. i think what they are going to do, like what? why did he pursue him. what made him suspicious at the outset. he knew he had a firearm, there might have been things on the 911 tape, we don't know what. was eight racial slur. what was the confrontation, what was the force used. >> gregg: some of that bob, in

the document and this document also excludes relevant information that was gathered by police, we're talking about grass and wetness on the back shirt. gashes on the back of his head, bloody nose, witness accounts of martin on top of zimmerman beating him before she was shot and fired. none of that is in here? >> and obviously for the purposes of what you just said and joey said, under stand your ground immunity defense as well as self-defense, stand your ground, you can't be the aggressor. they will have to prove the actions of zimmerman was unlawful. for example, did he approach this young man with a gun and was that an unlawful act. they better have evidence that substantiates something unlawful because under stand your ground you can be an aggressor and retreat. be the aggressor and still

proclaim that immunity. >> gregg: there is police evidence, grass stains, gashes on the back of the head and one witness saying, they are on the ground. if you are on your back being beaten, are you allowed to use the kind of self-defense that was employed here if you feel in imminent fear of serious bodily injury or death? >> it depends positive upon the nature of the force being used to so your response to that force appropriate. was killing necessary. if you are being beaten did you have to shoot and kill someone. >> gregg: how about injury the person that is allegedly attacking you but that results in death, is that still self-defense? >> if you intend to injury him. it could be manslaughter. i think the grand jury should have been convened this way to. special prosecutor wouldn't have to explain anything. the grand jury would have

presented with the charge and come back with what it is appropriate. is eight stretch, absolutely. do think they can convict second degree, jurors do strange things. >> gregg: i want to explore something else you mentioned. in florida, in advance of the trial there is going to be a hearing in front of a judge, into the jury but a judge, an immunity hearing in which zimmerman can seek dismissal of all the charges by claiming he did not instigate the fight but when attacked allegedly, he'll say, i feared for my life. the defendant interestingly has the burp and importantly burden of proof and only by a 37 of evidence, isn't that slow threshold? >> we know there are three standards of law, present pond caltrans and clear and convincing evidence and beyond a reasonable doubt. as the lower standard. you are going to see a defense file a motion to dismiss and throw it as immunity and even if it's denied, even if it goes to

trial that defense lawyer is going to be alleging the same type of evidence before a jury or in front of a judge before it goes a jury. this is going to -- i don't know how you feel about it. i was wondering before when this was all going on, would it have been, i don't know if this is appropriate to say. would it have been safer to go to grand jury because this d.a., it took guts to stand up. you better have your evidence because if you don't, an acquittal could cause more upheaval in this country than what we've seen. >> gregg: we have to leave it at that. bob massey and joey jackson, please come back as we'll be talking a lot more about in. thank you, sir. >> heather: a scandle rocking the secret service, allegations of misconduct, involving prostitution and involving dozen secret service agents sent back

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>> heather: welcome back. an embarrassing scandle rocking the secret service. eleven a little are facing allegations that they brought prostitutes back to their hotel rooms while in colombia preparing for president obama's visit. peter king telling fox news john roberts that his staff is taking action. >> i'm going to do a preliminary investigation. one way or the other we're going to find out what happened. what action was taken and what is going to be done to ensure that it can't happen again. >> let's bring in our power panel, ellen ratnor and judith

miller and k.t. mcfarland. thank you all for joining us. >> heather: so what do we expect the fallout will continue to be on the latest? >> hopefully we can learn from this, but ronald kessler said he is really worried about the kind and amount of stress that is on the secret service. there have been percentage of complaints and worrisome things. [ laughter ] >> drinking and other hotel guests. >> i think we have to look at it top down and figure out what is going on within the entire service. >> heather: he also mentioned one of many dangers of this they had set themselves up for the possibility of blackmail. >> when i got my security

clearance, the first thing you learn when you are traveling abroad do not bring strangers into your hotel rooms. do not go drinking with people don't know. i'm not sure anybody told me about prostitutes but the possibility of blackmail. what if somebody had bugged those rooms. >> and we focus on the gsa. move aside gsa. when you have this many people who went down to a place that they knew the president was going to be. the head of the secret service said, oh, well these people weren't protecting the president. what were they doing down there? >> the advance several days down. >> and assassination, that is when you are compromise. the people that are setting the trip up. >> i think it's much more of a

systems issue than an isolated issue. >> i think the problem is with the men who were sent down there and before we make this kind of obama problem, let's look at the guys that did it. >> there were 11 of them, there wasn't one rogue guy. >> there are five young men in the military involved. >> heather: okay. going to our next topic, big celebrations in north korea, parade marking the former leader and founder of the government, what appears to be a new mobile ballistic missile. k.t., let's start with you. >> after the failed attempt. but that is a real problem because the north koreans this new leader he is trying to prove how macho they are. what they are likely to do,

something likely to try something more aggressive. to try another test. if it's successful, who is watching all this? the iranians are watching this, yours are watching. i think we have a potential crisis coming with north korea. if they do something aggressive and if the reaction of the south koreans is different in the past. because we have 30,000 u.s. troops between north and south korea. >> that is exactly the problem. are they preparing another nuclear test, there is every sign they are. we have seen satellite pictures, dug being dirt out for another nuclear test. we had one in 2006 and one in 2009. now, we may see it again from the north koreans. what a is worrisome this comes just at a time when we thought we had an agreement when they were going to be more moderate and give them food aid. there they go again under a new

leader resorted to go the same tactics. i totally agree with k.t.. >> i would like to ee see if if we would have a different approach to them if they didn't have the third or fourth largest regular military in the world. i think that has actually -- i think it would be tougher actually. i do actually. >> i'm not saying we didn't do a whole lot. but what we would do or what we could do. these guys are running concentration camp, like camp 13 and starving their own people. there are a lot of things that we might not put in and didn't have a million soldiers on the ground. >> they have reneged on the food aid. >> if they shoot up another missile. >> sure, that will be it. >> remember the parade video we do know north korea it's all

about the propaganda and appearances they want to put out there. but in reality is really happening, no one really knows. >> it's just the scariest place and so little access and many of us were very intrigued that reporters were invited in to watch this, quote, great parade. >> they have the latest equipment and it looked very high-tech. >> they have said about to show. >> and it's really significant thing. >> on the hands of a young guy who is trying to prove how tough he is. >> that is very dangerous. >> president obama pushing h soe insisting we can't keep giving tax breaks to the rich. and they are considering the proposal tomorrow. stay with us. what's the matter? uh, trouble with a car insurance claim.

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>> heather: welcome back. white house releasing the president and first lady's tax returns for 2011 trying to push mitt romney to do the same. it caps off a week of president obama campaigning for the so-called buffet rule. >> warren buffett is one of

world's wealthiest men. he pays a lower tax rate than thinks secretary. that is the way the system is set up. that is not fair and doesn't make sense. >> heather: our power panel is back. so in the release on the obamas, they earn $800,000 and paid a federal income tax of roughly 20.5%. on the same day, that mitt romney filed for an extension that a lot of americans do. >> here a dirty secret. it has nothing to do with the tax rates. it's all about the loopholes. you can raise the buffet tax up to 50%. he is not going to pay for that. if you want a tax loophole, what kind of car do you buy ushlgs get a loophole. energy system, you get a tax deduction. it's not about the rate. if you got rid of all those exceptions and loopholes, you

would have trillion dollars more. >> heather: how much money is the buffet rule going to raise? >> that is not the issue. i agree that why can't you do both? why can't you do the buffet rule and close the loophole? >> absolutely. this is not going to be a happy moment when it comes for mitt romney. look what happened last time. there is a difference between $800,000 what the president made and paying 20% and $42 million which is what he earned and paying less than 15. that is because you have a little bank account in the bahamas and use the swiss bank. i think on this one, mr. romney is really vulnerable. >> and it's not illegal. ellen is right. it's not illegal to own a foreign car but if you are president in the united states you don't drive a foreign car. >> get rid of the loopholes and do the buffet law.

this is a fairness issue. >> nobody wants to get rid of the loopholes. >> so the guy says get rid of the loopholes. >> i know a lot of democrats don't want to get rid of the loopholes. >> it's a dirty little secret. >> democrats and republicans, newt gingrich his campaign millions of dollars in debt. a new report claiming that he is now loaning his campaign thousands of dollars to stay on the campaign trail. also atry beauties to the former speaker's money problems to lavish lifestyle, not willing to give that up. >> when i ran for the senate, after i lost, people offered to buy my donor list. that is what you do when you are really desperate. every one of those donors are so mad at you. >> heather: tell me, by renting out his donor list.

he is giving the contact information, the e-mail list. someone who says i'm going to run for congress. >> it's illegal to take that list and use it. >> i think he is trying to set up, also what happens is the victorious candidate pays the campaign death of the others. romney has paid pawlenty's death. will he pay santorum's debts? santorum got rid of any of the anti-.... >> problem he is going to have. >> remember how the stories how the gingrichs are living their lives. this is complete denial. why they have two aides going around with her everywhere. why are they still flying in private jets? maybe he can go back to work for fannie mae and freddie mac after it's over it's time to leave the campaign. i think part of the reason he is staying in its really good way to raise money and it's not fair

to all the people. >> i also think he is very angry at fellow republicans. this is the way he is trying to get back. >> they don't need to do it. >> are. >> what about he put his supported behind newt gingrich, what then? >> all right. thank you all. we appreciate you joining us. thank you. >> gregg: death and destruction across the nation's heartland. the search continues for more victims after a swarm of tornadoes pummels the midwest over time overnight. forecasters warning the danger is not over yet. wake up!

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>> heather: we begin with a fox news alert. rescue workers across the midwest still going door to door this evening, searching for survivors of tornadoes like this one. take a look in salina, kansas. scary stuff. more than 100 twisters were reported across parts of oklahoma, kansas, nebraska and iowa. welcome to another hour inside america's news headquarters, i'm heather childers. >> gregg: i'm gregg jarrett. five people killed in oklahoma, including two small children. this is the town of woodward. people are sifting through the rubble, still, trying to salvage whatever they can. but there is not much left inform kansas, at least 10

twisters reported there in wichita, seeing serious damage. the county of sedgwick declaring a disaster area. we have team coverage. maria molina tracking storm systems. but let's begin with mike toab nin wichita, kansas. mike? >> reporter: gregg, i'm on what yesterday was a porch, leading into a house. of course, the house is gone. all that remains is the foundation. the house is behind us here, tipped up on its side. the only thing that prevented that house from rollinga away is a couple of trees that stopped it. some of the damage he have here, outside of wichita, kansas, which is why this county has been declared a disaster area, damage, reaching just about $300 million. also severe weather further south in oklahoma, with dozens of tornadoes kicked up by this severe weather. you mentioned woodward, oklahoma, a town of 12,000 people. the tornadoes touched down, destroying 83 homes and 13

businesses. that's why we saw the loss of life. five people, they tried to shelter in homes that took a direct hit. they weren't in shelters, the homes did not stand up. it was remarkable, with all of these tornadoes, the storm chasers got awe-inspiring video from a distance, closer than you get oftentimes with severe weather. most of the tornadoes, raking across empty land. the tornadoes that did come to populated areas caused a lot of property damage. but the loss of life is relatively small and the emergency crews say that is because people heeded the warnings, they got into shelters and basements. things were destroyed but people got awiwith their lives. >> gregg: very, very fortunate. mike tobin, thanks very much. >> heather: what is next for these weather-battered states? there are more storms on the horizon.

maria molina continues in the fox extreme weather center. >> reporter: good to see you. yeah, unfortunately, storms systems are pulling in very warm, moist air on the eastern side of it, helping to fire up the showers and thunderstorms. you can see them stretching across the north central, all the way into parts of texas. we do have some ongoing severe weather. we had one torinatedo warning in southwestern minnesota. that has expired. so we are continuing to see the tornado warnings firing up because we are seeing rotation with the thunderstorms and possible tornadoes on the ground. 122 tornadoes were reported yesterday from the storm system, stretching across parts of kansas, nebraska and portions of oklahoma. we are seeing that risk still today. we have a brand-new tornado watch in southern parts of minnesota and northern portions of iowa and western parts of wisconsin. this is the area we are going to be watching very closely today because we do have a moderate risk issued by the storm prediction center from the national weather service stating that we have a moderate risk for

severe storms to fire up. you can see some of those in western parts of the tornado watch area this. goes into effect until 11:00 p.m. central time. so we have several hours here that we will be tracking the storms. a second tornado watch, including southern missouri and north western arkansas, little rock, you are outside of this tornado watch. but the other one did include minneapolis, so a big, populated center there. you can see the storm in southern missouri and arkansas. right now, no tornado warnings in missouri or arkansas, but we will continue to track the storms and keep an eye on them. if we get any tornado warnings, we will bring them to you. minneapolis, also the way down into parts of southeastern texas, so this is where we are looking at the risk for large hail, damaging wind gusts and tornadoes. here's the greatest risk, iowa, wisconsin and southeastern minnesota. and guess what, guys? the storm heads east tomorrow,

it will have a lot of warm air ahead of it, continuing to fire up thunderstorms with a risk of more severe storms in interior portions of the northeast, so heads up, syracuse, buffalo, pittsburgh and charleston, you will have a slight chance of severe storms, large hail, damaging winds and isolated tornadoes possible. but not as bad as we saw yesterday. yesterday, we had the particularly high risk, issued in the central plains. hopefully, people heeded the warnings and that's maybe why we saw lower death toll from the last outbreak. >> gregg: maria molina, a busy day for you, thanks very much. major new developments in north korea. the country's new leader making himself heard for the very first time, holding a parade and marking the 100th birthday of his grandfather, north korea's founder. featuring what appears to be a new mobile ballistic missile.

we have a rare look inside the secretive country. >> reporter: gregg, a possible new missile and a leader who speaks. some of the developments in a military parade here. and we were there. parade marked the 100th anniversary of the birth of the north korean founder, sung kim. >> heather:l song. the regime brought a first showing. take a look. at center stage in this military parade, a prized missile arsenal of the north korean missile, short, medium and long-range rockets on display. they don't always work. but for the regime here, they always send the right message. presiding over all of this, the new leader, kim jong un spoke for the first time. his father, kim jong il, barely said anything in public. he claim that the north wanted to work toward reunification

with the south, but he defended the arsenal of nuclear weapons here. the erav enemies using atomic bombs to threaten us, he said, is over forever. it doesn't look like he's going to give up those nukes any time soon. >> gregg: reporting inside north korea, thanks very much. >> heather: new reports of violence in syria just days after a u.n.-backed cease-fire went into effect there. pro-government forces, shelling areas dominated by rebels with artillery shells. killing at least 3 people. the attack threatening the u.n.'s truce, aimed at ending the 13-month-old government uprising. both president assad and rebels trying to topple him are blaming each other. the taliban freeing nearly 400 prisoners in pakistan. in a dramatic pre-dawn raid, more than 100 militant, firing

automatic weapons and launching rocket-propelled grenades, battling their way into a prison in northwest pakistan. police describing 20 of the prisoners as very dangerous insurgents. one escapee was on death role for his role in an assassination attempt against the former president of pakistan. >> gregg: in afghanistan, new reports of an attempted assassination on the afghan vice-president. the taliban claiming responsibility for deadly attacks across the country. insurgents, reportedly taking control of construction sites in kabul and raining down rokt fire on targets like the u.n. embassy. we are streaming live from kabul, afghanistan. dominic? >> reporter: gregg, you join me just as we -- [inaudible] >> gregg: we were afraid of that. new developments happening, precisely where dominic is. we are going to try to find out

what they are and convey them to you -- is he back? let's go back to dominic, live in kabul, afghanistan. dominic? >> reporter: gregg, sorry about the gremlins in the system. yes, you join me as we are seeing a series of flashes and explosions on the horizon, across the city. it appears that the afghan forces are doing a final punish push on a small group of militants. it is 12 hour, this siege. they are in a neighborhood that is popular with exof -- ex-patriots. it is seven militants, we believe in that area. they were throwing hand grenades, the afghan forces. it appears that the afghan forces are responding with very heavy return of fire. mushroom clouds, we have seen light up in the past few minutes, over the city. we can still hear this -- you

may not be able to pick it up on the mike, but there is a continuous barrage of explosions, intermittent with sporadic gunfire. a week ago, nato was saying, you will not see the taliban -- you can hear that now? perhaps not. sorry. just a week ago, nato was saying it would be impossible for the taliban to launch an attack like this, like we have seen today, very similar to the attack on the u.s. embassy we saw seven months ago. it was multiple targets, the afghan national parliament, the presidency, the u.n. embassy, the u.s. embassy and the russians and the germans and in the east, there were targets of the just 23 injured. nobody killed as apart from the militant who is blew themselves up. they didn't call for support from nato, not from the americans or any part of the international forces here. the afghans are trying to handle this themselves. it appears we are in the last

throws of it. but catching everybody by surprise, both the afghan national forces and the international security forces who have largely handed over a lot of responsibility for afghan security to exactly them. this is a real test. it is a test. the fact they were compot by surprise shows there are definitely gaps in the intel gathering. >> gregg: if it's going on that many hours, big gap. stay safe. live in kabul, afghanistan. thanks very much. >> heather: from big gaps to big developments in the investigation into the federal agency assigned to protect your tax dollars from waste. executives with the general services administration to face a congressional panel tomorrow. lawmakers are looking into allegations that the gsa spent a bill chunk of its budget to party. if true, the panel will want to know who is to blame. steve centanni joins us in washington. >> reporter: hi, heather. the sparks begin to fly tomorrow as the first of four

congressional pams begins hearing on the waste of taxpayer money by the general services administration. the latest twist is the head of the gsa western region, jeffrey neely, who organized the lavish conference in las vegas that cost more than $800,000, when according to roll call, they owned a facility suitable for a large conference and didn't use t. neely's attorney says he doesn't need to come to d.c., but congressman, darrell issa, spear-heading the meeting, says neely should appear anyway. >> we are looking at getting to the truth and to how widespread this is. our questions for neile and others will have to do, not just about there one event, but about the culture at the gsa and how we change it. we believe that neely should be able to answer at least some of those questions. we are hoping he will. >> gregg: the agency was embarrassed by a number of videos, apparently made during working hours, showing gsa employees, flouting spending

habits, part of an event for 300 that the agency admitted itself was over the top. neely could face criminal charges because the services were not competitively bid. the white house says the president was outraged when he heard of the abuse of taxpayer money. the gsa says it has taken steps to prevent anything like this from happening again. >> heather: thanks very much, steve centanni, live from d.c. >> gregg: the race for the white house shifting gears to the general election these day, setting the stage for president obama to take on mitt romney. "fox news sunday" has exclusive interviews with top interviews from both camps. president obama's campaign chief strategist david axel rod and ed gillespie, both sitting down with chris wallace. and a son, remembering his dad. chris looks back on growing up with his father, the iconic "60 minutes" correspondent mike allas who, passed away last

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[tom petty singing]. >> you probably be who that is. preps are underway for a tour by tom petet and heartbreakers, but it hit a sour note. police in culver city, california, say someone made off with five guitar, belonging to the rock group. they were stolen from a sound

stage, just west of los angeles where the band was rehearsing for their tour, including pettedy's 196712-string ricker backer and his gibson. the band is offering a $7500 reward for returning the instruments, no questions asked. okay? >> heather: my favorite band of all time? >> gregg: really?! not the beatles, not the stones. >> heather: no. tom petty. happy music. home foreclosures -- happy newnews -- at their low elf -- lowest level in four years. so, is this a good time to be buying or selling a home? here's cassandra torian, author of "don't buy the bull." thanks for joining us. >> thanks for having me. >> heather: does this mean that the housing market is turning around? >> well, i think there is a

little bit of brightness there that we can talk about because the numbers are down on a linked quarter, 16% year over year, that's a good thing. but it doesn't mean we are out of the woods yet because that means that this year, there is over 2 million homes that will be foreclosed on. that's a big number. there are probably another maybe 6 million behind that. >> heather: so, do you expect the trend to -- what would cause the trend to continue? in this direction? >> the positive trend will continue that foreclosures will continue to go down because a., we have a better job market, so that means that people can make their loan payments for their mortgages. and b., banks are willing to give loan modifications, so less foreclosures will hit the market. so the good thick, also is that rentals are up.

inventories of housing are actually diminishing and that speaks well for, if you are looking to sell a home, potentially, a better price than a year ago. >> heather: rental numbers up and the prices for rentals are up as well. >> yes. rentals are in big demand and the pricing keeps going up and up, especially in more urban markets. and so that also is a reason why i think you are going to see less foreclosures because the banks know this. they are not going to be as willing to dump something in a fire sale price when they can become a landlord. there are programs that they are testing. >> heather: you speculated how it has to do with the bank's images. what about the election coming up? what does that have to do with this? >> some people speculated that the election will cause banks to want their image to look good and that means they're not going to put as many homes out for foreclosure.

i am not sure at this point if the bamption really care. most banks have cleaned up their messes, as far as their investment with government programs and they're pretty independent, paying dividends again, buying back stock and they are healthy. so they are going to do what is best for shareholders, i think. and they're not going to really care so much about who wins the presidential election. >> heather: okay. as we wrap up, your best advice for people who may be in the market, tergite buy a home or to sell a home. what's your best advice. >> gregg. >> if you are a buyer, right now, i think you should buy because prices of mortgages are never going to get cheaper than they are right now. and pricing on homes is starting to go back up in many markets. bidding wars, i am hearing in some cases again. if you are a seller, you may want to think about holding off a little bit, if you can, just so you can get a better price because that's going to start to

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columbia. but there was no joint declaration among dozens of world leaders and a scandal involving the secret service. we go live for more with wendall goaler. >> reporter: this may be a news conference the president isn't anxious to begin, 11 secret service agents sent back to the states and placed on administrative leave and five military personnel confined to their hotel room, after an embarrassing incident, involving prostitutes that ground out the message the president hoped to send back of increased trade and job creation. an embarrassment he is expected to address in a question-and-answer segment, over an hour overdue. this hotel, where i am in an interior courtyard, agents brought prostitutes back to their rooms and some refused to pay the women or the guest charge that the hotel assesses. in the ruckus that follows, hotel security, if not local police became involved.

the president's personal detail was not involved. but a senior military official offered apologies and signaled that the conduct violates their standard of conduct. they say that the president was never in danger, but congressman darrell issa says the prostitutes open the possibility of blackmail. >> the question is: is the whole organization in need of some soul searching, some changes? or before the president, the vice-president, members of the cabinet are in danger? >> reporter: late today, officials here announced the u.s. and columbia have worked out their final differences over the new free trade agreement, earlier than expected. tell go into effect a month from now. that's good news that the president hoped would be the lead news of the summit. here's the president [speaking spanish]

[speaking spanish] [speaking spanish]

>> heather: once again, we will take you back there live to cartagena, columbia, when president obama begins to speak. we apologize, the interpreter not working there, as we bring you this news conference, live. the wrapup of the summit of the americas announcing a new free trade agree. agreement with columbia. >> gregg: as we mentioned, there were all kinds of technical difficulties in cartagena. now you saw the latest one, the interpreter who is interpreting, is not communicating through the high-tech system there. stand by for president ork 'bama. in the meantime, mitt romney is seeing a jump in popularity among voters. take a look at the latest fox news poll in a general election matchup between romney and president obama.

the republican challenger holding a 2-point edge. that's a statistical tie, within the margin of error. but the thing to keep in mind here is this reflects a gain here, a 4-point gain for romney, a net 6, i think, in just the past month. march was not so kind to president obama. look at this. his approval rating dropping 6 points with the majority of american, disapproving of his job performance. let's bring in our campaign insiders. doug schoan, former pollster for bill clinton. pat caddell, a former pollster for president jimmy carter. and john lebeautier, a congressman from new york. we're off to a horrible start because i may have to interrupt you any moment when we get the system back up in cartagena. but let's begin with the poll numbers. pat, what do you make of this -- i mean the president has a minus, a net negative minus 9 and it corresponds with the

swing in favor of romney? >> well, you know, this is dramatically different from the last couple of weeks and a couple of other polls. this matches other polls i have seen, gallup, for instance or rasmussen. i think because the electorate is want wedded to either candidate very much. we get very real swings, very quickly, whether it's the economic news that came out that hurt the president. i think that, you know, some of the controversies. he goes up and down and soz did romney. voters are not tide down. >> gregg: looka this number here. more voters think the president's policies have hurt rather than helped the economy. 3 in 10, doug, say his policies haven't made much difference. but you add those together and you get the figure of 68% not giving the president very good reyou views. >> in a time when the number of jobs created was half of what was expected, 120,000, rather

than 240,000, the stock market has been in the doldrum, going down. with the gas prices still high, the economic recovery that the white house has touted has not happened and the poll numbers that you cited, gregg, reflect that drop. >> gregg: let's put up the next poll, are you satisfied with how things are going in the country? almost 70% of americans are unhappy with the direction of the country. normally, the national mood is either positive or moving in that direction, that's good news for the incumbent president. but what do these numbers tell you? >> if you are running for re-lakz with two out of three people saying, we are going in the wrong direction? what are you going to do if you can't get it back in the right direction by november? only one thing, have you to trash your opponent, scorch policy on romney. they have started it. bidden's mouth, they are going after romney all out.

>> i was going to say, the economic figures you cited are very important because it was only a year ago, we had another false spring with the economy, things looked better and unemployment went back up. we are looking at numbers here. this is the white house' worst nightmare, if unemployment goes back up and the economy stalls and they have been counting for several months, riding the fact that people have a positive sense of the economy that. seems to be swinging. >> that's what we are going from axel rod on fox news sunday today. it's a comparative race. it is not do you want obama? but he's the least negative. >> nor is it a statement, look what we did. it is not our record -- >> no. >> it's look how bad he is. >> gregg: speaking of records, let me show the next set of poll numbers. the economy is the most important issue in the election. that's a given. then the next poll after that, let's move to that. by a 7-point margin, more voters

think romney has the best experience to fix it. among independents, congressman, romney's margin widens 41-28%. is romney's business background the reason for ha? what is it? >> i mean, i think that that is his strength. it could be the thing that he should run on from now on, not fry -- try to twist himself to say i was severely conservative. forget it. he talked about rescuing the olympics and i will use these business skills in washington to rescue a corrupt system and a corrupt city. that, he has some credibility to say. >> i want to say, also, if you go back to the issue question. you know, you see, not after the economy, what are the next two issues? the budget deficit and number 3, helt care. those are numbers that the president gets even worse ratings on. >> to take you inside at this time white house, what they would be saying is look, on each

of the three issues that pat and john are citing, we get negative ratings and the president trails governor romney, hence a negative campaign because they can't win on the issues. >> gregg: independents are breaking for mitt romney 43 to obama's 37%. what i want to point out is men are going for romney plus-14 over the president. what do you make of that? >> that's in the way. that's the reverse gender gap. republicans have been doing better for decades among men, not so well among women. these polls are in dispute about the gender gap among women for obama. this fox poll, i think obama is ahead by 8 points among women. in the washington post, he was ahead by 19 points. >> gregg: this week, the president's solution to the economy has been the buffett rule, a minimum 30% tax on millionaires. when he introduced this, this is a quote, tell raise enough money

so we stabilize our debt and deficit fairs decade. he sort of repeated it here this week. take a listen. >> this is not only a matter of fairness, but it's also one part of a broader effort that we are going to have to embark on to reduce the deficit. >> gregg: his own treasury department says, $4 to $5 million a year -- billion a year. which is less than 1% of our deficit. >> that's the most disin disiningenuous thing a president could say. to hang his hat on the argument of the buffett rule, he has ignored the budget deficit for 3 years. >> this is class warfare. let's be clear. raising the taxes on the rich, combined with the buffett rule is class war foreat a time of high economic inequality. >> gregg: is it the 1% versus

99%? >> for a president who has done nothing about the deficit and we are on the verge of going over the cliff, catastrophe, that's one thing. but the second thing that i want to say is, you know, he throws us out -- it is class warfare. but the point is that the democrats and and here's the thing i love about this that the republicans will use. hedge fund managers-- i apologize. we have to go to cartagena. the president is speaking, take a listen. >> the people of columbia... [overlapping dialogue] i am going to do my best to bring the girls and michelle back. [english and spanish overlapping]

>> gregg: well, the technical difficulties continue in cartagena. when we wanted the interpreter, we couldn't get it for the columbian president. now we have the spanish interpreter for our english-speaking president, which interferes with your ability to hear president obama. it's been lovely so far. we are going to take at a break, try to straighten things out. we'll be right back. don't go away. [ engine revs ] [ male announcer ] strip away the styling. strip away the rearview monitors, tv screens, bluetooth... and even the cup holders. you know what's left? the only suv's with american-built f-alpha truck frames. the ruggedly capable pathfinder, xterra, armada. ♪

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>> gregg: we are not going to go back to cartagena, columbia. the host country, by the way, provided all the communications and technical support. so we apologize for that. we have no control over it. it is columbia.

all right. back now with our campaign insiders. are republicans, doug, making a mistake in opposing the buffett rule? obama's going to use this as a blunt political weapon, won't he? >> in the short term, they are making a mistake, but there is a larger problem. they don't have an overall plan to reform the tax system, to promote economic growth and reform entitlements. the ryan plan, as we have discussed judge a non-starer and mitt romney has no plan. so the buffett rule becomes the issue of the campaign. >> this is disingenuous and the republicans ought to go to corruption. but they have a lot of money. you have the 15% for capital gains. but you have hedge fund managers, making $300 million with a special exemption that allows them to pay, instead of ordinary income, you know how that passed, chuck schiewmer and

max baucus, sold it to them in return for money for democrats. this is about corruption -- you could support -- >> it's both sides. >> the republicans -- >> one thing -- here's the deal, congressman. i mean, all the american public's going to hear is the g.o.p. is defending the rich and the super rich. that's all they are going to hear. >> right. that's why obama's salivating over having mitt romney as his opponent. he has bank accounts in the cayman islands. >> gregg: but shouldn't they say, we have to change this -- >> that's what i was trying to say. absolutely to my point i. but here's the thing. as a republican, i have seen my party take a position with this grover norquist thing, where no one can talk about raising a tax, which this would. even if you take away the loopholes, you are raising a tax rate and nobody will do it. >> it consigns them to a political position of inferiority, which means they can't talk about real solutions

to real problems. >> exactly. they have to defend the indefensible. they don't have to defend raising taxes. you can say, people get to rig the rules shouldn't be allowed to rig the rules. obama helps them rig the rules. that's an issue. all of a sudden, under your formulation of norquist, nothing that does anything to taxes is allowed. and this adherence at 100% is insane. give them one. if have you one, you would deflate the entire obama attack argument [overlapping dialogue] >> where the damage is happening is among independents. that's what they are targeting. independents believe the republican position is a crazy position. there should be taxes higher on the uber-rich. >> it is not a tax, it's a loan. they shouldn't be able to rig the system, where those voters can't. you know? that's the point. you could be for some reform. want -- not for none. >> gregg: gentlemen, we got in more than i thought weeing

would, given what was happening in columbia. thank you very much. good to see you. they will be back. you can get more from the campaign insiders every monday, in fact, 11:00 a.m. at live@fox news.com. they will be back next sunday, same bat time, same bat channel. you can also follow them on twit ter. heather? >> heather: all right, gregg. now that you are done, head outside, it's a beautiful day here in new york city. temperatures are climbing. and why that may be bad news for people taking part in one of the country's biggest marathons and the warning going out to all of those runners, stick around with us. [ tom ] we invented the turbine business right here in schenectady.

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>>r. >> gregg: welcome back. we are obviously out on the plaza, here in manhattan. it's a beautiful day, but the temperatures are on the rise in the northeast right now. and tomorrow, of course is the boston marathon. >> heather: it is expected to reach nearly 90 degrees in some

places. boston marathon officials are warning some of the runners maybe need to rethink the race. so what do you need to know to be safe? joining us now, dr. ernest patti, the senior attending physician in the bronx. what do the runners need to know? >> they will have to remember the importance of a number of things. they have to make sure to hydrate and to protect their skin from the sun. they need to wear loose-fitting clothing. i brought some items here that i would like to show you. loose-fitting clothing that is comfortable and geared for the athletic-type performance, which doesn't bog you down. you want to be able to get rid of that sweat and keep your body cool. sun visors are important or protection over your head and brow. we brought sunscreen along, which is penitentiary for the exposed areas that you want to keep from getting burned. electrolyte solutions are really important. you not to go with low-calorie

ones that contain the electrolytes that are needed to replace the loss you get with heavy exercise. water is the primary fluid. also the importance of using sunglasses and sweatbands, things like these to help you be more comfortable. >> heather: go back to the difference between water -- water is not enough. you also need -- >> part of the problem is that many competitive athletes, you know, don't know how to properly hydrate themselves. you can actually take too much water before the race and that leads to a condition that we call dilutional hypotitremia, where you dilute the salt content in your body and that can lead to a real, real serious medical condition that needs to be treated urgently in the hospital. the problem is, you want to take a balanced solution in. so you want to hydrate. but you want to utilize your water stations as you run your races. many races have watering

stations set up. >> oh, yeah. >> don't overhydrate before. make your stops and replenish as you go. >> gregg: our producer is running the marathon. he's run a lot of them. he's very experienced and he told me this morning, you know, if you are thirsty while you are running, it's too late, you are already dehydrated. >> the problem is, it's easier to replenish, a lot easier to replenish than to get rid of excess if have you over-done t. so jay's correct. but that's why they set up the stations throughout the run. it's a good idea to try to figure out, you know, you can do this in advance. you can figure out your sweat ratio and that will help to you figure out the proper hydration to do prior to the race. >> heather: this is really good advice for people who are not running a marathon, but they are outside exercising in the heat as well. >> exactly. anybody who works outdoors. we have men and women who work on the road, repairing them in the sunlight. people who do manual labor outside, very, very penitentiary to prepare. >> gregg: if you feel dizzy or

you have a headache, what do you do? >> quit. >> gregg: those are signs that you are entering heat-related illness. you need to stop and get in a cool area and replenish with fluids, whatever you have on hand and seek medical help because if you have those signs of dizziness, cftionz, headache, you are past the stage of first aid. >> gregg: st. barnabus hospital in the bronx. great advice as always. >> thanks very much for having me. >> heather: what a beautiful day. >> gregg: it is a beautiful day. thanks for being here. >> thank you. enjoy new york city, right?! good weather for you. jay, good luck tomorrow in the marathon! bye-bye. "fox news sunday" is next. [ male announcer ] pringles... bursting with more flavor. [ crunch! ]

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