missiles in the rubble and the spokesman explained that the -- gadhafi and his wife sophia were reportedly there as well, but according to the spokesman, they escaped. it was the third attack that nearly hit gadhafi the past week. a nato commander was quoted as saying we do not target individuals and families, we only target military targets. and that they especially regret any civilian casualties. the report unconfirmed, only from the libyan government, that gadhafi's youngest sonening along with three of his grind children, the victims last night. and the italian embassy, seeing smoke from there. if this is the result of pro-gadhafi demonstrators

lashing out as a result of the air strike last night, what kind of armor do they have to use? what kind of weaponry might they use? what kind of an attack might they have launched on the italian embassy? >> reporter: we were watching last night about the 2:30 this morning as there were pro-gadhafi demonstrators in the street outpseudothe gadhafi compound and we heard last night that the british embassy was attacked, and i talked to the spokesman ibrahimi that said there were no armament fired, but most of the staff have been moved for the embassies and there was nobody in the british embassy last night. it was protected by the spokesman protected by army officials, and the demonstrations have since dissipated. the italian embassy the report we got in in the last half hour, and we'll learn more as the day goes on and report to you when we learn that.

let's go to vatican city today, where a mass attended by more than 1.5 million people were attended. >> and now the long day has come. it came quickly, because this was pleasing to the lord. john paul ii is blessed. >> with that pronouncement pope john paul ii was beatified this morning, where literally millions were moved to tears. chris jansing is covering this story from rome. >> when i look at what you have done, you were at the late pope's funeral. you heard the firsthand chants, so can you describe the emotion of the crowd today? >> reporter: you think it's safe to say, alex, the million and a half people who descended on this city absolutely went wild.

when that picture that you saw, a photograph that was made into a tapestry was unveiled, and they knew at that moment it was official, pope john paul ii was beatified, one step away from canonization or sainthood, it was a tremendously well-behaved crowd. there were times when they asked for moments of silence, and almost you could hear a pin drop. there were moments of cheers, an the flags were waving, but clearly there were people from every corner of europe, all around the world, huge number of pilgrims from poland, as well as from the united states. a lot of them church groups. now they all have an opportunity to stay and to pay their respects, because the coffin bearing john paul ii has been exhumed from below the vatican, and will be brought to the pieta. they will keep st. peter's open

day and night until every pilgrim who wants to go past and venerate, as they call it, has an opportunity. you can also see that the street sweepers are already out, starting to clean up. i thought for an event of this size, and i've been to a lot of them, tremendously noncommercial. it was difficult to find things that said beatification. there were a few t-shirts that do have the date. and there is some music on a cd, with andrea bocelli and palace do do some ingo. b placido disdomingo. >> the only thing i really saw, as we were scanning the crowd while you were covering this earlier live, polish flags

really relevant, of course, to this particular pope. that's about all i saw. >> reporter: yeah, i have to tell you, i think there's nobody left in poland. it seemed that every other group we saw was being led by someone, and they had many of the flags that they had obviously were in polish, the signs they had were in polish, and big groups of them. there were at least a couple groups of people who we know walked. they started in march and walked here for this beatification, so yes, the first polish pope was very well represented by his countrymen, who i have no doubt, however lounge it takes will be here when he's made a saint. >> they have a lot of pride about it. chris jansing, thanks so much. we'll see you again. let's go to washington. tough words from michael bloomberg this morning on the state of d.c. politics. the independent mayor sat down on "meet the press" where he criticized both sides of the

aisle. >> how much chaos and destruction to our economy do we have to do before everybody in washington starts acting like an adult, coming together and not pandering to small voting blocs and say this is in the interests of the country. we need leadership from the front. >> let's bring in mike viqueira, live at the white house at his post. good morning. >> good morning, alex. >> congress returns shortly from the recess. where does the debate pick up? >> reporter: there will be two things on the. gas prices is one, as we headed into this weekend, you're going to see competing proposals from senate democrats. they'll have a bill on the floor to cut the $4 billion in subsidies that the oil companies get. they reported near-record profits against for the first quarter of this year. house republicans meanwhile, say, no, that's essentially a

tax increase that will be passed on to consumers. it will have the opposite effect. what they want to do, is drill, baby, drill, they want to open more domestic drillings across the united states. that and the debate over. may 16th is the date that this country will officially exceed at the debt ceiling of $14.3 trillion. now, we all know that the treasury has said they can move around some things, play some sleight of hand with the bookkeeping and cover obligation sometime midsummer, but that would rage here on monday when the congress returns from the two-week break. meanwhile, a governor, bob mcdonnell of virginia, newly install installed, talked about the 2012 race and what he would like to see in a republican field that frankly some folks are finding a bit lacking. let's have a listen. >> i'd like to see a governor,

because governors have to balance a budget, they have to be decisive. we had knee pro-growth policies, keep taxes in check, and that's what i governor brings to the table. i'm not at all pessimistic. i think we have good candidates. they'll get stronger and for the crucible of these debates. >> bob mcdonnell is a governor, but he's not running. a former governor of massachusetts, mitt romney, he has some baggage on the side because of the universal health care he passed. tim pawlenty, a former governor of minnesota. the question mike huckabee of arkansas, mitch daniels of indiana, currently the governor there, will they get in, and of course haley barbour, the current governor of mississippi, announced he was not going to run. >> mike viqueira, see you next hour. >> reporter: okay. sunday church services are

filling with those mourning the dead. in alabama alone, officials say at least 250 people were killed in those storms, and nbc's charles hadlock is live for us. a good sunday morning to you, charles. tell us what you are seeing there this morning. >> reporter: there's a lot of devastation still on the ground, workers are stringing new cable across most of alabama, which has seen about half a million people without power. church services are under way across alabama and a number of churches have been damaged or destroyed. congregation members have been scraping away the debris. today they're holding church services on the foundations of their broken churches, symbolic of the rise they say will occur in alabama once again. the death toll remains at 343, 250 of the dead are in alabama,

39 of them are here in tuscaloosa. a lot of neighbors are missing, relatives are gone, and landmarks that everyone used to become so familiar with are also missing here in alabama. its path was about 100 miles long, and today meteorologists are expected to announce the scale, the strength of the tornado that came through tuscaloosa. everyone imagines it's probably a 4 or 5 on the scale, meaning that winds were more than 200 miles an hour. it's very evident by the debris field that you see here. alex? >> it is absolutely incredible. does this stretch as far as the eye can see, charles? when you look, you see a few walls standing and the like, but pretty much utter devastation in all directions? >> reporter: yeah, you can see -- this is part of a japanese restaurant that was destroyed, but beyond this, you

can see the scar that goes on for miles across alabama, across hilltops, across lakes and streams. nothing was left untouched in the past of this storm as i say, was about 100 miles long across parts of alabama. >> unbelievable. charles hadlock, thank you very much for that. residents in a small southern illinois city have been ordered to evac ways. the city is called cairo, and thank you for the correction on the pronunciation previously. meanwhile, more power of spring storms are making -- alex, good morning. >> good morning to you, alex. indeed we are watching more of the storms flaring up this morning, in some areas that need no more rains.

as we get in closer, in and around the dallas area, one big cell about to work its way in. heads up for some hail and gusty winds, and the broader region where we have that outlined in the yellow, that's where we have a severe thunderstorms watch, this is a newly issued watch, watching out for large hail and damaging winds, with storms spreading across the southern plains. it's allowed a start to our sunday in a lot of these areas, and quite a bit of heavy rain, all lining up right along this cold frontal boundary. that would lead to some areas picking up rain over and over again, more flooding not just for our sunday, but even into monday as well. >> alex? >> alex wallace, many thanks. another delay for the shuttle "endeavour." the scheduled launch has been pushed back again. nbc's jay barberi has been told the team has been told more

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new questions today about the nato mission in libya, and whether western forces may take on a more direction military approach in removing colonel gadhafi from power. the coalition has been bombing his forces for week and overnight reportedly an air

strike killed his youngest son and three of his grind children. here across from me in d.c. for a change i'm glad. i understand you were quite the party animal last night. >> late one, but it was fun. >> i heard, yeah, right? >> yeah. >> how much do you think this ratchets up the operation from the white house perspective now there are reports, yet to be confirmed, though, that gadhafi's youngest of the seven sons killed, three grandchildren killed. >> under 12. >> yeah, you put all that together, how does it change the tenor of things? >> if these reports are true, a big difference from 1986 when some strikes by president reagan killed one of the gadhafi's daughters, is that now the world will see these funerals, there's going to be this outpouring of grief in tripoli, which is very strongly pro-gadhafi. you already see the russians

attacking this, and the problem for president obama is he didn't order this strike. this is now a nato-led campaign, so he's going to get blamed for it in a lot of parts of the world, but the decision on the specific military targets was made by nato, and the british and the french are taking the lead on that. >> we have to remember, jonathan, what this follows. this follows funerals of libyan citizens that were killed. has that been lost on the world view? >> i think it has. the reason for the intervention in the first place was a humanitarian effort to prevent a slaughter in benghazi. the problem now is that everybody in the world has a short attention span, and the focus now will be on do the nato powers, including the united states, have the blood of children on their hands? that is the way it would be interpreted, unfortunately, in the arab world. >> do you think in the white house this morning there is some second thought being given to

the action in libya? >> well, i mean, i don't think that anybody could ever avoid looking back and having second thoughts might be too strong, but this is a very unfortunate turn of events for u.s. policy in libya. i think they would say no, because they have what they call a duty to protect. that was the reason we went in there. remember, gadhafi was saying he was going to go house by house and kill his own people like rats. >> pulling them out of close either. >> that was just a few weeks ago. i don't think the white house regrets trying to prevent that from happening. whether over time there's regret about taking this from essentially a humanitarian military mission to targeting gadhafi, that's where the conversation will be in the days ahead. >> that has yet to happen. as we turn to domestically the issues now, have you filled up your car lately?

come on, gasoline, close to $4. i mean, 25 cents off an all-time high. how much is this shaping what the president is to focus on? >> this is huge. you could say that it is directly connectioned to his reelection prospects, as opposed to some things that get talked about. i don't think libya is that directly connected to his political fortunes. if gas prices go even higher over the next 18 months, he's got a big political problem. now, we don't know necessarily that that's going to happen, because the thing about gas prices is, you know, nobody knows where they're going. it's a bit like the stock market. but it's something that has a lot of attention from him. the white house is trying to turn the conversation to eliminating these tax breaks for oil companies, which have billions and billions of dollars in report profits.

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the loss of lives and definite strays. and finding more permanent housing for the thousands who are now homeless. meanwhile, we are learning more about the side and scope of the twisters that hit last week. joining me is the contributing editor for "scientific american." i know you have chased tornadoes. have you seen anything like this? >> not only have i never seen anything like it, most haven't seen anything close to this no decades. >> really? that includes the time you were embedded for two weeks in 2009 with vortex 2? >> it was a huge study, yes, that's right. >> but you didn't see what you experienced and witnessed like on wednesday? >> nothing like it. in fact '09 resulted in one of the calmest seasons in decades, which was a good things for residents, aed about thing no science. >> vortex ii, what did you learn

from that? >> largest study of tornadoes done in history. the first was done in the early '90s, and that's what 9 movie "twister" was based on, actually. what they were trying to do is get as much data as possible to try to understand what causes a rotating superstorm to actually drop a tornado. the problem is you can have a supercell thunderstorm on one side and another supercell storm identical, one will create a tornado, the other one won't. this is totally tied into the difficulty of predicting tornadoes. >> so in terms of predicting, were folks able to predict the size and the scope of these monsters from wednesday? the technology is much better. >> it's absolutely much better. actually the spc, the storm prediction center, did a fantastic job of giving warnings far ahead of time, at least one day ahead. they already had a 45% hatched

area over that area on wednesday. which vortex is out, if we had a 15% risk of a tornado or super cell developing into a tornado, we would have all mans on deck heading straight for that area, so 45% is almost unheard of. unfortunately, to know that a tornado is actually going to drop down in a specific area, we may only have 15 minutes at most. >> and clearly for some that was not enough time, but christine nicholson, many thanks. >> thank you. for more, you can head to the westerly channel's web side, which is weather.com. analysts are hoping for another strong showing after stocks cap the month of april with strong gains. also this week earnings from kellogg's, kraft, sara lee. washington gets back to work after the easter break.

only congress is allowed to raise the limit of how much the treasury can borrow to pay its debt. on friday the april jobs report. some are predicting some 200,000 americans found jobs this past month. jobless rate is expected to remain steady, though. the royal couple has sidestepped the cameras, disappearing for a weekend getaway in the uk somewhere, but rumors are swirling about a honeymoon destination. germany says they may be heading to the saychelle islands. here with more is atiy abawi. do you have any idea where the royals are this is a weekend? >> reporter: well, that's just one of many -- we've been hearing when australia, possi e

possible. >> reporter: in the end, security reasons, and wanting to avoid the media may actually stop them if that's the plan. the tabloid journalists are hoping it's the saychelles. >> what about westminster abbey, also commenting about the man who cartwheeled down the aisle following the wedding? what's that? >> reporter: that was one of the many amazing videos and pictures we saw, people in britain celebrating, including the people. we heard about this verger not being named, but some are saying his name is ben shuward, and the spokesperson actually does sea

he was very pleased the service had gone according to plan and was expressing his exuberance. as we've seen with many people, includes a police officers, actually, at the becoming ham palace, trying to rev up the crowds, dancing around bringing laughs. it was just people celebrating. it was a joyous day for more than just the bride and groom. >> we like that. i'm not sure we've seen a man cartwheeling in robes before down the center of westminster abbey. >> it is impressive, actually. >> duly so. thank you very much, atiya requests abawi. let's go to rome, and thousands streaming past the coffin of pope john paul ii. this is one sign of the continuing devotion of catholics to the late pope, being remembered not only as a holy man, but as a charismatic leader

and defensor of human rights. george weigel, welcome back. good morning. >> good morning, alex. >> i know it's been a remarkable day for you, george. let's talk about the late appoint, who is remembered for many things, but contributing to the fall of communism. how did he help usher in a new era? >> i think those nine days in june 1979 when he returned to poland for the first time as pope were nine days in which the history of the 20th century pivoted in a fundamental way. wow ever mentioning politics or economics, he gave back to the people of poland the truth about themselves. he gave them back their culture. he gave them back their identity. he ignited a revolution of conscience that produced a new kind of politics in the solidarity movement a year later and that eventually produced the

nonviolent revolution of 1989 throughout central and eastern europe. it was a remarkable performance, but it's important to underscore that this was the act of a pastor, not a diplomat, not a politician, but a man doing a pastoral service to his people, giving them back the truth about themselves, after five years of nazi occupation, and 40 years of communist usurpation. >> george, he didn't have all good things, shall we say, to say about capitalism either, right? >> john paul ii believed both the free market and democracy required virtual people to make them work. he did not have a moral equivalence view of the free market and communism, about you he certainly believed it took

people possessed of certain virtues to make markets work and democracy work. i think he was deeply impressed as a philosopher with entrepreneurship, with the application of human create activity to economic life, but he wanted that economic life to be guided by the virtues. i think that was a very sensible thing to recommend, given what we have seen in recent years. >> yeah, you know, george, i think something that is so unique to this pope, he was a normal guy in so many ways. he loved to ski. he loved to write poetry. i mean, he was really somebody that people could relate to, including you. >> i think alex, one of the things that made an enormous difference in this life is this was the first pope in centuries who did not enter an italian seminary at age 12 and emerge 12 years later at 24 as an ordained priest of the church.

john paw ii was the first priest in centuries who, until he was a young man, had intended to live his christian life as a layman. then as a young priest, his closest friends were laypeople. the students he served as university chaplain in krakow, but many and pen whose lives were deeply shaped by him. >> thank you for doing so, george weigel. we appreciate that. a new attack in tripoli, following the nato strike on the home of moammar gadhafi's son. this time the target was the british embassy. don't know what to give her this mother's day?

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the libyan government says that a nato air strike has killed gadhafi's youngest son

and three of his grind children. nato confirms it struck a government building in tripoli, but cannot confirm if gadhafi's son and grandchildren were killed. the british government says it's expelling the ambassador after the embassy was attacked. richard engel is live with us in benghazi. what is the latest you are hearing, and any confirmation about the. >> it's coming from the libyan government itself. nato is not confirming that it killed. nato is confirming it carried out an air strike over a command and control site. that is what nato is calling almost all of the targets it's striking in downtown tripoli. after this attack took place, people on the streets apparently inspired by the government, started attacking the british embassy, and that is what led the british government to take this move, quite a severe move,

of expelling the libyan ambassador to the united kingdom. witnesses intropy will have reported smoke from the italian embassy. anytime this happens, and this is not the first time embassy grounds have gone under attack, the government says it cannot control the people, they're expressing their love, loyalty and dedication to moammar gadhafi, but if you listen to the speeches given by the libyan leadership, it is clear they are inciting people to go out and take action. i was just going through one of the old speeching, and in it there's almost a veiled threat for -- nato is carrying out attacks across the mediterranean, who am i to stop libyans from carrying out attacks in their home country? this game of incitement is one i

think the uk wants to stop. >> okay. thank you for that update from benghazi. nbc's richard engel. gas prices rise again. is big oil to blame? there are some who say no. we'll explain.

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sorry to tell you, gas prices rose another penny. the national average for a gallon of gas is now $3.94, up 32 cents from a month ago, jumped $1.05 since this time last year. making these prices especially heart to swallow, the profits from the oil companies are soaring. exxon mobil raked in nearly $11 billion in the first quarter, up 69%. shell, chevron each making -- bp's profits shot up 17% overall to over $7 billion.

joining me is steve moore. good morning. >> good morning. >> people are going to go, are you kidding me? how unfair is that? are the big oil companies to blame? >> by the way, welcome to washington. >> thank you. >> if you get cash in northern virginia, it's about 4.19. >> i was like, wow, we're paying a lot. >> everybody is enraged. it's like a tax of $500 per year. the average american using -- when you talk about a dollar increase t. the average american uses about 500 gallons. the president says we should be putting higher taxes on them. i looked at the statistics of all the industries, all the major industries in the united states, the oil and gas industry pay more taxes than almost any other industry. it's not like they're not paying any taxes. >> but they have huge profits. >> let me stop you right there. if you've got a product whose

price goes up, obviously you're going to make money. >> yeah. >> the gas price -- remember a few years ago in 2007, the oil price shot up to $150 a barrel, and then nine months later, it was $30 barrel, so you get these huge fluctuations. >> are the prices proportionate to the cost of oil going up per barrel? >> well, yes, because what's happening, obviously, all the turmoil in the middle east is causing supply disruptions. but there's a bigger villain. if the american people want to be angry at somebody, i wouldn't look at the executives of the oil companies, i would look at ben bernanke. we have a very expansive monetary policy right now that's shooting up the price, alex, not just of oil and gas, but silver, cotton, copper, all those things. >> i'm going to admit that math is not my strong point. however, if you look at the price of oil per barrel when it was pushing $150, the price of gas was $4 or so a gallon. we're back there again and the

price of oil per bail is down to like 108. how do you -- >> i don't know how the price from the time it leaves the well to the time it gets to the service station. look, there's no question that, you know, these are huge profits that these companies are making. they make huge losses when they lose, but my other concern is let's tax away these profits, i think the one thing americans want is less dependence on foreign oil. what the taxes the president is talking about is tax production here, i think that's -- look, if you tax something, you get less of it. i don't see how a higher tax on the aisle companies will lead to lower gasoline prices. >> the tax breaks that the president is going after those, how would that affect gas prices? >> i hate unjustified tax breaks, but when you look at the major, quote, tax breaks the oil companies are getting, most of them are the same kinds of legitimate tax deductions that

all american manufacturing companies get. the one that the president points to in 2003, where we were allowed automatic expensing of expenses that manufacturing companies get, why? to create jobs. oil and gas does create a lot of jobs. >> we want them do keep on doing it, though we have to look for other sorts of energy places to go. >> but we should be drilling here, too. the president complains about the high oil and gas prices, he's done nothing to promote -- >> steve moore, from "wall street journal," thank you. >> welcome to washington. >> thank you. in england, prince william and princess catherine are spending their first weekend in private, as they should. they left buckingham palace for an unknown location. we do know the uk has more reasons to celebrate. nbc's special correspondent ben vogel has more.

>> reporter: the royal wedding may be behind us, but some have simply described it as a dress rehearsal, as london remains the in the world spot light for the next year or so. i've lived in london all my life and still have -- this eye-catching sight could be the ultimate ticket here. >> it was built in the year 2000 to celebrate the millennium. the royal wedding may be behind us, but this is only the beginning of london's time in the spot light. from up here, a real perspective of the london scene. below us is the river thames, it will play host to the queen's diamond jubilee next year, with boats and festivities. beyond is buckingham palace. that's where prince philip, the queen's husband will be

celebrating his 90th birthday later this year, but of course the big event is the olympics 2012 here in london, and behind me is horse-drawn parades the setting for the volley ball. there will actually be seating for 20,000 people. with just over a year before the olympic games get under way, the city of london is gearing up. the royal wedding serving as a good dress rehearsal. we head to the olympics next year. in a way, this was a bit of a dry run. >> london mayor launched a unique bike rental program, to inspire londoners to get in shape, while gives commuters and visitors an alternative of getting around the city. it allows people to rent a bike in one location and drop it off in another. >> such a great way to explore london. parliament here. there are 20,000 trips on these every day. they've been a huge success. it's anticipated they'll be

rolled out across the uk. who knows? maybe coming to the u.s. soon. >> while london moves along as planned in anticipation of 2012 games, the diamond jubilee and prince philip's 90th, the city remains proud of the vibrant neighborhood, where old meets new, london may be filled with old buildings, but we have an ecollective array of of neighborhoods, and this is my favorite. >> this was in the film "notting hill." no trip to london would be complete out a visit to the pub. cheers. here's to london and the years ahead. you can probably see the river thames behind me. this will be one of the key's

locations during the queen's diamond jubilee next year. let's hope the sun shines not next 12 months. alex. >> ben fogle, thank you. a mixture of comedy and campaigning last night in washington at the annual event in washington, this dinner, the president often makes fun of himself and his administration. however, last night he took aim at the potential candidate donald rump. >> no one is prouder to put this birth certificate matter to rest than the donald. that's because he can finally get back to focusing on the issues that matter, like did we fake the moon landing? what really happened at roswell? and where are biggie and tupac?

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so there's new word today that the royal couple is asking for royal revenue. a buckingham palace officials says aides are seeking revenue to set up their own court. for some perspective, the household is made up of 49 staffers. their experiences are expected to go up by several hundred thousand this year. we have the features editor for o.k. magazine. hello. >> how are you? >> a little less for the wear and tear. let's get to the changes for william and kate immediately over the next few years, how will they play out? >> well, basically you have two sources of revenue within the royal family. the crown estate funds the queen. prince charles is funded by the duchy of cornwall. until now the princes have also been funded by that estate, but

of course now they're married, they need their independent source of revenue. this is actually the first shake-up for about 250 years in order to give william and kate their independent source of revenue. >> now, i'm just curious, do you anticipate any backlash from that? these are recessionary times. do you think people will like at that and think, how much money do they need? >> of course it's an expensive lifestyle. we know prince charles' expenses once into the millions. we don't expect theirs to be that yet. they certainly won't have the same number of staff that prince charles, for example, has, but they are going to need more. whether the public are going to be upset, here i think there's a great deal of warm feeling towards william and catherine, really given the size of the queen's estate, it's still just a drop in the ocean. >> i think there are some who

might say to give away from the valet that -- with regard to where they're going on the honeymoon, talk about the rampant speculation and that they may be at balmoral this weekend? >> we understand they spent last night at windsor castle, but build moral estate is free and available for them. this is where prince charles and diana spent the first part of their honeymoon back in 1981 before they went on a mediterranean cruise, so it certainly would be a tradition. it's a beautiful estate in the wiles of scotland, lots of little cottages, lots of wonderful outdoor pursuits and lots of privacy, which of course is the most important thing. >> absolutely. and we doth begrudge them that. el weiss parker, good to see you. >> thank you. a historic day in rome that brought out a reported million people. the events are still onagain.

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