the devine in me greets the devine in you. can you say that? very good. so, as joe anna was saying. this come from the word meaning to tell stores. this is a story teller. you guys i heard out there i was listening a birdie told me you thought you were going to see a movie; right ? >> you are. in the old days this comes from what country? india. thousands of years ago and hundreds of years ago in india there were no movie theatres, no television, no radio, no comic books or no books for people like you and me to read. was this the same here? >> yes. all offer the world it was like that. ask your parents. they can tell you what it was like before the internet. so, people told stores. i bet you tell stories. did you tell a story today? >> yeah, i bet you did you went up to our friend and said, did you see that? your friend said, no, no he didn't. right? that's a story. so, i will tell you a story. in india, here we have super heroes like, tell me a hero. >> super man. we have super heroes in india. krishna. lifts mountains and throws them to the ocean to create bridges. i will tell yo

. >> on top of that, one twister traveled through the tiny town of devine, texas, overnight. touching down southwest of san antonio. 50 homes were damaged. some totally destroyed. so far, there's no confirmed reports of injuries, thankfully. >>> here's a look at what the downpours have done. flooding that stretches into oklahoma. some areas have seen two inches of rain an hour. more severe weather is on tap for later today, with 70-mile-per-hour winds, hail, and a chance of tornadoes from shreveport to houston and southern missouri. rivers in the dallas area are expected to rise up to 20 feet. we will, of course, have a complete update later on "good morning america." >>> and our other major story on this tuesday morning, new insight into the possible offense strategy for army sergeant robert bales. his attorney says bales will not enter an insanity plea in the shooting of 16 afghan civilians. >> lawyers will claim that bales was acting with diminished capacity of a breakdown. we're joined by tahman bradley. >> reporter: good morning. overnight, we got word about what bales s

up to 50 homes damaged or destroyed in the town of devine. over my shoulder, we have charlie's bar. i was talking to the owner, marilyn, a short mile ago. the backside completely crashed in. signage swept down the street. every one of those people safe. minor injuries, no deaths reported out of this particular storm system. that is the best news. we're looking at this morning. they plan to get a big neighborhood group over here in a couple of hours and pick up what has fallen award from this particular place. right down the street, another home completely destroyed. 15-year-old girl home alone. stayed in the bathroom with her dog. the bathroom is the only place left standing. great survival stories after a route night. dallas, san antonio, austin, flying through those hubs today, expect big delays, especially this morning. back to you. >> eric fisher live in devine, thank you. >>> people across virginia will be getting ready for the worst in an emergency tornado drill. fairfax county kicked off its own three-day drill yesterday. state officials say 51 tornadoes hit virginia last yea

devin, what feedback did you get after being a part of the forum? >> i mean, a lot of people reached out to me that i knew. people from my home town, people from my church, stuff like that. a lot of students at school found out about it, you know, through facebook or twitter and stuff like that, and then there were some professors who reached out to me, some former alumni from ohio state. >> did you get some extra grades out of it? you shoul should have. >> if any of them are listening, i'd appreciate it. >> i'm going to write ohio state a letter. i think they ought to take your f and make it a d. >> i would love that. >> tammy, what about you? you probably had some folks bumping into you in wilmington, ohio last week saying i saw you on tv. what did they say? >> i talked with lots of folks. one of the fellows i talked with actually said that his wife was pretty a political usually, but she watched the show. she saw me answer or asking the questions. she saw what she thought were real questions and real people asking them, and so she had questions o

devin, what feedback did you get after being a part of the forum? >> i mean, a lot of people reached out to me that i knew. people from my home town, people from my church, stuff like that. a lot of students at school found out about it, you know, through facebook or twitter and stuff like that, and then there were some professors who reached out to me, some former alumni from ohio state. >> did you get some extra grades out of it? you shoul should have. >> if any of them are listening, i'd appreciate it. >> i'm going to write ohio state a letter. i think they ought to take your f and make it a d. >> i would love that. >> tammy, what about you? you probably had some folks bumping into you in wilmington, ohio last week saying i saw you on tv. what did they say? >> i talked with lots of folks. one of the fellows i talked with actually said that his wife was pretty a political usually, but she watched the show. she saw me answer or asking the questions. she saw what she thought were real questions and real people asking them, and so she had questions o

in devine, texas, some roofings were ripped off. >> a loud -- the winds, just bam, bam. felt like something tore off. >> the storms were also dangerous for drivers who hydroplaned. thousands of flights were canceled. seven states from oklahoma to mississippi are still under flood warnings tonight. >>> here in maryland this was just cloud cover we're dealing with, very, very limited precipitation but you can see the clouds after the morning fog tried to lift. couldn't find much sunshine. no question about that. temperature wise warming up a little bit. 74 in federalburg -- fredericksburg and cooler to the west. frederick, gaithersburg. 60s, mild and still humid. the chance for fog. we'll talk about that and your warmest weather of the week is coming up. >> thanks a lot. >> we have a developing story out of wisconsin. the last three nights people have reported hearing booming noises from the ground. it started sunday night. more than 150 people woke up because of the noise and called 911. >> three booms and one long shake. >> all night long hearing the rumblings. >> expert

item b is devine. item c is blush live bar, limited live performance. is there anybody here from the public who wishes to oppose these items? seeing none, can we get a motion to approve those and then have a discussion? >> i would like to make a motion to approve the consent calendar. any discussion on any of these? seeing none, called the roll. sounds good to me. we will switch to a regular calendar, item d. 555 golden gate, place of entertainment. >> for all of the permits that were approved before everybody leaves, and this applies to everyone. once the commission approves your permit, congratulations, but you are not done. make sure

item b is devine. item c is blush live bar, limited live performance. is there anybody here from the public who wishes to oppose these items? seeing none, can we get a motion to approve those and then have a discussion? >> i would like to make a motion to approve the consent calendar. any discussion on any of these? seeing none, called the roll. sounds good to me. we will switch to a regular calendar, item d. 555 golden gate, place of entertainment. >> for all of the permits that were approved before everybody leaves, and this applies to everyone. once the commission approves your permit, congratulations, but you are not done. make sure you come see me. the commission granted the permit on the condition that you get approvals from the other department. do not be the person that has something outstanding and has your permits said on my desk for a year because you have not call the fire department or building inspection or whenever. the first three, you are free to go. item d, it is right off of van ness. it is primarily in an area that is dominated by of

in devine, texas, really rough weather along this front today.f this. not as many tornadoes expected during the day today, although i can't rule them out. but flash flooding will be a real deal with this. in the northwest, comes a brand-new storm system. this one has eight inches along the coastline, as well. wet day for folks getting rain. we had heavy rainfall and the has now moved off of the town mainly in calvert county. it is moving toward solomons island and clipping lexington park. is a warm start to the day, 62 in washington and college park. it is -- there is a dense fog for parts of virginia maryland until 10:00 until partly cloudy and 72. >> this may be the biggest crowd for "hunger games" in times square. it may be. lara? >> thanks very much, sam. what a great crowd out there. >>> let's look at our "gma morning menu." we have all the scoop on "dancing with the stars." carson kressley, weighing in on last night's dazzling premiere. >>> plus, "the hunger games" star, liam hemsworth, is live in times square. we can't wait to talk to him.

. >> joining me now is democratic strategist tad devine and chip saltsman, a republican strategist whoial campaign manager in 2008. great to have both of you with us tonight. let me start with you, chip. should we just name president obama the winner of the gop primary right here and now? >> not so quick. and again it shocked me that you thought president obama was the big winner last night. look. i would agree. it was maybe not so super tuesday yesterday. it was just okay tuesday. this is still a tough primary. it is republican on republican action which i know you guys love to watch. but at the end of the day, i still think this is going to be a stronger, better nominee for having gone through this. but you all enjoy it now. >> the president did get more votes in ohio than the republicans did. i realize that some republicans, the most votes don't count, but he literally got more votes yesterday in ohio. >> not you add up all the candidates. he just got more votes than one of the candidates. all the other votes, more republican votes yesterday than barack obama did. if you want to tal

.===.mas de dos docenas de viviendas fueron destruidas por un tornado en devine, texas.apodera de los equipos profesiónales de baloncesto. pasamos a miami heat, tony de andrade ya se ha convertido en experto o no. >>la altura no me ayuda, han escuchado el baile del... bueno ya lo van a ver. estamos precalentando el ambiente para el partido para esta noche. tras de mi las bailarinas encargadas de poner sabor latino esta noche nuestra contagiosa música amenizará el encuentro. las chicas ya están listas para la coreografía. >>el baile de beper. >>ahora del telefono inteligente. >>ella bailan en el intermedio del partido cuando los heat juegan en casa. >>antes baile por dos años con salsa. a mí me encanta. >>sofia es una de las cuatro hispanas del grupo ,tiene sangre dominicana y puertorriqueña. >>una combinacion explosiva en la cancha. >>vamos a tener un vestido de salsa que enseña un poquito. también vamos a hacer lo que sabemos que son las cosas chiquitas entre hispanas y estadounidenses también una coreana >>miren como mueve las caderas ♪.. >>bueno no cualquiera puede lo

you know, i have my own way of devining how the framers would react to modern scenarios. to find out join me at a local walgreen's for an installment of the daily show's new segment. ah, yes! hello! ah, hello, hello! ah, yes! hello, my good a both carry. i am thomas jefferson, i was wondering if i might prove you a question. i have this slave sally-- (laughter) >> of late i've been slipping her a bit of the old virginia ham. (laughter) honey cured, if you must know. (laughter) anyway, as you know, sometimes in the course of human events, the point is i don't think america's ready for black jeffersons. i mean no one, no one would accept that-- oh, oh, and what are these? right on the old john hancock, eh? perfect. and if you don't mind, i'll take anus weekly, if you would, and a package of your finest gum. (cheers and applause) as you can probably tell we really didn't know how to end that. (laughter) so i was going to be like well, i'll just [bleep] take the wig off hourx about that i will take the wig off and just turn. (laughter) it's like sid caesars show of shows. of

so devin graham joins us "right this minute" via skype. >> it was absolutely amazing.the funniest videos i've ever done. everyone having the time of their life. literally a big party. >> how was it to be caught in that melee? >> it's amazing. and honestly, like, there's so much colors that go up are everywhere. and after the throw, it's probably three or four minutes where you can't see anything. you can't even see the sun. >> is it hard to get rid of all the color after this event was done? >> yes. and everyone that went there, they're still blowing out colorful snot out of their nose. >> do you have like a team of he feels that tell you where the cool events and locations are so you can then go film? >> i started out just making cool events. and then inviting people. and now everyone comes to me saying, hey, did you hear about this or did you hear about this? ♪ ♪ i feel so real >> if anybody wants to do this, the next event is happening april 14th in salt lake city, utah. ♪ i'm swimming in the ocean >>> that's going to do it for our show. thanks for joining us. and d

and democratic strategist, tad devine, a senior adviser for the perry and gore campaign.r both of you for being here. steve, it used to be mitt romney and the others. now they're all to the right. no division, it seems. how bad is this for romney in the long run? >> well, yeah, with i think the worst thing for romney in the long run, it's not just that he's been pulled to the right so far in this process. it's what happened in alabama and mississippi last night. because what that did is it basically insured that this republican process now is going to go through june, at least, and maybe even into the summer months. and as long as this republican process is going along, he has absolutely no wiggle room, absolutely no latitude to sort of move to the center, sort of distance himself in the base, do the things that a general election republican candidate really has to do to have a chance against obama. and so he's delayed in doing that. also, in that time, he's going to rack up a paper quote. all sorts of quotes and clips that will be fresh on people's minds and can be recyc

. >>> in texas, a tornado swept through devine, just outside san antonio last night. damaging homes but causing no injuries. it was one of three twisters confirmed today by the national weather service. the same storm system brought hail, high winds, also flooding to parts of texas, oklahoma, kansas and arkansas got it pretty bad. flood watches and warnings are in effect over a wide area until thursday. 85 degrees in chicago by the way. >>> now to the army staff sergeant accused of murdering 16 afghan civilians earlier this month. robert bales' lawyer spoke today after a long session with his new client. our report tonight from nbc's john yang. >> reporter: in 11 hours of conversations, staff sergeant robert bales told his defense attorney his memory of the night of the shootings is spotty. >> if you woke up and didn't realize what you had done last night, and people were telling you that you had done some really awful things and you had no memory of that, that kind of gives you an idea of what i'm talking about. >> reporter: john henry brown said he's seen this kind

this little image captured a tornado, it appears to be on the ground in devine, texas. no real big reports of damage with that. but we're watching too much water in texas. funny, we've had such drought conditions over the last couple of years, hard to even talk about flooding from heavy rain because it's so beneficial. this is too much rain too fast from the slow moving thunderstorms. san antonio picked up two to three inches of rain in two hours last night, still problems with water on the roads there. now we're watching areas like waco and dallas, it's just continuing to rain and it's been raining all night lochk. so that morning commute won't be fun. even around austin we've received reports of heavy rain. the little white flashes on the map are lightning strikes. we've had thousands of them. in the last hour, we've had over 12 it,000 lightning strikes from this line of storms through texas. very active weather. the maroon color is flash it flood warnings, tulsa got drenched with flash flooding, too, yesterday. there are all the problems with water around austin and

unfortunately for the country, obama did, president obama did follow mitt romney's lead and adopted as devin pluf said yesterday the blueprint which was romney care. this is one that encapsulates all of the issues at stake in this very critical election our country's history. and there's only one candidate who has the chance of supporting the republican nomination who can make this the central issue that will be the winning issue for tuesday win the presidency back and that's rick santorum. unfortunately, the worst person to make that case is mitt romney. that's why as i said we're here today and he's not. [ inaudible question ] >> i don't regret it at all. i said it here today. the worst candidate to go against barack obama and the most important issue of the day. that's what i said yesterday so i said in every single speech i've been giving throughout the course of this campaign. i do not regret taking the new york times reporter who was out of line, you know, if you're a conservative and you haven't taken on new york times reporter you're not worth your salt as far as i'm concerned. we're

the responsibility falls on the shoulders of devin sed gucci. >> set gucci is one for three this yeare shoot-out. a must score situation. he won't get it. >> that is not good. he somehow loses the puck and then loses his skate. falls on his keister and that's how the game ends. goalie usually comes out of the net, casually strolls out to make the save. too bad for the wild. they score three goals in the final minute to force the overtime to end like this. the canadiens win 5-4. >>> coming up on "morning joe," at the top of the hour, live from fort lee high school, we have an incredible lineup to talk about the state of education. a veritable of who's who of governors, chris christie will be here, jack markell and dannel malloy will join us. chancellor of washington republican schools, michele reid and the president of the teachers union, randy winegarten with the reverend al sharpton and our "morning joe" crew. in a few minutes at the top of the hour. >> when we come back we will meet the superintendent of fort lee schools, he's not afraid to step into the ring with any of the forces

minnesota's devin setagucci with a chance here. braden hope says i don't think so. mikko koivu. braten haltby standing tall. 12 saves in the first period. second period, still no score. alexander on the break. over to chmera. caps in front, 1-0. third period, 2-0, washington. ovechkin, loose puck. goes five hole on matt hackett. his 36th of the season. holtby earns his third career shutout. the caps blank the wild, 3-0, jumping back into the eighth and final playoff spot. >>> wizards at boston. nene out with back spasms. first quarter, rondo. nice pass to bradley. bradley filling in for the injured ray allen. he scored 23 points. third quarter, paul pierce open for three. buries it. he had 21. the wizards lose, 88-76. their record drops to 11-37. >>> women's ncaa tournament. the terps taking on the defending national champs, texas a&m in the sweet 16. aggies in control early. skiular collins buries the three. texas a&m up as many as 18 in the first half. back come the terps off the miss. in transition. alyssa thomas. the acc player of the year. nifty move. she had 2

. >> one twister that damaged dozens of homes in the town of devine monday night is being blamed foruring eight people. fierce thunderstorms also triggered flash flooding in texas and surrounding states with some rivers rising nearly 20 feet. thunder was so loud in oklahoma it registered on earthquake monitors. that's some thunder. >> thunder where you can just feel it in your bones. here's a look at your forecast. hail, high winds and tornadoes from new orleans to jackson, mississippi. heavy rain from shreveport to little rock. thunderstorms in the midwest. morning fog in new york, new jersey and new england. showers in the southeast. rain in the northwest. >> 45 in seattle. 60 in salt lake city. 74 in phoenix. 80s in chicago and indianapolis. mostly 70s along the east coast. 83 in miami. >>> i heard the crinkling while i was reading. so i knew we were going to talk about something. >> chips. >> this involves snack food. that's why it is our, boom, favorite story of the day. >> a piece in "usa today" caught our attention. on any given day, 90% of us, that's 9 out of 10 of us for tho