month and the unemployment rate dropped to a5.4% and stagnant wages -- >> health check this noon, an iowa teacher proves that you can eat mcdonald's every day and still lose weight. >> for two months he stuck to a 2,000 calorie diet but followed the nutritional guidelines set by the fda, he started with two egg white delights and oatmeal and for lunch salad and fruit and finished the day with a value meal and in the end he lost 37 pounds experts aren't surprised because he made smart choices. >> you can get salad and egg whites and that sort of things but the chicken they put on the salads it will have a lot of sodium in there and that could make your blood pressure go up. >> he says his cholesterol went up dramatically but added a 45 minute walk to his daily routine, there are news story beginning at 4:00 and here is alicia vitarelli with apreview. >> from free ice-cream to fee work outs for the family this weekend, all the things you can get for nothing in freebie friday and the big question. can you really potty train your child in just three days, one mom says absolutely and her ebook

an iowa school a building came flying off but everyone made it out safely. nine people were injured and about two dozen buildings destroyed after a tornado ripped through the small town of dell mont. all residents have been evacuated until further notice. flash flooding led to rescues in texas. you can see the national guard air lifting people to safety. others were rescued from their front doors and some from their rooftops. if mother's day weekend came with so much lousy weather, why not wrap it up in a beautiful package. this twister with a rainbow. it is for today, 50 million people will remain at risk. bill karins is tracking the storm and we'll have the latest with his weather report. let's go to mississippi where three men and a woman have been charged in the fatal shooting of two police officers during a traffic stop in hattiesburg. officials say that 34-year-old benjamin dean and loirk tate were shot

he's clearly got an iowa problem. he wants to play in the e evangelical field as dana was pointing out yesterday that's pretty crowded right now, so he does -- he does have a problem. but now they can say, we don't need to win in iowa just need to do well in iowa. >> that's the point i was going to make which is the fact of the matter is because the kind of republican jeb bush is, he tends to appeal more to the establishment republican party. the expectations are already incredibly low for him to do well in iowa much more of an activist grassroots kind of place and it sounds like spin but in this case i actually based on my experience covering campaigns believe it to be true. that the expectations game is perfect for them. they're very low. they can't go lower than this. so, you know actually it's walker's people who are concerned about peaking so early. >> right. >> who wants to be in first place now? >> it's coming up not that long from now. guys thanks very much. gloria and dana. coming up new information the nfl i

. >> and today governor bush was asked about it following an iowa fund-raiser. listen. >> megyn kelly interview and should supporters be worried? >> no. don't think so. i think i can handle it. i was asked a question. i answered the question wrong. i answered a different question. and look, we're all going to make mistakes. if you're look for a perfect candidate, he probably existed 2,000 years ago. >> susan estridge is here, she's a professor of law and political science at usc and a fox news contributor. always good do see you. >> good to see you. >> all right. let's start a look, governor bush is saying, listen, guys, nobody is perfect. i misunderstood the original question. do you believe him? do you think the governor bush is being honest or he's coming across as kind of rusty perhaps >> i actually found him rather appealing in that you 30 second clip you showed. you know i'm no jeb bush fan 'cause he's bright. people are following you 24/7. i get conduitsed with the two questions just in case anybody else was too. one question is based on what you knew the

i was taken by recently ralph reed's group face the family coalition, had an iowa caucus lots of social conservatives, all of the candidates were wildly applauding when they touched the international arena when they pledged to be tough about terrorism they won significant applause and positive comments from the audience. the republican candidate ultimately who wins will be the person who could dominate one element of the party and get significant support through other elements not simply someone who wins one faction and doesn't do well and others. >> karl rove out of austin, today, thank you for helping us crunch those numbers. awaiting the announcement from mike huckabee in 25 minutes. thanks. jenna: national security at the forefront of issues candidates have to address this time around. at the top of the show we told you there are serious questions as to whether or not the attempted shooting in suburban dallas has ties to isis. we are working on the story. >> the intelligence community at this hour is assessing the cleanup responsibility by isis at the same time investors are doing a

an iowa sergeant shocked at the carnage at shiloh wondered my god, can there be anything the in the future that compensates for this slaughter? religious discourse in america would become plagued more and more by incessant questioning decaying faith by an increasing , appeal to feeling and imagination as over against confessional reason or evangelical conversion. and that did not provide much weaponry for an adventure into public forums. perhaps people always think so in their own day, but it seems to me that there never was a time that all things have shaken loose from their foundations. so many are skeptical, doubtful, so many good people are cutting loose from creeds and forms. i am sometimes tempted ask whether prayer can make any difference. far from feeling satisfied, that the north had pursued a righteous crusade to its fulfillment, finney was enraged that after 10 years of war, and no public proclamation north or south, is our great national sin recognized. for southerners, the war laid a even heavier burden on religion. edward porter alexander who ended the war as a brigadier gene

. >>> an iowa trooper became a lifesaver thanks to his quick actions on a busy highway in des moines.y owen approached a stalled truck in the middle of that intersection. he drew his weapon, but when he opened the door, a frantic teenager inside told him his dad was having a heart attack. that's when bolin immediately started cpr. >> i got cpr in progress. hey, hey, hey, patrick! >> patrick, can you hear me? >> i got a pulse. i got a pulse. >> several other people also stopped to help. the truck driver is now back home thankful lip resting and recovering. >>> insult to -- thankfully resting and recovering. >>> insult to injury, why boxing fans are suing manny pacquiao after this fight. >> plus how a message from a simple trending now a quick note -- >>> trending now, a pick note to pizza hut may have saved a woman's life. this mother and her children are escaping from a hostage situation and they used the pizza hut app. the mother and her three children were held hostage by knifepoint with her boy friend. >> she tried to convince her boyfriend to allow them to order a pizza on her pho

june 30th, 2009, is just winding down for an iowa bridge construction crew along the des moines river when crane operator joe lowe notices something terribly wrong. >> i seen the boat drift down, and it hit cross ward, and then he was trying to rack it with an anchor or rope or something. and then i heard him holler at his wife to put her life jacket on, and he didn't have one on. >> there's nothing anyone nearby can do to stop the boat carrying a husband and wife from plummeting over the center street dam. the man is carried down stream, but the woman is caught in the turbulence or boil of the falls rushing over the low head dam. he swift water rescue team is called in and captured by local nbc cameras. they know time is not on their side for anyone trapped in the wash of a low head dam. pushing against the swift currents rescuers get as close as they can and throw her a line. but the celebration is premature according to des moines police sergeant joe gonzalez. evidently the person didn't have enough strength to hold on so they could be pulled to safety. >> the powerful falling wate

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an eye on. >> and in iowa, farmers send their sick animals here where preliminary bird flu tests are conducted and they are working around the clock to get results within hours. >> in our laboratory operation is monday through friday and now we are working 24 hours, seven days a week with a multiple personnel shift. >> and the doctor hopes the worst may be over but they are already bracing for the fall when the weather cools and wild ducks and geese fly south. >> as they migrate down through the by ways we'll see cases.

this video of a tornado ripping the roof off an iowa school shows the winds blasting through the midwestlains all weekend. >> i thought my ears were going to pop. >> reporter: from the twister that tore off the top of a church sunday in south dakota. >> we came out of the steakhouse down there and couldn't see the steeple so we knew something was wrong. >> reporter: to the torrential rains and tornadoes still slamming texas. >> we're seeing numerous flooding reports across corsicana county. >> reporter: residents are picking up the pieces after tornadoes here in denton county northwest of dallas and in cisco where one person died and another was badly hurt. on a mother's day scared by mother nature, vanetta's brand baby had to be airlifted to safety by a national guard blackhawk hill copt gler she slept -- helicopter. >> she slept through her. >> and rescuers almost had to be rescued themselves trying to help two men stranded on top of a pickup truck. >> officials in van say a fire set off by that severe weather has damaged a number of homes. >>> the carolinas are gearing up for my rain

. >> reporter: nearly four years ago inside an iowa hospital the family of 14-year-old taylor hail gathered say good-bye. the former volleyball player and cheerleader was horsing around with friends when she fell hard on the pavement suffering a traumatic brain injury and fractured skull followedby a brain hemorrhage. >> we were starting to talk about funeral arrangements organ donation. >> reporter: but when doctors removed her from life support, taylor started to breathe. defying expectations again, she relearned how to walk. and the next year went back to school. >> i'm like out of the hospital and happy to be out doing normal stuff. >> reporter: and now the girl who doctors declared brain dead will graduate on time. >> you never know when life is gonna take you or your loved ones so you need to keep them close to you and spend as much time with them as you can and just keep fighting. >> reporter: taylor can't spend much time looking back. >> i don't remember anything before the accident. i don't have any memory of my childhood. i want to study event management and be an event planner so

. >> four members of an iowa family are in custody accused of collecting dozens of guns and ammunitionbanon. investigators say the weapons were hidden in boxes that contained humanitarian aid to refugees. >> parts of texas underwater with floods stretching for miles after more than a foot of rain since the weekend. more rain in the forecast today. some areas could see another 4 inches or more. >> and new england patriots quarterback tom brady is expected to appeal his four-game deflategate suspension today that would leaded to an nfl hearing likely within the next ten days. still unclear who from the nfl front office would preside at that hearing. those are some of our top stories on this wednesday, may 13th. >> announcer: from abc news, this is "world news now." >> and here on "world news now," we need to start with the breaking news out of philadelphia still a developing story as we speak. a deadly amtrak derailment on the busiest rail line in the country. >> at least five people killed and more than 50 injured. mangled cars tossed on their sides and this morning, rescuers are still

iowa. the fact that she is a she can really be an energizing force for iowa democratic voters. >> we will beight back. ♪ >> iowa is the heart of america, not just geographically. but every presidential candidate has to come here at one point or another. our partner in crime happens to be one of the best pollsters in america. thank you for joining us. she is addressing reporters, issues, what is your sense of what iowa voters, what issues do they want address this time around? >> they want meat on the bone and it is skating over the surface. they are looking for her to give them substance. she is talking a lot about fighting for them but not really talking in depth. iowa voters are used to that. >> an interesting place, but not a super robust recovery. >> that is the deficit, terribly important to them. the trade issue is about the full state. people will think iowans will have a very parochial interest and i think they care about the same things. >> on the republican side, you are good at figuring out the makeup of the electorate in a way that woman of what will be people who actually turn o

that's an iowa play.t you are seeing more acceptability of certain behaviors, a decline of religion. it goes hand in hand. >> right. i agree. >> look, my parents' generation and their parents, they were much more religious. and they were much more accepting of the doctrines of this is what you do, this is what you don't do, that's gone. it's gone in most precincts now. so you are seeing corresponding acceptance of other people's behavior what really drives this. >> but bill. you are right that we're less religious today. but we're also less bigoted today. >> but but it doesn't tie into that. >> i'm not laying the bigotry on the religion but i'm saying we were more religious black. >> i totally reject that it was a sin to do certain things. >> let me give you two quick examples three, very quick. >> all right. >> we were more religious in the 1950s than he we are today i agree. in the 1950s we treated black people as second class citizens jews were looked upon as dirt. and gays, gays were beaten on a regul

. >>> more than 100 people were inside an iowa high school when the roof was just ripped off by the tornado. the whole thing was caught on camera. the one thing teachers did to protect the students after the break. >>> los angeles police station evacuated when a woman walks in with a grenade. but she wasn't threatening to blow up the building. >>> plus, cars get in a little bit more accidents than we thought. we'll take a look at who was at fault though. . >>> monday morning, a live look outside right now. that's san mateo i imagine from is open and fleeing. maybe some drivers felt apprehension that it wouldn't get open on time. it opened before 5:00. more on that going on later this morning. >>> what sounds like a threatening move, a woman brought a grenade into an lapd station. it was an innocent move. the woman told police the department's mission station she found that grenade while cleaning out her garage. she thinks it belonged to her brother who was a war veteran. a station and off-ramp was closed for three hours while the bomb squad removed the device. >>> two bay area cities topped

. >> four members of an iowa family are in custody accused of selecting dozens of guns and ammunitionrsea. federal agents say they intercepted two shipments from cedar rapids headed to lebanon. the weapons and am mole were hidden among clothing food and supplies supposedly going to refugees. it's not clear who was going to receive the packages in lebanon. by the end of the day, we could know if dzhokhar tsarnaev would be sentenced to death or life in prison. prosecutors and tsarnaev's defense attorneys make their closing arts this morning. those statements are expected to take about an hour each and then after instructions from the judge, jurors will begin deliberations. >> a federal judge must now decide whether john hinckley can live full-time outside a mental hospital. a seven-day hearing on the issue wrapped up yesterday in washington. right now he lives about half the month with his mother and the other half of the month at a psychiatric facility. doctors say his mental illness has been in remission for years. >> if you're customer of verizon or sprint you might be owed a refund.

she talked to reporters after an event in iowa urging the state department to move up the release of 55,000 pages of e- mails. >> nobody has a bigger interest in getting them released than i do. i respect the state department. they have their process that they do for everybody, not just for me. but anything that they might do to expedite that process i heartily support. >> they gave them a week to come up with a schedule for releasing the records. accused clinton of having two private e-mail accounts to conduct her official business. they say she created that second account after she was secretary of state. >>> the new england patriots will not be throwing out the challenge flag over their deflate-gate punishments. the agenda of one team should never override the good of the 32. they'll lose a first round next year and a fourth rounder in 2017. >>> the blue angels practicing in maryland and the daredevils are in could town more commissioning week. >>> a teacher caught on camera taking a belt to students. there's a big divide out there of whether his actions were right or wrong. >> af

an iowa high school took a direct hit. look at the roof go. roof of southern calhoun high went flying when the tornado hit late yesterday. more than 100 people were inside attending an awards ceremony at the time. they were huddled in the basement. the building suffered that direct hit. the damage extends for several blocks. all-around the school. look at that violent weather. >> several residents and drivers had to be rescued because of flash flooding. you can see the truck overwhelmed when this river overflowed the banks. the driver and passengered to the roof threatened to sweep the truck. they attempted a ground escape but the water was rising too fast. the national guard arrive and a crewman was lowered to the truck's hood and he was able to attache harness and one at a time they were lifted to safety. look at that picture. more violent weather is expected in the south and midwest. if you are in the area do stay safe. ty? >> that is some kind of courage. flight delays and mishandled bags and a new report on the state of air travel in ameri

this is an iowa phone. if i have google pay on this how would i pay for stuff is with this?ally works very similar to -- to the iphone. google tried to do this when i was there few years back but got in a dog fight with carrier and that hampered availability significantly. so -- >> i'm in a store upght to buy something. i got my android, my google pay all lined up flash this in front of a reader. >> instead of swiping your card you tap it arranged and card deal is exchanged with merchant as if you swiped your card physical >>. >> is this the big deal of the future paying without the credit card that kind of thing? >> four years out everybody will be doing this instead of swiping their card. >> a lot of good reason for that by the way. but the primary one is just think about how many cards you have, and then how many you have to carry most people don't want to carry all of those cards so in a phone you can carry unlimited number. if you lose it -- >> i'm the guy i've had real problems with credit cards not paying the bill. but just having them so that they're secure. i consta

i've been in iowa, gotten an office in iowa. i'll be at lynn county's lincoln dinner and those folks jealously guard their own roll. neil: you have to pay when you go to that. >> i hope not, i will be a speaker. i was in warren county and i you in the five bucks a couple weeks ago. neil: i'm wondering when you look at this i'm not saying voters are stupid many are impressionable is what the mainstream media tells them, after the baltimore riots hearing a lot about well the problem is we haven't given baltimore enough money, given inner city projects enough money so they want to throw money at it. and looked into the stats, commissioner and found baltimore gets more money than any other city on a per student basis except new york city. and neither as i said is on fire when it comes to test scores. so money isn't the answer, but yet people are told we've got more money, and republicans and guys like you say we've got to dial it back. >> i agree money is not the answer, it's a complicated set of questions. i ran the workforce syste

we sat down in january on one of those years and decided we would do an event in iowa and new hampshireated in an event here on labor day in the same year. jim demint did each of those stops along the way. this year, we did our event generally 24 -- january 24 and a now in south carolina. that is because when the nomination process starts, the people engaged early, the activists in iowa, new hampshire, and south carolina, we have more to say about who will be the next president on a per capita basis than anybody else in the country. [applause] steve king: if we get it right, the country is the beneficiary of the decisions we make. these presidential candidates i get to know all of them in a personal way if i can. i can tell you when they look at running for president they don't always know what their platform will look like. they have their principles, but they might layout 25 planks and then they find out there is one you don't like, when you insist on. by the time they do their campaigning in iowa, new hampshire, and south carolina, we have helped them select the planks for the platfo

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iowa, new hampshire, florida sort of makes sense as an itinerary. right after she goes iowa, new hampshire, florida, the next place she's going is -- texas. what? it's weird, right? it's a strange choice. the hillary clinton campaign announcing today that she's going to take this texas trip. they said her texas trip will be june 3-4, and that means that hillary clinton is planning her somewhat inexplicable presidential trip to texas on the same day that rick perry is going to be announcing in texas that he is running for president. he is announcing his run during hillary clinton's texas visit. i hope they don't end up wearing the same thing. if rick perry does what he is expected to do on june 4, if he announces that he's running for president, he will make history as the first person to ever pursue a major party nomination for president while also being under criminal indictment. and that sets him apart from the very, very, very large field of candidates and likely candidates who are vying for the republican nomination this year. we have create this

it's like watching an armored car through iowa. it doesn't feel like a real campaign. i think. she's extremely popular in her party. and her name i.d. is through the roof. certain questions that aren't a concern for her. but it doesn't feel like an organic campaign despite the q&a sessions with the voters that they picked. >> and don't you think that it would be of tremendous benefit for her -- >> get to get roughed up and get out there. >> i've never actually strategized a successful campaign, but i won't let that stop me. i think the problem is i understand why when the clinton team looks at the polls they say, hey, what we should do nothing. i get that. the problem is she's a target every day and i don't know that they figured out how to deal with that. she's a target from republican candidates and also a target as a result of this unfolding story about the whole clinton foundation money world. and so a lot of articles coming up that essentially they either have decided we don't have to respond to because that's kind of baked into the polling numbers, and so i'm not

. >> maybe an added plus for him, he was a member of the leadership group for four years on iowa's team and he was a team captain. so he kind of brings in that leadership. he was a very smart player and big player and won the award for the best offensive player in the country. >> and he can start right away. >> i was checking his twitter account after he was selected. he started getting the fans. >> he's a very sharp smart guy. he loves hunting and fishing, very much a midwesterner. >>> police are on the hunt for a teenager they saw was caught &fhon camera attacking an elderly man at a metro station last friday. it is a gut wrenching video and now we've learned this says not the first time the suspect has faced assault charges. >> reporter: his name is elijah jeremiah smith, 19 years old and this is not his first brush with the law. he's on probation now in montgomery county because of charges related to an assault in silver spring last year. last spring police in montgomery county arrested and charged an 18-year-old named elijah j. smith in connection with the assault of a well known

that is one key component myself and others are monitoring and keeping an eye on. >> and in iowa, farmers send their sick animals here where preliminary bird flu tests are conducted and they are working around the clock to get results within hours. >> in our laboratory operation is monday through friday and now we are working 24 hours, seven days a week with a multiple personnel shift. >> and the doctor hopes the worst may be over but they are already bracing for the fall when the weather cools and wild ducks and geese fly south. >> as they migrate down through the by ways we'll see cases. >> and mean time the roads surroundg far have been closed off as tighter security takes hold across the state and they begin to destroy more than 25 million birds. i'm morgan brennan, in aims iowa. >> and while post is feeling the impact cal main foods, they are hitting new highs and that is because most of cal main's operations are in the south. and haven't been impacted by the outbreak yet. the stock rose 3% in today's trading. >> matthew roberts joins us to discuss what this means for food prices. he

iowa and new hampshire? >>> it is different in the kind of voter that's in south carolina. it's a little more diverse and you don't have the issues with immigration, and they don't make an impact, in iowa, and in new hampshire, as they do in south carolina and you have a racial component that isn't there. but, you also have a very conservative church going that you have in south carolina that's different. and the kind of people, that run in south carolina and do well, generally are southern. so the candidates that might farewell, might not do as well in south carolina. >>> so, we know there were some people who were not there. rand paul, chris christie, and jeb bush. >>> skipping summit, he spoke at liberty university. >>> well, there are two different people who also weren't there mike huckabee, and lindsay graham. >>> you asked about jeb bush, you know, going to liberty university and making a speech, is both an excuse and an opportunity. >>> it excuses him from going to south carolina, where his ideas are not popular with the republican party and it gets him in front of conservatives. so i think it was a win. mike huckabee, took a loss and rick rick rick santorum was there,

despite the polls, does huckabee's experience of winning in iowa give him an edge? go to pulse.msnbc.com/ed to cast your vote. we'll bring you the results later on in the show. for more on this let's turn now to brad woodhouse, the president of american bridge 21st century. and matt schlapp joins us tonight as a former white house political director for george w. bush. jept matt, i believe it's the first time that you and i have had an opportunity to visit. let's go right to mike huckabee in iowa. if he won it in 2008 why wouldn't he win it in 2012? what has he possibly done that would turn those voters away from him? >> one of the things that hillary clinton's going to find that mike huckabee's going to find, tariq sanhat rick santorum is going to find is it is usually easier to run for the white house the second time. i do agree with you that he's got a leg up in that sense. but the other thing to consider is this. unlike the last two republican nominations, all of you are candidates are running as conservatives. it's not a john mccain or a mitt romney who are try

." ♪ >>> it had been 28 days since hillary clinton took questions from media prompting an interruption in iowa>> wait. yes. maybe when i finish talking to the people here. how's that? >> [ inaudible ]? >> i might. i'll have to ponder it. >> but the former secretary of state did break her silence fielding questions from five reporters in less than five minutes, such as this one on foreign government donations on the clinton foundation. >> your opponents say the foreign donations and private e-mails are examples of the clintons having one set of rules for themselves and another set of rules for everyone else. do they have a point? >> i am so proud of the foundation. i'm proud of the work that it has done and that it is doing and i'll let the american people make their own judgment about that. >> and over the weekend, reporters were plowing through her e-mails after the state department made them public. chris starwall is joining us susan for the washington examiner and national public radio, a fox news contributor. chris, does it now look like great god almighty hillary clinton will be engaging

and we sat down once on a january 9th in one of those years and decide we'll do an event in iowa march in an event down here on labor day the same year. and jim demint did each of those stops along the way. this year we did our event in iowa, january 24th. i went to new hampshire a week ago and spent the weekend, and now down here to south carolina and here is why. when this nomination process starts, the people who are engaged in it early, the activists in iowa and in new hampshire and in south carolina, we have more to say about who will be the next president of the united states on a per capita basis than anybody else in the country. and if we get it right, the country, of course is the ben beneficiary of the decisions we make. the candidates, i get to know all of them in a personal way if i can. i can tell you when they're looking at running for president, they don't always know exactly what their platform is going the look like. they have their principles. they melee out 25 planks and say i'd like to do all of this. now let's figure out what we can sell the presidency on. and then

one other thing, we're going to talk about bush an -- we are going to talk about bush but there are obviously questions about jeb bush's strategy in iowaand he has this is one of the interesting questions will be not just -- i don't think he's going to talk about iraq but this is an opportunity for him to actually turn the page and we'll be able to now note answer to the -- now know the answer to the question we asked yesterday, do they think they will put a button on and look behind them? mark: well, a great speech in south carolina that i covered last weekend, he is on something of a roll and an underrated factor in this race. see if he can do a great 10-minute speech. john: i don't know that he's underrated. i think he is appropriately rated. mark: we are going to ask viewers who the front runner is in the republican party. the correct answer is no one. it's been generations since the republicans haven't had a clear leader in iowa. the vacuum is making some people very, very nervous. john, can you think of a clear consensus front runner before voters start to vote early next year? john: i can't. there's at least six debates maybe se

iowa hospital. they took a bunch of tests and said, you have an appendix about to burst. have to do. i have had a lot of things happen. i think i lost several weeks but i finally went to iowa preflight. that was all half-day physicals, hand-to-hand, judo. the other half was school work. it was a three-month program. the commander of the base played for notre dame but had been the football coach at saint benedict's. he knew i was there. but the day our group was supposed to move on, he called me. i had never met him. i met him when he was the coach at saint benedict's. but he had me over for sunday dinner. i got a lot of razzing from other cadets. they had a meeting and said, we have bad news for you people. we have discovered only half the pilots are getting killed that we thought were going to get killed. so they washed out half hour people and sent them to great lakes. you can either go home or be called again for stay in the navy as a seaman. i was pretty good in athletics. one battalion had to play another battalion. they did not have the big 12 but the other battalion

. >>> we turn now to iowa and an extraordinary chain reaction crash that injured more than 30 people. look at this fireball. a semitrailer burning on the side of interstate 80 triggered the pileup. a tour bus also caught in that crash. two people critically injured. authorities calling it a miracle that no one was killed. >>> and the nfl's number one draft pick is back in the news tonight. jameis winston on the offensive. the same day he showed up for training camp with the buccaneers winston countersued the woman accusing him of rape saying she is motivated by greed. here's abc's ron claiborne. >> reporter: jameis winston, the tampa bay buccaneers' new $25 million quarterback, took to the practice field today. but off the field, winston was playing a different position, on offense in court, filing a countersuit friday, against the woman who says he sexually assaulted her in 2012. last month, erica kinsman filed a civil suit against winston, alleging rape. but in his countersuit, he said "jameis winston did not rape erica kinsman. she has mounted a false and vicious media campaign to

iowa's an activist oriented electorate. the most committed party. clinton had a lot of problems there in 2008. came in third place. you look at new hampshire. he's the next door neighbor bernie sanders is. a lot of those cities and towns, the connecticut river valley. the voters there are very similar to the voters he's appealed to in vermont. i'm not saying he's going to win those two states but those two states are favorable climates for him. >> well how does the most amiable guy in the world say don't underestimate me? how are we supposed to interpret that? >> well, i look at it -- you look at his career first of all, and the fact that at the age of 73, he's standing here now running for president is an unlikely political career in every way. so the odds that he faces right now, he's clearly under it. he has no illusions about what he's up against. but i think if you talk to the people around him, i think what they'd like to get to, and i don't think it's unrealistic, is can they get to a moment where it really is a one-on-one race bernie sanders

iowa lane. it is getting crowded with governor mike huckabee joining. rick santorum will make anncement later this month. these are all people competing in iowa. it will be a long flog there. >> definitely interesting news regarding rick santorum. looks like he is ready to pull out the cardigan that he wore before. lots of vests. >> he will actually be really pushing really hard. he won in 2012 although that result was not released until after the caucuses were actually over. he actually won but wasn't announced immediately. mitt romney was thought to be the winner there. it will be tough for him to replicate that success because there are a lot of other people competing for that but rick santorum wants to talk about economic populism and how he is a real hawk on defense and national security issues. we will hear more of that from him this time around. >> thank you very much. great pleasure talking to you this morning. >>> coming up sofia vergara and her exfiance open up about embryos battles. why she says the fight is unfair. >>> first a lot going on this morning and here are th

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be -- they are already expressing dismay governor bush is not going to par tis pavement he's not an iowadidate. i think if you run, joe, you calm it shock and awe, as the prumttive front runner you got to kind of play. >> the desmoines register reports bush will stred an attend for the red state in atlanta. he is the first republican name to officially opt out. he placed recent 7th. meanwhile, two days later and bush is still paying for iraq. >> on the subject of iraq obviously very controversial, knowing what we know now, would you have authorized the invasion? >> i would have. so would have hillary clinton, just to remind everybody. so would almost everybody that was confronted with the intelligence they got. >> so we played that yesterday. >> yeah. >> i said he must have misunderstood the question because he was talking in past tense. shelves talking in present tense. what you know now, would you? he said well what we knew then obviously i would have and hillary would have. >> he says they have hillary, which makes it sound as though he was. >> he was in the past. >> so bush tried to

. >>> an iowa couple whose proposal photo has gone viral and sparked major criticism is setting the record the bouncing ball with me. this photo posted on reddit with the headline any girl's wedding nightmare. it seems like the best man was stealing the bride's thunder proposing to his girlfriend. >> oh. >> but the wedding apparently it was the bride's idea the new fiancee is the bride's sister. more pictures provide more context, interesting how that works out. the newly married couple group hugged the bride-to-be after she said yes and they all celebrated. apparently guys celebrated with a fist bump. >> still behind the back of the bride though. >> oh look holding hands. >> i like that. >> i know. so great. >> we're okay with it. >> we're good. >> something we're just okay with today, right? >> more love more better. >> yes, more love more better. >> no one personifies that better than the next man to come on your screen. >> really? more love? >> john amore king. >> happy friday. >> now that we got the cute out of the way, let's get to king in washington. that's how we do that. >> no no