. >> on and off the streets for ten years, tara ran away from home in bloomington, illinois, for good when she was 18. today she's recovering from an addiction to meth and heroin. but she says she's been clean for almost a year. >> have you got spare change, sir? nobody wants to help a bunch of homeless street kids. they think that we're all junkies and drunks and just really awful people, and we're not. why should we be outcast just because we are having problems? we shouldn't be. >> every night, she shares a tent and a sleeping bag in golden gate park with her boyfriend, another runaway named brian. >> whoa. >> pretty. >> ah. sorry, you can't have any food. it's my breakfast. >> tara and brian met in the park two weeks ago. they've been inseparable ever since. >> love you. >> love you, too. >> like tara, brian says he fled home due to family problems. >> when i was younger, they told me that i was adopted, and, you know, they tried to explain it to me, but i was still too young and i kind of didn't really understand what they were saying and didn't grasp it. so i ended up pretty muc

and, again, david was one of the three combat leaders bloomington leaders we write about and it's cool that he's here and doug oliphant was his senior commander in eastern afghanistan and doug was also has a kind of special relationship with petraeus and that doug was the planner of the surge in iraq in 2007 when he was with the first cavalry division. so it's great that they're here and i think if you read the book, i think you'll enjoy that interplay between sort of the dominant character of petraeus and the secondary characters who are, you know -- fought very, very difficult and interesting battles and it's really a brutal war and, you know -- writing about them from my vantage point from afar was really interesting and really inspiring to me just to see the kind of lives being a nonmilitary person, seeing the kind of dedication and dose and the weight they carry to this day from the people they lost there. >> two questions, if i could. not having read the book yet, i'm wondering whether you cover the political attack on the general as exemplified by the general betray-us comment a

. >>> the crime in bloomington, illinois has baffled police. police say somebody stole more than 60 boxes of girl scout cookies from a family's van that's about $260 worth. mark had ledded the cookies into the van so his nine-year- old daughter could start her deliveries. >> they could have taken anything, but to know that they stole 66 boxes of girl scout cookies, and my daughter was just a mess, too. it was heart break. >> if you see somebody selling cookies at a grocery store and they don't quit look like the girl scout type, then perhaps that might be something we need to know about. >> police have recovered 46 of those stolen cookie boxes. a few blocks from the home. they are still looking for the rest of the missing loot. >>> today's beautiful weather provided a great backdrop for outdoor activities like taking a walk, even ice skating. we caught up with skaters who were eager to take to the. >> i haven't skated in about two years now and i can he sided, why not try it out. so i went back home, grabbed my skates and came back. unfortunate

they have brokeent guinness world record for the largest gathering of ninja turtles. 836 in bloomington on saturday and the previous record was 786. event celebrated the mall's new ride teenage mutant ninja turtles i remember when i was in high skill loved that. it takes you back to high school. >> i loved it. >> me too. >> what a beautiful weekend. >> it is. >> it was. >> it was gorgeous. >> i got out and ran i jogged, yeah. my legs are sore because i haven't done it in a while but it's the thought that counts. >> and you mentioned the allergies. i am dealing with that. >> uh-oh. >> spring is the first day tomorrow and we are looking at foggy conditions this morning. we will stay in the 70s but you know what, not looking a so good in terms of the cloud cover. and that's what we are talking about we talk about fogp one big cloud at the surface. we have the visibility reduced this morning. baltimore coming in right around 4 mile visibility. and easton is 4 as well. this is gone down and we are watching the eastern shore this morning. and we have some school delays because of the foggy co

newspaper editors called for a convention of people opposed to the kansas-nebraska act to be held in bloomington may 29th. this gathering is remembered as the time and place that the republican party was officially established in illinois. on july 2nd at the republican convention for the third congressional district the delegates chose owen lovejoy as friend, leonard suite, had not received the party's nod. many republicans found lovejoy's radical abolitionist position too risky. some of them even considered voting for an alternate candidate, but over that summer, lincoln became convinced that lovejoy's popularity within his part of the state would make it unwise for the party not to back him, and they did decide to fully back him, and when the general election was held, lovejoy was overwhelmingly elected, he defeated democratic candidate uri osgood. lovejoy, now 46 was as radical as any anti-slavery man ever elected to congress. slaveholders considered his name an athema. in 1856, although democrat james buchanan had won the white house and the democrats controlled congress, as the majority par

a gentleman out of bloomington, illinois. his son waited a year. a year. i feel like i know you. i'm a small business owner, i'm a christian, my son is a marine and is wounded, and we both like bud light. i'm a real guy. the dad says i didn't get the attention you had and my son suffered. what joand i don't understand iw they can go through the process, the dod, department of defense, has them in the system a year and a half. they say goodbye, now you're on your own, and there's nothing for these men and women to support themselves. we talk about the suicide rates in the military and the scret veterans. this is it. this is why. the american public have no clue of what we, the american people, are doing to our wounded men and women. >> it was very obvious to those of us sitting here that this had a very profound effect on governor romney, and i said in all the times that i've seen him on the campaign trail, and i've seen him more than most people, quite frankly, from four years ago and now, this was one of those times when you could see that there was not the candidate mitt romney

. >> at 2200 acres bloomington air park is the largest privately owned airport in the united states. originally an air force base the property was bought by airborne express in 1979 and converted into a hub for the national delivery service. for the next 24 years airborne express built and ex paneleded the facility which became a central part of the local economy. then in 2003 the largest shipping company in europe germany's dhl saw an opportunity to expand its business in the u.s. market and bought airborne express. >> this $300 million investment will retain 6,000 jobs and create 900 new full and part-time jobs, good jobs with benefits that will sustain the working families of ohio. >> dhl built a new state of the art shipping center but was still unable to compete with fed-ex and ups. in 2008 announced domestic operations in the united states would be discontinued. after months of gradual layoffs part of the plant was punched in july of 2009. the shut down led to the loss of more than 9,000 jobs. 6,000 of them from the plant. it is now abandoned. this warehouse once full of worker

a gentleman out of bloomington, illinois. his son waited a year. a year. i feel like i know you. i'm a small business owner, i'm a christian, my son is a marine and is wounded, and we both like bud light. i'm a real guy. the dad says i didn't get the attention you had and my son suffered. what joand i don't understand iw they can go through the process, the dod, department of defense, has them in the system a year and a half. they say goodbye, now you're on your own, and there's nothing for these men and women to support themselves. we talk about the suicide rates in the military and the scret veterans. this is it. this is why. the american public have no clue of what we, the american people, are doing to our wounded men and women. >> it was very obvious to those of us sitting here that this had a very profound effect on governor romney, and i said in all the times that i've seen him on the campaign trail, and i've seen him more than most people, quite frankly, from four years ago and now, this was one of those times when you could see that there was not the candidate mitt romney

. >> pass the e-mail to you this week, a gentleman out of bloomington illinois, his son wait add year, a year. i feel like i know, i'm a christian, and my son is wounded and we like bud light. i'm a real guy. and a dad going, i don't have the attention you had and my son is suffering. how they can go through the process, d 0. d, department of defense has them in the system for a year and a half, goodbye you're on your own and there's nothing, nothing for these men and women to support themselves. and we talk about the suicide rates in the the military, and the veterans. and this is it, folks, this is why. the american public has no clue of what we, the american people, are doing to our men and women that are coming out wounded. >> you know, it was very obvious to those of us sitting there, that this had a very profound effect on governor romney and i said in all the times i've seen him on the campaign trail and i've seen him more than most people, quite frankly, four years ago and now, this was one of those times when you could see there was not the candidate romney, there was the fat

bloomington, illinois. macon county. those counties are key for rick santorum tonight.eady has an uphill battle. he map regret one. 13th district. one he could carry but have no delegates there. cut through the middle of the state stretching from the st. louis suburbs northeast to decatur and champaign, nirvana. asked santorum monday whether his lack of organization in illinois speaks to a larger problem four his campaign. >> for an organization that was purely volunteers we were in illinois, ohio and virginia, i mean, harder for us. but the idea that that's reflective of -- it's amazing we're on the ballots we are given how difficult these rules are from state to state and how different they are. >> turning back to the 2010 map, the two moderates, again, think of them as the romney-type, split in springfield and chicago. where romney can run up the score. down st. louis. win big, the rest of the state may not matter. here's why. chicago's cook county and five surrounding counties once republican strongholds. become more democratic leaning in recent years. still more th

. >> at 2200 acres bloomington air park is the largest privately owned airport in the united states. originally an air force base the property was bought by airborne express in 1979 and converted into a hub for the national delivery service. for the next 24 years airborne express built and ex paneleded the facility which became a central part of the local economy. then in 2003 the largest shipping company in europe germany's dhl saw an opportunity to expand its business in the u.s. market and bought airborne express. >> this $300 million investment will retain 6,000 jobs and create 900 new full and part-time jobs, good jobs with benefits that will sustain the working families of ohio. >> dhl built a new state of the art shipping center but was still unable to compete with fed-ex and ups. in 2008 announced domestic operations in the united states would be discontinued. after months of gradual layoffs part of the plant was punched in july of 2009. the shut down led to the loss of more than 9,000 jobs. 6,000 of them from the plant. it is now abandoned. this warehouse once full of worker

our colleagues at wtiu in bloomington, indiana, contributed to this report. >> reporter: the snow fell overnight in henryville, indiana, leaving a blanket of white over the tornado wreckage of homes and cars and adding new misery to what's left of the town of 2,000 people. wanda was one of the survivors. >> it has hindered it quite a bit because there are lots of people who still need tarps on their roof. of course you can't get on the roof to do that. it's too dangerous. hopefully the sun is coming out now. i've already seen a lot of the snow starting to melt. hopefully through the, you know, through the day that maybe they'll be able to get more things done. we just continue to, you know, pick things up. make sure that everybody has their most urgent needs met, make sure if we can get electric and water and those kinds of basics supplies to people so that they can stay in their houses because some people are not going to leave their homes. >> the tornado that hit henryville on friday was the worst of a deadly day whipping into the towns with winds of 175 miles an hour. >> get back. t

it's 33 in bloomington. feels like this 20 degrees currently in cocoamo. it will be a markbly cooler part of the day. >> we're going to get back to them in just a second. right now, there are some incredible images that we're getting from yesterday's deadly tornado outbreak and they're actually coming from you, our ireporters. josh levs is now in the studio monitoring your i reports. josh, i've sure you've got no shortage of photos that's going to make us say, wow. >> and one place we've been talking about a lot today is in indiana, henryville with that tornado that was there spp some of the most powerful video that was there was from this irept. take a look at this, with just west in borden, indiana. i'll tell you a little bit about this. this is from ireporter chad henson who tells us that he was let out of work early yesterday. that's one of the reasons i'm comfortable showing you this. in this case, they were told to leave the office and go home and take shelter. and he set up his camera as he was driving and he got this video. look how huge that torna

mike in bloomington, minnesota my gosh, you do have small boobs, i'm in my sports bra because i'm onll right. can't you get a better angle. >> legend in detroit, michigan you're on "the stephanie miller show," hi, legend. >> steph, how are you going? >> good. >> very cute, welcome to current tv as far as the martin case goes i want to know how come if the guy was carrying the gun on the job when they told him not to he wasn't arrested right then. it was that kind of a conspiracy right, then, or a start of one and -- >> exactly, that's not suspicious, first of all, that the 911 operator tells him, sir, we don't need you to do that and the kid ends up shot dead and there's not any investigation of that. >> they tested the dead body for drugs and alcohol but not this guy zimmerman. >> melissa in oklahoma on the trayvon case hi, melissa. >> thanks for being the glass half full and not half empty. >> we're the happy liberal show. >> i was upset right after zimmerman was supposedly protected. a newscast tried to come out and find out some facts and one of his friends who was protecting him

host: daniel, independent, bloomington, indiana. caller: good morning.entleman called about wells consolidation to save a family member. i would say go ahead and consolidate your money. basically, if you are denied the coverage from the government, how is that treatment going to be provided from that family member. say your family member or your sister were told they could not get a bone marrow transplant because they had a problem. what are you going to do? are you going to suffer or get the treatment? host: david savage? guest: i'm not sure i understand about wells consolidation. in other words, if you have the money, you can pay for special treatment on your own. that's certainly a reasonable way to approach it. insurance, under any situation, does not cover everything. some people do have one of those extreme conditions where they need some special treatment that is quite expensive. it would obviously be worthwhile in that situation to have the money to do it. host: let's talk about law itself as it was written by congress the court did wednesday the

i'm from bloomington, indiana, so i'm from around there.>> it's hoosier country for sure. >> oh, yeah, we'll be back in the tournament this year, we're excited. >> i know it. i know it. good team. indiana beat someone, it was unbelievable. i can't believe it. they beat someone earlier this year. >> kentucky. >> yeah, they knocked off kentucky. >> it was a great game. last-second shot. >> awesome. all right. >> i just don't have a dog in this fight. i mean, division iii state school and they didn't have any professional -- i was going to say professional, high-level college sports. thanks very much, matt, we always appreciate you coming by and the numbers you provide. >> thanks for having me. great weekend, everyone. >> you see he's going public. >> who? >> you didn't see it? >> no! below that. >> offshore -- fender, fender! >> fender is going public. >> that's awesome. >> $200 million, stratocastor. >> i have a great stratocastor that i bought in 1979. >> it was owned by cbs. >> i think mine might be before cbs bought it. this is an america

mitt romney doing well in springfield, bloomington, chicago, and the key counties around the greaterhicago area. rick santorum's strength in the western enand aouthern part of illinois. according to the associated press, mitt romney with 522 delegates. he has increased that to 544. rick santorum will pick up delegates tonight. next is john from connecticut. >> you are going to win. you are going to pick gingrich as your vice president. three things my dad taught me, honesty, sincerity, respect people. go get them perry >> thank you for the call. next up is -- them. >> next up is jerry. >> i am amazed at the way people pick candidates. i do not have any of the four front-runners. when i look at cambridge i look at somebody who has the intelligence -- look at gingrich a look at somebody who has the intelligence to fix the problems. we are not fixing the problem. the executive branch, the judicial branch, and the legislative branch, all of those are dysfunctional. i think gingrich understands what the problem is. he is very astute on the constitution and the way the government works. no