chad, chris, hold on for a second because chad myers is with us, as well.e weather expert,ed cha, do you have a question for chris? >> are you trying to go through the hail cord to get to the east side of this cell? >> reporter: absolutely not. that's a cardinal rule that i won't do because what happens you get the southern end of the storm where the tornado is and you come out of this big rain shaft and that thing could be right in front of you. >> absolutely. >> my plan is to get a little further east and then drop down or even come in behind it so i know exactly what's going on and where i am. >> that's the safest way around this thing. clearly, wolf, what he's trying to do is get ahead of the system, ahead of the cell taking pictures and getting in the way. roads don't go straight sometimes. you have to do what you can do, but this is a professional chaser with professional equipment in the car. a noaa weather radio and a pickup truck does not make youa chaser. stay home. this has been be come an h-p system, a high precipitation system and an awful lot

team made an emergency visit to chad. unicef executive director anthony lake appealed for immediate assistance including high nutrient food, medicine and drinking water. >> well, they are in dire circumstances, suffering, you see how underweight they are and how they're struggling for life. >> reporter: this woman says her grandson's legs are paralyzed and he's badly sick. in chad, children are so weakened by malnutrition, they are less resistant to polio, cholera and other infectious disease. >> translator: my grandchild has pain all over the body and can't walk anymore. his sickness makes us so sad. >> reporter: food reserves are already stretched and the situation will only get worse until the next harvest in the autumn. people in chad will depend on aid from around the world. jean baptiste niard, nhk world, mao, chad. >>> u.n. officials say they need more than $700 million to fund aid operations but haven't brought in even half that amount. >>> when people in china see blossoms on plum and peach trees, many feel sprin

. >> i'm brooke boold win sitting next to chad mire. we saw not too long ago, the power of the winds whipping massive tractor trailers through the sky. and these are now in daylight, now that the ominous gray skies have moved through and you can see what used to be perhaps a two story home absolutely gone. fire, you see fire on the scene. carrying along chain saws, carrying instruments to perhaps get people out of some of these homes. obviously, i've covered stories like this. so have you. people want to make sure everyone is accounted for. safe. and so they're responding, lancaster, texas. there's a tornado now on the ground in -- >> euliss, texas, and mesquite. euless, texas. that story was on the ground a long time and it was a bigger storm than this one that you're seeing now. there are new storps to the south that may approach both cities in the next hour or so. >> i'm just reading this banner right along with you. tornado approaching dfw? >> that could be. that's the storm that could be moving through euless. as it comes together

but chad said he has been planning this since december. >> wow. >> this gets even better. those lights in the distance? those are not twinkle lights. >> like family and friends? >> yes, it's family, friends, they have fireworks going off. it's just beautiful. >> pulled out all the stops. >> wow. >> you almost don't have to have a wedding now with such a nice engagement video. it's like, hey, we hit it out of the park here. >> quit while ahead. >> i wanted to find out more about this lovely couple, so "right this minute" we have both of them, alicia is skyping in from south carolina and chad is skyping in from tennessee. my first question is for you, alicia. did you know that you guys were being filmed on this date? did you have any idea what this night would bring? >> no. actually, he had to fight for me to come to the cabin. i thought we were breaking rules and would not go in. i had no idea it was about to happen. >> show us the bling. >> oh, most definitely. it's still shocking when i'm driving. hey there. >> chad, do you feel like the man now? >> i had no idea it would

chad, you said you were not an lawyer.y hat goes on to you, that means you something that we lawyers have, which is common sense. look forward. what if this statute is struck down or even if it isn't how does that play out politically? this is going to be contentious going into the november race. give us the more on this. >> i think the majority of the public in arizona and nationally from what i seen anecdoteally and people across the state from the polling we've done show that most people want a real solution and a real common-sense approach to the immigration issue. they want a comprehensive solution. they want the federal government to do their job, and they want to have a solution that doesn't involve the states trying to take matters in their own hands and making things worse. you know, 1070 has had an huge negative economic impact on arizona. it has created decisiveness in the latino community. and it has not been anywhere near the solution that the sponsors sold it out to be. i think the majority of arizonans are s

i promise you that had they had choices and time, and they were able to -- >> i want to bring in chad myers, chad's got a question for you. >> tell me a little bit, you talked about what was going through the pilot's mind. describe a pilot who knows his plane is not going to fly anymore. what's the thought process, and i'm sure you think about four minutes worth of things in about four seconds. what is that process like when you're in a plane? >> it's one of the most unique processes in the world. i have to say in my case, i'm long since being a navy pilot, but it shaped the rest of my life because it put every challenge into sequential order and in this case, in milliseconds. so the training, the navy pilot training is issue based. every flight they spring something on you so that you have to decide and take your queues, each set of those decisions that you reach draws you to an inescapable conclusion. this is my decision, i must act. if you look back at the "top gun" movie, one phrase in there, up there we don't have time to think, we have to react. you are schooled and trained to r

he has just returned from chad. he is in washington to will bring attention to the growing problems. thank you drama to joining us. what was the situation like? >> it is dire and it is about to get worse. many families have already -- we are on the brink of a real disaster throughout. >> when i looked on the unicef website, none of the pictures that you showed looked very shocking. why not? >> we try not to. i think it is related to one of the reasons why there is a lot of fatigue. when you show those pictures, people tend to say, here we go again. african children, starving. we do not seem to be making headway. we try to show the children who are surviving and you can get better. i would like to emphasize one point, we tend to look at this as a question of charity and helping victims. in fact, these are families, children fighting desperately in situations that none of us have ever encountered. they deserve our support and admiration for their courageous struggle. >> is and that a risky strategy? strategy?hat a ris

chad myers reporting for us. thanks so much. >> you're welcome. >>> joining us now on the phone is jonathan cooke, who saw two tornadoes, as i understand, touch down. jonathan, thank you for being with us. i understand you're safe now, but tell us if you would, what you saw. >> yeah, this morning, i was in the bank, caught off guard a little bit. had no warning, and saw lightning strike about 50 yards across the street from the bank. and immediately after got some thunder, and then lightning struck again. thunder came, and i said, we need to look out the window and see what's going on. we looked out the window and about that time, hail started coming down. just a little bit bigger than a nickel. so i ran out of the bank, hopped in my truck, and ran across the street to the rest stop, gas station, with people were taking cover under the pumps, and about that time, a guy pulled up with inweather service truck, opened his door, and said, listen to the weather service woorb veto take cover. and a girl said, look up.

this bothers me about this, chad. we still don't have a real answer as to how this thing even landed intact. >> well, tom, the claim is that the iranians say that they actually were sophisticated enough to take control of it. but i think on our side, we assessed that they may have -- may have at the most advanced stage perhaps spoofed the gps system. there's a py code that if they were successful in jamming, they might have been able to make it default to an unencrypted system called ca, but more likely this probably had a technical problem. these are expensive aircraft, so you don't want to just tell them self-destruct because they lose signal. >> let me bring it back to fran here, though. fran, it seems to me the big worry here, though, is until we know for sure what happened -- our troops and our surveillance, but potentially the worst case scenario is they turn our own weapons against us. we launch these things and they start flying them. >> that's right, tom, and there's a third possibility which i worry in the m

chad tracy one of the heroes of the game. >> all these guys get along good. i think everyone has jelled nicely. as long as everyone does our job, i think we will do all right. >> a huge game with playoff implications tonight for the washington capitals. if they beat the new york rangers the capitals will when the southeast division. the biggest concern going forward is a goalie. he is being evaluated by team doctors. this is the day today right now. after tonight washington will bel if they are the third seed or the eighth seed in the playoffs. here is the starting -- he is the starting goalie for at least two nights name. -- game. >> we are going to battle for every game in the playoffs. >> went to play them the way we would play as if it were a playoff game. that is the atmosphere you will see in new york. it is a good team. it is a mark of the measuring stick for our team. >> will have highlights at 11:00. virginia taking on north carolina in a big acc lacrosse match. play of the game, carolina's -- look at the one-handed backhand over the shoulder shot. n

cnn's chad myers joining us now with that part of the story. chad? for ejection seats to actually go off. these thins have gone off now counting 12,000 times in the course of flight. this is from nasa. this is called a 00 ejection. this pilot is sitting on the tarmac. that's a real pilot in there. now we're going fire it off. the pilot goes 200 feet into the sky. so even if the plane is sitting on the tarmac, the pilot goes into the sky, gets shot like a rocket into the sky. when he reaches the top or the peak of this the ejection seat here a little bit tilted to the floor, and it shouldn't be that way, but that's okay, that's a nasa picture and it explodes into the parachute open and the pilot being released from the seat. we saw the seat earlier and the pilot landing on the ground safely with literally no elevation to start with. he was sitting on ground. that's an f-18 ejection seat. joe? >> wow. but it's still not optimal to be very close to the ground, i would think. it's probably much better to be firing one of those things when you're at altit

chad myers, how far into tornado season are we? we have just started. >> in fact, mr. wolf blitzer asked me that the other day. he said well, you, are we -- aren't we about done? no, sir, we just started. tornado season happens in america when the cold air from the winter gets pushed back by the warm air of summer. and sometimes the cold air pushes back and says hey, not so fast. this is what we had today. we had cold air mixing with warm air. they mix like vinegar and oil. they don't want to be together. as the warm, moist air goes up, storms are created. thunderstorms that go up can sometimes begin to spin. those storms that spin can put down toerpds, almost like an ice skater, a figure skater going slowly in the middle. will do a very quick spin on the one leg with the arm against her body. it brings the tornado down to one point. that happens all the way from about february in the southern sfiets all the way into may and june in nebraska. it can even happen as late as july and august up into calgary and alberta and even into sa

the 1996 wrestling match is not the last time chad will have a run-in with the law. in 1997, he's charged and later convicted of vehicular assault. west, who works in law enforcement, tries to visit him in jail. >> i tried to contact him, he refused to see me. >> 12 years later, in april, 2008, hiderbrant makes news, again, when he's arrested charged with domestic felony violence against his wife. he pleads guilty and serves 27 months in prison. meanwhile, west says he will never forget that day in 1996 when chad hilderbrant changed his life. >> to date, i've had two neck surgeries and still have headaches and a lot of bad memories. west hopes no other referee will ever have to endure this kind of occupational hazard. >> for the most part, most officials are out there for the love of the game. and the last thing that they would expect is to be assaulted. >>> an implosion turns to disaster and it's one huge occupational hazard for a fran photographer. >> your life is flashing before your eyes. it's november, 2010, and the countdown begins. >> nine, eight -- >> a smoke

that's the chad hollister band along with ron holloway. >> go on. >> hopefully you're doing your part. one of the things you can do is that all national parks are free in the upcoming week, get out there. concern, though, that some of those parks for flooding. we'll have to watch for the flood risk having a big impact on travel in the northeast. >> good warning. thanks so much, we appreciate that. >>> an estimated 1 billion people across the globe are observing earth day today. the focus is on saving the planet and its creatures, even the tiniest insects like the very important bees. what makes them so important? here's how one bee keeper sees it. >> i'm cassandra lawson. i'm the bee keeper here at oakhurst gardens. the main purpose is education, why do we need bees? when i started bee keeping a while back, it wasn't a very popular thing to do and it was a little centric most people thought, why would you want bees in the middle of the city. that was a little weird for people. our job as beekeepers is to make life easier for them. because bees work as one colony. so the easier you mak

chad has talked about it. you and i have talked about it. for a military aircraft to crash into a civilian neighborhood, not to have the time to get itself out of the way, to even turn away the least little bit from the civilian neighborhood is extremely unusual. it's a real indication that something went wrong here at the last minute. and it went very wrong. that they were not able to control the aircraft in the least. because military pilots would rather do anything than crash into a civilian neighborhood where people live. i spoke to the navy again a few minutes ago. they are getting to the scene. there may be some military people there in fact. they're coordinating with the virginia beach authorities because of course like any other aircraft crash, they're going to want to get to the wreckage, secure the wreckage and get their hands on the flight recorders to see what information they can pull off of them about what might have happened here. we don't know either if either of the crew members was able to make a mayday call before they eje

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we actually have a bag of the chads that came out of the machine. one of our staff members spent hours collecting all those from the bottom of the voting machine, put them all in baggies. so our next piece is a music stand from the hot springs jazz band, the dance band. it's what it's sometimes called. bill clinton played in the stardusters band in the 1960s while he was in high school. this might or might not be from his time period. we're not exactly positive, but it's from the 1960s found in a basement in hot springs in 1969. someone kept it until a few years ago when they donated it to us and thought we might like to have it. we said, yes, please, we would love to have this in our collection. it's a great piece. tons of conservation work done on it, and it's made on mason night and it comes in a couple of couple pieces so they can carry it with them. >> what's the best and worst part about your job? >> i think the best part is you never know what you're going to see or find. when opening up all these boxes, and it's almost like christmas every d

we actually have a bag of the chads that came out of the machine. one of our staff members spent hours collecting all those from the bottom of the voting machine, put them all in baggies. so our next piece is a music stand from the hot springs jazz band, the dance band. bill clinton played in the stardusters band in the 1960s when he was in high school. this might or might not be from this time period. we're not exactly positive. it is from the 1960s. it was found in the basement of hot springs until 1969. someone kept it until a few years ago when they donated it. they said they thought we might like to have it. it's a great piece. had some conservation work, but it's made out of masonite.

we actually have a bag of the chads that came out of the machine. one of our staff members spent hours collecting all those from the bottom of the voting machine, put them all in baggies. so our next piece is a music stand from the jazz band, the dance band. bill clinton played in the stardusters band in the 1960s when he was in high school. this might or might not be from this time period. we're not certain. it was found in the basement of hot springs until 1969. someone kept it until a few years ago when they donated it. they said they thought we might like to have it. it's a great piece. it's made out of masonite. >> what do you find to be the best part and maybe even worst part about your job? >> i think the best part is you never know what you're going to see. you never know what you're going to find. when opening up all these boxes, it's like christmas every day. you never know exactly what you're going to find. i -- that's definitely the best part. the worst part, i can't think of anything off the top of my head. it's all fun. we get to take

chad, thank you, too. you know about the secret service scandal i know by now. a similar story again involving prostitute has now ungulfed the pentagon and the state department. a deal is this, a woman in brazil is alleging she suffered serious injuries at the hands of three u.s. marines and an employee of the u.s. embassy. shasta, what are her injuries? what are her specific allegations? >> with el, looing, she said she broke her collarbone, three ribs and punctured a lung. she shoed us some pretty convincing peck churs of the injuries you can see the protruding bone and you can see bruised tire marks across her abdomen. she said on december 29, she and some other women left the nightclub where she worked as a stripper with a group of americans from the embassy. that same group of americans you're talking about. they called a van to pick them up. she said she was strie lently thrown from the van after she got in a fight with the brazilian rooifr. when she tried to grab the door handle, she was dragged along and let go and the tire ran over her. >> these are her

thank you, chad.e remembering the life and legacy of dick clark. ♪ >> mr. luther vandross will be here. >> clark died yesterday after suffering a massive heart attack. he brought music to the masses with his hugely popular show "american band stand" and the show ran for more than 30 years. >> we presented over 10,000 musical performances on that show and included were practically everybody you ever heard of who ever made a record. >> one of those 10,000 performances, gladys knight and the pips. this is from 1985 and joining us by phone a gladys knight herself, one of my all-time favorites. it's just so wonderful even to talk to you here. tell us a little bit about your own recollections of dick clark. i understand you appeared on "american bandstand" twice? >> yeah. good morning, suzanne. >> good morning. >> it was quite a dream come true for us, you know. we were building our career even during that time even though we had started so many, many years ago, and dick clark and the "american bandstand" w

as chad was saying, 9.1.cted, and this is phuket, which is a tourist area, of course, in thailand. it was the biggest earthquake to happen in the indian ocean area in that part of the ocean in 700 years. >> what has changed since then? >> a lot has changed. you've got -- the biggest change let's talk about is the early warning system that's now being put in. when this happened in 2004, the first people knew about it was when the waters went out and that precipitated the wave coming in. millions and millions and millions of dollars have been spent putting in new infrastructure in aceh, new roads, new buildings. indonesia, unlike some of the other countries, opened up the doors to international aid, and that has really helped. the place has not just been rebuilt. people seem happier there now than they were before. one of the reasons for that is that there had been a 30-year civil war going on there. and this basically when this all happened in aceh, everyone just lost the will to fight. eight months later they

let's get more from chad myers. what is the latest? what's happening right now, chad?weather has moved off to the east rather significantly. kind of like a big broom that pushed all of the weather away. it's taking the humidity with it and taking the potential and pushing it into northeastern texas and northwestern louisiana and parts of arkansas. but let me back you up about, oh, i'll go five hours probably from now as we had two rotating supercell tornados, one in dallas county, one in tarrant county, one moving up i-35 and one -- w, and one moving up i-35 east. we had two tornados on the ground simultaneously about 30 miles, 40 miles away from each other. as they moved on up, the tornados were causing damage in here from cleburne back into burleson and even up toward arlington. pretty significant damage with this storm. the helicopters haven't got that far to the west because the weather was just bad most of the day but all the damage you've been seeing here is in the dallas county storm. i'll go ahead and move that out of the way. the storms did travel up to the no

well, our severe weather expert chad myers joining us. hey, chad. how is this happening?n't get it. >> this would be a major snowstorm in january or february, but right now because it's already into april, it's warm enough that it really is more of a rain and wind event. now, there is snow out there. you get to the summits, cattaraugus, even parts of erie and wyomingi county picking up some snow. this is laurel summit at 13 inches of snow. what you have to understand now, there are leaves on some of the trees, and the trees with that weight of the snow, the branches are bending, some breaking, and some power lines are down. a little bit ago i looked, about 10,000 people right now without power because of that heavy, wet snow that's been coming down. something else that's going on, it's a very windy day as well. i want to take you to wjw, our affiliate out of cleveland, ohio. they have a shot, this is not that far from lakefront airport. watch as a wave just comes in and hits this break water. where the wave is generated right there, there's a walkway. you would be able to

we will keep in touch with chad throughout the hour and throughout the weekend. chad, thanks so much. >>> new developments in the case of george zimmerman, the man who admits he shot trayvon martin, could get out of jail on bail one week from today if his lawyer gets his way. a bond hearing has been penciled in for 9:00 a.m. until then, zimmerman will be confined to his 67-square foot cell. trayvon martin's big brother is opening up about that february night. he talked exclusively to our legal analyst, sunny hostin. here is what he says about zimmerman's version of events. >> when you found out what happened, the details of what happened, how did you feel? >> confused. everything i heard was from zimmerman's perspective. it didn't sound like my brother at all. my brother attacked him and did all this stuff. it doesn't sound like him at all. he wasn't confrontational or violent. >> sunny is with us from new york. jahvaris is an interested family member. he is not a witness. how does his version of how his brother is match up with what the prosecutor says? >> it ce