record-high temperatures today in a band stretching north from kentucky, including 84 degrees in columbus, ohio, and 85 in grand rapids, michigan. a cold front is now moving east, bringing with it the threat of severe thunderstorms and possible tornadoes. cynthia bowers has more. >> reporter: watch closely and you can see the birth of a monster twister and hear storm chasers predict a dire forecast for saturday night. >> yep. >> oh, yeah. >> big trouble. >> >> reporter: minutes later, that enormous tornado nearly wiped the small town of mapleton off the map. >> it's all gone. i've never seen anything like this. it's just something else. >> reporter: the tornado, which ripped roofs off buildings and tossed debris hundreds of feet, was part of several outbreaks of severe weather across the u.s. this weekend. in nearby norfolk, nebraska, hailstorm was strong enough to shatter car windows. and in north carolina, nine people were injured when lightning struck a crowded fair ground. >> i was standing right there probably 50 foot away. i felt the heat hit me. >> reporter: only two months ago chicago's

. >> experts at nationwide children's hospital in columbus ohio, point out that even when a sunburn fades, the damage to the skin is still there. >> the degree of the sunburns that the child may have accumulated throughout their lifetime, by the time they get to teenaged or early adulthood is enough to result in a melanoma. >> so be on the lookout for changes in the skin that could be warning signs of cancer. that's how valerie's was detected. >> what we ask families to look for are moles or freckles that are changing in character over a very short period of time. they're growing, changing in colors, the borders or the edges are becoming very irregular. >> you also need to keep applying that sunscreen, even if your skin is naturally brown. if you love winter sports, keep in mind that the snow intensifies the sun's damaging rays. so, put on sunscreen when you're on the slopes, as well. and avoid tanning beds! teenagers who go to tanning beds definitely are thinking about right now, and not their future. valerie's future looks good because her melanoma was found early enough for effective t

what is happening in madison wisconsin and columbus ohio and other capitals so that i think we've had so much sleep walking in the united states where of course. the wall street oligarchs and corporate have been not just dominating but in many ways looting the use and the use of dollars from the public funds. based on their financial shit out of the shadow financial system making the. as of dollars is poor and working people are pushed to the margins and i think more and more working class persons who thought they had a secure existence recognize that their plight is more and more time to the plight of poor people and type to the plight of working poor people so you were experiencing now the early stages of a kind of a shift in perception in the united states after west you have mentioned several times that americans are working harder than ever before they're earning less than ever before and the economic disparities in this country are deepening and deep down if you call yourself a critical supporter of u.s. president barack obama how would you assess his leadership and particularly

severe storms from east texas, into oklahoma city, louisville and columbus, ohio. heavy rain and flooding from st. louis to pittsburgh. rain across the upper midwest. drenching chicago, minneapolis, and the dakotas. mountain snow in the northern rockies. showers from san francisco to southern oregon. late rain from d.c., up to new york. >> and checking out some temps now. mostly 50s in the northeast. 80s from atlanta to dallas. and kansas city climbs up to 75. omaha at 65. 50s from seattle to salt lake city. and phoenix hits a hot 90. >>> well, "time" magazine has named congresswoman gabby giffords as 1 of the 100 most influential people in the world. on top of that, president obama has written a tribute to giffords for the magazine. >> the president praised giffords as a model of civility and courage and unity. and a voice that cannot return soon enough. also on "time's" list, mark zuckerberg, justin bieber and first lady, michelle obama. >> bieber mania. >> he's everywhere. >>> coming up after the break, the big announcement from japan overnight. an even longer d

they'll hit colorado springs and columbus, ohio, today. >>> upper midwest officials are keeping an eyevers and dams as several rivers crest today. many local roads are closed because of flooding, cutting off some communities and homes from the outside world. >>> and researchers this week link two, popular diet drugs to kidney problems in patients. today, we're expecting a major announcement over whether xenical or alli should be banned. sales of the two drugs last year brought in nearly $1 billion. >>> and with so many americans scrambling today to do their taxes, of course, ahead of monday's big deadline, the 18th, the question is, are those taxes fair? well, a new poll might actually surprise you. it finds that 54% say, yes, their tax bills are actually fair. meanwhile, the other 46% say, no, not so much. they're actually unfair. >> boy we really are in the last few minutes that you can get the taxes done. extended until monday the 18th this year. >> usually would be tomorrow, the 15th. procrastinators have no excuse this year. >> that's right. little bit of extra time. >>> coming up

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joining us now from columbus, ohio is wes spradlin who has been a firefighter for 20 years. it's an honor to have you on the program tonight, mr. spradlin. i appreciate what you do for your kmunlt. thanks so much for joining us. i know you have the concerns of a lot of ohio employees. last night we played a sound bite of your reaction to the bill's passage and i'd like to play that again. here it is. >> i think it's going to tear my family apart. i didn't know when john kasich said he was creating jobs in ohio he meant i was going to have to get a second one. >> so what kinds of sacrifices are you and your family going to have to make right now? what does it mean? >> it means a lot to my family. mostly, if i'm going to come home safe tomorrow morning. my family was going to buy a new car for my wife to drive back and forth to her part-time job this year. that's been putol flo fefhts a losing their union rights. they're using their power to speak. the officers in my union, over 400 of them, are not going to be covered by collective bargaining anymore. i don't understand how t

the columbus, ohio, family knows they have much to be grateful for when they do gather around the dinner: the problem is they have a hard time eating together more than three times a week. >> no, i just want ketchup. >> my son, he wrestles every day literally monday through friday. the girls have basketball. it's always pretty busy. spencer's schedule is crazy. >> me, my mom and my sister and my brother, we all eat at a different time than my dad does. >> my dad, he's at work. >> reporter: spencer owns and operates his own wrecking business. he became a small business owner, he says, to provide for his family. but the hours are long. typically, he doesn't arrive home until well past dinner time. >> i try to schedule myself 9:00 to 5:00, but i don't think everybody pays attention to those hours. >> reporter: research shows the costs of not eating together can be great. according to a columbia university study, children whose families routinely eat together are less likely to drink, less likely to smoke, and less likely to smoke marijuana. ♪ the same study showed children whose families ch

as he said in columbus ohio, in 1859, quote, there's no reason in the world why the negro is not entitled to all the natural rights enumerated in the declaration of independence, the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. how are we to understand these contradictory ways of talking about the quality? and what happened to them once the question of black equality was no longer theoretical as it was before the war but practical after emancipation. answer in the questions became one of the central goals of my research. republicans and putting lincoln every civil equality and equal treatment by law and implicitly security and property and they believe all people should have this formal equality before the law. most distinguish between this kind of equality and a political equal the which refer to the right to vote and usually to hold often. moderate republicans including one can tend to support civil equality but not political equality for african-americans. here is where the start claims came in. some white radical republicans insisted on the expansive vision of the fundamental

the columbus, ohio, family knows they have much to be grateful for when they do gather around the dinnerd time eating together more than three times a week. >> my son, he wrestles every day. literally, monday through friday. girls have basketball. it's always pretty busy. spencer's schedule is crazy. >> reporter: spencer owns and operates his own wrecking business. he became a small business owner to provide for his family but the hours are long and typically doesn't arrive home until well after dinner time. research shows the cost of not eating together can be great. according to a columbia university study, children's whose families routinely eat dinner together are less likely to drink, less likely to smoke and less likely to smoke marijuana. the same study showed children's whose family channelled the days of "leave it to beaver" style dinners did better academically. we issued a challenge, could they make it through two weeks of eating dinner together? >> today is the first day we're eating dinner together. >> reporter: armed with a video camera, the family of five said they were up

now, the man lives in the town just outside of columbus, ohio. authorities are calling calling this a possible hate crime because the owner is gay and anti-gay messages were spray- painted on the walls of that former barn. >>> it's ten minutes after 8:00. live coverage of the white house. president obama is trying to end a nagging controversy -- end a controversy once and for all. >>> the drastic new population control program involves a country with 1.3 billion peep. >>> good morning. a lot of sunshine. lows in the 40s. a sunny day will give way to higher clouds. a few low 70s inland. >>> president obama hopes to put the questions and controversy about before -- about where he was born behind him. the white house finally released the lodge form copy of the president's birth certificate this morning. alison burns is live in our washington, d.c. newsroom with what the president had to say. >> reporter: president obama ridiculed idea that he was not born in the united states and he said the nation could no longer be distract by side deshows an carn

louis, louisville and columbus, ohio. rain from the dakotas to chicago.in washington, d.c., philly and the big apple. >> and 50s from boston to baltimore. 85 in miami. kansas city gets up to 75. omaha 65. and fargo 45. a hot 90 degrees in phoenix. and just 53 in salt lake. >> this story's kind of funny. i like this one. >>> we usually don't mention soccer unless it involves the world cup or david beckham but this story is worth it. >> that's right. spanish club team real madrid was celebrating a big tournament win early on thursday. as they paraded the trophy in an open-top bus, it slipped out of the player's hand. and then the bus ran it over. >> the 33-pound cup was broken into a few pieces and now they're having it rebuilt before it goes on display in the club's trophy case. >> you know what they need? one of those really big "dancing with the stars" trophies that you can't fit in the car. because it's so big. >> just excited, right? slipped under the bus. that's good stuff right there. more "world news now" after the break. stay with us. ♪ you know th

earlier, i had visited one of the world's foremost glacier labs, located in columbus, ohio.here, ice cores from glaciers all around the planet are collected and studied. the lab's founder and director, dr. lonnie thompson, is said to have spent more time at high altitude than any other scientist in the world. >> smith: how will warming affect the people that live on either side of the himalayan range? >> you can think of glaciers as water towers. they kind of store water in the wet season and during the wet times, and they disperse it during the dry season and the dry times. and they do that for free. you go down in these valleys, and they're really dry parts of the world except for the water that's coming from the glaciers and from the higher elevation sites. >> smith: for now, the melting glaciers are bringing more water to these slopes. but it's a mixed blessing. more water has attracted more settlers and thrown their environment out of balance. >> ( translated ): as the population has increased, deforestation also has increased. so our cattle have less food. and are givi

columbus, ohio. caller: i would like to make a suggestion. my suggestion is we are to use to casting these arguments in terms of republicans, democrats, liberal, conservative. if either party had two-thirds of the house and the white house, they still would not do anything because there are so many vested interests in every program. for example, this $30 billion, i noticed it and not talk about where they are cutting. it is sort of an ephemeral figure of they are just talking about. i bet we will not see any specics. host: have you seen any specifics yet, maya macguineas? guest: i have not. i think they are still being worked out. i am always disturbed at how we try to put these twouckets of democrat and republican out there. you cannot break of all the policy that way, and you cannot move forward on fixing them if you set up two warring camps. the notion about democrats for his republicans is not very good for getting things done. these things are hard to do. of coue, there is a constituency for everything. you can believe the people who wil

. >>> union leaders in ohio are vowing to keep fighting a new law which limits the bargaining rights of state workers. they made their anger known at a protest in columbus governor was signing that new law. it prevents state workers unions from negotiating wages but not health care or other benefits. opponents say they're force to a voter referendum come november. >>> turning now overseas, top administration officials are now indicating that the u.s. will not provide weapons to those rebels fighting in libya. the pentagon has also ruled out sending in any ground troops. >> leading republican lawmakers say president obama should be doing more, not less. john hendren is joining us now from washington with more. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. the obama administration insists the american role in libya is winding down right on schedule. but with moammar gadhafi's forces gaining ground, many republicans say it's too soon. sources tell abc news president obama has signed a secret presidential finding authorizing covert operations to help the rebels. it does not direct arms to be provided to them now, though the president could make a decision to do

columbus, ohio. caller: i would like to make a suggestion.suggestion is we are to use to casting these arguments in terms of republicans, democrats, liberal, conservative. if either party had two-thirds of the house and the white house, they still would not do anything because there are so many vested interests in every program. for example, this $30 billion, i noticed it and not talk about where they are cutting. it is sort of an ephemeral figure of they are just talking about. i bet we will not see any specifics. host: have you seen any specifics yet, maya macguineas? guest: i have not. i think they are still being worked out. i am always disturbed at how we try to put these two buckets of democrat and republican out there. you cannot break of all the policy that way, and you cannot move forward on fixing them if you set up two warring camps. the notion about democrats for his republicans is not very good for getting things done. these things are hard to do. of course, there is a constituency for everything. you can believe the people who w

gordon joins us from columbus, ohio, for our two guests. good morning. welcome to the conversation. caller: thank you. and good morning to you all. thanks for allowing me to join before i get up and go to church this morning. host: certainly. caller: well, i have a few questions. first of all, ms. leslie sanchez, i believe you just talked about the governors and their plans. our governor here -- i just want to touch on one specific plan that he is coming about with that i don't believe is really -- i don't know. i'm a little nervous. i really don't think this plan is really good. he wants to take our liquor stores out of drink. but he wants to take our -- i don't drink. but he wants to take our liquor stores and defund them at the same time. so basically selling to wall street. and he wants to name his -- i'm not too familiar. but i've heard something about this plan. and we've been talking about it at work. i work for a landscaping company. i kind of injured my back at another job that i had. so, you know, without having health care, i wasn't able to go seek some kind of help. so i

. >> host: juanita from columbus, ohio, we have about 5 minutes left.please go ahead. >> caller: it's a pleasure, professor reed. >> guest: thank you very much. >> caller: i think when obama was elected, i think that america was ready, at least to me as an african-american, it showed that america was ready to move forward. however, the mainstream media, who i think is public enemy number one, quite frankly, was not going to have it. they continuously brought on -- this is the first time -- i'm in my 50s, and i have never known the losers of a presidential campaign to be invited back on television endlessly and critique a new president. this is something new. >> host: all right, juanita, thank you. >> guest: you know, when i was a kid, my stepfather, vinnie reed, he turned me into a news junkie. and we have this guy gabriel heater. he used to be a radio commentator and we wanted listen to -- can you imagine edward r. murrow on dancing on the stars, you know? i never imagined gabriel heater or mark would be the head of a political party. look how things h

next to columbus, ohio, on the democratic line. good morning. caller: yes, with all of these billion dollar tax cuts and they are talking about $1 trillion, that means jobs lost. that means less revenue. if you on a beauty shop, barber shop, or whatever small business, mom-and-pop shop, you will not get your money and your business will suffer. these people pay taxes. we need to keep the money rolling in. the mean spiritedness of the republicans, i just cannot believe it. they would rather have an old lady miss her meals on wheels than to raise the rich man's taxes 1% or 2% more. these capitalists, industrialists come i have not heard them speak one word on their behalf. they ship their jobs overseas. i just do not understand their mean hardness and all of these democrats switching over to the republicans -- their mean heartedness. host: ryland, your next. -- rhode island. caller: thank you for taking my call. i voted republican for the first time in my life this year. i want to say something. they talk about mean heartedness. let's address some

brian endicott from columbus, ohio joinld the army in 1992 when then candidate clinton talked about the promise to end the ban from the service when don't ask don't tell was implemented he opted not to re-enlist. then lastly, josh crease served a full term as a combat medic in iraq. after returning he was discovered by someone who had unauthorized access to his e-mail, another soldier got his pass word somehow. he was brought up on discharge proceedings but those proceedings were put on hold until he served a second full term in iraq and he was discharged shortly after he returned. he's from upper sandusky in ohio. these are real people who want to serve our country that are talented so again i want to just say thank you and ask one quick question and apologize if i missed in the transition if this question has already been asked. but how soon following certification will former service members who wish to return to service be allowed to begin the process? some former service members approaching 40 are worried that they will age out before the process begins. >> congressman in the case

brian endicott from columbus, ohio joinld the army in 1992 when then candidate clinton talked about theromise to end the ban from the service when don't ask don't tell was implemented he opted not to re-enlist. then lastly, josh crease served a full term as a combat medic in iraq. after returning he was discovered by someone who had unauthorized access to his e-mail, another soldier got his pass word somehow. he was brought up on discharge proceedings but those proceedings were put on hold until he served a second full term in iraq and he was discharged shortly after he returned. he's from upper sandusky in ohio. these are real people who want to serve our country that are talented so again i want to just say thank you and ask one quick question and apologize if i missed in the transition if this question has already been asked. but how soon following certification will former service members who wish to return to service be allowed to begin the process? some former service members approaching 40 are worried that they will age out before the process begins. >> congressman in the case of

brian endicott from columbus, ohio joinld the army in 1992 when then candidate clinton talked about the promise to end the ban from the service when don't ask don't tell was implemented he opted not to re-enlist. then lastly, josh crease served a full term as a combat medic in iraq. after returning he was discovered by someone who had unauthorized access to his e-mail, another soler got his pass word somehow. heas brought up on discharge proceedings but those proceedings were putn hold until he served a second full term in iraq and he was discharged shortly after he returned. he's from upper sandusky in ohio. these are real people who want to serve our country that are talented so again i want to just say thank you and ask one quick question and apologize if i missed in the transition if this question has already been asked. but how soon following certification will former service members who wish to return to service be allowed to begin the process? some former service members approaching 40 are worried that theyill age out before the process begins. >> congressman in the case of the m

columbus, ohio. caller: i would like to make a suggestion. my suggestion is we are to use to casting these arguments in terms of republicans, democrats, liberal, conservative. if either party had two-thirds of the house and the white house, they still would not do anything because there are so many vested interests in every program. for example, this $30 billion, i noticed it and not talk about where they are cutng. it is sort of an ephemeral figure of they are just talking about. i bet we will not see any specifics. host: have you seen any specifics yet, maya macguineas? guest: i have not. i think they are still being worked out. i am always disturbed at how we try to put these two buckets of democrat and republican out there. you cannot break of all the policy that way, and you cannot move forward on fixing them if you set up two warring camps. the notion about democrats for his republicans is not very good for getting things done. these things are hard to do. of course, there is a constituency for everything. you can believe the people who

gordon joins us from columbus, ohio, for our two guests. good morning. welcome to the conversation. caller: thank you. and good morning to you all. thanks for allowing me to join before i get up and go to church this morning. host: certainly. caller: well, i have a few questions. first of all, ms. leslie sanchez, i believe you just talked about the governors and their plans. our governor here -- i just want to touch on one specific plan that he is coming about with that i don't believe is really -- i don't know. i'm a little nervous. i really don't think this plan is really good. he wants to take our liquor stores out of drink. but he wants to take our -- i don't drink. but he wants to take our liquor stores and defund them at the same time. so basically selling to wall street. and he wants to name his -- i'm not too familiar. but i've heard something about this plan. and we've been talking about it at work. i work for a landscaping company. i kind of injured my back at another job that i had. so, you know, without having health care, i wasn't able to go seek some kind of help. so i

ohio was one of them. this was east of columbus. >> boom! it took down all the bricks. took all the slate. the split is all across the front yard. >> the national weather service kernfirmed tornadoes in maryland and kentucky today. >>> bill martin is in the weather center. >> we got more scattered showers in the bay area forecast. nuisance showers. not amounting to much. mount diablo, clayton, few sprinkles. antioch, not messing with the morning commute. here is the satellite loop. this is the time of year when the jet stream goes north and these systems begin to weaken. tomorrow morning, showers, early morning showers and clearing in the afternoon. tomorrow is not a bad day. as we get into saturday, this system, this low pressure center rolls out of here and another rolls in on saturday. it's weak. it's not that strong but could bring rain. saturday is in question. sunday looks okay. the forecast model. tonight at 10:00 -- 5:00, you can see where we are. 11:00, showers north, sprinkles in the bay area. and then morning commute, scattered showers, wet on the roadway, that's thursday aftern