today, frank bailey is spilling secrets.lking about being the first dude and what happened when sarah palin held the highest office in alaska? >>> and travelers beware. a volcanic ash cloud is on the move and many airlines are already canceling flights. >>> welcome back. i'm brooke baldwin. i want to begin with joplin, missouri. the people of joplin are still reeling from the deadliest tornado to strike in recent american history and it wasn't just 48 hours ago, what is left there on the ground in joplin, let's watch this for a moment. as far as the eye can see, devastation in large swaths of the city. not a car or truck is upright. in the joplin area alone, now confirmed 118 people are dead and about 1500 others' whereabouts are unaccounted for. i want to go straight to t.j. holmes. t.j., tell me where you are, where are folks and where you are with regard to the rescue effort. the clock is ticking because we know more severe weather is headed your way. >> reporter: yeah, like you said, a couple clocks are ticking. but you

frank bailey has written what some call a tell-all book., quote, loved to play the victim and also gave an interview to brook baldwin where he talked about what it was like when palin became senator john mccain's running mate. >> her style of leadership was absolutely chaotic. brook, you've got to understand that, you know, because i vested so much when she got tapped for v.p., i had -- i was absolutely overjoyed on one sense and in another sense, just absolutely terrified. what if this person did actually become vice president and president? she is not a -- she's not an organized leader, i will say, to put it politely. >> an adviser to sarah palin's action committee released a statement saying, quote, mr. bailey has an ax to grind and abandoned truth in his book. >> up next on "american morning," the price of your favorite coffee could be going up. why the best part of waking up is going to cost you a little more. that's right after the break. it's 18 minutes past the hour. ♪ [ male announcer ] in 2011, at&t is at work, building up our wir

>> reporter: after scouring through more than 60,000 e-mails between sarah palin and her aide, frank bailey, he feels he knows the governor better than herself. >> all of us have a profound sense of sorrow for the woman and her family. she flies off the handle. she is just -- she has a killer bee mentality. >> reporter: to allegedly losing interest in being the governor of alaska long before she resigned. a new tell-all book morris co-authored paints an unflattering picture. >> every time we'd go and get to a new e-mail, i would close my eyes and say, i can't read this. because it was one more attack. all it was was attack and counter attack. >> reporter: the book called "blind allegiance" stems from thousands of e-mails that bailey kept during his time by her side. >> each one was a different e-mail. >> reporter: he says more than anything he wants the book to be a warning about unvetted politicians slipping through the process. >> it would be a disaster for her to be president of the united states. or even in his mind, even to be a voice in the republican party. >> reporter: meanwhile, pa

>>> frank bailey, a former gubernatorial aide to sara pail, has just published a book with hundreds of her private personal e-mails, and he's been making the television rounds. let's watch. >> you weren't so blind and it's tough as a reader to be very sympathetic. >> you know, brooke, that is absolutely fair. you know, you go into something vesting so much. i mean, you look at this like a relationship that maybe isn't going so well. >> you say it's blind allegiance, but you did all these things. >> i did. i did. >> and then you say, i shouldn't have done it. and i'm trying to say, well, the things that you say you did because you have gotten in a lot of trouble. >> i did. >> why should the media give thisgy a platform? >> well, he's got something interesting to say. he's got information about governor palin. i think he sounds like a disreputable character. i mean, i don't think what he's doing is honorable. but if you're a reporter relating this information you've got and it's not your responsibility to make sure that the person giving it to you is a person of upright character. >> rig

there is a new book called blind allegiance to sarah palin, written by a former aide of hers, frank bailey. it includes some e-mails from the former alaska governor, not clear whether there are any bombshells. it is another example why it is so risky for sarah palin to jump into the race. not only is she her own cottage industry but a cottage industry for a lot of her attackers. there is another book coming out this fall not written or authorized by sarah palin. the palin defenders are out today calling this new book out today calling it fiction. we are going to see whether the former alaskan governor comes out. >> i called paul ryan a senator. he is a congressman. i apologize. maybe he is happy about that mistake. >> he took a pass at running for the senate. so i am sure he is. >> jim acosta, many thanks. >>> they survived the tornado but cannot find their baby son. now, the family is going out of its mind trying to track him down. more on that story next. >>> plus, one ray of hope for the residents of joplin. it comes from greensburgh, kansas. four years ago, a tornado virtually wiped ou