does hannah marie have a new laptop? to them in a live interview. >> also coming up, a harrowing story we brought you on tuesday. an indiana mother who protected her kids by laying on top of them as a tornado ripped apart their home and because of her brave actions she lost part of both legs but her kids survived without a scratch. this morning she'll share her story. and a new drama at nicollette sheridan's wrongful termination lawsuit. how the central argument that she was fired from "desperate housewives" in re-al tags got a big hit on tuesday. >> let's begin with the act of tough love from a north carolina father who fired nine shots into his daughter's laptop. we'll talk to them in a moment. first mark potter has the story from the very place where it all began. mark, good morning to you. >> reporter: good morning, matt. when tommy jordan got up from this chair in this field and shot that computer those were shots heard around the world and seen by millions of people. now he, his wife and daughter are speaking about

very much so. >> our next question, you'll love this one hannah marie. om florida asks, do you worry no guy will want to come near hannah with your reputation? is this the point? you can scare off potential suitors? >> it saves me a lot of trouble cleaning guns at home. >> what do you think? >> i don't know. it's kind of weird. i don't think it will scare anybody off. >> what dad hasn't, you know, when their little girls are getting to that age? >> first time she brought a guy home i was accidentally sitting in the garage cleaning guns. hi, good to meet you. >> exactly. >> that should weed a lot of that out. >> hand them a dvd of the facebook posting, right? joanne says, i appreciate what you did. a lot of parents need to monitor their children's facebook accounts more often. my question is do you regret doing it? you talked about the good that's come out of this and bad. >> regret monitoring the facebook or regret the laptop viral -- >> taking that action. >> considering what's come of it and the national and almost international conversation it sparked,

hannah marie is still grounded which means no tv, no internet. no word on her dad about whether or not she might be getting a new laptop. by the way, feel free to join the debate tonight on our website, rockcenternbc.com. >>> up next the third version of the ipad came out today. meanwhile, people are still figuring out extraordinary things the first two can do. >>> a bitter later on richard engel back from his trip inside japan's no-man's-land poisoned by radiation. >> this drugstore has been like this since the earthquake struck. all of these bottles thrown onto the floor. a moment frozen in time. the entire town was abandoned. no one's coming back. . grass gurus. doers. here's to more saturdays in the sun. and budgets better spent. here's to turning rookies - into experts and shoppers into savers. here's to picking up. trading up. mixing it up. to well-earned muddy boots. and a lot more - spring per dollar. more saving. more doing. that's the power of the home depot. show the yard who's boss with this cordless black and decker trimmer just $84.

jordan and his daughter hannah marie have made up. this morning they appeared on the "today" jordan answered critics who say he should not have publicly humiliated his daughter. >> you know, you got down to her level. and up shun have done that. well, you know, we tried the adult level. we tried taking the laptop away. twisz we tried taking the laptop away or grounding her. it didn't work. yeah, put it a level i got down on her level and -- exact same format she used, put it on facebook. i put it on facebook. >> jordan says in hindsight he may have made a mistake but he can't change it now and stands behind what he did. hannah marie is still grounded and she does not have a new laptop yet. a look at the stories we are following on "news4 at 4:00" this afternoon. pat lawson muse joins us in the newsroom with a preview of things to come. >> coming up tonight on "news4 at 4:00," doctors' orders. dr. jackie will be here to tell us what we immediate to know to get the most out of the brief office visits. plus, you don't need to trade in yo

a happy dad. 31 million views later, we are finally hearing from tommy jordan and his daughter hannah marievision interview on the "today" show about this video. the family feud and reconciliation that followed. >> we tried on an adult level to talk about it, we tried taking the laptop away. twice we tried taking the laptop away or grounding her. it didn't work. >> i think he overreacted a little bit, but i understand. >> she's a great kid. a lot of people took 8 minutes and 23 seconds of my life to judge me and it took about 20 seconds to read her note to judge her. i have a great daughter. she made a mistake that day. i made a mistake that day. >> he made a mistake that day, he says. his daughter is still grounded. she still doesn't have a laptop, but he did save his daughter's hard drive before shooting up her computer. >>> politics, politics. the dust is settling after super tuesday. the math just is not adding up yet for front runner mitt romney. he couldn't quite deliver that knockout punch that he wanted. i have wolf blitzer here who was here until 2:00 a.m. it seems like with romney