alabama and within a few months they had negotiated in non-violent accommodation in huntsville. two years before the civil rights act, before the water hose in birmingham -- >> did it help that johnsonville was an educated city in northern alabama, did that make a difference? >> what helped more than anything is that huntsville tied itself to the space industry and what he was already there come a lot of scientists had to send a doll alabama and the city wanted to disassociate themselves from the rest of the state and that helped them to negotiate this quietly. so from the beginning i have memories of my parents as civil rights activists and after the voting civil rights act passed then they turned to politics and a group looking stamps, the was the national democratic party to revive memories my father ran for governor against george wallace in 1970 and i have these memories of my summer being taken all around the state, those counties that were the center of the plantation economy during the antebellum era not surprising 100 years later we are all wear the black votes were and

from our huntsville alabama affiliate. what looks like a major funnel cloud moving across the city of huntsville right now. we are getting our first damage reports. this comes just hours after the storm prediction center issued a high-risk warning for multiple states. these types of warnings are a very big deal because they only happen a few times a year, making matters worse some of the communities in the bull's-eye are ones that were already hit by twisters just 48 hours ago. the danger zone stretches from ohio, indiana and illinois down to mississippi, alabama and georgia. now tpaoeusing the possibility of large hail, damaging winds and violent twisters. in parts of kentucky and alabama they were not taking any chances. schools there closed early. we have team coverage for you now. we'll go to janice dean in a moment who predicted this days ago. first to craig boswell who is under a tornado warning in the town of harrisburg, illinois where debris is all over the ground there from three days ago. >> reporter: good evenin

just north of huntsville, new market. one there moving over the border with a tornado on the ground. aurora and hutland, tennessee. farther to the north, that's hillsboro, tennessee, and hanging limb, tennessee, on the one that moved through cookville. confirmation of damage from that storm. many of these storms will put down tornadoes today. you need to know your safety spots, where your children are, what to do when the alarm goes off. probably it will. we probably could see 50 to 100 tornadoes on the ground today before this is all over. let's hope nothing gets hit and no one gets hurt. that's not likely. you need to take precautions. make sure that safe place is your house is ready to go today. it's not anything wrong with putting helmets on, motorcycle helmets, bicycle helmets, whatever it might be and covering yourself up when you hear warnings for your area. >> we'll be wachling closely. thank you, chad. >>> high school kids are back in class today in chardon, ohio. that is where three students were shot to death o

this coming in from huntsville.overturned trees, downed power lines and we are getting reports of injuries and emergency crews out searching for people. we also saw residents running for shelter in harrisburg, illinois as the tornado warning sirens went off. that was the area hardest hit two days ago. an ef4 tornado game for six deaths there wednesday. janice dean has been tracking these storms. but first we want to get to mike tobin who has moved to a shelter. >> reporter: right now what we have got on the ground, we don't have the sirens wailing. but the warning is in effect. there was a big loud thunderclap that happened as soon as we started talking. i'm seeing a lot of lightning. hearing a good bit of thunder. the wind escalates between aggressive wind and calm. the rain is here coming down -- way this one is wind swept to get into the [inaudible] i still see people on the road driving around. there are still people who are not heeding the warnings. the restaurants are still open. we have the ominous part of th

strong thunderstorms between huntsville and birmingham here. these are individual, what we call super cells and they rotate and these are the storms that more than likely be will be producing tornadoes later on this evening and further to the south. southern sections of alabama, again, all these, you see circular thunderstorms. those are super cells moving to the east and northeast and they'll be getting into georgia. we bring here home because the radar shows this showery weather. the heaviest has been to the south of us and we have had some lightning, you can see lightning strikes. this is south of fredericksburg. mainly north of richmond. this is all moving out towards southern maryland. again, a little bit of a lull, but more rain overnight tonight. a flood watch has been issued for everybody here. this is overnight tonight until 7:00 a.m. tomorrow morning. mainly worried about streams and rivers in the creeks and urban areas because remember, we had so much rain the other day. ground is fairly saturated. we had a lot of run off already. an

i have someone on the phone near huntsville.adoes in alabama this morning. i know you had kind of a front seat that you didn't like to a tornado this morning. tell me where you were and what happened. >> well, we heard there was a tornado west of our office, so we went out to the parking lot to kind of get a picture of where it was at. that wasn't real smart, started videoing it. it kept getting a little closer and a little closer. my house is actually located about half a mile behind my office, the subdivision behind my office. so i jumped in my vehicle, ran home real quick to my wife and children, who were there, so i wanted to be with them, make sure they were okay. but my house got slight damage. we did get a little bit, but the office where i work was hit pretty hard, and there were probably seven or eight employees left inside the office. they took shelter in the interior rooms. it was pretty intense there for a few minutes. >> all right. can't even begin to imagine. as we keep looking at the video. shawn, walk me through

within the past hour, a tornado reportedly touched down in huntsville, alabama. much of the region is prime for the possibility of more tornadoes today. of course some communities are still cleaning up following deadly storms earlier this week. at least 13 people died in tornadoes that flattened communities across four states. meteorologist howard bernstein is keeping a close eye on the storms. howard, what's going on right now? >> things are just getting started. we already have reports of homes destroyed in that area, north of huntsville, northern alabama, not far from newmark, alabama if you know that area at all. the brighter orange, red area, that's a high risk of severe weather. these areas are issued by the storm prediction center out of oklahoma. the atmosphere is juiced to be explosive today and cause a lot of damage and potentially some deaths as well because we're talking about tornadoes, long lasting tornadoes, fast moving tornadoes, large hail also and damaging wind gusts. this moderate area goes down toward alabama and mississippi. the highest area

give you a programming note about the agener agendas this morning, rick santorum is speaking in huntsville, alabama and we'll take you there if need be. let's bring in the managing editor joy ann reed and susan dell pierce owe and jen sake. ladies, great to have you here. >> good morning, thomas. >> rick santorum being asked directly about newt gingrich and this race. take a listen. >> well, of course he should say if he wants to say. i've said that from the very beginning. what i'm saying is that the best chance for us to nominate a conservative is to get in a one-on-one match with governor romney and we're going through the process of proving we're the best conservative and we're the right person, not only to beat romney but to defeat barack obama. >> he might not be directly saying that he wants newt gingrich of the race, but what's the difference if newt were to step aside to santorum's campaign? >> oh, it would be very significant. but i don't think we should count on that happening in i time soon. as a matter of fact, i think santorum and gingrich are going to say in as long as they

that shredded these homes outside huntsville, alabama. >> devastating. it's heartbreaking. don't really know what to think to tell you the truth. >> reporter: the first round of friday's wicked weather tore off roofs, snapped signs and flipped trailers in the tennessee valley. it's believed it was two tornadoes each with winds of 130 miles per hour. >> oh, my god. >> reporter: from louisiana to ohio, from missouri to south carolina golf ball size hail fell and damaging winds pulled down trees and power lines. tens of thousands of people are without electricity. forecasters warn conditions are likely to get worse, especially after sunset. >> this is just going to be an unfolding event unfortunately for the rest of the day. i would say if you have to run an errand, go ahead and do it now and make sure you're back within the next couple hours. >> reporter: warm air from the gulf of mexico colliding with low pressure from the northwest is setting off the storms. the severe weather comes two days after a massive system in the same region unleashed more than t

we talked to the mayor of huntsville, we talked to a few people, but it also moved close to st.h, yeah, there is damage north and west of the chattanooga area. there is a lake here near harrison, and the tornado, no doubt about it, crossed that lake and just managed to get what you see here where there is not only a lot of structural damage -- i'm looking at a home where the roof is completely torn off, collapsed in on itself, and pretty much this entire neighborhood of well-structured substantial homes with a tremendous amount of damage. as brooke mentioned, injuries, yes, there are some. as a matter of fact, they came upon an emt who was setting up a triage area. he had a makeshift convenience store where they were exiting one of the neighborhoods that was close to damage, and they're still pulling people out and treating them as the injured continue to roll in. no fatalities, but judging from the destruction i'm seeing around me, more injuries will continue to pull in here, but hopefully nothing too terrible. >> describe the damage, rob. the roof is gone, the shingles are gon

. >> reporter: national weather service huntsville alabama issued warnings as twisters ripped through the area thanks to a new technology, duo polarization, forecasters could see better tornado debris this green spot shows parts of buildings and trees being tossed around. >> we want to make sure we were saying okay at this point a tornado is on the ground possibly strong given this type of debris signature we are seeing. >> reporter: current radars use horizontal beams to sweep storm clouds, duo pull radars sweep with horizontal and vertical beams sending back enhanced images. >> absent of spotty reports or reports coming in from the ground from the site especially at night in rural areas to be able to see that possible debris ball or signature from a tornado on the ground gives forecasters increased confidence. >> confidence to trigger alerts sooner with warning information that is more direct >> instead of saying severe thunderstorm capable of producing a tornado we could see it is on the ground moving this direction. >> 50 radar sites have been upgraded so far by next year every si

a leave look at radar shows the activity near huntsville, alabama. you can see that red is severe weather. the first round of friday's wicked weather tore off roofs, snapped signs and flipped trailers. a tornado with 130-mile-per- hour winds shredded these homes outside huntsville, alabama. the storms sent people to the hospital and left hundreds to sift through what's left of their homes. >> it's heartbreaking. i don't know what to think. >> the tornado reports are also coming from chattanooga and southern indiana where officials there say one town is completely gone. the severe weather comes two days after a massive system in the same region unleashed more than 2 dozen tornadoes killing at least 13 people. >>> more on all the deadly storms coming up on the evening on the "cbs evening news with scott pelley." >>> a live picture from mobile5 where san francisco's famed lombard street was turned from what we like to call the crookedest street in the world to the crookedest river! it was shut down earlier today after a car going down the street slammed

tornados reported on the ground already this morning near huntsville, alabama.uld say 17,000 people already without power. we'll get you an update in the next hour of "happening now" coming up. jon a fox news alert on a frightening day n. alabama, local media outlets saying several holmes destroyed, ambulances on their way to neighborhoods in huntsville this, as folks in america's heartland are picking up after killer tornadoes laid waste to towns and neighborhoods early they are week. mike tobin is live from harrisburg, illinois, a town that lost six residents in a powerful twister the other night. what's going on there mike? >> reporter: a lot of people are getting ready and a lot of people are fearful. i'm standing next to a storm ditch, what people should be eyeballing in last resort in the instance that a funnel cloud is spotted. i want to give you a warning of the tornado sirens. pardon the bumping of the camera. that's one of the sirens that's supposed to warn people of the event a tornado it spotted. it was knocked out by the last tornado. crews are tryi

here's birmingham, huntsville, another storm west of huntsville, all by itself, rotating. it's like when you take -- i use this analogy a lot, but if you have 30 dogs and give them one bowl of foot, all the dogs will stay pretty skinny. one dog you gave the same -- that dog will be the big fat dog. when you don't have to share, when these storms don't have to share with 30 other storms, they become the big dog. they guess to be the mezzo-cyclone, that storm that rotates right now we have 18 tornado warnings across six states. >> privilege devastating. chas, i know you have another question for the mayor jim coppinger in tennessee, go ahead. >> well, the entire effort this morning, i know it caught some people by surprise. are you at all encouraged by the fact that the injuries that you have are relatively minor, or at least no fatalities? that really did pop up in a matter of just an hour. >> anytime you get this kind of severe weather, i don't know what they're estimated at yet, and you have the devastation you're seeing there, then obviously, now, we're saddened by any i

there is no word of injuries but ambulances are responding to neighborhoods near huntsville it's the first reported tornadoes a new storm system trends regions of the southern states and already ravaged midwest forecasters said it severe storms will develop throughout the day with ternate quinn's most likely in late afternoon they're warning that dispatch a possible tornadoes could even be more dangerous than those that hit earlier this week a threat of more severe weather also hangs over the midwest where people are still cleaning up from this week's deadly storms tornadoes and damaging winds storms killed 13 people hardest hit was the southern illinois town of harrisburg where six people had died the storm flattened several homes and buildings and walls and windows of a medical center killing a nurse >>he has been working in the cook county court system for years but the chicago crime commission has them listed as a gang leader and police are worried that he meant the mall marcella raymond is live at the county court house in may would with the story >>there are worried they want h

i'll be there in huntsville but i will be far away you'll know i'm there my heart. but it is he that either. his dad will go. and probably his cousin oh they'll be there to be supportive for him. so he'll know he's not alone. no matter what they did. are do i hate that i can't be there. yeah. he's my only son quickly. but i would not handle it better well. i've got to do it. to be sitting in a room with him laying there brats down in that gurney. knowing that it's last minute. and they're going to ask him if he's got any last words what's he supposed to say. he's told them all he didn't do it. but they don't want to believe anything and. we are sitting here and we can look back on an america that used to have slavery and shake our heads and disbelief that how could this country have slavery for two hundred forty six years and think it was ok but during that time those people thought it was ok it was a norm for them the way the death penalty is a norm for us so things change in society society grows it becomes better it just does it at a very slow and frustrating pac

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just north of huntsville there. as you can see, as it headed up to the east, northeast.nd now the line is extended into louisiana. reported very dangerous, very large tornadoes, just in the last hour over southern portions of indiana. some towns are reportedly totally destroyed. >>> we have light rain and moderate shower activity. developing south of the baltimore, washington area. temperatures around 150. one little heavy echo, popping up here around the city. we're talking moderate showers. and in fact, we just a minute ago, had -- national weather service put a flood watch in effect for all of our region through late tonight. mary is going to pick up another inch of rain. there could be small streams reaching flood stage. so we keep an eye on that. no severe weather expected for us. but we may have thunder overnight and during the morning tomorrow before it clears out in the afternoon. >> and of course, wjz will continue to track these storms throughout the evening. to find forecast updates and live doppler radar any time, log onto wjz.com. >>> finally, headed home. h

space and rocket center in huntsville. he drew applause. he called himself the true conservative left in the gop field and likened mr. romney to president obama. >> because i think what we have to say is really important. because alabama, the heart of the south, the conservative greatest part of this country that understands what made this country great -- and when it becomes a to-person race for the republican nomination, -- >> if newt gingrich was as the southern primary, he may drop out. so far, romney is the learning enough delegates to keep his rival from taking that nomination before the tampa convention. >> some very disturbing results when it comes to baltimore residents and the rate of hiv. >> and the financial struggle continues for baltimore city schools. we will have the latest developments. >> and turning over smartmeter as. >> a cold front is heading this way. there will be a significant temperature drop and some rain as well. right now, it is still 70 degrees in downtown baltimore. >> african-american women in baltimore are b

look at some of those thunderstorms across tennessee, south of nashville and moving through the huntsville area. we have two severe thunderstorm watches in effect, both until 9:00 p.m. central time. that means conditions are favorable for thunderstorms to develop that could produce severe weather and severe weather in the form of large size hail, damaging wind gusts and even isolated tornadoes and we have a number of severe thunderstorm warnings where we're looking at that possibility. large size hail in excess of an inch in diameter. that could cause damage. heads up, the city of memphis, huntsville, alabama, keep in mind you could be looking at strong thunderstorms as we head throughout the rest of the evening, into the overnight hours. as far as the northwest, a lot of moisture out here across western parts of washington, oregon. we do have flood warnings in effect out here because of how much rain we've seen. many of the rivers are currently running at or just below flood stage. the one good news for that town of mapleton in oregon is that we're expecting the river out there to begin t

also in at the top five, laugh fay yes, louisiana, raleigh, north carolina, huntsville, alabama, and greenville, south carolina. bingham ton is the least optimistic city.

. >>> tornadoes unleashed a new wave of destruct today this time alabama was hit hard this is huntsville where several homes have been flattened and people taken to hospitals with injuries. maximum security prison was hit no prisoners escaped. this comes two days after another system killed 13. t.j. winick reports. >> reporter: eyes are toward the skies from the ohio valley into the deep south. more storms and tornadoes are expected after 13 across seven states have already lost their lives to a total of 33 confirmed twisters. the new threat is the result of twotrons colliding, cold air in the north, -- warm from the south with the jet stream in between. jackson, mississippi through nashville and cincinnati are in the danger zone for long lived significant tornadoes. >> my parents have known each other since they were 12-years-old and my mother passed away over there. >> reporter: sheila's mother 69-year-old carolyn jones one of three here in tennessee killed wednesday night. even for a part of the country used to tornado warnings this year has been especially nerve-racking. >> usually f

space and rocket center in huntsville, alabama. >>> for a woman in massachusetts the primaries on super tuesday brought what you call a super surprise. you see, 84-year-old maureen arrived at her voting place only to find out that she was dead. or so the poll worker told her. maureen said, that's pretty odd, because i certainly felt alive on the way over here. >> she said, you died. >> she said you died? >> you died. they had me on the deceased list. >> can you believe that? >> can you? >> very much alive. turns out there was a mix-up in the latest census. someone accidentally marked maureen down as deceased. the problem was cleared up and maureen cast her vote. >>> coming up on 9news now, there ought to be a law, but you probably would be surprised to find out that it is perfectly legal to smoke cigarettes in a car in maryland with children. we are going to tell you about the latest move to ban lighting up. >> as tensions escalate over iran's nuclear ambitions, "60 minutes" sits down for a rare interview with the former head of israel's intelligence agency. what he said about attacking

a funnel cloud captured on camera in huntsville. another one 25 miles away in athens, leaving a five-mile swath of demolished houses, downed power lines and uprooted trees. this training center at a state prison takes a direct hit. an 18-wheeler flipped on its side. this video shows a funnel cloud near a high school. an emotional woman is heard. >> those kids.owsh students inside the school hallway as the tornado hit. thankfully, no one was injured. at 12:07, a warning that the storm is far from over. >> storms will be moving almost 50 to 60 miles per hour so severe weather conditions will change rapidly at any given location. people need to monitor this situation very carefully. >> i felt my house moving. it was pretty bad. i ain't never been through nothing like this before. >> reporter: reports of more than a dozen tornados touched down in three states. around 2:20 p.m., sirens sound in hard-hit harrisburg, illinois. today it was spared a second beating. a tornado touches down in kentucky. >> we have a tornado on the ground that

emergency managers in the huntsville area say several houses were leveled in a single neighborhood. five people are in the hospital. that same storm system has unleashed a string of tornadoes in neighboring states. people affected are scrambling to save their belongings. >> now there are storms rolling in again. >> i know. it's awful. so we have just worked all day to get as much as possible out because we have no roof. >> an apparent tornado today damaged the roof of an alabama state prison and blew down part of the perimeter fence. no inmates escaped. forecasters expect severe thunderstorms later today with even more tornadoes possible. 13 have died in the storms in just the past three days. >>> family and friends are holding visitation services today for those three students victims of the school shooting rampage in ohio. police were on hand as students arrived on campus today for the first classes since the attack happened on monday. the alleged shooter, tj lane, was charged yesterday with three counts of aggravated murder. >>> the republicans running for president are campaigni

. >>> rick santorum rallied reporters in huntsville, alabama and called for increase funding for space called alabama the reddest part of the country. 47 delegates are at stake. >> how do we understand this president and his time in office? >> in the meantime president obama's re-election staff released a short trailer today for a documentary style campaign add. the road we travel. the film show cases events in the president's first term including the recession, health care reform and killing of osama bin laden. >>> talk about an adventure, a cat picked an unusual and dangerous place to curl up miles from home. meet squeak, a very scared but extremely lucky cat. he turned up under the hood of a car. this was not her owner's car but strangers. >> the technician thought there was a cat inside here and it turns out there was a black and white cat riding on the frame inside the engine compartment area. >> he nor his neighbors were missing a cat. when he managed to get squeak out of the engine she found the cat's i.d. tag. miller was reunited with her kitty. how did squeak end up in someone

. >>> tornadoes unleashed a new wave of destruct today this time alabama was hit hard this is huntsville where several homes have been flattened and people taken to hospitals with injuries. maximum security prison was hit no prisoners escaped. this comes two days after another system killed 13. t.j. winick reports. >> reporter: eyes are toward the skies from the ohio valley into the deep south. more storms and tornadoes are expected after 13 across seven states have already lost their lives to a total of 33 confirmed twisters. the new threat is the result of twotrons colliding, cold air in the north, -- warm from the south with the jet stream in between. jackson, mississippi through nashville and cincinnati are in the danger zone for long lived significant tornadoes. >> my parents have known each other since they were 12-years-old and my mother passed away over there. >> reporter: sheila's mother 69-year-old carolyn jones one of three here in tennessee killed wednesday night. even for a part of the country used to tornado warnings ts year has been especially nerve-racking. >> usually fro

another tornado not far from south of huntsville, alabama. i'll pan you a little farther up. there's a lot more to come huntsville, birmingham, back into parts of mississippi, louisiana. all of these states, if you ever see a storm that's all by itself, it's coming to you, it's probably rotating. it's one of those days that they're called super cells. this err' all by themselves. they don't line up in a line. when you get a line of weather, it's called a squall line, you get wind and it's over. when storms don't line up, erin, they go out i all by themselves and use all of the energy and become the big dog. they start to rotate. when they do, they can put tornadoes down, we know at least 50 to 60 on the ground already today. still more to come. as it gets dark things will cool off. the storms will calm down. it may take a few hours before that happens, erin. >> thank you very much. chad myers. we appreciate it. chad is giving you a sense of the storm. as we said, our rob marciano appears to be in one of those incredibly severe weather cells right now where he is standing in t

campaigning for a few days and i'll be back to the chamber of commerce on tuesday morning before i go to huntsville. in addition it means that you have -- senator santorum will find pennsylvania competitive. >> bob: you're looking good in georgia according to the polls. it looks like santorum and governor romney are neck in neck in ohio. how do you see super tuesday shaking down? what would you expect to see wednesday morning as you looks back >> i think there will be santorum and romney in the lead, and me in third place, and coming back and gaining ground f. you look at the gallup numbers, i closed the gap on santorum dramatically in the last two and a half weeks. this is the seventh time that you and i have talked about it. this is the seventh time i've been through the up and down cycle. we survived donald trump, and perry and cane again, and now santorum. so we're going to -- twice i've been the front-runner. by focusing on big ideas like a national energy strategy and american energy strategy with 2.50 a gallon gasoline and an ability to say no future president will ever again bow to a saudi

high winds sideswiped these homes outside of huntsville, alabama, and tore off roofs, snapped signs, flipped trailers in the tennessee valley. meteorologists believe of it the work of at least two tornadoes each with winds of about 130 miles an hour. >> devastating. it's heartbreaking, don't really know what to think tell you the truth about it. >> from louisiana to ohio, from missouri to south carolina golf ball sized hail fell and damaging winds were pulling down the trees and power lines, tens of thousands of people in the dark tonight and the severe weather comes just two days after a massive system in the very same region unleashed more than two dozen tornadoes killing at least 13 people. >>> essentially says that she must be paid to have sex. what does that make her? it makes her a slut, right? makes her a prostitute. >> okay. whole lot of reaction today to the way rush limbaugh referred to a student at georgetown university and bruce leshan reports one advertiser has pulled its spots and even the white house is weighing in. >> president obama has stepped into the dust-up betwe

we are optimistic, but we are cautiously optimistic in huntsville.ople are that way. >> mayor bill, how are things going in terms of housing specifically? >> well, basically the housing market is from the standpoint of cost is down a little bit. but it's fairly stable. but what the pattern we're seeing in our city i think it goes back to the conservatism that the former mayor was just speaking about. we do see a rise in rentals. and people not necessarily wanting to commit long-term but still getting into the market. so the rental space that we've had inside our city has actually decreased although our housing market hasn't increased in a large way during this period of time last few years. >> mayor bell, let me turn you to jobs. your unemployment rate is now about 8.6% according to the facts that i have. that's down significantly from a year ago when it was over 11%. who's hiring? and what does that hiring due to the level of confidence to the tax receipts you're able to collect and the general business vitality of toledo. >> one of the two biggest

of tornadoes, from the miami valley of ohio, dayton, cincinnati, lexington, all the way down to huntsville. we'll keep our eyes on it. >> jim, thank you very much, along with lester holt, for our reporting from there. >>> in the cleveland suburb of chardon, ohio, today, the teenager accused in the shooting deaths of those three high school students was charged with six counts related to monday's incident at the high school including three counts of aggravated murder. earlier today, students and parents marched to the high school past trees decorated with red ribbons in memory of the three boys who died. the assistant football coach at the high school who's being hailed as a hero for moving quickly with disregard for his own safety, chasing the gunman out of the cafeteria, he spoke today and he directly addressed the families who lost their sons. >> i prayed with them. i wiped their tears and i know god was with them. i don't know why this happened, i only wish i could have done more. i'm not a hero. just a football coach and a study hall teacher. the law enforcement, first responders that

we're probably going to deal with large areas like louisville, lexington, cincinnati, nashville, huntsville, birmingham, some of the major cities at risk today from the storms as they go through. it's not guaranteed they're going to produce large tornadoes but even if they don't there's going to be a lot of wind damage and large hail, too. this is a moderate risk area. this area in red shading is the greatest risk of tornadoes. the timing looks to start some time around 2:00 this afternoon and will it continue through the evening hours. really won't start to weaken until the storms get past atlanta probably by about midnight or so. that's the greatest area of concern. i'll break down the timing and even have some strong storms at this hour so i'll break that all day for you coming up. >> we'll check back with you soon. thanks, bill. >>> on capitol hill thursday in a close vote the senate upheld president obama's rule on health care coverage for birth control. it covers employees even if their employer objects on religious grounds. the 51-48 vote nearly blocked an effort by senate republican

. >> reporter: today, the warnings and the sirens here first started blaring near huntsville. >> this is actually a serious situation. a tornado emergency. >> reporter: the tornado on the ground leveled dozens of homes, took pieces off the roof of a maximum security prison and sent nearly a dozen residents to local hospitals. the national weather service says wind speeds here were near 130 miles per hour. and the tornado was on the ground here for at least ten miles. >> when you start dealing with something over ten miles, a continuous track on the ground, that's really long. >> reporter: wow. and emergency centers across the region, worried residents were bringing in their radios to get them programmed and repaired. even as we stood here with the hodges, there was another tornado in the sky, passing us by. >> and, steve, you sent word to me that the hodges had lessons they had learned from the first time around. >> reporter: well, there were many people who were watching this much more closely, paying much more attention to the forecast. also, this time around, residents were getting

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i speak a lot of military bases and i was recently down in huntsville arsenal in alabama. and i was having lunch with some of the senior officers there and there was several colonels and majors who were in from one of our bases in italy, and i said we still have bases in italy? and they said yes, we have four bases in italy. i said what is the mission? and not one of them knew and they all agreed it was superfluous. we have troops in 100, 150 countries, some huge number, we're really out there in a number of places we don't need to be and you don't have to go as far as ron paul to realize there is -- we have extended i think the military far beyond what we need for basic national security and probably for our own good. with the other candidates, newt is the one i know best. i've known newt fairly well for 30 years. back when he first set up the conservative opportunity society in the middle 1980s, he kept getting various people to coordinate it and for some number of months, i was selected as a coordinator. the reason none of us last is because we were supposed to manage n

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