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today in huntsville, alabama, the hum of chainsaws as the national weather service confirmed two tornadoes there. >> i sent pictures to my children. i raised my kids here. it's hard. yeah. >> reporter: and that's why people like irvin hill say they will rebuild. >> i survived. that's the amazing part. >> reporter: a second chance after being caught inside the storm. the national weather service just confirmed that this tornado was an ef-3 with winds of up to 165 miles per hour, brian. >> gabe gutierrez in mississippi tonight for us. gabe, thanks. >>> law enforcement officials in arizona today said a package sent to the high profile and controversial sheriff joe arpaio would have exploded and caused serious injury or killed someone if it had been open, but an alert mail carrier noticed something wrong and flagged it for inspection. arpaio is fond of calling himself the toughest sheriff in america. told reporters today he's concerned for his family's safety and added, i didn't ask for all these threats. several law enforcement officials have been murdered in recent days including colorado's

gabe gutierrez, nbc news, huntsville, alabama. >> joining me now with more weather channel kelly cassot happening behind you. where are you keeping your eye? >> thank goodness the severe weather threat is greatly diminished. we can't rule out more pop-up showers and storms. especially watching the sunshine state. we've got that blossoming of clouds over tampa and orlando. for places like georgia, alabama and mississippi, hit so hard yesterday, lots of lightning strikes as well. here is a look at the forecast if you're heading out to the masters tournament. storms very close to this location yesterday. a beautiful weekend shaping up. sunday, a bit more cloudiness. temperatures in the mid 70s. elsewhere we will be watching another disturbance come in across the northwest. that is going to spread rain showers and even some mountain snow. i know it is april but it is not unusual to see that happen. and then eventually we'll see that snow breaking out across north and south dakota. even northern minnesota. they cannot seem to catch a break. they are still in that really cold air. minneapol

this demonstration is part of a training exercise of the atf here in huntsville, alabama.he atf trains police and federal agents on how to investigate explosions. on this day they are working with a group of agents heading overseas. we can't show you their faces for security reasons. >> these people are going where america is a target or the host country may have targets. in this situation, it enables them to go on the blast scene and not be overwhelmed by it. >> the techniques here are used by the same hundreds of agents that deploy to scenes like the boston marathon bombing. and the fertilizer plant blast in west, texas. >> that's cool. put that in the evidence, in the bucket. >> how do you stay ahead of the terrorists? >> as devices are recovered and reengineered, you look at the tactics and techniques that they use and learn from it. >> the atf says most bombs use a simple gun powder and energy source like batteries. >> five years ago, it could be the same thing, and it's based on the availability of products. window glass and bomb fragments scatter everywhere, and eve

towering trees also came tumbling down slicing through homes in huntsville, alabama, and businesses were not spared. >> no one was here. i got a call. the roof just peeled completely off the building. >> reporter: as they struggled to pick up the crumbled debris, thousands are forced to cope without power knocked out by those brutal winds, and the cleanup job is still under way in st. louis where a twister left dozens of homes in ruins wednesday night. the weather service has now confirmed that it was an ef-2 packing winds up to 135 miles an hour. and as they brace for more of that wild weather farther east, a dangerous mix of ice and snow continues to menace the great lakes and northern new england. >> accuweather meteorologist jim dickey is tracking it all. >> good morning, john and marci. tracking strong storms once again here. this time as the front continues to push its way towards the coast, we're watching eastern north carolina, southeastern virginia including the richmond area bringing the threat of large hail and damaging wind gusts, perhaps an isolated tornado, as well. this wh

nasa holding the finals of the 20th annual moon buggy race in huntsville.f mile course of what they say is lunar stilted terrain. they are pedaling in a track with man made crators and rocks and lunor soil. they made it over. before we go. look at fox top stories, federal agents arresting a mississippi karate instructor. everett dutschke faces upon charging of illegal use of a biological weapon . the faa ending the furlough program that in since monday causing delays all over country. air traffic controllers will be back as early as tomorrow. furloughs were the result of automatic spending cuts in washington. that is how fox reports this saturday. i am heather childers in for harris falker. huckabee starts now. >> tonight on huckabee. >> we they were not involve would. america took my kids away from me. >> the bomber's mother america. investigators say they had plans to set off bomb in times square. were there warning signs that friendly and social johar, brainwashed by tamerlan. >> and why are democrats bailing out of the senate? >> inside of the courtroom

the storms are moving east this morning after leaving destruction in huntsville, alabama.rees and ripped the roofs off several homes and businesses. the same storm system dumping heavy snow in the northern plains and upper midwest facing the threat of flooding. volunteers in fargo reached their goal of filling 1 million sandbags a day ahead of schedule. bags may be needed to protect communities against what is expected to be one of the biggest red river floods ever. kind of -- a rite of passage in the spring. a million sandbags. wow. >>> a look at your friday forecast. more snow showers from bismarck to milwaukee. thunderstorms from florida up to new york. hail, dangerous wind and possible tornados in the carolinas. ice and snow for upstate new york, northern new england. showers from seattle to portland. >> 50s in the pacific northwest. 40s in the midwest. 37 in boston. 55 in new york. 87 in miami. >>> all right, nothing like a little hard rock on a friday night possibly. right? >> yeah. >> a little van halen classic. and "hot for teacher" you remember that one? >> all ri

i was down in huntsville two years ago and atf runs a course down there where they're making detonators, setting off black powder. they're copying this stuff to show police forces how it's put together and what they're up against. this is a defensive measure and inside the cia made bombs, there's training. i don't trust myself but at least i've had some experience with it. and the explosives experts all tell me you are extraordinarily lucky to set off this many bombs, five of them, put them together so neatly, to make them work, it would be just absolutely remarkable these two young men could do that on their own. >> nick, bob, appreciate you being on as always. as we said, the surviving suspect has been relocated to that federal prison hospital where the army base used to be. jason carroll is there right now. he's outside federal medical center. you learned some new details about how tsarnaev was processed and handled when he got to the facility. what have you heard? >> reporter: well, basically what i can tell you, anderson, is that tsarnaev is in stable condition and doctors at beth

>> anderson, two years ago, i went down to huntsville, alabama. atf put me through a course and let me observe it and there were explosives experts from afghanistan and iraq, american soldiers that came and knew their explosives, but in order to learn the homemade devices they had to go in to a course that was several weeks long. they just had to. they were creating their own detonators, but it's not something they could read from a manual and actually make these things go off. they had to sit through the instruction. they were careful about it. they needed to be mentored and as i said, they were already experts with years of expertise and it was the only way to make sure these things would go off with the percentage these guys made them go off in boston. >> nick, in terms of other terrorist acts by chechen militant terrorists, we have seen the school incident, the taking over the movie theater in moscow years ago. in terms of targeting the united states, we have not seen -- we have not seen chechen terrorists or chechen militants targeting u.s. i

. >> in huntsville,al. hundreds of people will be dropped from a housing voucher program. putting them at risk of becoming homeless. and thousands of children will be kicked off head start, a program which offers preschool to low income children. >> we're looking at almost you know, three-quarters of a million dollars of budget cuts and if you start cutting spots, that's a lot of children. >> to cut this program is not going to improve our deficit. but it's going to hurt our future. >> despite the fact that republicans are flashing v is for victory signs on capitol hill, the sequester is taking its toll. slowly but surely in corners of the country that are not necessarily prime media markets and among people who have little voice in the national debate. some of our elected officials are taking a stab at empathy. yesterday the white house announced that the president has joined defense secretary chuck hagel and a handful of congress members in giving back 5% of his salary. a gesture of solidarity with furloughed government workers. joining me is kurt anderson. lee gallagher

i was down in huntsville two years ago and atf runs a course down there where they're making detonators, setting off black powder. they're copying this stuff to show police forces how it's put together and what they're up against. this is a defensive measure and inside the cia made bombs, there's training. i don't trust myself but at least i've had some experience with it. and the explosives experts all tell me you are extraordinarily lucky to set off this many bombs, five of them, put them together so neatly, to make them work, it would be just absolutely remarkable these two young men could do that on their own. >> nick, bob, appreciate you being on as always. as we said, the surviving suspect has been relocated to that federal prison hospital where the army base used to be. jason carroll is there right now. he's outside federal medical center. you learned some new details about how tsarnaev was processed and handled when he got to the facility. what have you heard? >> reporter: well, basically what i can tell you, anderson, is that tsarnaev is in stable condition and doctors at beth

pleaded vainly for mercy before they strapped her down to die in that anteroom of heaven known as the huntsvillestate prison. "justice for all" is a line item in the budget, sequestered now by the paul ryans of congress and the fix the debt gang of plutocratic ceos who, with a wink-wink from our president, claim, "oh, we can't afford that!" of the $100 billion spent annually on criminal justice in this country, only 2% to 3% goes to defend the poor. of 97 countries, we rank 68th in access to and affordability of civil legal service. no, we can't afford it, but just a decade ago we started shelling out $2.2 trillion for a war in iraq born of fraud. we can't afford it, while dick cheney's old outfit halliburton raked in $40 billion worth of contracts because of that war. we can't afford it, while the state department doles out $3 billion over five years in private security contracts to protect its gargantuan new embassy in baghdad. we can't afford it, in this golden age of corporate profits when companies pay below zero in taxes while hauling in tax breaks from congress worth millions upon million

high winds left thousands without power here in huntsville, alabama. strong gusts also tore the roofs off of homes and took down a 100 foot tree in the house. fortunately the owners were in the basement. in kentucky the roof was ripped clean off of one home. hail was a hazard for drivers outside of atlanta and in northwest georgia heavy gusts battered homes and cars with debrie. >> the roof of the building wrapped around trees like it's nothing, like it's paper. >> reporter: a wooden beam shot through the roof of one man's home, three feet from where he's standing. still he says -- >> i'm lucky. i'm sure there are folks that can't go home. >> reporter: the threat not over yet. storm warnings remain in effect for the carolinas and northern florida. >> thank you so much. >>> the senate is set to unveil a bipartisan immigration bill next week. lawmakers from both sides of the siel say they reached an agreement that will overall immigration, beef up border security and put 11 million immigrants living in the united states on a path to citizenship. >>> a co

. >> caller: she was a teacher at the university of alabama huntsville. shot and killed three of her colleagues. so what i want to know is what are the republicans going to say when someone goes crazy, like a teacher and gets mad and kills other teachers or kids? >> stephanie: we've discussed that previously. there are literally none of our teachers from any of our schools that we would want to see armed. [ applause ] >> yeah. >> stephanie: no offense. >> my high school biology teacher. >> stephanie: right. mrs. thornton had -- that eye the lazy eye. >> dr. hunsaker was a little crazy. i don't know that i would want her armed. >> mr. fobb was an odd duck, you might say. lecture on peas and a jet would fly over and scream noise pollution as if nothing had happened. he did that. >> stephanie: i still have father fat calves flashbacks. he had big ankles and bad anger management problem. [ applause ] >> stephanie: okay. >> well then -- >> stephanie: right. [ ♪ "world news tonight" ♪ ] this i think is important because louie gohmert is kind of a -- >> he's a g

so i don't host: buy that richard in huntsville, alabama, independent. caller: good morning. i would like to ask representative welch to expand on a statement he made earlier about the structure of our health care program being designed after world war ii and the employers offering the health care benefits because there was a restriction in wages. could he please expand on that? war ii there world were wage and price controls. seeking good were employees, because we had a very high employment and a lot of women going into the workforce to help support the war effort, but there were wage and price controls, so employers competing to get good workers, they could not compete by offering higher wages. one of the things they began to do was offer benefits and health care became a major benefit to some of our big employers. after the war, when america was doing really well economically, the automobile industry was doing really well. manufacturing process and unions were strong. they began negotiating strong benefits including very good health care plans. we could afford it. we had

director of space technology at dianetics incorporated, a 38-year-old employee owned business in huntsville, alabama. prior to my private sector career, i spent almost 20 years at nasa from 2005 until 2009. i served with predecessor of the sls. previously i spent several years in the 1990's. early attempts to move towards commercial backed space transportation. , the fissures within the space community over the past four years have too often pitted the commercial and government space sectors against each other in an us versus them debate. this is very unfortunate and counterproductive. historically, successful government-backed exploration efforts have been linked inextricably with commerce. government private sector partnerships have expanded the human for and -- human footprint. at its core, commercial means that the private sector has the burden of the funding, the risk and the reward. can be companies profitable by providing products and services and creating new wealth. commercial successes need not limited to the commercial sector. partnerships between government and industry can prod

the director space technology at dynetics incorporated, a 38 year-old employment or business in huntsville, alabama, with a 1400 employees. part to my private sector career i spent almost 20 years at nasa, from 2005 until 2009 i served as manager of the aries projects, the predecessor to the sls at nasa's marshall space flight center. present as the server years in the 1990s with the d.c. xa an x-33 flight demonstrators which te move toar commercial bk space transportation. unfortunately, the fish is that develop within the space committed over the past or years have to off into the commercial and government space actors against each other and an us versus them debate. this is very unfortunate and counterproductive. historically successful government backed exploration efforts have been linked inextricably with commerce. government private sector partnerships have literally expanded the human footprint. at i core, commercial means that the private sector bears the burden of the investment, the result and risk as was the subsequensubsequent reward. is based in a just economic growth since o