use it well. >> thank you. >> in iowa.e i'm going to let you finish off, but i really appreciate the job you're doing, i'm proud of you. in a sense i feel a little responsible because i took your other great governor and i sent him to china. >> yeah, yeah, we're all about holding people accountable and i can guarantee you that ambassador branstad is holding me accountable as well. he has a great legacy and i want to continue to build on that. i want to reiterate again how proud we are to have you in the state. thank you for what you're doing, i appreciate the partnership and especially the flexibility you are giving to the states to give us the opportunity to take these programs and take the resources to be held accountable for but to accent the great programs that we have going on. when i talk to businesses all across the state, i asked how business is going, and say it's never been better, they're projecting growth, significant growth and so that's a resolve of the policies that you put in place and we're extremely appre

governor wray persuaded president ford to allow iowa to welcome -- to welcome them to iowa, allowing this close-knit ethnic group to stay in tact and resettle in iowa. in 1978, we had another wave of southeast asians who were desperate to escape communism in south vietnam. they became known as the boat people who put their lives in peril for the pearl of freedom that we offer in america. bob wray put his political life on the line to open iowa's homes and hearts to rescue them from suffering and death. in so doing, he saved the lives of thousands of people, including generations of new iowans yet to be born. yet, again, governor wray responded in 1979 to another humanitarian crisis going on in southeast asia by launching the iowa shares program. the acronym shares stands for iowa sends help to aid refugees and end starvation. that very first year the program raised more than $600,000 in less than one month small donations to send food and medicine to starving people in the cambodian border. volunteer nurses and doctors from iowa also went to save these people who suffered under the h

brad, tell us about iowa. >> all right. so it's fun to talk about iowa in a non-presidential election year. to have this much attention focused on us. granted, as alice kind of alluded to, i'm here sharing what i would call bad news, not great news. so for a while, people had been asking the question of what's going on with iowa with regard to the marketplace. and i think one of the most noteworthy kind of notorious stories out there is blue cross blue shield made their disclosure and one might say possible hipaa violation about the young man in iowa who has this rare form of hemafeel yeah and was costing them $1 million a month in claims. that's a great story that gets headlines. that's not really the story of what's wrong with iowa. it's far less sensational than that. and it really comes down to the fact that iowa's marketplace has been unstable from the beginning. there were, i think it was four different insurers that participated in our marketplace at the start. but you may remember our coop, coopportunity health whic

thank you very much, the wheeze tell us about iowa. -- brad, tell us about iowa. fun to have this much attention focused on us. granted, i am here sharing what i would call bad news. not great news. for a while, people have asked what is going on with iowa with regard to marketplace, and i of the most noteworthy, notorious stories blue shield made their disclosure and possible youngviolation about the man in iowa who has this rare form of human if yulia and was -- hemophilia and that is one of those stories that gets headlined. that is not really the story of what is wrong with iowa. it is less sensational than that to thereally comes down fact that iowa's marketplace has been unstable from the beginning. different was four insurers that participated in our marketplace at the start, but you may remember that our co-op opportunity health, which was the first to go under in the country -- we have that distinction -- we are not alone. all of the rest of them folded out shortly after, but we were liquidated that first year. of the story of what is wrong with iowa is g

iowa has become a red state. the majority of voters chose donald trump to become president, 5 of 6 voters in iowa are republicans. republicans will take control of the legislature in january and the outcome has left many iowans fearful about the future of this state. iowa, after the 2016 election coming to this reckoning. we are a red state now. it is official. iowa has become a red state. the majority of voters chose donald trump to become president, 5 of 6 voters in iowa are republicans. republicans will take control of the legislature in january and the outcome has left many iowans fearful about the future of this state. iowa, after the 2016 election coming to this reckoning. we are a red state now. you can feel the implicit next .question. is that a permanent status? is this who we are now forever? there followed an interesting twist in that story. a state senator passed away right before the election in 2016. iowa scheduled a special election to replace that senator and they scheduled that special for about

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scott mcklain is in iowa for us. the president is now landing in a part of the country hit hard by these tariffs. what can you tell us about it? >> you are right. officially, the president's trip here to iowa is to talk about this new white house initiative to address skill gaps in the economy. undoubt undoubtedly, the elephant in the room will be trade and tariffs in this brewing trade war with china which is having a big impact on many farmers here in the state of iowa. of course, rural iowa helped the president get elected. farmers identified with his message that he was talking about early on in the primary campaign, issues like trade imbalances, issues like currency manipulation by china. i spoke with the president of the iowa farmers union who said trump's approach has been extremely reckless. he said that he expected a more thoughtful, strategic approach from the white house. maybe expecting them to use more of a scalpel than a sledgehammer. he knows that often you have to be tough. he is okay with that as lon

look at the numerous thunderstorms in iowa. this storm started way up here in northern kansas all the way down through partsf arkansas over 500 miles. winds of 80 to 90 miles an hour with the system. t's look at marshalltown in portion offices iowa right heret youe the tornadic signatures hereth is is where it went through. that's the tornado on the radar at 5:42 in th afternoon. farther south around the pella ', this was a monster. it made its way to the south. this isart o a system weigh track over the next couple days. most likely staying to our west. it has april pket on our weather the next couple of days. i'll show you how. i'm back in ten minutes. >> we'll see you then. now to politics. and a local primary re decided by just 79 votes. now the candidate who lost want a recot. marke will rich won the democratic primary for montgome county executive. now david blair filed for the recount that will start on monday. news4's darcy spencer le for us in takoma park to explainat appens next. >> jim, i'm told there's not been a re

he is traveling to the midwest today, to iowa and illinois.eporters obviously going to try to press him on the details of all of this. >> and in fact, what mike pompeo is trying to do on the hill is try to reassure critics from both parties. bob corker launched that hearing yelle yesterday, from the very first minute, with a bipartisan condemnation of the president's foreign policy, with the helsinki summit, the two-hour meeting they didn't know anything about, and even suggested in his opening statement that they're concerned that the secretary of state does not know what happened in that two hours with vladimir putin. and at that point, bolton says that it's going to be delayed, which was supposed to help pompeo in this hearing, and instead he parrots the "witch hunt" meme, which undercuts the whole attempt by pompeo to say, yes, the president agrees with the intelligence assessment. robert costa, you've been watching this kind of thing for years, as have i. that was a withering bipartisan critique, and pompeo, instead of being deferential,

the president and ivanka trump at a workplace round table in dubuque, iowa, or near dubuque, iowa.ome back to that in a minute. if you're the president of the united states and read "the wall street journal" and a guy who knows everything about the finances of the trump organization is going before a grand jury, how are you thinking? >> you're thinking that it's getting closer and closer, and there are people who know a lot of things who the president does not want to be answering those things. it's a very tight-knit, small, family organization. michael coshen then is the clos person to the president nonfamily. >> the journal describes him as the most senior member in the organization who's not a trump. >> if you think about what we know about this president's view of how people around him should operate, particularly lawyers, it's that they should defend him at all costs. he had that line of i want my protector, i want someone who is going to have my back no matter what, whether i've done something inappropriate, not inappropriate, whatever the case may be. so to the degree that e

tell us about iowa. >> all right. so, it's fun to talk about iowa in a nonpresidential election year, to have too much attention focused on us. granted, as alice alluded to, i'm here sharing what i would call bad news, not great news. so for a while, people have been asking the question of what's going on with iowa, with regards to the marketplace and i think one of the most noteworthy kind of notorious stories out there is blue marc s cross/blue shield and the hipaa violation and the man who had a rare form of hemophilia and costing them a million dollars a month in claims and that is a story that gets headlines. that's not really the story of what's wrong with iowa. it's far less sensational than that. and it really comes down to the fact that iowa's marketplace has been unstable from the beginning. there were, i think, it was four different insurers that participated in our marketplace, at the start, but you may remember our co-op, the first to go under in the country so we have that distinction. unfortunately we'r

is going to talk to us about iowa, which than colorado. so we didn't put him first. >> then we have lynn who is going to talk to us about minnesota. she did the field research on minnesota peer she is a professor of health policy at the universe the in the school of public health and she has also published widely about all sorts of health insurance matters. >> then on the front lines in minnesota and in washington she has covered health coverage. >> finally we will hear from mark hall who has already been introduced. the remarkable thing about him at this moment is all that he hangs out at wake forest where he is a professor of law and public health, he will talk to us about arizona. we that we needed a fourth date and he had a work on all of them. let's go to louise first. >> good morning. colorado has a pretty stable market. we had significant rate increases this year, believe have -- that we have seven insurers in our range, the same as last year. enrollment was slightly higher for 2018 and 2017. i briefly wanted to talk about what we h

a series of tornadoes pummeled towns in iowa thursday.he same weather system that sank the duck boat in missouri. the roof of the agriculture equipment company ripped off. 400 people were inside at the time. seven were taken to the hospital in the southeast part of iowa. marshall town, a city of 27,000, in the distance, you can see the top of the courthouse building blown off by a twister. at least ten people were treated at the hospital. many customers without power this morning. >> kids in summer camp had to be rescued in basements. terrifying moments in marshall town, iowa. >>> let's see what is in store for the country with meteorologist derek van dam. >> unfortunately, dave and christine, it was a devastating day for many across the central u.s. we had 28 confirmed tornadoes on thursday. over 100 reports of wind damage with a series of strong to severe thunderstorms moved across the plains. it is focused in on central iowa and parts of missouri. that was yesterday. today we see the same batch of thunderstorms move further south and e

he's leaving for iowa this morning. and that's where farmers are confused by his trade war, by his tariffs. so what kind of representation wi -- reception will he get? we'll speak to a republican lawmaker from iowa about all of this, next. let someone else do the heavy lifting. tripadvisor compares prices from over 200 booking sites to find the right hotel for you at the lowest price. so you barely have to lift a finger. or a wing. tripadvisor. >>> president trump heads to iowa this morning, a state where farmers have been hit hard by the retaliatory tariffs from china and the european union. yesterday, president trump appeared to reverse course on his trade war with europe, after meeting with the president of the european commission. >> we agreed today, first of all to work together towards zero tariffs, zero non-tariff barriers, and zero subsidies on non-auto industrial goods. this will open markets for farmers and workers, increase investment, and lead to greater prosperity in both the united states and the european

he started with reporters in iowa. it's the first of two midwest stops today, his mission to convince voters that his tariffs will punish china and other countries not american farmers and not american manufacturers currently feeling the burn. the last time in 2016, his private jet landing in front of reco reporters. he would become the first republican to win that county since eisenhower, today, though, a more reserved approach, shall we say. a round table trying to show that he hears voters concerns. voters in the midwest are in fact quite concerned. new polls from nbc and maris, those polls showing that by wise margins voters in three other midwest states would not re-elect the president. that includes two states, michigan and wisconsin that he won. the wore about republicans, as goes the top of the the i belie believe -- goes the top of the ticket goes the rest. shannon penny, white house reporter for bloomberg news. and lynne sweet, washington bureau chief for the chicago sun times. tell us about some of the prote

even by iowa republican governor kim reynolds. an iowa farm group told cnn the president is using a sledgehammer. we need a scalpel. president trump has turned farmers into supplements in the business of picking winners and losers and spending taxpayer money. calling to take action on trade than just attack the president. >>> leaders of the far right house caucus with a resolution to impeach deputy attorney general rod rosenstein. rod rosenstein has been in their sights for months for his role in the mueller investigation and the justice department stonewalling for thousands of documents. the freedom caucus says the measure could be brought up for a vote at any moment for a privileged motion. >> it would require a vote on the house floor within two days. frankly, it is we hold him in contempt or we get the documents or we impeach him. >> in reality, impeachment is unlikely. top house leaders don't support it. rosenstein is pushed back against republican creditics. he said the justice department will not be extorted and not much ti

iowa has become a red state. majority of voters chose donald trump to become president, 5 of 6 voters in iowa are republicans. republicans will take control of the legislature in january and the outcome has left many iowans fearful about the future of this state. iowa, after the 2016 election coming to this reckoning. we are a red state now. you can feel the implicit next question. is that a permanent status? is this who we are now forever? there followed an interesting twist in that story. a state senator passed away right before the election in 2016. iowa scheduled a special election to replace that senator and they scheduled that special for about a month and a half after the trump-clinton presidential election where iowa had gone so red. interestingly, they scheduled the special election right in the middle of the holiday season, two days after christmas. it was expected a democrat would hold onto that seat. that district voted for hillary clinton by 17 points. when they went back just seven weeks after the p

that was a good one. >> reporter: iowa gets hit hard.y bean producers and the top pork producer. >> did you vote for president trump? >> yes, i did. >> reporter: you voted for president trump? >> yes, i did. >> reporter: i have to come to iowa -- but his tariff laidened policies might now hit his base hard. chinese motives are veiled but now they're blatantly targeting states like iowa. iowa congressman rod blank now among the most vulnerable republican incumbents in the mid terms. >> people get more vocal as it gets more painful, but we're going to try to be patriotic. >> reporter: is there a point when eye owe juan farmee w iowa trump? >> yeah, there is a point. >> reporter: when is that? >> i wish i knew. we might be there. >> reporter: the details remain unclear. >> a lot of the stuff he's done is good. right now with the trade negotiations going on, ask me in six months because it's painful right now. >> reporter: right now he stands to lose over half a million this year alone. nick roy, cnn, iowa. >>> a few hours ago canada officia

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to be his adviser in iowa this year.yan has made several trips to iowa, new hampshire and south carolina. the news website the intercept says he's been building a team for a possible presidential campaign. now, ryan's spokesperson declined to comment. >>> a candidate for mayor in chicago is insisting he did nothing wrong when he handed out cash to prospective voters. willie wilson gave away more than $200,000 at a church event on sunday. he says that he organized the event to help people who are struggling to pay their property taxes and that he's done similar giveaways in the past. the illinois attorney general is investigating, but wilson, he's not worried. >> doesn't really matter to me what people think because look at my record, it proves that i've been doing it for years. and people have to make their own decision from that. but certainly i'm not going to do anything that will break any laws. >> well, the board of elections says wilson did not break any campaign finance laws because the money came from his nonprofi

. >>> the missing student mystery in iowa, vanished without a trace after heading out for a run. her family pleading for answers. >> we just want her home. >> tonight, what investigators hope could be a critical clue to find her. >>> and a big day for a pair of living legends, mick jagger marks a milestone as paul mccartney returns to rock the birthplace of beatle mania. >> announcer: this is "nbc nightly news" with lester holt. >>> good evening. welcome to our viewers in the west. an american treasure is under threat with thousands of homes and buildings in california. a fierce, spreading wildfire virtually emptied the normally busy yosemite national park and triggered mass ee vac cask evacuations. wildfires, fueled by heat, are sweeping up and down the region. down the region with california declaring a state of emergency. our miguel almaguer is in the fire zone. >> reporter: tonight on both ends of the state, firefighters in california are losing the battle to save homes. these explosive conditions fueled in part by record-breaking heat. >> i'm just upset and scared. >> report

he will be in iowa and illinois.s comes as the administration reaches its deadline today to reunite families separated at the southern border. with me now is dick durbin of illinois. thanks for being here. >> good to be with you. >> you are the minority whip. you are one of two democrats in the senate leading negotiations on immigration. as i said, today is the deadline for the families that were separated to be reunited. beyond that, big picture, when it comes to an actual long-term solution on immigration in this country, has the senate hit an impasse? >> it has under this administration. just remember five years ago, we passed a bipartisan, comprehensive immigration reform bill. i worked on it with john mccain, with jeff flake, with lindsey graham, with marco rubio. it was a bipartisan effort. it passed with 6 vote 68 votes house. there's not an opportunity with this administration to do what needs to be done, comprehensive, bipartisan immigration reform. >> you have said three meetings in five weeks. what should

kendis. >> janai, we'll be watching the president's reception in iowa today. thank you. >>> to capitol hill now and the secretary of state mike pompeo defending president trump while facing a barrage of questions and criticism about recent summits with russia and, of course, north korea. the republican senator bob corker of tennessee told pompeo that lawmakers have serious doubts about how the white house is conducting foreign policy, and in a contentious exchange, new jersey democrat bob menendez demanded details on the private two-hour meeting between esenp . >> and i really don't know much more about the summit after sitting here for three hours than i did before. >> i understand. i've now been here three hours and you're making -- you've got a political soliloquy. >> no, you know what, i've listened to your political soliloquy as a secretary of state sitting at that table demeaning some members here because you said that senator shaheen believes more in the russian defense ministry. she was quoting them only because we don't know what our own government is

he recently visited iowa and new hampshire.rly presidential run, are they not? i'm going to ask you, rescind the beginning 15 scott 2020? president trump to speak to veterans about kansas city, missouri and he'll be joined by va secretary robert wilkie. the live-action presidency is happening now on fox business. stay with us as the third hour of "varney & company" rolls on. you're about to see washington state. that would be seattle, washington state. stuart: just coming out as crossing the wire. the administration will announce $12 billion worth of aid for farmers to protect them from the fallout from tariffs. 12 billion to farmers. >> he's about to make a tour of the heartland. we will likely get a lot of questions about his trade policies. >> he's heading to illinois. stuart: i've got this for you. people moving to two states in particular in record numbers. moving in big population increases. which states? >> or may not surprise you because everything is bigger in texas. the population increasing 494,622. this increase fro

they didn't touch iowa where democrats have been revitalized a bit. me now, robert leonard, news director for knia and krls, radio stations in iowa. he had an interesting op-ed this morning in "the new york times." the panel is back. mr. leonard, let me start with you. welcome to the show, sir. >> thank you, chuck. >> so the issue of tariffs, has it made the republican party vulnerable, president trump vulnerable, or is it much -- or are we overhyping it? >> you're not overhyping it at all. nobody is overhyping it, i don't think. the entire iowa delegation to congress, our governor, all republicans except for congressman dave lobesack. they advised president trump very early that tariffs are a very bad idea. they weren't for this at all, they knew it was bad. chuck grassley, joni ernst in particular came down pretty hard saying don't do the tariffs, and they went ahead and there's going to be immediate implications. people aren't going to be able to -- there's going to be lost farms, a general hollowing out of rural america because people have notes d

. >>> the missing student mysty in iowa, vanished without a trace after heading out for a run. her family pleading for answers. >> we just want her home. tonight, what investigators hope could be a critical clue to find her. >>> and a big day for a pair of living legends, mick jagger marks a milestone asccartney rs to rock the birthplace of beatle mania. >> announcer: this is "nbc nightly news" with lester holt. >>> good evenince ok could use friends and likes tonight after a stunning and historic upset on wall street. losing tens of iant billions of dollars in value sliding nearly 20% for the biggest loss sustained by a pa co in stock market history, but it's a story behind facebook's problems being closely watched slowing growth and fewer daily users as the company grapples with lingering privacy and security scandals. our tom costello has details. >> reporter: the sell off was staggering and unprecedented. facebook losing $119 billionrket value today alone. the worst single day ever for a u.s. company after this profit warning from ceo mark zuckerberg. n > we're investing so

. >>> new developments for the intensifying search for a missing iowa college student with bay area ties. investigators are hoping her social media accounts may provide clues to what happened when she disappeared a week ago in iowa. authorities believe she may have been kidnapped while she was jogging. special agent brad garret talked to paul feriss about what kind of information authorities could fiend through her tech accounts. >> it could be enormous as far as who did she have contact with less, where can they >> the sheriff says her boyfriend is cooperating and he was at work when she disappeared. >>> this story is bonkers. new this morning imagine being woken up in the middle of the night by a burglar asking you to use your wifi? palo alto police say it happened to a couple. they told officers a masked burglar broke into their home and then said he wanted to use their wi-fi network. they confronted him. they pushed him out of their house. police arrested a 17-year-old suspect about a block away. >>> the trump administration is offering billions to farmers but it's not a bail out? th

. >>> new developments in the intensifying search for the missing iowa college student with bay area ties. investigators are hoping mollie tibbetts' fit bit will give clues as to what happened when he disappeared a week ago in iowa. after a week of desperately searching in this small town in iowa, the fbi is now on the scene, they're zeroing in on mollie tibbetts' digital footprint. >> she's very well connected to social media. we're using that to our advantage to gain any information we can. >> reporter: included information from her fit bit, which can capture gps data. the 20-year-old spent part of her childhood in oakland's glen view neighborhood before moving to iowa. she was last spotted going for an evening run in brooklyn, iowa where she lives with her boyfriend dalton jack. >> she probably has on her fit bit. she never takes it off. >> reporter: jack says the night she disappeared she was dog sitting at home, while he was working a construction job about 100 miles away. jack has been cooperative with their investigation and is not a suspect. now, investigators are looking at

boone, iowa, on flat land just north of des moines is a company town. headquarters for one of the largest grocery chains in the midwest. fareway. it's a family owned company, and rick beckwith is a third generation ceo. he and his wife cindy raised a family of five here. their youngest daughter emily, the sweet, but quiet one. kind of a shrinking violet? >> the oldest sister said that she never got spanked. >> she didn't. she just remained silent and look at me with those big, brown eyes, and it was over. >> even though emily was from a prominent wealthy family, her friend lisa says emily never flaunted it. >> everyone knew that emily was a beckwith, but i never felt less of a person in the presence of emily or any one of her family. >> emily was the girl everyone wanted to be friends with and every boy wanted to date. according to friends shannon and sarah. >> could have had any -- >> oh, anybody. >> any boyfriend. >> all these boys were gaga over her. i mean, she was gorgeous. you've seen pictures of her. even in high school, she was gorgeous. it just

many people tweeting the hash tags, iowa tornado and iowa strong. you can follow us on facebook for the latest on iowa. >>> first it was helsinki. tonight a white house invitation. u.s. leaders caught off guard by donald trump's invitation to vladimir putin for a fall visit to the u.s. that controversial invite just as the administration deals with fallout from a trump/putin meeting earlier this week. >> it's a big get for the leader. >> he says this week has been a big win for russia and putin wants to and expects to get even more. >> part two of the summit in the invitation catching president trump's own director of national intelligence off guard. >> we have breaking news. the white house has announced on twitter that president putin is coming to the white house in the fall. >> say that again? >> zaifd a professor of russian history. he believes before another one-on-one meeting takes place, the mueller investigation should be completed. >> we have no idea what kind of material he has on him. >> he says russia is not as strong as it used to be an

the agricultural midwest, iowa and other places if he sticks with this tariff war. it makes no sense economically. and it's also counterproductive politically. nevertheless, the president's doing it, and it makes you wonder is he actually acting rationally while doing this? we don't know. >> and nura tanden, the president's statements on trade were not very specific during the campaign. it was all about just ripping up nafta and getting rid of the transpacific partnership. just getting rid of these agreements that are kind of large and complex agreements. but he never really said what he would do in its place. he never went around the country campaigning saying i am going to impose through tariffs what are in effect massive sales taxes on american consumers who buy anything made outside of the united states. >> and he also didn't say i am going to threaten the jobs of lots of farmers and lots of manufacturers. and the reality of what we're dealing with with donald trump is for some reason that's really hard to fathom he's decided to have a trade war with our closest

and a phd to the university of iowa. he was first elected to the iowa legislator in 1968 to the house of representatives in 1974. since 1981 he has served the citizens of iowa and indeed the rest of the nation at the united states senator. senator grassley has long been considered a champion ofn government oversight in transparency and has often been referred to as the patron saint of whistleblowers. he is currently the chairman of the senate judiciary committee where his fervent belief for the need for robust oversight has been on full display as of late. please join me in welcoming senator chuck grassley. [applause] >> thank you for the kind introduction. if i can make one correction because i don't want to be misleading here but i was elected to the legislator while i was in the middle of that phd so i am one of those people -- it's a privilege too be here wih you. in 1989 is before most of you were born i was elected to the united states senate and during my early years in the united states and h minuteman who had a

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that's what i find in the 250 events i've done in iowa and new hampshire. you know, when i met a woman the other day in humboldt, iowa, and she had aids -- she's had aids her whole life, she's about 50 years old. but the first time she's been able to engage in her community, in her opinion, was when she had health care. she had health care through the affordable care act. she has a job for the first time, and she's actually volunteering in her community. she said i just want to make sure the health care system works. she doesn't care if it's a single-payer system or ten universal health care systems we could all come up with. she wants us to get something done for her. and that's what most democrats and most americans are looking for. and i believe the opportunity for this coalition of thinkers and activists is enormous. and so i'm really grateful, will, for the work you've done. i'm grateful for the fact that everyone is here talking about these ideas. i appreciate you giving me the opportunity to say a few words and, again, i want to thank you all. thank

. >>> there are new >>> thief, evening, there are new tornadoes spinning through the midwest after iowa got hit hard yesterday. twisters were left there and a trail of destruction and a threat is far from over as we head into the weekend. in a moment al roker joins us with a forecast, but first we get details on the damage done from nbc's ron mott. >> reporter: a series of storms churned through the midwest this evening. tornados blowing through southern indiana and in kentucky, rain, wind and hail. >> this is terrible. >> reporter: this following a string of destructive tornados in iowa yesterday. one after another they hit. today a distraught ashley thomas came back to the pile that was her home looking for anything they could salvage. if you didn't have this basement -- >> my heart goes out to everybody in this town. >> reporter: her family, friend and pets in the house at the time were all spared. >> i just count my blessings right now because that could have been a whole lot worse. >> reporter: the tornados hit marshall town, pela hard and afterwards, significant damage. the histor

the images coming in right now, word of that tornado hitting iowa. reports of catastrophic damage, tops of buildings sheered off. injuries, people possibly trapped. several other twisters reported today, and the storms on the move right now. meteorologist rob marciano is standing by. >>> also breaking tonight, what the white house has just revealed. coming to america? discussions now under way. vladimir putin's visit to washington. the white house tweet late today about the putin visit. it comes just days after the president on the world stage appeared to side with putin over his own intelligence team. and then the moment late today when the director of national intelligence is told about the new tweet from the white house about putin's visit. watch his face and what he says next. >>> also developing tonight, the massive explosion crippling a major part of new york city. the blast shooting hundreds of feet in the air, nearly 50 buildings possibly contaminated with asbestos. >>> the urgent manhunt at this hour. an apparent bank robbery and shooting. t

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. >> tornados tear through central iowa leaving miles of destruction. >>> and russian president vladimirputin is invited to the white house to the surprise of one of the president's top advisers. >> vladimir putin is coming to the white house. >> did i hear -- >> yeah. >> okay. 'soing to be special. >>> good morning from the studio 57 newsroom at cbs news headquarters here in new york. good to be with you. i'm anne-marie green. >>> we begin with a deadly boat accident in southwest missouri. at least 11 people including children were killed when a sightseeing tour boat sank in a popular town in branson. five were killed and seven injured. more than 30 people were on board when a powerful storm hit the lake. the search for other victims resumes this morning. laura podesta is here with more. laura, good morning. >> good morning, anne-marie. storms were in the forecast all day yesterday for the branson area. so one of the questions investigators will have is why was this duck boat launched on the lake in the first place. as you mentioned, more people are still missing this morning, so the de

i was and we are said iowa, our side iowa, hometown of john wayne. and it was a saturday night and i was meeting with the winter democrats, about 15 people and the head of the democratic club was a union electrician and my dad was a union electrician, i grew up in a blue-collar family he and i were getting along well and the meeting started and the first thing he did was announced that he and all the people in attendance, all 15 were already said her supporters, and i said that's great. he said but i didn't agree with senator sanders about everything. i said that's interesting, do you agree? >> i said i don't like okay. it's a union, idw which he my dad and i like the healthcare i have. i don't want to give which is what i have. and i said what else did you like? >> he says free college, and he pointed to his son who was 10 years older than me. my son, maybe he should do what i did. i learned a trade, i learned skill and i work every day in my life. let me understand this. you like senators. he says i love that senator sanders. he said that was his c

president trump holding a roundtable in iowa on job creation.n races to meet a deadline to reunite families separated at the u.s. mexico border. hello. i'm dana perino. this is "the daily briefing." the president taking his american first agenda to the heartland but it's crunch time for authorities. they scramble to bring migrant children and parents back together. reaction from both sides of the aisle. >> just tells you how bad this policy was that still here we are a month later and they still can't get some of these families back together. it's a

here it is official, iowa has become a red state. the majority of voters chose donald trump to be president of the united states. five of the six individuals representing iowa and washington are republicans, republicans will take control of the full legislature in january. the outcome of tuesday's election have left many iowans feeling fearful of the future of this state. we are a red state now. you can feel the sort of implicit next question. is that a permanent status. is this who we are now forever? >> but, they're followed and an interesting twist o f that story. a state senator unexpectedly pa passed away right before the november of 2016. they scheduled that special for about a month and a half after the trump/clinton presidential election where iowa had gone so red. it is interesting, they scheduled the special election right in the middle of the holiday season. they scheduled two days after christmas. it was expected that democrats will hold onto that seat. when they went back to do that special election just seven weeks afte

it's the strongest tornado to hit iowa since 2015. this one in marshall town is yee classified by given the damage, it could surpass orival that one down. lester? >> ron mott, thank you. let's bring in a roker in new york with more on the threat into the night and this weekend. which areas are you >> reporter: lester, right now we're seeing activity firing up again. we've got tornado watches and severe thunderstorm watches and we've even got a tornado warning right now in kentucky as these stormsre firing up you can see from ohio all the way wn into kentucky and tennessee we're watching this very closely. here is the area that we're most concerned with. we're stretching from western tennessee all the way into parts of kentucky and southern indiana. 38 million people at risk, strong winds, hail, potential for tornados especially gh overnight to so we're going to be watching that closely. the other big ory, lester, is the heat. excessive heat. 80 million people at risk for heat advisory watches or warnings in texas we are looking at tri

the president has arrived in iowa. his limousine. that is what is happening on the left-hand side of the screen. >> i think iowa farmers throughout the midwest and so forth will be very happy with this e.u. deal progress, particularly with respect to soybeans and hopefully we won't have to use their subsidies. and by the way, as you know, let's not forget they're going to get a good economic growth number tomorrow. stuart: i was just going to ask. are you like to speculate what the growth number might be? >> i would never do such a thing. i want to help you in this interview. stuart: 4%, maybe 4.5%. are we online? >> i have no reason to disagree with that, but i have no knowledge, no information we won't hear about that until way later today. stuart: the boss, president trump has emerged from air force one. larry kudlow, thank you for joining us. good to see you. we'll see you again soon. the president descending the steps of air force one with his entourage. the first lady right here. we will get on the ground there a

iowa and illinois, both, the top soybean and corn producers. two agricultural products that were hit by retaliatory tariffs from the european union. so the president will likely be able to address that. but he is also going to be addressing the initial part of this, which is the steel issue. he's visiting steel plants in dubuque, in particular, that recently restarted a furnace thanks in part to his tariffs. >> and also, when it comes -- we'll see him on the ground there. i know he's taking off shortly. we'll see him on the ground across the midwest today. but when it comes to vladimir putin coming to the white house, right around the midterms, that's no longer on the table? >> reporter: that's right. before the moscow had a chance to accept the president's invitation for vladimir putin to arrive in washington, to come for summit 2.0, the white house announcing yesterday that it is, in fact, pushing that back, saying that it won't have a next summit between trump and putin until, at least next year. so that's going to be putting it off for at l