i am certainly sensitive, mr. knee, to your concern that there are new task force members. however, i think for me at least, given how long this process has phon gone and the great detail of input we have gotten from you and other members of task force, i do think we need to move forward here. certainly we're not closed to improvements to these regulation as we go forward and close this. any other comments with respect to decision point 8? >> i agree with chair hur and the fact that we can take insights from the task force and it's new membership, and improve this or improve it in light of our experience is telling. it has been a long time. and it's tempting to say what is another month or two? but the challenge of even getting us together or the task force together for additional meetings has proven so cumbersome, although i'm usually a great optimist, i'm not optimistic we could do it that quickly and then time would move on. i also am remembering the encouragement that we have received at a number of meetings to actually be able to bring forward some of these matters. an

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hip replacement for the president, knee replacements for mrs. bush, etc. well over the years, and for a guy who's 88, i would keep him in the hospital for a couple weeks also. gregg: yeah, be cautious. >> absolutely. gregg: he's a national treasure. >> he is, he is, indeed. bob, thank you so much for being with us. good to see you. >> good to see you, gregg. patti ann: well, all eyes are on the weather as we track that deadly storm heading north right now. we have a live report just three minutes away. gregg: and as violence escalates in syria, a top general reportedly switching sides. the turning point in the civil war? gregg: fox news alert, new watches in effect now for parts of the north and south carolina. all of this part of the deadly storm system that ripped through the south yesterday. let's go to maria molina in the fox extreme weather center. maria? >> reporter: that's right, our storm system still growing, yesterday produced over 30 reports of tornadoes across portions of the south, and today we're still seeing that risk in the form of damaging

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