and next to him is governor sam brownback of the great state of kansas. and next to him is larry lindsay, whom you've already heard from today who is president and chief executive officer of the lipped say group. now i'm going to kind of move down here. so this session has been called by amity who is our -- actually, i sort of figure, this is amity's world, we all just live in it. so amity, we call it blitz solutions, right, amity? so i've been asked to start this off by going around or down and asking everyone, what is the one quick, and i mean quick like 20, 30 seconds, don't worry we'll have plenty of time to talk about things that they would f offer as a tax policy solution to help us get to 4% sustainable real growth. so i'm not going to start with john stossel. i'm going to start with larry lindsay. larry? >> 20 seconds. abandon income based taxation, move to business cash flow taxation with border adjustability. it's called a vat. you're not allowed to say that word. >> okay. we're going to come back to that because that's very interesting for -- v

rick perry, harry brantad, sam brownback. yah! incidentally pink slime may contain traces of brownback. last week these men road to the rescue touring the last operating pink slime plant and pledging support for this embattled industry. >> it's time to end the smear campaign. >> yes, it's time to end the smear campaign. though full disclosure pink slime may also contain traces of smear. the beefy three believe the term pink slime is an offensive slur against slurry. because it already has a lovely name. >> the real name of the product is lean finally textured beef. it's called lftb. >> stephen: yes, lftb because our beef now has so many here moans it's a member of the transgender community. that's why-- (applause) that's why the beef state gov came up with a catchy new slogan. dude, it's beef. (laughter) >> stephen: nailed it! unless of course there is an accident at the processing plant, in which case beef is dude. but governor perry said one thing i disagree with. >> let's call this product what it is. and let's pink slime becom

. >>> now governor sam brownback of kansas. governor, i know you're in topeka getting ready to take a look at what has happened overnight in your state. but give me a thumb nail sketch of what you know now. >> 97 tornadoes touched down at various times throughout the state. about 40% of the state at one time or another had a tornado warning. the people heeded it. no fatalities that we know of as of now. there is quite a bit of damage. but god was merciful. it looks like we had made it through the initial look without a fatality. >> pretty remarkable, 97 tornadoes. to what do you attribute the fact that at the moment so far as we know there are no fatalities. some injuries, i under but no fatalities. >> i really think if people took the warnings and they took it very seriously, we had more notice on this system than you normally do. you normally are looking at a couple of hours notice. women this one had really almost had two days notice. remarkably accurate on the quality of the system as far as its ability to produce tornadoes

something kansas governor sam brownback says is crucial for survival. >> i really think if people took the warnings seriously, we had more notice on this system than you normally do. >> red cross emergency shelters opened in kansas. homes and business suffered damage across the region. >> looks like a war scene down there. actually looked like a bomb hit. like over in afghanistan and all those places over there. >> reporter: residents say it was scary. >> i thought it was train coming down the tracks, and i looked out and seen the funnel and started running through the house screaming, marsha, marsha. loud. i was scared. >> tornadoes can, in an instant, just destroy everything that everyone knew. >> reporter: the national weather service had more than 100 reports of possible tornado touchdowns. >> ama: just ahead, googles fined after being accused of stonewalling the fcc. lang lang the dangerous roadway causing big problems in the east bay. >> ama: a duffel day. what's ahead for the work week? >> mike: brian wilson and bruce bochy talked about brian's left elbow. we have their reaction

it was sam brownback and tom harkin. obviously, we are keenly aware of the new language the appropriations committee has given us in our fy '12 appropriation. i think from the perspective of the commission, it's probably time to move on to other areas. that would not be a priority. but food marketing to kids is a priority and childhood obesity is a priority but that particular initiative i think we -- it's time to move on. now, under the chairman before me, who then served as commissioner with commissioner rosch and myself, he started an initiative called ftc at 100 in which we went out to all our stake holders, looked internally what should our priorities be in the coming five or ten years. i'll get you a copy of that, congressman, and it is something that -- it was a really good study that i go back and look at from time to time. it talks about what our priorities ought to be and by the way, what our priorities ought to be depending on sort of different -- different types of growth or levels of growth. i think we know

. >> reporter: kansas governor sam brownback says most of the storms in his state hit in areas where few people live. >> i'm amazed about what didn't happen really with that size of a system. >> reporter: the national weather service will send crews today to confirm how many tornadoes struck and just how strong they were. dick brennan, cbs news, woodward, oklahoma. >> dry weather here in the mid- atlantic led to several brushfires this weekend. one in southeast d.c. injured a firefighter there. the fire started around 6:45 last night in a wooded area near the corner of pennsylvania and branch avenues. the fire was eventually put out and that firefighter is expected to be okay. >>> another brushfire, this one near a popular marina in anne arundel county damaged a boat and a building there. close to 100 firefighters responded to a fire-alarm fire. in edgewater, maryland. no one was hurt in this. >>> gunfire and explosions echoed through kabul this morning. afghan forces battled insurgents in the afghan capital. the violence follows a series of deadly attacks in kabul and three other ci

authorities warned millions of residents to make emergency preparations, something kansas governor sam brownback says is crucial for survival. >> i really think if people took the warnings very seriously, we had more notice on this system than you normally do. >> reporter: red cross emergency shelters opened in kansas for evacuated storm victims. homes and businesses suffered damage across the region. >> it looks like a war scene down there. it actually looked like a pop had hit like over in afghanistan -- a bomb had hit like over in afghanistan. >> reporter: residents say it was a scary situation. >> i thought it was a train coming down the tracks over there and i looked out and i seen the funnel and then i started running through the house screaming marsha, marsha, i mean loud. i was scared. >> it gives you a whole new respect for tornadoes and how they can in an instant just destroy everything that everyone knew. >> reporter: the national weather service had more than 100 reports of possible tornado touchdowns. i'm elizabeth cordon reporting. >>> a man shot at police and is now under arrest.

. >> we talked earlier with the governor of kansas, sam brownback and thought in some ways, kansas and elsewhere, there were fewer death he is than you might expect in this kind of strong tornado because there was so much early warning. was there early warning for you? were you all hunkered down for tornadoes. >> we had tornado warnings in -- one system move through about six hours prior to this. and this one very quickly and they took out our transmitter for our public siren and warning notification system before it ever got to town. we not only lost that but lost our manual override to the system as soon as the electricity went up and we were able to sound one siren for about three minutes prior to the testing of the tornado. >> understand. understand. well, certainly, you have our sympathies as you move forward and try to put the city back together. those that were affected. thank you so much for taking time. alan riffle, the city manager of woodward, oklahoma, which appears to have borne the brunt of these 100-plus tornados that have ripped through the plains i in the midwest. >>>

. >> reporter: kansas governor sam brownback touring the damage at this mobile home park sunday.considering the high number of twisters that carved a path through the state, it could have been much worse. >> the real story here is what didn't happen. that is that by and large, people didn't get hurt. >> reporter: the national weather service official says it was a month's worth of tornadoes that did this damage in kansas in a single day. mike tobin, fox news. >>> coming up tonight on the news edge at 11:00 chaos at a birthday celebration in maryland, the party crashers stabbed two, attacked others. police investigate the social media link that could have brought them all there. >> plus a car stolen with a 3- year-old inside, who came to his rescue, the the news edge at 11:00 minutes away. [ female announcer ] with xfinity, you can always expect more. like more on demand shows and movies than ever. and more ways to discover them too. plus more speed from america's fastest internet provider. so you can run more devices at the same time. ♪ feel a firework [ female announcer ] and be

in kansas, where most of the tornadoes touched down, governor sam brownback surveyed the damage. >> we have 40% of the state of kansas that's in a warning at some point in time. and i'm just -- i'm amazed about what didn't happen, really, with that size of system. >> reporter: the storm lit up the night sky in wichita and damaged a military base, a defense contractor and this neighborhood. >> i felt that everything like the roof lift and even i lifted a little bit with it. >> reporter: in the end, though, only the twister that hit here in woodward proved fatal. >> dean reynolds, thank you. >>> overnight siege in the capital came to an end. the taliban is taking credit for a string of coordinated assaults in four cities. kabul was hard hit. allen pizzey is in the afghan capital. good morning. >> reporter: good day, charlie. in terms of the overall military situation, the attacks didn't amount to much. hamid karzai called them a failure by intelligence services and especially nato. taliban spokesmen promised there were more to come. the operation to root out and kill insurgents was carri

kansas governor sam brownback said he'll damage the this afternoon.n of woodward. officials say a lightning strike knock out a tornado siren and in iowa, a likely tornado nearly destroyed the town of thurman. that state's governor declared two counties disaster areas and he plans to tour a hospital damaged in the storm. we want to go to weather channel meteorologist jim cantore on the other side of iowa. what are we seeing? >> reporter: it's a sea of humanity. we had the whole park area full of people earlier on. we've got these tree debris piles, if you will, because of literally dozens of volunteers that came on by. you can see the red cross is here as well. the salvation army just walked by. and of course, now that the truck is in my shot, i can't show you the utility pole companies that are up there putting up poles and wires and what not. there's damage just everywhere you can see. there's tarps on roofs, off on the right there, they cleared that house off this morning. that is a livable house, so it's not a destroyed structure. off on the left s