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more people have died in severe storms which are hammering the southern united states at least fifty eight were killed in turning those in alabama bringing the number of deaths in the region to over seventy dozens of roads are impassable hundreds of homes are destroyed and a state of emergency has been declared the mayor of a lot of towns one of the towns says entire streets are in ruins and it's into structure decimated. a roadside bomb as detonated in pakistan's largest city striking a bus carrying navy officials at least fifteen people have been reportedly in the early morning attack it's two days since deadly blasts in karate also targeted media buses the taliban says it carried out those bombings and threatened further attacks. britain's prince william and kate middleton may. a pretty wedding appearance at westminster abbey less than two days before their lavish ceremony the couple were joined by the bride's parents william's brother prince harry and senior clergy it's expected to be the biggest ever televised wedding with over two billion global viewers the last british royal c

more people have died in severe storms with her hammering the southern united states at least fifty eight were killed in the natives in alabama bringing the number of gas in the region to over seventy thousand the roads are impassable while hundreds of homes are destroyed and a state of emergency has been declared the mayor of one town says entire districts are in ruins and it's structurally decimated. britain's prince william and kate middleton made a three wedding appearance at westminster abbey less than two days before their lavish ceremony the couple were joined by the bride's parents william's brother prince harry and senior clergy it's expected to be the biggest ever televised wedding with over two billion global viewers the last british world ceremony on the scale it was when william spotter married diana thirty years ago. there is a day here in r.t. and business news is next with carrie. our welcome to business here in our t.v. thanks for joining me russia's north stream pipeline will stop pumping gas to europe and six months time promises it was and says russia is ready to capac

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the deadly storms that killed more than 260 people in the southern united states and we have a report on the bombing of a tourist cafe in which at least 15 have died. the cost of two aircraft carriers built for the british royal navy have gone up dramatically. the u.k. ministry of defense insists the final cost won't be agreed upon until the beginning of next year. not a computer war game but a vision of what will be defending the shores. two giant aircraft carriers the size of three futball pitches. less than three years ago when the contract was signed in july 2008 the budget was 3.9 billion pounds. less than a year later i disclosed the cost shot up to 5 billion because they ordered a costly project delay. that became 5.2 billion pounds last october and today i learned the final bill will reach 7 billion pounds. each taxpayer would be shelling out 233 pounds. are they worth the money? >> events in libya are a stark example of where the new type of aircraft carrier would have made a huge difference to what we could have done off of libya. >> officials tell me it is possible they will modify only one ship limiting the overall i

i believe look at some other international stories this hour the severe storms which were hammering the southern united states have now claimed two lives victims say there is catastrophic damage in several towns in alabama where most of the deaths have been dozens of roads are impassable while hundreds of homes are destroyed a state of emergency has been declared in southwest mississippi a three year old girl died when a tree fell on her house she slapped. two main rival palestinian organizations have reached a reconciliation deal with will see hamas and fatah form an interim government and fix an election within a year from us has been in power in gaza while otto spent running the west bank for more than four years but israel's prime minister said the palestinian authority can't have both peace with his country and with hamas which has carried out bombings for several years. security forces have opened fire in a huge demonstration in the yemeni capital killing twelve people and injuring almost two hundred tear gas and live rounds were fired into the crowd with some of the gunman wearing civilian cloth

. >>> at least 43 people have now died in the most severe storm outbreak to hit the united states in three years. hundreds of tornadoes have touched down across six southern states since thursday. rich takes a look at the damage. >> reporter: violent storms ripping through the heart of north carolina, over 60 tornadoes reported in this state alone yesterday. >> everything destroyed, it's all gone. >> just -- unbelieve bible really. you know you didn't know what was going on but you could hear it tearing in to the house and everything and when you get out and see it's destroyed everything you worked for. >> reporter: in sanford a home improvement store was hit, store managers hustled more than a hundred customers and workers into the rear of the building. >> i ran out front and looked over the horizon and there was a huge massive tornado. at that point we started making pages, please get to the back, grabbing everybody. the screaming and the emotions going on, we heard just as much crashing and metal behind us and running to the back and seeing the metal just roll off. >> reporter: it was the worst spring storm to hit in two decades. in 1984, 42 people wer

an explosion at a cafe in morocco, the government says the blast was a terrorist attack. tornadoes rip through the southern united states, the deadliest twisters there in 40 years. and if you're heading to london for the royal wedding, you better hurry. lots of folks are way ahead of you. it is being called a terrorist attack. 15 people are dead after an explosion in the center of morocco. it happened at a popular tourist cafe in the city's main square. the interior minister says it has all the hallmarks of a suicide bombing. >> the explosion just before noon for the facade off this cafe and completely stroit the upper floor. officials don't know what triggered the blast. one theory is when gas canisters in the cafe were detonated. crowds gathered outside as emergency crews raced to rescue the living and recover the dead. the sudden influx of patients caught the local hospital off guard. staff are working flat out to treat them. >> every doctor and all of the medical team are here on duty. i want to thank my colleagues who come here at the last minute. >> a number of foreigners are among the dead and injured. an

yesterday violent storms lashed the southern united states spinning off tornadoes and killing more than two hundred eighty people injuring more than a thousand others at least one hundred ninety four people were killed in the state of alabama alone yesterday prompting alabama authorities to declare a state of emergency arkansas georgia tennessee all declared states of emergency it was some of the wrath brought to us by mother nature yesterday the sheer force of the wind was captured on camera as it lifted a roof off a building as if it was a piece of tissue paper that bear more than forty counties are paid but affected by the tornado yesterday we have a tremendous loss of life we have many many enter and many haue and damaged or destroyed all over mississippi but everything just got dark and all of a sudden the car started spinning and we just grabbed hold of the steering wheel in each other and took it because glass was flying everywhere and the car started spinning and we hit a. light post and it broke the post to be in our car in the car flipped over on its eight and i think it probably only lasted about fifteen seconds but it seemed like for every

that iraq was firing regularly at the united states and united kingdom aircraft that were supporting the united nations's no-fly zone and patrolling in the northern and southern portion of iraq. those planes were being shot at almost every day. the only country in the world shooting at american and british aircraft. over 2,000 times they were fired on. the joint chiefs of staff and fries me and the president they were concerned about the fact that eventually one of our planes, a british plane or airplane would be shot down and the crew would be killed or taken hostage. third, the united states department of stateless iraq as one of the country's on the terrorist list. there were a series of things like that by way of background. next, united states intelligence agency spent a great deal of time and determined that they were convinced that the iraqi government had weapons of mass destruction, had the confidence to continue developing weapons of mass destruction and had the capability to rapidly expand those capabilities in the event they decided to do so. you have a country in iraq that had used chemical weapons on its own people, a country that had used chemi

southern united states after the most devastating tornadoes in seven decades. visiting tuscaloosa in alabama, obama survey damage and pledged federal aid to help rebuild. the twisters left atleast 310 people dead and flat and entire neighborhoods across seven states. the power was cut to millions. the german foreign minister has hosted an exhibition of works by a chinese dissident. he says is time to show solidarity with the dissident who has not been seen or heard from since his arrest on april 3rd. authorities say he has been detained on suspicion of economic crimes. his disappearance coincided with the opening of an art exhibition in beijing. royal wedding captured much of the rld's attention this friday and also some attention from outer space. astronauts in the international space station sent their congratulations to the newlyweds. they will have to wait a little bit longer for a visit from the space shuttle. that has been plagued by technical problems. nearly 8000 people were gathered for the lift off. the national hockey team has scored a major upset in the opening round of the championship beating russia 2-0. this is the first time that germany has defeated russia

at train stations and fear tactics used by the police. well some more international news in brief for you know the outbreak of tornadoes which is pummeling of the southern united states is now the second deadliest in the country's history the number of fatalities as part of the owner of a three hundred president obama visit to the state of alabama which is the worst hit the stores or most of the victims donated maced of a million homes and businesses are still without power there but a state of emergency has been created seven states. seventeen people have drowned off a bus the ferry on the river not in egypt one report said the vehicle fell from the shore because its original brake wasn't on one another something else got into the water when the ship to shore rescuers say ten passengers but still missing transports of the common it all clicked on their often blamed on bad maintenance and poor regulation. riots have swept across and ganders capital security forces firing live rounds rubber bullets and tear gas into crowds two people died and one hundred wounded just one to protest in sub-saharan africa sent from will come from the opposition it was attacked by

southern city of dara this morning. witnesses say thousands of troops with tanks opened fire on civilians killing at least 11 people. the actions have brought threats of targeted sanctions by the u.s. and the united nations. >>> meanwhile in libya three people were killed when a nato airstrike hit a home near the home of muammar gaddafi. that injured 45 others, gaddafi appeared in public later in the day to show his supporters and his enemies he was still alive and well. the airstrike came after bloody weekend battles between gaddafi's forces and rebel fighters. >>> tonight the makers of a game that features dog fighting say they fear for their safety. the free smart phone app has an mallovers and police furious. the grace lee shows us the creators insist they are symptom me misunderstood. >> it's called dog wars. a free android app that allows you to fight pit bulls. you can teach it to bite. you can force it to drag a tire to gain strength. and then you go head to head with other players. >> i was hoping it was a prank. it's, my visceral reaction is how horrendous this is. >> reporter: jennifer scarlet says the app promotes real-life dog fighting, she has seen how it affects them whether they w

at is an orwellian thought crime within what is a notional u.k. democracy. so more world news in brief for you know this the outbreak of tornadoes which is pummeling the southern united states as well second listen history number of fatalities as part of the. president visited the state of which has been worst hit by the storms most of. these a million homes and businesses are still without. merchants here in seven states. seventeen people drown. in egypt reports of the vehicle fell from the. earth and another set of gas and a group of. rescuers that saved passengers but still missing. accidents common in egypt they don't have maintenance or regulation. of workers and brontosaurus abuse the country's with david welch to give. president cristina fernandez the first senior union leader said the backing isn't guaranteed if workers representatives of people keep jobs the government and private sector workers are also good companies to share ten percent of profits for the authorities . for millions of americans there's still plenty of pain before they see any economic gain that's her wall street financier big bucks bonus to his web journalist laura halfassed cage's opinio

southern united states. the confederates 8 possums around the campfire. the -- ate possums around a campfire. yankees did not know what it was. here is an animal as a naked feet, and naked years, and naked tail, and when the young are born, after 12 days that are bought naked and highly probable, here is a set immobile in northward. -- moving not -- here is an animal moving northward. i think it as a carbon dioxide signal. if we ought to search for jeans, we ought to search for genes that give humans the carbon dioxide signal because we do not have it. if we start tinkering around, that would be a good place to start, but i fear we will not start their care we will start with genes that more profitability -- there. we will start with other genes that have more profitability. we are now adding genes to plants that you and i are heating to be more resistant to pesticides and herbicides, and we are seeing those deployed on agricultural lands in this country and elsewhere, and that is a troubling trend, i think. it is being done without the kind of research that it should have, and frankly, there

at new america which is to stay focused on the evidence. the time of the southern district trial ten years ago, al-qaeda was underestimated in the united states. at times since then, the importance and potent sigh of the organization is overestimated. i think the best we can do is to stay coldly and impartially focused on the facts as best as we ascertain them and this is hard to do simultaneously, remain open to challenging new arguments, to new ways of thinking about the facts and new perspectives. that's the goal today to keep that conversation moving and also make it transparent and available to others who are interested in it. some of the questions that were litigated, literally litigated in the united states and the bin laden case are still alive, how is al al-qaeda's organization structure be understood? to what extent is it best understood to a network or a broad movement in which followers act in isolation from leaders or as a brand or all four of those things? what are its strengths and weaknesses? what are its current -- what is the current profile of its regional affiliates? what can we confidently forecast about the evolution ove

that iraq was firing regularly at the united states and united kingdom aircraft that were supporting the united nations no-fly zone and patrolling in the northern and southern portion of iraq. those planes were being shot at almost every day. the only country in a world that was shooting at american and british aircraft. over 2000 times they were fired on. the joint chiefs of staff advised me in a president that they were concerned about the fact that eventually one of our planes, a british plane or airplanes will be shut down and the crews would be killed or taken hostage. third, the united states department of state had listed iraq as one of the countries on the terrorist list so there were a series of things like that by way of background. next, the united states intelligence agency spent a great deal of time and determined that they were convinced that the iraqi government had weapons of mass destruction, had the confidence to continue developing weapons of mass destruction and had the capability to rapidly expand those capabilities in the event they decided to do so. you had a country in iraq that had used chemical weapons on its own people, the kurds,

that iraq was firing regularly at the united states and united kingdom aircraft that were supporting the united nations no-fly zone and patrolling in the northern and southern portion of iraq. those planes were being shot at almost every day. the only country in a world that was shooting at american and british aircraft. over 2000 times they were fired on. the joint chiefs of staff advised me in a president that they were concerned about the fact that eventually one of our planes, a british plane or airplanes will be shut down and the crews would be killed or taken hostage. third, the united states department of state had listed iraq as one of the countries on the terrorist list so there were a series of things like that by way of background. next, the united states intelligence agency spent a great deal of time and determined that they were convinced that the iraqi government had weapons of mass destruction, had the confidence to continue developing weapons of mass destruction and had the capability to rapidly expand those capabilities in the event they decided to do so. you had a country in iraq that had used chemical weapons on its own people, the kurds,

southern part of the united states over the past couple of days. and these 178 people in five states are dead. as a result. this video coming at alabama.is beginning to shoot its way to that town. reports of major damage, down trees and deaths. the university of alabama is located there. no word of what any damage yet to that school. the university employee talk about what he sought. >> and will to see something that violence it's been that huge. and watching t.v. i've never seen a tornado that big. >> james: at least six tornadoes reported in virginia, we have video where crabs, lightning could be seen yesterday however tornado hit the area later in the day causing severe damage. there's video their car, smashed by an uprooted tree. another fallen tree hit a home nearby. it can expect more damage to come of this storm. as daylight comes up. >> justine: , man is behind bars this morning after a decomposing body was discovered in his apartment. kron4 was able to go inside the apartment is a story you only see on kron4. >> reporter: just after 7:00 tuesday night santa cruz police got a call about bad smell coming from one of the units. w

and usually it is associated with some recalcitrant southerner somewhere in south carolina at the citadel. had lincoln not fought the civil war, the united states would have descended into dante's nine chamber of help. we would have broken up into three or four separate republics europe would have played us off each other the way they played european states off each other to gain our independence. also it wouldn't would not solve the racial issue because the south would have become an even more deeply apartheid system. there would have been fugitive slaves, causes for war and if you think that eradicating the vestiges of discrimination was difficult, but the civil war, the would have multiplied those difficulties by an exponent had lincoln not fought the civil war. people say kaufman likes war. he defends the bush doctrine. indeed, he does but if you don't want to take my word for it, take the word of james mcpherson at princeton university who wrote the authoritative look on the civil war, battle cry freedom. the civil war was absolutely necessary. lincoln like to fight it and it is a tragedy that it took 600,000 men and brave people to

at the news desk. >> the death toll is rising across the southern united states this morning after the first swarm ofn hard-hit tuscaloosa, alabama. good morning, jim. >> good morning. still well under the search and rescue mode here as we can't get into the hardest hit areas. i want to take you back to show you this half mile wide monster that moved through tuscaloosa, and it's amazing here that we didn't have higher loss of life. the death toll in alabama stands at 128 people from this. this shot from chris england. i talked to him off camera earlier, and he said he couldn't widen out his camera wide enough to see the whole tornado. that's how big it was. of course, the campus just a couple of blocks away here. businesses, as you see behind me here, are in complete ruins this morning, and even some of the signs we know that were here just yesterday have been blown some 35 miles away up toward birmingham. that's where they landed. a huge outbreak of tornadoes. probably the second deadliest in alabama history. unfortunately, i think those numbers are going to go up as we have not seen the worst of wh

at the national picture. you can see a lot of activity in the northwest. in the southern tier of the united states, it's pretty quiet. but, all of this is due to the jet stream. we'll show you it's dipping way down on the west coast. temperatures are down by 5 to 15 degrees. up and down the west coast. completely different story on the other side of the country. the temperatures are up, actually, by 5 to 25 degrees and it continues to be that way over the next couple of days. >>> thanks so much. that's your latest weather. now back over to you guys. >> marysol, thanks. >>> still to come, the latest on a baseball rivalry gone horribly wrong. we're going to talk with the family member of a san francisco giants fan savagely beaten outside of dodgers stadium. >>> and young people are using synthetic drugs to get high and we're going to look at what they are and just how dangerous they can be. this is the "early" show on cbs. it's 2011. wonder where the durango's been for the last two years? well, it toured around europe, getting handling and steering lessons on those sporty european roads. it w

and usually it is associated with some recalcitrant southerner somewhere in south carolina at the citadel. had lincoln not fought the civil r, the united states would have descended into dante's nine chamber of help. we would have broken up into three or four separate republics europe would have played us off each other the way they played european states f each other to gain our independence. also it wouldn't would not solve the racial issue because the south would have become an ev more deeply apartheid system. there would have been fugitive slaves, causes for war and if you think that eradicating the vestiges of discrimination was difficult, but the civil war, the would have multiplied those difficulties by an exponent had lincoln not fought the civil war. people say kaufman likes war. he defends the bush doctrine. indeed, he does but if you don't want to take my word for it, take the word of james mcpherson at princeton university who wrote the authoritative look on the civil war, battle cry freedom. the civil war was absolutely necessary. lincoln like to fight it and it is a tragedy that it took 600,000 men and brave people to era

at least nine deaths are being blamed on severe weather in the southern part of the united states.g tens of millions of dollars in damages. the national weather service confirmed eight tornadoes so far of the 38 suspected twisters that ripped through the region. and what more elegant way to commemorate the royalty and beauty of love than with a pez dispenser? those are prince william and kate middleton's heads topping off the iconic candy dispenser. all proceeds will go to charities supported by the royal couple. it is now three minutes past the hour. now to al with a check of the weather. >> i love that. let's take a look and showyo u. oh, that's the best. anyway, we have weteather noving into the pacific rthwest. another storm coming in. we have a weak system making its way through the great lakes. sunshine through the southeast today. could be a nice day there. 68 and sunny in atlantic city. 102 in western texas with wet weather in the west. high surf advisories, wind warnings centrale california and southern california coastlines. look for snowshowers in northern new england. >

southern district of new york at the time of the mortgage meltdown. i had the pleasure of being neil's colleague there in the southern district and we spent several years together in the securities unitand i can tell you firsthand and also from the reputations and our colleagues that neil is an extraordinarily talented lawyer. he's a very, very quick thinker. he has amazing strategic judgment. he's a fair and ethical prosecutor. and he is certainly one of the best, perhaps the best trial lawyers i have ever seen. certainly among prosecutors. he delivered what was the best jury address i have ever seen a prosecutor deliver. over an hour without a single scrap of notes other than a crumpled up piece of paper in his pants which was actually a prop. [laughter] >> he's an incredible trial lawyer and an incredible lawyer. in late 2008, despite the fact that he is as has been reported i'm not revealing anything, a lifelong democrat who donated money to the obama campaign, he was appointed by president bush george w. bush to be the special inspector general of the troubled asset relief program and in that position he is still the chief watchdog over that $700 billion government program that

was reminded that at that time, there was a trial underway at folley square in the southern district of new york. the case was captioned "uniteds vs. bin laden" and it was a case in the white courthouse that some of you know. a number of defendants who participated in the 1998 africa embassy bombings were present at the trial and convicted by a jury verdict, but bin laden, of course, was not present in the courtroom, and nonetheless, he and al-qaeda were essentially the subject of the trial, and i have like some of you i'm sure who have conducted similar research spent time with those trial transscraipts because they are a rich source of information, and they are available. i looked at the trial day from exactly ten years ago, randomly selected, it was day 35 of the trial, and that morning at ten o'clock, the case resumed and judge sans's courtroom and began with an argument with patrick fitzgerald who was prosecuting the case and the defense lawyers and judge sand over essentially the admissibility of evidence against al-qaeda concerning a fatal raid by u.n. troops in somalia in 1993 and how that evidence would be presented a

and usually it is associated with some recalcitrant southerner somewhere in south carolina at the citadel. had lincoln not fought the civil war, the united states would have descended into dante's nine chamber of help. we would have broken up into three or four separate republics europe would have played us off each other the way they played european states off each other to gain our independence. also it wouldn't would not solve the racial issue because the south would have become an even more deeply apartheid system. there would have been fugitive slaves, causes for war and if you think that eradicating the vestiges of discrimination was difficult, but the civil war, the would have multiplied those difficulties by an exponent had lincoln not fought the civil war. people say kaufman likes war. he defends the bush doctrine. indeed, he does but if you don't want to take my word for it, take the word of james mcpherson at princeton university who wrote the authoritative look on the civil war, battle cry freedom. the civil war was absolutely necessary. lincoln like to fight it and it is a tragedy that it took 600,000 men and brave people to