. >> .and to tom wolfe, told stories about tom wolfe's evolution from being a newspaper reporter to writing the books that we all know and then. >> mm-hm. >> .you read a poem by luci shaw called "december". >> mm-hm. >> .and then you signed off with your -- with your standard end. >> mm-hm. >> .which i thought was you know the classic five minutes; just perfect and it set my day off right. you've been doing this for a long time. >> have been. >> yeah. >> i like that poem by luci shaw because in the last lines she had a.a.a snow shovel, the sound of a snow shovel across concrete. >> mm-hm. >> .and.and tossing its light load onto a.onto a drift. i just felt there were a lot of people around the country who needed that poem, people in austin, texas. >> [chuckles] >> .and people in georgia and florida, hawaii. it's a beautiful sound, that scrape. >> we don't hear that sound very much though. >> .that scrape of the shovel. >> yeah, yeah. occasionally but not often. >> so it meant a lot to me and.and the fact that tom wolfe had gotten his doctorate in literature and then he went into the newspape

wolf? >> tomch. >>> a staggering toll of death and destruction and a long, hard road to recovery for the residents of joplin, missouri. congressman billy long of missouri represents that district. he is here, at least part of that district. congressman, first of all, our deepest condolences to your constituents who lost family member he is in joplin. have you ever seen anything like this before in missouri? >> no, not for this devastation at all to this extent. the deputy director of feel mass in town today from d.c. and i asked him and he said maybe some of tuscaloosa could rival with it. other than that he hadn't seen anything like this either. just total devastation it reminds me of a movie set of a nuclear disaster. that is exactly. maybe your news crews are used to this but we sure haven't seen anything like this in missouri and i was born here. >> trust me, congressman, we are not used to it by any means. the pictures that we have been showing our viewers are heartbreaking, they are devastat

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tom costello this morning. >>> this morning president obama signed a four year extension on some provisions of the patriot act including roving wiretaps and lone wolf terror suspects. congress raced to pass the legislation hours before the midnight deadline last night. the president signed the act using an auto-pen machine that is he -- because he is currently in france attending the g-8 summit. >>> secretary of state hillary clinton and admiral mike mullen are in pakistan today working to soothe relations after the raid that took down osama bin laden last month. clinton urged pakistan to renew its interest to u.s. security mission or risk to lose billions of dollars in aid from washington. meantime today, the cia entered and searched bin laden's compound for the first time. >>> in joplin, missouri, officials are trying to sort through a list of 232 people still unaccounted for in the chaos after sunday's tornado. nbc ron allen has the latest now from joplin. ron, good morning. >> good morning to you, ann. >> reporter: overnight, more than a dozen names came off the list of missing persons as survivors came forward and the list was updated. the off

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