. >>> remember this scene, tuscaloosa, alabama? two months ago a man so terrified you could hear him breathing as he was running and recording this incredible piece of tape, lives lost, homes were wiped out. we're now live on the scene with the newest story in tuscaloosa, the good news that you have not heard, next. march it's been more than a month since a series of powerful tornadoes ripped a 6-mile path across tuscaloosa, alabama, the day was april 27th, tuscaloosa's mayor says the devastation was catastrophic. parts of that city were entirely wiped off the map. today, we go back there to see how the people of tuscaloosa are doing. steve harrigan is live there. steve, what can you tell us, what can you report from that battered town? what a tough time it's been for them. >> reporter: martha, those tornadoes unleashed 10 million cubic yards of of debris, about 60 percent of it is still on the ground here. many of the ruined house, some 7000 of them, have markers from rescue crews. that zero on the bottom mean for dead bodies were

for a time, it resembled the tuscaloosa storm. at the height, it was ten miles high. commercial jets couldn't fly over it, had to fly around it. this storm carried debris aloft, suspended in it one mile up in the air. the first population center to get hit by the tornado was springfield, mass. there are early reports of injuries. not since 1964 has a tornado followed a path like this from firi springfield, it almost followed the mass pike east, for a time aiming directly at boston.ng passing over landmarks like stirbridge. mike tiebi has been following. he's live on the ground in springfield, is with us from there. >> reporter: yes, this hit at about 4:45 this afternoon, and residents at the south end of springfield who we spoke to said they could see it, it was huge. they could see it, it was huge, and they could hear it, it sounded like a low-flying aircraft flying a little too low. there have been many injuries. no fatalities reported yet, and the winds were strong enough not to have just lifted roofs off houses but also top floors of houses as well. we're told ano

we had one go through tuscaloosa, we had one go through joplin.nd when a tornado goes right through a city, it can destroy thousands and thousands of structures, and, as we see, 100 people or even more can die. >> reporter: while science is working hard to make earlier warnings possible, not much will be accomplished if people ignore them. another goal is to reduce the error rate because today nearly another goal is to reduce the error rate for tornado warnings, which now stands at 70%. research shows that people tend to ignore warnings if they know most of them turn out to be false. >> lehrer: the total number dead today confirmed at 134. >> ifill: next, a look at the political phenomenon that is sarah palin. officially, there are now four declared candidates seeking the republican nomination in 2012: a former minnesota governor; a former house speaker; the former c.e.o. of a pizza franchise; and a current texas congressman. and tomorrow, another former governor, mitt romney, will make it five when he formally kicks off his own campaign in new ha

also tomorrow, what tuscaloosa and joplin can learn from another tornado-ravaged town. our "planet forward" heads to greensburg, kansas, to see how it's rebuilding better, stronger, greener! more evidence that the internet is changing the way we live-- a new survey from neilsen, the big television ratings firm, shows americans who watch the most video online tend to watch less over-the-air television. that goes against the previous belief, that heavy web video users watched content over several devices. neilsen also found big differences in how different ethnicities watched programming. african americans watched the most traditional television, while asians watched the least tv and more video online. >> tom: in a deal with federal regulators, banking giant j.p. morgan chase will pay $2 million to settle claims it used high- pressure tactics to push auto loan customers into buying un- needed credit protection. the bank has stopped selling the contracts and it has paid $25 million to reimburse affected customers. in the settlement with the office of the comptroller of the

this isn't joplin or oklahoma city or even tuscaloosa. what is happening this time of year and why this year? >> yeah, you're absolutely right, brian. it was a big supercell rotation much like we get in central united states. in fact, it began eerily similar to the way the joplin tornado began. in joplin, we were looking at a storm initially going north of the city. same with springfield. in each case, a flanking storm developed down to the southwest and quickly rotated. that was the sudden thing about each of these tornadoes. usually, you have to wait about 45 minutes after the first rotation before a tornado drops out. in joplin and in springfield, massachusetts, the tornado came right out of the gun. that's really unusual. >>> dr. forbes, i read a memo you wrote this morning saying the death toll this year, you would have to go back to, what, the post-depression era, 1936, to find a higher number. and let me ask you about the myths we grew up believing, that you never saw tornadoes in cities. that tornadoes existed in the tornado alley

. >> tuscaloosa, your call. >> by the way, the air conditioning in here -- >> yeah. >> who planned this? >> why? are you cold? >> am i cold? >> throw a log on it. this is freezing, bill. >> get larry king a shawl. please. i want mr. king to be perfectly happy. >> it's cold. >> i don't mean to complain. >> time nor new rules. >> we're going to warm it up for larry we visits us on "morning joe." still ahead, while you're awake, your crackdown texts and morning joe is moments away. [ man ] i'm some guy you just met. you listed this midlife crisis on the internet. and three emails later, you trusted me with a test drive... [ chuckles ] how hard can this be? [ engine turns over ] and if you don't have the right motorcycle insurance, you could be fixing this bike yourself. [ crash! ] [ spits ] so get allstate. hey! you could save money and be better protected [ laughs ] from mayhem like me. [ dennis ] dollar for dollar nobody protects you from mayhem like allstate agents. >>> the united states postal service running out of options. more specifically, running out of cash. they've got $12 billi

still ahead-- what tuscaloosa, alabama, and joplin, missouri, can learn from another tornado ravaged town. it's tonight's "planet forward." >> susie: a mixed view on the housing market today: builders broke ground on more new homes in may. housing starts were up 3.5% from april's levels. building permits were also up, rising over 8% to their highest level since december. but those gains were largely due to apartment construction, not single-family homes. meanwhile, fewer homeowners fell behind on their mortgages last month. research firm realty trac says the number of homeowners receiving a foreclosure notice fell 2% from april's level. one in 605 households got a notice. >> tom: a little bit of something for all types of investors today as stocks struggled to find a clear direction. as we have for the past few nights, let's begin with today's trading of the s&p 500, illustrating the mixed market. through the morning, there was some tentative buying, but by mid-afternoon, that disappeared. the index hit its low of the day just before 3:00 eastern time before climbing back in the last

remember back to joplin and tuscaloosa and springfield, we getting a lot of great video of the storms. television stations are doing a better job of tracking them and giving you visuals of them as they come through. lynette are you noticing that? >> yes. i am noticing that. as a matter of fact, i wanted to tell you i think i want to be a tornado chaser. i really do. i love the weather. and i really think that is interesting. i don't like fact that the devastation that it does, but i like the fact of the tornado chasing and hurricane hunter since we are in hurricane season. let's talk about what's going on right now. maryland's most powerful radar not picking up on a whole lot. we should stay dry for the most part going throughout the day. i will monitor the situation coming off lake heron in a few minutes. but the temperature in elkton is at 63. and we are at 67 in millersville and 60 de-- or 67 to annapolis and millersville coming in at 60 degrees. as we check your forecast hour by hour today, as we go into lunchtime, 86. if you take the warmer temperatures you can eat the lunch outd

steve, good morning. >> reporter: bill, certainly very slowly here in tuscaloosa, the tornadoes hit a month ago, but on some streets it looks like they just hit yesterday. this house behind me as an insurance poster out in front of it, it has been inspected but it doesn't take a whole lot of expertise to determine this house has been completely destroyed. one month later, the question for about 10,000 families here, should they stay and try to rebuild or pack up and leave town. >> pwhoupbt later, neighborhood silence. trees at odd angles, houses, stripped, or missing chunks. the destruction, biblical. progress in tuscaloosa today means tearing down homes that o'clock be saved, stacking them by the side of the road, like trash. there's one house left on elm street. >> is this where you used to watch tv? >> yeah. yeah, we watched tv here all the time. >> we were just laying here together. >> lee and patsy survived the tornado on a bathroom floor, praying president insurance money has them in a hotel. they are not coming back. >> the neighborhood has been wiped out, ain't no doubt about

being paid about two of its $50 to be part of this world change week and are making a difference in tuscaloosaoming up our top stories at 6:30 a.m.. here is a live look at wall street as the opening bell will be happening in a few minutes. we will bring that to you live when we come right back. ♪ [ woman ] sam begged and pleaded... so i sent him to camp. we'd earned lots of points with our new citi thankyou card... and i put them to good use. he told me about his bunkmates, and how he signs up for every activity. ♪ he even hangs out with the camp director. just like that. [ male announcer ] the new citi thankyou premier card gives you more ways to earn points. what's your story? citi can help you write it. >> her we do not have any fog to start off today. it will be another warm day. we will call it hot in some of those inland's spas were tenders in the '90s. we will see a little bit of a breeze as we head into the afternoon. here is a look at those numbers. the big story today is the heat. >> similar temperatures to where they were yesterday, if you enjoy yesterday, you'll enjoy today as well

mark strassmann, who covered the tornadoes, returned to tuscaloosa, to talk to some of the folks whoped with their lives. >> reporter: across alabama's landscape of loss, some images stood out, like this one. her name is faye hyde, and this slap was her home. >> that's where my bathroom, living room, kitchen, and dining room. >> reporter: she took shelter in a closet with three grandchildren who lived with her. they staggered out into ruin. >> i didn't even know what was there for a minute. i was in a daze. i couldn't believe it-- it was our home. i... i was so glad my grandkids were saved. and they were wet and cold. i was thanking god for letting us be safe. as long as the kids were safe, i was okay. >> reporter: safe and now living in a rented house. >> we've got a long ways to go, but we'll get there a little at a time. >> reporter: satellite images show the destruction's scale. this apartment complex was wiped away by the tornado. chelsea thrash was thrown 150 yards. when her mother, kelly, reached her, chelsea could not walk. >> she was caked in mud and debris and i just saw my

be alabama's only problem as reconstruction efforts are much needed after tornadoes tore through tuscaloosa just weeks ago and advocates of this bill say that it's meant to put alabamians back to work but will they do that work or is once again show the undocumented immigrants are a backbone of this economy are discuss this with me is immigration attorney eleanor pelter with morgan lewis and an honor thanks so much for being here and i know you're welcome so you and i have spoken about some of these laws before when it first popped up in arizona and of course there was a lot of debate around the country a lot of people were angry there was a you know a lot of opinions that this is prejudice law but now it seems like that fear has actually turned into an action and that populations are fleeing these states as you expect that to happen well i'm not surprised to see it happen particularly in alabama alabama is like arizona on stay. royds you don't have to look very far to see the venom in that particular law. the law. prohibits citizens from helping their citizens if they reasonably should hav

we recently seen it in tuscaloosa, birmingham, georgia, joplin, missouri. arkansas. tornadoes and floods that devastate people's lives in ways that we look and we can't even begin to imagine. but while for many it is the worst of times, it is also a reminder it can be bathes of -- be the best of times to be an american, because what we see, even in a mountain of debris and broken dreams and lives, there's also a mountain of diapers being donated. and mountains of clothes and water bottles and food. and this isn't something the government is doing. this is something that americans are doing. because that's who we are. when i hear people say that we 've got a government that is in trouble. i agree with that. we have a government that is in trouble, that is incompetent, inefficient and ineffective, spends money it doesn't have and bosh -- borrows money that it has no way of paying back. the american people are still people who give us the best of times. if you think today that i'm going to give you this gloom and doom message about the end of america, i'm sorry, you've

tuscaloosa, they had five ef-5 tornadoes. >> i don't remember having so many back to back. is that an indication of something here? >> right now my thinking is it has more to do with the fact that they've hit populated areas. >> that's just the luck of the draw? >> ef-5 is the damage scale. so an ef-5 could hit nothing and you don't know it was an ef-5. it actually has to hit something to be able to analyze how strong the storms actually were. this has been a record year. we've had about 1300 reports of tornadoes so far. in an average year we have about 1274. we've got seven months to go and we're already way above. what is striking is the number of deaths we've this this year, and that's 522. that's the worst we've seen since reliable records have been kept since 1950. we know there were more deadly tornadoes, like 1925, but the fatalities this year has been terrible. >> having seen it firsthand, yeah. jacqui, thank you very much. >>> this spring's flooding has had deadly impact. thousands of people are losing homes and farms. but a lot of the weather has separated familie

we've got tornadoes ripping apart cities like tuscaloosa, alabama. joplin, missouri.etts getting hit. floodwaters destroying homes and businesses in the south and the midwest. some of it record-breaking, and now huge wildfires in arizona and other parts of the southwest. a lot of folks are wondering, what's up? what's up with the weather, chad? explain to us why we're having such a weird -- and really, quite frankly, dangerous -- >> noaa is having a conference at 3:00. i called the guys. i can't wait until 3:00. we freed to know now. what are you going to say? we're on tv. what do you got? they said they don't have any information. they don't have one culprit. they just have a number of things. the aware's very warm. there's water all over the ground in the midwest. that's adding humidity. it's been a record slow pack season in the colorado rockies. in the sierra, it's still snowing. still skiing in utah. skiing every weekend. they think skiing to the fourth of july. it was 72 feet in heavenly valley in the sierra. 72 feet of snow? i can't imagine. how it all packs do

first in tuscaloosa, alabama. then, joplin, missouri, last week. we can add images such as this. this was once an auto body shot. here just a few blocks north in downtown springfield, massachusetts. now, rims have been displaced. building blocks toppled like dominos. as you can see, the building absolutely destroyed. four confirmed fatalities this morning. at least two deadly tornadoes ripping through this part of the state. at least seven through central and western massachusetts. and again, it was disaster that struck suddenly. the twisters came during rush hour to massachusetts' third-largest city. this one caught on tape. sucking water from the connecticut river, and hurling debris hundreds of feet into the air. watch as the tornado moves over a bridge, completely engulfing the cars trying to pass, as residents ran for cover. >> you could hear the debris hitting cars. windows. alarms started going off. >> reporter: the damage in springfield is visible from the air this morning. altogether, seven possible tornados were reported in massachusetts wednesday. >> we move to life-sa

. >> reporter: for the last month, scenes like this have been associated with tuscaloosa or joplin. >> it's all that matters. >> reporter: but in south central massachusetts, and russell now knows what those others have gone through. >> i lost my wife december 13th last year. and now i lost the house. >> reporter: his house one of hundreds destroyed. >> i looked up and it was gone. >> reporter: at least two tornados tore through the area late wednesday afternoon including the one in springfield, where a warning went out only ten minutes before it hit. the damage in some instances are just as bad as that in the midwest and south. planes from a small airport were picked up and thrown hundreds of yards away. governor patrick has declared a state of emergency. >> we've got a real mess on our hands here, but we are all in this together. >> reporter: the governor says it's remarkable the death toll isn't higher zbrchlt house rolled over. my girl was in the bathroom holding the door closed. got blown right out the window. ended up on the ground. >> reporter: this is first tornado to hit mass

tuscaloosa. what's your name and where you from?on, please. >> caller: hello, this is david from la grange, texas. i was wondering when did you first start using your suspenders? [ laughter ] >> using my -- it was the year after my heart surgery, and my ex-wife said to me, "you lost a lot of weight. why don't you try braces?" so, i wore them once and four people called in and said, "you look good." [ light laughter ] >> jimmy: that's all you need. >> told a jew from brooklyn how they look. [ laughter ] [ applause ] >> jimmy: let's take another call. caller number two, what is your name and where are you from? >> caller: scott from brooklyn, new york. >> jimmy: hey, all right. brooklyn. there you go. [ applause ] what's your question, please? >> caller: what is the most awkward moment on tv and how did you handle the situation? >> most -- that was a very good question. awkward. hmm. awkward. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: you can't count this. you can't count this. >> mel brooks. >> jimmy: really? >> yeah. in the middle of an interview, he s

he and his wife live in tuscaloosa and have four daughters. he's been an associate pastor at the united methodist church. thank you for coming. i also note his mother is a good citizen my home town of camden alabama, little community in a great family, and i am proud of cooper to be serving on this important position with governor rent lee. >> mr. shattuck, welcome. >> mr. vetter? >> thank you. as i mentioned, garate graves as you today as a louisianan trustee, and he also serves as the chair of the coastal protection and restoration of 40 of louisiana. that is a state cabinet level position over all of the coastal restoration protection. before that, was honored to have him on my staff serving with me and he served many members of louisiana's delegation of for several years. he was involved in virtually every water resource coastal restoration related bill going through the process while he was here, very able and i know louisianan's interests are in very good hands. >> thank you. >> senator whitehouse? >> i want to recognize dean leinen. as

and as you know, the tornadoes went right down the heart of tuscaloosa.asn't paying attention to the weather. >> jimmy: you weren't watching the weather channel? >> i wasn't watching the weather channel that night. >> jimmy: yeah. no. >> so, she actually went on facebook and let us know that everybody was doing okay, and she was fine. but it was a scare for three hours. >> jimmy: oh, my gosh. that must have been awful. but she's fine. and then, immediately, you went out to do relief for tornado victims? >> yeah, we partnered with jp morgan chase, an organization called world vision, donated $300,000 and some hygiene kits, some book bags. we're partnering with a lot of schools down there, that lost their libraries, to donate books and reading materials to these schools that, you know -- some schools got totally flattened. so we got a lot of great things going on around -- >> jimmy: you jumped right through it. and i'm telling you, that's the type of fun thing that you like to do as a celebrity. i mean, i -- >> thank you. >> jimmy: i'm going to do something

because just from being in tuscaloosa and being in alabama, i can tell you that people there were traumatized friends and neighbors hurt. they lost loved ones. so the need for people to be there to listen, to comfort, is great. then we come in, you know, in the weeks and the days later, and we're there with things like rakes and mops and shovels and tarps and clean-up supplies. and those things that people are going to need to get their communities back in order. we are concerned that our resources are stretched and we want to make sure that americans still know that we're out there working. the great thing about the red cross is that we have volunteers. we have chapters all over the country. we partner with all sorts of organizations that help us get the job done and help us help people. and so there's really never a disaster where we throw up our hands and say, we can't do this. we always look to the community and we look to the other people. we look to america as a whole to be able to help us. >> to find out how you can help, just go to the redcross.org. >>> seven republicans have official

he and his wife live in tuscaloosa and have four daughters.he's been an associate pastor at the united methodist church. thank you for coming. i also note his mother is a good citizen my home town of camden alabama, little community in a great family, and i am proud of cooper to be serving on this important position with governor rent lee. >> mr. shattuck, welcome. >> mr. vetter? >> thank you. as i mentioned, garate graves as you today as a louisianan trustee, and he also serves as the chair of the coastal protection and restoration of 40 of louisiana. that is a state cabinet level position over all of the coastal restoration protection. before that, was honored to have him on my staff serving with me and he served many members of louisiana's delegation of for several years. he was involved in virtually every water resource coastal restoration related bill going through the process while he was here, very able and i know louisianan's interests are in very good hands. >> thank you. >> senator whitehouse? >> i want to recognize dean leinen. as i

i have spent time over just the last few months walking the streets of tuscaloosa, alabama, with mayor help. hud has a critical role to play in recovery from a man-made disasters that we faced, and the natural disasters that we face in so many parts of the country recently -- in tuscaloosa, joplin, all places that we are working hard to help you recover from. i was just in atlanta, georgia, with mayor read, and i spoke at a conference on the foreclosure crisis, and it was called piece by piece, and that meant not on the house-by-house, block-by- block approach that so many of you are taking to help your community is recover, but it also meant the way that mayor reed, like so many of you, have brought together the private sector, the nonprofit sector, all of the players in need at the tables to help recover. one of the things that i heard loud and clear was the importance of housing counseling -- neighborhood stabilization funds, fha, which was 40% of the financing used last year, but i also heard loud and clear that without counseling, you can not be successful. those that had counseli

joplin, tuscaloosa, mississippi, so many places that we're trying to help u.s. makers recover from. i was just in at lento with may read. -- in atlanta with mayor reed. there was not only the block by block approach to help your communities country, but piece by piece also means the way that they have brought together not just the public sector, but the private sector, the nonprofit sector, all of the players you need at the table to help your communities recover from the foreclosure crisis. one of the things i heard loud and clear was the importance of housing counseling. is neighborhood stabilization funds, fha, which is part of hud, which 40% of the people in the country who purchased homes last year used fha financing. but those who get counseling or 50% more likely to stay in their homes in the midst of this crisis. and if the congress -- and yet the congress and particularly of local and minister -- republican members in the congress focused on cutting this counseling. we need to have your help for housing counseling. i've also seen the remarkable work that you have all done t

that's what we did, as an auburn family, we opened our arms out to tuscaloosa and tried to help them. >> help people put this in perspective. i tried to do this when somebody poisoned the trees at auburn, don't get me wrong, i had to walk past that tree after you beat arkansas, i don't have any love for auburn, it hurt my heart these trees were poisoned like that. that's part of a 100 year tradition at that school. help people understand how crazy auburn versus alabama and how crazy just alabama just football in that state really is and that experience what it's been like the past several years for you? >> it's really something that you just, you know, embrace. i had no idea when i came to auburn what that was about. i was like what is that? and, you know, after being there for four years, like, you really get it. and you understand what these people are about. you understand how auburn people love their football, how alabama loves their football and that's what makes the rivalry so good. >> the rivalry itself is insane, but your career at auburn has been nuts. when you came into for

i'd like to thank mayor william bell of birmingham, mayor walt maddox of tuscaloosa, mayor cunningham of geiger, your leadership and tireless efforts have been commendable. i'd also like to commend the alabama emergency management agency under the leadership of art faulkner. i would be remiss if i did not mention the incredible support and help of my colleagues within the alabama delegation. what we have learned is that what affects one of us, indeed affects all of us. together i know we will work to rebuild alabama. i yield back the remainder of my time. thank you. mr. cicilline: i thank the gentleman and i know we all stand in support of the work that is underway in your district and all across this country and our hearts and prayers continue to go to families who suffered such tragic losses during those terrible, terrible incidents. and we compliment the first responders and the mayors and all those you have recognized tonight. i'd like now, mr. speaker, to turn to the agenda we announced several weeks ago that involves really a comprehensive set of -- pieces of legislation to real

at 9:00 eastern, family and friends of tornado victims will gather for a candle light vigil in tuscaloosas of those killed in the april 27 storm will be read aloud. let's check in with zain vergee. >>> hi, carol. we are going to tell you what the up in headlines around the world are saying today about syria and about that brutal killing of the 13-year-old boy, ham hamza. >> i'm elizabeth coeen in atlanta. the world health organization has a new verdict about cell phones and cancer. why doing this may not be the best idea. i'll tell you why at the top of the hour. >>> i'm brianna keilar at the white house where president obama is set to meet with almost all of the republicans in the house of representatives, a rare meeting and this comes one day after the house failed to pass an increase of the debt ceiling. i'll have that at the top of the hour. >> plus, we'll talk to one of the iowa businessmen who flew to new jersey's capital and asked him why he wants governor chris christie to run for president. christie says he's not going to do it. was the trip worth it? we'll find out in the next h

a local reporter toured some of the hardest hit areas in tuscaloosa and found little progress since the storms that killed 43 people in that town alone. >>> an update on the story of this 95-year-old caught up in an airport screening in florida. the tsa says they did not order the woman to remove her diaper, depends. now the woman's daughter says that is true. she was not forced to take off the diaper but she says security made it clear that her mother would not be allowed to board a plane until the diaper was inspected. >>> right now in greece, protesters are venting their frustrations with government cut-backs and they are on the streets of athens right now. the economy there is reeling and the cuts are a result of demands from the international monetary fund that greece get its finances back in order. it's important to remember here that the economic problems in greece could have an impact on you personally, especially if you've got a 401(k). alison kosik, this will affect all of us because there is a ripple effect. how does this happen? what can we see about our own retirement funds

zee $1.7 million for a very, very worthy chair they will help folks in tornado-ravaged tuscaloosa as well, but first let's check your weather and show you we have two areas of risky severe weather today. first of all, as you see out west it's pretty nice. sunshine in denver, 89 degrees and 105 in phoenix, los angeles, nice and tempered 70 degrees and seattle, beautiful day, upper 60s and plenty of sunshine. those two areas we're talking about, one in the central plains and the other moving in the upper ohio river valley and beautiful weather along the west coast, the gulf coast sizzling from southern california all of the way to florida, we've got the potential for a lot of record-setting temperatures. tallahassee got to 105. their all-time high record ever >> our high temperatures are coming down a little bit, on average 5 to 10 degrees from yesterday's highs. i've taken the 90s off the map. 62 in concord, 58 in hayward. headed to the 70s along the peninsula and the east bay. oakland 73 for you today. 70 in san francisco. a little warm down in the south bay as high pressure has retr

by the snow may have been a big contributor to to see veer weathhe severe weate in joplin, and tuscaloosaarm and the cold clash, you will get bigger storms than you should have had or could have had, and hence all of the tornadoes and ef-4s and 5s and tornados like we have never seen before. >> all kinds of stuff. chad, before we go, we are going "off of the radar." and we have cool photos from nasa. >> i do. yesterday we talked about this soyuz thing getting shot up into space, and there is an cosmonaut and astronaut and japanese astronaut up in the soyuz capsule going up to the iss, and on the way up, they took fantastic pictures of the shuttle that is docked. you see it on the left docked to the iss and here comes soyuz and it is going to come in to dock as well. and the soyuz will bring three new people to the iss and it is actually going to -- this is the cool part -- the japanese astronaut is going to go to grow things. cucumbers and tomatoes and things. you won't be able to eat them though, because they don't know what it is like to be growing in zero gravity, but they will bring t

but this spring, tuscaloosa, joplin, now springfield. cities face to face with the tornado's fury.an 18-wheeler blowing its horn. >> reporter: -- they devastate. scientists say because cities have so much friction, buildings, bridges that force the tornado to slow down. and slower-moving tornados often cause more damage. we saw it firsthand. this is the first house the tornado hit. you can see it literally lifted this house up off the ground and pushed it. most people think tornados are just picking the path of least resistance. scientists say it's not true. they're not directed by what is on the ground. they're steered entirely from above. think of a helicopter dragging a rope. raleigh, tulsa, minneapolis have been hit by tornados in the past. still strikes in the city have historically been the exception because cities only make up a small geographical fraction of the country. but now scientists say with urban sprawl, many of the growing cities find themselves a growing target for mother nature. so the question becomes, if the tornado can do this to a house, what would an f-5 do

i was recently in tuscaloosa. after the tornado, they lost power for about eight days. they lost power and they lost water. you can cascade this. if you lose the ability to generate or distribute power to entire region of this country, we are going to be in very serious trouble as a nation. there will be loss of life. there will be a huge economic impact. it is not impossible to take over portions of the networks and destroy generated capacity, which we do not have the capability to manufacture in this country anymore. it has been two years. these are serious actions. these are the types of things where we need to push industry with legislation, but we also need to put down barry clear -- a very clear markets. >> beyond electrical distribution, pipelines, a whole industry out there. >> i think there is an interesting argument about the compliance regime. witness what i would call the debacle. over the period of four or five years, it costs $3 billion. one can argue that the domain is a more secure at the end of that $3 billion. you have to have compliance and a regulato

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in stories in joplin, missouri and tuscaloosa, alabama, hit by the tornadoes. tornadoes seems like we've had a lot of rough weather also knot with just those twisters but with flooding. hone in a few key spots it's been bad in parts of the dakotas, south dakota near pierre, and parts of nebraska more of the same. we have video to prove the story. let's go right to it. you have the water levels rising and a lot of people, of course, taking their belongings and moved out. certainly very dire conditions there. hearts go out to the men and women, the families suffering from the floodwaters at this time. let's go back to the weather computer and as we do so, something else, some severe thunderstorm watches now in effect as we make our way from the storm system that pulls from parts of minnesota and iowa, into wisconsin. might see some flash flooding in places like caribou and madison. nothing severe at this point but the potential later on today. more on your forecast in a few moments. let's pitch it back to you in new york. >> reynolds, thanks very much. we'll chec

we'll also be dealing with some tornado stuff because, of course, tuscaloosa was so devastated there.! we're jealous of that. >> we had such a great time here. they do such great work. kathie foster, the gang, and, again, to give out $2.7 million worth of stuff is amazing. >> thank you for including me. it was so much fun. >> you really -- i love having you here. tell your folks i said hi. >> i will. i will. for sure. >> and, by the way, if you want to find some way to donate, go to our website, today.com and we're going to link you to the charities we've been helping here. but you also give you other ways and ideas to donate and to give to charity in your community. we want everybody to lend a hand. while i get ready to get out of here, look on the bottom of your screen, promotional consideration provided by these very nice people. you know the big problem is, we have so much stuff, our truck, our penske truck is blocked. i can't get out. so, i borrowed this from one of the kids, savannah. so i'm going to see you from birmingham. i got to get started now! we'll see you later! all rig