should remind our viewers, there was another man who actually confessed to this crime and was found in civil court to be responsible. there was a $2 million fine, which he never paid, but nonetheless, it makes this case very complicated. i talked about that physical evidence. there s a big problem if there is no body. if it is true that etan patz s body was thrown in the trash, one person said this renders the haystack too big and the needle probably no good, they ll probably never find the body. having said that is it possible the police have key evidence or information they re not telling us about? it s entirely possible. we don t know exactly what hernandez said to police during his alleged confession to them when he made claims he lured the little boy into the basement of that convenience store when hernandez himself was only 19 years old. police might be holding something back. we don t know exactly what he said so it s far too early to say whether this will really go
boost the economy and win re-election? do business owners, the people who support the bill, supposed to help, do they think it s a good idea. jessica is at the white house. alison kosik is at the new york stock exchange. let s start with you, jess. er eric cantor expected to attend the jobs signing here. is this one thing congress and the white house can agree on m. yes, and this is being presented as a real bipartisan victory, an accomplishment that will spur job growth and help grow business by reducing the barriers to investment so more businesses can grow and i think crease hiring which means more jobs. so both parties say they like it. you can see why that is a political win for both sides, both on the politics and on the substance if that were the entire bill. but critics are pointing out that there are elements of this bill that in their view will reduce investor protections that will they actually described it as a ticking time bomb. they say it will decrease tran
plinterred and uprooted. the damage is widespread. dallas county sheriff lupe valdez tells cnn her ofrszs are going house to house, checking on casualties until warnings that more severe storms were on the way. the emergency lasted for hours. this call came into cnn over two hours ago. if you go north, there s warnings all over the place. it s raining. people are scrambling to try to get out of the offices just to get home, and now it s caused a big problem, a big problem on the streets. the sirens going on. even if you re not even in the tornado warning places. you don t know which way to go. you really can t decide if you want to make a run home or stay where you are. cnn s ed lavendera is on the phone right now from lancaster. what are you seeing where you are right now? we have made our way into hit hard by the storm that rushed through just a few hours ago. a neighborhood in lancaster, from what we have bib able to see, and it s difficult to navigate with the e
and d.c., is this rick santorum s last stand? can he convince republicans that the race isn t already over? i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. captions by vitac www.vitac.com let s begin with the breaking news. tornado emergencies right now in the dallas-ft. worth area. look at these pictures that have been coming in. this was the scene in the dallas-ft. worth area just a little while ago as the sky turns dark. we see a massive funnel cloud draw closer and then this monster tornado descends on a truck park, picks up giant trailers as if they were little toys and sends them flying. look at this. flying through the air. that s just one of the twisters on the ground today. let s go straight to our meteorologist chad myers. chad, for viewers who are just tuning in, update them on what has happened over the past hour or so. what has happened as two tornadoes, one going up 35w and one going up 35e. you have to understand, from san antonio to austin there s
and that heat can cause and create another thunderstorm ind behind it. wichita, texas, was hit by two large and deadly tornadoes just hours apart. right down the exact same line. here s what we have. let s do a reset. about two hours ago, we had a severe thunderstorm watch. we had hail coming down, the size almost of tennis balls. then all of a sudden that watch was upgraded to a tornado watch because the storms are beagaining to rotate. then we had two storms out by themselves. those two storms were right in the dallas and the ft. worth area. this is a picture of it earlier. this is near hutch kins. this isn t current. this is about one hour ago. we had this video live on the air just to the east of 35-e. it s now not rotating enough i don t believe to put down a significant tornado as it moves just to the west of necessary kweet. it could regenerate. they do that. these tornadoes can skip up and down. to the west of this big storm that you re seeing now was another tornad