news starts now. maurice: tonight, 62 million americans are under threat of severe weather from alabama to new york. good evening and thank you for being with us on this memorial day. i am maurice dubois in for norah o donnell. tonight, storms a part of the same system that brought deadly tornadoes to the central u.s. this weekend. this is valley view, texas, where tornadoes bulldozed through, turning homes into unrecognizable piles of lumber and metal. at least 23 people have been killed, including two children, in texas, arkansas, oklahoma, kentucky, and virginia. the force of the winds clear from the sheer scale of the damage tonight. now that system is drenching parts of the northeast, slowing down returning travelers. more than 5,000 flights have been delayed in major hubs like atlanta, chicago, and new york, with alerts posted up and down the east coast. cbs s meg oliver starts us off with more on these catastrophic storms. reporter: shattered homes and debris
cbs evening news starts now. tonight, 62 million americans are under threat of severe weather from alabama to new york. good evening and thank you for being with us on this memorial day. i am maurice dubois in for norah o donnell. tonight, storms a part of the same system that brought deadly tornadoes to the central u.s. this weekend. this is valley view, texas, where tornadoes bulldozed through, turning homes into unrecognizable piles of lumber and metal. at least 23 people have been killed, including two children, in texas, arkansas, oklahoma, kentucky, and virginia. the force of the winds clear from the sheer scale of the damage tonight. now that system is drenching parts of the northeast, slowing down returning travelers, more than 5,000 flights have been delayed, and major hubs like atlanta, chicago, new york, with alerts posted up and down the east coast. cbs s meg oliver starts us off with more on these catastrophic storms. reporter: shattered homes and eve
it was a disgusting alternative and that is the choice we made. what happened since that moment, is where we got ourselves in trouble. it was the slippery slope. it s the eight plus billion national debt and you pick winners and losers. that s where we got ourselves and trouble and didn t learn our lesson, lesson that europe may have learned better in the fact they adopted some austerity measures in countries that we will never learn. neil, i just heard you talking about welfare reform, and one of the problems in terms of reforming any of these welfare programs, a lot of americans say, wait a minute, we re going to kick the young mother on welfare off welfare but we re not going to get the multibillion dollar banks off welfare so it institutionalizes neil: don t blame them. everyone is at the trough. take everybody off the
1992, with ross perot, more than 1994, or 2000 ten with the republicans in congress. the american people think that washington doesn t get them, doesn t understand them, passing laws that they don t want to see passed. it is amazing. frank, thank you very, very much. again, they came and they went and they all left all the top union leaders, including the afl-cio. don t know what transpired in the white house. they did get their meeting with the president. we re going to keep our eyes on it. i promise you we will. forget all the craziness in this world at this time. i want to share something out of this world from another time. that is happening this time. and i mean way out of this world. ofetting something new. and now, there s a plan that lets you experience that new phone thrill again and again. and again. can you close your new phone box? we re picking up some feedback. introducing verizon edge.
restricting howl they spend the money because they can run down the road to the grocery store and then run back to the strip parlor. they need to crack down on the application process. in arizona they give welfare to families making less than $4,200 a year for a family of three. how are those families affording a trip to hawai i and vegas where these expenditures are turning up? it s the people defrauding the system who are applying. neil: ow always hear some 47 million is how much the taxpayers spend in area on the program a year. only a small percentage is spend on the atms. i don t disagree with stacy as far as screening. when you re applying for this you re not going to say, i m going to spend my money on cigarettes and strip clubs and booze. but i think is people are applying for the benefit s don t