of birmingham. officials received federal aid men to build those shelters two years ago. as we approach peek season for tornado outbreaks, time is running out. john roberts in our southeast bureau tonight. hey, john. good evening to you, shep. the problem seems to be cutting through bureaucratic red tape which is designed to keep people safe actually, in this case potentially endanger people s safety. put up video from a year ago april 27th to show you what s at stake here. year prior for the destruction wrought by these storms. dekalb county try to install six community storm shelters. short-term shelters that could hold 100 people apiece. red tape and a problem with bidding put that all on hold and actually voided out the first bid process. the most recent failed bid occurred last week when the attorney general ruled that two state agencies had jurisdiction over the installation of storm shelters and rules and regulations, separate ones for both of those entities had to be satisfie
japan should have taken the threat of the tsunami more seriously. a european food crisis as scientists look for the source of a deadly infection. there is anger in spain as vegetable exports are turned away. and the final endeavor. the space shuttle s last mission. we re live at the kennedy space center in florida. fifa is poised to re-elect set blater as president, the most controversial leadership vote in football s governing body. fifa ignored calls to postpone the ballot. prince william, the president of the english association, supported that call and so has the scottish association. in a stunning about turn, though, fifa vice president jack warner suspended from his duties at the weekend that a corruption investigation urged fifa members to get behind blater s bid. 24 hours later, he was saying that blatter had to be stopped. the vote is now a formality and insuring another four-year presidential term for the 75-year-old swiss. his challenge is to steer the organi
the big german went behind the line and missed three-throw. they ll return home for games three and four. meanwhile the president of football says he won t rule out the possibility of a new vote to decide the 20 the 2 world cup coasts. he surprised many observers by winning the right. but fifa is investigating claims of corruption in the bid process. earlier this month the british minister collins said he had evidence that fifa s vice president of cameroon and jacques anouma of the ivory coast have received bribes. both men have denied the allegations. he says fifa will identify the whistle blower who first spoke to the uk s sunday times
from being free. deadly attack in pakistan, the americans are in the firing ryan less than a month after their forces killed osama bin laden. and leave new friends behind. the queen s historic visit to ireland is almost over. we begin this hour in washington where israel s prime minister will meet the u.s. president today for what s expected to be a tense round of talks. benjamin netanyahu arrives less than 24 hours after barack obama deliver add big speech on relations in the middle east. he got a frosty reception in israel. it s an idea the u.s. has supported unofficially for years, but no president has ever before stated it. the borders of israel and palestine should be based on the 1967 lines with mutually agreed swaps so secure and recognized borders are established for both states. reporter: in return obama called on them to retain its security and recognize it as a jewish state. the 1967 borders were in place before the six-day war in which israel captured th
now, we ve got to get those timelines concurrent instead of consecutive. we ve got to speed up the bid process. there s so much we can do when the will is there. and i m proud that pennsylvania was congressman oberstar ranks the states in how quickly they obligated and spent the money, we were number one in the nation. but that s because i got my contractors together at the beginning of the stimulus and said, look, this is going to put people back to work, it s going to put money in your pockets, but we ve got to move, we ve got to roll on this. you ve got to be ready to go. i m shortening the bid time on every single contract. there s a way to get it done if there s a will to get it done. and look, everyone agrees that congressman micah wants the broad six-year bill reenacted. we need to get that done, no question about that. but in the short-term, we need to get this bill passed to put americans back to work and back to work quickly. if we don t if we wait until february or march