the fighting getting nastier in libya, and the people of misrata faced with a new and unforeseen challenge forcing them to warn their children about crude bombs. general honore a warning to the gadhafi forces accused of using illegal warfare. i m don lemon. the cnn newsroom starts right now. we begin with this, running from deadly tornadoes in the carolinas. this is what people had to do just to survive. i just told everybody to get down, cover up, get into a tight space and make sure to get away from the windows. that s the best you can do. and for the last three days, a powerful system generating killer tornadoes has taken out neighborhoods of homes, trees, power lines, and killed 26 people. today north carolina has taken the deadlyist hit yet. in one state nine deaths and there could be more. three victims were in their mobile homes when the powerhouse of a storm struck early this evening. thousands have no power right now in dozens and dozens of reports of twi
those counts. on this american morning. welcome to american morning. it s thursday, april 14th. the whole gang s back together. good to be back with you guys again. boy, did we have a lot of news today. this budget stuff is what do you call stuff like this? boring but important. we ll make it interesting, not boring. being an air traffic controller the most tiresome job? maybe hey was reading about the budget. an air traffic controller asleep in the tower while on duty. the latest incident occurred at the reno tahoe international airport. officials say the controller was sleeping when a medical flight carrying a sick patient was trying to land. here s some of the pilot s conversation with the faa in northern california. yes, we re here. we weren t able to get through to the tower? no. we re going to call them on the phone line. all right. we ll circle some more. okay. we have a pretty sick patient. ray lahood says enough is enough. this i
tournament in berlin, germy. you can actually see the players scramble when the four thieves stormed in with guns and machetes and made off with part of $1.6 million in the jackpot. police described it as an amateurish robbery and say the thieves should be easy to find, though they haven t caught them yet. embattled new york governor david paterson says he isn t going anywhere despite growing calls for his resignation. paterson telling parishioners of a brooklyn church yesterday he won t be distracted from the job at hand. i don t have any plans to resign. i am working on the business of the people of new york state, the most urgent of which is that we pass a budget that s deficit has now ballooned to $9.1 billion. and at a certain point i will cooperate with the investigations and will be clearing my name. governor paterson is the focus of two separate state ethics probes. he says he s the victim of
hope to see you back here tomorrow. the news continues with kyra phillips in the cnn newsroom. here is a question you might ask in the next couple months. where the heck is my tax refund? the government didn t hesitate to take the money out of your check, so why the delay? they are cutting the library and music. i am really worried about it. okay fellow grown ups, let s be quiet about this for a minute. what do the kids thick about the budget cuts to the schools. they have to deal with it, right? i am having an abortion right now. thank you for sharing, but why did you put that on twitter and youtube? and then did pakistan nab al qaeda s american mouthpiece or some other guy? nic robertson is on it. it s vote counting time, but the election costs some their lives. do they have him or don t they? the uncertainty surrounded the arrest of al qaeda s american mouthpiece? we are not so sure. as you may remember, he is a 31-year-old california nate you have an
closest that we re seeing, a new york mini mart and deli. sunset park high school. you have a brooklyn church there. royal auto glass. that area is rich in some residential high rises and a ton of small businesses near there. potential witnesses. what s the activity level for the businesses. have they also been closed? yeah, those businesses there is nobody going in and out of the businesses directly at the entrance of the 36th street station where it really did happen and where first responders and people were brought out when that train pulled in to the 36th street station and why you see this setup over here. all the way down the block on 4th avenue all you see are first responder vehicles and entire 4th avenue blocked off. pedestrians are standing by and watching but nobody going in and out of the business.