the night sky in reno county, kansas. reports of several tornadoes hitting parts of that state overnight. the sheriff in harveyville kansas reports a twister destroyed about half the town. severe weather is blamed in the death of a woman in dallas county missouri. tornadoes also caused damage in nearby branson, a popular tourist spot. the cleanup is beginning today for people in those hard-hit areas. rob marciano is here to give us details about what happened and what s ahead potentially. widespread storm with damage tornadoes touching down as far north as nebraska. that s the first time on record that we ve seen a tornado in nebraska during the month of february even though this is a leap year. we are looking at right now, let s take a look at some of the shots. if we have the air ri als, throw those up. harveyville, that s one of the hardest hit spots. reports of injuries and widespread damage but no report of fatalities there. unfortunately, from that storm moving of
politics average, mitt romney is up five points, and i ve talked to people who haven t made up their minds and say it s difficult to pick a candidate in this election, and i got a sense of apathy, too, that none of these candidates are exciting anybody. listen to what trey goodman told me yesterday. i ve watched almost every debate and it seems like there s been dozens this time around. i guess if i had to vote today, right now, i d probably vote santorum. but i can t even say that name with confidence. reporter: and here s the polls place we re at, we re seeing a trickle of people coming in. don t forget that absentee and early voting very popular in this state, probably more than 50 percent of people voting today have already voted. bill: john, thank you. john roberts out there in arizona. thank you john, we ll talk to you later. patti ann: we are awaiting a news conference from the board of education in chardon, ohio on yesterday s deadly school shooting. meanwhile we re learn
clearly everybody is gonna be a little more vigilant right now. shepard: what it means for u.s. forces on the ground. and new cruise ship nightmares. he had a gun and a knife so everybody started to run. there is a shift adrift with more than a thousand people. rough year for carnival gets even worse. but first from fox this monday night, tragedy in ohio. one student is dead now. four others wounded now after the nation s worst school shooting in nearly a year. it happened in the small town of chardon in the northeastern part of the state. witnesses there say a teenage suspect walked into the cafeteria as kids were eating breakfast, pulled out a gun, and started firing. and accord guilty to at least least according to one much those witnesses it appeared the teen targeted a group of kids sitting at one particular
for our students, parents, faculty and staff the chardon schools will reopen the school facilities according to the following schedule. wednesday, february 29th, all high school faculty and staff are asked to gather at the high school at 9 clock in the morning. counselors will be available. all kindergarten-8th grade faculty and staff are asked to gater at m u.n. ton elementary school. counselors will be available. patti ann: that is the superintendent giving the update on what the school hours will look like over the next couple of days in that district in chardon, ohio. a lot of emotion coming from the community. we are waiting and watching for any developments in the investigation and we ll bring you updates as we get them. jon. jon: new information now, jenna on a terrifying end to a flight to new jersey. operations at newark airport are back to normal now as vetters trying to figure out what caused a plane s landing gear to fail.
we tried to do that keeping in mind we have a criminal investigation going on. we are going to give you some more information on that today. i also want to thank the community. chardon is a special place. many of you got to see that today and yesterday. and you ll see it some more in the days to come. this has touched a lot of people, a lot of families. i happen to be a graduate of chardon high school. i met my wife here. the most eerie feeling in the world was walking down the halls yesterday, running down them in response to the incident that we had. the ems, fire and law