fake. planted by his family or someone else who wanted to trick the world into believing the future president was born in the u.s. this is a long-time newspaper reporter in hon new lu. a number of people who believe barack obama wasn t born in the united states his mother or grandmother called the newspaper and gave false information he was born in the united states. is it possible that could have gotten in the newspaper like that? that s not possible. under the system that existed back then there was no avenue for people to submit information that way. how did the information get in the paper? directly from the state department of health. reporter: we confirmed that with the health department too. all birth announcements in the paper came directly from the birth records of the hospital. so why won t president obama just release a copy of his original birth certificate? there are some who say he won t do it because the word muslim is on it. but we ve taken a look at the origi
around and blown around. it tore us up. not far away in fayetteville, cnn i-reporter colin wakefield shot this video from his second floor apartment. look at that. the street below covered by two feet of water. jacqui jeras this morning, i bet there are a lot waking up to an awful lot of water in their basements and probably feel they re pretty lucky it wasn t worse for them as in arkansas. still isn t over. still a watch for severe weather. absolutely. flood watches, severe thunderstorm watches and likely going to see tornado watches later on tonight, so a lot of extreme weather still taking place. there s actually probably a lot more people being impacted by floods right now than tornadoes. we ll start out showing you where the severe weather is and we re really watching a small area just marching across southern louisiana. it has a history of producing about quarter-size hail and damaging winds around 60 miles per hour. so you need to wait until these storms have passed until
this could be very imminent danger within minutes. if the levee was to break, you will have very, very short time to get out of the way. seven people have been killed by severe storms and flooding in arkansas. the governor has declared a state of emergency after a tornado ripped through an air force base in little rock. thousands lost power during the thunderstorms last night. in some counties they re getting so many calls for help they ve run out of medics and ambulan ambulances. it was raining so hard you couldn t see nothing. and then it started doing all this. it happened so fast. we all ended up in the closet and then you could just hear crashing and stuff being knocked around and blown around. it just tore us up. take a look at this video sent by a cnn i-reporter colin wakefield. he shot it from his second floor apartment in fayetteville, arkansas. the street below covered by two
a, quote, direct and tangible interest. she felt she had that interest because of the statement she had to make. she found the original obama certificate stored in a vault in the department of health building. it was absolutely authentic, he was absolutely born here in the state of hawaii. reporter: but the doctor says even if she hadn t seen the original certificate, this document, the president s computer generated certificate, which was made public three years ago, had proven he was born in hawaii. quite a bit of irony over the original birth certificate debate. that is, the original documents are no longer even certified by the state. the health department says president obama or any other hawaiian can go through the process of getting one, but either one, they re no longer supposed to be used for official purposes. only the computer generated ones will do. we wanted to see what you would get when you ask for your hawaii birth certificate. birth, death, marriage. birth for us
good morning. it s tuesday, april 26th. i m ali velshi. i m christine romans. a lot we re following including the events in the middle east, what is the u.s. foreign policy but more importantly three days to go until the royal wedding. kiran? it s the topic that s top of mind here in london and as i was saying not as nice and warm today, but definitely more typical in terms of your london weather. that hasn t stopped people from coming out. one of the things we re going to be focusing on is the security aspect, in some ways security forces here probably hope for rain that way it will keep the crowds maybe a little bit fewer than what we re expecting now, which is several hundred thousand people. take a look just to show you a couple things that are happening a little different. this is queens victoria memorial, usually a beautiful founta fountain, but a little view obstructed by the risers they ve built, that will allow for the tv cameras to be able to capture every mom