helps cover some of the medical expenses. not paid by medicare part b. that can save you from paying up to thousands of dollars. out of your own pocket. these are the only medicare supplement insurance plans. exclusively endorsed by aarp. when you call now, you ll get this free information kit. with all you need to enroll. put their trust in aarp medicare supplement insurance. plus you ll get this free guide to understanding medicare. the prices are competitive. i can keep my own doctor. and i don t need a referral to see a specialist. call now to get a free information kit. plus you ll get this free guide to understanding medicare. and the advantages don t end there. choose from a range of medicare supplement plans. that are all competitively priced. we have a plan for almost everyone, so you can find one that fits your needs and budget. with all medicare supplement plans, there are virtually no claim forms to fill out. plus you can keep your own doctor and hospital that accepts medic
to tell, but are we hearing at all about folks being injured? yes, there are injured. yes. i do want to speak with someone from that hospital. when i spoke to the emergency woman she was telling me that s the one and only hoe hospital in cullman, alabama. we are focused on cullman but many other cities have been hit. big time tornadoes on the ground. 25 tornado warnings? right now. if you see a storm headed to your house today, if you re near it, see it, take cover. even if it s not a tornado, that s what happens with wind damage. this is a big time problem today. we re going to stay on it. chad myers, stay on it for me. i will. a big shuffle coming in the president s national security team. ben bernanke goes where no federal reserve chairman has gone before. and we get a glimpse of
want to take you back to a pretty frightening situation. in cullman, alabama i was just speaking with the emergency management situation and she was saying that a hospital was hit? yes, it was. the courthouse was directly hit. now it s up near baileyton and arab, a large populated area. this is probably an ef-3 or 4. this is called a wedge. this storm is not going to die for quite some time. it will be on the ground for a very long time south of huntsville, alabama. now, into mississippi, near temacan. we know that it s on the ground
the city. in terms of homes, buildings, hospitals? can you be more specific? i do have a report of possible damage to our one hospital. also have reports of damage to our emergency medical services building, to our rescue squad building. those are the only three that i can give you specifically. phyllis little from cullman county, alabama. let us know if anything changes and of course we want to follow up with you on that hospital if it was in fact hit. thank you so much. for now i do want to move on to washington. if you haven t heard by now, the white house released this morning the president s birth certificate. in fact, here it is. this is the long form birth certificate. here is the president from this morning saying, folks, this is silliness. let s move on. we do not have time for this kind of silliness. we have better stuff to do. i have better stuff to do. we ve got big problems to solve,
dire situation until cullman county, alabama. one twister has touched down there. here s the video. let me read for you what our desk here at cnn has gotten from the mayor of cullman. he says, i haven t had contact with my chief of police yet but we do know there is extensive damage. he did speak with a fire chief who is reporting to a call of people trapped in homes. he did not have any more details beyond that. doesn t know injuries, doesn t have any numbers as far as possible fatalities. when i spoke to the emergency management woman, the one hospital in this town, cullman hospital, they have declared a d, d stands for disaster has hit them. we re working the phone and the story right now. i want to move on and talk to hala gorani. tracking the situation with syria, where are we? we heard from the united