taxpayers or the government paying for contraception. it is absolutely not. this regulation covers private insurance, and it wants to have this type of medical drug treated in a way that s similar to how other medical drugs are treated. and it is health care. women need this medication to prevent seizures, to prevent cysts from growing on their ovaries. i ve heard from so many women who ve talked about why they need this critically. not to mention the important medical need of preventing unintended pregnancies. i think those are two brilliant points that have been lost in all of the rhetoric in the last couple of days, is that one, we re not talking about taxpayer money. and then two, it goes beyond the birth control the birth control itself, that there are actual medical reasons. you heard cysts on women s ovaries. there are multiple reasons it s a lot more common. i had to go on it years ago because of cysts and some issues i had to and it was just to alleviate it wasn t be
for women to be subject to pregnancy. women need contraception to be healthy. not only that, but contraception is used for many other health conditions that only women get such as the development of cysts, which miss fluke was testifying about in front of a panel that leader pelosi put together. even my 70-plus-year-old sister was prescribed birth control pills for a bleeding condition she had recently. it s absolutely outrageous. i hope the advertisers that sponsor rush limbaugh will consider pulling their support from him. it does seem incredible. because sandra fluke was representing a friend of hers. and that friend had a medical problem that required the contraceptive pill. it was not primarily about
here to pepeka. no fatalities. nine people were injured there. one person critically injured. governor of kansas is declaring state of emergency there. let s get right to our meteorologist rob marciano who is tracking these storms for us. that same line that produced the tornadoes last night across parts of kansas and missouri moving into parts of kentucky and indiana and illinois. dangerous storm with a tornado dropped down to harrisburg, illinois, damage there and search and rescue actually under way. that s with this line and this cell moving just to the south of evansville, indiana, just to the north of hender son, kentucky. another storm just northeast of paducah. another one just southwest of that. these are strong storms moving quickly. 65 to 70 miles an hour. and in somepla places it s stil dark. tornado watch is up until noontime central for parts of kentucky and also it s kind of sliding back through just north of memphis. this storm is a big one. it stretches all
and microbial cysts. [ sniffs ] and then i think about the water that hasn t. [ whimpers ] i ju.i don t know. it doesn t seem fair. we asked total strangers to watch it for us. thank you so much, i appreciate it, i ll be right back. they didn t take a dime. how much in fees does your bank take to watch your money ? if your bank takes more money than a stranger, you need an ally. ally bank. no nonsense. just people sense.
talking a toll. gas prices overnight jumped 3.3 cents a gallon. on fears iranian oil, which is the world s fourth biggest stash of crude, could be disrunted. if they made good on their promise to halt the crude, it would hurt consumers around the world. jim beonco said it would send the united states into another recession with gas prices possibly hitting $4.75 a gallon. the move would also devastate iran. sources tell us 80% of that nation s economy is linked to oil and natural gas. will iran do this, will it come to this? mayor rudy jewgiuliani was mayon new york on 9/11. let me start with the rhetoric. do you think it s going to get to point where iran feels threatened enough to shut off the crude oil? i do. i m not sure they will because it has a devastating impact on them. they re vargood at threatening. the threat you have to take as a real 1, and as we ratchet up the pressure on them, they may very well take the step to see what kind of pressure they can put on us. a