for the atletico football club in madrid, said the pope had told him he did not want to have surgery. an evacuation mission is still ongoing in indonesia s westjava following an earthquake this week. aftershocks are preventing survivors from carrying on with their lives. meanwhile, the government has recorded 310 deaths and more than 20 missing people. most are trapped under a landslide. bbc indonesia s valdya baraputri sent us the latest. after shocks have happened hundreds of times following the earthquake on monday here in cianjur, westjava. however, the indonesian meteorological and geophysical agencies said that these after shocks are subsiding and people can expect a more stable ground in the next four days to a week. nevertheless, thousands of people are still sheltering. they either don t have homes to go back to because they are destroyed
there is not access to those funds are you there. it is foreign funds which run this country prior to the 15th of august and the public health care system is almost entirely funded by money which came from overseas and with all that stopping what happened in this country is people have been pushed into poverty, the health care system in many areas is collapsing and those hospitals are having to deal with have been injured in the earthquake as well and well humanitarian agencies are on the ground, how much can they stretch? they have already been stretched trying to provide to millions of people in this country and now they are having to tackle, in the face of the release efforts is though as well because of the terrain therein and now they re being stretched to try to provide to people who have been, you know, people who have been, you know, people who have been, you know, people who did not have food to eat prior this and now don t have homes to stay and so it is about shelter as well
everywhere. i thought it was a dream. a dream? more like a nightmare, if you want to be honest about it. this is what was left behind by a strong storm. total devastation. several tornadoes touched down. as many as 28 people are dead. in some areas, rescue crews worked deep into the night to find survivors and victims. national guard troops were called up to kentucky and indiana to the hardest hit communities. you can see tornado in tennessee. dozens of people were injured in the storms. we are watching all angles of the story this morning. susan c susan is in ohio. rob is in tennessee where we have seen significant damage. bonnie schneider is standing by in the severe weather center. the damage we have seen have been small towns like henriville. how bad is it? reporter: it is very bad. crushing damage. people here are reeling from what happened to the area. 15 deaths confirmed so far in the entire state of kentucky. a couple of them here in clark county. just to give you
oh, here we go. oh, kyra. what a laugh to start the day. happy monday, peeps. happy monday. [ laughter ] kyra, have a good show. we start off with presidential politics and the two states that will be critical in choosing the new president. the new presidential nominee. mitt romney is considered the heavy favorite. iowa is still up for grabs just 10 weeks before it hosts the nation s first caucuses. gingrich kicking off his day with a town hall. rick santorum holding several meet and greets across the state. both are touting their conservative credentials and seizing on the latest stumbles by herman cain. paul steinhauser has the big picture from washington. shannon travis on the campaign trail in iowa. paul, let s start with you. as romney files to get onto the new hampshire ballot, how strong is his lead? what do you think? very strong in the granite state. about 15 minutes from now, he ll be in concord, the state capital, and make it official there by putting