surprisingly. the pope is going to meet with all the cardinals tomorrow and hold an audience with the media on saturday. should be interesting. in venezuela the government hit a snag in plans to embalm the late president hugo chavez. acting president nicolas maduro says it might not be possible at this point. scientists say the process should have started much earlier. chavez passed away last week after a two-year battle with cancer. and in china you ll remember this story. officials have found the source of the thousands of dead pigs dumped in a river that runs right through shanghai. a farm south of the city has admitted to dumping the carcass, about 6,000 of them pulled from the water this week. the local government says about 70,000 pigs actually died from poor raising techniques and also some bad weather earlier this year. but those carcasses were disposed of properly.
25 caliber handgun into the jail with two extra clips of ammunition in fat folds that would have been discovered in a strip search but wasn t discovered without a strip search. the justices did not seem to have a consensus today. it will take several weeks or months to know what they ultimately decide. shep? shepard: shannon bream on capitol hill. thanks so much. farmers in ohio are hoping to ease the pain of hurricane irene victims in new jersey. that late summer storm wiped out a lot of pumpkin crops along the east coast. workers at a farm south of cleveland say that for every pumpkin they sell they will donate a pumpkin to the town of patterson, new jersey. reportedly submitted 31 million damage for irene and tropical storm lee. news coming in that lawmakers have just subpoenaed the attorney general of the united states. and they apparently want to know more about an operation that sent guns to mexico.
there could be major travel disruptions today after the central u.s. was hit by an enormous storm with wind gusts of up to 80 miles an hour. hundreds of flights were cancelled at chicago s o hare, and even more delays at other major airports. at least 25 tornados were reported from wisconsin to north carolina and ohio. one tornado made a mess out of a farm south of chicago. it was like a bomb went off. you didn t hear the tornado. it s like a freight train. a little whistle and there was like an explosion of glass everywhere. as the storm moved east last night, it hit rural north carolina, where at least seven people were injured. and to give you just a little bit of an idea about the storm s destructive power, a security camera was rolling when one of the twisters touched down in northwest indiana. a few buildings took a direct hit, and a barn there was destroyed as well. people working nearby of course took cover when they saw the twister. they say it blew across the
2,500-acre farm south of the volcano. they ve never had a problem with the volcano. we went to visit him today and it was sad because the winds were blowing from the south yesterday and his farm is covered with ash. this this isn t just a fine, misty ash. it s mucky mud on top of his barn, his house. his cattle and livestock are fine but there will be a lot of cleaning up to do to make it back to normal again. the growing season starts in a couple weeks. that s delayed. and the problem cleaning it up is you don t know if it will happen again. gary tuchman, cnn, iceland. gary, thank you very much. a virginia couple stranded in the netherlands by europe s air travel shutdown is using every means possible to stay in touch with their kids back home. four children, all under the age of 9. tonight, cnn s sara lee has our report. reporter: what was supposed to be a few days in europe to visit family is now going on two