why some cuban-americans are furious. we re going in-depth. first the secret service and now dea agents are under investigation for allegedly hiring prostitutes in colombia. i m wolf blitzer. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. captions by vitac www.vitac.com the high-powered campaign surrogate is on the hot seat for going off message after newark s democratic mayor cory booker spoke about the attacks on mitt romney s old firm bane capital. he had to struggle to do damage control and the dust still hasn t settled. let s discuss what s going on with the key adviser of the romney campaign, ed gillespie, former republican of the national committee. thanks very much for coming in. thank you for having me, wolf. good to be with you. let s talk about what the president specifically said about mitt romney, his experience at bane capital yesterday and then we ll get your reaction. my opponent, governor romney, his main calling card for why he thinks he sho
we begin with the latest on an in-flight scare that forced a u.s. jet to make emergency landing by fighter jet. it raises fresh concerns for security for airliners headed to the states from africa and europe. u.s. airways flight 787 from paris to charlotte diverted to bangor s maine after a passenger s note warned she had a surgically implanted device. the plane with 188 people on board landed safely and the woman else courted off in handcuffs. officials determined she didn t have a device after all but that leaves plenty of questions. fran townsend is with us, a member of the external advisory committee for the cia and department of homeland security. fran, this is something people have been worried about, somebody with an implant device, perhaps a bomb. we saw an aggressive response because what we ve heard for months from intelligence and law enforcement sources that they re really worried about this because they heard this threat stream. this goes back to yemen, the al
survivors. don benson is one of those who made it through the storm in tennessee. his house did not. definitely i thank the lord for sparing as many people as he had. and i know these things can all be replaced. but like everyone else here, it s going to take a while. it s going to take a lot of construction to help out. it s important to note that this destruction storm system is not over yet. hitting parts of the deep south right now. more on that in a moment. all right. meantime, bp will pay about $7.8 billion to federal lawsuit with victims of the 2010 oil spill in the gulf of mexico. thousands of fishermen, hotel owners, and gulf coast residents will get a payout in april of 2010. the deepwater horizon oil rig exploded killing 11 people and causing the worst oil spill in u.s. history. and gas prices are going up again, the average price of a gallon of regular jumped more than a penny and a half in the last 24 hours. now nearly 3.76 a gallon, 30 cents more than la
i couldn t move. it was really rough. what was going through your mind? i swore we were going to die. all i could do was pray. half of the death toll centers in one small town. 9,000 people live in harrisburg, illinois, six people died there. don lemon is there. the national weather service says the tornado was the second most powerful on the rating scale. how widespread is the damage this morning? reporter: ef-4. it s huge. pan around here and look. this is a neighborhood, a fairly new neighborhood. go left here to show. if this had happened in the afternoon when it was full of people, there would have been probably many more injuries, many more deaths here. luckily there were only six and i m saying luckily because every single person we ve spoken to, even the person who lost his mom said he can t believe at that only six people died in all of this. they say they re going to pick up the pieces. the red cross is here. they have lots of help. this he could use more he
starting with the mall. there s a big walmart over there. here is a strip mall. this was a cell phone store if you walk in here, you can see there they are, cell phones, all the inventory still here. it is well guarded with police help. i have to tell you, instead of looking at the daniel and destruction like this here s what people are looking forward to, to the clean-up as you can see the workers over there cleaning this town up. they re putting on new roofs, they re securing what they have. and all the things that are not in the good enough conditionton withstand a little bit of wind, they re going to bull doze it and tear it down. here s the interesting thing though that we re hearing, brooke. you can talk to chad meyers about this. another storm system is brewing, and they re preparing for that one, as well. yep, we re hearing friday, don lemon. thank you so much. want to move long next on reporter roulette. nick paton walsh is in afghanistan for us. two more american