but we ve had tornado warnings all the way up into baltimore and into new york state. nothing reported really on the ground up there that was very large, but it was the cell that moved from tuscaloosa into birmingham, that s it right there, that put down that very large tornado. you don t get damage like that, you don t get a picture like that without it being a 4 or a 5. 5 is as high as you can go. ef-4 or 5 damage about 200 miles per hour. some of the doppler estimates were at 177 knots. that s close to 200 miles per hour. the storm system is still moving into georgia. there are still a couple tornadoes on the ground, especially in western georgia. and also into southeastern alabama. it s cooling down a little bit. the storms are bumping into each other a little bit. the tornado intensity is probably coming down. the darker it gets, the more nighttime, they re harder to see and track, and also the air is cooler and they tend to not be as severe. we ll keep watching, though,
misrata and sirte. but france and britain are demanding more aggressive action to protect civilians. that is, after all, the u.n. mandate. but in the city of misrata gadhafi forces continue to shell and use snipers in an attempt to regain control. for weeks now we watched civilians in misrata die as opposition forces try to fight back. the city has been surrounded for seven weeks now, and units have called the situation for people there grave and deteriorating. remember, late last month president obama handed the mission over to nato, saying america would shift to a supporting role. so for those who doubted our capacity to carry out this operation, i want to be clear. the united states of america has done what we said we would do. but even then there were questions whether that would be good enough to protect libyan civilians and whether the mission as conceived could even work at all. libyan opposition leaders say nato is not doing enough. so we re not seeing really a
help and assistance that we can in the days and months to come. good morning. it is tuesday, march 15th. welcome to morning joe. with us on set here in washington, msnbc political analyst, pat buchanan. also the washington correspondent for bbc world news america, catty kay, and former white house chief of staff of president george w. bush, andy card in the studio with us this morning. we will show some of the headlines just to show big ones. what a big story this is. catty, you lived in japan over three years. give us your insight on some images we are seeing. i was there for the kobe earthquake that was in 1995. we are all focused on the nuclear crisis. all of those families who have lost somebody, lost parents, you re hearing the japanese talking in muted ways about their loss. but for japanese, who find expressing emotion in public very hard and it s not in their culture, that s like having histrionics. this is a society going through mass shock at the momen
your husband moved toward the middle. i think that s that s sort of the conventional wisdom. but i don t think that bill changed his principles or changed his objectives or reversed course in any way. i think what he did was take a very clear-eyed assessment of what was going to be possible with the congress after the election and moved on every front that he could to get things done. i think that s what you ll see president obama doing. interesting. good morning. it s wednesday, november 10th. welcome to morning joe. 6:00 on the east coast. how comfortable do you think she was with that question? can obama pull a clinton? that is the key que. do you think he can? i don t know. nobody knows whether he has it in him. we shall see. something we ll be talking about with tina brown who is joining us this morning as well as msnbc contributor michael barnicle. we ll be at the 92nd street y talking about tissue whether clinton has failed clinton. whether obam
just thought you would like to know. wolf blitzer standing by. happening now, rick, thanks very much, president obama reaches out to republicans this the day after the state of the union address. there s plenty of partisan feuding over his criticism of a u.s. supreme court ruling and justice samuel alito s very visible reaction. plus, the u.s. congressman is accused of funding lavish golf trips with mondayin meant to be used for scholarships. lisa sylvester investigates big concerns about the foundation. why haitians are still in the dark over two weeks without electricity. adding to their suffering. and their struggle to rebuild. i m wolf blitzer. you are in the situation room. president obama took his state of the union message to florida today. but back here in washington, one particular moment during his speech that has a lot of people all fired up right now. call it, if you will, president obama versus samuel alito. it happened when the president criticized the sup