blocks. he climbed up it a traffic pole and sat there. he stalled traffic for two hours yesterday everywhere around this area. he was trying to meet alicia keyes. she was performing a block away at another morning show. you might want to e-mail her next time or get a twitter account. this week, we ve been telling you how your tax dollars are subsidizing media matters liberal propaganda war against fox news. they ve declared a war on fox. now, fox viewers are firing back and they re filing complaints with the irs to revoke media matters government handout and joining us now is one of those viewers who filed the complaint with the irs, dana martin. hi, dana. good morning. yesterday, you heard us talking about media matters and basically, they are they get tax exempt status or the deductions to them can be tax deductible. i mean, the contributions. so what motivated you, then, to file this complaint with the irs? well, i ll tell you, i grew
around, anybody who s being totally honest these days knows that this country is headed for third world status. future generations won t have time for dreams, it will be all they can do to put food in their stomachs and find shelter from the elements. alex in washington says, not if this generation focuses more on xbox and face book instead of applying themselves to doing well in school. and if the american dream is to work for the department of motor vehicles and sit on your backside and collect a government handout, yes the american dream is alive and well. if you want to read more on this, go to my blog, cnn.com/cafferty file. people responding in big numbers on this question, jack? yes, they are. stunned witnesses say a nuclear bomb could not have caused as much damage. one of the worst tornadoes this country has ever seen tore through joplin, missouri, but will tuesday bring even more destruction? that s coming up at the top of
teams with he has to deal with the tornado devastation back here at home. i m wolf blitzer and you re in the situation room. it s been almost 24 hours since the people of joplin, missouri hid in their homes as the tornado tore through their city. officials say 116 people were killed and many more injured. this makes this storm tied for the second deadliest twister. the toll is expected to climb as one resident puts it. everybody s going to know people who are dead. a massive rescue operations under way that has been hampered by more bad weather. many pipes are damaged. despite the obstacles of success today, the governor says that there were seven rescues. in some cases, entire families were pulled from the rubble alive. at least 2,000 buildings are damaged, including one of the city s two hospitals. brian todd is joining us from outside of that hospital. he s joining us live now. brian? reporter: wolf, as you can see, we re getting another thunderstorm. they have bee
this woman is typical. animal herders mostly. a third of the population lives in poverty. in this tent, they ve raised three children. what you see here is all they have to hold out the harsh mongolia winter. the temperature outside, a freezing minus 40. it s a harsh life. they struggle to get by on a government handout of his than $20 a month. our life is very difficult. we can t do anything. if we go to the city, we can t afford to buy anything. we just hope that hinge thises get better. reporter: she braves the cold to scatter goat s milk to the four winds, a ritual she hopes will bring good luck. and her luck may indeed be about to change. mining mania is sweeping the
republican congresses do not believe that. they think we are a weaker country because we give money to people who don t work. we call it unemployment insurance. they call it a government handout and wonder why the unemployed don t just start their own businesses. there but for the grace of god go i, we say to ourselves. and so we contribute to programs like medicare and social security. there but for the grace of god go i. i learned that phrase as a child, but i ve never before heard it as the rational for medicare and social security. i imagine medicare and social security are logical extensions of the concept enunciated in that phrase. there but for the grace of god go i. but we live in a country where probably half of the people who use that phrase mean, god am i lucky that didn t happen to me? and most of those people believe it didn t happen to them because they made smarter choices than the unemployed or they worked