four years of being a student here, you consider this place home, tuscaloosa is our hole and that s what students have seen in their contributions to our society. jon: last weekend, seeing the death of osama bin laden, that s what the nation is talking about now and again, we want to make the point we do not want to forget about you folks there in alabama and the other states that were hit so badly. what would you say to the nation right now? you ve got their ear. i would just like to say thank you to everyone within tuscaloosa, thank you to everyone from outside tuscaloosa. there are a lot of heroes that we have in our community right now but you don t have to be in tuscaloosa to help out, blood dough naightses, monetary donation, the acts of kindness going into the red cross, every little bit will go a long way and gets us a step closer to recovery. jon: grant cochran is president of the student university at tuscaloosa, at the university there. thank you. roll tight. jon: you re
jon: jenna mentioned it was a huge story last week and with don t want to forget about it, the university of alabama, launching a program to help the victims of last week s tornadoes. those storms killed 236 people across the state, including six alabama students. joining us on the phone, grant cochran, president of the student government association at the university of alabama. grant, we know that it didn t really strike the campus directly, but it struck an awful lot of student housing off campus housing, and that s where so many of your fellow students were killed. what s going on at the campus right now? well, right now, jon, on campus, we ve seen the university had a great response to the storm, encouraging students to go home, but what we ve seen is a lot of students sticking around to help with the recovery process. we ve seen students