south. we are streaming here, see the tornado out of our window, somebody lost his place right now. hang on for a second, mike. that is the closest i ve ever been. as you can see, we have got the tornado in oklahoma worsening, at the same time, getting updates from joplin, missouri. the tornado that hit there apparently the casualties up to 126. the news keeps getting worse and worse but right now, we have got a tornado in oklahoma and we are going to go back to local coverage of that tornado in our sister affiliate, k 4, in oklahoma. chopper says it is a big old wide black spot. that s what we are looking at, mike. i think to most people this is not going to look like a tornado when it comes on n i think it is going to look like just a rolling, black cloud. that is what we are seeing from our vantage point. i heard. that is a good point, troy. it is going to look like a
every hour since 10:00. we ve had it a couple of times. we get them, the state civil defense gets as much warning as possible. it is the middle of the night there right now. a lot of people are in their beds and have no idea what has happened. what sort of measures are being done along the coast in low-lying areas to make sure people know what could be coming? the sirens have gone off. they tested them again because some of the sirens didn t go off last time. people should have heard the sirens and then people who have relatives near there would have been calling. we ve been on a watch since about 8:00 tonight. they wouldn t have been sleeping probably. i think that people have been warned. hang on for a second. i m going to read a bulletin from the associated press. a utility company in northeastern japan reported a fire in a turbine building of a nuclear power
police and the protesters to quietly leave, they exhausted. they started forcibly removing all of the protesters from this little area, which is the only way you can get into the assembly, where all of the democratic and republican legislators of the lower house are going to meet here at 11:00 a.m. central time. they started some by kicking and screaming, kicking forcing them to go out, others were just being picked up because they were sitting indian style. a couple of state troopers would come over and pick them up and force them out. there were 30 here this morning, i would say 35, right now it s been going on for almost half an hour, they are down to what i can see in this crowd eight to ten. and like i said, some are when they see the police coming up to them under the direction of the capitol police chief here, they re leaving on their own, but some are refusing to leave, and they re being taken out forcibly right now. not in handcuffs but not in handcuffs. okay, bill,
at least we re still early enough, as we ve seen both in haiti and in 9/11 and pakistan, we re still in the stage where they can pull survivors. yes. some amazing rescues. one ann bodkin was pulled in after 25 hours, the lady on the phone to the news station. they got her out as well. it s just those little miracles amid the disaster. hang on for a second. nic rocketson is on the eastern border i believe, libya s eastern border, which we understand is controlled or at least opposition people are claiming they control it. nic, what s the story from libya? reporter: well, i m on the western border actually of tunisia. we ve been talking to people, who are saying it s controlled by gadhafi. they say last night things got in the city of tripoli, the capital, after gadhafi s
to debt roughly equal to the gdp. that would be $15 trillion in the case of the united states. there s no reason they shouldn t be buying and holding a substantial amount of debt which means it doesn t create an interest burden at all. back to you in a second, david. paul ryan the republican head of the house budget committee wonders whatever happened to those recommendations of the president s own blue ribbon bipartisan debt commission. here s his question. the president in suggesting the fiscal commission gave people like me the idea that we re going to move the ball in the right direction. that that was a constructive step in the right direction. this is a punt. this doesn t even include any of the significant recommendations from the fiscal commission. david, indeed, hang on for a second. let s bring in gloria borger. david and dean have different opinions. dean isn t saying this isn t nearly as serious as it is, david has said this may be the most serious issue financially