million miles in 39 missions. we ll bring you more what it means for the future of space travel. president obama blames oil speculators for the soaring gas prices. a short time ago call forward tougher measures to crack down on the speculators. he wants to require traders to put more of their own money and increase the penalties for manipulating the markets. republicans blame the president s policies for the rising prices. he says drilling alone is not going to solve the problem. politicians who say if we just drilled more then gas prices would come down. we have been drilling more. under my administration america is producing more oil than at any time in the last eight years. more outrage over the lavish $800,000 conference in vegas paid for with right, your tax dollars. lawmakers are holding another round of hearings on the spending scandal at the gsa. they say huge amounts spent on food, parties, hurts the reputation of all federal employees even those not involved.
they spent $800,000 of your money on skits, clowns, mock award ceremonies. this hour we will hear their answers about the spending scandal. we begin hearings on the actions of the general services administration employees. the agency supposed to make sure taxpayer dollars are spent wisely. instead, they threw this lavish conference in vegas at taxpayer expense. tornadoes ripped through the midwest. six people in one hard-hit oklahoma community died. ten states in the midwest and plains got slammed by the storm system. people are cleaning up trying to get back to normal today. now, those who made it through the storms, they say they re not taking anything for granted. you don t know when the last time you re going to tell somebody you love them and stuff or see somebody and it s one of those things. just like that everybody was gone. everybody. i mean, everybody. don t matter about what we have, we re here. national weather service tells us it was an ef-3 tornado that
don lemon here top of the hour. thanks for joining us. tonight much of the midwest bracing once again for an onslaught of dangerous weather less than 24 hours after a deadly series of tornadoes ripped through the region. in a second, the whole house was gone. we were looking up at blue sky. terror from the skies. we ve gotten so many ireports from you out there. please stay safe tonight. we want you to be safe. this is the exact same weather system that could hammer millions more people as darkness begins to fall, so stay tuned, we ll keep you updated. the threat of tornadoes through much of the central time zone. for many the damage is already done. 122 reports of possible tornado touchdowns yesterday and overnight. most of them hit kansas, but parts of nebraska, oklahoma and iowa are in rubble today, too. the most impacted communities has impacted community has to be woodward, oklahoma. five deaths are blamed on the storm outbreak, all of them in woodward. they includ
and destroyed. some houses were turned into rubble in just a matter of seconds. that piece of iron had to come from a building. it was you know, it was no straight wind, it was a regular twister. the wind was just blasting out and out and out. the bathroom, like they always say, and while we got here, the roof went here. the good lord was with us. he sure was. it s about more than you can bear. four states were hit by the tornadoes. oklahoma, iowa, nebraska and kansas. but all of the fatalities were in one community. the community of woodward, oklahoma. cnn meteorologist rob marciano is in woodward. rob, describe the devastation there. reporter: well, you know, we weren t allowed into this community until just a little bit ago. now the activity is really happening. look behind me. this is a home that was completely crushed by the storm. family, friends and neighbors coming together to sift through the debris, try to pile it up. so the folks who live here can save what
dozens of people were hurt. hundreds of homes were damaged, and destroyed. a live report in a hard-hit town in oklahoma is just ahead. but here is how one survivor in iowa described the storm. you know, it was no straight wind, it was a regular twister. the wind was just blasting out. the bathroom, like they always say, and while we got here, the roof went here. the good lord was with us. he sure was. it s about more than you can bear. we re glad larry hill is okay. the u.s. coast guard searching for four people missing from a yacht that ran aground during a race in san francisco. a massive wave hit the eight-person crew aboard the yaud called low-speed chase. then hit the rocks near the islands about 25 miles due west of san francisco. we re told one person died, three others were rescued. deadly attacks in the capital of afghanistan. insurgents targeted several key areas of kabul, including the embassy area. presidential palace and the parliament. the taliban claimed re