damage, stay out of their way and stay home and watch cnn, and stay home. and so there are three areas that were hit hard, downtown area hit hard with apartment buildings, and home depot where ceiling beams were turned into twisted piles of metal, and the third is this, what was once a walmart and now little bit more than a field of debris. look at this part of the store accessible which is the parking lot. watch this with me. this car upside down. windows shattered. totally demolished. this pickup truck destroyed. it is one car after another. the amount of devastation here, and here comes this vehicle. i want you to see this. you don t see this it is just incredible to take this in and see what is happening here. just car after car after car like that. and this is the joplin neighborhood, and look at the car here, because the grandmother who owns it came this close to being in that car s driver s seat when the tornado hit sunday. this is her granddaughter speaking. s
more tornadoes are possible today across the region. right now, the death toll stands at 116. that ties the single deadliest tornado record in u.s. history. so far, rescue crews have pulled 17 survivors from the rubble but time and the weather, now the enemies. precious hours are slipping away as bleak reality set in. t.j. holms in joplin. you went out with one of the rescue teams. what did you see? reporter: last night, i couldn t believe what i was seeing, carol. i have been covering tornadoes for a long time. grew up with tornadoes really in the south. i can t figure them out. if you see behind me. this is the part i can t figure out. that neighborhood in the short distance behind me is doing just fine. those homes are not touched. now, come with me and just a street over and this is what you see. this neighborhood taken out. still, the camera shot you are seeing right there, we can t figure out really if there was a house here or not. you can t figure out what s going
to gather in n great anticipation of in great anticipation of this important speech. obviously you re looking at the leadership, democratic as well as republican leadership, beginning to gather. a lot of handshakes as they enter the chamber. and this is really a critical time for both president obama and the israeli prime minister because when we look at this, there are critical ties between the two countries. we are talking about political ties, religious ties, as well as real concerns, big questions about security. security in the region, in the middle east, among the dramatic changes that we have seen over just the last four or five months or so. and the question about whether or not middle east peace, israelis and palestinians, can actually achieve any kind of breakthrough through this administration. we have seen it time and time again from previous administrations, cannot be done, has not been done, can this president do a better job? and now we have the israeli prime
seeing the release of dominique strauss-kahn. that s right. in fact, we re waiting for the former imf chief to walk out of jail. a judge agreed to free him on bail yesterday. that s the same day a grand jury indicted him. in order to get out of jail strauss-kahn will post bail of $1 million and a $5 million insurance bond and forced to wear an electronic monitoring bracelet and guarded around the clock. strauss-kahn had been under suicide watch or has been and could be walking out of there any moment. susan candiotti is here now. this is a big victory for his legal team. it wanted this to happen before it was denied and now he got it. it s a matter of making it all come together. we don t know exactly when he ll be getting out of rikers. we do know that the judge is going to have to finally sign off everything is in place. we know that as you ve been reporting, that a security team has been hired by the defense team and he has to pay for this himself, dominique strauss-
an incident that allegedly occurred ten years ago. banon caused a sensation in france when she recounted the incident in 2007. meanwhile, dominique strauss-kahn is spending the night in rikers island, a notorious jail. it s a long way from the 3,000 hotel suite. first, a look at the other stories we re drilling down on tonight. the arabs spring. good news maybe. but not for israel. the cia veteran says it wasn t democracy you saw in tahrir square. it was islamic fundamentalism and donald trump has been fired by donald trump. it s my latest decision. his latest stunt may boost his tv ratings. but what did it do to the republican party? diplomatic immunity. e.d. hill asks if it applies to rape. now, the scandal sending shock waves across the world. let s go to rich ordard roth. he joins me live. reporter: this man, dominique strauss-kahn used to the high life. first-class airplanes, luxury suites now settling in on rikers island off manhattan. he was transported t