face to face with a tornado. a dozen fema teams will hit the ground in north carolina today to help thousands of people start over. the state took the hardest hit in a three-day tornado rampage that stretched from oklahoma to virginia. 45 deaths, almost half in north carolina. north carolina governor bev perdue is getting a look at storm damage in bertie county. that is happening this hour. half of the deaths in north carolina happened in the small rural county. two of those killed, roy and barbara lafferty. we were at home in conway, and we saw it on the news, so we started trying to call them and couldn t get them, and we sent a friend that lives close by up here to check on things, and he called us back and told us he thought we need to come. in an odd twist the laffertys cat oreo escaped the tornado with barely a scratch. the tornado outbreak started thursday in oklahoma, where two people died. twisters then moved east, killing seven people in arkansas and alabam
tornadoes sweep across the southeast. now the painful task of recovery begins. wolf blitzer is off. i m suzanne malveaux and you re in the situation room. seven air traffic controllers have fallen asleep on duty this year and federal regulators and un nen officials are angry and embarrassed. they hit the road bringing new safety rules to control towers across the country. the first stop, a radar facility near atlanta. our cnn s jean ma serve is tracking this for us. what are we learning today? reporter: well, the head of the air traffic controllers union both have a big stake in fixing this problem and they are working together to try and figure out. air traffic controllers no longer sleeping on the job. it s 99.9 of us do it right. we ve got to have us all doing it right. this sa business where one mistake is one too many. reporter: the string of sleeping controller incidents grew longer over the weekend with a miami controller nodding off on shift. all of these inci
so that japan can be a better place. we can build together. this is the message i d like to emphasize to the japanese people. in other top stories, security forces in yemen fired guns and tear gas at protesters outside sanaa university today. at least 110 people reportedly were hurt. protesters are angry over high unemployment and what they see as government corruption and a lack of political freedom. and in the u.s., new york police and the ntsb are investigating a bus crash that killed 14 people. there are conflicting reports about what caused the bus to flip and swerve into a pole yesterday. the driver says he was cut off by a semi truck. but witnesses say the bus was speeding. the bus turned on its side and as a result, the pole of the stanchion in essence cut the bus in half. we had about seven or eight people pinned in the rear of the bus that we will to actually cut out by either removing seats or we cut a hole in the roof of the bus. the bus driver was hospi
brief update. so far what we have at this hospital is we have received ten patients. of those, one died. we have five patients in critical condition, and we currently have five patients in the operating room undergoing surgery at the current time period. the rest of them are stable condition, without any life or limb threatening injuries at this point. and that s all i have in the announcement and i ll take a few questions at this point. can you clarify, ten patients, one dead, five critical, five in the operating room? correct. so again, ten patients that we have received at the current time period. one patient is dead here at the hospital. we have five patients in critical condition, and five patients in the operating room undergoing surgery. no, the congresswoman is not deceased. she is in critical condition. they have finished operating on her and at the time period, i m optimistic about recovery. can you tell us where she was shot? she was shot in the head. [ i
forecasters are saying the u.s. will face a historic flood threat this spring. the water could rise in 35 states and already happening in some. rob marciano will show us who is at risk in the wild weather caused. predicting osama bin laden s years in the run will end with the united states quote reading miranda rights to his corpse. we re live in washington with the details of the eye-popping admission. republicans united. the party comes together to take on the plan to get health care reform through congress. hundreds rallied in the capitol with one simple message, kill the bill. our d.c. team is tracking all sides of the story. we begin with damaging and historic flooding while the midwest tries to protect itself in rising rivers in the northeast it will be days before the water recedes in some neighborhoods. trees are down and the power is still out in a lot of places after the monster weekend storm. anthony johnson from our affiliate, wabc is in patterson, new jerse