live. some are asking if it is the next google. we ll get his thoughts on that. and there s a lot going on today. here some things we thought you should know. president obama will deliver the high school graduation commencement speech in a few hours in joplin missouri. almost a year to the day the massive tornado took the lives of 161 people. the tornado destroyed the high school and more than 7500 other buildings and homes on what was the country s deadliest single tornado in 60 years. high school seniors attended classes, a shopping mall after their school was destroyed. a phoenix tv station says hawaii has responded to arizona s request to verify president obama s birth certificate. the arizona secretary of state kim bennett asked hawaii to verify the long form birth certificate saying he had gotten more than 1,200 e-mails concerned about the president s eligibility. hawaii s attorney general reportedly told bennett he must prove the confirmation is
does not have the experience of being an effective leader. i am in fact the legitimate heir of the reagan movement. not some liberal from massachusetts. well, mitt romney has surged ahead in the race. and a win in florida could be pretty critical. cnn political editor paul stein haweshaus hauser is in tampa. we have four polls out over the past 36 hours, and they all indicate the same thing, that mitt romney is up by double digits over newt gingrich along people likely to vote in that primary tomorrow. take a look at the most recent out about two hours ago. you can see right there mitt romney with about a 14-point lead. 43% are backing him. 29% say they are backing gingrich. you see santorum and paul both further down at 11%. when you break that poll down, it s interesting. among tea party supporters, among social conservatives, these are the base voters for gingrich. but romney has the edge there. one more poll i want to share with you. take a look at this. it came out
here. thank you, governor. mike: and i ll always enjoy having you here, thank you very much. i know we ve been preempted because of breaking news, you might remember the students from joplin missouri, whose homes were destroyed in the tornado there. that weekend we placed for auction on ebay, a fender stratcaster guitar signed by the ventures, and the money from the guitar and sales from the cd, went to joplin, over $12,000 was raised for joplin music students and we want to thank you for helping kids who want to play. and like the song said, don t know much about history. do you know that the children in america aren t getting the most important points in our country s history? when we come back, how your children can learn our
unemployment. if you want to create enough jobs to get unemployment in a manageable level. i don t think one person out of work is manageable. you think about getting it down to 7-6 . give businesses incentives to hire and they are not incentives. mike: it is a better thing to pay people to work and not pay people to not work. they will decide not working is not a bad idea. guest: i rather work. mike: i hope i keep this job for a while. i know you will keep yours because you are the best in the business. later in the show, students from joplin, missouri will talk about what it feels like being back in school three months after a catastrophic twister leveled everything in the town. how they are repairing music equipment and deinating musical instruments. donald trump is next. [applause] [ jon ] up in alaa, we find the best sweetest crab
where am i going, carl ? the next year. that was weird. but awesome ! nationwide is on your side mike: for millions of kids it is time to back to school. that means supplis and trading in long lazy afternoons for homework. one town back to school means a lot more. kids cheering the first day of school . this year for the children of joplin missouri. the city that they called home looked like this. the single most deadly tornado