could ask for as a wife. hard-working organizeded. as a mom she is terrific. she would live and die tore ofo son. we are really lucky to have her. my parents now live in the hamptons and we all go out there all of the time. i go out there with my family and my two sisters. we hang out together. i am very blessed. i know that i am fortunate i try to remember that every day. you are one lucky lady. what a beautiful family. adorable son and a loving husband. said such nice things about you. yeah, we will pay him later. yours was so nice, too. this is fun getting to know everyone s families. i remember well when you were going through your pregnancy it is fun to see connor grown-up 7 years old now. almost 8. thank god. it was a rough time but we got through it. now let s go to maria
elizabeth prann in washington. extreme weather for you right now. we are getting incredible video pictures by a giant water spout in indiana. it is about a half mile wide. image that. it damaged one home and knocked down power lines. take a look how close one skier got to that. check out another water spout spotted in tampa pay bay florida. it one spun for 7 minutes but never made land fall. maria molina is tracking today s weather for us. good morning heather and patti an ann. beautiful emergencies out of florida and parts of the gulf coast. we are looking at a slow moving weather pattern. where you have the nice weather today you will be seeing that continuing so that includes parts of the northeast. where you have the bad weather we expect it to take place as
maria molina thank you. ben bernanke spoke yesterday and said the end of cheap money could be right around the corner. here with details is lauren simonetti. this is the event wall street and main street was waiting for the fed meeting wrapped up yesterday afternoon. stock meeting was very harsh. the job market has improved and that quote down side risks have diminished since the fall. that means we may be ready for the fed to pull back on the powerful stimulus that they have been adjusting the economy with. the committee anticipates it would be appropriate to moderate the monthly pace of purchases later this year. broadly aligned with current expectations of the economy we would continue to reduce the pace of purchases in measured steps ending purchases around mid year. explicitly ending the bond
hour, emergency crews are continuing to look for those who are still missing at this hour. officials say that the entire area looks like a war zone and take a look at this picture right here. that is a truck that is turned over on top of the car that wind reportedly going as fast as 160 miles per hour. unbelievable. this morning as the sun comes up, we will get a better look at the damage and new video just coming in moments ago of some of that devastation that was left behind. we ll keep following this one for you. steve, gretchen, and brian. steve: all right. thank you very much. let s go to maria molina. we hear the storm may have been a mile wide. the actual funnel itself. and this was very, very powerful, right? yes, very powerful. those reports, if they re correct. we have reports several homes were completely leveled. that would mean that is a very powerful tornado, possibly on the stronger scale of 5 of tornadoes, between 136 miles per hour to possibly even 200
picture. you can see that truck that s turned over on top of a car. this morning as the sun comes up, we ll get a better look at all the damage there. we spoke to the mayor of granbury, he said they did get an early warning about the tornadoes on the way but we also heard conflicting reports about that, that a warning may have not gone out. we ll keep you posted on that. steve: thank you very much. brian: maria molina is in the news room tracking the storm. hey, maria. good morning, steve, gretchen and brian. i m outside our world headquarters in new york city. we had some severe storms rip through parts of texas and also oklahoma yesterday during the evening hours and also into the overnight hours. very strong storms. not just producing tornadoes but also damaging wind gusts up to 80 mile per hour winds reported in parts of texas and very large hail. you re talking baseball-size and grapefruit-sized hail. that can cause damage to cars, damage windshield and those winds bringing