Water slamming against the windows, debris flying everywhere. Uhoh. Norah the Cbs Evening News starts now. Oh norah good evening. Im norah odonnell, and thank you for being with us. We are coming on the air tonight with more than 25 million americans in the path of severe and dangerous storms across the south and the ohio river valley. Thunderstorms, torrential rains, lifethreatening flooding, and tornadoes are impacting states across the gulf coast. An ef2 tornado hit the city of port arthur, texas, Destroying Homes and a church. There is catastrophic damage in louisiana after a suspected tornado ripped the roof off an Apartment Building outside new orleans. And in mississippi, dozens of homes were hit and one person was killed when storms slammed the magnolia state. Tonight, Tornado Watches are in effect across the region. Cbss Mark Strassmann will start us off tonight from a new orleans suburb that took a direct hit. Wow reporter as many as three tornadoes may have touched down in a
Reported, with damaging winds leaving thousands without power. Water slam against the window, debris flying everywhere. Norah the Cbs Evening News starts now. good evening. Im norah odonnell, and thank you for being with us. We are coming on the air tonight with more than 25 million americans in the path of severe and dangerous storms across the south and the ohio river valley. Thunderstorms, torrential rains, lifethreatening flooding, and tornadoes are impacting states across the gulf coast. And ef2 tornado hit the city of port arthur, texas, Destroying Homes and a church. There is catastrophic damage in louisiana after suspected tornado ripped the roof of an Apartment Building outside new orleans. And in mississippi, dozens of homes were hit and one person was killed when storms slammed the magnolia state. Tonight, Tornado Watches are in effect across the region. Cbss Mark Strassmann will start us off tonight from a new orleans suburb that took a direct hit. Wow reporter as many as t
congressman, here you ve got a jobs tour only days after another mediocre report on the jobs front and now this very, very difficult couple of days with the downgrade. where is the president as far as you re concerned? could he have joined your jobs tour? he s marooning to go to yooi yoi on his own jobs tour next week? i think we have two separate missions. i think the president is trying to build up some support around the country for some kind of massive jobs program that he will probably present shortly. we re trying to get people jobs. in fact, we have gotten people jobs. people lined up here this morning at 4:00 a.m. thousands of people here on the chieflandland university campus to try to get jobs. i just spoke in the elevator with a young woman who just got a job and is excited about what happened here today. the president has one agenda. we have another agenda altogether. we think that we can get about
homes, schools and other buildings. the manager of the opry says it may remain closed for months. the weather to blame for 29 deaths. clouds of ash from iceland s spewing volcano are menacing to europe s air traffic again. tonight more than a dozen airports in ireland and scotland still closed marooning 30,000 travelers. now concerns strong winds could blow the ash toward england. the volcano has been erupting since april 13th, costing airlines billions. scientists warn this might go on into the summer. i m ainsley earhardt. now back to on the record with greta. greta: reverend franklin graham is here. he s the on rather chairman of the 2010 national day of prayer task force. he was invited to lead an event tomorrow at the pentagon his invitation was revoked because of comments he made about islam that the army