he s calling out. we don t have time. robert and matt, thanks so much. my pleasure. good job. breaking news out of the midwest and it s not good. you ll look live in joplin, missouri, where tornadoes have left dozens of people dead. entire towns destroyed and an update after the break as the sun comes up, we ll tell you more and it turns out pakistan did have a hand in bin laden s death. at least he made it easier because of a top secret mole working for the u.s. was it one of his many wives? while her husband is serving our country, she goes above and beyond here on the home front. meet military spouse of the year coming your way. [ man ] i ve seen beautiful things.
amazing details coming out. interesting stuff. all right. 27 minutes before the top of the hour. here s more coming your way, important news. fox news alert now. devastating live shot and this is the hospital, i believe, yep, in joplin, missouri, completely destroyed by a four mile string of tornadoes. those storms believed to have killed at least two dozen people in that small town but officials there hesitate to even give a death toll fearing that number will certainly grow. right now, rescue crews are combing through the rubble looking for victims. tornado destroyed dozens of homes and cars leaving the city looking like a war zone. one person was dead after a tornado hit minneapolis. police are on the streets with loaded weapons after reports of looting there and in kansas, 16 counties are under states of emergencies now following powerful tornadoes over the weekend. much more of that throughout the show. also in the headlines, the taliban denying a report that leader mullah o
missouri. president obama kicking off his multicountry european tour so will he gain support for his middle east policy or just alienate america s allies? dana perino will weigh in next. she ll talk, we ll listen. yep and the government telling smokers again where they can and cannot light up. latest ban, the great outdoors. is that going too far? that debate coming up straight ahead. you re watching fox & friends hour two for a monday starting right now. and a fox news alert. death toll from the devastating tornado in joplin, missouri is now up to 89 and is expected to go higher with many people still trapped. the tornado cut a four mile path of destruction through the southwest missouri city. a hospital was damaged and thousands of homes and cars were completely wiped out leaving the city looking like a war zone.
hospital. they had triage centers set up throughout town and it s still at some places a rescue operation. there was a report this morning that someone thought they heard the voice of a small child inside a wal-mart store that was devastated. it is a heartbreaking situation here in joplin. brian, back to you. all right, jeff. thank you very much. we ll keep you updated there as the sun comes up, we ll find out more. steve, molly? meanwhile, brian, president obama has landed in ireland about 90 minutes go for the start of his european tour where he ll be meeting with political leaders to discuss ways that the united states can help ireland with that big debt. massive debt. with the debt standing here at $14.3 trillion, can we afford to bail out these failing countries? let s ask stuart varney, host of varney & company on the fox business network. can we afford this? we know ireland is in big trouble but we re in trouble, too. we don t realize how much trouble all of europe i
if i can help other people, then that helps me get through and makes me know that, you know, people are ok. the stuff can be replaced. and it s the people that matter. right. marie colby who was in the middle of a twister, a big storm and told us about it. thanks so much. we ll keep checking in. thank you. all right. thank you. she did exactly the right thing. if you re on the interstate, what are you going to do? she drove right underneath the overpass and that probably saved her life. we have more exclusive video from what it was like inside a convenience store at the time it hit in joplin, missouri. they were huddled in the back of the store, as you see, and ran into the walk in the store s refrigerator for protection. we re good. oh, my god! what are you gonna do?