states of america. i know she will with win. go sarah. we love you. she s got a very fierce following of supporters. and then people like, nope. be sure to catch jo john king, usa tonight at 7:00 p.m.. and on monday, june 13th, cnn will host the new hampshire presidential the debate as republican hopefuls gather to go for their party s nomination. hard to believe it s coming up, but that is monday night, june 13th, only on cnn. and we will be there. coming up, word that germany will shut down all its nuclear reactors. what prompted the government s decision to get rid of nuclear power, completely. that s right. and get ready to fork out extra cash for this week s memorial day barbecue. but how much more? we ll tell you. it s 17 minutes after the hour. building up our wireless network all across america.
joe johns, have a great rest of the weekend and safe travels. you, too. on this memorial day, i want to begin on cordova, alabama. it hit on the morning of april 27th by a powerful ef-3 tornado, and then the very same day ef-4 tornado hits that same town that night. cordova, alabama, is not the town that you see here in some of the video, some of the aerial pictures here and satellite images. a lot of folks have certainly lost their homes, but as we told you on friday, the cordova mayor jack scott is invoking a ordinance that rejects any trailer which is being offered by the federal government to folks whose homes have been destroyed. and jack scott is saying emergency or not, the law is the law. and as we showed you on friday, none of the folks in cordova are none too thrilled about the 50-year-old ordinance. we will talk to some folks live in a moment, but first, listen to this. what i suggested is putting the fema trailers in my backyard, because of the mayor, we wan
on this holiday morning. and we ve got a lot of news. we begin with the weather. first a new wave of spring storms is pounding the midwest. in fact, some of the worst damage is in battle creek, michigan. a storm packing 80-mile-an-hour winds snapped trees, brought down a lot of power lines. in fact, across the state some 100,000 homes and businesses lost power. a violent storm hit the chicago area. ferocious winds uprooting trees and sending them on the tops of houses and cars. the trees just doubled. it was the strongest wind i ve seen in a long time. that s the important part. nobody got hurt. houses can be rebuilt, people takes a long time for them to get rebuilt. the severe weather grounded 450 flights at o hare airport sunday. could be more of the same today. we ll let you know whether there could be more of this. that s not exactly the news you want if you re coming back from your holiday vacation. we want to know what s in store for you today. rob marcian
republican field for 2012 presidential contenders and now maybe another hopeful may be ready to jump in. we are joined by paul steinhauser from washington. whof is getti who is getting in the race? well, we are talking about pennsylvania senator rick santorum. he is taking steps to declare his candidacy, and interesting stuff we are learning from this source. and they say that santorum will participate in the new hampshire debate which is monday, june 13th, and keep an eye on him. he is low in the national polls, but he has a lot of of support this the social conservatives, and we know they have a big influence on the next presidential nominee. and also, it is election day in new york, and it is a special election to fill a vacant house seat. this seat has been dominated by republicans for a long time, but
critical condition. the confirmed death toll in sunday s disaster now stands at 118. but authorities say more than ten times that many still are unaccounted for. joplin s head of emergency management says people scattered and simply can t get home or maybe no longer have homes and haven t yet called in. but then there s will norton, blown out of his hummer on his way home from high school graduation. his family thinks thinks he s in a hospital somewhere. and sky lar logs don, a 1-year-old. his great uncle spoke to cnn this morning. the night of the tornado that evening. and they had him in the hallway in the house, and they all got covered in the hallway in the house and when the tornado hit, they lost track of him and we haven t seen him since. was skylar s mother holding on to him? yes, she was. and she lost him in the aftermath amidst all of this. and it s just terrible. and no one has seen him since. the rest of the family is doing okay. we ve just got to find h