bill: nice until about noon yesterday. storm system moved in. martha: i know. bill: the temperature plummeted 10 degrees. martha: that is the way spring is. we ll have april showers. bill: it was a beautiful day in rome because you had00 of thousands gathering on easter sunday in vatican city as pope francis delivered his first easter homily from the sat can. pleading for peace across the world in areas like syria, middle east and north korean conflict. before getting in so-called popemobile and greeting members there. the pope embraced a disabled boy and what a moment that is on easter sunday. great time of the year. baseball will start today. march madness in full swing. martha: that is an incredible moment. just to see the pope touching people. reaching out into the crowd i think is such a powerful message. washing the feet of women and of muslim worshippers as well which got at that lot of attention on holy
deal. 30 minutes later, the president released a statement praising the agreement. around noon yesterday, vice president biden meets with the house democratic caucus and tries to sell the deal. then the gop convenes, and we are learn that republicans may be staging a revolt, they want to add about $330 billion in spending cuts to the bill. now let s take it to 5:30 p.m. the house gop meets again. by now, the senate has warned them. they will not entertain amendments, sure enough gop opposition can t gather enough support to pass those amendments any way, which brings us to last night. after 11:00 p.m., house members vote on the senate member as is. they approve it 257-167 sending it to the president s desk. it s interesting to note, 16 house democrats voted against the measure, 85 house
summer to clear the highways of all of the mud. the daneer is not over yet. flash flood warnings may continue into monday. more people are getting a break from the extreme heat and expecting rain. rick reichmuth with the forecast. hi, rick. hi, shannon. the rain across the west is the monsoon rain. we have a monsoon season in the u.s. like in india. just means a seasonal shift in the wind pattern and that is what happens around the four corners. happens in the afternoon. noon yesterday and you start to see the thunderstorms fire in across the four corner states and one big batch of showers moving across areas of nebraska. big rain. it is great news we are so absolutely dry so even though the mud slides happened we will take that to get the rain out across the areas of the four corner. 103 st. louis. 107 louisville. 107 d.c. 108 in raleigh. humid along with the temperatures but changing. we have a front that is draped
the foundation and literally right next door is a home where there is almost no damage at all. this home lost a little siding and a broken window, beyond that, it s not really bad. that s what i always find very challenging in covering tornadoes. so much loss and then some people who are able to get out of the area with just their lives. today, of course, a number of people who are injured. 100 injuries or so reported. many of them came right from this area and no surprise because look at the damage here. people had to hold themselves out of the rubble, in many cases, or wait for rescuers to come in. we ll have a chance to talk to some of those victims, as well. want to introduce you to family members. can i bring you over here for one second. the the osmonds lost their mom yesterday. thank you for talking with us. you basically did this very walk right after the tornado hit. basically 24 hours ago i made this same walk that i just made this morning coming in to talk to you
forgiveness is a beautiful thing. we re going to steak suggestions for our free for all friday music so you can tweet me at soledad, underscore, o brien and we ll get that on the air. i guess i could introduce the panel. will cain is back with us and maria cardona is back as well and the congressman joins us here. polls are just opening in the state of florida. florida you remember is a 50-delegate winner take allstate. 600,000 ballots have already been cast in the two candidates at the very toprolly have literally been ripping into each other right to the bitter end. listen. i don t believe the republican party is going to nominate a liberal who is pro-abortion, pro-gun control, pro-tax increase, pro-gay rights. the republican party base does not want to nominate somebody who represents the establishment of wall street in new york. romney refused to allow catholic hospitals to have conscience in their dealing with certain circumstances. romney cut off kosher food for elder