you expect this at all to dampen the efforts by al qaeda? no question they ll try to strike out in some way because they ve lost now bin laden, they ve lost this other important leader and yet they haven t been effective at doing this. as we continue to put pressure on them, it will be harder to put together anything that s an elaborate, complicated plot. maybe lone wolf operators but in terms of organizing something as sophisticated as 9/11, it will be very hard for them to do. thank you. so, did the u.s. do the right thing by taking out al awla awlaki? talk to me on twitter, and i ll be reading your tweets throughout the morning on the show. let s move to the weather where the weekend is off to a wet and wild start. let s take a look at lake shore drive in chicago where 50-mile-an-hour winds pushed waves from lake michigan up onto that pathway. police closed the area but not until quite a few joggers and bikers took a tumble. heavy rain was the issue in