elizabeth prann in washington. extreme weather for you right now. we are getting incredible video pictures by a giant water spout in indiana. it is about a half mile wide. image that. it damaged one home and knocked down power lines. take a look how close one skier got to that. check out another water spout spotted in tampa pay bay florida. it one spun for 7 minutes but never made land fall. maria molina is tracking today s weather for us. good morning heather and patti an ann. beautiful emergencies out of florida and parts of the gulf coast. we are looking at a slow moving weather pattern. where you have the nice weather today you will be seeing that continuing so that includes parts of the northeast. where you have the bad weather we expect it to take place as
minutes and it looked like he was not coming back. it was devastating. we baptized him, we thought we were saying good-bye. he came back. now he is such a blessing. we just love him. he s the joy of our life. he s happy and sweet and talk awe tive and as you can see he s talkative. ywe think he is made up of spaniel, fox hound. and squirrel. not squirrel. we met years ago when we were both living in the city a few blocks away from each other. we were both going to the same church every sunday. we found out we have a lot in common we have the same values and background and we both like swing dancing and we both love the beach. it is where mike proposed to me and where we go together as a family. patti ann is everything you
bush says the couple wanted to highlighted patriotic citizens who come out to welcome home troops every day. and, to our viewers out there, traveling in an airport lately, especially in the southeast, atlanta is a big hub for our men and women, coming into the country, and leaving the country, yet again, and dallas is another one and you see these groups of people, who come out to say thank you and welcome home and it is cool and heart-warming and people, every day americans do it on their own time, volunteer, it is a symbol of patriotism and thank you. and we should thank them. patti ann: and military members say they take the thanks all you have to do is give them a wave and thanks and it means a lot to them. bill: welcome. patti ann: the imam behind the controversial mosque near ground zero and now there is word he s touring the middle east on the taxpayer s dime. why is the state department paying for this trip? pj crowley from the state department is here to tell us. bill: also,
the hormuz straits, shut down operations, hurt us in iraq. we need somebody we can deal with and unfortunately he hasn t shown us that far. patti ann: and all that happening behind the scenes with the iraqi stability. the u.s. says they want to give the sanctions a good shot of working before they do anything else and says the sanctions are causing them a great deal of difficulty. so you do agree that the sanctions are having an impact? well, they appear to have an impact, yeah. you cut back on refined petroleum, the people you re going to impact is not the revolutionary guard and regime but the commoner on the streets who can t put enough fuel in his automobile. you re going to hurt the banks. of course, we ve gone after their banks since the 1979 islamic revolution over there, and we ve had sanctions for a long time. but they appear to be having some effect. in fact, our ally who is we persuaded not to do this
viewers, we ll get answers to the questions in a short time, there is a hearing about this a half-hour from now, less than that and hopefully we ll hear some of that and you personally are not convinced that he is actually guilty of anything. do you think he ll get off? i have been asked that question a lot. here s what i think. i think that fitzgerald said that lincoln was going to roll over in his grave and did a shoddy job on the case and they only called 30 or so witnesses out of a witness list of about 6 to 800 people and i don t know if he is necessarily guilty of the crimes but as far that s case they put on, it was a terrible, disappointing case and i wouldn t be surprised if he got off. patti ann: he, of course, desperately wanted to testify and eventually took the advice of his lawyers and others not to. do you believe that was a smart move? absolutely. and that is for two reasons, the first is that a lot of people speculated that after he testified, the governor, then