accountable? i don t know if i can say this happy st. patrick s day is that okay? st. patrick s did we dig up something on him? what did he do? good morning everybody, it is 6 a.m. here in the east we start with extreme weather. heavy winds and rain still bat ergs portions of the southeast with millions on high alert. bracing for potential tornadoes at least 21 twisters touched down in portions of the south ainsley. ainsley: leaving destruction in alabama, mississippi, a thousand now without power. bad in alabama too an electric company sharing this picture of a boat wrapped around top of a tree. that s a boat. janice dean is tracking the dangerous storms she told us about it yesterday. man, it came janice. another day ahead so more people are going to be targeted by these storms know what to do if there s a watch or warning in your area and we have tornado watches in effect. there are reports of tornadoes yesterday, the watch extending in towards florida as well
back to the bush era strategy of throwing people in a gulag and never actually trying people in court? that tweet from mccain you cited was pretty incredible. they ll say anything. the track record. because what prnlg of the american people know that track record? i wish a much vaster percentage of the american public read mime tomasky s column than actually does. but they don t. they know that 5%, 3% of the american public knows those statistics. but they know that unkingdevery conservative around the country when they hear the phrase miranda rights they ll go grrr. they know that. it wasn t even a month ago. or maybe it was a month and two days ago that federal prosecutors in new york won the conviction of that london imam on every count. he s not going to be sentenced until september. so we ll see what the sentence is. but they convicted this guy in a civilian court on every count. every single count. civilian trials can work just fine.
the locker room. it had been brought to his attention. it had not been spelled out, and only moments ago and this is very significant the attorney general for pennsylvania said that paterno did what he was required to do under the law, he notified other administrators at the school. curly and schultz, the two men who are going to be arraigned here in just a short period of time. and that raises the next question very quickly, could there be other people charged in connection with this case? the attorney general would not comment, so that is still at least a possibility. and lastly, she underscored that this is an ongoing investigation, and she asked for witnesses and other victims to, please, come forward. if convicted, sandusky could get life behind bars, the other two high-ranking administrators for prnlg could each face seven years in prison. megyn? megyn: david lee miller, thank you. the attorney general saying that coach paterno did everything he was legally required to do.
weeks has been the needed fuel for the obama presidency? yeah. you know, i think that the last two weeks in particular were just such good weeks for the prnlg president, for the white house, when you consider where they were six weeks ago in the aftermath of the mid-term elections, having lost the majority in the house of representatives and so many seats in the u.s. senate and to come back six weeks later to win on the s.t.a.r.t. treaty, win ratification of the s.t.a.r.t. treaty and to win on don t ask, don t tell and to win on the 9/11 responders bill as well, these were big wins for the president, and i do think it gives him some momentum going into the new year and the new congressional session. all right. now i m going to take us half glass full to half glass empty. immigration reform didn t get done and the dream act failed. to move ahead, is this something he ll pick up in 2011 or is this dead come the next two years? i think he s going to pick this up in 2012? i don t thi