Feinberg. Reporter Malaysian Airlines paid 5,000 to the families of each passenger and thats the beginning. Demanding payments of 150,000 to 175,000 each are and relatives can sue on top of that. The first legal action already thrown out, but it wont be the last. We have is to know what suits up before we respond. Raising the difficult question, what is a life worth . Jeffrey toobin is cnn legal analyst and former federal prosecutor. Obviously General Motors and malaysia are two very different stories, very different circumstances. No amount of money can ever bring somebody back, but when it comes to the law what is a life worth . You how do you value a life . The sad truth the legal system has a lot of experience with this question, because in every personal injury case where a death has been caused, whether its a car accident, or an industrial accident of some kind, the question arises, is what what was a life worth . And ken feinberg, just hired by gm, probably has more experience o
and the weather channel s mike seidel has the very latest from piedmont, oklahoma. mike? reporter: good afternoon, alex. as you just showed us a huge wedge tornado that rolled across interstate 40 and killed three. at least eight deaths report sod far here in the state of oklahoma as a series of twisters moved and chewed up landscape northwest of oklahoma city in these suburbs and this is piedmont. and this street was basically wiped clean, much like we saw in joplin a few days ago. you look down the street now, as friends and homeowners are coming in here, and you can see this there is hardly anything standing. these one-story brick ranch houses, beautiful homes out here on the plains, have been leveled. so, this is probably at least ef-3, maybe ef-4 damage. the break-out on that fujita scale is 165, 166 miles an hour. that was very strong tornado. another home here the couple, they are headed for the storm shelter in the distance, they went into the storm shelter about,
congresswoman giffords lie. i life. i m wolf blitzer, you are in the situation room. that is a flag from ground zero raised in tribute to tucson today to the shooting victim, christina taylor green. the 9-year-old s funeral service ended a while ago. the story of this young girl born on september 11th, 2001, has touched us all and we want to join the entire country in saying good-bye. we also want to take note of what representative gabrielle gifford s friends and doctors are now calling a miracle, the congresswoman opening her eyes days after a bullet tore through her brain. today, we heard from her colleagues who were in the hospital room when it happened. all of a sudden, the slits of her eyes started to open. you could see the determination, that she was struggling to get them open. then mark started encouraging her and telling her, honey, if you can see me, give me the thumbs up, give me the thumbs up. we were talking to her had, speaker pelosi talking to her ab
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taxes and increased lending if they can get to work and cash for clunkers, tax incentives for making homes and businesses more energy efficient which, of course, will create construction jobs. every item i just mentioned involves one thing, that s cutting taxes. i mean, this ought to be a no-brainer for the republicans. they just want to vote by monday and show that washington can actually work together. bottom line is this, this is a good faith offering on the democratic side. we are inviting our friends on the republican side to join us. bring your best ideas forward. let s put these on the floor and move on them with a sense of urgency. a number of things they have talked about here today were talked about in the republican caucus yesterday. i would hope we can continue to move forward on a change on a bipartisan basis. we are going to do that if we can. we say about jobs as we have said about health care, we have said about energy, we have said about everything we hav