the candidate who they did not invite subsequently asked for a speaking slot and received one. she told me that rand had never asked for a speaking slot. never followed up to say, hey, i wasn t invited but can you let me in anyway that s why he was left off. so there s a difference of opinion here as to why rand is not here. chris christie also not on the please do attend our for um list. ken, over to you. the nra is spending, what,s s$32 million on the election. how are the organizations going to wield more power looking at this next cycle, 2016 and perhaps how much more or less money they might spend jvlgt. yeah, richard. the nra you point out spent a lot of money. one of the top ten spenders in the presidential election in 2012. among the top outside spenders in the mid-term elections in 2014 and i think that trajectory will only continue. more members now. 5 million-plus members, than
that it is perhaps a minor miracle more people didn t lose their lives. because this is a small town only has a volunteer fire department rescue workers were brought in from several counties surrounding this place, which is about 75 80 miles west of chicago. because of the small, tight knit sort of rural america feel today, this is a town in mourning. richard, back to you. kevin tibbles in fairdale thank you so much. let s turn to meteorologist bill karins. as we look at the day, showing us what it looks like at 9:00 a.m. local time there. what do they have to look for the rest of the day? thankfully in illinois the storm system is gone and clearing. what s happening now, national weather service out of chicago which represents the area near fairdale will send three crews out today to investigate the storms. they ll see the storm damage. they re trained to look at houses, look at structures and say how strong the tornado was.
full-bore on this. they have first responders in from several counties around this area. we re about 75 80 miles to the west of chicago right now and this search will continue throughout the day. this is a volunteer fire department in this town. and frankly, that sort of goes to show the kind of place that it is. it s a real slice of americana here. everyone pups together pulls together through the volunteer fire department and, of course that is probably one of the reasons why so many people have been located and reunited with their families so quickly, because everyone here knows everyone, and today everyone is grieving. richard? nbc s kevin tibbles for us in fairdale. thank you. appreciate that. 8:03 local time. over to nbc meteorologist bill karins, today s another day. the sun is rising? what kevin said on my mind. you see the aerial pictures. the size of the twister. kun believe only one fatalities and didn t mention there s that many people missing.
brown s death. and grand jury decision not to indict the officer that fatally shot the teen. let s go live to ferguson and kate rogers. you have right behind you local businesses trying to rebuild. what are they telling you about the new effort to rebuild? reporter: that s right, richard, good morning. we are standing at a family dollar that was damaged in the protest in november. the demo crew is taking a break. it will continue into tomorrow. for many small business owners in the community, demolition equals closure. we chatted with one business owner that owns fashions are boutique. she had been in the community 30 years. her business burned in november. she crowd funded her way to opening a new location across the street from where we are today, has hopes of returning to her old store. that demo process is one step in the rebuilding process for juanita. i think that would encourage us all, you know to see that
will keep is the one charged with helping customers buy ge products. ge stock up huge. the day is finally here when apple fans can go into apple stores try out the apple watch, the world s most valuable company letting customers experience the watch in hopes it will lead them to buy one of them. today is the day that preorders start. to get your hands on one of the watches before the official april 24th release date but preorders started 3:00 a.m. eastern time this morning. if you haven t already placed an order, you might be out of luck. apple expects initial demand for the watch to be above what they can deliver. yes, go to an apple store. you ll see huge lines, richard, like you pretty much do for these releases. back to you. dominic, i have been watching the markets. good bike for 401(k)s. we will take that. absolutely right. appreciate it. dramatic dash cam video released of moments before the fatal police shooting of walter scott in south carolina as the community prepare