president invokeed words of former president calling for a break for the middle class. many republicans feel it was call to class warfare. ed henry on the story. treasury secretary tim geithner is in europe tonight trying to nudge leaders there toward a plan to fix their debt crisis. peter barnes will tell us how he is doing. another good day in the poll for newt gingrich. although he is taking shots from other republicans. carl cameron will show us. moments ago we learned federal aviation chief randy babbitt resigned. he was picked up by police in northern virginia over the weekendf drunken driving driving the wrong way on the highway. special report from washington start at 6:00 eastern. now send it back to new york and my colleagues with the five. bob: welcome back to the five. president obama has been accused, i should say, of
2 or 3 of news, we need that arkansas, not so much, you will get heavy rain bringing flooding as you move over for the next two or we would say three days. dave: what does spiderman do? show us. alisyn: republicans and democrats in washington are at odds over the best method to finance the payroll tax holiday extension. , reporter: the rank and file republicans in the house pushed back hard against the leaders this week, and the leadership laid out a plan to make a payroll tax holiday work but members do not want that without comprehensive entitlement reform. here is jeff flake explaining. last year we were in the same
tra casey wian shows us the path from beginning to end. show us. the trees through here and the stuff over here, the trailer and the business here. reporter: so this is ground zero of the joplin tornado and we re going to drive its entile length from west to east to get a picture of how widespread the damage was. here s the first downed power line. major electrical transmission lines. one reason much of joplin is without power. less than a mile into our journeys, you see the first homes that lost parts of their roof. you can see on this, a sign, looters will be shot. power company crews were working on. repairing is down. electrical lines. that will be vital to this area s recovery. we re now about three miles into this journey. you can see behind me that by
you re in the cnn newsroom. this is sunday, may 29th on this memorial day weekend. i m fredericka whitfield. one week ago a tornado pack 2g 00 mifrp winds ripped through the city leaving at least 142 people dead and hundreds more hurt. numbers continue to rise. this isn t about a scoreboard. those numbers have far exceeded what never had ever hoped for and far exceed all the tornados in our country. today we bring everyone together go focus on it and inspire others to come together as the they have here. we ll hear from both the president and the govern right here on cnn. lockheed martin says hackers who attacked their system did not get anything important. it s one of several military vendors that hackers targeted. the aerospace security team took countermeasures to protect information from being compromised. back in joplin, our white house dan lothian is also there. dan, with so much destruction, where do they find a building large enough to actually accommodate e
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