bachmann? some of the other people we haven t talked about here because we are so busy talking about this nonrunner on a race, on the back of a motorcycle? right. and all this news about palin broke the day that michele bachmann, the tea party favorite, congresswoman from minnesota was scheduled to give a speech out there. i talked it a lot of iowa republican voters. they say the race is still wide open. they like to be they like the attention, so they are saying sarah definitely needs to get out here pretty soon or else. but you know what, she can command a lot of attention on very short notice. the field out there is wide open. there is the closely watched aims straw poll in august which is stra digsly a traditionally a test of each organization in the caucus state. i believe the palin people believe they can afford to wait and skip that. but you know, mitt romney was out there. he came in second last time. he has a lost built-in support.
what s happening. that s ahead. we will have the latest on this developing story in a few minutes from now. president obama is back at the white house of a spending several hours in joplin, missouri. it was exactly a week ago that an f-5 tornado ripped through the city killing people in minutes. 5:41 central time there was a moment of silence marked by the precise instant that tornado hit. our dan traveled with the president to joplin and dan, a tough job for the president to try to lift spirits of a being amongest the people but seeing this disaster first-hand. this is a president who has had to do this quite a bit lately. other natural disasters as well. the president as you know last week was overseas among other things building relationships with european partners. throughout that time, white house aid said the president was getting updates on the situation here in joplin. today the president got to see the devastation up close. before touching down, air force 1 fle