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house. and ed, you know, he was in europe when the first days and frantic hours of the tornado rescue began. how do the people greet him a week on? that s right. good morning, christine. certainly a lot of pressure on the president. several days, just about a week had passed as you note since this terrible tragedy. this is an area of the country where the president lost to john mccain in 2008, and so he had to make that extra special effort to show he was going to get on top of this. i can tell you it seemed like there were a lot of standing ovations at that memorial service a lot of people grateful for the president coming in, and this is just utter devastation. i mean the president himself noting that he had just been in alabama where there had been tornado devastation. this eclipsed even that, which had been so awful, and a reporter on air force one with the president said that as they came in and saw it overhead, it almost looked like a giant had come in to this city with a lawn
on this holiday morning. and we ve got a lot of news. we begin with the weather. first a new wave of spring storms is pounding the midwest. in fact, some of the worst damage is in battle creek, michigan. a storm packing 80-mile-an-hour winds snapped trees, brought down a lot of power lines. in fact, across the state some 100,000 homes and businesses lost power. a violent storm hit the chicago area. ferocious winds uprooting trees and sending them on the tops of houses and cars. the trees just doubled. it was the strongest wind i ve seen in a long time. that s the important part. nobody got hurt. houses can be rebuilt, people takes a long time for them to get rebuilt. the severe weather grounded 450 flights at o hare airport sunday. could be more of the same today. we ll let you know whether there could be more of this. that s not exactly the news you want if you re coming back from your holiday vacation. we want to know what s in store for you today. rob marcian
today. but a new storm is hindering recovery efforts. officials say the twister passed nearly six miles long and half a mile wide through center of town. new ash cloud from another erupting volcano in iceland has prompted british airways and klm to cancel dozens of flights as the ash blows toward scottland. complete coverage of the tornado rescue evident on foxnews.com. glenn beck returns in a moment, but first, bret baier previews special report. bret: a potential candidate is out two more are officially in. is the g.o.p. presidential field almost set? brim hume is here with analysis. the next step for operation in libya appear stalled. that s next at the top of the hour. now back to glenn. glenn: to fundamentally