holmes. president obama offering comfort today to the victims of the joplin tornado. president obama is expected in joplin shortly after 1:00 eastern. he s going to meet with tornado victims and deliver brief remarks at a memorial service at missouri southern university. that s at 3:00 eastern. his visit comes as the number of dead rises to 142, more than 90 people remain missing, more than 1,000 have been injured. later this afternoon at 5:41 central, the city is observing a moment of silence, that is the exact time one week ago when the tornado plowed a half mile path through joplin. just a couple of days after that tornado hit, people were planning to rebuild. the president is expected to talk to local leaders about rebuilding efforts. our correspondent in joplin has already interviewed one man who was busy yesterday rebuilding his wife s business. other people there tell him they can t wait to get started.
pla 14k pla 401(k) plan. first the president expected in joplin shortly after 1:00 peern today. he ll meet with tornado victims and deliver brief remarks at a memorial service at missouri southern university. this as the number of dead rises to 142. the city is observing a moment of silence at the exact time one week ago when the tornado plowed a mile and a half path through joplin. live now to our paul vercammen in joplin. what is the significance of the president s visit to the people who are there? reporter: first and foremost many people are looking for as you said the president to deliver words of comfort at a
well, you know, we re essentially one is, we have a $1.65 trillion budget deficit and congress should be looking in the couch cushions for every bit of spare change and not sending it back home. but two is, they invite this corruption into the process and i mean the small seat corruption where we pick winners and losers on the basis of political muscle rather than project merit. for instance, only members of the armed services committee actually got these projects. the rest of congress was not able to do it. picking the winners and losers. that s the thing. thanks so much, steve ellis, for coming in on the holiday weekend and i ll see you back in the nation s capital. the nation s chief executive offering comfort to tornado damaged joplin, missouri later today. president obama is expected to arrive shortly after 1:00 p.m. eastern. he s going to meet with tornado victims and deliver brief remarks at 3:00 eastern at a memorial service. his visit comes as the death toll rises now
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volunteers is overwhelming, and the same with donations of goods, whether it be gloves or gas cans or clothes or food or water or whatever. it s been overwhelming the response we have got. i am in shock so many people responded from so far away. i have people who we got in the mail yesterday, somebody mailed a check for me for the tornado victims, and that was from california. and it s amazing to know that people will do this, and 99% of these folks are people we don t know and probably never heard of joplin until last week s event. it s nice for people to do this and help out somebody that have never met these people. best of luck to you, and good luck with the service today with the president. thank you. thank you. you can all tune in today,