americans believe what s hindering economic growth is the fact that washington continually finds itself at an impasse or a position around how to resolve what seem to be to me and i think a lot of americans commonsense balanced solutions that should be put forward. without that, all of this, i don t think, comes to fruition. let me say one thing before we go. michael, if, in fact, the ofa infrastructure does work, does that not then does that not mean now all future presidencies will have the eternal campaign. to some extent, you do already, but this will rachet up one notch. it s also the political parties have disintegrated in terms of power. the republican side, everything is understatements. i know. the tea party groups, the stuff, those are now the epicenters of the political power right now. it s not the rnc. what organize for action is going to do is take look the dnc s traditional power structure and remove it. if we are constant
and encourageable group. politico is on the republican side. one of the only solutions i guess not the only solution, about the one of the main solutions is totally unacceptable to republicans, and has to spend money to save money. by that i mean funding preventive care so early on in life you can have the dietary structure that you need or get the check-ups required so that later on in life you don t have to go to the emergency room to deal with this stuff. that is sort of a big government liberal type of orientation towards the problem. you even see it in new york. bloomberg saying let s get rid of the big gulp sodas. that s not where we are in the conversation. no one wants to talk about how we can spend more money to save more money. it costs a whole heck of a lot less to get in ecocardiograms in low income communities than it costs for my open heart surgery. right. they cracked my chest open, and if i didn t have insurance, it would have bankrupted my
reporter: when you get an idea of what happened here, a man named dean wells, 59 years old, was so busy helping other people get to shelter in spots of the store of the home depot, he forgot about himself. his memorial service was today. and to say that he was a bit of a character would be probably one of the vast understatements of the day. dean wells, the whistler, they called him, ten-year army veteran and former blackhawk helicopter crew chief. before the tornado smashed the home depot where he was a manage into this tangle of despair, by several accounts, wells directed at least a half a dozen people to safety when he could have saved himself. wells paid for his good deeds with his life, no surprise to his family, talking about their hero on a front porch. this is who he was. he helped anybody and everybody and he died doing it.
you put stuff in it. yeah. you ride your beer and drink it, too. oh, my goodness. unbelievable. already, fredricka, have a fine time. we ll see you tomorrow. all right. see you tomorrow. you bet. top of the hour right now, we re focusing on the things that are not so fun in joplin, missouri. more than 150 people still have not been heard from since the deadliest tornado on record hit there last sunday. 132 are confirmed dead. more than 1,000 people were hurt. the federal government has approved nearly $3 million in aid. and president obama actually plans to meet with survivors tomorrow in the city of joplin. all week, we ve been hearing extraordinary stories of survival and, of course, about the people who died trying to save others. our paul vercammen is in joplin. you ve been hearing from the victims there? reporter: when you get an idea of what happened here, a man named dean wells, 59 years old, was so busy helping other people get to shelter in spots of t
have been there for weeks now. tom brokaw, to say that you were on the ground floor in 1989 when the wall fell would be one of the great understatements. you actually were there and got word that east germany no longer existed. some people were hoping that it would have a peaceful transition, but things changed dramatically. i was also there the day that mubarak was installed as the president. we all thought he would last about 30 seconds, but of course he s lasted a lot longer than that. what happened when east germany went down is that west germany was there to catch them. they had a structure that was in place and they could deal with it. you look at these other uprisings around the world, kino was there to lead when they