welcome to hln news and views. we have teams from the federal emergency management agency we're watching in mississippi to survey the damage from the weekend tornado. the storm killed at least ten people in mississippi and two in alabama and turned hundreds of homes and buildings into rubble. dozens of people were hurt. the coroner of choctaw county almost became a victim himself when the twister flipped his truck four times. another man was heading to his dad's restaurant to take cover in the freezer. his car was tossed up and lifted into the restaurant. >> it was unbelievable. it just -- when the windows exploded it was like anything i've never experienced. i mean it was just amazing. scared us to death. i'm very fortunate. i've got four beautiful children. i couldn't imagine being without them. as tragic as everything is, we've lost ten folks and family in this incident today. all family members and our heart goes out to them because we're lucky to be here. and don't realize how lucky you do have it until something like this happens. >> just glad they got out all right. the tornado end upped hitting alabama as well. richard lui was in albertville, alabama, right outside huntsville. here's what he found at one woman's home. >> so we're looking at a very large tree branch right about five feet away from where your head was. >> right. >> came right through the ceiling. that's about eight inches in diameter, probably about six feet long. you woke up and you saw that? >> yeah. well, when i woke up, it startled me so. i thought, you know, that sounds like a tornado coming through. and i got up and i felt that before i ran into it. and i thought oh, my lord, that's the tree. >> and then you ran straight through here. >> i crawled over that. >> i'm looking through this, nancy. this is not an easy path for you. >> no, it's not. just made my way through here feeling my way around because it was dark. and i was not prepared like everybody says to be. i didn't have my flashlight in the bedroom. >> so i was just noticing this second bedroom. it is completely covered, this bed is with the roof. >> it has. >> do you ever sleep in this room? >> a lot of times i do. and i just happened to be in that back bedroom. >> again, our thanks to richard lui there in albertville, alabama. as we mentioned, at least two deaths are being blamed on the storms in that state and ten in mississippi. oh, my god. wow! wow! wow! holy crap! >> look at that thing starting. you are probably saying the same thing. schools canceled in darlington county, south carolina, because of tornado damage there. this is moving a mile away from where the video was shot. tore off the roof of an elementary school, damaged a high school, hit several homes and a church as well. you can see the debris flying there as well. three people were hurt. doctors are planning tests to try and pinpoint the source of rocker and reality tv personality bret michaels' brain hemorrhage. his publicist says the former poison front man is in the icu under 20-hour surveillance and says doctors haven't located the source of the bleeding yet. michaels had an emergency appendectomy earlier this month and he does have diabetes but it's not known if there's a connection between all of that and this. >> that's the type of bleed where a blood vessel bursts. it can be very mon in diabetics. it's a bleeding stroke and near the base of the brain stem, you really are concerned about swelling in that area. it's the area that leads to res piration and your heart rate. it's kind of like the main center for all the functions that are automatic. so if you have a lot of swelling in that area, it really can lead to serious brain damage. >> michaels is a contestant on this season's "celebrity apprentice." and as of last night's episode he'd avoided being fired from the board room. all righty. nfl star ben roethlisberger going to make his first public comment today regarding the six-game suspension he's going to 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back to 1970. at kent state. national guard comes in. four students shot, killed. you know, i don't think we want that here in chicago. >> illinois governor pat quinn decides when to deploy the state's national guard, and he has not commented yet on this idea. but we do want your views on this story. richelle carey is here to share some of that with us. >> remember that young man darrion albert. he was killed. he was beaten to death by -- allegedly by school students. it was caught on tape. you can understand why people there would want answers. no one can agree on what the answers are. can the national guard actually help save lives in violent neighborhoods like the ones in chicago, what they are going through or would they make the situation more chaotic or do you think it's even just setting a bad precedent? a posted this question on my facebook page. getting a pretty good response so far to this story. let me share some comments with you. chris says this. if the police can't stop or even slow down the violent crime there, then by all means, send in the guards. citizens have the right to live and walk their streets without fear. fred, though, fred says this. sounds like a slippery slope to into a military police state. fred doesn't think it's the answer. let's talk to some view bers this. walter is calling from butler, indiana. walter, you are open to this idea? >> caller: yes, ma'am, and only because of my personal experiences. i was born in new york city, and i have seen how crime started running rampant. if you look at all the major cities across the united states, the south bronx, chicago, it's almost like when katrina, when there was roving gangs of criminals running the streets. and the police had taken the guns away from legal law-abiding citizens. so then the animals are running the asylum. fortunately until we address the issue we're going to have these problems. i'm all for law and order and the poor people that live in these hard zones, hard-working people that just want to live peaceful lives are scared to death. >> let me ask you this, walter. i want to pose a few questions for you. if you support this idea, then do you have any concerns about it being a sliplyrey slope like the facebooker before you did? if you bring in the military now, how long? do you have any concerns with that respect? >> my only concern is for the people that live in utopia that believe that the police will take care of everything and you shouldn't have guns to protect yourself. >> clearly the folks in chicago don't think it's a utopia. they don't think the police will take care of everything. >> it's not a perfect world but every american citizen has the right to live in harmony and live without fear of walking down the streets and having bars in their windows. >> boy, isn't that the truth. okay. okay. >> caller: that's just my opinion on it. >> thank you very much. rodney is calling from jacksonville, florida. you agree with the chicago police chief. the police chief says the national guard is not the answer. why do you agree? >> i just really feel the guard isn't trained to handle u.s. citizens. they are really not. they are trained for more specific assignments such as wars and, you know, hurricane katrina and things of that nature. if they would increase the workforce of the chicago pd instead of trying to cut labor and cut back on costs each year, then they might be able to see some impact and at least a dent in what is currently going on up there. they need to get more programs in the communities to help these troubled teens and young adults with their behavior issues. such as after-school programs, mentoring programs. and last, but not least, us as adults today in this nation, we have to start stepping up and start being role models and living by example and take this country back to its core beliefs and values. >> rodney, i was going to jump in but you laid out your platform there. rodney, thank you. let me get in a facebook comment. dawn says this. isn't that what the national guard is for? they are here to protect and serve us. sound like dawn is on board with this. mike wrote this. this goes against all principles of a free nation. when the military is used against its own people, we start functioning in the same capacity as a military dictatorship. the military does not have to abide by the same laws that the police do. the national guard is needed for disaster relief. poor management of the public safety system in a major city should not qualify as disaster relief. you are raising great points on both sides. do you think bringing in the national guard would save lives in chicago where they are dealing with a really bad crime wave? or do you think it would make the situation or chaotic or not even just the issue of more chaos. do you not like the idea of the military functioning as police? call us right now. 1-877-tell-hln. e-mail us, cnn.com/hln. you can also text. text hlntv. standard text rates apply or go to our facebook pages as well. we'll continue to read your responses and have a really good discussion about this throughout the day. christi, you can understand why the people in chicago definitely want some answers. you just can't agree on what the answers are. >> when you have two different law enforcement entities like that trying to mix, trying to merge, that could, who knows what that could bring, i guess is the answer. thanks, richelle. sandra bullock may have gotten a letter from one of her husband's alleged mistresses. hear what she had to say. lmost . time for new zyrtec® liquid gels. they work fast. so i can get relief from the pollen that used to make me sneeze, my eyes water. with new zyrtec® liquid gels, i get allergy relief at liquid speed. that's the fast, powerful relief of zyrtec®, now in a liquid gel. zyrtec® is the fastest 24-hour allergy medicine. it works on my worst symptoms so i'm ready by the time we get to the first hole. new zyrtec® liquid gels 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[ laughs ] ♪ i am stuck on band-aid® brand ♪ ♪ 'cause band-aid® helps heal me! ♪ rocker turned reality tv star bret michaels is fighting for his life as we speak here. his publicist says he's in critical condition in intensive care following a massive brain hemorrhage. doctors apparently have yet to find the source of that bleeding. alan duke is following this story from los angeles. what do we know about his prognosis or what they are even able to do at this point, alan? >> it's really interesting how his manager and his publicist have been very careful not to tell us much. they do tell us that he is a survivor and a fighter. and we know that the doctors are right now searching for the source of the bleeding in his brain. and they are pleading with friends and family members who may have other information not to share it with the media. they say doctors will release a report probably this week on his medical condition. so we really don't know much other than what they've just told us. >> i heard one doctor say that if you can speak, that you are on the better end of this thing. do we know if he's able to talk? >> well, some of those friends and family who have spoken, including his father, spoken to some journalists, have said that they've talked to him, that he is able to talk. so that's a good sign. when i tried to call his father this morning, they simply referred us to the publicist in new york. so this is really shocking to a lot of the folks in the rock world. in fact, i just happened friday afternoon to be at the "tonight show" backstage in the green room with creed when they were taping for jay leno. and the news broke. and let's listen to what the couple of the members of creed who knew bret michaels said about this. >> maybe when he had that collapse on him. >> that was at the tony awards. >> pretty recently. that's too bad. i heard he's a very have good guy and that's tough. there's lots of bad things happen to a lot of good people. and it's just a shame. >> well, our prayers go out to him and his family and we have, you know, reached out to people that we know to -- that are close to him to let him know how we feel and that we are there for him and his family. we just got to pray, man. and believe that the best is yet to come in that situation. so all you can do is keep having hope. >> and a couple of hours after that, i was with gene simmons and paul stanley of kiss. they hadn't heard the news. when i told them about bret michaels, especially paul stanly, was really, really struck by that and my interview with them had a sort of more somber tone at least at points because kiss, a predecessor to the group like poison, they took that very personally. >> o