drought. we have pictures of tornadoes, storm reports that popped up yesterday. it was a real volatile day for kansas. look at that tornado. incredible pictures coming to us from storm chasing video. it s really when you see the light behind it, you really get a nice viewpoint of what the tornado looks like with narrow vortex at the bottom. that s when the tornado s strongest winds are at the end of this tornado. looks like this one you can hear the hail. this is working. you can hear the hail. it s hard to say whether that one particularly touched down. we have one injured you can see on the report. we re in the heart of severe weather season. not over yet. something that s a danger, known as the silent killer. you may not think heat is as dangerous as a tornado. people die every year from heat related injuries, illnesses than we see in severe weather. keep in mind heat is dangerous. high temperatures in the 90s for many areas, that s 10 degrees above normal. however,
who might have helped pay for the ads, people who work for the company the obama camp is hammering. that would be bain capital. and a terrifying discovery. radiation from the meltdown of a nuclear power plant actually built into the foundation of an apartment building. wolf blitzer s off today, i m gloria borger, and you re in the situation room. and it could happen any minute now. a suspect finally charged in the disappearance of etan patz. exactly 33 years ago today, the 6-year-old vanished launching a national campaign to find and protect missing children. the suspect pedro hernandez allegedly has confessed to killing etan, but there are many nagging questions still out there. such as what was the motive? did police miss clues for decades? and could they have gotten it wrong now? our national correspondent susan canada yac candiotti is outside the district attorney s office in new york. susan, hernandez is going to be arraigned from his hospital bed? reporter: well
consumer-driven economy like that of the united states, how people feel is the key determina determinant. the number you ll tell our viewers about shortly is consumer sentiment, how do you feel about the economy now, how do you feel about it in the future, and this number is as strong as it s been since october of 2007. i want to take you back to october of 2007 and tell you what was going on. dow was at 14,000. it had set a new record. we had just started to see weakness on the housing front. but things were still feeling pretty good. it was only after that, only after october into december of 2007 when the recession started did people start to say, uh-oh, something is wrong with this economy. remember, john, it s when people, americans, consumers start to feel something is wrong, they start to act that way, they spend less, and this starts to create job losses. so this is very key that we re back up to where we were in october 2007 when things felt pretty good. it s key,