funding to reduce the deficit. now the obama camp has released a new tongue-in-cheek ad casting an unlikely star as a criminal master mine. will it be effective? take a look for yourself and decide. i m barack obama and i approve this message. bernie madoff, dennis keselowski, criminals, gluttons of greed and the evil genius who towered over them. one man has the guts to speak his name. big bird. big bird. it s me, big bird. big, yellow, a menace to our economy. mitt romney knows it s not wall street you have to worry about, it s sesame street. i m going to stop the subsidy to pbs. mitt romney taking on our enemies no matter where they nest. this comes as the 2012 presidential election is just four weeks away, and now new polls show the race between president obama and republican rival mitt romney is closer than ever. nbc s tracie potts has more from washington. good morning to you. reporter: good morning. they re raising a lot of money, too. which is why
and its nuclear program. and rush limbaugh stepping in it big time and the advertisers are dropping like flies, folks, bailing, because it just ain t right to call a law student a slut. why doesn t he get it? can the champion of the right overcome this or would this possibly become his imus moment. is it ever okay to call someone a slut? having been called a slut by one of my colleagues on the air, i would say it s not. so shut your cake hole, limbaugh. i came back to this nasty talk. and this little girl we ve been following. awful story. it s one of many we followed along the way following tornadoes. some of the pictures tend to look a lot the same. i keep calling it a massive blender. those pictures do look the same but for the stories coming from those images. we really appreciate it. very sad. the countdown to super tuesday and mitt romney s clicking on all cylinders. romney coming off three straight wins, michigan, arizona, washington state, he got two
heat of the day is gone. there s henriville, farther to the east, same tornado, but almost wiped out a town to the east. we also have incredible new video out of a tornado on the eastern section here of kentucky. kind of the coal fields of kentucky. west liberty, kentucky. this was by far in my opinion, watching the doppler radar, the strongest tornado on radar. doesn t mean it was the strongest one on the ground, but the rotation was the strongest and tightest, speeds going one way to another way were at least 100 miles per hour. this on radar looks like an ef-3 or ef-4 tornado. now with the first video out, driving into west liberty, you can see the damage. yes, it s dark, but you can get a feel for the buildings knocked down. really, a police car that was damaged completely. and more tornado damage from cars being just things tossed onto them. people are out there, search and rescue. the national guard has been called out. 50 members going out to help in the clean up and
now with the first video out, driving into west liberty, you can see the damage. yes, it s dark, but you can get a feel for the buildings knocked down. really, a police car that was damaged completely. and more tornado damage from cars being just things tossed onto them. people are out there, search and rescue. the national guard has been called out. 50 members going out to help in the clean up and rescue tonight. it s been a deadly day across the country today. we don t know the number of casualties, but we know more than a dozen so far confirmed by cnn, and now that it s dark, people still missing, these numbers will go up by morning, and we ll have those for you as the night falls and as the day comes up tomorrow. anderson? chad myers, appreciate it. we ll continue to check in with you. on the phone is a storm chaser who rode of the werst of the weather in henriville. what was it like? shortly after 3:00, we went in to see in the search and rescue mode. we came up on
we also have incredible new video out of a tornado on the eastern section here of kentucky. kind of the coal fields of kentucky. west liberty, kentucky. this was by far in my opinion, watching the doppler radar, the strongest tornado on radar. doesn t mean it was the strongest one on the ground, but the rotation was the strongest and tightest, speeds going one way to another way were at least 100 miles per hour. this on radar looks like an ef-3 or ef-4 tornado. now with the first video out, driving into west liberty, you can see the damage. yes, it s dark, but you can get a feel for the buildings knocked down. really, a police car that was damaged completely. and more tornado damage from cars being just things tossed onto them. people are out there, search and rescue. the national guard has been called out. 50 members going out to help in the clean up and rescue tonight. it s been a deadly day across the country today. we don t know the number of casualties, but we know mor