diplomatic benefit, the soviet union stayed in afghanistan another decade, so saying the cost to the athletes is huge and the diplomatic aspect does not do a whole lot. what do you say in response? there s no doubt a boycott would cost the olympic athletes a lot. if one is detained inside of china it will cost that athlete and his family or her family an awful lot, too, john. we should be mindful there have been americans detained, canadians detained for years during the trum administration. this is not unheard of. the chinese ambassador to canada said yeah, most people get to leave the country. this is not a place where we should have lots of americans travelling under this kind of high risk system. you know, i won t get into the geopolitics of what happened in 1980, that s a long time ago, but ping is very happen he s hosting the games and two weeks to broadcast how great his
missing. i mean, just imagine. and 1500 people, missing still in missouri. so those numbers of what we have dead in missouri are going to go up, and this story continues today as we are watching what s happening now and where these may land on the ground next. national forecasters, warning there is a new high risk system that is heading for the same area. they re predicting severe thunderstorms, which could hamper the cleanup and rescue areas in the hard hit tornado efforts. meteorologist maria molina has an update for us on where it is headed next. reporter: good morning. we do have a high risk issue for today and like bill mentioned, sometimes some of these tornadoes are just so powerful we really, even if we have advance notice, have nowhere to go. so when the warnings are issued for the area, please seek shelter immediately, go to a basement. that s the safest place to be. if you do not have one, try to stay away from windows and go to the inner most lower level of your hole and