century. we need a vibrant growing on economy which can afford our national defense which is one of the things our federal government should be doing. jenna: real quick. we have only 30 seconds. you re seeing some light as far as by partisanship reaching across the aisle to work with senator coons. how do you bring that into the other areas of government like what we re seeing with the super-committee? how does that serve as a model? i think if we get that passed and get activity on that and progress on that people will say, hey that didn t hurt too much. what else can we work on? there are a lot of things we won t agree on. that s what we talk about the over the next 12 months. that is what the american people will decide in november in an election. on things we do agree on we should do them because there are people at home that are really really hurting. coming up on your first year, anniversary of a first year of elected official. we love to talk about that when the anniversary
up injured. a call put into bed pardon bedford park police by the associated press. a quick statement there was a gunman before that dispatcher hung up. the city s mayor is referring calls to police. we are on top of it. we ll try to get you more information about what is going on at this fedex facility, bedford park, illinois, a suburb of chicago, just as soon as we can. in the meantime deadly weather tearing through the southeast. at least six people killed, dozens hurt. suspected tornados touching down in louisiana, mississippi, alabama and south carolina. in north carolina severe storms damaging homes and buildings. trees and power lines crashing down leaving thousands in the dark. an alabama woman on her back porch watched the twister touch down nearby. she said after it passed everything was gone, even the cows in the field. jenna: the national weather service now confirming two tornados touched down in jones county, mississippi.
regard for people s safety and well-being. ray s attorney asking for probation citing good character and lack of a prior criminal history. we should find out soon. we ll let you know when we do. jon: thanks. jenna: another big story for us today is the latest on solyndra. the obama administration is facing more criticism linked to that failed solar company. obviously a big hearing today down on capitol hill. we have a new congressional probe finding that the president s multibillion-dollar stimulus plan has closer links to the department of energy loan program, which is the department that gave the money to solyndra. reporter: the house panel has been looking into solyndra. what we found in the house panel report is that there was an adviser who was put at the department of energy, and this person basically was acting sort of like a liaison between the house and the department of energy. he was basically working to row dues the time for
ticking on that deadline. mike emanuel, thank you. we ll talk with a tea party representative getting to finer points of that 9 trillion deficit reduction plan. jenna: 9 trillion? we ll see if they can do it. new developments in the penn state child sex abuse case. according to his attorney one alleged victim is ready to testify in the sexual assault case against jerry sandusky. we re getting new reports that the assistant coach told a grand jury that he saw sandusky assaulting a child in the team showers never went to the campus police. that e-mail between the coach mack query and unknown mcqueary and unknown source. david lee miller is live in university park pennsylvania with the latest on all this. david lee? reporter: jenna, a great deal of fallout from the e-mail reportedly sent from assistant coach mcqueary to a friend of his made public
it is halting operations. upton says he was only representing constituents in asking doe to take a look at the company whether it was a sound investment or not. back to you guys. jenna: lots of different sides, james. as you were giving us the report we got this headline crossing from the hearing. energy secretary chu telling house lawmakers, quote, i m not anticipating very much recovery of taxpayer money from the solyndra bankruptcy. so a lot still to follow here. james, thank you very much for that. we ll come back to you as news warrants and continue to watch the hearing for some of those breaking headlines. record record . reporter: thank you. jon: only half a billion dollars. that s what we re talking about. on that score the house is expected to debate a balance the budget amendment to the constitution. all eyes are on the super-committee and whether that group is closer to a deal that would reduce our debt above $15 trillion and counting. the deadline for the committee less