of june on thursday morning. good morning, i m bill hemmer. hello, dana marie. red, white and blue works. dana: i will tell you about an asteroid in a similar situation at the white house and when i got called by the situation room and my reaction. save that for before we go. i m dana perino. this is america s newsroom. we have a lot of news here. want to show you southeast alabama. a small town getting hit by a fourth tornado in four years. bill: no reports of any major injuries. dana: another tornado reported in queen city, texas. the wind was so powerful it blew cars off the highway. then look at this. bill: that right there is in arkansas. golf ball size hail spilling into an department store. fox weather talked to the folks in the middle of all of it and it happened in the blink of an eye. i lived in the midwest my whole life and never experienced something like this where the weather literally goes from 85 degrees to 71 immediately and then clouds are rollin
saying bring it on. senator rand paul refusing a pat-down at an airport security checkpoint after setting off an alarm on a body scanner. he s joining us live this hour. he ll tell us what happened. also, a key u.s. supreme court ruling on electronic surveillance. the justices agree that police need a warrant to plant a gps device on a suspect s car but they don t agree on why. i m wolf blitzer and you re in the situation room. what a day in politics. mitt romney is going all out as he goes after newt gingrich with a series of very bitter attacks. the new national poll out today may show why. the two rivals are in a statistical tie. the gallup daily tracking poll shows romney at 29% nationwide, down nine points in just over a week. gingrich is at 28%, double his strength in the last poll a week ago. it s a dead heat, just a week and change before the florida primary. let s bring in cnn jim acosta. he s in tampa and watching the battle for florida. it shouldn t be.