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May 24, 2011
Missouri, an f-5 wind speed above 200 miles an hour. that death toll has just been increased to 122 by authorities in joplin. chad myers is watching all of this unfold. lets get to the breaking news in oklahoma right now. is it one tornado? multiple tornadoes? what are we seeing in oklahoma? how endangered in some of the urban areas would these folks be right now? >> i would say we still have three tornadoes on the ground. the one up near guthrie is much smaller than it was before when it moved ...
May 24, 2011
Live pictures show you -- this is joplin, missouri. look at the devastation and destruction. people driving by, some of them going back to their homes tonight. this is one glumpimpse, and imd to say it gets worse when you turn into your neighborhoods. this is a mattress blown into a tree, hanging above a pile of debris that used to be a building. heres another picture. a storm victim opposites on the stairway of joplins memorial hall as another man holds his i.v. bag. just a few of the powerful ...
May 24, 2011
But it is quite rare, certainly and to see these pictures, you can see the dirt all the way as far as the camera pans. so often you know tornadoes hit and then bounce and then go back into the air. this particular one, according to the associated press, was on the ground for some 50 miles. the latest information i have from oklahoma city is, that there are now two confirmed dead in the state of oklahoma tonight. 122 confirmed dead in joplin, missouri from the storm that hit there saturday. 1500 ...
May 24, 2011
chad meyers is in the severe weather center. lets get right to chad on oklahoma. chad? >> we have a line of weather from kansas to texas right across the red river. we have multiple -- i counted eight a little bit ago -- severe thunderstorms all rotating that could put down tornadoes at any time. we do know that big tornadoes have been on the ground, tornadoes in excess of 150 miles per hour to the west of oklahoma city. one just to the west of el reno into oklahoma. thats just a subur...
May 24, 2011
relations. are the tensions of recent days any worse? any better? im wolf blitzer and youre in "the situation room." first, breaking news this hour. a large tornado has been spotted on the ground in oklahoma and storm-ravaged missouri is being hit by severe weather and possible in the coming hours, searchers in joplin have been taking advantage of the break in the bad weather for a few hours now. 17 people have been pulled alive from the rubble as of last night. but the death toll is f...
May 20, 2011
Company linkedinpositioned itself nicely. its shares made its debut of $45 each. just under 8 million was snapped up with that price and then they subsequently skyrocketed to an incredible $122, hour of the start of trading. they closed at a price of $94.25. and thats still more than double the price as which they started trading at and the sort of increase witnessed we havent really seen, it must be seen, since the dark boom in the late 90s. perhaps back in bubble territory. who knows. its good...
May 20, 2011
It go? the national average price for a gallon of gas, $3.89, a penny less than yesterday. the eighth straight day the price has dropped. break fast is going to cost you more. wheat and corn prices are up more than 10%. that likely means higher prices for bread and cereal. >>. >> wall street open for less than an hour. futures for the nasdaq and s&p. so far, so good for linked ins public face. the stock more than doubled in price. the initial public offering was $45 a share. the stock went o...
May 20, 2011
netanyahu. the two world leaders very much at odds over the future borders of israel. the aftershock of arnold schwarzeneggers bombshell is now affecting his movie comeback. his acting career now on hold while he deals with his personal mess. speaking of bomb shells, a former teammate told cbs that lance armstrong took performance enhancing drugs. he says he has taken hundreds of drug tests and did not fail a single one. the former head of the international monetary fund can leav...
May 20, 2011
tepco bows out as the worlds largest energy company pays a record price. and they double on their market debut. ceo jeff weiner tells us theres no trouble in the media sector. we begin with the former imf managing director, strauss-kahn, whos expected to walk out of jail in a few hours from now, but he will not be a free man. the judge granted him bail on thursday but with strict conditions and a warning. and even as the judge was approving the bail request, grand jury indicted str...
May 20, 2011
seeing the release of dominique strauss-kahn. >> thats right. in fact, were waiting for the former imf chief to walk out of jail. a judge agreed to free him on bail yesterday. thats the same day a grand jury indicted him. in order to get out of jail strauss-kahn will post bail of $1 million and a $5 million insurance bond and forced to wear an electronic monitoring bracelet and guarded around the clock. >> strauss-kahn had been under suicide watch or has been and could be walking out o...