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The weather we grew up with. can you say its called tornado alley with any accuracy and say youre safe somewhere else? >> reporter: certainly what weve learned in research over the years is that what has traditionally been called tornado alley, the north texas/oklahoma/kansas/nebraska/ iowa area has been a little bit overdone. there is also an extension of that that has sometimes been called dixie alley across the gulf coast states. in 2011, those were extremely active with alabama in april 2011...

And the mississippi river? can you predict one of these with any accuracy? >> yes. these kind of big outbreaks like this one were foreseen for days in advance. not the exact location of where theyll hit, but the general area of central oklahoma was known days in advance to be the prime threat day there on monday. what happened was a big upper air disturbance, cold pocket aloft up 20,000 feet, 30,000 feet in the atmosphere, came east. at the same time the gulf of mexico moisture was getting stron...

Dust swirl kicked up. so thats where it will look. typically, though, those kind, the funnel doesnt come all the way to the ground. theyre a little bit on the weaker side. its not usual that you get those to be the ef-5 type. those more often are the big, wide wedge kind of tornadoes like it ultimately was as it came through moore. but the tornadoes go through cycles. sometimes they begin narrow, get very wide and then rope out and get very narrow again at the very end of their lifetime. >> the ...

June. then it got real hot here in july in washington. then even hotter in july, a little less hot in august. there was a predictability of the weather we grew up with. is it becoming less predictable? can you say its called tornado alley with any accuracy and say youre safe somewhere else? >> well, certainly what weve learned in research over the years is that what has traditionally been called tornado alley, the north texas, oklahoma, kansas, nebraska, iowa area has been a little bit overdone....

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Now it is time for the sec to act. what we did in our amendment is we set up an independent ward underneath the sec that sec appoints one time, then self regulating after that, for people that do pensions, university endowments, and some people from credit rating agencies and some people from the banking industry and some academics, and they, they choose when a bank puts out a structured financial product, that board chooses the rating agency that does the initial rating on the instrument based ...

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State department joel reuben knew ambassador stevens. we are going to start with lisa because i want you to bring us up to speed on who these people are who are testifying, the ones considered whistle blowers and what we are expected to hear. >> all three of these are current state department employees. two of them we will be hearing from for the first time. the key witness is greg hicks. he was the number two man at the embassy of libya. he maintains that the independent review that was done di...

Weapons as well. one of the weapons mentioned is this weapon and we were able to speak with the former head of israels missile defense system program and he talked about the danger of this particular missile saying if this particular missile got into the hounds of hezbollah, an organization that exists in lebanon that is a proxy for iran and is an enemy to israel, both consider it a terrorist organization, that this missile could easily, because it is a long range missile, hit into any part of i...