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Missouri obviously its known because it was a compromise state. it is a border state. for me most of my -- half of my lifetime i thought of it as a midwestern state and now i feel like its appropriate that it join the s.e.c. in football, the university of missouri, because it does feel like its more of a southern state today than it ever was. >> without question. a good comparison is georgia, maybe, virginia, arkansas. mike huckabee was very popular here. one of the things you have to remember a...

jackie. you can see where the severe storms are hitting the united states. there have been a couple watches in places. even yesterday as i was in south carolina, watches all over that state. >> this is a new storm system. its a vigorous one. something with this much energy for nighttime tornadoes is somewhat unusual. this is a rare event. its particularly dangerous. we call it a pds watch. a lot of that because of the storm risk we have. theres a high level of certainty to have multipl...

they have not been able to sleep. >> im scared somethings going to happen if we go to sleep. and im not going to be awake to hear it to help everybody else. i just -- in my mind, it just keeps going over and over. >> tonight could be another restless night in joplin and across an already stressed region. lets get first to chad myers in the cnn severe weather center in atlanta. >> we have 25 tornado warnings right now. that means thatted p the radar from the national weather service pic...

>> well, one of them tomorrow morning already. so this is a definite on one of these spillways. its kind of similar to what they did up in cairo, where they exploded one of the levees to spill all that water out and relieve a little bit of that pressure. but this is not going to be an explosion this time around. they designed this system, and theyre just going to open up some gates in order to do that. lets talk a little bit about the system as a whole. and the river, by the way, is cresting rig...

An eye on the river. >> it reminds us of 93 when i was back home and what we had with the mississippi river there. but we as a group will be leaving here tomorrow. but we did have one of our tours canceled tomorrow morning. the mud island is where we were going to take the group. and they called us yesterday and said they wouldnt be allowed -- be able to have us. >> jacqui jeras with us now with more on this river and the cresting. >> yeah. this is going to continue to push downstream. weve got ...

This system of hef vlevees we h. were talking about 3,700 miles overall. where the river has crested here in the boot heel of missouri. were going to zoom in. we already heard about the first levee explosion that took place at birds point. that was up in missouri. these arent levees that were going to explode. these are going to be, like, gateway systems and spillway systems theyre going to open up to move that water. the first one, this has already been approved. the bonnet carre spillway. tomo...

Miner responds presently. but mr. paul has a history of responding to deadly incidents by suggesting they were unavoidable and that stricter regulation would not have prevented nor mitigated them. after the deepwater horizon explosion killed 11, mr. rand said he would deny rig workers the protection of additional safety rules, comparing the blast to the dotiki coal mine collapse that killed two kentucky miners in april. criticizing washington for trying to find out why both events happened. >> w...

Down our throats. the sister of one dead kentucky miner responds presently. but mr. paul has a history of responding to deadly incidents by suggesting they were unavoidable and that stricter regulation would not have prevented nor mitigated them. after the deepwater horizon explosion killed 11, mr. rapid said he would deny rig workers the protection of additional safety rules, comparing the blast to the dotiki coal mine collapse that killed two kentucky miners in april. criticizing washington fo...

Miner responds presently. but mr. paul has a history of responding to deadly incidents by suggesting they were unavoidable and that stricter regulation would not have prevented nor mitigated them. after the deepwater horizon explosion killed 11, mr. rand said he would deny rig workers the protection of additional safety rules, comparing the blast to the dotiki coal mine collapse that killed two kentucky miners in april. criticizing washington for trying to find out why both events happened. >> w...

Way we want it to be reported. >> what i dont like from the presidents administration is this sort of, you know, ill put my boot heel on the throat of bp. i think that sounds really un-american. >> i think they dont realize that your iq scores are way above average. were on to them. were on to this gangster government. >> wow, how can both republicans and democrats make the energy work for them? thats a question for the strategists. steve mcmahon, a democratic strategist and todd harris for the ...