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i couldnt move. it was really rough. >> what was going through your mind? >> i swore we were going to die. all i could do was pray. >> half of the death toll centers in one small town. 9,000 people live in harrisburg, illinois, six people died there. don lemon is there. the national weather service says the tornado was the second most powerful on the rating scale. how widespread is the damage this morning? >> reporter: ef-4. its huge. pan around here and look. this is a neighborhood, a...

costs more to fill up. 12 cents in a week. about 11% so far this year. weve never seen gas prices this high so early in the season. usually you see gas prices going up into the spring and summer driving season. never so high so early. what goes into a gallon of gas? heres the breakdown according to the way the government looks at it. 12% of the price of gasoline are the taxes that we pay. 6% goes to distribution and marketing. 6% is refining. look at that, kyra, 76% is crude oil. crude...

the right. a new television ad that labels him as a fake. why? >> because hes a fake. >> while i was fighting to save the olympics you were fighting to save the bridge to nowhere. >> were going to stay with cnn, full highlights from last nights republican debates live from phoenix in just a moment. and gas prices have jumped again. up 3% -- three cents, rather, overnight, according to aaa. average is $3.61. it is still going up. economists say the gas could jump to 4 or even $5 a gal...

but its been a very violent day. much more violent, much more furious than the protests yesterday. we have a final death toll we believe of six dead and 30 wounded. perhaps six different protests across the country. so it seems to have escalated significantly today. >> and president karzai actually put out a statement, right? what did he say? >> reporter: yeah, he put out a statement this afternoon. a lot of people are waiting to see what hell say. he said he condemned the burning and ...

disorderly disintegration of greece and the european union that causes all of our financial ankments to come unclooued. finally markets get to react to $173 billion bailout deal that was thrashed out. one of the european leaders actually saying theres a reason why the marathon was invented in greece, because thats what they were doing last night, marathon negotiations. greece will stay in the eurozone. it will get the financing it needs to pay its bills in march. a big bond payment due...

>> reporter: we spoke exclusively to that ex-boyfriend. he will only go by the name of jose right now, and he wants his face hidden and his voice changed because he fears retribution. but it is absolutely extraordinary that a 34-year-old mexican migrant finds himself in the middle of presidential politics in a bruising political year. >> these allegations that were in one of these newspapers are absolutely completely false. >> reporter: its a grand canyon sized political shocker. >> we...

performing her former co-star kevin costner who we havent heard from so far this week, kevin costner will be speaking during the funeral services for whitney houston. and her former husband, bobby brown, has now officially been invited. susan candiotti is in newark, new jersey, this morning. susan, authorities are also making special arrangements to try to maintain some security, also maintain a perimeter around the new hope baptist church since so many will be in attendance? >> report...

settlement that some folks have missed is when was the last time you got 49 state attorneys general, 49 republicans and democrats having to do anything together? i think one of the important things here is this is a step towards doing big things across party lines. >> well leave it at that because "end point" ended a minute ago. fredricka whitfield i apologize for the 43 seconds ive stolen from you. >> thats okay. >> thats okay. im willing to share. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.co...

had made its own nuclear fuel rods domestically for the first time. it was loading these into what it said was a reactor for medical purposes, not for nuclear weapons. but this is going to be watched very closely here in washington and in israel, of course, because the question is whether this development, this announcement of them being able to make their own nuclear fuel rods is actually the real deal. can they do it? do these fuel rods work? how good is the quality? is this another ...

the doctors who wrote the prescriptions for those pills could be subpoenaed. in syria, artillery and machine gun fire echo aross crosse the city of homs while a thick smoke from a pipeline explosion hangs overhead e opposition activists say government forces are set on planting every neighborhood that might hold disdent. our arwa damon is in the besieged city. >> reporter: around 7:30 in the morning began the sustained bombardment, various sounds of artillery being fired, impacting h...