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Of expansion of his executive authority through the use of military tribunals are embrace of indefinite detention. today time not only to end the use of the term "war on terror" but time to end the war itself and time to bring our troops home. speaking on a lot of different fronts. yesterday on capitol hill, you noted a marked change in talk about afghanistan. >> hearings, senator kerry chairman, senator luger the ranking member. what i began to see was a bipartisan cluster coming together, a nu...

Looking at historic records to see what was produced in an area at one time and might be brought back into production. for example, theres the story of the norton grape which photo journalist david ruff found in virginia. >> bottling our 2010 barrel select norton which is made kind of intermediate style. it is made like a beaujolais. we did 140 cases. that right there poking up in the center, theres a future cluster of norton grapes. these are really going to down here. im jenny mccloud. were in...

Of their lives and survived. were not seeing anything severe today in terms of weather. no tornado threat today. were worried with a lot of heavy, heavy rain. one cluster of showers heading through st. louis. it will rain on and off there. we have flash flood warnings. thats in maroon. im really getting concerned about the rivers. thats the mississippi river from north to south. the one little river that comes into it is the ohio river. we have flood warnings up and down the mississippi and ohio...

Splinters. no deaths have been reported thus far. lets go to bill karins and talk about what happened in missouri and whats going on in the rest of country. >> lets start with april as a whole. weve had the most tornadoes ever reported in the month of april. these storm reports go back about 15, 20 years when its been more relisablereliable. thats an impressive fact. yesterday we had the worst around the st. louis area. little red triangles on this map show you where we have tornadoes reported. ...

Rebels are pleading for more help and nato is dropping more bombs on the capitol. nato forces have targeted several locations there. do you have a sense, what exactly did they hit? >> reporter: certainly, nato is saying targeted locations south of tripoli as well as around the town of serte. that is the headquarters of the 32nd brigade here in libya. thats the infamous hamas brigade commanded by one of moammar gadhafis sons. they say from that headquarters, gadhafis forces were conducting strike...

Cost him his job. plus residents continue cleanup after a cluster devastates the state and more to come. well have a weather report from bill karins. first, lets get to the news at 5:30 a.m. here at 30 rock in new york city. the rating agency standard & poors warns the united states government is risking its prize aaa credit rating unless it takes steps to cut the nations nearly $14.3 trillion debt. for the first time yesterday, s&p lowered its long-term outlook for the u.s. from stable to n...

Menacing this is. want to show you the tornado clusters that weve seen over the last several days. these are from not large cities, but certainly populated cities like jackson, mississippi. just to the west of jackson. certainly different populations right aloss the border between mississippi and alabama. and then this cluster where severe storms raked across east central sections of north carolina. coming up in the 5:00 show, deborah, well show you some more pictures of the damage there. >> jus...

Well, were going to be looking at what the weather -- there is a long clean-up ahead, and, karen, when i look at all this, the tornadoes here, the tornadoes there, ive never seen anything like that. >> these were in not remote areas, not across farm land, these were populated areas. about 240-plus tornado reports that have come into the storm prediction center, and i just want to show you this google earth. this puts this into perspective. here is the state of north carolina. that cluster of tor...

Mississippi. look at where this cluster of tornadoes is located. down here, vinegar bend and also yarbo, they had a number of fatalities there. the estimate at least right now is about five. but also just in the vicinity of montgomery, alabama, just to the south, prattville three reported fatalities last night. also into west central, mississippi. i know youre from there, t.j. we did have reports of very frequent lightning. about three tornadoes reported across that region. weve got some images ...

Evacuated. >> reporter: so locals were busy stacking 25,000 sandbags on top of the 150,000 already in place. crews trucked in more than 200 loads of dirt to patch this dike after water seeped into the riverside nursery. in burlington, residents were warned that floodwaters could wash out the citys dirt and rock dam. nearby home owners had left by thursday morning uncertain when the danger will pass and when their lives will return to normal. mike and peggy. >> all right, thank you. at least tw...