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Thank you to both you. kirsten powers, katy past like to you as well. thank you. martha: were back to the top story of the day and the devastating storms across the midwest, another hard-hit spot, frankfurt, illinois, just outside of chicago. anita padilla, fox affiliate is there live. anita, what does it look like on the ground there? >> reporter: nothing like the devastation we saw in washington, illinois, but nonetheless people did feel and were very away. down the way there is scattered debr...

Haiti has a new president, a former pop star. >> thats right. he was known as sweet mickey, but now he is haitis 56th president, hell spend his first week in office this upcoming week. in the inaugural speech, he said this is a new haiti open for business now. he has the great challenges ahead of him with the big question remaining, what is he going to do for the country with over 7,000 people homeless after the quake. so thats what we are going to be watching for into next week. >> you know wha...

their habitats into residential areas. officials warn that large gators wont think twice about grabbing a human. lets go to the st. landry parish of crop springs. ed, what do you know? >> reporter: well, don, we are in one of those neighborhoods that got the mandatory evacuation orders a few hours ago. as you look around here, this is a small subdivision right on the edge of the river. and authorities came through here literally going door to door, the national guard and sheriffs deput...

Iraq, you dont think with the benefit of hindsight that the kind of devastation we saw in the aftermath of the iraq war could possibly have been avoided if we had let the people of iraq do what the people of egypt have done. >> we encouraged the people of iraq to stand up against saddam and he slaughtered tens of thousands of people. the chinese authorities slaughtered them -- if the regime is sufficiently brutal, this kind of power doesnt work. you have to give mubarak and the egyptian army a l...

Political prisoners, to give people time to form parties but makes it clear that theres going to be elections. i think the momentum for change the large. >> when you compare thats what happened here to what pd in iraq, you dont think with the benefit of hindsight that the kind of devastation we saw in the aftermath of the iraq war could possibly have been avoided if we had let the people of iraq do what the people of egypt have done. >> we encouraged the people of iraq to stand up against saddam...

The way in way people came together, young people and old people came together. there are huge problems ahead, but by the way, i think omar suleiman is clearly a transitional figure and if this new set of authorities which is more or less the military doesnt move quickly to deal with the issues of freedom, to deal with the issues of political prisoners, to give people time to form parties but makes it clear that theres going to be elections. i think the momentum for change the large. >> when you...

With the issues of freedom, to deal with the issues of political prisoners, to give people time to form parties but makes it clear that theres going to be elections. i think the momentum for change the large. >> when you compare thats what happeneded here to what pd in iraq, you dont think with the benefit of hindsight that the kind of devastation we saw in the aftermath of the iraq war could possibly have been avoided if we had let the people of iraq do what the people of egypt have done. >> we...