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Presidents visit? >> reporter: some of them are telling us they are appreciative of the presidents visit. firemen are very good cooks and they may be preparing lunch for the president. this comes after some emotional days for this fire house. you mentioned they lost 15 fire fighters on the morning of september 11th. it has also been a very sombre time reflected. we were here on monday, one day after the news broke. some of the firefighters indicated that, you know, their thoughts while they appr...

Believed to be strained after americas unilateral mission in pakistan to kill the al qaeda leader osama bin laden. interestingly before we cut to that meeting live on air, mr. grossman indeed said this, he said this. the death of osama bin laden is, quote, a shared achievement. youve been watching "world one" live from hong kong and london. im kristi lou stout. >> im monita rajpal. a look at these pictures out of new york. >> these firemen and bagpipers at ground zero singing as they celebrate t...

>> i do want to mention one other point. my god, how much did we waste in iraq. when you see that we got bin laden in pakistan, i dont know if theres anybody in the country who can tell us what in the world iraq had to do with getting al qaeda and bin laden? >> in afghanistan there are more contractors than there are military. the amount of money dr the "new york times" had a brilliant article about it recently. the hundreds of millions and ultimately billions, billions of our tax dollars going ...

I would like to commend all first responders across the state, ema, our firemen, our policemen, the local officials, everyone has worked so hard in meeting the needs of the people in this crisis. were going to continue to do that. on a state level, well do whatever is necessary to help the people of this state. and we will and i as governor can promise the people of alabama that we will lead and we will make sure that all the people in this state are taken care of. working with locals, which we ...

Now more in a recovery mode. thank you, mr. president. if youll keep them off of me -- >> were looking out for each other. >> i appreciate it. yes, sir. yes, sir. but i am -- let me say, i am so proud of our first responders in this state. they have done an outstanding job. our mayors, our county commissioners, our police, our firemen, they have all just dont such a fantastic job. our ema people. they have just -- we have got a great team. they have all worked together. and now we have the feder...

Youll keep him off of me. >> ill keep him off of you. we are looking out for each other. >> yes, sir. let me say, i am so proud of our first responders in the state. they have done an outstanding job. our mayor, county commissioners, our police, our firemen they have all done fantastic jobs. our emt people, we have a great team, theyve all worked together and now we have the federal government helping us, and you know that shows when local and state and federal government works together we can g...

Now to get immediate results from. thats part of the problem. the president doesnt want to necessarily highlight the unemployment rate, because they -- they cant pound the table about it. hes been president for a while, ok? so the more he focuses on the most glaring problem that we have, the more it begs the question of what kind of job hes been doing. and by the way, hes at his lowest level of job performance. so the natural thing now for somebody two years into office is to, you know, talk mor...

>> im going to keep him off of you. were looking out for each other. >> yes, sir. but i am -- let me say i am so proud of our first responders in this state. they have done an outstanding job. our mayors, our county commissioners, our police, our firemen, they have all just done such a fantastic job. our ema people, we have got a great team, they have all worked together. and now we have the federal government helping us. and, you know, that just shows when locals and state and federal governmen...

People. and thats how they found della apr and many other people. especially the young guys. the young guys in the neighborhood. the 20 somethings, 30 somethings, started going door to door and trying to find people and pulling people out of the rubble. and today, as we saw in hurricane katrina and so many other disasters, the marks on the houses, the xs, to find out if anyone is there, they were going through today, the firemen, asking, is everyone accounted for in this home, and marking on the...

Devastated by the tornado there and rick, what is happening behind you. rick: a very kind of volatile situation going on now, and it -- obviously, the neighborhood destroyed by the tornado and, a lot of people are missing and people have been out here, screaming for loved ones and occasionally will hear something back in the rubble and, so, earlier it was a little bit over here to my left and now, they moved to this area where they heard moaning and believe there is a 40-year-old man potentially...