victory? mitt romney claims victory in home state of michigan and claiming 47% of the vote to rick santorum s 38%. in arizona, much more decisive of a victory. romney beating santorum by 20 points in a state where the mormons gave him the edge and maid up of nearly 1 of 7 voters in the primary. mitt romney moving on though to the next state of ohio, clearly trying to capitalize on the momentum of his double victory and now setting his sights squarely on the president. he is out of ideas. he is out of excuses. and in 2012, we will make sure that he is out of office. rick santorum who cancelled all morning show appearances is clearly down, however, not out. i just have to say that to the people of michigan, you know, we came into the backyard of one of my opponents in a race that everyone said just ignore, because you have no chance here. and the people of michigan looked into the hearts of the candidates and all i have to say is i love you back. and the fact is that sa
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good evening. we begin tonight with an unholy fury of tornadoes. at least 16 of them, 1 after the other, tearing through american towns today. imagine you re looking out your window. and you see this. a giant funnel cloud in the middle of nebraska. and the highway in branson, missouri, that country music mecca, here it is before. and look after. and a mall in harrisburg, illinois. and here, after the tornado hit. when it was all over, at least 9 people were killed, more than 150 injured across this country. and abc s chris bury has been touring the devastation in harrisburg. chris? reporter: good evening, diane. you can see how powerful this tornado was. this home, among hundreds destroyed in this town of only 9,000 people. the mayor told us he heard the sirens go off. and he knew in his gut that something awful was going to happen. the twisters tore through the night, leaving behind a terrible toll in five states. at least one deadly tornado slammed into harrisburg, just b
i m betty nguyen. mitt mi dodged a political bullet and regained momentum. romney scored a narrow comeback victory in the michigan primary holding off a strong challenge by rick santorum. in yesterday s other primary in arizona as expected romney posted a convincing win. but romney eeked out a hard fought victory in his native michigan where he and santorum had been running neck and neck. susan mcginnis has details. good morning, susan. good morning, betty. mitt romney just narrowly escaped what would have been a very embarrassing defeat here in michigan, his home state. winning here and in arizona gives him new momentum heading into future races and it s calling into question rick santorum s longevity. mitt romney moves on with renewed momentum. thank you. last night he went two for two. he won the primary in arizona and narrowly defeated rick santorum. we didn t win by a lot but we won by enough and that s all that counts. with two more states in the win colum
funnel cloud on video. several tornadoes were reported in kansas, we ll have more on the severe weather from the cnn severe weather center in just a couple minutes. rescuers are scouring the waters of mobile bay in alabama today. they are searching for three members of the u.s. coast guard missing after their helicopter crashed. crews recovered the body of a fourth crew member. this morning rescuers located the helicopter partially submerged in several feet of water. the chopper was on a training mission when it went down last night. terrified school kids calling 911 when a fellow student started shooting this week in ohio. now we hear their voices. police released the phone recordings. just take a listen. 911 what is your emergency. we just had a shooting at our school. we need to get out of here. okay, ma am we got a school shooting what school? chardon high school. chardon high school? yes, ma am. all right. can you get administration? everyone is run