counteruntuesdaytive piece of counterintuitive piece of this. they say we love and respect our military, but they disrespect the integrity by making accusation that s our military would take orders to attack us and take away our rights. and just down the road here in austin at the capitol, the legislature is considering a law now that would reduce veterans access to free-in state tuition reducing the amount of time they could get it and the residency requirements have become more stringent. while they re making accusations, they re doing this as a legislature, they re not sending a great message to our military. you know what they say, texas is a whole other country. i guess in this case it may be so. everything s bigger in texas. maybe the paranoia and conspiracy theories, as well. jim moore, thank you. interesting perspective. ahead, back to the midwest. at least 50 tornadoes reported in storms that spanned four states. and there s a threat of more today. also ahead, defla