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but those voices leave no doubt. 20 terrified strangers huddled inside a stores industrial-sized refrigerator. outside a tornado is ripping apart joplin, missouri. and take a listen again -- >> were good. were good. were good. [ screams ] [ wind sounds ] >> jesus. je jesus, jesus. >> i love everyone. i love everyone, man. i love you. >> jesus, jesus, jesus. heavenly father. >> this is joplin this morning. after daylight revealed the devastation, the tornado cut through the center of to...

City. you can barely see the head stones. barely see there. the coroner says several caskets have floated to the top. theyre now in a refrigerator truck until the water does go down. inmates meantime at the countys largest maximum security prison are piling up sandbags trying to save it from the floodwaters. the louisiana state pen ten nary is bordered on three sides of the mississippi, hence the name alcatraz of the south. one business is making the best of it. the biscuit copy, a block from th...

have mended fences today, offered reassurances to the american israel public affairs committee or aipac which describes itself as americas leading pro-israel lobby group. obama stressed his fundamental support for the jewish state. >> no country can be expected to negotiate with a terrorist organization sworn to its destruction. we will continue to demand that hamas accept the basic responsibilities of peace, including recognizing israels right to exist and recognizing -- rejecting ri ...

benjamin netanyahu is scheduled to speak to aipac tomorrow. earlier i spoke with elyse labbott. i asked her if mr. obamas speech today may ease some of netanyahus concerns. >> i think president obama went a long way to making the prime minister feel better. he was really looking for a strong statement on hamas and the president did say that the israelis shouldnt be expected to negotiate if hamas does not accept israels right to exist. hes saying any country cant be expected to negotiat...

Deceived and our tax dollars are paying those grotesque bonuses. >> i remember there was an article you wrote, matt, and it was somebody saying that basically if one of these guys was sent to prison, that would stop the shenanigans from happening again, if somebody was held accountable, it would have a cooling effect. >> absolutely. i talked to a guy that was a former fcc investigator and he said if you start sending lloyd blankfein or one of those guys put one of those guys in a real maximum se...

Article you wrote, matt, and it was somebody saying that basically if one of these guys was sent to prison, that would stop the shenanigans from happening again, if somebody was held accountable, it would have a cooling effect. >> absolutely. i talked to a guy that was a former fcc investigator and he said if you start sending lloyd blankfein or one of those guys put one of those guys in a real maximum security prison for six months, this whole thing would be over very quickly. the whole situati...

Government can treat a prisoner of any kind however they so choose if they so choose to. is that a valid bullet? >> what the president is saying and what the people in guantanamo is saying is that he -- >> maximum security prison. >> he harks in fact, indicated hes a threat to himself. thats exactly the question. >> i know they are. >> the other thing is that the only people who are not saying that is the psychiatrists in guantanamo who need to sign off on this type of thing. you know, its -- i ...

Lockup. our producers first met him seven years ago inside pelican bay, californias toughest maximum security prison. >> i dont care if youre a peace officer, if youre the governor, if youre the president. if you do something to me, its on. >> hes struggling. >> hymes is a career inmate with 19 of his 37 years spent behind bars. >> turn around. nope. >> im not going to turn around. >> officers in several california prisons have gotten plenty of opportunities to document his bad behavior on video...

Cell by himself in a sort of protected area. so doubtless he has it better than most of the inmates there, because all of perus prisons are overcrowded. we talked to locals here, we talked to attorneys who admit there are major problems within the system, especially overcrowding, violence within the prisons, and in some of these places they say there are 30 people to a cell, no beds, people sleep on the floor, the food is terrible, if not dangerous, et cetera, et cetera. some of the people here ...

Holder and frankly, the earlier they cut this off, move it back to a military tribunal, get it behind them the bet per >> peter, do you agree with that? >> well theyre trying to figure it out, theyre negotiating with folks on the hill a bit on this. the thing that disturbs me, i have to say, alex, this has become an unbelievable political football. the republicans are outrageous on this. look, during the whole period of bush/cheney, they tried three people in military courts, three! and 300 conv...