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im carol costello. the eastern seaboard bracing themselves for the worst of irene on this "american morning." good morning, everyone. it is -- its wednesday, wowp halfway through the week. august 24th. welcome to "american morning." feels like its halfway through the week. he had like a hundred years of news in two days. >> we started off yesterday with what was going on in libya, these hurricane preparations, and then an earthquake. >> right. >> did you feel it? >> christine and i w...

>> will this make the economy even worse? >> this will cast a long term shadow on the nations reasonableness and reliability. >> has congress shot itself in the foot? >> the american people hold us and their low opinion of us, because we are failing to do what they think is our job, and by the way, they are right. >> tonight, i will talk to the white house and members of both sides of the aisle and the man who can answer what may be the biggest and most important question of all, what ...

Of the building buildings flattened by the joplin tornado but its past for managed to survive. jacqui jeras is in joplin for us with more. this is an emotional story, obviously, jacqui. >> its an amazing story of survival and providing a lot of hope for people in this devastated community who so desperately need to hear some good news out of this, and thats that 70-year-old pastor was able to get out of there without a scratch. this was the building you were in? >> yes. >> theres almost nothing ...

>> its hard to put into words the sheer force of the monster tornados that have hammered the midwest this week. look at this amazing twister caught on tape in chick cache, oklahoma. >> its crossing the road white where we were [ bleep ]. >> slow down. get out your window. get out your window. >> i am. that i can that shed. >> watch behind you. youre good. dont push. oh, my god! back up. oh, no. stop. oh, no, what did it destroy? running back. slow down. no, slow down. debris. >> and ne...

>> the british obviously are unhappy with our nonaction, pulling back after the initial action in libya. they said so a lot in private and a little in public. they didnt say anything in the public now. it is clear this is a source of friction. look, we are now set in the stalemate. dramatic moves. hoping that the pressure will increase and succeed. there is no news except british acted in a fairly correct way, not airing unhappiness over the american position. >> bret: has, chuck, the way the wa...

Now, even though the warning is still going, youre okay. i only have one other thing to say about that for carl junction. this is where that circulation is going. anderson, this is what youre in right now. theres a much bigger cell, although not rotating yet, still to your southwest. that still may be there in another 30 minutes. >> chad, i appreciate that. thats going to be good news for a lot of people in joplin. a lot of rumors floating around. a lot of obviously -- tensions are high here. ag...

Rescue workers have been traveling to joplin all throughout the country. ford sypher is one of them. ford, it looks appalling from where were looking at it. youre there. given other scenes youve had to go and help at, how does this rank? >> well, piers, i can tell you, i just got back from alabama, it seems like yesterday, and it never ceases to amaze me, the destruction is just epic. you know, it really -- words dont describe it and a camera doesnt express it well enough. >> in terms of how you...

Where were looking at it. youre there. given other scenes youve had to go and help at, how does this rank? >> well, piers, i can tell you, i just got back from alabama, it seems like yesterday, and it never ceases to amaze me, the destruction is just epic. you know, it really -- words dont describe it and a camera doesnt express it well enough. >> in terms of how you go about starting a rescue operation here, what is the process in somewhere like joplin? obviously, unusually, the twister has hit...

>> well, piers, i can tell you, i just got back from alabama, it seems like yesterday, and it never ceases to amaze me, the destruction is just epic. you know, it really -- words dont describe it and a camera doesnt express it well enough. >> in terms of how you go about starting a rescue operation here, what is the process in somewhere like joplin? obviously, unusually, the twister has hit right in the heart of the town. described to yesterday as like hitting in fifth avenue in new york. i can ...

Theyre not exporting much. >> right. the president, obviously, didnt talk about that in the speech today. this say speech wean tbetween a and the united kingdom and how it will shape the rest of the world. but there is an underlying tension here, wolf, which is the fact that european countries really believe they have done an awful lot of belt-tightening that has not gone on in the united states. and they believe, therefore, that the united states needs to start getting its own economic house in...