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Theres a circulation. the technology can predict a tornado between 10 and 15 minutes before it hits the ground. 1880. what was the dissemination? a newspaper. would you really print a newspaper on wednesday predicting tornados on thursday when you didnt have a satellite? didnt have any kind of information at all. certainly, they werent qualified to predict tornados in 1880, but by 1950, they were much better with the doppler technology. >> so, carl, explain this. you have this technology and yet...

Its more difficult to secure americans when theyre traveling around the world. so frankly, because of their ability to travel, particularly from north africa into europe, you saw in the summer of 2010, the european al-qaeda threat. so in the nearer term, i worry about american interests in the region in places like pakistan and afghanistan, but also americans traveling over the summer holidays in a place like europe. >> all right. thank you very much. want to go beyond the headlines for more o...

The dark rather than incite mass hysteria in the public. the 1880s. that is when the u.s. army signal corp. officially commissioned a study into tornados. shortly after that is when they banned the use of the word, tornado, in weather forecasts. for reasons of fears of panic, lack of tools to accurately predict weather patterns. that ban was essentially in place until 1950 and it was by that time in 1950, radar had been firmly established as the accurate predictor of weather patter patterns. >> ...

Series of thunderstorms rolling through the region and some intense ones just came through chicago. were looking at very wet roads across michigan avenue. the roads are a little wet. some lengthy airport delays up to two hours or more. all this is part of an area were watching today with the most intense highest risk for tornados here. southwest missouri, southern illinois, western kentucky and west tennessee, so memphis is in that area for high risk today. that means we could see the likelihood...

Storm. we are going to have tornados again on the ground. the pictures yesterday, tornados on the ground all day from oklahoma into kansas and missouri and so on. even a warning for joplin last night. you could hardly here anderson cooper because the sirens were going off. but we will have at least 50 on the ground today. we had killer tornados yesterday all day long. this one is south of the city. we will keep watching it. there are new watches from ohio to memphis and its going to be a busy da...

Put together institutions. while saying were still relevant, we lead the world but at the g-8, you guys have to step up to the plate and help stabilize these economies because they can disappear as quickly as they appear. >> i think, candy, too, one of the other points, the obviously, the president after his european trip, hes going to have to really bring comfort to people here who have been suffering from the tornados. but also try to convince them that the moneys worth it here. youre talking ...