Tornado Rescue News Today

House. and ed, you know, he was in europe when the first days and frantic hours of the tornado rescue began. how do the people greet him a week on? >> thats right. good morning, christine. certainly a lot of pressure on the president. several days, just about a week had passed as you note since this terrible tragedy. this is an area of the country where the president lost to john mccain in 2008, and so he had to make that extra special effort to show he was going to get on top of this. i can tel...

>> on this holiday morning. >> and weve got a lot of news. we begin with the weather. first a new wave of spring storms is pounding the midwest. in fact, some of the worst damage is in battle creek, michigan. a storm packing 80-mile-an-hour winds snapped trees, brought down a lot of power lines. in fact, across the state some 100,000 homes and businesses lost power. >> a violent storm hit the chicago area. ferocious winds uprooting trees and sending them on the tops of houses and cars....

Today. but a new storm is hindering recovery efforts. officials say the twister passed nearly six miles long and half a mile wide through center of town. new ash cloud from another erupting volcano in iceland has prompted british airways and klm to cancel dozens of flights as the ash blows toward scottland. complete coverage of the tornado rescue evident on foxnews.com. glenn beck returns in a moment, but first, bret baier previews "special report." >> bret: a potential candidate is out two more...