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The meteorologists in the oklahoma city area and all over the state were working very hard to put the word out that something bad will happen and you need to get out of its way or get into a safe spot. >> greta: robbie, thank you. >> thank you maam. >> greta: why are we getting slammed by so many tornadoes? janice dean joins us live. janice, robbie just called it is veer weather. which is an understatement if nothing else. why are we getting all these tornadoes? >> big deal is that these tornado...

Oklahoma city area and all over the state were working very hard to put the word out that something bad will happen and you need to get out of its way or get into a safe spot. >> greta: robbie, thank you. >> thank you maam. >> greta: why are we getting slammed by so many tornadoes? janice dean joins us live. janice, robbie just called it is veer weather. which is an understatement if nothing else. why are we getting all these tornadoes? >> big deal is that these tornadoes are hitting densely pop...

A close personal bond between the united states and president netanyahu. our senior congressional correspondent dana bash is up on capitol hill. she watched it all unfold. shes got the details. pretty enthusiastic reception for the prime minister, i should say. >> reporter: thats an understatement, wolf. this is the sixth time that an israeli prime minister has addressed the joint session of congress. and the speech that generated more than two dozen standing ovations was designed to show that d...

relations. are the tensions of recent days any worse? any better? im wolf blitzer and youre in "the situation room." first, breaking news this hour. a large tornado has been spotted on the ground in oklahoma and storm-ravaged missouri is being hit by severe weather and possible in the coming hours, searchers in joplin have been taking advantage of the break in the bad weather for a few hours now. 17 people have been pulled alive from the rubble as of last night. but the death toll is f...

Impressive. they have lost their homes and they have been out there for 40 hours saving lives. the work that theyve done is to be commended, thats an understatement. again, thank you. thank you for the work that theyve been able to do. were going to be here for the long haul and its going to be neighbors helping neighbors. thank you. >> thank you shall rich. thats all we have here in terms of speaking today. i want to introduce a few other people. im not going to be able to touch on everyone. mi...

An understatement. >> reporter: fema says that they will be working through the night because they think since they found the seven people, that there are more survivors out there. they hope that they will be able to get to those people as the rain comes down and more severe weather is in the forecast as well, wolf. in fact, a moderate risk of severe storms, including the threat of tornadoes, is in the forecast for southwestern missouri, including joplin, and the storm prediction center saying t...

Nutd gingrich? are you counting him out? >> he has had a rocky, that may be an understatement, a rocky ten days, two weeks. its not just that. hes also incredibly polarizing. i think many republican voters like that about him, but electability is an issue. they hate barack obama. they want to beat barack obama with a passion. theyre going to look at newt gingrich and look at the past two weeks and say not so sure he can do this. >> for pawlenty, is it iowa or bust? >> i dont think so. i think th...

teams with -- he has to deal with the tornado devastation back here at home. im wolf blitzer and youre in "the situation room." >> its been almost 24 hours since the people of joplin, missouri hid in their homes as the tornado tore through their city. officials say 116 people were killed and many more injured. this makes this storm tied for the second deadliest twister. the toll is expected to climb as one resident puts it. everybodys going to know people who are dead. a massive rescue...

buildings sustaining significant damage. that includes one of the citys main hospitals. the national guard on patrol with a state of emergency in effect. andres cue teams they keep searching today, this afternoon, all through the day for survivors. joplin, missouri, the latest victim of a volatile wave of turbulent springtime weather. brian todd in the thick of it. >> reporter: drew, rescue teams are combing through grid by grid, house by house in this city. the houses that are left ar...

But no one in that area was seriously injured. the storm turned deadly 50 miles south of topeka in a small town of reading kansas. storm victims describe a wild scene. >> windows were blowing back and forth and we were sitting there and watching it. all of a sudden you see the trees and, i said everybody get down, its coming. >> i noticed everything was shaking. i said this is not good. i kind of looked out the window and i see things started flying around. >> gregg: this is not good. that is an...