and welcome to "american morning." it is friday, may 27th. the beginning of a long holiday weekend for many in this country. >> that's right. hopefully the beginning of some nice, calm, summer weather which we have not seen. >> we haven't seen. it's not going to be a great weekend for those in joplin, missouri. the search for the missing there continues. the state officials are releasing a list of 232 people who are still unaccounted for, a list they concede may not be entirely accurate. the death toll right now stands at 126. >> we're getting a look at some dramatic new video when just after the tornado struck. >> watch as aaron cox and his fiancee brook mckinsey watson race to find aaron's sister amid the destruction. let's take a look. >> look at this. oh, my gosh. oh, my gosh. oh, my gosh, aaron. oh, my gosh. >> right through here. >> i don't know -- >> i don't know where we are. i don't know. i don't know where to go. >> we have to keep going this way. don't step on any of this. come on. we have to keep going this way. >> i feel like i need to help if someone is hurt. >> we'll keep asking. look at this house, it's gone. are you guys okay? >> yeah. >> oh, my gosh. look at these houses, babe. >> are you guys okay? >> yes. >> what street is this? >> this is -- i don't know. illinois is a couple over. there's the school. >> oh babe, look. >> what? >> oh, no. it's the hospital. >> who you. they did find aaron's sister sarah. amazing that's their neighborhood and he couldn't tell what street they were on. >> asking others if they were okay and seeing the way -- i mean it's shock. it hasn't registered. they're running through and they're looking for his sister. imagine. >> when i got there, the woman who checked me into the hotel had lost her house and she said she went to look for it and she couldn't find it. there are no street signs and there wasn't the gas station on her corner that is the usual landmark. i saw the gas station was gone. no evidence. you didn't know where you were. it was like a moonscape. >> the search continues for many families. jacqui jeras is on the ground still in joplin, missouri, and the frustration continues to grow there for those families who don't know where their missing relatives are, jacqui. >> yeah, it really does, ali. finding the missing and identifying the bodies continues to be the big focus on day five in the devastated town of joplin, missouri. the federal government has stepped in to take over that process of i depds fiing the bodies some of which are in poor condition they're having to use things like dna testing, fingerprints, tattoos and medical records to help to be able to identify them. they've flown in $2 million worth of equipment to help expedite that process. still like you said, many of those families say not knowing is among the hardest part. i'm standing right now in front of the home of tabitha freeman. her grandmother lives in this house behind me and was inside at the time. she was unable to contact her after the storm. she drove in from oklahoma yesterday to show up here to see if she could find any information. i knew a neighbor down the street that i had met earlier in the day said he knew everyone on this block and told us she was at the hospital. we called the local hospital here who gave us the numbers of three other hospitals outside of town and we tried calling them and we were able to locate her grandmother ellen in rodgers, arkansas, and she was okay. there are good stories, still, coming here in joplin, missouri. ali, back to you. >> thanks very much for that. more violent storms moving to the east and south. in fact, three people were killed in georgia. storms brought a tree down on cars during a storm there. there was also significant storm damage in alabama. a family in the town of hatten lucky to be alive after trees toppled into their home. let's check in with rob marciano at the extreme weather center in atlanta. what are we looking at as we head into this memorial day weekend? >> a little quiet for some, active for others. what was supposed to be a less turbulent day, we only had five reports of tornadoes yesterday, over 300 reports of winds that brought on some damaging. saw some of that in alabama and georgia, upstate new york, parts of pennsylvania, seeing some of this also. here's the cluster, the second cluster that moved through atlanta last night and at one point we had over 2 hun,000 people without power. that number down to 50,000. we have fatalities because of falling trees in and around the atlanta metropolitan area. the action last night and even now across the northeast has mostly been north and west of the i-95 corridor, from the allegheny and cumberland through the finger lakes region, northern parts of the adirondacks and into vermont. as a matter of fact, saint lawrence county, upstate new york near the canadian border, 65-mile-an-hour wind gusts and northern vermont seeing 60-mile-an-hour wind gusts as well. this time of year, that certainly is pretty unusual to get that kind of rough weather that far north across the northeast. here's your forecast weather map for today with the threat for seeing some severe thunderstorms, more so across parts of the plains. that does include parts of oklahoma, maybe sneaking into joplin, but just a slight risk of seeing that. heat is going to still be on across parts of the southern plains. 95 in dallas and 85 up in new york city. you're kind of still east of the front. a little steamy, feeling like july or august. the threat for storms will linger across the northeast as well. guys, back to you. >> we'll check in with you in a bit. thank you. secretary of state hillary clinton is in pakistan this morning for talks with political and military leaders. the trip aimed at repairing relations between these two countries, relations that have been strained since the u.s. raid on bin laden's compound. but officials say clinton will deliver a clear message, that pakistan risks losing american aid if it doesn't do more to root out terrorists. president obama right now is meeting with g-8 leaders. this morning leaders at the world's top economic powers are focusing on the pro-democracy movements sweeping across the middle east. later this morning the president will leave france and travel to warsaw, poland, where he'll meet with the country's president and other central european leaders. we're expecting some new information about the last moments before the air france plane plunged into the atlantic ocean two years ago. you'll recall it killed all 28 on board. it's expected in about an hour investigators will reveal what they've been able to gather from the flight data and voice recorders. investigators say the recorders include the last two hours of conversation inside the cook pitt. prosecutors say ratko mladic slaughtered close to 8,000 muslim croatian boys and men in serbia in 1995 and has been on the run ever since. that was until his arrest yesterday. >> he's the accused butcher of bosnia. he appeared in a serbia courtroom thursday looking frail. his attorneys claim he's not well enough even to communicate with the judge. ivan watson is live in belgrade, serbia. what's next for mladic, ivan? >> any minute now, he is expected to resume a hearing in front of a judge here in this courthouse, a man that interpol describes as the most wanted war criminal in europe, has spent the night in this building after more than 15 years as a fugitive from the law. and yes, his photo has been plastered on the front pages of newspapers in serbia, looking much weaker, thinner, older than he did in 1994 and '95 at the height of his power when he was commanding the bosnian serb army and commanding the siege of sarajevo and the alleged massacre of 8,000 bosnia muslim men and boys. we've seen his wife come in and out several times. not commenting, not speaking to journalists. and apparently applying to try to see her husband who was captured in a village about an hour's drive north of the capital yesterday. christine? >> he's been on the run for 15 years. i mean, what is the public reaction in serbia? clearly there were people who were helping him while he was -- how he was out. there is relief he has been captured or is there a different sense from the serbian public? >> i think a lot of discomfort. i don't know if you heard a man walking pass, yelled ratko mladic's name. last night after midnight three young men chanting his name and clapping, some polls showing up to 40% of serbs consider him a hero, up to 70% of serbs would not turn him in, despite a reward of millions of euros offered by the serbian government. others saying that, you know, he reminds them of a shameful and dark period of serbian history, the war from 1994 to 1996. they don't like very much to be reminded about it right now. >> all right. ivan watson in belgrade, thanks, ivan. just in the nick of time, president obama directs the use of what is called an auto pen to sign the patriot act minutes before a midnight deadline because he's in france. this machine replicates his signature. the provisions of the law passed after the 9/11 attacks deals with legalizing roving wire taps and searching the personal records of terror suspects and some say other americans. it's extended for another four years. it had to be signed. use the auto pen. >> is that the equivalent of holding your nose. >> it could have been sent to him, right, technically? had there's been other legislation where people have been able to sign it. >> auto pen is auto pen. >> former massachusetts governor mitt romney tweets his presidential date on twitter saying he'll formally announce his bid for the top stop next thursday u.s. seems romney has a good chance this time around according to the polls. a look at the gallup poll of the gop playing field, 17% of republicans saying they would support him for the party's nomination. >> the miami heat against the dallas mavericks in the finals. the heat punched its ticket with a stunning comeback to eliminate the bulls in game five. the bulls led by 12 points with under 3 minutes to go, the heat came back led by lebron james who had 28 points. the rematch of the 2006 final won by the heat. game one tuesday night in miami. when we come back, new information about the cia going back into osama bin laden's compound to look for hidden documents and hard drives. chris lawrence will join us after the break and tell us what they're looking for and might find. it's 12 minutes after the hour. ♪ [ male announcer ] in 2011, at&t is at work, building up our wireless network all across america. we're adding new cell sites... increasing network capacity, and investing billions of dollars to improve your wireless network experience. from a single phone call to the most advanced data download, we're covering more people in more places than ever before in an effort to give you the best network possible. at&t. rethink possible. now you can apply sunblock to your kids' wet skin. new neutrogena® wet skin kids with helioplex. the first sunblock designed to be applied directly to wet skin. ordinary sunblock drips and whitens. neutrogena® wet skin kids instantly cuts through water. forms a broad spectrum protective barrier. with wet skin kids, your kids have full strength sun protection. try new wet skin sunblock for adults too. neutrogena® #1 dermatologist recommended suncare. personal pricing now on brakes. tell us what you want to pay. we do our best to make that work. deal! my money. my choice. my meineke. mladic. 15 minutes past the hour. welcome back. an imam convicted of a failed terror plot against javg airport. trinidad native ibrahim faces life in prison for his hand in the plan. he along with two others xrrds to blew up fuel tanks and a fuel pipeline at the airport in twefrp in a plot that authorities said was to try to outdo the 9/11 attacks. the plan was foiled after an informant recorded their conversations. his sentencing is set for october. the cia hoping to uncover more of osama bin laden's terror files. pakistan is allowing a team of forensic specialists to search his compound in abbottbad. >> this time they're going to be combing this house with highly specialized equipment. cnn's pentagon correspondent chris lawrence joins us live to tell us about it. what's the cia team going to be looking for? we know they were in and out pretty quickly during the initial assault on the compound, some 38 minutes. what are they going to do now? >> exactly. they're going to be looking for anything that may have been embedded in the walls of the compound, anything that may have been buried under ground, things that assault team may have missed. you mentioned they were only on the ground about 38 minutes. probably only about half of that time was spent actually searching the compound. remember, they had to shoot their way in, you know, shoot osama bin laden, clear all the women and children out of that place, so they weren't on the ground all that long and yet, intelligence officials say they got away with probably the biggest intelligence stash since the war against al qaeda really started. now they get a chance to go back in and answer that question, what did we miss? they're going to be using specialized equipment, most likely things like infrared cameras that can look behind walls because not only do you want to get anything that's there, but you also have to avoid damaging it as you try to extract it. we also know that u.s. officials have said that the al qaeda and -- or osama bin laden and the people there, burned their trash instead of putting it out like the other residents there. the cia can possibly pick up some of the fragments of that burned information and possibly decipher some clues from that as well. >> so, first of all, do they know for sure when they're going to visit and have they been able to make sure that compound has stayed secure since the raid? >> well, we know the assault team got in, got out with some stuff. we know that the pakistani officials have also, you know, looked over that compound, so this will really be the third, you know, go-round with this compound. but we're also hearing that they may also have access to what the pakistanis were able to pull out of that compound as well. that could be key. and it will probably take place some time in the next week or so. >> all right. chris lawrence for us at the pentagon this morning, thanks so much. you know, this is a reminder of what memorial day really stands for. the traditional flags ceremony honoring america's fallen soldiers. yesterday they placed flags in front of more than 260,000 gravestones at arlington. the flags are traditionally moved after memorial day before the cemetery is open to the public. >> a breathtaking sight and sober sight to see all the white head stones and flags there. >> going to be driving a lot this weekend, it's estimated more than one five drivers do not know the rules of the road. >> does that shock you? i would say four in five don't know the rules of the road. >> according to a study done by gmac insurance, 36.9 million americans would fail a driving test if asked to take one today. we barely passed when we took it back then. >> took it three times back then. >> i'm going to get into danger when i say this next part. want to know how men compare to women, the study su suggests 27% of women would fail the test, 13% of men would fail the test. >> i don't buy this. why is it cheaper to insure women if you are so great? >> i didn't do the study. >> i love it. he gleefully reports the findings but then, he doesn't do the study. >> i report, you decide. the best drivers are adults age 60 to 65. >> okay. >> the other question, too, is, the pet peeves of like what people do. one of the reasons they'd fail, 85% of people apparently according to the study don't know the proper thing to do during a solid yellow light. how would you not know you speed up as fast as you can, slam the gas. >> my pet peeve, people who drive 55 or 65 in the left lane, they use the passing lane as a cruising lane. that drives me crazy. >> look at the two of you. >> my wife always complain i don't move the car fast enough. >> in my town, pretend you're in this lane and someone is here, you have the right away to go straight, you have your turn signal on and cut in front of you and make a left. >> this wasn't our question of the day, but kiran will handle it. >> we want to know what you think. we have great responses, e-mail us at cnn.com/am, tweet us @christine romans @cnn oor @a or @ali velshi. up next, thousands of swimming pools may have to close this memorial day weekend. we'll tell you why and what specifically could be the problem here for all of these pools. >> 21 minutes after the housh. -- hour. urals wheat formulas target and help repair damage in just 3 washes. for softer, stronger... ... hair with life. 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