here to pepeka. no fatalities. nine people were injured there. one person critically injured. governor of kansas is declaring state of emergency there. let's get right to our meteorologist rob marciano who is tracking these storms for us. >> that same line that produced the tornadoes last night across parts of kansas and missouri moving into parts of kentucky and indiana and illinois. dangerous storm with a tornado dropped down to harrisburg, illinois, damage there and search and rescue actually under way. that's with this line and this cell moving just to the south of evansville, indiana, just to the north of hender son, kentucky. another storm just northeast of paducah. another one just southwest of that. these are strong storms moving quickly. 65 to 70 miles an hour. and in somepla places it's stil dark. tornado watch is up until noontime central for parts of kentucky and also it's kind of sliding back through just north of memphis. this storm is a big one. it stretches all of the way to the northeast. you will get a little bit of snow north of new york city. the northern side of this thing, blizzard warnings continue for parts of the northern plains with over a foot of snow and some of it blowing sideways north and west of minneapolis. obviously the biggest concern right now are the tornado storms that are rolling across parts of western kentucky and southern indiana. >> rob, thank you. that looks like a big giant mess. more breaking news to tell you about a senior al qaeda chief was arrested at cairo airport. according to egypt's interior ministry he was arriving from pakistan. he's believed to have spent years detained in iran. the u.s. wasn't able to getting a cess to him. he was talked about as a successor to bin laden and believed to help plan the bombings in africa. this is really what his most wanted page looks like on the fbi web page where there was a $5 million reward for information leading to his capture or conviction. we're going to continue to follow this story and tell you some details as we get them. turning now to politics. big news there. in fact, let's introduce our panel to you this morning. ron brownstein is back, david frum is back, contributing editor of "the daily beast" and "newsweek," combining "the daily beast" and "newsweek." it's faster. and jamal simmons. nice to have you all with me. and, of course, the big news today is really what happened last night, mitt romney winning a pair of crucial wins in last night's primaries. the state was a blowout in arizona but very close than many people expected in myrrh again. that was a state where mitt romney was born and raised. but really for mitt romney, a win is a win. >> the first thank you is the first state to call it thank you, arizona. and thank you, michigan, what a win. this is a big night. thanks, you guys. >> it's like, let's start with arizona because that was the bigger win. of course, it is all really a race to the magic number of 44 delegates. last night he leads with 165 delegates. rick santorum at 44 delegates. ron paul is at 27 delegates. let's bring in bobby, chairman of the michigan republican party. he joins our panel. it's nice to see you. thank you for being with us this morning. out of michigan we had nine delegates go to mitt romney. seven go to rick santorum. and 14 delegates, they still have to decide where they end up going. what does this mean as we move forward into super tuesday, this win which was not really a giant win and pretty much kind of eking it out? >> well, what it suggests clearly is that michigan was very competitive, as we expected. both candidates worked hard across the state, appealed to -- their message appealed to our voters. it was very close. and we're still awarding delegates. we haven't completed it at the state party. if you look at migop.com you will see that we are still working through it. we're up, i think, until about 4:00 in the morning. our last posting was in the 3:00 range. it remains to be seen how many delegates each candidate got but it was very, very close. >> so i'm sorry, repeat that website. gopprimary.com is where people can go to see to figure out how to award those 14 last delegates? >> let me say it. migopprimary.com. >> between the two of us we're going get the website out. let me ask you a question. what did you think about the robocalls? i think we have a clip of one. as you know, rick santorum campaign asking democrats to really crossover and vote for him. let's play it. >> on tuesday, join democrats who are going to send a loud message to massachusetts mitt romney by voting for rick santorum for president. this call is supported by hard working democratic men and women and paid for by rick santorum for president. >> how did the party feel about that? >> well, you know, obviously we were disappointed. that's not the way that we want to see. ares behave. our voters are, you know, are informed voters. i frankly don't think that it had much of an impact. i think all of the candidates on the republican ticket ended up getting a few democrats to show up to vote. obama was on the ballot. if they wanted to come and vote in our primary it was open. they could have voted for obama. and at the end of the day, yes, it's disappointing. it's not the way we would like to see republicans in a primary behave. >> ron brownstein from "national journ journal." there are a number of commentators who said the net effect of this week was to put michigan off the table as a potentially contested state for republicans in november. particularly, mitt romney is so double down on his opposition to the auto bailout, 44% of republican voters in the exit poll supported the auto bailout. 64% overall. in recent polling. do you come out of this week with the ability to contest michigan seriously in the fall? >> absolutely. i mean, i think this was an example, is that michigan voters are going to play an important role. the unity behind beating barack obama is very strong. independents are clearly in our column. we expect will be appealing to them. our grass roots operations are extraordinary. volunteerism is way up. i think as you can't to see the numbers develop, you know, we will be a front and center spot in the coming activities. >> the dnc has a new ad. i going to play a chunk of it. basically it's a compilations of greatest hits made by the now once again front-runner mitt romney. here's a little part of it. >> i think that connecting is very important. obviously mitt romney is stumbled. >> i'm not concerned about the very poor. 10,000 bucks? $10,000 bet? >> romney has to avoid those kind of gaffes. >> i know what it's like to worry whether you're going to get fired. there were a couple of times i wondered whether i was going to get the pink slip. >> my sorry, i'm also unemployed. >> i like being able to fire people who provide services to me. >> what's the strategy now out of that? clearly some of those gaffes were actually made as republicans keep ripping into each other. if the focus had moved on to president obama you probably wouldn't have had some of those stumbles. it's part of the -- you can see where the dnc is going to head with this and create that as part of his image what is the strategy for the party about that? >> well, obviously it's hard for me to predict the strategy of a campaign. but, look, i think that we've got to coalesce behind the good of all the candidates and the ultimate nominee and we will. romney has a tremendous resume. he's probably got the best resume when you lay them out there against all of the candidates including barack obama. and i think, you know, both sides obviously have talking points and blurbs of the other and they will be used and hopefully to continue to build up the prominence of the republican brand and build up the importance of this election and ultimately our nominee takes the white house. >> bobby schostak is chairman of the republican party. breaking news as we told you, a senior al qaeda chief arrested at cairo airport. his name is seif al adel. let's get right to barbara starr. barbara, what are we hearing? >> soledad, good morning again. well, egyptian officials are saying that this man has been arrested at the airport in cairo. coming from, they believe, pakistan through dubai into egypt into cairo and arrested and detained at the airport. you see his picture there. the u.s. has a $5 million reward on his head. this guy is extremely interesting to u.s. law enforcement and u.s. intelligence. he is wanted in connection with those 1998 bombings of the u.s. embassies in east africa. but, it had been believed for years that he was being held, if you will, house arrest inside iran, that essentially he was under the protection of the iranian revolutionary guard corp. house arrest technically in iran. the iranians had promised to keep an eye on him. but still, certainly not in detention by any stretch. so if this is all confirmed in the coming hours that somehow he went from iran to pakistan to dubai into cairo back into egypt, his nationality, he is an egyptian, it is going to be very interesting to determine what role iran played in this. did they let him out of the country, did he escape? not very likely. the iranians keep a pretty close eye on these things. so how did he get out of iran? that's going to be the interesting question. we can tell you right now u.s. officials are very aware of the reports coming out of egypt. they know about the statements about this arrest made by the egyptian interior ministry officials. still, they tell us they are working to independently confirm that here in washington and get the final confirmation that this man long wanted for his involvement in the embassy bombings and as a senior al qaeda operative close to osama bin laden. do they have him in custody actually in egypt and will they hold him? what will happen to him now? soledad? >> barbara starr, of course, watch for the details about how exactly it went down. that's going to be fascinating. thanks, barbara. other headlines making news. alina cho has that for us. >> good morning to you. a desperate search is under way right now for three missing people in alabama. it happened after a coast guard helicopter crashed last night in mobile bay. that chopper went down during a routine training mission. one crew member who was rescued has since died. the coast guard hayes sense fog hampered the search overnight. still not clear yet whether the bad weather caused the crash. he said he didn't even know who he was shooting. prosecutors say t.j. lane, the accused ohio high school gunman admitted to the rampage that has now killed three teens. he also said his targets were random. lane making his first court appearance yesterday. he is expected to be tried as an adult. we're also hearing for the first time from frank hall, the heroic teacher and assistant coach who put his own life at risk by chasing lane out of the cafeteria. he says he doesn't feel like a hero. >> i just want to say that i'm sorry to the families, to the victims. i wish i could have done more. >> classes will resume at chardon high school on friday. the funeral for daniel parmertor is scheduled for saturday morning. in just a couple of minutes soledad will speak with one of this friends, a fellow chardon student. international police have arrested 25 members of the alleged hacking group annonymoa. police tracked down alleged members in spain, argentina, chile, and colombia. one arrested is 16-year-old girl. anonymous is suspected of taking down interpol's website during the sweep and admitting to it on twitter. back to you. >> thanks. we're going to have much more on those breaking stories that we started our show with. the outbreak of tornadoes overnight turned deadly. one person killed. and people hurt across at least two states. and now those warnings are extending into the south. we'll update you on what's happening there. plus, reports of that key al qaeda get, the person who was claimed to be the possible successor to osama bin laden is reportedly caught in cairo. 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>> i saw him take out two. and i was gone, i was out of there. >> okay. were the students still alive? >> i don't know, ma'am. i didn't even check. i just got out of there as fast as i could. >> okay. but they went down, right? >> yes. they were -- they were laying on the ground in blood. >> goodness. funeral plans have been announced for one of the three students killed allegedly by t.j. lane. 16-year-old daniel parmertor will be laid to rest on saturday. tyler lelash is a friend of dani daniel's and a student at chardon high school. joining us by phone. tell me where you were when the shooting started and how did you realize what was going on? >> i was in my english class at 7:30 when the bell rang. and we were just sitting there, talking. and we just heard three loud pops. we didn't know what it was. sounded like someone shutting their lockers loud or taking their locker. found out what was going on when nurses were running down the hallway yelling gun, gun, shut your doors. that's when we shut our doors and went into lockdown mode. >> when did you know what was happening? when did you realize the extent that there was a kid, a student who had a gun? >> when my dad text me and let me know. >> so you were communicating with your parents by text the whole time? >> yes, i was. >> they must have been terrified, getting texts from you as you're telling them that you're in lockdown in your english class. >> oh, yeah. they -- they didn't know where the shooter was or anything. they just wanted to make sure i was safe. >> two of the students who -- you were friends with two of the students who have died in this shooting. how are you holding up? how are your friends holding up, as well? i know school is going to start again, the classes will resume on friday. >> we're just trying to stick together, you know, keep remembering them, remembering how funny they were and just talking to people, just discu expressing your feelings. that's the best way to get through stuff like this. >> did you know t.j. lane? >> i've seen him in school. i haven't really talked to him before. he was kind of quiet. >> the prosecutors said yesterday, made a point of saying that he was a kid who was not bullied, that this was not a case of drugs. did you -- would you agree with that? >> yeah, i agree with that. i've never seen him bullied before. i've seen him with friends. i don't think he was bullied at all. >> many people credit the teachers and also really good safety plan that you guys ran through back in 2010, or the fact that everybody kind of knew what to do. was that true? what was that plan like and did you feel like you were following it to the letter? >> yeah, i feel like we were following it. they did it in 2010. my dad participated in it and it was just the way they ran things. it was just very to the point and it was just a really good plan. >> what did they say that you were able to use, you know, when it wasn't a drill and it was the real thing, so much later. >> they let us call our parents, text our parents, you know, let them know where we are and we're okay. reassuring them. >> i had heard that one of the teachers, once he made sure that everybody in the class was okay, grabbed a bullet proof vest and then ran out into the hallway in order to drag an injured student into the classroom. was it standard that a teacher would have a bullet proof vest in the classroom? >> i mean, obviously it's a good thing he had it for stuff like this. but i'm glad he had it because he rescued my buddy. >> it was your buddy that he rescues? what were the circumstances? >> i think it was like shot in the shoulder or something like that. and he just opened the door, looked for t.j. lane and then saw him lying on the floor there and just pulled him? >> are you anxious about going back to class or do you feel that now that t.j. has been captured and it's all gone into court that you feel secure about your school again? >> i just want to go back to school and see my friends. i haven't seen my friends for the past two days. i want to go back to school and be with my friends. it's about time. i just want to be with my friends. >> i bet you do. thank you for talking with us by phone. i know your classes are about to begin approximately we'll let you go. we'll appreciate your time though. >> thank you. still ahead this morning on "starting point," the egyptian military has reported they have taken someone in custody with far reaching implications. we'll tell you about that as "starting point" is back in just a minute. ameriprise financial has worked for their clients' futures. helping millions of americans retire on their terms. when they want. where they want. doing what they want. ameriprise. the strength of a leader in retirement planning. the heart of 10,000 advisors working with you one-to-one. together for your future. ♪ the other office devices? 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