>> yes, yes. >> will cain you were on tv working this weekend. >> still hasn't shaved. >> didn't have a chance. worked all weekend. >> you lie. we're not going to pretend to feel sorry for you. our "starting point," towns in the plains adding up the damage from a swarm of tornados that happened over the weekend. reports of more than 130 twisters that touched down over four states, many tornadoes happening in kansas, the community that may have been the hardest hit is in woodward, oklahoma, where five people were killed. >> i thought it was a train coming down the tracks over there and i looked out and i seen the funnel and i started running through the house creaming "marcia! marcia!" i mean loud, i was scared. >> it gives me a whole new respect for tornadoes how they can in an instant destroy everything that everyone knew. >> cnn's rob marciano is live for news woodward, oklahoma, this morning. good morning to you. you know, you listen to those folks talking and almost sounds like they didn't get any or very much warning. >> reporter: well, this was the third pulse to come through. its first two did a little bit of damage, knocked out power and that's what we fear in an outbreak, often more than one wave, first wave knocks out power, second wave comes through, you don't have as much communication. the sirens here actually are powered by electricity with no battery backup. there were parts of town that did not get siren warning but most folks were in their homes at the time because it happened at night. still with that lack of communication, when you look at some of the damage here, this is one of many neighborhoods and streets that really just got creamed. bread delivery truck flipped over, this home completely destroyed. one of 80 homes destroyed, many more than that almost unlivable b 13 businesses. luckily this is a narrow swathe through this town no stranger to tornadoes b a quarter mile wide but winds of at least 140 miles an hour so a devastating tornado here and listening to some of the survival stories and seeing some of the damage it's amazing this is happening in the middle of the night there weren't more fatalities. sadly five figatalities and 29 injuries. we chased several of the cells that came through the town earlier today into northern parts of the state where it dropped more tornadoes and crossed into kansas so again the greatest fear here was having the power knocked out and having another round come through the night. what's unusual about this situation is once the supercells come through during the day we typically think once the last wave comes through it's usually a straight line squall line when you don't get the supercell thunderstorms that create the tornadoes but this time we did and that may have cost some folks a little bit, caught them off guard. >> rob looking at the picture its it's incredible what people are able to capture as the storms go through. my goodness, that is just absolutely, look at that, that's a shot i haven't seen i have covered a lot of tornadoes in my day. i got to tell you tornado season, why is it so strong? i think in march there were more than 200 tornadoes, over the last 20 years the average a third of that. what's going on? >> reporter: last year we had an incredibly active record setting year and this year off to a fast start with unfortunately more fatalities than average, as far as what's going on, we've got extreme weather with extreme setup. think about a warming climate. you can't pin that just on tornadoes. there's much more involved. you need winds and moisture to come in a certain way and you need certain dynamics. but what we have seen that's unusual that i'd like to point out, tornadoes are coming a little bit earlier in the season and farther north, more than unusual. >> you're not joking, rob marciano. as the sun rises i'm sure it will be more devastating than it looks half dark out there. other stories to get there, zoraida sambolin has other headlines. good morning, z. >> good morning to you. he's accused of a bombing rampage in norway last summer. anders breivik admitted to the rampage but not pleading not guilty. he says it was self-defense to "save norway from being taken over by multicultural forces." authorities describe him as a right-wing christian extremist. in a court appearance he gave what appeared to be a fascist salute. police in baltimore say a suspect in a st. patrick's day beating was turned in. the video went viral. social media posts over the past week linked the suspect, 20-year-old aaron parsons to that brutal attack. police are still searching for three other suspects from that video, which shows a crowd of onlookers laughing as a victim is punched in the face, robbed and stripped naked. this afternoon, lawmakers will try to get to the bottom of the spending scandal at the government services administration. the house overnight committee begins a hearing to find out how the agency can justify spending more than $800,000 on a lavish las vegas convention in 2010. video surfaced of gsa employees mocking president obama at the event and staging a fake red carpet ceremony. gsa administrator martha johnson resigned two weeks ago, she is scheduled to testify and we'll be joined by jason chaffetz. and another pitch to put roger clemens behind bars. jury selection begins in his retrial for allegedly lying to congress about using performance-enhancing drugs. it comes nine months after a judge declared a mistrial when the prosecution showed jurors a video that contains inadmissible evidence. stocks are set for a slightly higher open after last week's sell-off when stocks posted their worst losses of the year. belingering concerns about europe's debt crisis could be an issue today as well as retail sales which are expected to show a slowdown in march, because high gas prices are hitting spending in other areas. citigroup earnings will be out in an hour. "the hunger games" has been number one for four weeks straight now. no film has done that since "avatar." followed by "the three stooges" which earned $17.1 million and "the cabin in the woods" with $14.8. hillary clinton shaking it with her staff in colombia, seems to be enjoying a bit of a break, letting her hair down, she partied at club havana, website trip adviser says it's the number one night life spot in the city. so at least she went to the right place, soledad. >> clearly, clearly. she would know where the hot spot is. zoraida, thanks. >> you're welcome. this morning, president obama is demanding a thorough and rigorous investigation into allegations of misconduct by secret service agents some accused of soliciting prostitutes in colombia. >> if it turns out that some of the allegations that have been made in the press are confirmed, then of course i'll be angry. we're here on behalf of our people, and that means that we conduct ourselves with the utmost dignity and probity, and obviously what's been vorreport doesn't match up with standards. >> 11 agents and officers are accused of bringing prostitutes to their hotel in cartegna before their summit there. all are on administrative leave. this morning we talked to dan m emmit wrote a book called "within arm's reach." thank you for being with us. >> good morning. >> good morning to you. can you start by assessing the actual risk here, would these secret service agents have valuable information about the trip, would they be working with the president in any way, shape or form? >> presidential advance team that goes overseas is literally a cast of hundreds. you have the people who are going to be doing the various sites, the motorcade routes and so on. most of these people are not in direct access to the president. those would be the agents surrounding him, members of the presidential protective division. from what i've read and from what i understand these particular individuals were not or would not be in close proximity to the president. >> but in terms of information, i ask because of course there is a question about could they be blackmailable? was there information that having a scandal around them could you leverage down the road? >> in the world of espionage and foreign intel services, anything is possible. however, i just don't see it in this case. these particular individuals i don't believe they would be targeted by foreign intel. they just simply don't have the information that would be valuable to one of those services to go to this extent. >> this is abby huntsman here. lot of people have their question on their mind, how common is this? you start wondering how many times has this happened on advanced trips like this? how far do you think they'll go in the investigation on prior trips like this? >> that's a good question but you have to keep in mind that the president since the beginning of the presidential protective division in 1902 has been on hundreds and hundreds of overseas trip. this is the first time anything like this has come up. one would have to draw from that the conclusion this is a very isolated type of incident if indeed it did occur. these are allegations up until this point. these individuals were sent home and rightly so, so that a full investigation could be conducted but at this point, all you have really are some claims made by a colombian national from what i've read, that's how this all started. see how it shakes out if indeed it comes to pass these people did what they're accused of doing, what you're going to see is they're certainly guilty of horrible judgment, and bad personal conduct, behaving badly if you will. prostitution as we all know is legal in colombia, although not acceptable by secret service standards but in that, no laws have been broken. this is a conduct issue at this point. >> congressman darrell issa is probably going to be looking into this. he starts with the blackmail question i asked you but goes on to talk about he doesn't think this is an isolated incident. listen. >> so when you look at this, you realize if you can have this kind of breakdown, one that could lead to blackmail and so on we've got to ask where are the systems in place to prevent this in the future? the reason that the investigation will not be about the 11 to 20 or more involved, it will be about how did this happen and how often has this happened before, things like this don't happen once, if they didn't happen before. >> this is will cain. to follow up on abby's point, congressman issa is not as confident as you are this is an isolated experience. we hear about the term wheels up, rings off, that was tossed around the agency, is there any culture of this activity being the norm? >> well with due respect to the congressman i would say this is not the norm. the secret service is comprised of thousands and thousands of dedicated people committed to keeping the financial infrastructure of the country safe as well as our country and if what's alleged to have happen or alleged to have happened did happen, you're talking 10 or 11 people out of an agency of thousands. it would be an isolated incident. in my 20-year career this was certainly not the norm and it's certainly out of the ordinary. >> dan emmitt, nice to see you sir, thanks for your insight. appreciate it. >> thank you. still ahead this morning on "starting point," he was killed 16 years ago but this weekend snoop dogg performed with tupac. it's our "get real" they used holograms to make tupac come back to life. attacks in afghanistan, the worst since the u.s. was targeted last year. is this proof the u.s. should stay in the country? 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>> hakani was one of the six groups that fought the soviets ago, then a binster of tribal affairs off of the coast. he would see himself as a major player. he wants his son who is running that organization and they're using sheer violence against the afghan government because they want to bring karzai down. they don't have the strength to do that but that's what they want. >> john mccain said this over the weekend, listen. >> that every time the president announced another withdrawal his military commander said it increases the risk. that's what we're seeing here. >> do you agree that this attack is indicative of increased risk? >> every time there's discussion of withdrawal this gives additional confidence to the taliban and the groups. what we need to recognize is it's not just the number of americans on the ground that will determine the future of afghanist afghanistan, it's the authority in which they operate. we could have a smaller footprint in afghanistan. so long as they have the correct rules of engagement that allow them to fight a smaller force in the united states can do well there. the phlegm america we like to have a public discussion of all of this and this provides a little bit of nurture and encouragement to the taliban which is not helpful. >> gary bernson, thank you for being with us. >> you're welcome. still ahead bill cosby speaking out about the trayvon martin shooting, said it doesn't matter if george zimmerman was profiling. snoop dogg performs with rap legend tupac, who has been dead for 16 years. it's a hologram. it's in today's "get real." we'll take a short break and be back in a moment. k. a living, breathing intelligence teaching data how to do more for business. 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