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we are getting right now, and this is from wdaf. we're going to go to another live shot that we have of the region, kansas city, missouri. do we have that, guys, producers? there it is. okay. this is kctv. thank you to our affiliates who are helping us cover this story. the clouds are obviously very ominous. you have the rain showers coming in, the possibility for hail and very damaging winds in excess of 60 miles per hour and not only do we have a report of this tornado but we also have reports of tornadoes with the same supercell in parts of central missouri, so jackson county, also clay county, southeastern platt county, again part of the same system. we are going to continue to monitor these pictures. i want to show you the storm system that is creating all of this severe weather, our low pressure system that came out of the rockies, you can see that spin, and it continues to move eastward but it's just lumbering, taking a very longtime. tornado watches in effect for the areas we think have the greatest potential for severe weather. there is the kansas city area. as you can see the supercell right there, and the pinks that you see in the radar that's the intensity of the storm, the heavy rainfall, the possibility of hail and the possibility of tornadoes dropping. so just the one thing that we have seen this season, this tornadic season is that these tornadoes, these cells are hitting densely populated areas. that's why we are seeing exceptional amounts of tornadoes, historic for the month of april 87 875 reports of tornadoes and over 150 for the month of may. when you look at yesterday we saw dallas, joplin, missouri, tuscaloosa last month. this is a situation that is different because they are not just hitting farmland, they are hitting major metropolitan areas. that's why we are seeing incredible death tolls, and i'm hoping that because we have had this precedent of severe weather this season that people are heading the warnings, they are heeding the sirens, they are going to the lowest portion of their home without windows, go to your basement, interior sections with no windows. you need to be heeding all of those warnings. unfortunately this is going to continue throughout the afternoon into the evening and into the overnight for some of these areas. >> reporter: oh, january is such scary stuff particularly after all the destruction we saw in joplin, if a tornado that size was to touchdown in kansas city as densely populated as that is obviously it would be disaster. >> reporter: devastating. >> reporter: we want to keep you obviously on stand by throughout the morning as we watch the ominous clouds and see what develops. we want to bring in carey hill of the louisville secretary that watched the tornado that janice just talked about watch go by her office. are you there. >> yes. >> reporter: tell us what you saw today. >> we thought it was strong winds. as we were looking out we saw like a funnel cloud stirring around the leaves and we decided to go to the bathroom. >> reporter: you have to take cover? >> yes. >> reporter: and where is your office? >> it's in the middle of the town of louisburg on broadway. >> reporter: as we understand it you saw this funnel cloud and you all ran to take cover but it did flip over some cars in the parking lot. >> a couple of streets over. i haven't heard, our reporter is still out. apparently there had been some cars flipped over. it came out of nowhere, because the siren didn't go off until after it had passed. >> reporter: that's interesting, in fact that's really relevant to everything we've been hearing. sometimes people have, you know, 17-minute warning in joplin, sometimes they don't hear any siren or no siren goes off. how did you all know what to do when you saw this cloud emerging? >> well, it just -- like i said it was just across the street and the first thing -- the coworker said we need to get to the bathroom now, so that's what we did. >> reporter: oh, my gosh. >> it was pretty scary. >> reporter: how close is louisberg to downtown kansas city. >> probably 30 miles south. my husband works in overland park and he said that there were sirens going off there as well. >> reporter: what a never nerve-racking season this must be for all of you in missouri. what's this week been like. >> kind of crazy, i've never seen a tornado and i don't care to see one again. >> reporter: so many people describe when a tornado sweeps by them as the sound of a train, and what they see. what was it like when you all saw this out your window? what did you hear and see? >> you know, all we heard was a big gust of wind. it really wasn't that loud. it was just really strange. it had just stopped raining and then we saw this funnel go by and decided to get into the bathroom. so it wasn't -- it was just a big gust of wind, it wasn't real loud, so i was surprised because i had heard it sound like a train, obviously it wasn't a large one which we are thankful for. >> reporter: of course, yo it mt be particularly nerve racking after what happened in joplin. >> absolute lie. >> reporter: thank you for sharing your firsthand experience with us. we really appreciate it. be careful. >> thank you so much. >> reporter: meanwhile these new warnings are coming just hours after a monster tornado ripped across oklahoma splintering homes, crushing cars and uprooting trees and taking the lives of countless people. take a look at this video captured as the tornado slammed into the area. >> okay, okay, okay, it's recording. [crying] >> we're okay, we're okay. >> reporter: that's terrifying, imagine trying to outrun a tornado in your car. noaa releasing this preliminary storm track showing the path of four tornadoes that struck oklahoma. chris gutierrez is in cashin, oklahoma for us. what do you see there. >> reporter: when you hear that sound you'd be silly not to heed the warnings. this was chickashay, oklahoma last night. listen. >> it crossed the road. slow down. get out your window, get out your window. >> i am. >> okay. >> oh, my god, back up. >> reporter: that is just one of multiple tornadoes that tore a path of destruction here in the state of oklahoma some 50 miles long. so far we have confirmed eight people have died here in the state of oklahoma, and the man who owns the home here behind me, or what is left of it knows that the damage and the death toll would have been greater if it weren't for his storm shelter. as we pan around here to my right, your left, you see it right back here, scott, if we can actually work our camera in that direction i want to show you the man who lives here, he, his wife, his two children and even some neighbors, they all huddled up inside here, in fact you can see that they had their drinks, there are some pillows, chairs, an apple down there. they were trying to make this as comfortable as they could for his 11-year-old daughter, his nine-year-old son, help were screaming and crying, but fortunately they rode that storm out inside the storm shelter and survived because of it. as we pan around the neighborhood it helps put in perspective the furry of mother nature when a twister comes tearing through this community around 6:00 last night. back to you. >> reporter: there are no words for what we're seeing there and the devastation. thanks so much for that peak inside the storm shelter where waoepl rode it out safely. people in joplin, missouri had less and 20-minute warning before the twister was on top of them on sunday. besides the fact that they form so quickly. when it comes to predicting tornadoes 70% of warnings are actually false alarms. trace gallagher is live in our west coast newsroom with more on how this works for forecasters. this is a tricky science. >> reporter: it is. you heard janice dean there, you talk about the watch boxes. weather forecasters have satellites, radar, computer technologies, and they've become very, very good at being able to identify the unstable conditions that spawn tornadoes. i mean we can now forecast tornadoes days ahead of time or at least tornadic activity so people you would think would have plenty of warning, right? the problem is, even with all that technology this is far from an exact science. they still cannot pinpoint tornadoes until just before they actually touch the ground, which is why warnings and watch boxes that you see on the weather screens are so big. sometimes they are as big as the states themselves. the research now shows that 75% of tornado warnings are false alarms. they have this documented, a substantial false alarm affect. get this the areas that actually have higher rates of false alarms, they have higher death and injury rates when a tornado actually does strike that area. it's kind of the cry wolf theory, right? people simply don't respond. here is an example. hreupbs. >> my mother knocked on my door saying the sirens went off, and i probably did the normal response, yeah, yeah, yeah. >> we hear them a lot, and then nothing really happens, so we go, yeah. it's another tornado siren, there is no tornado. it's just rain. >> reporter: yeah, the theory is better safe and sorry, but some some speculated maybe we are over warning too much. this. by the way, is a live look over kansas city again, look at the clouds there, very ominous, and remember very important to point out that all tornadoes don't have that genie in a bottle look, that funnel look that we've come conditioned to see. these are clouds taken from a guy who has covered a lot of these, these clouds very dangerous looking. we will keep watching this in kansas city, missouri, because that right there is a very bad sign. if you live in kansas city remember they are talking about e4, e5 tornadoes, 172 miles and up, very bad. >> reporter: that would be a disaster. trace, thanks for explaining it to us. there are new concerns today about a new white house media position. this man is now in charge of monitoring all online criticism of the president. monica crowley is going to be up next on that. and nascar driver kyle busch in big trouble today for racecar antics in a residential neighborhood. wait until you see the car he was driving. we'll be right back. lexus holds s value better than any other luxury brand. ♪ tellichoice proclaims that lexus has the best overall value of any brand. ♪ and j.d. power and associates ranks lexus highest in customer satisfaction. no wonder more people have chosen lexus over any other luxury brand 11 years in a row. see ur lexus dear. alisyn: fox news alert for you now an extreme weather alert. on the left side of your screen you're looking at the skies over kansas city. we are continuing to watch the storms there, because they contain tornadoes. and they are tracking towards kansas city, missouri. three area counties are currently under tornado warnings. there was a report of a tornado on the ground in just the last hour. no word of any since then but janice dean is standing by and she is going to be back with us in moments. meanwhile critics are now calling it a strong-armed tactic in president obama's re-election bid, the white house hiring this man that you're about see as the new director of progressive media and online response. in simple turns, jesse lee will monitor all the critical press written about the president. why now? monica crowley radio talk show host and fox news contributor has some ideas. hi, monica. >> hi. alisyn: the white house has hired this guy to basically monitor all social media. he is going to look at twitter and others to see if there is anything untrue about the president. >> reporter: if you say anything negative about the president or anything that they perceive is inaccurate or in correct about the president they are going to pound you into submission. alisyn: how do you know that, that's a little strong. >> reporter: mr. lee's first tweet about his position shows him as the terminator. given mr. schwarzenegger's recent problems i'm not so sure that is such a smart idea. alisyn: this is a joke. >> reporter: i understand it is a joke. the larger point is that this white house has done the chicago way all along from the 2008 elections, straight through the white house years and now i think gearing up for 2012. the chicago way basically involves intimidating, brow beating and intimidating political opponents until they withdraw, weaken and are destroyed. alisyn: if someone said for the past two years in various blogs on you and you couldn't produce your birth certificate, or your birth certificate was a fraud wouldn't you assign somebody to monitor some of this disinformation? >> reporter: first of all had that been me i would have released the birth certificate fair enough. alisyn: fair enough. >> reporter: however, they do have a track record in this white house of really going after political opponents in the chicago chicago kind of way. they excluded republicans from high level white house meetings all through the first two years of this presidency, including the obamacare, those critical meetings. they also prohibited republicans from debate in the congress from adding amendments that came from the congressional democratic side not necessarily from the white house. it was the way it was done. remember this white house also went to war with this network fox news, talk radio. they freezed out newspapers like the san francisco chronical and the "boston herald," which they perceive as too critical of them. alisyn: it sounds like what waour saying is this new position worries you for what the implications could be. it's not that jesse lee has done anything wrong. all he says is he's going to send out tweets, that sounds totally harmless. >> reporter: there is nothing wrong with a campaign being aggressive against opponents or people who are critical of the candidate and his position, but this seems to be an institutionalized thing with president obama and with this white housement remember they pounded my old boss richard nixon for doing this kind of thing, but with obama, that's just the way we do it. alisyn: yet, obviously we are in this newer a a new age, maybe this white house is trying to be modern with having a twitter bar of some kind. >> reporter: covering political opponents. i think there is a lesson in this for the republicans, which is that it seems that the white house is anticipating the kind of race the gop should run into next year, which is making it a referendum on the president and his destructive economic policies. if the republicans are smart they'll go out and make this not about the republican candidate, hodge ever he or she might be, but about obama's record of massive expansion of government, unprecedented spending, record-breaking deficits and debt and socialized medicine. if they do that they could run lassie and win, and probably that's what this position is all about is trying to prevent the republicans from being super aggressive in questioning obama's record. alisyn: we shall see. thank you for alerting us to this new position, monica crowley always great to see you. >> reporter: thank you. alisyn: we have new details on what is happening now in kansas city. there were reports a short while ago of a tornado on the ground there. janice dean is watching it and she will be back with us in three short minutes. kyle busch is used to getting trophies for going fast. when he took a new sports car out on a public residential road and treated it like a nascar track, well the 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in janice dean right now to tell us what we are looking at, janice, what do you see when you look at these skies. >> reporter: obviously the recipe for severe weather across the midwest, like we saw yesterday. the storm prediction center saying in the kansas city area do not get your guard down. you want to be listening for those sirens if they go out and to go to your basement or the lowest portion of your home, and away from the windows, and h u.n. ker down. unfortunately we will see more of the cells moving through the kansas city area. i want to take a look at the one tornadic cell we saw move through. it looks like kansas city you will be in the clear but we have more storms here to the north and west of this system. so, again, you might see clear skies for a little bit of time, but we are still dealing with this system. it is a slow mover and it's going to affect a large portion of the country. there is our tornado warnings, just north of the kansas city area and east of this region, and then several tornado warnings extending into missouri. and we have a high-risk area, something that the storm prediction center put out yesterday for the possibility of very damaging long-lasting possibly deadly tornadoes throughout the afternoon all across the tennessee river valley, and unfortunately dumping more rain into the mississippi river, which is another story we've been closely monitoring. alisyn: oh, boy, such scary stuff, we can only imagine how disastrous it would be if it dropped down in a major city. meanwhile nascar drivers know how to burn rubber on the track. 26-year-old kyle busch is in trouble for putting his skills to use, well on a residential road. bush apparently reach speeds that could cost the average driver his license. trace gallagher is live in our west coast newsroom. trace, how fast was he going. >> reporter: after i tell you i want to show you the car. this is the lexus lsa. i have no idea what lfa stands for. it could be a lot of freaking acceleration. it goes 202 miles per hour. base price $275,000. you want it loaded try 450. kyle busch driving near his hometown in charlotte. he's in a 45-mile per hour zone, he's going 83 miles per hour over the speed limit. he's driving 128 miles per hour. the cop pulls him over, asks him why he's going so fast, bush says, quote, this is just a toy. he's cited for reckless driving, careless driving, and speeding. he issued a statement i was test driving a sports car and i apologiza gotcarried away. i went beyond the speed. i should have been going on a public road. still no comment from the race team, joe gibbs racing. i'm quoting here, this is one of the better ones i remember about the 128-mile per hour thing. he will be allowed to race this weekend in the coca-cola 600. in case you are wondering, we did the math for kyle busch to stop going 128 miles an hour would take him 680 feet, that is more than two football fields. he could lose his driver's license. can you imagine a nascar driver with no driver's license? alisyn: no, that is hard to imagine. why wouldn't he lose it? wouldn't the rest of us lose our license for that kind of reckless speed. >> reporter: probably not it's a first time offense. we take that back, he was cite ford speeding a few years ago but not to the severity where he should lose his license. it's going to cost him some dough. not that he doesn't have it. alisyn: if you're buying that expensive of a car i guess you can afford the ticket whatever it will be. that is incredible. imagine seeing that on a residential street. trace thanks so much. meanwhile days of deadly tornadoes are creating terrifying scenes like this one. >> back up. oh, no. stop. oh, no, what did it destroy. >> oh no is right. alisyn: more dangerous weather is streaming over the eastern half of the country. we'll detail the most serious threats in a live update from the weather center for you. democrats are cheering a win in a special house vote in new york. there is a 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[ female announcer ] phillips' colon health. alisyn: fox news alert we got off the phone with emergency management in kansas city. we were checking on reports that storms containing tornadoes have crossed into the city. there consider counties under tornado warnings, three of them. there was a report of a tornado on the ground in just the past hour. well they just told us that kansas city, quote, dodged a bullet. the system passed by kansas city with no reports of tornado damage thus far. so that is good news to report at this hour. meanwhile another fox news alert for you. we want to tell you what is happening in the casey anthony trialment new testimony in the murder trial today. the young mother is accused of killing her own daughter back in 2008. well today her former roommates took the stand revealing new details about anthony's state of mind after her daughter disappeared. fox' phil keating is live in orlando. tell us what was happening on the witness stand, phil. >> reporter: hi, it was a rapid parade of witnesses all of whom were roommates of the ex-boyfriend of the murder defendant casey anthony. all of them testified on behalf of the state that during the month that caylee anthony was supposedly missing and casey anthony was launching her own private investigation to find her, they say say she seemed happy, not unhappy, not distraught, like a nice party girl. on the witness stand is brian burner, the next door neighbor of george and cindy anthony the grandparents of little caylee and the defense did not want this evidence submitted for the jury to hear buy they are now listening to, that being that this neighbor, brian burner length his shovel to casey anthony on the afternoon when he saw her car, driven by her back into her parents' garage. this is certainly evidence that the state is presenting here to lead the jury to believe that in fact casey anthony was in the process of disposing of her dead daughter at this time. earlier today a couple of photographs were released showing casey anthony in a blue dress, out at a club called club fushion back in the summer of 2008 where there was a hot body contest going on, and here is one ever the former roommates of her ex-boyfriend being asked questions by prosecutors frank george. >> did you ever see her distraught. >> ever see her what, excuse me? >> distraught. >> no, sir. >> depressed? >> no, sir. >> scared? >> no, sir. >> angry? >> no, sir. >> worried. >> no, sir. >> at any time that you knew casey anthony while she was living with you did she ever tell you that her daughter was missing. >> no, sir. >> that her daughter had been kidnapped? >> no, sir. >> reporter: of course yesterday ended with george anthony, caylee's grandfather and casey's father on the stand denying all of the lead defense attorney's accusations in his opening statement that not only did he help cover up the accidental drowning death of caylee in the swimming pool in the backyard of his house which unfolded like a bombshell yesterday, also he denied ever sexually assaulting his daughter casey, as was also alleged by lead defense attorney jose baez yesterday. this is just day two and it's going to be a long one, six to eight weeks, and it is living up to the sensational reputation that this case has had for the past three years. back to you. alisyn: sure is, every day is a bombshell in that case. phil keating thanks so much for the update. yes there was this huge bombshell as the defense attorney for casey anthony said that the child drowned, and he went onto suggest that the family knew what happened to the toddler, yet never said anything. brad conway is a former attorney for the anthony family. we want to get him to weigh in on this. hello, brad. what do you make of this defense bombshell that in fact this was an accidental drowning and the family helped cover it up? >> it's ludicrous. any criminal defense attorney with a lick of common-sense would have been at the prosecution's desk the day after this unfolded and told the prosecution the story, and it would have gone from there. alisyn: i can only imagine what a shock it was to her parents, to her father to hear that this was going to be her gambit, this was going to be her defense in this trial that he was involved. >> it is a shock to everybody and anybody that knows george anthony knows that the result would have been very different. george said himself on the stand, if that had happened, meaning mr. baez' allegations, if that had happened we won't be here today. alisyn: they also said that george anthony molested casey. why are they trying to impugn his character so much in a trial about her? >> i can't answer that question. it's a ludicrous assertion. and mr. baez has taken what was a zero burden for the defense and placed a huge burden on the defense. he now has to prove what he alleged in his opening statement. the only person he can do that with is casey anthony, a person who will lie to you about the time of day, knowing you've got a wrist watch on your hand. alisyn: we just heard from some of her roommates, i want to get you to comment on what they said, her ex-boyfriend's roommates who said that he never saw her distraught. she seemed actually like a pretty happy go lucky party girl. that is not going to work well for the defense. >> it's not going to work well at all. again it goes back to mr. baez placing this huge burden on the defense that he doesn't have under our system, and he cannot back up his claims, because all of the witnesses -- and we now what they are going to say through the discovery -- all of the witnesses are going to say she behaved as though nothing had happened. alisyn: you know, this is why people i think get angry with defense attorneys and they sometimes get a bad reputation, because sometimes they appear to make things up out of whole cloth. is there any germ of truth to this defense, or does this seem outlandish? >> in my opinion, no, and yes it does seem outlandish, and it goes back to what i initially said, which is any defense attorney with a lick of common-sense would have immediately gone to the prosecution with this story. and i'll tell you what would have happened had he done that. they would have worked something out for his client. and i'm glad that they didn't, because what would have then happened is the sheriff's office would have been obligated to investigate casey anthony's claims that george anthony had been molesting her since eight years old. that is a capitol offense in florida with no statute of limitations. limitations. alisyn: you know the namely. you were their attorney. what do you think is going through their mind as they sit in the courtroom analyst tone this? >> i don't want to speculate on that, because they do have counsel right now. but i've got to believe that they were more shocked than anybody else in the courtroom. there is not even a grain of truth to this. and i've got to believe that they are just incredibly disappointed. alisyn: brad conway thanks so much for coming in with your personal insight into this family. we appreciate it. >> you're welcome. alisyn: good news moments ago from kansas city as emergency management teams tell us that they dodged a bullet from the dramatic storms that you can see right now that are passing over the city. but there is a new threat shaping up for the eastern part of the state, and new heartache for the folks cleaning up in oklahoma. we are live on the storms next. and democrats are cheering a win in a special house vote in new york, but there is a big fight brewing over how and why exactly they won, and the role of the so-called tea party candidate who has become infamous for this. >> why did you back out on the debate. >> you want to punch it out? >> yeah -- hu -- hu, sir, why did you back out of the debate? why did you back out of the debate? why did you -- alisyn: fox news alert on a new and significant tornado threat spanning from west texas all the way east to upstate new york. national forecasters are issuing a severe weather warning today. this system could bring more strong tornadoes to the already hard-hit central u.s. this warning comes just hours after a monster tornado ripped across oklahoma. noaa releasing this preliminary storm track that you can see showing the path of four tornadoes that struck in oklahoma. danica lawrence of koki in for the gibson, oklahoma for us, what are you seeing there danica? >> reporter: hi, i'm at the south side of the long bay marina at fo fort gibson lake. last night's storm advertise stroeud foudestroyedfour of thea $50,000 rr. downed power lines, the main one is over here behind me. several feeder lines were also destroyed. i'll walk over here a little ways and have my photographer lee carter show you. that scenery. peter: itself throughout the area. however, we do have some good news to tell you about, no one was hurt here last night. only one man was actually here in this area. this is a part time residential community, so he was the only one staying, and you could see where the tree collapsed over his truck right here and onto his roof of his home. you can see these tree branches, they shot right through the window on top of the truck and just destroyed -- we've got more branches right over here, i'll try to clear the way here without getting the cords -- the red cross had actually left wagner county because there was no need for them to be here after no one was in this area last night. several people have come out here assessing the damage, the electric company being one of them. you can see them behind me, they are cutting down the trees that destroyed the power lines. they say they will try to have power back up in a couple of days to try to return to some kind of normalcy. i spoke with the owner of this 40-acre marina and he tells me that he feels very lucky that these storms didn't come through tomorrow or over the next couple of days, because it is memorial day weekend and this is a hot spot for people to come and camp out and celebrate the holiday. he feels very lucky that people were not out here, no one was hurt. and so we are just seeing lots of scenes like the one behind me. four mobile home sites that look similar to this one destroyed. alisyn: it is remarkable to hear that more people weren't home and no one was hurt or killed there after we see all those trees down. thanks so much for showing that to us. we are also getting reports from chiccickakha, oklahoma. they are experiencing looting problems, they had some arrests. we are going to talk with the mayor there about the search and rescue mode and what they are dealing with at this hour. that's in just moments. are you receiving a payout from a legal settlement or annuity over 10 or even 20 years? 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[ male announcer ] there's more barbeque time in every bag of kingsford charcoal. kingsford. slow down and grill. alisyn: new fallout from the special election in upstate new york. democrat kathy houhl coming out on top after hammering jane corpsman on her entitlements. conservatives say, what about the guy who claimed to be a tea party candidate, even though the tea party declared him a complete and total fraud? christopher hahn is a former aid to senator chuck schumer and chris plant is the host of the chris plant radio show. thank you for joining me. >> great to be here. alisyn: this was a democrat who won in this republican district. was this a referendum on medicare? >> of course not. if this is a test of what we're going to be seeing in the 2012 election then america better brace itself. this was about lies, misrepresentations, fear and fraud, and quite honestly it's fraud on the front of jack davis, who is a longtime democrat, contributed all kinds of money to democrats, he is affiliated with acorn organizations. he's a big lefty. they ran him fraudulently as a tea party candidate in order to divide the public and conservative vote which they effectively did take 9% of the vote away from the republican who would have otherwise won theee hreb. and quite honestly the justice department should be investigating this. alisyn: go ahead. christopher hahn. alisyn: this you want to say this was all about jack davis please continue to promote the ryan plan and lose more seats in the house, and of course weaken your chance of taking the senate and give up all hope about taking the white house, because that is never going to happen. >> what i don't want to give up -- alisyn: christopher hahn what do you think happened. >> i think what happened was senior citizens say, hey, don't mess with my medicare. in 2010 in that district senior citizens gave republicans a 21 point advantage in that house seat. this time they gave a democrat the 21 point advantage and that's the difference in this election. third party candidates always are a protest vote. if people came out and voted for davis they were protesting the republicans. that district is a ruby red district. it is 60% for the republican in 2010 when andrew cuomo won -- >> stop talking now, stop talking. that's wonderful but this race stole 9% away from the republican by putting up a fake third party candidate that was in fact a democrat. alisyn: i understand what you're saying. >> but it's more than that. and secondly, i'm sorry, but, chris, i'll be happy to promote the ryan plan, the ryan plan saves medicare. >> keep doing it, we love it. >> barack obama and obamacare gutted medicare of $500 billion. that is a true statement of fact. what you are peddling with the ryan plan -- alisyn: before we get into an argument about medicare i want to tell you some information that we just got moments ago, because president bill clinton, former president clinton is speaking at an event in dc, he said something interesting about the ryan plan. he said, i'm afraid that the democrats will draw the conclusion that because congressman ryan's proposal i think is not the best one, that we shouldn't do anything. and i completely disagree with that. christopher hahn, he makes a good point, the democrats are just saying, ooh, be scared of the ryan proposal but they are not coming up with their own plan. >> well, i think that -- listen, there is a working group making recommendations in the senate. >> a working group. >> and getting recommendations from the president's working group that is going to work its way out. i agree with president clinton we must do something to stabilize the program. >> yes. >> what ryan does it forces seniors to maybe difficult choices that's why i call it the perina plan. >> stop talking now. this is what we call demogoggig. you know the whole narrative is false, have you no plan, you know ryan's plan saves medicare. obamacare guts it of $500 billion. you know this is a false move that your friends in "the new york times" and elsewhere will carry your water for you. but it was a corrupt and stolen election based on lies and fraud. >> chris, i love you. alisyn: last word chris hahn. >> it's $500 billion in saving through efficiency. >> saving through efficiency. >> we had to find a resolution. ryan's plan is mean, it hurts seniors and it's got to be scrapped. i think all republicans agree with me on that. i'm willing to have a vote in the senate right now. alisyn: you can take this off line. make a phone call to each other after this. thanks for coming in and duking it out with us. new developments this week on what some free speech advocates call the most important court case in a decade. we'll talk with a lawyer handling the so-called candy cane case, about what this ruling means for the country. plus the skies above the eastern half of the country are threatening to unleash more dangerous and potentially deadly weather. a live update from the fox 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[ male announcer ] so don't blame it on aging. talk to your doctor and go to isitlowt.com to find out more. alisyn: it's a fox news alert. you are looking at live pick tiewshes from kansas city, missouri as another storm system is threatening a new rounds of dress struckive and potentially deadly twisters. it's a brand-new hour of "america live." we are expecting dangerous and severe weather in the coming hours. it's stretching from the eastern part of texas to buffalo, new york. >> it's crossing -- slow down. look out your window, look out your window. alisyn: that's a heart pumper. new tornado watches and warnings. what scares you most when you look at your map. >> those are trained weather spotters. we don't want people going out and videotaping tornadoes like that. we say the debris. that's not just paper. that's roofs coming off houses. an extremely dangerous situation. we have tornado watches in effect several of them stretching from the midwest toingt ohio river valley. this will be an afternoon and overnight events. as we get into darkness people will have to listen to their noaa weather radios. we have a line of storms that will move through this area. we are seeing more thunderstorms, supercells erupting into missouri. one of those cells, significant damage being reported 9 miles east of mile marker 88 and 104. so this swarm of tornado warnings is where we are seeing the potentially dangerous situation. then you go across into indiana and ohio. that's where we have tornado watches, severe thunderstorm warnings in effect. we can see strong rotation and those thunderstorm warnings could turn into tornado warnings. you don't see this very often, but this is day two where you see the high risk area where we have a good indication all the ingredients will come together for long lasting large and possibly deadly tornadoes if you are not listening and paying close attention to your authorities. that severe weather threat extending from texas all the way up towards the interior northeast. but that white shaded area including you in memphis, a particularly dangerous situation, especially as we get into the overnight hours. and we'll be covering this. the thing that we have seen this season week after week is these storms are hitting heavily populated areas. that's why we are seeing the destruction and death toll as high as it's been. alisyn: last hour we talked about how one was hovering over kansas city. are they out of the woods? >> no, they are still under a tornado watch. that means conditions will continue to be favorable throughout the afternoon. this is a slow-moving system. it has got all the ingredients you need for severe weather. the low that came out of the rockies and abundant gulf of mexico moisture. and the fuel that unfortunately we have seen the last several days. >> this may be unanswerable, but how many more days or weeks do we have these conditions for these tornadoes? >> we can go into the june. may typically is the busiest month. last month april was historic. we had 875 reports of tornadoes. we had a bit of a lull getting into may but we are starting to see a more active season. as we get into june, we are looking up towards the upper midwest for the potential of severe weather. but it will continue into june and sometimes even into july. alisyn: as janice just said this years tornado season is shaping up to be one of the most ferocious. this month alone there have been more than 1,100 tornado. i think that's 1,000 tornadoes. the record number in may was 542 twisters set in 2003. and so far this year approximately 1,000 tornadoes have hit. not far from the average number of tornadoes in a single year which is more than 1,200. the highest recorded number of tornadoes in one year was in 2004 with 1,800. or more than 1,800 tornadoes. we are getting word from arkansas a fourth person has died after a tornado swept through. that raises the death toll to 14 people in three states. 8 people died in oklahoma as part of wednesday's outbreak. joining us live on the phone is the mayor of piedmont, oklahoma. one of the hardest hit tornado areas. madame mayor tell us what you are seeing there and experiencing today. >> we are seeing homes anywhere from shingles missing to half the houses gone, to the houses just flat gone. we have got people trying to go into recovery mode. but we want to let them know we have got to do assessment first. we have got to get in there, know where the most damage was done. make sure insurance is taken care of and these homes can be taken care of. alisyn: are awful your residents accounted for? >> no, not all of them. we have a 3-year-old toddler missing at this point in time. and we have had search and rescue mission ongoing for him since last night. and those -- that mission was not suspended, but it was drawn back because over the evening you just can't do search and rescue at night. but we drew it back. our fire department which is predominantly volunteers went out to the area and was searching and frankly we needed it quiet. we were hoping to hear from cries from a child. unfortunately we have heard nothing at this point in time. alisyn: that breaks our heart to hear. what was the situation with that child that is missing. >> from what i understand, there were two other siblings involved. a mother who is expecting. and mother went to the interior room in the house which is typically a bathroom and to get into a bath tub and cover yourself as best you are able. and we know that two of those children have gone -- are in critical condition. went to local hospitals. we do not know what their status is at this point in time. and we have a 3-year-old missi missing. alisyn: that just one family. and that just illustrates the disruption of these tornado. did the people there have any warning that this was coming? >> absolutely. you are correct. yes, it is only one family and it's truly devastating for that one family. but that's the only missing individual. and there are no fatalities currently known in the city of piedmont because of our warning system. our emergency people put a warning in place anywhere from 30 minute to 45 minute before that storm actually hit these homes. it is due to the foresight of our emergency management personnel it's also due to the fact that we live in tornado alley. we know how we are supposed to respond to these times of storms and that's what the people did to protect themselves. alisyn: we are look at storm chaser video. and before that we were looking at the destruction throughout oklahoma. how do you go about repairing your city at this point? >> first and foremost is to make sure everybody is okay. you start check on your neighbors and you wrap your sense of humor around you and say, you know, you have got your lawnmower over in the middle of my house, why? there are stories where people are coming together and we pulled together. we are an old pioneering community. some of these communities have been out here since the land run. this is okay -- it's not good, but this is our home. and we like these wide open spaces for a reason. we'll rebuild. and we are going to pull together to do it and take care of each on ther in the long run. alisyn: are you facing more storm watch today? >> we are sure looking at the clouds. it turned out to be a beautiful clear sky this morning. and clouds were popping up. and yes we are watching the clouds. alisyn: we appreciate you taking time out of your busy day to talk to us. please keep us posted on what happens with that 3-year-old and the two critically injured children. thanks so much for coming in. fox is covering this developing situation on air and on line. you can log on to foxnews.com/weather. a new showdown between the states and the federal government ended with an airline security bill in texas ground for good. the feds came in and threatened to cancel flights or even shut down airports. trace gallagher is live in the west coast newsroom with more on this. >> reporter: this bill passed the texas house. it would have made it a misdemeanor for agents to intentionally or knowingly touch anybody's private parts as they were going through security. the senator there in texas, dan patrick thought he had enough votes in the senate to get this thing passed and gets it to the governor's desk. then tsa came in and said fine. if this bill passes we can't search people. so we can't insure the safety of passengers and crew. therefore we'll have to shut down all of the airports in texas. senator patrick called that heavy handed bullying saying they are basically saying unless we allow them to grope our genitals we can't fly. here is the representative who sponsored the bill in the house. >> we have young children. autistic children separated from their mother saying stranger danger, man on boy. we are teaching our children this is indecent. it's wrong to allow people in these areas except for a doctor. >> reporter: some lawmakers were willing to call the government's bluff. they said you can't have rules for the entire country except for texas. for now the government won this round. alisyn: trace, thanks so much. there was one very angry american legion group in new york. they were upset that they held a memorial for a fallen soldier, a hero. then they got a bill from the utility company for hanging these american flags on polls. we'll talk with them and get scene update. former ambassador john bolton is next. >> to her majesty the queen. to the vitality of the special relationship between our people in the word of shakespeare ... ♪ and so the conversation turned ♪ ♪ until the sun went down ♪ alisyn: we promised we'll keep you updated on extreme weather. right now we are learning that law enforcement officials in missouri are confirming that a tornado touched down in their area. they are reporting no injuries yet. but -- to injuries but we don't know how many people or how severe their injuries are. we are monitoring the situation. you can see the area on the map. that's janice dean's weather map. we zoomed into sedalia, missouri. we'll keep you posted on where tornadoes are touching down and if anyone is injured. president obama vowing there will be no letup against moammar qaddafi in libya. the president refusing to set a deadline for the mission. the president and david cameron both agree on turning up the heat on libya. president obama addressed the issue of a time frame for the libyan mission. he said we have not put an artificial time line out. we'll achieve the mission in a timely fashion. that's vague. he's take something flack for having no end game from congress. but what else could he say? >> i think part of this is the continuing education of barack obama. implicit in his community a rejeskts post watergate war powers act which was a bad idea when it was passed and attempt to limit the president's authority as commander-in-chief. it's clearly unconstitutional and now we have a democratic president rejecting it as well. there is even more at stake. the president's policy is incoherent. he used to say we were using force to protect innocent civilians and while we wanted qaddafi to go, we weren't using force to accomplish that aim. these remarks today acknowledge that we are using force to try and get rid of qaddafi. but he doesn't want to set a time limit on it. he said we'll proceed deliberately. if your aim is to get rid of qaddafi and stop civilian suffering, the sooner you do that the better. alisyn: in terms of the time frame question, you will remember the president took heat for setting a time frame and deadline in iraq. they said you are alerting the enemies to when we'll be gone. hasn't he learned from that experience to not set a date certain? >> if he had learned he would go back and vote for iraq and afghanistan and say forget these part fission timetables. 's. alisyn: we are acknowledging we are using force to get rid of qaddafi. how long can this go? david cameron and president obama sound optimistic that qaddafi will can gone soon. >> we have in our hand the power to shatter his regime and i think we can do it sooner rather than later if we would step up the air strikes. to go after qaddafi himself. i think other cabinet ministers will detect. i think his military will continue to weaken. but you don't pea ply this force in a slow and deliberate way. we should after he ply it overwhelmingly. we should bring american strike aircraft back into this not simply providing command control and communication. we should be in the air over libya. and i think we could wrap this up much more quickly. alisyn: we need your diplomatic know how to help us understand what happened last night at this dinner with the queen of england. i want to show you a moment where the president was attempting to do something and it turned out awkwardly. watch this. >> to her imagine city the queen. the invoice talt of the special relationship between -- the vitality of the special relationship between our people and in the words of shakespeare to this blessed plot, this, this realm, this england. to the queen. alisyn: some analysts likened this to the academy award. he toasted but nobody else did. what was happening diplomatically there. >> this is a real glitch. when they play "god save the queen" it's like playing the stars spangled banner and people should be quite. i thought the queen was center restrained. she didn't say they are playing my song, be silent. but some advance man's head will roll for this one. you can count on that. alisyn: doesn't the white house have to train the president for all of these different diplomatic issues in different countries? it seems like that one was overlooked. we'll have to leave it there. ambassador john bolton, thank you for coming in with your expertise on etiquette and everything else. the white house calls it a success story. chrysler is cutting the government a big check to pay back the money for the auto bailout. but are the taxpayers getting the best deal on the lot? a group honoring the american soldier by flying the american flag on power polls throughout their community. imagine their surprise when the company sent them a bill. >> they said the state law required them to charge us $5 for each pole we put the flags on. view require' the principle. alisyn: a fox news alert. we are getting new information on a couple tornadoes. first we wants to show you this one. these are live pictures. this cities outside of kansas city, hour. they are under a tornado watch because of these ominous heavy clouds hanging over the area. people are worried this will turn into a funnel cloud where the tornado will touch down. meanwhile there has been a tornado that touched down in sedalia, missouri. that tornado has caused significant damage and the tornado was on the ground for quota good amount of time. janice dean is tracking this story. >> reporter: we are look at kansas city, hour. a tornado watch in effect. i don't have tornado warnings for the area. it looked like we would see a funnel cloud drop from the skies and that has since dissipated. you can see how ominous the picture looks like. you have the da daytime heating. unfortunately they are not out of the woods. if you see clear skies that could be misleading because we are dealing with the potential for severe weather. they did have a reported tornado move through the region an hour ago so we are monitoring these clouds. and as i mentioned moments ago, it looked like we were going to see a funnel drop out of the skies. in northeastern sedalia in missouri, i'm getting reports a town of 20,000 people. most of the city is without power. and we are getting reports of significant damage. you can see sedalia right in the middle of your screen. then jefferson city to the right of that where we are see something of these cells moving eastward. so jefferson city, very populated region, so some of these very dangerous storms could be moving into that region in the next several minutes. alisyn: janice, thank you. chrysler cutting uncle sam a multi-billion dollar check to repay the taxpayer funded bailout. the president calling it a significant milestone. about it turns out there is more to this story than meets the eye. eric bolling is the anchor of "follow the money" on the fox business network. >> reporter: this is another victory lap. the obama administration took a victory lap after g.m. paid back some of the loan. chrysler borrowed money from the banks. so the energy department gave chrysler a $3.5 green energy loan. it's taking money from the government in one pocket and paying the taxpayer money back. they still owe us $5.4 billion. we excused $4 billion in loans. this new loan we are giving them, they are still into us for almost $13 billion. gm, $35 billion. alisyn: they had to borrow the money to pay it back. >> they did. they borrowed the money from banks, some hedge funds. but these people weren't going to loan chrysler the money wfiat the money unless there was some money coming in. they turned to steven chu web said we'll call it a green energy loan. we are using our money to pay ourselves back. if you follow the money, $35 billion from gm in another almost $13 billion owed from chrysler fiat. alisyn: you do follow the money. you can catch eric bolling on "follow the money" every week night except thursdays at 10:00 p.m. it's described as one of the biggest liberty case. the case about whether a child has the right to freedom of speech. what is and is not allowed in your schools and who gets to decide that. rescuers are racing to find survivors in what's left of joplin, missouri. devastation there is everywhere. but so is hope. we have a live report on that in three minutes. >> i just prayed -- i'm thankful i'm still here. so many people that aren't. i'm sorry, i get emotional. they just lost everything, youel know. with new extra-strength bayer advanc aspirin. it has microparticles, enters the bloodstream faster and rushes relief to the site of pain. it's clinically proven to relieve pain ice as fast. new bayer advanced aspirin. or annuity over 10 or even 20 years? call imperial structured settlements. the experts at imperial can convert your long-term payout into a lump sum of cash today. alisyn: we have a fox news extreme weather alert. we are getting word the death toll is continuing to climb. the number killed in sunday's massive tornado stands at 122 people. and 750 others were injured. the national weather service labeled that tornado an ef5. the strongest rating possible. that means wind speeds reached more than 200 miles an hour. many people are using social media to try to locate missing friends and loved ones. among them, friends and family of will horton. he was driving home with his dad from his high school graduation when the storm flipped over the hummer they were driving in. will was thrown from the car through the sunroof. his father said he tried to hold onto his son but the storm power was too strong. check out these before and after pictures. this is main street. the land scrap -- the landscape. it looks like something out of a war zone. look at this home depot store. the roof torn off and the inside shredded. rescuers are still searching the store for trapped survivors. what's the situation like at this hour? >> reporter: there are two primarily activities taking place for the last two days while the weather hasn't been that bad. the search goes on for survivors. the search goes on for victims and the people who lived in these devastated homes are return together places they used to live, picking through the debris trying to piece that together, the little pieces of the lives they had before this tornado struck sunday. if i step out of the shot, i can let you get a look over my holder and try to get a feel for just how much wind scrept earth has been laid to ruin out here. a half mile wide were 6 miles long. all of this was neighborhoods just a few days ago. now you have the cars tipped over. the ruins of houses. people's belongings. and you have heavy equipment trying to pick through what remains of these houses. you may see -- these are the search and rescue crews. they have been focusing on one street in particular and we learned that's because they have some information that some people on that street are now unaccounted for. so they are going through the old homes. they are going through the debris hoping they can provide some answers to their loved ones. hoping against the odds those people have survived three nights since the tornado struck. but the weather hasn't been that old and it hasn't rained overnight. the people in joplin feel like they got a break. the sirens went off. the people huddled in the basements one more time. but storms didn't hit. you have got bluff skies overhead. the pails of the work is going at a frantic rate because the people want to gather their belongs and search for survivors before the bad weather wools in again. alisyn: we have seen some miracle survival stories, hopefully we'll see some more. new developments with what advocates call one of the most important free speech cases of our time. this was set off when an 8-year-old was band from bringing this candy cane pen to a winter party at his elementary school because the poem attached to the pen mentioned jesus. does a child have a first amount right to freedom of speech? with us is the president and ceo of liberty institute which represents several students and their parents in this case. this week this case was in court again. what did the judges have to say about this topic? >> well, i'm -- i think they were sceptical of the idea of stripping the rights of 41 million elementary students across the country. that's something we wouldn't even recognize our country. you could engage in religious discrimination against children. the government can punish them for their views. that's something we never allowed in this country. i think this attempt to change the laws that's been in place in this country for a half century. i hope they are not going to be successful. >> reporter: the parents of this little boy say that his freedom of speech was violated when the school confiscated or banned the pens. is there a precedent explaining whether second graders or any children have freedom of speech? >> one of the thing i tught was remarkable. one of the people in the courtroom during the argument was one of the barnett sisters back over 60 years ago, one of the cases every law student rides is the barnett case. it's about a little 9-year-old girl being one of the plaintiffs who won a first amendment case, she was being punished for free speech and expression of her religious views. and as a result we had that precedents. what has been in place since the 1940s. she was sitting on the same row with jonathan morgan. it's neat to see one 9-year-old to started this, now an 8-year-old following on in that tradition. that's what's great about america. the preservation of the fundamental constitutional principles we all rely upon. alisyn: why was the school offended by a mention of jesus in a poem at a winter party on a candy cane? >> i think that's why they made this extreme argument. it's clearly established that you can't do this. you can't ban student speech which is religious. there have been cases for 30 years on this very point. so they had to go or something pretty radical. their backup argument during the oral argument was, well, these are school officials and they shouldn't be responsible for knowing all these intricacies of the law. that doesn't go over too well. these are principals. they are supposed to teach the teachers about the law and what they are supposed to do. the idea you don't discriminate against children bawsms their faith, that's something everybody should know. alisyn: this has wide implications. we'll see what happens in the fifth district court appeal. thanks for come npg to explain it. meanwhile a group honors a fallen soldier by flying the american flag on polls throughout their community. imagine the surprise when the company send them a bill. >> who would ever imagine charging to hang the flag. that's like -- it goes against every core of my being and everybody else's core that calls this country great. 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well, we are happy to hear they changed their tune. what is the company now telling you about whether you can hang the flags? >> the ceo of the company offered to pay himself. we are all working cooperatively to try to fix the state law. we don't think it's right for the state to trier volunteer groups who want to put up flags to pay rent for that privilege. so we are working together now to try to get the law changed. alisyn: that temperature wonderful to hear. the ceo of the company also called the family of the lieutenant to apologize for this snafu which is a really nice gesture. but it's great that you made an issue out of this and you might get the law changed. what's your next step? >> the flags are up. they are going to stay. we have a wonderful memorial day celebration for this weekend. the other men and women who have given their lives to defend this great country ours and we are going to press ahead like every other american and try to work with them as we can. >> reporter: what did the family say? >> i think they have the same attitude we all do. i think joe received it best. if anything this issue is bringing attention to the men and women serving right now. we just had a wonderful time with them. it brings home the facts that there are people out in harm's way doing a lot of good work to keep us all free and safe. alisyn: thank you for bringing this to our attention. thank you, have a great memorial day. alisyn: another fox news alert. we are getting breaking news for a hearinger from jared loughner. they had to physically remove him from the courtroom after some sort of outburst. . alisyn: we have breaking news. this concerns the case out of arizona. the case of shooting suspect jared loughner. we all remember this case because it involved congresswoman gabrielle giffords. apparently there was some sort of incident at his hearing determine his mental competency. people were seated in the courthouse. then loughner * came in. he said to be not smiling. his hair had gotten longer than this picture where you see he had the shaved head. he has a bit of a beard. he looked disheveled we are told from witnesses in the courtroom. and he turned around and looked over the whole room after sitting down, and then apparently he just started yelling. he yelled something. no one knew exactly what he was talking about. let's go to casey siegel who has been following this case for us. what happened? >> reporter: we are just getting this information literally coming in as we speak. my producer is in the courtroom. apparently jared loughner just moments ago had some sort of an outburst in the middle of the courtroom as the proceedings were going on. right before that he was apparently rocking back and forth in his chair. he let out an audible see you. then he yelled something out. there is a bits of confusion right now in terms of exactly what he said. but all of the press inside seems to be in agreement that he yelled something to the fact of she died in front of me. but again a lot of the press are trying to figure out what was exactly said. the first part was either thanks for the free pill or thanks for the free kill. then he apparently she died in front me, and the last part before she was escorted out of there is you are treasonous or you are cheating us. they are not sure what was said. but that's when he was taken out of the courtroom kicking according to our producer inside the courtroom. and fighting the guards that were escorting him out of there. but jared loughner appearing very agitate from the moment he walked into the courtroom in the federal court hours in tucson as this court preseeding got underway. rocking back and forth violently in his chair. he is wearing a tan jumpsuit. his feet and arms are shackled. and alaid his head down on the table before yelling out something to the effect, she died in front me. and something about thanks for the free kill or thanks for the free pill. and you are treasonous or thanks for cheating us. we are trying to get all this information ironed out. the court is in a short recess. a 10-minute recess. the federal judge said they could not continue without jared loughner being present. this is a bizarre twist to this as the last two times he has been in the federal courtroom he has been very quiet. he has been described as smiling. but also acting somber at times. this is the first time that he has caused some type of a disturbance. we are trying to get to the bottom of this. alisyn: i can imagine that the defense attorneys will say this speaks to this his mental competency or lack thereof. we are supposed to learn the findings of those mental evaluations that were done on him by two different doctors at a federal prison or hospital in missouri at the end of march. and today we were supposed to learn the findings. the opinions of those doctors as to whether or note's competent to stand trial. a very bizarre outburst today. alisyn: meanwhile we want to get back to our top story. that's the tornadic activity from texas to the northeast, we are watching the skies. and you can, too. this is oklahoma. we'll bring you the latest on where tornadoes are tornado watch touching down. an accident doesn't have to slow you down. introducing better car replacement, available only from liberty mutual insurance. if your car is totaled, we give you the money to buy a car that's one model year newer, there's no other auto insurance product like it. better car replacement, available only from liberty mutual. it's a better policy that gets you a better car. call... or visit one of our local offices today, and we'll provide the coverage you need at the right price. liberty mutual auto insurance. responsibility. what's your policy? 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