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-- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com good morning our "starting point" today, tropical storm beryl washing away holiday plans in northern florida and georgia. it made landfall overnight with drenching rains and driving winds. the hurricane force winds have died down a bit but the beryl will be a super soaker as they call it. rob marciano is tracking the storm at the severe weather center, good morning. >> not usual to have one but two tropical storms into the month of may, not even into the beginning of hurricane season yesterday. 70-mile-an-hour winds last night at one point, thi...

Jon: start your engines. the race is on for a key voting bloc come november. we're talking about nascar voters. racing fans. they tend to be white, middle class and southern. and with an estimated 75 million of them out there, there is little surprise that the chase is on for their votes. take veteran conservative activist ralph reed for instance. his faith and freedom coalition sponsored a car with the message, register to vote. mary katharine ham of "the daily caller" is a fox news contributor. she is ready to race here. juan williams also a fox news political analyst. so which candidate win...

Nascar, tony stewart was the big winner at vegas, and i'm to the talking about at the tables. he took the checkered flag at the las vegas motor speedway. it's his first win of the season. forgive me if you've heard this before, tiger woods is hurt, had to pull out of the cadillac championship in florida with a sore achilles. it's the same injury that kept him out about four months last season. don't be surprised if tiger shuts it down until the masters in april. justin rose had a leg up on the competition. rose wins the cadillac by a single stroke over bubba watson. and that's your "first lo...

>> i was sitting there watching tv. the tv went off. so i got up to go in the kitchen and get a cup of coffee. and all of a sudden, boy, the windows went out just like a big shotgun went off. and i told my wife, hit the floor. she says, i'm down there already. >> today's most devastating losses are in southern illinois. officials in harrisburg say a tornado with winds of up to 170-mile-per-hour stayed on the ground for several miles killing at least six people, injuring around 100. at one point it hit the hospital. after sur vague the devastation to his town the mayor and fire chief ...

Race didn't end until 1:00 this morning. the track shut down for more than two hours after a wild crash. pablo montoya's car had a parts failure and spun around igniting a huge fireball. nobody was hurt in that. the winner, eventually number 17, matt kenseth. edging out the hard charging dale earnhardt jr. and taking the checkered flag. >> is there a happier man in america right now than you? >> there might be but i don't know where he is. >> two time daytona 500 winner matt kenseth joins us live from daytona at 8:30 eastern today on "fox & friends." he won last year, too, didn't he? >> no, th...