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Rhode island, connecticut and new hampshire have already offered their assistance as well. as far as warnings go -- we don't have the typical midwest tornado siren system. every community sort of has their own outreach for any sort of emergency whether it is, reverse 911s or, you know, siren system, or you know local emergency, eas, on the tv, radio. it's catch as catch can, if you've will. like i said, tornado warnings are not. >> what about communications systems there? we know that you are at your office speaking to us. are people able to use their phones? are phone lines down? what sort of...

Gas leaks are everywhere. explosions are feared. and so, we are not out of the clear, though the tornado has passed us. >> we are getting more details on this state of emergency in joplin from a public affairs officer from missouri national guard. >> major tammy spicer is following developments, thank you for joining us on the phone this morning. our first question, how big a challenge to get information from joplin with phone communications mostly cut off? >> communications is one of the major obstacles right now. which was governor jay nixon, immediately mobilized many state assets to respon...

His extraordinary ability to communicate, his policy positions to his voters. his leadership style is very straightforward. he defines the problem at hand. he identifies the correct solutions, and then he finds the right people to put in the right positions to implement those solutions. for example, his web site already features numerous policy proposals to reenergize the economy, to restructure our tax code, to modernize our entitlement programs and cut spending. >> uma: you know, he doesn't have a great deal of name recognition. but after the first gop debate, some focus groups called kane t...

Sue ed canal. those two arteries are key to getting oil out. if these didn't exist, they would have to ship it all the way around africa, and no one wants to do that, it's more expensive, and it cuts into supply if we had to do that. that would just take a lot longer to do and would affect how this oil gets to everybody else. as we know, a lot of middle east producers supply to a lot of the world. there could be delays at the suez canal. there may be some delays now, but it's not because of the issues as far as the canal is concerned. we're hearing that the issues are communication, we know a ...

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