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>> on this holiday morning. >> and we've got a lot of news. we begin with the weather. first a new wave of spring storms is pounding the midwest. in fact, some of the worst damage is in battle creek, michigan. a storm packing 80-mile-an-hour winds snapped trees, brought down a lot of power lines. in fact, across the state some 100,000 homes and businesses lost power. >> a violent storm hit the chicago area. ferocious winds uprooting trees and sending them on the tops of houses and cars. >> the trees just doubled. it was the strongest wind i've seen in a long time. >> that's the impor...

Hunted. these turtles get caught up in fishing nets, and now they're dealing with this oil spill. >> it's so good to see them, though, nice and clean and pristine and flopping -- what are those called? what are those? it's not their wings, what are they called? flippers? >> you could almost consider them wings, they're flippers. as a bird would fly through the air, these turtles will fly through the sea water as they survive. amazingly, one of the life forms that they truly rely on for survival is seaweed. and that's the big problem. when we found this green turtle, they were mired up in oil t...