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President's approach as needlessly partisan. president obama wants congress to extend the low 3.4% federally subsidized student loan rates f nothing happens on july 1st those rates would automatically double to 6.8%. the house has passed a plan but president obama insists that the plan does not go far enough. >> i'm glad they took action but unfortunately, their bill does not meet that test. it fails to lock in low rates for students next year. that's not smart. it eliminates safeguards for lower income families. that's not fair. >> it was just last sunday that president obama was in moore, ok...

Apart that barn and threw some -- through threw a lot of grass and even a hay bale and piece of the barn right at our car. >> did you chase the tornado that hit moore back on may 20th? >> actually, no, we were on a separate tornado in southern oklahoma but the day before we were on the -- you know, the tornado that hit shawnee. >> and we bleeped out your language there as well on the video. i would imagine that's probably not the only bleeping we would have had to do if we had showed the whole thing, huh? >> yeah. um, you know, i subconsciously try to remember all that, that there are cameras ...

Skies are is a storm chairs and did that last night. he joins me from oklahoma city. good see you okay, my friend. thank you. thanks for having me on the. >> what was it like last night and where were you? what did you see? >> we were very near el reno when the tornado was coming through near interstate 40. we were just south of the interstate. we weren't nearly as close as some of the video you've seen. but we were definitely, you know, in pretty close range to the tornado. we had very strong winds and we bailed south to get out of the way, you know, as that was coming through. so, it was -- ...

The weakest on the scale of 0 to 5, touched down in moore yesterday afternoon during all of this mayhem with the storms moving through the region. now, it was a weak tornado compared to ef5 that they just saw a little more than a week ago. this storm yesterday moved across moore, oklahoma, for a brief time, the path was half a mile and the width of the tornado only 500 yards compared to the ef5 tornado almost two miles wide. so it was a very small tornado, minimal damage from that one in moore. however, the tornado that touched down near el reno, that was the one that also made that right turn...

Damaged. to get the power back up and running, we, of course, lost that on may 20th for several days, it was just about all back, now, it's basically all gone again. trying to get the phone lines working, they are all down. there's these immediate problems. trying to help people and get the debris cleaned up and frankly, just picking up and moving forward again this is a major set back when you are already down and out. >> how worried are people in and around moore, around oklahoma city in general that another one is coming, that this is somehow something that's going to become more of a regul...