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Jenna: i'm for a strong dollar. it's always easier to spend someone else's money. >> growth will come later in the spring, i promise. jenna: all right. we're going to keep the date, right? april, we'll mark down the tape. steve moore, thank you very much. >> have a great weekend. see you guys. jon: we're continuing our coverage of those deadly tornadoes hitting the south. entire neighborhoods are gone, even whole towns. we'll get you a live report on the latest from our fox news chief meteorologist. plus, a new top man for the war in afghanistan. marine lieutenant general john allen is to ta...

The guy who happened the anwar awakening or the turning of the sunni tribal cheeks against al-qaida in iraq. that was the whole reversal of fortune in iraq. most of the credit for that was given to allen when he was a bringinbrigadire general. jon: when he took the job he looked right in the president's eye and says i well understand the demands of this mission. he knows it's a tough job ahead. >> he sure does. and he's juggling a tough mission right now, because we can all see where the taliban is trying to create some sort of resur skwrapbs in afghanistan, at the same time in a couple of mon...

Disasters, we continue to look for more hints, jon, of how did this all come together, you know, how did this happen? and this new video might give us, again, some perspective of just the strength of this disaster we saw more than a month ago. certainly we have some disasters here at home that we're dealing with and certainly want to stay on as well, but whenever we get some new images in, we want to share them with you as we try to continue to report out some of these stories. more as we get it. ♪ jon: well, while so many in this country are struggling with the pain of those tornadoes, over...

Jon: when you look at what is happening in the middle east right now with turkey trending toward iran and syria, with hezbollah doing so well, with the lebanese government turning toward a hamas -- you know that kind of a government, it seems like the administration needs to come up with a plan and put it in place pretty effectively. >> that's right. the administration is lost. they don't have an anti-islamist policy. they believe that if you welcome islamist, ie the people who want to destroy democracy, if you welcome them into your democracy you contain them. it's been disproved in iraq and ...

Immediate businesses, building up a middle class that can be a fire wall against islamists, and building up the other pillars of democracy. those are steps that we could be taking but we are not. jon: thank you. jenna: the president will still travel to florida to cape canaveral today. he was going to be there for the shuttle launch. we know the shuttle launch is scrubbed but he will continue from the south, from alabama to florida to cape canaveral today. in the meantime i want to add this to your line up of news today, jon has some kreu critics for some hats. >> i thought the hat was about t...