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Las vegas junket. he spent $2,000 on that party x that included -- and that included the $19 per-person cheese display. megyn: cheese is expensive, stu, i don't know if you've spent any time at the grocery store lately, but a hunk of kraft not what it used to to be. >> reporter: you are right, megyn, but that's an awful lot of money to be spending on a party. rocket peck was a volunteer for bill clinton in 1992, he spent his life on government boards and in academia, so that's his background. again, you have to ask is that the right background for a man in that kind of position running such a ...

escalating wharf words between iran and israel and why one word president obama used today may make all the difference. let's go out front. i'm erin burnett. out front tonight we have breaking news. there are powerful tornadoes now ripping apart the midwest and southern states at this hour, and it's a very rapidly changing situation as the storms are touching down. five are dead at this hour in indiana. more than two dozen tornadoes have been reported in six states. we've got tornado warnings right now in effect for 50 counties through this evening. all right. this is pretty fright...

care of a funeral home in jersey. we're following developments on both fronts. cnn's don lemon on the west coast, deborah feyerick back east in newark. hello to you both. deb, let's start with you. what can you tell us about the arrangements? >> reporter: well, michael, whitney houston's mom, cissy houston, a gospel legend, is making all the funeral arrangements. and they decided to make it an intimate, invitation-only event, at the hope baptist church, the church where whitney houston grew up. another friend and church member said that at the church, whitney houston also felt safe a...

So this may be just a lull. also, we're looking at those numbers and understanding that 1.2 million people in this united states have quit looking for jobs. so it's dismal, and here in nevada as you know, we're at 12.6% as of december. so we don't see much of an uptick. we're still holding president obama very accountable for the things that he said about nevada, don't go to nevada because it's a junket is what he said. and when he did that, it really put our economy in the tank and we're still holding him accountable for that. >> sharron, tell me how you feel this 12.6% unemployment. i mean, ...

>> bill: in the impact segment, as you may know, fannie mae and freddie mac, owe we the people, us, $141 billion. as we reported, top executives and those concerns are set to receive $100 million in compensation in a two-year period ending december 31 this year. that's not all. about 100 fannie and fred employees traveled to chicago, a little junket. here to tell us about that, fox business anchor, stuart varney. look, am i overstating this? i mean, 100 employees go from dc to chicago. >> hyatt regency hotel. >> bill: nice dig. >> for a conference from the north banksers association, is hundre...