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>> crews a digging through the debris searching for survivors after several twisters tore through the south central states. homes and business owners are n inspecting the damage. look at the pictures. you can see the path in the overhead shot as it ripped through the town. we see one house not touched and others looking like matchbox cars that have fallen apart. kathy wright is here. she is a public information for the arkansas department of manageme management. how is it going there? >> we have hands out in the field assessing damages.

through that area. bill: it keeps going and going. near little rock, what does it look like there? reporter: bill, the situation is not good. we are near little rock. 20 miles or so to the north of little rock. mayflower. i'm going to show you around here. it is this time of year, spring is upon us. a relatively quiet tornado season and voided that change this season, especially in arkansas. it is very culinary at this point, but some meteorologists by looking at the damage to this could be an ef3 or higher. this is still very much a search and rescue operation because one of those t...

unluckiest place is a small rural community dotted be farm town, and yesterday in the space of 10 minutes, two towns were severely damaged, mayflower and vilonia. there are as many as 16 people believed to be dead, and that search and rescue is continuing this morning. i am standing in a rv sales park, and there were 14-large bus-type mobile homes here for sale. i can see two of them. the rest are shattered and splintered and scattered into the nearby woods. this town of 1,200 is a farming community, and if this storm had just missed by maybe a half mile, it either direction, it woul...

What really matters to people doesn't take place in washington most of the time. i had a chance yesterday to speak to a senior republican and a senior democrat, entirely different conversation, both of them said, you've got to remember, we still have a great nation. it's our government that's broken. >> arthel: 2003 have a -- 2003 have a great nation. that's for sure. scott, happy new year to you. >> happy new year. i'm going to be with 62% of americans who are at hamate at midnight and also with the 49% who get to kiss someone. hope you have a great new year. >> arthel: i'm with you on all of...

0 obama is looking to break the fiscal cliff negotiations by giving an ultimatum to republicans either compromise on the budge deal or risk facing an up or down vote in the senate on a basic proposal that would include many elements that were previously rejected by the g.o.p. how well the next couple of display out and will the president's tactics work? joining us is jamie weinstein. what do you think of that? >> i don't know if his threats are going to work very much because even his proposal has to have the acquiescence of all senators. the fact of the matter is senators know whether they do...