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Welcome back. 43 minutes past the hour. time for headlines from the food and drink files. finally a bipartisan cause we can get behind. the house introducing a new bill slashing federal taxes on hard liquor. all right. currently that tax can account for more than half of the price of a bottle. translation you would save about $2 on a $14 of gin, chris. state and local taxes would apply. pizza party. a weather issue kept a plane grounded. they ordered pizza for everyone. >> or be standing in the engine like the other flight attendant.

Least 30% of the entire town has just been devastated. they are out there trying to figure out where these missing people are and where they go from here. >> jay gray reporting in van, texas. thanks so much. as we talk about the weather issue, the threat not over yet for the country's midsection. as we mentioned, more than 40 million people are at risk for severe weather today and the weather channel meteorologist chris warren has been tracking and joins us with the latest. >> good day, we are looking at the threat for storms to the east coast and area here in red the greatest chance for the s...

Advance, get the airplanes where they need to be so they can recover quickly as soon as things get better. sometimes they get too conservative. you see some things, for example, in philadelphia where u.s. airways, part of american cancelled pretty much the entire day, i guess, today. you know, the impact in philadelphia may not be as great as it is in new york or boston. but probably better to be safe than sorry. >> i'm a positive person. i always like to see the silver lining. what do they say the chinese character for crisis is actually opportunity. is there a chance that there's some silver...

Advance, get the airplanes where they need to be so they can recover quickly as soon as things get better. sometimes they get too conservative. you see some things, for example, in philadelphia where u.s. airways, part of american cancelled pretty much the entire day, i guess, today. you know, the impact in philadelphia may not be as great as it is in new york or boston. but probably better to be safe than sorry. >> i'm a positive person. i always like to see the silver lining. what do they say the chinese character for crisis is actually opportunity. is there a chance that there's some silver...

That there was -- that you know we know there was some weather issue, but i haven't heard anything serious enough to create you know that bad a problem for this aircraft. so is there any sense of what might have gone wrong? did it have to be something sudden and catastrophic or could it have been something else? >> we don't want to suffer from investigation bias and proceed with conclusions prior to having all the facts in. however, some of the facts just scream out at you at this time. this area is known as the intertropical convergence zone. that's the area around the equator in which the no...