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For start today, parts of Texas were recovery from severe weather that hit on Wednesday. A national weather survey says at least 10 tornades touched down in the area. US gets more tornades per year than any other country. These storms can show up any time, but the peak month are April, May and June. The ones that hit north Texas killed at least 6 people. Rescue crews were searching for others who were missing yesterday.

Official say the victims were in its neighbhood. Most of homes there were destroyed. You can see some foundations where the buildings just completely gone; and some of homes that are standing¹ like this one still got massive damage. Recovery efforts could take a while.

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Following up now, a couple government stories. Earlier this week, we reported on the scandal involving the IRS. The agency admitted that when groups from the Tea Party movement and other conservative groups applied² for tax exempt³ status, their applications were targetted for extra review, was basically politial bias⁴. You can get all the details on what happened in the transcript⁵ for Monday show.

The acting⁶ commissioner⁷ of the IRS was forced to resign this week because of the scandal. The reaction from across Washington, outrage⁸.

--Whether you're a republican or a democrater independent in this country, to take the abuse of a 3.8-trillion government, the power of that government and to use it to stifle⁹ oppositon is profoundly un-American.

--It should not matter what political stride you're from, but the fact of matter is that the IRS has to operate with absolute integrity. The governemnt generally ask to conduct itself in a way that is true to the public trust, that's specially¹⁰ true for the IRS. It's inexcusable, and America is right to angery about it.

--There are laws in place to prevent this type of abuse.

--My question isn't about who is gonna to resign. My queation is who's going to jail over the scandal.

The other follow up is about a terrorist attack against US facility in Benghazi, Libya last year. 4 Americans were killed including the American ambassador in Libya.

There's been a lot of criticism about how president Obama's administration responded. Wednesday, the White House released more than 100 pages of e-mails about that response. The communications between the White House, CIA and the state department, show how the administration developed its talking points. That's the information the government would share publicly.

Representative Darrell Issa, the chairman of the House Oversight¹¹ Committe explained why Congress is holding hearings about Benghazi.

--Our solemn responsibility is to hold government accountable to tax payers. Because tax payers have the right to know what they get from their government.

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