From the Midwest to the Middle East. We’ll talk with a Red Cross volunteer from Baltimore. Phillip Bovender is part of the disaster relief operation helping people in the flood and tornado-ravaged areas of the south. Also: we’ve invited Kimberly Katz, Associate Professor in Middle East and Islamic History at Towson University and Waleed Hazbun, Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Studies and Public Administration at American University of Beirut. to weigh in on President Obama’s Middle East speech.