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The wheels continue to turn. arthel: a fox extreme weather alert. the search continuing for seven people still missing after text as tornadoes. the deadly twisters wednesday night killed at least six people in north texas, injuring as many as 100 and powerful wind up to 200 miles per hour damaged opener destroyed entire neighborhoods. texas governor rick perry is heading to tkpwrapb bury a city devastated by the tornado to survey the destruction there. meanwhile school is canceled in the nearby ...

F family were in the way. >> still kind of shocked. >> reporter: they lost everything. the utility companies are here. the power companies are here. getting the lights turned back on. the recovery starts now. it is not over yet, still watches and warnings in louisiana. steve osunsami, abc news. cleburne, texas. >> here is a look at your weather now -- big chunk of the country will see wet weather. showers from virginia south to the gulf. severe storms from new orleans north to the great lakes. w...

The utility companies are here. the power companies are here. getting the lights turned back on. the recovery starts now. it is not over yet, still watches and warnings in louisiana. steve osunsami, abc news. cleburne, texas. >> here is a look at your weather now -- big chunk of the country will see wet weather. showers from virginia south to the gulf. severe storms from new orleans north to the great lakes. west into the dakotas. showers in the pacific northwest. >> scorcher across the south. t...

Was sucked out of her house. >> crazy. >> reporter: when the sun rose and she looked around -- >> it is amazing that nobody got hurt or killed. >> reporter: lisa montgomery said a prayer of thanks the tornado tore her home to pieces but she and her grandson hid in a bathroom and made it out alive. >> the door, i just like, shaking, shaking, shaking, shaking really bad. >> granbury suffered the most, a subdivision of homes many built for the poor by volunteers were wiped out by the twister. inves...

>> it is amazing that we werent hurt or killed. >> reporter: lisa montgomery said a prayer of thanks the tornado tore her home to pieces but she and her grandson hid in a bathroom and made it out alive. >> the door, i just like, shaking, shaking, shaking, shaking really bad. >> granbury suffered the most, a subdivision of homes many built for the poor by volunteers were wiped out by the twister. investigators say it was an ef 4 with wind speeds nearly 200 miles an hour. in cleburne, 23 miles sou...

>> at least six people were killed, more than 100 injured. the city of claburne was hard hit. >> the mayor joins us. mayor scott kaen, thank you so much for joining us. how are you doing there and what is the clean-up involved? >> ill tell you, the storms destroyed a lot of our property but hasnt destroyed the spirit of our citizens. were going through the process of looking at the damage and rallying together to help one another. were very fortunate in cleburne that we didnt have a sing l casua...

We still have the director of public affairs in med star mobile health care. matt, what can you tell us about the damage? were talking about a wide area. what can you tell us about the scale of damage that occurred here? >> it is very difficult to do that. obviously, it is parked here, what theyre doing is having to use all the facilities, other means to go out and do that house to house search. find the damage, in a very difficult type of operating environment. again, you may recognize that wit...

We are learning that there are 6 dead and critically injurying 16 others, some reports show hundreds of others in the town of grandbury. we have the cleburne mayor, a town close by, scott cane. tell us what you saw, what you felt, what its like there right now? >> caller: sure. right now, we are still in a very fluid situation. we have a substantial amount of damage. we have reports that as many as 3 twisters that have touched down in the city of cleburne. our southwest portion of town is withou...

Folks get? >> we had tremendous amounts of early warning from the media to our local first response team. we gave our citizens a lot of warning. officials were warned and ready to go. had we not had the early warning we would have been looking at a tremendous amount of fatalities. >> that is good news they got the early warning. thank you for joining us this morning and please keep us posted as the sun starts to rise and you learn more about the condition of your town and citizens there. mayor s...

Bad. to so it in day light it just revealed the force of mother nature and the fear that people had to have experienced. nanother tornado touched down 25 miles away inically bourn a city of 30,000. the storm took out homes and cars and power lines. >> we felt the pressure inside of the closest. everybodys ears were pop anding my daughter is cry asking it lasted 4 or 5 machines. >> no deaths were reported in cleburne but the mayor declared a state of the emergency to start the resident to rebuild...