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Inches of rain in some areas. we have team coverage across the damage zone. george howell is in union city, oklahoma, ed valencia is in el reno. george lets begin with you. its been daylight for about an hour, set the scene for us, what are you seeing now as opposed to when you were sitting there in the dark. >> reporter: alison, okay, so union city just west of oklahoma city, this is where the storm system first started to develop, first started to drop those tornadoes, and this is where we are...

Several barns are completely destroyed. most of the houses weve seen are intact. were getting further into the damage zone. weve had gas leaks. it appears like there are residential homes that have been damaged. im rolling up on them now. you can see some of the structural damage. im very concerned for these people. >> ben, thats what a truck or a home? >> yeah, im just about to pull into a drive waive a home thats been hit. we have safety patrol on scene. this is a disaster zone. there are gas ...

>> shepard: and on the ground look now owe incredible cefings of mondays tornado here in moore, oklahoma. police have rejoint exhibited media access to some of the hardest hit neighborhoods so get in there to clean up and restoring the power. they did allow our own casey stegall into the damage zone. he has been driving around in our quick response vehicle. casey? >> yeah, shepard, good evening to you. heather ellayna is where we are. not far from your location in our quick response vehicle, a q...

So thank god were all okay. >> lets get right to the damage zone in new york city. weather channel meteorologist reynolds wolf is live in brooklyn. can you believe it? twisters faring throue in teari york city. what about clean up? >> its going pretty well. we replaced the sound of wind and rain with some hammers, a couple leaf blowers and whatnot. there is a mess to clean up. is this something that comes close to rivals a joplin or us the tuscaloosa? of course not. there are no fatalities, no i...

Telephone. you sent us photos of what the grocery store shelves look like in tokyo, largest city in japan, quite a ways from the damage zone, but people there have swarmed the grocery stores. >> yeah. i took those today. as you can see, there is very little left. its actually not necessary for people to hoard. tokyo is in very stable shape and most of the goods dont even come from the stricken areas anyway, but one factor is that they have these scheduled brownouts, electricity brownouts. people...

Continuing coverage of our top story, emergency teams touring the damage zone from the tornadoes in mississippi in an attempt to figure out if the state will get federal cleanup money. mississippi put nearly 80 national guard on duty and sent 40 highway patrol troopers. through the day weve seen pictures like this. the twister ripping the walls out of a home in weir. the woman inside hid in the bathtub until the tornado pulled her up. she had only minor injuries and in the same area, well-known ...

Thank you for joining us on "world report." im natalie allen. welcome to our viewers in the u.s. and around the world. our top story, we begin with a developing story out of the u.s. severe storms in the south produced tornados in at least four states. and the system is still moving east. the hardest-hit area, central mississippi. at least ten people were killed by a tornado that was about 1 1/2 kilometers wide. i spoke earlier with correspondent ed lavandera, who had just toured the damage zone...

Our west coast newsroom with more. hello trace. >> reporter: shannon, this high risk warning is only issued by the weather service a couple times a year so this stands to be yet another very, very dangerous day in that part of the country. now, as the search in vilonia gets underway, were talking about more than a dozen people still missing, this town is part of the greater little rock area, and the reason that we dont have extensive damage footage is because the rescue teams and video crews are...

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