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Flooding streets, knocking out power to some 30,000 customers in southeast louisiana. were monitoring the situation for us as well as the continuing flooding in the midwest. i was asking earlier, this is the worst flooding theyve seen. folks that are in and around the chicago land area are saying they have never seen anything like this. >> you know what? weve seen flooding across parts of missouri as well as illinois. a lot worse than years in the past. i want to show you what were looking at no...

Meteorologist maria molina has been all over these storms. she joins us with the latest. welcome back, maria. >> martha, good to see you. this is associated with a strong cold front that basically started to impact the west coast on monday. now it is friday and were tracking the storm system producing areas of rain across the northeast even down into the carolinas. i want to show you first the severe weather we saw between thursday afternoon and friday morning. mostly through the overnight hours...

That was pretty much the story for many people across new jersey, parts of pennsylvania, and also the higher elevations of the state of west virginia. on the southern side of this system, we saw some severe weather, over 300 reports of severe weather, including large hail, damaging wind gusts and even two confirmed tornadoes. alabama, one area hit hard by the severe weather. you can see all of this damage. we didnt have reported tornadoes in alabama. they were actual lea in tennessee for an ef-0...

>> today the cleanup process for many people. and tin pittsburgh. and rick, to the weather center. >> i like the weather center is just about 20 feet over here. >> a stones throw. >> alisyn: its magic. >> yes, we said there would be big, severe storms. there were, theyre done, thats the good part. all of this is now pulling off shore and a little bit of rain in maine, and down towards parts of florida. but this is the the last 24 hours, they were extreme. and that breezy point. that little bit o...

Issues, south of the border and its crazy with the different watches and warnings. >> the tornados look so gigantic there, i mean, the funnel cloud is bigger than we remembered seeing the one that was sent in by jeremy holmes, when you were issuing the warnings as were so many forecasters, using the term life threatening, is that because you knew thered be so many tornados or they were bigger or more powerful? >> yeah, we knew yesterday they would be big tornado, not small, ef-0, ef-1, but knew ...

this would be the case an chairman paynes press conference and so it would prove, suzanne. >> how much outrage is there over this, the fanct that nothig is going to change here? >> reporter: we sampled a few opinions earlier in the week and we have to say most people out on the course are here basically to take in the spectacular surroundings and follow the top names in world golf, tiger woods and rory mcilroy. this is not an agenda on the top of every patrons lips but theres been a lo...

Storm. but the damage appeared to be restricted to root damage. i didnt see any walls torn out or anything like that, but i didnt go very deep. >> so thats good news. so more like ef-0, ef-1 damage, probably, from this, not a really destructive tornado, but probably a lot of that debris you were seeing was shingles flying through the air. >> right, shingles, insulation, you know, the plastic that covers insulation sometimes. a lot of that flying around. >> were looking at our velocity display ri...

and d.c., is this rick santorums last stand? can he convince republicans that the race isnt already over? im wolf blitzer. youre "in the situation room." -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >> lets begin with the breaking news. tornado emergencies right now in the dallas-ft. worth area. look at these pictures that have been coming in. this was the scene in the dallas-ft. worth area just a little while ago as the sky turns dark. we see a massive funnel cloud draw closer and then this ...

and a helicopter crashes captured on camera. the amazing story of a pilot that walked away. we start with the aftermath of those deadly tornadoes. president obama is offering federal assistance in the areas battered by the storms. the tornadoes left a wide swath of debris from indiana to georgia. at least 37 people are dead. now the focus has changed and survivors, scores of jurtd people are waking up in hospitals this morning. their homes and the homes of their neighbors are gone. p...

now, it began just before dawn. heres the terrifying sound that awakened one family in frankfort, kentucky. [ sirens ] frankfort was spared thankfully but so many other places were not. people lost their lives in tennessee, missouri, and harrisburg with the biggest lost. survivors describing what they saw and felt. >> its very devastating, we are lucky compared to people out that way. very lucky. >> overwhelmed. just overwhelmed with emotions. i had no idea it was this bad. >> the ligh...