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kathy rogers and carolyn maloney. sizing up obama versus romney. plus, comedian and actor, the outspoken bill cosby on politic, and the man who killed trayvon martin. >> it doesnt make a difference if youre a racist or not. >> im candy crowley. and this "state of the union". but first two break stories were following. a series of attacks across afghanistan and a deadly tornado outbreak here in the united states. we want to begin with those tornadoes that tore through the midwest and ce...

New storms are coming. meteorologist janice dean is live in the weather center. jd, you told us yesterday you thought today, these storms today really should demand our attention as well? >> actually, its tomorrow. so friday through saturday night. jenna, im glad you pointed that out because i want people to be on their guard especially areas that were hit hard on wednesday in the overnight, the areas that you saw of course through the video. looking at the past 48 hours you see this storm syste...

we see any clear skies here. anderson. >> thats it for us on "360". more hurricane coverage next. hi there. good morning, everybody, from the cnn center. this is your cnn start morning. coming to you an hour earlier today to cover this storm, hurricane irene that is actually putting about 20% of this countrys population under threat of this storm. were talking about 65 million people are in the path of this sucker. you see the line there. thats the cone of uncertainty they call it. b...

Helicopter tracking it. you can see how huge it is. it is at least a half a mile wide. before it formed there were other tornadoes that took aim at the twin cities, one person was killed in the minneapolis area. almost two dozen others were hurt. trees, power lines down and one neighborhood after another. i want to bring in our own chad meyers. we were talking during the break. you want to give people some good news here but it just seems like this season has been really, really tough on folks. ...

Much. >> gregg: these killer storms causing devastation on incredibly large scale. meteorologist maria molina is in the fox extreme weather center with a closer look at how far their reach extended. maria. >> yes. look at this map here, i think it tells the story, more than 240 reports of tornadoes touching down, and this number has risen since this morning and already is greater than that and we are continuing to see reports as national weather service survey teams continue to head out and asse...

Hi, everyone. a quick update on the severe weather as we head into tomorrow. we did have a noreaster move through the northeast. this did bring in snow across parts of maine, through interior portions of the northeast and currently still producing some pop-up showers across parts of upstate new york, through central pennsylvania and heavier pockets of showers moving through the mid atlantic. nothing serious, but this storm did produce severe weather thursday across central florida. we did have s...

5 would be -- you would hardly see a trace of anything. we saw a week ago, t.j., ef-3s across north carolina and nu alabama, also mississippi. im looking at these, im guessing these are ef 1s and ef-2s and the lambert airport is shut down. last time it was shut down was back in 1982 and that was thanks to a blizzard. t.j., this time of year, right around easter, we almost always see the significant outbreak and yes, on the doppler radar, last night, they were looking at a tornadic super cell and...

Tornadoes is really -- thats special with this one is the duration of this tornado on the ground. most tornadoes dont last that long. sometimes only for a few seconds. most of them very weak. we refer t them as ef-0s or ef-1s. very short-lived in nature. but the larger ones are truly a rarity. in fact, something that may be -- this tornado possibly an ef-4 or ef-5, winds in excess of 40 miles an hour, theres only been two of those since 2007 recorded. this might certainly be in this category. ce...