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Background, allowing for people to actually see for a brief moment. natures fury with a tornado in the background. scary stuff. lets zoom into this region to show what happened. we had six reported tornados, several wind damage reports as well and large hail. of course the national weather service still has to assess the complete extent of this damage, determine on the fujita scale, which is the measurement tool they use for how destructive the tornado actually was. theyll determine, was this an...

Home during this holiday season. what a tragedy, charles. >> reporter: i want really is. this is a mess here, alex. its raining. been raining ever since the tornado came through. the national weather service has managed to get out in this weather and try to do some surveying to figure out how many tornadoes hate and how much damage there is. they estimate there were 11 tornadoes overnight. the tornado that hit rowlett where we are was an ef-3 with winds between 165 and 200 miles per hour. also a...

I dont think well see any tornadoes at all. there could be some small ones, but not what we saw yesterday. some of those tornadoes may be rated at ef-3 or ef-4. i know a lot of chasers out there that have seen many, many tornadoes. they tell me the trees were completely gone. sheered off. houses were completely gone. maybe only one or two walls left. that tells me very strong tornadoes out there yesterday. still a couple possible, but the bigger story today, hail, rain and very slow travel and p...

Milibars, thats the lowest pressure of anything ever called a hurricane. there was a typhoon, tie fineyp tipp had the lowest. theyre the same thing just in different oceans. it was way off in the western pacific. what ive noticed here in the past couple of hours is that this storm has begun to turn to the right. its turned to the right, as forecast. it was never forecast to go to puerto vallarta and hit this town of mans nil low. it will be hit with 30 to 40-foot storm surge, 200 miles an hour. ...

Few jails in america receive as much media coverage as the maricopa county jail in phoenix, arizona. while many stories focus on things like the striped uniform and pink underwear that both male and female inmates are required to wear, we tried to learn more about the inmates themselves. it didnt take long before we noticed rita, who was at maricopa facing 11 felony charges along with various misdemeanors. >> yeah. only 11. not bad. if youre going to go, you got to go all out. right? i got an f-...

Few jails in america receive as much media coverage as the maricopa county jail in phoenix, arizona. while many stories focus on things like the striped uniform and pink underwear that both male and female inmates are required to wear, we tried to learn more about the inmates themselves. it didnt take long before we noticed rita, who was at maricopa facing 11 felony charges along with various misdemeanors. >> yeah. only 11. not bad. if youre going to go, you got to go all out. right? i got an f-...

Find. a question there on a lot of peoples minds and jennifer gray was getting to it, a lot of people wonder if the officials in van, texas, have a good handle quite yet about what theyre up against and good handle about how many people are missing and how many people could be injured. >> this was a big tornado. this was without a doubt now looking at this, this is a stick built home. some of those were 2x8 and 2x6. not just a mobile home on blocks. this was a real home. to get that type of dama...

Cameras like gopros and will you be sharing that? >> i do not know if anybody is wearing a gopro or not. >> when is the last time -- >> as reporters continue to ask questions it is clear when severe weather strikes in north texas it shows no mercy. city of van, texas, almost 30% of it destroyed. the good news might be that two missing people have been located, but that leaves eight still missing and unaccounted for. and the confirmation from those officials that two, two are dead, a male and fem...

Rise in texas just last week, one example of what the fbi cites as a two-fold increase in the last year of the smash-and-grab types. in both cases, officials say goods are easily sold across state lines and innocent buyers ending up unknowingly with stolen goods. gloria riviera, abc news, washington. another glimpse of the sheer power of the ef-4 tornado that flattened parts of northern illinois last week. winds so strong debris turned up more than 100 miles away. a man in racine, wisconsin, f...

This is their first face-to-face encounter since they agreed in december to renew diplomatic relations. a massive cleanup is underway in the u.s. midwest after more than a dozen tornadoes tore through the region on thursday. one storm killed two people in fairdale, illinois. so far the storm has been rated ef4, meaning it could have had winds up to 200 miles per hour. in pakistan, an act of targeted killing. thats what police officials are calling an attack on a construction site that happen...