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As they clean up from several tornadoes thursday night. the twister that devastated the small town of fairdale has been initially rated now an ef-4 by the national weather service. thats the second-most powerful rating with winds up to 200 miles per hour. two women who were neighbors died in their homes and dozens of other homes were destroyed or severely damaged. nick valencia is in fairdale. nick you actually met a woman who lost her home, and facebook ended up really being her salvation. in w...

Tornado. this particular than were discussing, the one that you just saw a moment ago from the man reporting live from -- reporting on the field was actually rated an ef4. the enhanced fujita scale. this was actually a vision of dr. ted fujita who studied the effects of damage from tornadoes and associated them with wind gust. it is next to impossible to know the exact winds inside of a tornado. any kind of instruments like an anomometer that measures wind gust would literally be destroyed by wi...

What a mess to clean up? >> reporter: well, alex this is all that is left of a popular restaurant where diners not only heard the tornado sirens but saw the tornado coming. they actually took shelter down here in the basement of the building which probably saved their lives. a dozen lives likely saved because of that warning. it took first responders about an hour and a half to get the peel out of here. but just down the road in tiny fairdale, too small for a warning system. they didnt fair so w...

The fairdale region. you can see that very distinct path. these tornados have been known to rip off asphalt and pavement straight off the ground. come back to my computer graphics you can see the enhance said scale. an ef-4 which is attributed to what you saw. devastating damage that took place. that is what the national weather service classified this tornado as. that means winds up to 322 kilometers per hour. it is almost next to impossible to physically measure the wind inside a tornado. you ...

>> tons of foods donated. so if youre hungry please stop and get something. >> reporter: her small farmhouse may be uninhabitable for now, but she has plans to rebuild. >> its kind of okay for now because the roof is still -- there is something over the top. >> reporter: hinchey wasnt home at the time of the tornado. but her husband was. >> how long have you guys been here? >> about 17 years. 18 years, i guess. >> reporter: long enough to form some pretty strong bonds with people who want to hel...

Smithereens and used as projectiles which you saw with that log a moment ago or that three branch. an ef-4, enhanced fujita scale 4 is what took place with this massive tornado. it was a very violent tornado. of course, we heard about the the two fatalities and winds in excess of 300 miles per hour. the national weather service has to go back to the damage site to assess what actually took place. you can see the limbs ripped off the trees, leaving them completely bare, removing structures off th...

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-...

Kind with assad and iran. its just weird. >> it doesnt make sense, shep. publicly the u.s. military is not confirming that there are iranian aircraft over iraq targeting isis, but privately we are told that they have seen these iranian f-4 phantom aircraft strike in eastern iraq. this is not an area where u.s. or coalition aircraft are flying but it is ironic u.s. and iranian planes are now sharing the same iraqi air space. heres the pentagon press secretary rear admiral john kirby. >> we have n...

Professor of practice at george washington university, good of you to stay. >> hello. >> were fighting with the iranians and assad, this is fun. >> were not fighting with the iranians and not fighting with ass assad. the united states has narrowed shared interests but were not allies of either iran or an assad-led syrian government. let me use an analogy. russia and the united states have a common interest in seeing that iran does not become a nuclear power. no one would call russia and the unit...

Through galveston, destroying this rv. >> it was right there. stuff flying through the air. it had me scared. >> reporter: it was a twister like this one in pilger, nebraska last week. >> oh, my god! >> reporter: the massive ef-4 destroyed 75% of the town. and theres more to come. >> some of these areas that have had severe weather and extreme rainfall will have it again. in some cases two or three days the. nebraska, iowa, wisconsin, minnesota. we will see more flooding problems into this being...