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We dont know yet, wont know for a couple dives what is happening here. see the tornadoes. this is just churning around here, live from the copter. this has got ton at least ef 3, ef 4. earlier saying they possibly had 200-mile-an-hour winds. every meteorologist on tv now, we are just trying to save lives, it is only 5:53 in the central time zone. this is going to continue probably up until midnight and eventually this line will go through the joplin area, who know what is is going to happen ther...

You cant see what is underneath n this decade a month ago, may 3rd, what you were talking about minutes ago, struck a town that was one of the oldest cities in oklahoma and everything was solid brick and everybody had shelter. it was 95% destroyed and not a single person died. but down the road in moore, oklahoma, it was a newer city and people had long since stopped building storm shelters or basements and there, i think 48 people died. >> yeah. well, thats right. when you -- the vel lossity of...

Breaking news on msnbc, lets go back to oklahoma where an unprecedented rash of tornados has been literally tearing apart various counties in this state. its been going on for about an hour and a half now. in goldsby, oklahoma, an ef-4, which is believed to be, certainly looks to be ab ef-4 tornado with winds of 100 to 200 miles per hour hit the ground and stayed on the ground for about a half an hour. causing devastating damage. were seeing the pictures, the results of that. it looks like a lot...

How many are unaccounted for. were searches, as i said, some areas of high concentration of folks where we think we might have the best luck in terms of finding those people in those locations. well be doing that throughout the day. >> lets get to nbcs ron mott. ron, what can you tell us? >> good morning. i can tell you theres a huge search and rescue effort under way this morning if only the weather would hold up like it is right now. as you mentioned theres a threat of severe weather again tod...

damage, stay out of their way and stay home and watch cnn, and stay home. and so there are three areas that were hit hard, downtown area hit hard with apartment buildings, and home depot where ceiling beams were turned into twisted piles of metal, and the third is this, what was once a walmart and now little bit more than a field of debris. look at this part of the store accessible which is the parking lot. watch this with me. >> this car upside down. windows shattered. totally demolis...

relations. are the tensions of recent days any worse? any better? im wolf blitzer and youre in "the situation room." first, breaking news this hour. a large tornado has been spotted on the ground in oklahoma and storm-ravaged missouri is being hit by severe weather and possible in the coming hours, searchers in joplin have been taking advantage of the break in the bad weather for a few hours now. 17 people have been pulled alive from the rubble as of last night. but the death toll is f...

critical condition. the confirmed death toll in sundays disaster now stands at 118. but authorities say more than ten times that many still are unaccounted for. >> joplins head of emergency management says people scattered and simply cant get home or maybe no longer have homes and havent yet called in. but then theres will norton, blown out of his hummer on his way home from high school graduation. his family thinks -- thinks hes in a hospital somewhere. and sky lar logs don, a 1-year-...

Tornadoes, the kind we had in alabama. the national weather service crews have been out there, from the pictures, i wouldnt be surprised if this going to be on the ef-4, ef-5 scale. when you have 75% of the town completely eblit rated here. those are the kinds of wings were talking about. well pay attention to what the survey crew says. there are the explosion of thunderstorms that we had through the day on sunday. weather front continues to move east. the weather front diminishing significantly...

Earlier that showed homes that were leveled and buildings that were destroyed, i think, chad said this earlier, he was saying this was likely an ef-3 or stronger. thats what we would call a major tornado. winds around 150, maybe 165 miles per hour. you know, the weather service will come in and theyll look at all the damage and find the worst of the damage and get an estimated rating on that. its hard to look at a tornado, a wedge-sized tornado, but when youre talking about a quarter of a mile t...

Up the pieces today after a towering tornado dropped down from the skies, 6:00 last night. >> it was really loud. louder than the sirens and the tornado was like a siren. >> within a matter of seconds you had to think fast and move quickly and prepare yourself to get down to the basement and make sure you are secure, you know? it was really that bad. alisyn: the official death toll is close to 90. mike tobin is live in one of the most devastated areas of joplin, and they say it was different tha...