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Trail of destruction 200 miles long. today the job of surveying the damage continues. this tornado was so big and on the ground for so long its not just neighborhoods that were demolished, big structures and big businesses like this days inn north of birmingham badly damaged. over 70 people were staying in this hotel as gaefts. remarkably not one of them injured. even so look at the damage. the roof completely torn off. the walls and doors slammed against this railing in unison as this twister r...

Underground in order to survive a tornado with this kind of intensity. you can really see the rotation on it. theres all that debris that you can see flying. and you know, this tornado also moved through birmingham. it was about two miles west and north of town. but debris was falling in downtown birmingham. and it can be carried, literally, hundreds of miles because it gets so high up into the atmosphere. its just amazing to see pictures like this. this is what we call a classic wedge tornado f...

Following it all. jen? >> hi, monita. it was a dangerous day wednesday across parts of the south. were talking reportedly 151 reports of tornadoes and reportedly 279 reports of wind damage across region. this graphic gives you an idea of all that happened. were talking about damage from texas all the way up along the eastern coastline. now, again, lets go back over to that tornado video coming out of alabama. this is out of tuscaloosa. this was take front university of alabama. as we show you th...

Occurred. thats all done on the ef scale. for example, theyve done this in north carolina and theyve determined that some of the reports were just one tornado, like this one that moved through sanford. from the video that you saw and pushed through raleigh. and then northeast of there. that was an ef3, by the way, when it went through the sanford area. risk of storms tomorrow again. and yeah, we could see tornadoes as well as damaging winds. this is the nations heartland, middle mississippi vall...

This is just a pile of debris. thats one of the things with cleaning up the big chore ahead. its going to take weeks if not several months to get all this debris. youve got to have front-end loaders, bulldozers, dump trucks. over here, two more buildings which were totaled. this is a vacant funeral home. you can notice the back end of the brick wall is gone. the ef scale goes up to about 165 miles an hour, but in the distance, theres a neighborhood, we were there earlier and weve seen brick home...

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Extent of that damage later. well get the latest on the situation in a few minutes. well talk live with a local red cross official at quarter past the hour. now, i want to talk to reynolds wolf about the deadly tornado. jennifer was referring to the ef scale. im unfamiliar with that. could you take us through what that means? >> absolutely, my man. i know you have been in tv for a long time. you have heard of the scale for the hurricanes. basically, it is a measurement of damage, structural dama...