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Already been so hard hit supposed to go if the funnel cloud is approaching? >> reporter: well a lot of them have gone to storm shelters which oftentimes are set up at schools, other municipal-type buildings. about half of the homes in this area do have basements. people who have basements who have neighbors who dont have basements are advised to get to those places. there is no better place really in the event that the tornado is come than a place with a basement because you can get down low. th...

Several injuries in alabama. this new video just in from meridianville, alabama. look at damage there. a roof torn off. a church building damaged. power lines down. trace gallagher has more from the breaking news desk. >> reporter: we are getting pictures and word that a tornado touched down in huntsville, alabama. and this one very bad. we are being told a number of homes are damaged and destroyed, a number of people injured there. and as you said outside of huntsville, the slime stone correcti...

While we start to see that beam have gone inside. my crew and i have our eye on this ditch here, the storm ditch and the drain out there. if it gets really bad weve got somewhere to go. if it gets really bad the dish on the truck wont last very long so we wont be able to stay on the air. that is the situation out here. we know that one tornado was spotted about 19 miles north of here. as im speaking i can hear that the tornado warning siren has just gone off. so the immediate danger i think for ...

For people. we also saw residents running for shelter in harrisburg, illinois as the tornado warning sirens went off. that was the area hardest hit two days ago. an ef4 tornado game for six deaths there wednesday. janice dean has been tracking these storms. but first we want to get to mike tobin who has moved to a shelter. >> reporter: right now what we have got on the ground, we dont have the sirens wailing. but the warning is in effect. there was a big loud thunderclap that happened as soon as...

Kentucky. this went all the way across the middle of the country. that was rare and how many and how intense they were. 30 preliminary reports of tornado tornadoes. 20 have been confirmed by people on the ground. 12 fatalities. the big one was the ef4 tornado. the scale goes up to ef5. this was harrisburg, illinois. when you talk about ef4, you are talking about houses losing roofs, their walls, almost completely removed from their slabs. trees snapped in half. and cared just tossed. 180-mile-pe...

Kelly. we go to fox news to check out nr reports of a tornado in tennessee but first, video from the suburbs of st. louis, powerful tornado -- storms spawning tornadoes, leaving a trail of descrungs behind. now another band of warnings and watches in effect for the ravaged region. shea ryan, live in the fox extreme weather center. >> reporter: we do have an active tornado warning in effect on the mississippi-tennessee border, and this is moving east at 40 miles per hour. if youre in this area we...

Now they are at the point you have to figure out what to do. do you just bull doze the thing over immediately. there is a house next door to this one, this one leveled, the house next door not sustaining significant damage. thats what is hard about tornadoes. its hard for people to wrap their minds around it. the back side of this house a the love the walls gone, a lot of the basements standing, great news, saved a lot of people. you go into the backyards and its hard to tell whose yard is whose...

Philadelphia and new york city, as well. well continue to monitor it shannon: shea, thank you very much for the update. we showed you the aftermath moments ago of whats left behind from an f4 tornado in news, missouri, that same storm took aim at the airport, take it up badly but the manager said it was a miracle the flights were ever able to get in and out today. folks inside the terminal kept their cameras rolls as -- rolling as that situation was unfolding. jason fell shot this video, he join...

Watching the planes, and had people gathered to see what was rolling in? >> all of us were waiting to get boarded. we were told to stand by because there was lightning, so we were waiting to get boarded. thats why everybody was closed to the windows, suddenly the wind i could picked up and we werent told it was a tornado. as it picked up people got curious to look outside and as you can see the person coming in and shout thank its a tornado, so everybody just rushed out. shannon: was there a spe...

From her home. shannon: thank you very much, julie. fox news alert, were getting unconfirmed reports of a toss tornado possibly touching down in tennessee. live to the weather center in moments. plus moments of panic caught on tape, the dramatic video capturing the second that a tornado made a direct hit in st. louis. and the death toll is rising in syria, the white house now considering sanctions on the assad regime. are we headed to a new hot spot in the middle east? former u.n. ambassador joh...