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Gas. and weve got to make sure its safe and secure. then well send in the emergency workers. i mean, theyre in the area now. but we cant get vehicles up in there because of the power lines, as well as the trees. so we mobilized all of our people and theyre taking care of that. and were not going to wait until daylight. but most of the help will come at daylight, but were out there doing some things now. >> do you have a sense of the damage at this point? >> in terms of dollars, no. but i can onl...

250 miles an hour, and in all these pictures, all these images caught on surveillance camera, during the middle of the day, where so many people were out and about and so many cameras could actually see what was happening in front of them. this metal roof, ripped off like cardboard. it is absolutely amazing to watch. and deadly in so many ways. now, that swarm of killer tornadoes also hit not just town in mississippi and alabama and georgia and tennessee, it also hit the state of virginia, touch...

There were multiple tornadoes that hit had the area, that was something that was very unusual. we think there may be as many as 11 or possibly more tornados crossed the state of georgia yesterday. that is a very high number. >> you look at the pictures, the damage. i am a georgia native, born and raised, i have never heard of anything like this hitting the state. what is it like speaking with the people on the ground who live there lost their homes? >> it is tragic, when you have loss of life. m...

There is so much chaos. people dont know where to go to find out if their loved ones are safe. so we are seeing things like this. i talked to a man 15 minutes ago. this red vehicle you see behind me was across the street. when i suave it this morning it didnt lock like it had this much damage. his grandsons truck, hes 16 years old. they dont know where he is. the car a couple hundred yards from where it started. frustration and sadness being repeated all over town. bill: do those people have hom...

If there is anyone we can help rescue. we are still in the search and rescue mode. >> reporter: you had to bring in a temporary morgue to help the hospital. >> we were hit by straight-line winds that caused damage and destruction through the city. this is the heaviest hit area. our crews will be all throughout the city to get roads open and get it cleared. we cant do a lot in terms of debris removal until the power company and gas company get their lines situated so there is no hazard to our eme...

Left-hand corner is where the mississippi and ohio merge and well be there, later today and you have a long day, not to mention the rest of the week, jay nixon, the democratic governor of missouri and hell be back with us tomorrow and well see where we are then, alisyn. alisyn: you can see how many states are affected when you look at the map and there are similar scenes in neighboring kentucky. dozens of people living in low-lying areas forced to get out and many residents remembering floods fr...

Affected and have specific dates about when thelert should expire. >> keeping an eye on severe weather looming to the south. this after the latest round of powerful storms moved through the midwest. in illinois alone, a dozen homes were damaged. people reported being pelted by hail. some even the size of tennis balls and baseballs. emergency workers say theres no reports of injuries or deaths. as we continue the special coverage of the gulf oil disaster one year later, this picture, showing oi...

Guess, with this line of work, you said theyre dedicated men and women, and other people who have to be up all night. police officers have to work night shifts, hospital staff. lives are on the line. even pilots, they also have to do this. are we just hearing about it more with air traffic controllers? >> i think that highly operational people who perform missions where theres precision involved, have a harder time when theres not a lot of traffic. its harder for a controller who has five or six...

Difficult to watch. >> and there is smoke coming from the ground, and holy cow! about a third, about a third, about one-third of the building has been blown away. >> you are not watching some scene of international catastrophe. you are looking at your own backyard. oklahoma city is in flames and the injuries are numerous. >> we have emergency workers walking around scratching their heads not estimating the number of victims inside and they would not guess at a death toll and you can look at the ...

>> you are not watching some scene of international catastrophe. you are looking at your own backyard, downtown oklahoma city is in flames, and smoke right now. the injuries are numerous. >> we have emergency workers walking around, scratch,ing their heads, saying they couldnt estimate the number of victims inside, they wouldnt even venture to guess at a death toll. you can just look at the building and just imagine the worst at this point. >> you just cant imagine it. there are just bodies lyin...