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>> yes. >> theyre estimating. also the other question is about how much warning. its interesting to hear some witnesses say they felt they had warning on one side of town, whereas on the area where -- around st. johns there are some questions about whether they had enough time to do much, apparently just trying to wheel some patients into the hallways and hope for the best? >> well, obviously those situations are very confused but i can tell you i was the one that had them turn on the sirens. by...

many ran to seek safer ground, but boy, the devastation is coming to light today. >> thats right. 12 hours later life has changed in joplin, missouri. a powerful tornado ripped that city apart. the red cross said 75% of the town is virtually gone with reports of at least 30 people killed and dozens more injured. 50,000 people live in the city. no phone service, power lines are down, cars and trucks smashed and flipped. the governor calling out the national guard and declaring a state o...

Storms, your mind goes back overall the horrible weather weve had this year and homes destroyed. these insurers are going to pass on the prices. >> reporter: they are good at estimating what things will cost but because this year has been so devastating weather wise all at once, we really dont know what to tell wall street. we are trying to figure out what the cost is going to be to the companies, the shareholders themselves and they simply dont know. this is every single day we are looking for ...

Probably pretty good. i would prefer that they had gotten zawari at the same time as they got bin laden because bin laden may be the charismatic leader but hes the brain trust. im wondering where he is right now and when were going to get him. i hope whatever they got from bin laden will lead us to him. >> there could be a lot of information on that and it could set back al qaeda for years. your thoughts on that? >> well, it could. i think weve already set them back badly. im told by the guys in...

Or is that a bridge too far? what do you think? >> well, i think if they did get something like that, thats probably pretty good. i would prefer that they had gotten zawari at the same time as they got bin laden because bin laden may be the charismatic leader but hes the brain trust. im wondering where he is right now and when were going to get him. i hope whatever they got from bin laden will lead us to him. >> there could be a lot of information on that and it could set back al qaeda for years...

Back to the 1907 tornado that devastated janesville, georgia, georgia unfortunately has been ground zero for some very horrific storms. >> how much -- is there any kind of way of estimating what the damage and what reconstruction is going to cost? >> well, weve had entire schools destroyed. weve had infrastructure destroyed. tva -- i had a conference call this morning with a member of the authority, 9 million customers and 1.5 million without power and one of the mainly transitions lines was des...

It was. 1/2 mile to 3/4 wide is what theyre estimating. likely f-3 tornado. havent had confirmation of how big this tornado is. in the state of north carolina, there was five tornadoes as far as the rating so far and 10 of the tornadoes that weve seen across the country over the last three days were f-3 tornadoes. winds around 136 to 160 miles an hour. destroying anything in its path. certainly the case with this tornado, very wide tornado. you can see throughout the fields here and throughout t...

Vortices. ill show you that in a second. just to recap, 248 tornado reports in three days. amazing stuff. in 13 states. one of which in north carolina was an ef-3. that was the national weather service crew estimating winds of 257 kilometers per hour. thats 160 mph, a category 5 hurricane in the atlantic basin. a width, talking about a wedge, 4.8 kilometers or 3 miles wide. that sun believable. and that was a track length of 101 kilometers. lets take you to some of the pictures. this is the one ...

Jeff, thanks. let me go to jeff morrow with us from colerain, north carolina. how about things there, jeff? >> reporter: yeah, this is in bertie county, a very rural county, contessa, here on the northeast corner of the state, really took it hard, though. 11 fatalities in this county and three of them right on the road where i am. now, they often tell you that it is a good idea or maybe a last resort to get in a ditch when a hurricane is coming if youre in your car. look at what ended up in the ...

Talks in london. it was their second meeting. they are talking about next steps, whatever "next steps" may mean. they are now planning to send the former deputy chief of mission from the u.s. embassy in libya stevens to make contact with opposition in libya. >> shepard: according to the most recent reports from our government were broke and this is getting expensive. >> its true. and the pentagon has now put out some official figures. they say that the war so far, the first 11 days has cost $550...