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Alabama. been doing weather for 19 years. i worked here in alabama and covered tornado outbreaks. ive never seen anything like this. this is tuscaloosa. you can see the sign here and we have photo journalist jonathan sheer with us. a part of tuscaloosa, which doesnt even exist any more. you see the trees that have been ripped apart, farther off, the trees have been completely ripped away of the shrubbery. then in the foreground, you can see also what was a house. farther back, some houses that h...

24 hours. reynolds wolf, an alabama native, joining us from tuscaloosa this morning. what are you seeing now, reynolds? >> were seeing the view from the old armory. and from your viewpoint tuning in from across america, what youre seeing -- your viewpoint is from the roadway. in the foreground you can see a lot of debris and you can see fence posts where from across the road, you had debris traveling at 100 miles an hour. you can see right here to my immediate left a humvee, a vehicle designed t...

These things are ravaged by the strong storms. foreground here you are seeing pellet holes, fence posts pushed and even closer up to the side of the large vehicles, you see little bit of the chain-link fence. what happened is you had the debris that was pushed across the roadway in excess of 200 miles per hour. hit the chain-link fence and pushed everything against the five ton vehicles. farther up here, you will see a different type of vehicle. one very familiar to many of you. this humvee. aga...

Here and there. the debris picked up by winds in excess of 200 miles an hour pummeled the side of the building and caused some damage. the windows, no glass whatsoever. everything has been blown out. i dont know if you can get a shot of the two cars. you can see a couple of them, a gentlemen, a security office in the foreground. the cars ripped apart. some shards of metal sticking through parts of the back windows. everything is devastation. as we walk down the streets here, john, you can see so...

Reynolds wolf? tuscaloo tuscaloosa. i cant believe the widespread damage there. >> reporter: it is really breath-taking. you know its amazing it if you step back 24 hours ago, people in tuscaloosa, alabama didnt have a care in the world. there was a chance of storms. skies were partly cloudy. high humidity. there was a risk of storms, possibly severe ones, but in terms of devastation we see like this apartment structure behind me or even what we see in the foreground, i dont think anyone would e...

Entire town on this "american morning." good morning. welcome to "american morning." tuesday, april 26th. im ali velshi. >> im christine romans. >> im kiran chetry here in london all week. so glad everyone is with us this morning. to give you a sense of where we are behind me is buckingham palace and here in the foreground is known as queen victoria memorial where it is teaming with people this morning. three days out until the wedding. theyre expecting 600,000 people to come cover the big day...

Ranking. look at this home. whats left, completely flattened and gone. just the foundation. its just a total mass of debris. can you see the lawn mowers here in the foreground and you can see it looks like bedroom accessories, but basically a pile of rubble and in the distance, alex, the tornadoes, by the way, came towards the camera and towards us and headed towards the airport and you can see all the trees denuded and kind of cut off at the top. you can see the bark thats been stripped and the...

Something more than hopefully? >> look, this administration has tied itself up in knots. i know more of the internal deliberations on who is on what side and who is supporting the security resolution than i understand what the policy is. and i consider myself a relative expert on libya. the problem at this point in reground, hopefully not americans, but maybe french and hopefully french. british, you name it, egyptian. the arab opposition to gadhafi, the opposition that is the rag tag army stand...

They do talk about senior government officials and have talked before about the possibility of a post-gadhafi era. thats where he wont be stepping down or going away in the face of an international coalition military onslaught or under the face of a gun as officials put it. there does seem to be an acceptance that somewhere in libyas future gadhafi would have faded into the background and one of his sons might have moved to the foreground. obviously thats not something thats going to be palatabl...

Television some very, very emotional outcries. but when im in the operational environment and working and making relationships with people on the ground -- >> theres a lot going on, the tsunami, earthquake, in the background of all of this and the foreground of the news is the issue with the nuclear plant. how much is that playing a role in the japanese peoples mind? fear of radiation? >> reporter: its predominant, its everywhere. the japanese have a long history with radiation, as you know. its...