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Located. over here you have some of the metal structure that held it in place. none of it stood a chance as 170 mile-per-hour winds. the mayor out here says some 300 homes and businesses were destroyed and his primary concern tonight is for the people who were in those homes making certain they have a roof over their head, shep. >> shepard: you speak of concerns, mike, they must be mighty concerned about the new round of storms heading their way. >> specifically to this area it looks a little bi...

The devastation spans six states. crews digging through the wreckage for survivors. thousands of people are without power. so far meteorologists have confirmed tornadoes in alabama and louisiana, authorities in north carolina say they discovered the body of a 3-year-old girl buried beneath a pile of debris. there are also reports her grandmother also died. and in south carolina, search and rescue teams have been using thermal imaging equipment to find possible victims. our chief meteorologist ri...

Control of everything. green dots are government control. red dots are rebel control. this is what it looked like yesterday. let me show you how things have changed. right now what youve got is government forces moving into more cities further east and north. the rebels are still in control of benghazi and tabrush. i want to look at the city west of tripoli, zawiya, where nic robertson is. look at these pictures. this was on the 20th of february, a satellite image of zawiya. see a mosque there a...

Grab them, youll talk to them, youll let us know. >> will do. >> jessica yellin is outside of the floor of the house of representatives at statuary hall. ali velshi is here together with members of the best political team on television. ali, its all about jobs. >> absolutely. the economy is by far the biggest issue for three years on americans minds. unemployment is at the top of that. our national unemployment rate is 9.4%. but the reality is even that number doesnt encompass most of the unempl...

Secretary gates says if theyre in the budget, he wants the president to veto it. redundant costs he says could be eliminated. another challenge for the pentagon. health care costs have risen from $19 billion to $50 billion over the past decade. a very sensitive issue to ask the congress to ask the troops to pay a little more or to ask the troops to take a slightly smaller pay increase, but secretary gates says thats one thing that needs to be looked at. a family of four, the average family of fo...

Uninhabitable, theyre unidentifiable. >> we show you a map here of the tornadoes reported so far in 2010. you see those red dots. those are all tornadoes reported so far this year. now well bring up severe weather reports throughout the year. that includes wind and hail. these are severe weather incidents across the united states in 2010 so far. you see them swept up. the red dots the tornadoes, blue is red -- is wind, excuse me, large hail storms are the gold dots. now i want to take you over t...

Adam, what can we expect? reporter: its been a crazy morning so far. and we continue to battle that exact same line of storms. this is all we have seen. every one of those red dots. thats an area where we had a report of a tornado. everything in the red is a tornado watch. a watch means the conditions are there that we could see tornadoes. and we have been throughout the morning hours. taking tighter on this line of storms, its north florida, along i10 stretching down along the georgia-florida b...

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