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Were hearing amazing stories of survival. >> one scary thing is in yazoo county, for example, you know the area well. that twister nearly a mile wide was on the ground roughly 40 miles. you can imagine the devastation, talk about survivors, none luckier than this man driving this pickup truck. the county coroner drives this truck and was in the truck noon saturday when the twister came up. he remembered the headlights in the middle of the funnel cloud and he prayed he would make it. >> debris st...

Because we are really hearing some amazing stories from people who survived todays tornados in mississippi. joining me tonight from yazoo city is stacy walker. she survived the funnel cloud tonight. stacy, i heard sadly you lost one of your good friends in this storm. >> yes, i did. >> who is your friend and how did you know her? >> her name is nikki bradshaw. we went to high school together. and she died today protecting her children in this storm. >> what did you witness? because we understand...

President. we will tell you what they discussed. and superstar seeing is a star attraction right now at what he calls a green tea party. i will talk and he sings about his efforts to help the planet. good evening, everyone. blessings are being count across the south right now. all some people can do is count their blessings. they have nothing left. ordinary lives reduced to grotesque piles of splinters and dust. one black funnel cloud touched down near albert, north carolina. nancy brooks was as...

Weather news. if it hasnt hit your area, it could be hitting it already. look at the video and at the bottom of the screen, you see our meteorologist jacqui jeras. jacqui. >> the tornadoes continue to keep popping up, don. we have got two confirmed right now at this hour. the watch area very extensive. you can see this goes really from missouri all the way down into louisiana, over to alabama, and on up into indiana and illinois. we want to first take you to the st. louis metro area. youre under...

Right now, there are tornado warnings in several parts of mississippi at the start of tornado season. funnel cloud touched down in texas yesterday. no injuries were reported. a 28-year-old miner has been killed in raleigh county, west virginia, late thursday night. he was crushed between a piece of heavy equipment and block of coal. those are the top stories right now. back to you, brian. >> brian: thank you very much, nicole. just to make sure we understand. the guy we show about the flight t...

All under tornado watches today and they also face some dangerous hail and thunderstorms. up to two inches of rain is also expected to fall throughout the southeast. weather channels mike seidel is live for us in greenville, mississippi and joins us with the very latest. how are things looking right now, mike? >> reporter: things arent looking good for us today. right here locally weve been fine. we have a line that will come through in the next couple of hours with gusty winds and rain. numerou...

Get the banks to pay, not us. house speaker, nancy pelosi tells cnn, she is giving a serious consideration on a ten-year tax on big banks. the money would go into a fund to help failing banks. the fund would raise about $90 billion. you see a funnel cloud coming at you. what do you do? run like the wind? these storm chasers find their twister. good thing it didnt find them. their pictures are amazing. rob, we could see more of this today, right? >> yes, absolutely. i think we will see it today...

Not so much anger directed to the people that carried out the attacks, but actually anger toward politicians and government officials here because iraqis dont feel they can be protected. since last june u.s. troops returned from the cities and starting last august in baghdad, you had more and more of these unbelievable attacks targeting government installations and heavily fortified areas where there were bomb detection devices and the, rackis say if the iraqi government cant protect these areas...

Cloud touching down. fearing environmental disaster after an oil rig burning out of control sank yesterday. there is a five-mile slick of crude 40 miles offshore. >> boats are heading to the area with skimmers and other equipment to minimize the environmental impact. joining us live from new orleans, mary landry. if you could, could you update us on the status for the search for the 11 missing oil workers? >> yes, i can. we are continuing the search today for the 11 missing workers. however, o...

The national transportation safety board says the cessna 172 was involved in a practice maneuver known as touch and go in which a plane briefly lands on a runway before accelerating and becoming airborne again. this news just into us here at msnbc. meantime, well go to a severe weather alert sweeping across this country. the storm that spawned tornadoes near the texas/oklahoma border thursday afternoon is moving east. home video shows that ominous funnel cloud that touched down in wichita fall...