Hard Tornado News Today

Bottom of the hour now. welcome back, everyone, im poppy harlow. >> im victor blackwell. here are five things you need to know for your new day. number one, a tornado last night smashed as many as a dozen homes in wayne, nebraska. incredibly, no one was killed. you hear the sirens there. the mayor says several people were hurt. and the american red cross is sending teams to the area to help. number two, a man is is hospitalized in critical condition after reportedly setting himself on fire at ...

Rebuilding to be done, people there are just grateful they escaped with their lives. >> violent, large tornado, wow! >> reporter: as afternoon turned evening, this massive twister kept waynes 10,000 residents frightened and in search of cover. in these pictures, you get a sense, its you not the scope of the destruction. trees split in two, taking power lines down with them. businesses like this one crumbled. even big semis were no watch for the powerful winds. this woman told reporters that as t...

That touched down in three states. iowa and south dakota may have seen them. it is rare to see a tornado this time of year, but it is not unheard of. the american red cross is sending teams to the area to help the people cope with the storms aftermath. the storm knocked out power to half the residents of rapid city, south dakota. from california, where strong winds are creating ripe conditions for wildfires to snow. snow in early october in the midwest. rough weather is hitting many parts of t...

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Time of year but theyre not unheard of. there have been f-5 tornado in october. in fact, there was an f-5 tornado in the state of iowa. quite a few years ago, i believe it was in the 1960s, if my memory serves me correctly. so theyre not unheard of, but theyre very rare. and they have to have a special situation, kind of like yesterday, to occur. >> wow. all right. meteorologist and storm chaser simon brewer. good to have you with us this morning. >> thank you. >> as we look at some of these pic...

Children spent the afternoon elsewhere and were fine. the mayor is thankful no one was killed. >> everyone that we know are safe and sound. there are some injuries. those folks were taken to the hospital and treated. >> well nebraska is not the only state hit hard. lets bring in alexandria steele. good morning, where else have we seen damage? >> 17 reports of tornados in three states. iowa was one of the biggest areas hit with a mile-wide tornado. let me show you some video. it was tornadoes par...

Year that either hop from one community to the next. and one house is demolished. the one next door is untouched. then weve seen damage like the one we saw in moore where communities are gone. how would you compare this tornado to those? how widespread is the damage? >> well, im not actually sure how widespread the damage is. but the tornado itself, how long a track it was, it went -- tons of miles. and there are many tornadoes that are pretty long track and theyre very strong. theyre definitely...

Meteorologist alexandra steele in the cnn weather center. what is going on, weve got snow in the beginning of october. >> its the weathertry effe tri. weve got show and a tropical storm making landfall. certainly fire and weather in california. well speak to more of that. heres kind of a bulls-eye, weather in rapid city, no question about it, snow for this time of year, one of the top ten potentially. from casper to cheyenne, wyoming, another 3 to 5 inches of snow expected. a severe weather angl...