jon: couple good names. jenna: shaquille o neal will be here with his size 23 shoes and talk about his work with the march of dimes. it is all happening now. . that s what i thought. the ceiling tiles were coming down. i thought the i-beams would come down on us next. scary. don t want to do it again. it was terrifying. i had never been through anything like this. it did sound like the train coming through the living room. bathroom wall shower stall started moving. i said, uh-oh. this isn t good. sounded like thunder. when it first hit, i immediately fell on my back. that s why i have, i m pretty sore from the shoulder blades. i cut my wrist. the countertop fell off and got me. it was definitely scare. i m on the second floor and hear building tops tear open. jenna: folks in the midwest bracing for new storms after a string of deadly tornados there. a dozen people killed in three states. twisters from nebraska, through kansas reported along southern missouri thro
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how to live a disease free life. the one and only danny da veto in rare form stopping by. we look at today s eye opener. your world in 90 seconds. it sounded like thunld der that didn t quit. severe storms tear through tennessee killing at least three. it s wreaking havoc. it continues to make its way across the country. a day after tornadoes car of a path of of destruction through the hartland claiming nine lives. devastating. you can imagine what it was like. more anti-american have i ee lens in afghanistan. two u.s. soldiers shot dead in the wake of a koran burning controversy. the costa allegra adrift at sea docked this morning with 700 passengers. not having enough food, not being able to rest well at night. the heat is unbearable. believe it or not, bank of america is thinking about another way to collect more fees. andrew breitbart is dead at the age of 43. a high speed police chase comes to an end with a massive crash. baby boomers are mourni
captions paid for by nbc-universal television good evening. it was a worst-case scenario. tornados among the largest nature can produce anywhere, ripping across the countryside late at night. after people had gone to bed. of course, can t always hear a warning. more than that, they hit during what s supposed to be the dead of winter, in late february, when there is supposed to be snow on the ground, not funnels in the western sky. some storms were moving at 60 miles per hour. too fast to outrun and the people and places in their path were no match. the same weather system is on the move again tonight after spawning tornados sightings in nine states. confirmed winds of 170 miles per hour. one of the storms carving a 22-mile-long path through branson, missouri. the hardest hit community is harrisburg, illinois. tonight lester holt is heading up our team there. lester, good evening. reporter: brian, good evening. there were 17 sighted tornados as storms leaped across the mid
i couldn t move. it was really rough. what was going through your mind? i swore we were going to die. all i could do was pray. half of the death toll centers in one small town. 9,000 people live in harrisburg, illinois, six people died there. don lemon is there. the national weather service says the tornado was the second most powerful on the rating scale. how widespread is the damage this morning? reporter: ef-4. it s huge. pan around here and look. this is a neighborhood, a fairly new neighborhood. go left here to show. if this had happened in the afternoon when it was full of people, there would have been probably many more injuries, many more deaths here. luckily there were only six and i m saying luckily because every single person we ve spoken to, even the person who lost his mom said he can t believe at that only six people died in all of this. they say they re going to pick up the pieces. the red cross is here. they have lots of help. this he could use more he