okay? now we re going to go to missouri governor jay nixon spoke a little while ago about the status of his state and the aftermath. take a listen. i think put into context of a couple of things, first in the context of this particular site here, no loss of life. that s for preparation and also for the emergency responders that were here to make a real difference for folks in the middle of the night and the middle of a storm. just that training makes a serious and appropriate difference. but this is a lot of damage. the insurance issues here, the property damage issues here are going to be significant, but the bottom line is joplin is going to be a real sounding board for everybody else across our state, that you can rebuild, that you will rebuild, you ll stay calm during that. the bottom line is we are confident that branson will be back bigger and better than ever. particularly, what can you do to help branson from a state level? right now we re in emergency response,
death of a woman in dallas drama, the monica lewinsky type county missouri. tornadoes also caused damage in nearby branson, a popular of drama. tourist spot. the cleanup is beginning andrew? this was supposed to be easy today for people in those month for mitt romney. it turned out not to be that hard-hit areas. rob marciano is here to give us way. march, the lineup is much more details about what happened and difficult for him going into what s ahead potentially. widespread storm with super tuesday. damage tornadoes touching states in the south like oklahoma, tennessee, santorum is down as far north as nebraska. that s the first time on record leading there. that we ve seen a tornado in i think there will be drama but a strange kind of existential nebraska during the month of february even though this is a leap year. drama. we are looking at right now, everybody thinks romney will win let s take a look at some of the but everybody is trying to think about how he ca
a twister captured on film by a storm chaser in kansas in missouri where two people died. joining me now is wendell edwards. he s live from branson, missouri. set the scene for us. how bad is the damage? reporter: you know, randi, it s pretty bad. take a look at what is going on. this is a vitamin and health food store. people are just now assessing the damage and trying to clean up and see what is left. what we can tell you, though, is storms ripped through this main part of branson, missouri. this is the main district. a lot of theaters and plazas. as you can see, the quilt store, the fabric store, part of that ripped off. we don t know of any injuries here or anybody that has been severely hurt but we just got here and are trying to assess what is happening. this is the main strip in branson. a very tourist attraction, to say the least. and this is just a week or so before spring break starts so thankfully a lot of people weren t here but they want to clean this up befor
is tracking these storms for us. that same line that produced the tornadoes last night across parts of kansas and missouri moving into parts of kentucky and indiana and illinois. dangerous storm with a tornado dropped down to harrisburg, illinois, damage there and search and rescue actually under way. that s with this line and this cell moving just to the south of evansville, indiana, just to the north of hender son, kentucky. another storm just northeast of paducah. another one just southwest of that. these are strong storms moving quickly. 65 to 70 miles an hour. and in somepla places it s stil dark. tornado watch is up until noontime central for parts of kentucky and also it s kind of sliding back through just north of memphis. this storm is a big one. it stretches all of the way to the northeast. you will get a little bit of snow north of new york city. the northern side of this thing, blizzard warnings continue for parts of the northern plains with over a foot of snow
are told. you can see the homes sliced right in half, ripped to shreds. piles of debris scattered everywhere. folks are trying to take in the devastation around them. it s unbelievable. i can t believe the measure of damage it did to this building. it s like there was no structure and it took it completely out. as you can tell it s total devastation. i ve not ever seen anything like it all the way down through this whole area i m glad that it happened at night, and no one was at work. this would be horrible for people to be in this building when that happened. megyn: trace gallagher watching satellite and the news conferences from our breaking news desk now. reporter: as the new pictures come in they are even more devastating than the old ones. this isn t even being close to being high tornado season in the midwest and look at what happened? also most of the storms hit between 1:00 and 4:00 in the morning where quite frankly most people are defenseless. beginning back in