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condemnation from fellow republicans. rick santorum says the comments are absurd. the white house is also being drawn into the uproar. im wolf blitzer. youre in "the situation room." lets get right to the breaking news, a huge tornado outbreak stretches from alabama to indiana and beyond. millions of americans are under tornado watches. tornado warnings as well. professional storm chasers have been following these twisters all afternoon, providing dramatic images of an unfolding disa...

Try to find a good structural building as close as i could, heavy cement building and i pulled the car up on the north side, the northeast side, tried to get out but couldnt. the pressure wouldnt allow us. we just sat there in the car and rocked and rumbled and rolled and were just trying to ex it the or call our girls and the calls wouldnt go through. my last text message to them was, tornado with exclamation point. i was worried they were driving right into it. so we couldnt hear. we couldnt g...

Tornado, they found the city around it chewed up and spit out. they were all safe, they thought. when the owners viewed the surveillance tape for the first time monday, they saw a hand reaching to pull a table into place and realized a family had tried to protect itself in the shop. the police were called to do a second search of the rubble. they found nothing. eyewitnesses then were called. they had seen the family after the tornado safe. >> i dont know who they are. i would love to hug their n...

Discussed, afghanistan. >> in afghanistan, they have fought side by side to break the talibans momentum and where we are preparing to turn a corner. we reaffirmed the importance of beginning the transition for security this year and completing that transition by 2014. we will have much more on the presidents state visit to britain coming up. a deadly spring turns deadlier as yet another tornado outbreak kills at least ten more people. take a look at these pictures. this is a tornado. you wil...

>> get out of here! get out of here now! >> maxi tornado coming into piedmont. piedmont, get out of the way. piedmont, get out of the way, get below groubd rignd right no. maxi wedge multi-vortex tornado. get to your safe room, storm cellar, basement, interior closet or bathroom may not do it. get out of the way. get out of the way or get below ground. >> unbelievable footage. and of course, we now are used to seeing what damage and havoc is wreaked in the wake of those unbelievable tornados. ch...

The threat extends from texas to new york. joplin is on the cusp with the highest risk. it is inconceivable the city could face more. jeanne meserve has a look at one family business imploding. >> reporter: nine days after opening joplins new cherry berry yogurt shop was reduced to this. surveillance tape shows a normal sunday. when warning sirens went off, they were ignored. >> no one took it serious. we didnt think it was an actual tornado. we thought heavy winds. >> when employees and custome...

Three-story home. the top two floors almost completely gone. if you walk with me over here, you can look back in here in the corner of the garage. i dont know if you can make it out through all the debris there. tucked away back in the corner is a steal-coated safe room. thats where we are told that the father that lived here with his two kids rushed down. it was on the third floor of his home shooting some video of the tornado as it approached his home. he ran downstairs and got inside there. i...

Please dont do that. i no he we show these pictures of tornadoes taken by storm chasers and something bothers me about that too. you should just head to safety. head somewhere save. >> reporter: they made it into that room just in time. >> ed, thanks so much. in joplin, missouri, time is running out in the search for survivors. it has now been more than 63 hours since the massive tornadoes struck the town. some 1500 people still unaccounted for. that number is expected to drop rapidly as commu...

>> i actually talked to him the night before the tornado and his little brother called me and said that he was trying to get home in it and that severe hail had hit his car and nobody had heard from him and that was roughly about right ten minutes after the tornado went through joplin. and i actually live in tulsa, and i was in my car on the way to joplin as soon as i got that from my youngest son. >> well, i hear that he was in the car with somebody else who has survive. is there any ...

Almost got us. its amazing. its half a mile wide. just crossed gregory road and is now going to cross the northwest expressway in about a minute. its crossing the northwest expressway right now. right now. a massive tornado half a mile wide. no doubt about it. it looks just like it did an hour and a half ago. deadly, deadly tornado, mike. >> we talked about that piedmont storm. we told people to take cover about 15 minutes ago. we knew it was headed that way. a very large, what they call a maxi ...