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Its 2,000 mile path. this evening, northern texas in its icy grip. temperatures there plummeting, dallas, lubbock, austin, bracing for overnight wind chills as cold as minus 5. across texas, 16 million impacted on wind chill alerts. tonight, reports of local outages. officials say the electrical grid is holding. and more trouble tonight. tornadoes. morgan chesky with the latest. >> reporter: tonight, a frigid blast plunging 100 million americans into a deep freeze, even spawning rare winter torn...

Mile path on the ocean floor to search back and forth, mow the ocean floor with the immersibles and side scan sonars. if the batteries die it is unfortunate because we are looking at weeks or months of constant searching. >> even with the smaller search area, right? >> even with the smaller search area. with the larger search area, i dont like to be not optimist ic but with the larger search area without the pings it would be impossible. impossible put down the sonar until they narrowed it down ...

They did everything right. this event was very difficult to survive unless you were underground or in a fortified storm shelter. there were a lot of places in oklahoma city that do not have basements because of the geology there. it is difficult to drill down. you basically have to use dynamite here. 22 mile path. on the ground for 40 minutes. preliminary ef-4. it could get pumped to an ef-5. we showed you that two mile wide debris ball that had everyones homes in it. it traveled 22 miles. that ...

In georgia, emergency officials say a twister cut a 16-mile path right through town. we have this from georgia where another person died. georgia got hit mighty hard. >> adairsville was really hammered by the storm. it roared through wednesday about 11:00 a.m. a lot of people in the small town were not prepared for it. i have walked the streets for two days. just unspeakable damage. we have seen cars that were tossed. houses that were leveled. lots of people displaced and a lot of damage here. i...

Is the latest there? >> people are picking up the pieces after the string of violent thunderstorms and storms ripped through the east. they said winds there reached 130 miles an hour and the storm carved an 8 1/2 mile path, ripping up homes and businesses. some parts of the state saw more than two inches of rain. and just over state lines in north carolina, residents there feeling temperatures today more than 25 degrees cooler than yesterday. so with that shift came a system dropping a quarter-s...

People reported seeing quarter sized hail and very heaven rainfall. downed power lines and more than 2,000 customers without power in the state of north carolina. meanwhile, in south carolina, forecasters confirmed two tornadoes touched down yesterday. two tornadoes in lexington county. winds were clocked at 130 miles an hour. and that had eight and a half mile path. there were damage to number of homes and businesses. unfortunately they are cleaning up and it looks like people cleaning up in ge...

Through alabama and mississippi there is a tornado warning for parts of alabama right now. janice dean is live on remote 291. she is in fox emergency weather center to bring us the ratest. -- latest. jd. >> john, line storms moving through the south. the worst time you can feel tornados move through the area because people are sleeping. laurel, mississippi, damaged homes at least four injured and also bunker hill, mississippi, where we have tornado carving a quarter of a mile path. trees are dow...

Tornado hit, while, check it out. this morning, the airport partially reopened despite delays and debris everywhere. >> clayton: i cant say youve ever seen video of a tornado occurrence, we see it from earthquake in japan and rick reichmuth, our chief meteorologist is there at the airport and, everyone was finding shelter and nobody was killed. >> its fortunate, a large tornado. 30 mile path and an ef-4, winds offer 166 miles an hour, so incredibly destructive and i talked to a woman earlier tod...

Theyre saying. but its certainly scary and theyre saying that this was an ef-4 tornado. >> weve got a lot of tornados, in fact. around 560 at last count in the month of april alone. and a number of those ef 3s and those are over 160 miles an hour and devastating effects and when you see the images, especially in the neighborhoods coming out of here. thats when were taking the worst. and the airport, ef-2 a slightly weaker tornado, but they think they were 30 miles straight. anybody in the 30 mil...

Tracking this massive storm. who is already seeing the effects? >> well, so far were just seeing a little bit of snow with this this arctic cold up toward the north. that will continue to cross the lakes and in to the northeast, but that is not the major portion of the storm. its way back here and as this disturbance brings more moisture across portions of the south and as this colder air sinks farther toward the south, the writing is on the wall for what you say could be the most crippling stor...