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Confirmed tornado in north carolina. rain walloping the whole east coast. tornadoes jackhammering the south. at least four dead. an ef-2 slinging 125-mile-per-hour winds in rural mississippi. in columbia, mississippi, the ef-3 twister so powerful it flipped semis, obliterated homes and businesses, wrapping siding around trees. and tipping over this ambulance with a patient in it. in this forest of snapped pine trees, youll find the contents of peoples homes strewn everywhere. pillows, childrens ...

Has been dug into a position and pine trees over the top to hide it. the border is that way. five miles. >> that is our correspondent. karl is on the border of ukraine and russia. yes, he is standing next to a tank. that tank is one of the military vehicles ukraine is moving into position to defend itself from a possible invasion. we will take you live to the border for a closer look at what military moves both sides are making. stay with me. with so much noise about health care, i tuned it all ...

Preparations throughout the course of the day. in fact, in the last few hours, this machine, an armored vehicle, armed with a cannon, as well, has been dug into a position here. they have put some camouflage, pine trees over the top to hide it. the russian border is that way, five miles across the other side of the highway, a battle tank, t-64 battle tank, has also been dug in. and we have seen other armored vehicles around this area. anti aircraft, as well. they know if the russians do roll in,...

Power lines would cause problems. >> about three transformers. just like fireworks. >> sounded like a bucket of echo, boom, boom, boom, everything went out. i said were going to be here for a while. >> power crews are doing their best to restore power as quickly as possible, but they say the process could take days. >> ive been here for years. >> so one thing in georgia, the pine trees, thats a big concern a lot of the pine trees that had that extra weight on them. weve seen those trees fall ove...

>> pine trees were snapped. it was a very big explosion. >> that was matt cane reporting. >> parents in nashville, tennessee are outraged after their high school students were taken on a field trip to a mosque and hindu temple but not a church or synagogue. it was a class on world religion. on top of that the assignment included a single page on christianity and 5 pages on islam. the school district issued this statement saying our district has reviewed the practice and decided to eliminate fiel...

Severe, no problems that would have brought an aircraft down, so that is part of the mystery here. also, the mayor of birmingham tells me that they checked with the people at the tower, and the pilot never radioed into the tower that he was having problems, this according to the mayor of birmingham. so were waiting for ntsb to give their initial impressions after having looked at this. the aircraft is in very large pieces. some of the pieces were actually littering yards of the neighborhood, i w...

What is the latest, miguel? >> reporter: today is make or break day out here. the brunt of the fire is right at the peak of the mountain that if it gets over that, it comes into this town, they are helicoptering crews, hand crews out, into the yafrz so they can lay down and lines and hoping to protect thousands of homes. this fire is nowhere under control. it is fed by tinder dry pine trees. it is fed by tinder dry and thick pine trees and brush. it is burning so hot, the trees so dry they liter...

>> reporter: torching more than 35 square miles, this massive wildfire is nowhere under control. it is fed by tender, dry and thick pine trees and brush. it is burning so hot the trees literally explode into flames. firefighters mounting an all out air assault. the heaviest weapon in the ars nol, a dc 10 capable of dropping retardant in one go. on the ground, the fight also in full swing. woody has fought fires for 33 years. are you feeling confident about this one at the moment? >> in our secti...

Recovery. >> the operation refocuses from looking to survivors to searching for victims. well take you on a tour of the swath of destruction. >> look at the trees, it looked like they were pulled up and laid down. just like weeding their garden. these are full growth pine trees. >> one of the e.r. doctors that helped evacuate hundreds of patients from moore medical center. >> i dont feel like i can take credit for that. doing my job, and doing what i had to do. >> and throwing mattresses on top ...

Destroyed everything in its path. this is where the tornado was. look at the difference between life and death, between losing everything and losing nothing. over water, it seems like it disappears, and it touches down on land again, destruction resumed. flying 2,500 feet above the ground. debris from the tornado can get ten times as high as we are right now into the air. look at the trees. looks like people pulled them up, laid them down, just luke they were weeding their garden. but those are ...