Randy Guyton News Today

more coverage throughout the day on the fox news channel. >> good morning, everyone, it is sunday, may the 1st, im heather in for alisyn camerota this morning. the death toll climbing and the second deadliest towered outbreak in u.s. history this morning. people across seven states trying to pick up the pieces and well go live to the ground from hard hit tuscaloosa, alabama. >> and pope john paul ii closer to sainthood and witnessing the beatification, we are he live from rome. >> and ...

Saw nothing but black, a black wall west of us, a mile wide tornado, at least. the center of it looked sort of kind of colored white and all i could do is hear the rumble and the sound of the storm. it was 180 mile track is what the -- i heard from the news last night, local news. 180 miles. >> well -- thats a long distance from one corner of alabama to the other. >> it is, randy, and you were right smack dab in the middle of it. this is a storm that some believe could have been on the ground fo...

Making it the snowiest one so far. another perspective to show you, 22,000 miles above the earth we are tracking pictures from nasa showing us the tornado outbreak as the satellite takes the temperature of the high cloud tops, why its bright white here, see the sharp contrast of air. theres the tornadoes ripping across alabama, mississippi into tennessee. a different perspective from space, but it really does show you how intense these storms were. t.j. >> bonnie schneider keeping an eye on thin...

254 of them died in alabama alone. this was the second deadliest single day tornado outbreak in u.s. history. it doesnt take long, folks, some say a matter of seconds, how long it takes for a tornado to completely just destroy a house. that was the story for so many people across the south. they lost so much. we have seen the pictures. now we are hearing the stories. and randy is on line with me now. he made it through the storm in alabama, joins me on the phone, randy, sir, good morning. we a...

Pictures that you sent to us as were talking to you here. your home didnt make it through it, but your family did. how were you all able it to do that? >> the noaa alarm weather system helped us and it went off and we knew, they said tornado was in the area, take cover, we went downstairs and at that time, we were prepared to get in our place of, you know, shelter, opened up the middle door, double door garage we have, has, you know, a door and i walked out and saw the brief line from out of now...

All the deadly area. my father-in-law across the street, he had a brick home wiped out. his pick-up was taken over to the neighbors yard and destroyed and we were really concerned about him, getting to him. we couldnt get to him for several hours because of the search team rescue team efforts trying to clear the debris out. they wouldnt let us move at all. yesterday at 4:30, we went in because the team efforts were trying to locate the injured, you know, and the deceased with dogs. we didnt have...

also, the nfl this morning, once again, closed for business. the player lockout was lifted this week, but last night, a federal court made a different decision and once again, the doors are closed. but, right now, we do need to start with that trail of devastation across the south. they are still searching this morning for people buried in the rubble alive or dead. take a look now at the toll from these storms. we got some updates just overnight and this morning that at least 342 peo...