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Weather is striking the heartland. yesterday, extremely wear twin tornadoes struck nebraska. the "omaha world-herald" headline "like god dragged two fingernails across the land." a 5-year-old was killed and at least 18 more injured. >> they say one of the tornadoes barreled down main street in pilger. you can see from these pictures immense. reed timer posted these photos to instagram of the rare twin funnels. our own bill karins said has never seen anything like that this before all of his year...

Northeastern nebraska that saw the twisters produce the damage out there through eye yaw the great lakes and the interior portions of the great lakes. i think the greatest risk today will be yet again across parts of the northern plains for some of the longer track storms that could produce significant damage. coming up tomorrow take a look at this map the same area could be seeing more severe weather out here minneapolis, omaha, chicago, you could be seeing the severe storms. by tomorrow the se...

A 5-year-old killed and 18 more injured. they are epic. witnesses say one of the tornadoes barreled down main street in pilger. reed timer posted these photos to instagram of the rare twin funnels. local officials said half of the towns businesses was destroyed and the highway patrol has closed all roads entering the town. lets go straight to bill karins for the latest on that. how rare is this? >> jaw dropping. i havent heard from any meteorologist alive that has ever seen anything like this. n...

We hope those people are safe, too. >> we should say, there is still search and rescue ongoing now. chad myers, one northeast nebraska town in search and rescue mode. almost every building destroyed. we are talking about pilger, nebraska. that town hit by two double tornado. reed timer joins me on the phone. youre a storm chaser. you just heard chad myers, hes been covering weather since 1987, and he has never seen two tornadoes this close. have you? >> no, ive never seen two tornadoes like that...

Tremendous area of debris as a result of that, and its just very upsetting, no matter how many times you see this, dave. i think the more you see this, as a matter of fact, it gets more and more upsetting. >> just proof that the tornado has done damage. we hope and pray that everyone has survived this, as it moves through a city of 15 or 20,000 people. we just saw a video of reed timer, a whole lot of rain where he was. reed, we hope youre staying safe. >> well look at some of the other warnings...

Pioneer in our field for sure. >> reed timer, sorry for the loss of your friend. appreciate you being with us to tell us about him this morning? >> his friend and his 24-year-old son and another colleague, three in that tragedy. ahead on "starting point" a 19-year-old sent over a 600-foot waterfall in californias yosemite national park. there it is. could anyone survive that kind of fall? well go live to the site of the scene of the search this morning. >> she stunned the world when she announ...

>> areas back in downtown oklahoma city two, three feet he of water. cars halfway buried. trees down everywhere from a weak torna÷o that went through the south side of oklahoma city. we he saw a violená tornado a little further west of oklahoma city south of el reno and intercepted it with the armored vehicle and actually had the hood ripped off of the dominator, our armored vehicle. our rqáqp)ch vehicle. >> shepard: exactly -- >> hello? >> shepard: you had damage earlier to your own vehicle,...

And it was a dangerous situation. we saw severe structural damage. looked like some where in the union city el reno a)ea and then the same storm went through south oklahoma city and we were communicating with mike norman in the oklahoma city area to keep everybody warned in the path of the storms and right now, im trying to get to my house in norman which was two miles south of the ef5 damage path. we are driving through the ef5 damage path, what was that ten days ago and the same area had torna...

Eastern cherokee counties for another 15 minutes. the long and short of it is the watches and warnings are coming in faster than i can read them to you and from all across the st. louis area. back to oklahoma city as you will be able to see from the radar in the oklahoma city area, actually, looking at st. louis now. and you can see the leading edge again with that pink -- with the about pink area. this is st. louis we are looking at on the right-hand side of the screen. coming right into st. lo...

Watching exactly what the national weather service is putting out, making sure our citizens are aware of that and we are prepared to alert them of possible danger. >> jayme shelton, spokesman for the mayors office in oklahoma. thank you for your time and stay safe, as always. >> thank you, rachel. >> back to nbcs affiliate in oklahoma city, kfor. >> down through here where it made this big dip and strong northward turn, thats where we had a lot of folks get run over by the tornado. emily sutton ...