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captions paid for by nbc-universal television good morning. welcome to "today" on a sunday morning. im lester holt in tuscaloosa, alabama. and im jenna wolfe in new york. and, lester, the scope of the destruction from those tornadoes is just unimaginable. youve been there for days now. what can you tell us about the situation this morning? the more time you spend here, jenna, you realize the defining patterns of these tornadoes. im standing on the edge of one and you see perhaps ...

the extraordinary ceremony. "today," sunday, may 1s, 2011. captions paid for by nbc-universal television good morning. welcome to "today" on a sunday morning. im lester holt in tuscaloosa, alabama. and im jenna wolfe in new york. and, lester, the scope of the destruction from those tornadoes is just unimaginable. youve been there for days now. what can you tell us about the situation this morning? the more time you spend here, jenna, you realize the defining patterns of these tor...

good evening. again, a mounting death toll from this weeks historic tornado outbreak here in the south. rescuers acknowledge time is running out to find survivors. as we come on the air tonight, officials say at least 341 people are dead across seven states, making this the countrys second deadliest tornado outbreak ever. thousands of others are injured. the sheer number of people left homeless by this disaster has created what the mayor of tuscaloosa has called a humanitarian crisis. ...

good evening. again, a mounting death toll from this weeks historic tornado outbreak here in the south. rescuers acknowledge time is running out to find survivors. as we come on the air tonight, officials say at least 341 people are dead across seven states, making this the countrys second deadliest tornado outbreak ever. thousands of others are injured. the sheer number of people left homeless by this disaster has created what the mayor of tuscaloosa has called a humanitarian crisis. ...

Your trip begins at michigan.org. every single person who lived through this weeks tornado outbreak has a story to tell, but none of them can possibly be as breathtaking as reginald epps, a firefighter in northern alabama. he joins us by phone from a hospital in tuscaloosa. mr. epps, thank you very much, first of all, for telling your story. can you give us a sense, and our viewers a sense, of what happened when you had your 9-year-old son in your arms and that tornado hit? >> well, it started...

we did our job. live from studio 7, im suzanne malveaux. its friday, april 29th. >> reporter: im zain verjee outside of the buckingham palace where the royal wedding went smoothly. 1.5 million people were here in london to watch the procession around the streets. two billion people around the world tuned in to watch the dress, the vows, and the carriage. well tell you what the atmosphere was like here. it was very electric, suzanne. >> great into today, what life brings to us, a celebr...