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In cleburne there is a lot of damage as well. the six people who died in this storm, in this series of tornadoes all in the rancho brazos area were told the rescue task force continued to search overnight. that will continue throughout the day. we saw the numbers signifying the search was completed and what was found. in this area, one thing that stood out is that the devastation was everywhere. not skipping a house and one stands without damage and the next house is completely gone. but all the...

The death penalty in the gruesome murder of her ex-boyfriend. will she get life or will she get death? >> good morning, everyone, welcome to "early start." a lot of news when you were sleeping. >> may 16th, 5:00 a.m. in the east. we begin with breaking news this morning. dangerous deadly storms overnight killing at least six people. and right now, the search is on for 14 people who are missing and the fear that the death toll could go up. terrifying funnel clouds bearing down the hardest hit a...

Places for people to stay. we also know that there is that rescue task force here looking for the 14 people still unaccounted for. especially in the neighborhood of rancho brazos, where the habitat for humanity homes are. listen to the sheriffs description of that community. >> there is about 110 homes in that residential area. and there is a number of them that are fairly new within the last five years that were built from habitat for humanity. i have not been out there myself, but ive been tol...

Morning. >> theres a rescue task force coming from dallas to search for those 14 missing persons. also here, look over here, the heavy machinery has just pulled up. bulldozers over here to start to clean up the mess left by what the sheriff calls a monster that created a war zone. >> take a look at this. video from a storm chaser in north texas wednesday night. and this. this is what a tornado looks like in the dark, lit up by lightning. >> its just hug them and pray to god as loud as you can. >...

Haitis earthquake five weeks ago today, is testing victims patient and relief workers stamina. i-reporter chris moro has been working with the san diego group, rescue task force. heres what hes seeing and doing. >> reporter: we are in the tent city down the hill, and were going down to the inside of the tent. and port-au-prince has always been a city flanked by ghettos from side to side because everything has been centralized in port-au-prince. but life has been different anyway decades ago. i c...

So, this is the base of operations? >> so this is our base of operations, exactly. >> reporter: abc news getting an inside look at the tent city for miami-dade fire/rescue task force 1. theyve been deployed around the world, now working in their backyard against the elements and the clock. >> not only do we have the debris of the pile itself, not only do we have the risk of collapse, the risk of getting injured with the debris, all thats there, but we have had the rain. the rain thats come throu...

Was, didnt know if it was safe to commit people at that time. policies and procedures to make our people as safe as possible. we know theyre going to go into dangerous situation but thats why go in format, rescue task force with the police departments. even ten years ago in this valley would have never taken place, never trained or planned on it. >> any firefighters -- >> we had no on-duty injuries of any emergency response personnel last night. >> non? >> from my fire department? no. >> greg, c...

>> we had multiple divisions set up to cover the area. i cant speak to how long it took them to get in but we had some issues right out of the start because things were going on. we didnt know where the gunfire was. we didnt know if it was safe to commit people. that is some policy and procedure, try to make our people as safe as possible. we are no they are going into a dangerous situation. thats why we do it with a rescue task force with the police departments. personnel going into harms way. ...