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Heart of it today and i mean, what you see out here, what you see behind me right now, is just the small beginning of it. theres homes -- homes that are just -- theyre not there. i mean, theyre gone. we had a list of the 17 or -- yeah, 17 regular homes, 19 mobile homes that were destroyed and when i say destroyed, there was nothing there but a pad, and then we had numerous others. we had a total of 97 homes out of 110 that suffered severe damage. >> 97 out of 110. i understand a number of them w...

Our meteorologist chad myers is joining us from the cnn severe weather center with a heads-up with whats coming over the weekend. what do we know, chad? >> we know there will be three outbreaks of severe weather, one saturday, one sunday, and another on monday, progressing from nebraska, eventually almost all the way to chicago. by this time of the year we should have 500 tornadoes on the ground, on average. weve only had 250. it doesnt even stack up to what we should have had in april. ins been...

60 homes built by habitat for humanity were destroyed. all thats left of one house, the slab of concrete. >> when you can put a name and a face that you worked beside the people that built that house and you know how much that home means to that family, its very devastating. i had enough of feeling embarrassed about my skin.

Purring like a kitty cat should this morning, mika and joe. >> be careful. >> a lot of tornadoes, first time ive had a pet come up to me. >> adopt that cat. say you will. >> ive got two dogs at home. i dont know if my dogs would like the cat. im not sure how that would go. well see what we can do with the kitty cat. i think he lives in the horse barn. >> mike seidel, granbury, texas, thanks very much. lets go to meteorologist bill karins. >> the one image mike mentioned two houses were wiped fro...

I think the women, the girls are tougher than the boys, i really believe that, just from my having met so many. this is the poster woman. this is the poster woman of a survivor. shes married, has two kids, comes to national center events, willing to talk about it. lots of people that go through that will turn to drugs or alcohol. they cant sustain a relationship. this is the poster woman right here. but this creep, again, people in this audience and everybody listening to this cant wrap their he...

Adrenaline kept me going, the desire to go back and live with my biological mom, and i think that the abuse that i had sustained the first ten years of my life almost prepared me for this captivity. >> it is incredible, john, when you talk to people about -- how theyre able to survive, how theyre able to make it through. >> survival mode comes in. i think the women, the girls are tougher than the boys, i really believe that, just from my having met so many. this is the poster woman. this is the ...

This is the poster woman of a survivor. shes married, has two kids, comes to national center events, willing to talk about it. lots of people that go through that will turn to drugs or alcohol. they cant sustain a relationship. this is the poster woman right here. but this creep, again, people in this audience and everybody listening to this cant wrap their head around the fact that many times it is someone, a trusted authority figure, the jerry sanduskys, the coaches, the next door neighbor. th...

Desire to go back and live with my biological mom, and i think that the abuse that i had sustained the first ten years of my life almost prepared me for this captivity. >> it is incredible, john, when you talk to people about -- how theyre able to survive, how theyre able to make it through. >> survival mode comes in. i think the women, the girls are tougher than the boys, i really believe that, just from my having met so many. this is the poster woman. this is the poster woman of a survivor. sh...

A huge slab over it so he could kidnap her and keep her as his toy. there is the sociopath hiding amongst us. theyre the guy next door. >> and hed been building this dungeon for a long time. this was more than a year. >> i actually remember a brother and either a friend of my brothers or a cousin who had passed away when i was 6 years old, jumping in and out of this and wrestling in it and playing in it, and i was too little to partake in that event. >> hed already built it then? >> he was in th...

I think the women, the girls are tougher than the boys, i really believe that, just from my having met so many. this is the poster woman. this is the poster woman of a survivor. shes married, has two kids, comes to national center events, willing to talk about it. lots of people that go through that will turn to drugs or alcohol. they cant sustain a relationship. this is the poster woman right here. but this creep, again, people in this audience and everybody listening to this cant wrap their he...