this is what happens when you get a rain band over you. the rain band, when it rains down, it translates. it takes the wind from aloft, that the planes fly through the hurricane hunters and slams it to the ground. so in a half hour, this camera will look exactly like this camera right now. and alina will look just like this camera in about ten minutes. we ll be watching, chad myers, alina machado, thank you so much. let s go now to jerry jones, he is the mayor of morehead city, north carolina. he s joining us now on the phone. mayor, tell us what it is like where you are. well, we re just getting to see the storm outside, and our winds are probably 35, 40 miles an hour, but we definitely expect them to pick up quite a bit in the next couple of hours. and are you pretty confident with what how residents, responding? are there any i mean, we ve been hearing people out on the
janet napolitano plans on surveying the area today. gretchen: tragic photo of that mother with her husband who went for help and apparently people did not help her when she tried to find the kids . she rode out the storm outside. you would think that the politicians and president and mayor of new york, it would be rescue mission and getting these people back to homes and getting them fed, nope, instead unbelievablably the new york city mara thon goes on sunday. most important picture on the cover of the new york post the gen rators are putting electricity to tents in central park instead of the entire area of staten island or long island. that area has no power or home or shelter, nothing. steve: it is here in new york city and streets of
the ground. this is a large, violent tornado. this is what it looked like three minutes ago. we are tracking this live. sometimes we get spotty interception from storm chasers as they re live streaming. this tornado was reported first near genessee oh, near little river, and now it is near langley, if you know that area. elf worth, and saline county. violent tornado being tracked and moving quickly to the north and east around 45 miles per hour. this is pretty rural at this point. we haven t heard any reports of damage yellow light. we re going to continue to track this. one of my big concerns is this is moving towards salina. they are not in the warning as we speak, but it is heading your way, you need to be on big time alert for this storm. let s show you the storm chaser network. this is what that tornado wedge, we call it a wedge when you don t see a point on the bottom of the tornado. people say what does that mean. it means it is large and causing a lot of destruction
the top of gas stations and the like that were taken out. so talk about the concern for anyone who may be stuck somewhere and buried, because there appears to be evidence of that in rockport certainly. but how about where you are? reporter: not so much where we are. i did find a homeless man on the street. i dialed 911. this was several hours ago, to inform the police where he was, that he was outside riding the storm outside. they said at that time they were not going to deploy officers anywhere because the storm was hitting at its worst moments. it appears now that we have gone from the tremendous winds that were consistent and constant to what are now strong gusts. i do know that the police officers out and about if there are 911 calls. while the electricity is out, it looks like the cell phone towers are maintaining and so people are able to make calls. we would hope that anybody that might be in trouble may have a phone and able to dial 911 for help. the damage in victoria, whil