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Them morning. You were live in the Cnn Newsroom. Im Jim Acosta in washington. We are following Breaking News this Morning Disaster in Western North Carolina as one North Carolina official put it the devastation is quote biblical large swaths are completely cut off in that area. Official say, all roads there are considered closed. These are exclusive pictures coming into cnn showing the destruction in asheville. What you are looking at is the main Road And Biltmore village near the famous biltmor...

There are injuries here. We just dont know how many, but yet look at the size of that tornado. Lets get to the maps here. Ill show you whats going on. It could be a continuously violent night all the way through good morning hours. We will see tornadoes likely on the ground throughout the night, all the way from really almost texas into nebraska. This red box here thats the tornado watch box, which means theyre possible these pink boxes, which means theyre happening. So for you, bennington, miss...

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Example along the line separating ukrainian government controlled territory and separatist rebel held territory, a shell that seems to have landed on a kindergarten. some injuries, no fatalities we are told, but every day when you hear about episodes like that, you were wondering, is this going to be the triggerfor something? and while wondering, is this going to be the trigger for something? and while the political situation remains unresolved, the potentialfor one of these fairly routine excha...

Hunkered down anyway and its an exponential level of alarm that if you hadnt gotten to shelter you should have been because you had minutes or seconds left. >> you talk with this thing going on for 200 miles, is that common? do you see a lot of that in your career? >> no. this will -- only 1% of tornadoes are, like, ef-4 or ef-5. typically theyre only on the ground for a little bit and this is what we call a long track tornado and it was at night. this could go down as one of the longest, strong...

Suffering injuries. dr. harris, thank you for joining us this evening on cnn. tell us about the injuries youve been seeing and what sort of treatment have they been having to have. >> weve had a mix of medical and trauma patients. weve had several fractures. several falls. had a lot of chronic medical patients who have deteriorated over like the day and a half where they could not get to the hospital such as congestive heart failure or copd exacerbation where theyre having trouble breathing or t...

Location. we will keep you posted. >> members of the oklahoma national guard are still searching if are survivors. joining me now on the phone is the lieutenant colonel moss. what is your mission right now for the folks down there in moore? >> as it has been since the beginning, about 200 oklahoma army and air national guardsmen are know continuing to support first responders and law enforce am. >> there concerns about two things in a storm situation like this. looting and shelter. what can you ...

>> well, geraldo, this is the last thing that residents of in the northeast want to think about, a potential storm. this will not be sandy. will not be a big ball of wind encompassing hundreds and thousands of miles in span. but it is a storm system. if sandy was not on the plate last week, this would be your typical noreaster but the circumstances for the northeast have changed. we have seen huge impacts as the storm system initiates, it will be off the coast. some change in track. we could see...

>> well, geraldo, this is the last thing that residents of in the northeast want to think about, a potential storm. this will not be sandy. will not be a big ball of wind encompassing hundreds and thousands of miles in span. but it is a storm system. if sandy was not on the plate last week, this would be your typical noreaster but the circumstances for the northeast have changed. we have seen huge impacts as the storm system initiates, it will be off the coast. some change in track. we could see...

And people are sending me tweets that campaign videos have been playing at these events themselves and still having a message for sure when they show up. >> sure. well, you know, i think both campaigns are trying to deal with the situation in a sensitive way knowing that so many of our countrymen and women with are suffering, but thomas, this circumstance demonstrates as clearly as anything i can think of, the importance of having a strong, federal government. fema is doing a wonderful job and t...