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him minutes ago. okay. were going to stand by for that. and chad myers, tell me where the storm is now. >> ashleigh and jeff were on the same road. >> they were on the same road together? >> going different directions. ashleigh is going toward st. louis, jeff is to the west driving toward the tornado. they crossed each other, obviously didnt see each other because its raining so hard. but they went the opposite direction. jeff is following that storm -- it did some damage near birds ey...

Fairly fascinating. we had three of these things. theres one, two, and theres one over there on the other side of the scene here. thats another thing that makes water spouts interesting is because they typically -- they dont form with a big super cell typically. these are a little more of a coastal phenomena. the setup is a little different. youve got winds coming from different angles, and you get a little storm that pops up along the coastline, and you get that rotation. this particular one is...

items to his room. moammar gadhafi is ready for a cease-fire, parentally, according to the south african president trying to broker a truce. gadhafi is not promising to step down, which is the main demand of the rebels. sarah palins one-nation bus tour is in gettysburg, finally. there are times when she sounds like a would-be presidential candidate. she still isnt ready to call her tour anything but a campaign for americas constitution. the tour started in washington wag. then, it ...

Edmond and fris co-road. damaging winds through piedmont right now. jim, to give us an update there from the chopper. can you see it? it is on the northern side of piedmont right now. say that again. stove pipe tornado. checking our reports from ham radio operator. say again, hank. jim, give us an update. can you see it? north side of piedmont. >> sent her of your screen, check. >> real hazy. >> real hazy. im just on the east side, southeast side of piedmont. thats it. >> okay. yeah, thats jim g...

89 is a big number to swallow and will probably grow. >> more than 300 were killed in alabama. >> yeah. >> im hoping more people got the warning because power was on before the storm came through. doppler radar one of the ways we give that warning. we have this ability. this is a high resolution what we call gibson ridge radar. you can see that hook. a hook and well-defined super cell that have a tornado and its in the backside of that where you see that hook, this doppler we pick up debris that...

In 1974, surpassed that year i should say, and this will be the deadliest tornado season since the 1950s. really tremendous amount of destruction and nature not done yet. through the middle of may, mentioned that minneapolis had a tornado with fatality, numerous injuries there. also destructive and deadly tornado rolling across kansas on saturday. want to show you what the radar looks like when this tornado rolled through joplin yesterday and this tornado, this radar imagery from 3:00 in the aft...

many ran to seek safer ground, but boy, the devastation is coming to light today. >> thats right. 12 hours later life has changed in joplin, missouri. a powerful tornado ripped that city apart. the red cross said 75% of the town is virtually gone with reports of at least 30 people killed and dozens more injured. 50,000 people live in the city. no phone service, power lines are down, cars and trucks smashed and flipped. the governor calling out the national guard and declaring a state o...

"endeavor" does launch? >> were hoping to stay. its been rescheduled for monday. if that sticks, we will stay around for it. its a once in a lifetime opportunity so im going to do whatever i can to see it. but even if we dont get to see the launch, just being here and meeting all of these people is unbelievable. >> seth green, thank you. have fun. im jealous. thank you. >> thank you so much. and take a look at something that we showed you last hour. i want you to look at the box in the lower l...

Couple days. people in carlinville, youre seeing on the screen are getting the very first look at wreckage as we are as well. this massive tornado sweeping across the horizon tearing apart one farmhouse. the man that caught it on video is a storm chaser and meteorologist with the discovery channels "storm chasers" program. reed well start off with the obvious. why do you do this? >> ive been obsessed with the weather ever since ive been five years old. i studied meteorology at university of okla...

Confirmed tornadoes yet. about 4 p.m. a super cell did move through wake county, north carolina and this is the area we are going to be awaiting confirmation of this was a tornado that rolled through. we have reports of power outages, powerlines down, strong winds and large size hail being reported across wake county, north carolina. not just this area, but also surrounding areas of the state of north carolina. again, reports of south carolina and the entire area we are expecting to see severe w...