a brand-new system building strength. abc s alex perez tonight from the storm zone. tornado warning. take shelter! reporter: tonight, a dangerous system on the move. the tornado completely all the way on the ground. reporter: the tornado outbreak beginning in texas tuesday afternoon. twisters reported in six states. our clayton sandell is in hard-hit elk city, oklahoma. the twister tore through here through dinnertime. some 100 families homes are severely damaged or destroyed. one person was killed but officials say early warnings helped save many lives. reporter: driving dangerous, too this pickup hydroplaning on i-40. north of eau claire, wisconsin, another twister making a direct hit. the trailer park looks like it might ve been leveled. reporter: one killed and dozens injured. first responders hearing their cries for help. they were pulling walls off of people and getting them out of their trailers. reporter: darla rutledge was standing in her home when the w
she was the democratic nominee for congress in virginia s first congressional district in the 2010 election. ben moore, former director of the pac progress texas, and co-author of bush s brain: how karl rove made george w. bush president. how has the fallout in texas been around this story from wayne slater? i don t think there s been big fallout yet, chris. but, remember, we re talking, if you re a woman in this state and you ve watched wendy s assent politically, you re watching somebody who did from the trailer park, whether if the csi forensic guys are saying, excuse me, ma am, was it two months or two years, she came from the trailer park, she went to harvard, her husband, who wayne interviewed extensively, as you noted, was very fond of her. she gets out of harvard, she becomes a state senator in this state, where it s very difficult for a woman to succeed politically. what i d suggest is that if this were a man in texas who had made
joining me now, chris ball, co-host of msnbc s, the cycle, which airs weekdays at 3:00 p.m. eastern. she was the democratic nominee for congress in virginia s first congressional district in the 2010 election. ben moore, former director of the pac progress texas, and co-author of bush s brain: how karl rove made george w. bush president. how has the fallout in texas been around this story from wayne slater? i don t think there s been big fallout yet, chris. but, remember, we re talking, if you re a woman in this state and you ve watched wendy s assent politically, you re watching somebody who did from the trailer park, whether if the csi forensic guys are saying, excuse me, ma am, was it two months or two years, she came from the trailer park, she went to harvard, her husband, who wayne interviewed extensively, as you
big fallout yet, chris. but, remember, we re talking, if you re a woman in this state and you ve watched wendy s assent politically, you re watching somebody who did from the trailer park, whether if the csi forensic guys are saying, excuse me, ma am, was it two months or two years, she came from the trailer park, she went to harvard, her husband, who wayne interviewed extensively, as you noted, was very fond of her. she gets out of harvard, she becomes a state senator in this state, where it s very difficult for a woman to succeed politically. what i d suggest is that if this were a man in texas who had made this same assent and had this same narrative to share, everybody would be going, oh, my god, look at the sacrifices he made for his family to succeed and achieve and look at what he s done. instead, greg abbott s campaign, and the right, is trying to
today, the trailer park that lost so many homes and lost some people, and also around carney, oklahoma and highway 177 in shawnee, many people came up and said because of the media, and their rapid response and recording on the track of the storms, they were able to get to a storm shelter and we saved a lot of lives because of that. but as we know today, we ve had a massive tornado, a huge one that has passed through this community. we do know there are fatalities. we don t have a number count yet. we know there are a lot of injuries. we know we ve lost a tremendous amount of structures throughout this community and throughout the state. our health department and our medical examiner are working as quick as they can to try to help families identify and try to find their loved ones. for those families who don t know the status of their loved ones and in particular, the children that were in the schools that have been hit,