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welcome to bbc news. the authorities in iran are vowing to enforce the wearing the latest series of tornadoes to have ripped through parts of the united states has left at least 11 people dead, they were killed in the states of arkansas and illinois. dozens have been injured and tens of thousands have lost power. some pictures coming through to us in the last half hour show the extent of the damage to homes in this residential area in the state of illinois. the picture is no better in ...

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If this were a tornado it would be an ef 3 tornado about five to ten miles wide. thats the kind of devastation this possibly has. it will make landfall sometime between, id say, 1:00 and 4:00 this afternoon as a category 4. its still a category 2 this evening into southwestern georgia, continuing as a 2 right along the georgia, south carolina coast and tropical system moving out by friday morning. the biggest impact, storm surge. thats where we have the greatest loss of life and destruction. wer...

Starting to wrap up. there also was a potential tornado last night in areas of pennsylvania. there was some damage. well bring you those pictures a little later and if it does get confirmed for a tornado it will be pennsylvanias first ever february tornado on record. how rare is that? so heres the storm for the weekend. this is as we go through saturday. rainy as we go throughout the morning into the afternoon. all of a sudden the blue blossoms, thats the colder air. thats the snow falling from ...

Forward. imagine what that is like to have a tornado look that coming at you. >> you know, everybody whos ever ridden out a tornado it seems, for that matter an earthquake, so often they describe it as a freight train. thats what everybody says, the sound of it, the earth is shaking and rumbling, the wind is howling. it is mother nature, you know, in extremes. i must tell you be i was thinking just before you came to me, when you see this, you kind of get the perspective that we are just but a s...

Cloud is spotted. i want to give you a warning of the tornado sirens. pardon the bumping of the camera. thats one of the sirens thats supposed to warn people of the event a tornado it spotted. it was knocked out by the last tornado. crews are trying to get the word out in person, driving through neighborhoods, trying to get the word out with local television and radios. as the funnel clouds blew up the transformers, the radio and tv doesnt work. the debris is going to be worse in harrisburg beca...

Violent tornado inside there but you cant see it. you dont see things spinning around because its raining all the way around. theres a ring of rain around the tornado kind of blinding it or hiding it from chasers, hiding it from officials, the policemen. they didnt even know it was there. >> also it created a noise, just perhaps the rain and th hail, that kind of dampened the sirens, people perhaps couldnt hear the sirens. >> you know, you cant trust the sirens. i know they are there and they ar...

buildings sustaining significant damage. that includes one of the citys main hospitals. the national guard on patrol with a state of emergency in effect. andres cue teams they keep searching today, this afternoon, all through the day for survivors. joplin, missouri, the latest victim of a volatile wave of turbulent springtime weather. brian todd in the thick of it. >> reporter: drew, rescue teams are combing through grid by grid, house by house in this city. the houses that are left ar...

The storm went all the way up to an ef-4. we can show you what it looked like inside the airport from security video. when you have an ef-4 tornado its amazing there went werent more injuries or loss of life. the winds in an ef-4 it be sustained at gusts over 144 to 200 miles per hour. you dont want to be near the winds. a lot of the people on cnn and our i-reporters that survived this tornado. the reason we didnt have the loss of life the lead time the tornado warnings 20 and 30 minutes before ...

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