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Made for an unnerving few hours of weather across the south this afternoon, and toppled the side of this alabama business. tonight, recovery from several tornadoes that tore across alabama and georgia today. >> look at this stuff. >> reporter: a severe weather outbreak pummeling states from north to south, in abbeville alabama, he reported large tornado cut through damaging a y eufaula fared worse. a twister downing trees and power lines. >> boom, boom, boom boom boom. >> norah: and damaging bri...

Houses are just shredded. you can see, some of them are just entirely, entirely flat president. the foliage is gone, trees knocked over, if not stripped bare. the walmart we showed you pictures of and the home depot, also completely laid bare. a number of bodies pulled from the home depot. this is the kind of devastation that the storm has brought. a woman i want to introduce you to, i still will later in the show, lived in a house just nearby here. she went into her basement to wait this tornad...

thanks so much for being with us on this wednesday. good to see everybody this morning. you know the pictures are coming in, new pictures, and the devastation, continues for the midwest. >> thats right. ali velshi in joplin, missouri, where they had a harrowing night. hi, ali. >> good morning, christine, kiran, it is a better morning here. people counting their blessings. a near miss last night in joplin, missouri. everyone taking shelter and bracing for another twister that thanchgful...

Many thanks for that. lets go to bridgeton, missouri, where we have the weather channels mike seidel clearly standing in front of just whats left behind from this horrific f-4 tornado. when you talk about the airport, it too 20 seconds to wreak the havoc there. do you know how long it was on the ground in that neighborhood? >> reporter: it was on the ground for 22 miles this. didnt skip. got the analysis in from the national weather service, 22-mile stretch from this side of st. louis just acros...