Twisted Debris News Today

>> you wound up at the center of one of the worst days in history. what will you be thinking about tomorrow? >> tomorrow, ill be thinking about my firefighters and while many of those have pictures of the towers collapsing, what i remember is firefighters coming into the world trade center and coming up to me and asking chief, what do you need me to do? they went upstairs. i asked them to evacuate the building and rescue those that couldnt get out. >> you write i gazed into the distance physical...

And cut off. destruction everywhere, twisted debris, semi-trucks overturned. homes and buildings damaged or destroyed. and with these new storms, i mentioned, that collapse, two people were killed when that mississippi highway came down, undermined by flood waters. ginger zee with the track of these dangerous new storms in a moment, but first, our chief national correspondent matt gutman flying with the coast guard and what he saw. >> reporter: tonight, those hardest hit communities from the air...

I would say the best adjective to apply would be simple relative to saying its crude. simple and deadly effective where individual or individuals involved used an item that can be filled with some kind of explosive, black powder for example, sealed, and then a triggering device hooked up and then detonated. theres little doubt that whoever was behind this meant to kill and maim as many as possible. >> let me ask you this, robert. i was reading there was the al qaeda in the arabian peninsula a co...

Development in the boston marathon bombing investigation. pamela brown with the citys response to the attacks, senior medical correspondent elizabeth coh cohen, but we begin with susan candiotti. we learned overnight from the fbi has one of the two bombs was packed into a pressure cooker. the second was located in some kind of metal container. we dont know if it was a pressure cooker or not. susan, what else do we know knew this morning? >> good morning. these, as you said, are gripping photos t...

Angering empty-pocketed motorists. >> somebodys making money, it aint me. >> reporter: a new abc news/"washington post" poll says six out of ten americans are cutting back on driving. analysts say its now time to get ready for $5-a-gallon gas but in much of the nation including here in the nations capital were nearly there now. rob and peggy. and more powerful storms are now rumbling through today from louisiana all the way up into the ohio valley. >> and parts of the south are picking up the ...

>> i heard glass breaking. every door in the house slamming. i heard the roof go. i could feel the door pulling away from me. and i just held on for dear life. >> it was quite trying. >> reporter: yeah, and now what? >> thats what im wondering, now what? >> reporter: unfortunately, four people who live here in this town were not as lucky. they all were killed in the storms. the governor here has declared a state of emergency. >> im amazed that we havent had any more loss of life based upon the a...