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the national and louisville. lets bring in chad myers at the cnn atlanta center. what is the latest? >> it goes all the way from illinois all the way down to georgia, alabama, as far west as louisiana and far north as virginia. on the backside, its snowing up in squad cities. thats not atypical. you need cold air to clash. a couple areas still on the ground, to the north of chattanooga by bradley and north of cleveland in tennessee. and then another couple storms here popping up, not t...

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...

susan, what did they have to say apparently we are having trouble with susan candiotti who has been following that story. we will listen to the hikers. >> we had to go on hunger strike repeatedly to receive letters from our loved ones. many times, too many times, we heard the screams of other prisoners being beaten, and there was nothing we could do to help them. >> though wed like to be very clear, this was never about crossing the unmarked border between iran and iraq. we were held b...

thwart a potentially catastrophic event, the likes of which the city of tampa has not seen and hopefully never will. >> i want to bring in david mattingly who has been covering this for us all day long. i want to begin with the fact that im glad were sitting here telling this version of the story. this could have gone a different direction. a lot of this is all in thanks to this unsung hero who we may never know who this individual is who tipped police off. what did the police ultimate...

Were still waiting to see as the storm moves further to the east here maybe the wall cloud back here in the bright area with a tornado in it. hard to tell from the angle im in but it still could drop down through here. we could still get a tornado on the ground. with a tornado warning in effect, literally the weather service knows the whole storm is rotating and the tornado could fall out of the sky at any time. some dramatic pictures here. even whether this is a tornado or not, and i dont belie...

Sight, was a wall cloud, the leading edge of this storm front thats across the mississippi river, headed east through the city of memphis. this spectacular wall cloud appeared to have some rotation in it. at least that we were able to see from here open the ground. no defined funnel that was formed with this. anthere was some rain and some very vivid lightning coming out of it. from our vantage point no tornado. there is a tornado warning here in the memphis area for this county. weve been liste...

tonight we have some amazing pictures to show you of research being done real time inside a real tornado. storm chaser reed timor rode inside a twister last night in oklahoma. somehow he managed to launch probes to measure pressure and wind speed. youve got to see this. take a look. >> watch out for these trees. wait for it. weve got to do it, joel. wait for it. ready? go ahead. get a little closer. launch. we got to go again. get closer. launch it again. launch it again. >> launch, la...

Across i-40 in that region? >> right now we have a rotating wall cloud just to our north that could put down a tornado any second andwe were trying t get in position to deploy probes to collect data on this one. it could touch down any second. im looking at it to my north. and its right at the intersection of 377 and interstate 40. >> all right, well, if anybodys listening, and we hope they hear the location of that devastation and certainly either get below grade or get out of that little regio...

Luckily the wall cloud missed us. but we run into a situation like that all the time. the roads in western oklahoma are not necessarily all maintained. >> jeremy, final question to you, you said that youve been doing this for ten years. i imagine your tone would have changed had you been near a larger city where the damage could have been horrendous. >> oh, absolutely. and unfortunately, weve been -- my partner and i have been in two towns or watched two towns basically get destroyed this year, ...

Of it, a giant wedge tornado. >> its starting to come a little bit -- now its making a left turn. im stopping because its coming up to i-40. im stopping as its coming up to i-40. unbelievable. it is right here. its a killer tornado. >> they have shut down i-40. theyre not letting people go on i-40 near this thing. el reno, get below ground. you see that, thats a giant cloud on the ground. that is a maxi wedge tornado.an. >> the wind damage is incredible. winds are 80 to 100 miles per hour in-flo...