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7:09. >> west end units, run a rescue, will be north of the showboat. will be a duck that has capsized. >> for somebody out there with a video of this, please send it to our stone county sheriffs office facebook page. >> reporter: as investigators pour into branson to find answers, the president of the duck boat company tells cnn this never should have happened. >> it was perfectly calm and we had a high speed wind system that just came out of nowhere. obviously, we shouldnt be out there in seve...

After a duck boat carrying tourists and two crew members sank near branson, missouri. the deceased include children, adults and the elderly. >> again, it has been a long night and been a very trying night. >> we have boats out there, it was perfectly calm, then we had a high speed wind system that just came out of nowhere and out of that storm front. >> did the win come out of nowhere? a severe thunderstorm warning was in fact issued for surrounding areas 15 minutes before the last duck boat tou...

Sarasota. the hurricane came abruptly 20 miles of us and wind it was near 100 120 miles per hour. >> jon: how does it compare with other storms you have been in? >> most of the time im chasing tornadoes and it is very comparable to tornado chasing except its a very long duration tornado if you want to look at it that way. these wind speeds are very comparable to tornadoes. we had a wind system of over 13. that is easily a category three tornado. i very long-duration of high wind speed event. >> ...

Maybe thursday as a blocking high to west and to east is sandwiching the storm right over texas. that is where the bulls eye is going to be and that is what were watching right now, you a. >> and the blocking, is this typical for this time of the year for the wind system to be tracking from west to east in the northern part of the country that would create this situation, it is not at all. >> this is very usual. the jet stream drives the storms frxt west to east. and right now west coast is look...

Is probably perfectly fine for everyone to keep calm and carry on with the summer of trump. joij joining me now is michael temaski. joan walsh and michael steele. michael, let me start with you about the hillary back draft or whatever were calling it. i dont know where to place her in the wind system. >> hot air. >> oh. chairman steele had to just get in there. i feel like -- and its sort of understandable because trump is such a sensationalist this is getting less play and is arguably maybe muc...

Where we were. because there was a storm, it blew off to sea and the only place it could go, because of the wind system, was towards antarctica. we happen to be between the old ice which is like ten years old or more and were penned in. this is why the ice breakers cant get through. if it was sea ice, we could have got through ourselves. its kind of an unfortunate confluence of events and has nothing to do with the fact its colder here. its not proof that climate change doesnt exist. its an unfo...

2 to 5 feet total with this system. winter storm warnings remain posted in the sierras and the wasatch and colorado rockies and with this snow has a tremendous amount of wind energy as well. look at the winds out of utah. 110-mile-an-hour wind gusts at ogden, utah. park city, 85 and salt lake city proper seeing 65 miles an hour wind gusts so a lot of energy with this wind system. ahead of it sunny and warm. with that warmth has come in fog. fog across the western great lakes and across parts of ...

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