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Teachers in Columbus, Ohio, started picketing Monday in the first walkout in the school district since 1975.

Face to face with a tornado. a dozen fema teams will hit the ground in north carolina today to help thousands of people start over. the state took the hardest hit in a three-day tornado rampage that stretched from oklahoma to virginia. 45 deaths, almost half in north carolina. north carolina governor bev perdue is getting a look at storm damage in bertie county. that is happening this hour. half of the deaths in north carolina happened in the small rural county. two of those killed, roy and barbara lafferty. >> we were at home in conway, and we saw it on the news, so we started trying to cal...

face to face with a tornado. a dozen fema teams will hit the ground in north carolina today to help thousands of people start over. the state took the hardest hit in a three-day tornado rampage that stretched from oklahoma to virginia. 45 deaths, almost half in north carolina. north carolina governor bev perdue is getting a look at storm damage in bertie county. that is happening this hour. half of the deaths in north carolina happened in the small rural county. two of those killed, roy and barbara lafferty. >> we were at home in conway, and we saw it on the news, so we started try...

north carolina. >> this time lapse video shows storm clouds tee sending on raleigh, part of the system that killed more than 20 people across the state. one of the hardest hit areas was in the tiny town of cold rain, where a couple hundred people live, tore houses from the foundations, through cars and left behind yards of destruction. >> i saw this twister coming i said twisting, we hit the bathroom, we hit the bathroom floor the roof flu. >> reporter: kim lafferty had prayers of her own when she couldn't reach her in-laws. >> i had a gut feeling when i couldn't get them on the phon...

>> mitchell: and good evening. residents across a huge part of the country are counting their dead and cleaning up the rubble after a brutal weekend of tornadoes and severe storms. let's take a look at the latest. at least 45 people are reported dead and hundreds of homes and businesses have been destroyed. more than 240 tornadoes in all touchdown across 14 states. that's a record number for a single storm system. the twister struck over a three day period from the great plains east to north carolina, which was the hardest hit state with at least 22 deaths. this time lapse video show...