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Joining me here on our big map is richard beal he is a railroad operation and safety expert and a former locomotive engineer. really glad to have you here. your expertise is invaluable to us at a time like this. so the animation can show sort of what happened here in terms of the 30th street station, where the train left philly. we understand it left around 9:10 about 15 minutes later is when this crash occurred. we know the train was going 106 miles per hour in that curve. the speed limit ahead of it would have been 80. but in the curve it was 106. what on earth could have been going on here?...

Half an hour with this cell that's really blossomed into a tornado. we are efforting pictures, but certainly twitter is lighting up with indications that there is a tornado. a large tornado on the ground. certainly we'll bring you the very latest, but the radar is indicating strong rotation with this isolated cell, but of course, it only takes one, it only takes one tornado moving through a heavily populated area to make this a news story. >> janice, thanks. i want to show a view from a different radar site. this is a long line of thunderstorms as you can see. it heads from -- this is poplar b...

>> absolutely. michael, thank you so much. very helpful. thank goodness we have such a big map. chris? >> all this information certainly good for one thing, it allows us to continue to test what's coming out of the investigators, what makes sense, what doesn't, when have they been wrong and what is the right information. that's helping us. when we come back we will have more on the plane because there's new information needs new understanding. and, also, after the break we're going to go inside politics. t president obama in texas to honor lbj and talk civil rights. we're going to look at ho...

Right now the obama administration isrenctions. some allies are readying steps of their own. as russia tightens its grip on the crimea peninsula, why is this such a deep concern for the united states, indeed for the entire west. joining us now, our chief national security correspondent jim sciutto along with nicolas cristoff. guys, thanks very much. let's go to jim sciutto first. you've got a big map. there why should the u.s. be carrying as much as it does? >> the ukraine is not some distant land. it's right in europe here. just a reminder, these kroucouns neighbors europe, romania, hundr hun...

See. pat, thank you. always nice to see. >> you good talking with you. >> this is a fox news alert. shep smith is in the fox news desk with breaking news. shep? greta halloween evening and severe weather across the deep south from new orleans all the way up the state of mississippi and this entire red box is watches and warnings for mississippi. a short time ago a report of a tornado on the ground in summit county, mississippi. this is the state capitol of jackson. little town of mcgee. little state. right here south of the national forest. summit county. >> very rural area. very careful out...