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Get help paying for what medicare doesn't... and save up to thousands of dollars. call this toll-free number now. >> welcome bax, and let's tackle some weather with jacqui jeras with tornados and all storms over the weekend? >> yes, the miracle is that it is hard to believe that nobody was injured out of these things. that is a good warning system for you right there, and people who act on those warnings, and these are ipictures and people still trying to recover. this is mapleton, iowa, which is in the western part of the state so you know, and 60% of this town flattened and basically leveled...

Reminder that for all of the charm, spring is a potentially dangerous time for weather. while a couple of towns in the midwest face recovery from a couple of storms over the weekend. i want to hear from a couple of tornado chasers in mapleton, iowa, and their excitement is not matched by the folks in mapleton. >> there it is. >> oh, yeah, mapleton. mapleton is in big trouble. [ bleep ]. >> did you call this? >> let me do that. >> it scared me. i went outside and looked around after it quit, and i couldn't believe it. i was out on the front porch and i seen that tornado coming and i got in the ...

Long-term deficit wednesday afternoon. severe storms have ripped through parts of the midwest. in iowa, a wave of powerful tornadoes touched down. the twisters destroyed a huge portion of mapleton, but emergency workers say there were only minor injuries and no deaths. in texas, residents and workers are cleaning up after severe storms that tore through texas. downed trees and power lines and even cracked windows and rooftops, but despite the widespread damage, there are no reports of injuries. but residents in texas are struggling with more than damage from the severe storms. jacqui jer...

Reminder that for all its charms spring is also tornado season in much of the country. potentially violent weather is forecast today in parts of the south while a couple of towns in the upper midwest face long recoveries from a very stormy weekend. hear tornado trackers who tracked a big one near mapleton, iowa. >> real bad. [ bleep ]! >> mapleton. mapleton's in big trouble. >> scared me. went outside and looked around after it quit and couldn't believe it. i was out on the front porch and i seen that tornado coming. i got in the house. >> it was getting black out and she was going to go to th...

Town to check on his elderly mother. 60% of mapleton was leveled by saturday's twister but no one was killed. texas firefighters are struggling to control massive wildfires, this one in this mid land county, texas has destroyed more than 34 homes. the biggest fire has grown to 80 how to acres and is only 10% contained. wildfires have consumed more than 643,000 acres in texas since the fire season began. in japan on the one-month anniversary of the march 11th earthquake and tsunami, another powerful aftershock hit the already devastated current. the 6.6 earthquake struck just about 30 miles...