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Tornado we're seeing right now? cnn meteorologist chad meyers is joining us from the severe weather center in atlanta. chad, what's going on right now? >> you know, i think they'll be masters thesises written about this for years and years and years to come. there are a few things we know are different about this spring than a typical spring. first of all, the number of ef-5 tornados. there have been four tornadoes over 200 miles per hour. now, there was one above 200 miles per hour in 2008. there was one in 2007. before that, 1999, we've already had four this year and we're only the end of ma...

Severe weather season gets back down into the plains again. the last time we've had so many tornadoes and not as many people died was 2004. i spent 12 long storms on beaches waiting for huge hurricanes in 2004. let's hope that correlation between a lot of tornadoes and a lot of hurricanes doesn't go through this year. but i think that might correlate just the way it's gone in the past. >> the that sounds ominous. let's hope it doesn't. thanks very much, chad. excellent work this week as always. appreciate it. we're going to have much more on the tornado disaster, including the certainly for ...

There. where has the rain been? over mississippi, over kansas, over memphis. that humidity on the ground evaporates so the air becomes more humid. where have the big storms been east of there? from joplin, missouri, over into alabama and even those tornadoes up into raleigh, north carolina. i think there's a correlation there, as well. >> talk about the rest of the next few weeks, for example. we know there's a hurricane season. there's a tornado season. what can we anticipate in the coming weeks? >> i don't think tornado season is over. by any stretch of the imagination. the jet stream is sti...

Then to the south in the gulf of mexico, the gulf of mexico is two degrees warmer than normal. so it's colder on one side of the jet, warmer on the other. that makes a stronger jet stream. stronger winds in the jet makes more sheer, more sheer will make more wind will make bigger tornadoes. that's where i think the theory comes in. there will be other peaces and parts put in there but that's the basis for what we believe has happened so far this year with more killer tornadoes than ever before. >> is there a connection to all these killer tornadoes we're seeing, chad, and the flooding, for exa...

Category of these tornadoes, 200 miles an hour. thanks very much, brian todd on the scene for us as he always is. it might seem impossible to pick up and move on after losing everything in joplin. but one woman is doing just that. our own anderson cooper has her very surprising story. plus, it's already been the deadliest year for tornadoes since 1953. what's behind this unusual string of monstrous storms? and cop hundreds of thousands of dollars in tiffany's jewels wind up costing newt gingrich his bid for the white house? stay with us. you're in "the situation room." building up our wirele...