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Break bases and completely broken into unrecognizable pieces at this point and i want to point out a chopper is going overhead and that is the governor, flying over the area, getting an idea -- he has been up two days, looking at the damage, so widespread across the state and now is in the area, this is birdie county, where there were 11 fatalities, a rural county, mostly farmland, and around 20,000 residents and of the 45, at least, the number now, 45 fatalities across the country, 11 coming from this one county and these communities desperately hit and unfortunately, you see the loss of this...

It. if he was on the back side, he knows that they're going to be coming in, all he has to do is wait. he would know how to do what he needed to do and not panic, i would think, if he's been in the mines that long. bill: best tom. bruce dial, thank you for your expertise out of charlotte, waiting out of information from idaho on the condition of him. we'll watch this, as we watch it and it develops this mornlg, click on the bya web page, also shoot me an e-mail, hemmer, foxnews.com, also twitter, bill hemmer, because you asked, bya, taking questions on that. about the downgrade of the u.s. eco...

That's where chief meteorologist rick reichmuth is joining us, doing a great job getting this information out to viewers and assessing the damage on the ground. good morning, rick. >> good morning. you know, there's another troubling report coming in from the national weather service saying that there's 14 fatalities in birdie county, north carolina, askewville, i think i'm saying that right on the northeastern side of north carolina, headed out towards the cape. so, there will be certainly more information to try to completely confirm that, but according to the national weather service, 14 fa...

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>> our chief meteorologist has been on the ground covering this story since friday night and joins us live in north carolina. rick, great job over the weekend, what can you tell us this morning? >> we've moved out to the eastern side of north carolina. a lot of tornadoes moved through some of those populated areas like you saw in raleigh. that's not the case here in birdie county. this is about 20,000 residents. 11 fatalities in that one county alone. there's a home behind me, there was a home behind me. you can see the porch at this point or the front steps. there was a home there and there w...