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Missouri obviously it's known because it was a compromise state. it is a border state. for me most of my -- half of my lifetime i thought of it as a midwestern state and now i feel like it's appropriate that it join the s.e.c. in football, the university of missouri, because it does feel like it's more of a southern state today than it ever was. >> without question. a good comparison is georgia, maybe, virginia, arkansas. mike huckabee was very popular here. one of the things you have to remember about the republican party in missouri, chuck, is that the tea party is less of an influence than ...

jackie. you can see where the severe storms are hitting the united states. there have been a couple watches in places. even yesterday as i was in south carolina, watches all over that state. >> this is a new storm system. it's a vigorous one. something with this much energy for nighttime tornadoes is somewhat unusual. this is a rare event. it's particularly dangerous. we call it a pds watch. a lot of that because of the storm risk we have. there's a high level of certainty to have multiple tornadoes. some could be large and stay on the ground for a long period of time. the other thin...

they have not been able to sleep. >> i'm scared something's going to happen if we go to sleep. and i'm not going to be awake to hear it to help everybody else. i just -- in my mind, it just keeps going over and over. >> tonight could be another restless night in joplin and across an already stressed region. let's get first to chad myers in the cnn severe weather center in atlanta. >> we have 25 tornado warnings right now. that means thatted p the radar from the national weather service picking up 25 separate storms that are rotating. some of them actually on the ground. one not all t...

>> well, one of them tomorrow morning already. so this is a definite on one of these spillways. it's kind of similar to what they did up in cairo, where they exploded one of the levees to spill all that water out and relieve a little bit of that pressure. but this is not going to be an explosion this time around. they designed this system, and they're just going to open up some gates in order to do that. let's talk a little bit about the system as a whole. and the river, by the way, is cresting right now way up here into the boot heel of missouri. so we're talking about hundreds of miles still...

An eye on the river. >> it reminds us of '93 when i was back home and what we had with the mississippi river there. but we as a group will be leaving here tomorrow. but we did have one of our tours canceled tomorrow morning. the mud island is where we were going to take the group. and they called us yesterday and said they wouldn't be allowed -- be able to have us. >> jacqui jeras with us now with more on this river and the cresting. >> yeah. this is going to continue to push downstream. we've got a long way to go for that high water to continue to push hundreds of miles down. now, we're talki...