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Then we went back to google earth to show you what it looked like before the apparent tornado struck and you can see the second story becoming that is now reduced to rubble all the way down to its base. so this is consistent with what is called an ef-3 tornado, enhanced fujita scale with winds anywhere between 136 to 165 miles an hour. we typically see roofs and walls torn off of well constructed buildings, trees uprooted, complete heavy vehicles overturned. that is consistent with the damage that we saw. so go back in time, this is not current, this is late last night as the bow echo started ...

That's not too -- that's something to be concerned about as well. a lot of times these band of storms turn into what is called a bow echo. they have a lot of wind and energy associated with them. they have the eastern sections of mississippi and that's valid until 10:00 a.m. that's ripping across the central u.s. it started along the west coast. there is another storm system entering the west coast that will move across the rockies and bring us another round of weather. this time we're really concerned into the south that -- the southern plains that we could have an expansive area of severe we...

High than that into maryland. >> what can wind gusts do? >> wind gusts at 80 are higher than a hurricane at 74. this is the story we were worried about yesterday where we had a storm that would just blow out. it's called a bow echo. i'll show you this bow and where it's going now. here's the district again. here is -- that would be about laurel and it's just driving itself right into the southern suburbs of baltimore as we speak. >> where does it head after that? new york? is that where it's headed? >> that would be a long drive i think from there. and this atmosphere is not as warm and muggy ...

We would call rain wrapped tornadoes. you won't see them. might hear them coming but not going see them. the only way you might see them as they are hitting power lines in the night time sky.xploding these things are rain wrapped and getting a lot of damage reports, high wind reports right along the squall line of vandallia, ramsey, brownstown, saint elmo, right corner. farina. fill more. pittsburgh. beginning ham. bailey city. st. paul. st. peter. st. james and including the ramsey lake state park. those are the areas in the line of tire on this. really is more of a bow echo than anything els...

also, what chynna phillips says about it all. >> try going to dinner with and you will be doubled over in pain. >> i can believe that. >> tonight, billy baldwin and his new movie. this is "piers morgan tonight." >> good evening. we'll get to sam champion on this extraordinary heatwave in a moment but, first, a man fired up about politics and a hot new book and what he has to say about his brother. >> taking another fire barehanded? >> he just didn't listen to me. >> it's your responsibility. you shouldn't have had him up there in the first place. you burned him, steven. >> [ bleep ] ...