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Tornadoes, and there were more than one of them, were a half a mile across. is that what you're hearing on the ground? give us a sense of the scale of the destruction you're seeing there. >> jim, that's right. as far as we can see here, and i'll walk you down farther into this neighborhood in just a minute, it is complete and total destruction. just yesterday, these cinderblocks over here were the foundation for a manufactured home. and now that home sits on the other side of me. nearly on the street. picked up and moved by that tornado. when it comes to the extent of this devastation, authori...

Moment. whiteout in boston. some spots around massachusetts have seen well over a foot of snow already. it's not done just yet. some 80 million people are under winter weather alerts. public schools in new york city, connecticut and boston and throughout the region closed today. want to begin our coverage with kaylee hartung. she has breaking details from alabama. >> reporter: just after the sun came up this morning, police led us through their barricade in lee county on highway 51 to get a look at this devastation for ourselves, and i am absolutely awestruck. if you see these cinderblocks beh...

Through parts of florida, south carolina, and georgia. take a look at this severe damage out of talbotton, georgia. you saw a car covered with tree branches and limbs. a twister tore through a church, incredibly though, do you see is that? left that pulpit standing. how does that happen? all those cinder blocks, of course, torn aside. officials in lee county right now this morning will be using drones equipped with heat-seeking devices and that is so that they can scan the area for survivors. guys, up until at least 9:00 last night, people were still being pulled out of the rubble i can't even...

>> then why do we make them? >> because mutual destruction that regan hated. >> the end -- >> so you tell the middle east we're never using the nuclear weapon. >> i would with never take any of my cards off the table. >> how about europe? just say i will never use them uneurope. >> i am not taking cards off the table. >> he seemed to lack any knowledge of the havoc they reeked and how that may have kept the cold war cold, free of an all-out military conflict between the united states and u.s.s.r. he seemed to view nuclear weapons as steel gurders or cinder blocks. he spoke of using them not as...

Here's abc's gio benitez. >> reporter: tonight, terrifying stories being shared by passengers who plunged 84 floors in this elevator. >> i believed that we were going to die. we were falling down. >> reporter: this man told chicago tv station wbbm that six people, including his wife and a pregnant woman, boarded on the 95th floor of the former hancock building and quickly realized something was wrong. >> we were going down, i felt that we were falling down, and then we heard a loud noise, clack, clack, clack, clack, clack. >> reporter: officials say two cables on top of the elevator broke, lea...