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What are you seeing? >> yes, we can actually get some video on our tower cam. we can actually see the damage path. it appears to be anywhere from a half to three-quarters of a mile wide at times. and it went from one end of the city to the other end of the city. it was in a populated area in high traffic time on range line. unfortunately, we have fatalities in the joplin and jasper county area. >> we know this was an f-3 or greater category. the damage you've seen, can you describe it? >> yes. we've had numerous vehicles picked up and thrown into houses. the hospital took a direct hit. looks l...

meteorologist jacqui jeras. we have been monitoring these feeds. you have been monitoring scanner traffic. we're told a number of injuries, possibility casualties. people are looking for people. what's going on? >> so much devastation. it's hard to get a handle on how widespread this is. of course, communication is extremely limited. they're asking people to stay out of the city because emergency crews are trying to set up triages to help the people who have been injured. and also, you know, there are some reports of doas as well, so we're not sure how many at this time. a tornado di...

Warning of possible layoffs soon. the dispute over the state budget has sparked weeks of protests. we're told filmmaker michael moore joined today's march. more than a dozen senate democrats have fled the state to prevent a budget vote. a major storm system in the southeast has brought reports of a tornado outside of baton rouge and downpours on the mardi gras celebrations causing some of them to have to be postponed, moved. jacqui jeras is joining us from the severe weather center to tell us about all of that. was there a tornado? >> yes, the national weather service confirming a tornado bu...

The rapid upward motion on the back side. we knew it was going to be a bad situation in mississippi that day. >> when you hear stories of survival, there was one little girl who held onto a tree and felt herself whirling around. she managed to survive. there were other stories. we know there were several people who did lose their lives. are you amazed there were not more people who died in this storm when you look at just the damage and what you saw live? >> yeah. we called the tornado in, reported the tornado to the weather service probably 20 minutes before it hit yazoo city. we were driving...

Lot of warning. they are woken out of bed and these are some of the pictures we're getting. this is a small town in jackson county, extreme northeastern alabama, a little small community town. this is like the main plaza and shopping area, completely destroyed. we heard about a baptist church there completely destroyed. this is a separate picture from cole bert county and this is what remains of a house. you see a house that looks like this, these weren't weak tornados. some of these tornados appear to have been strong and we'll see many more homes destroyed when we get day break and see more ...