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and a helicopter crashes captured on camera. the amazing story of a pilot that walked away. we start with the aftermath of those deadly tornadoes. president obama is offering federal assistance in the areas battered by the storms. the tornadoes left a wide swath of debris from indiana to georgia. at least 37 people are dead. now the focus has changed and survivors, scores of jurtd people are waking up in hospitals this morning. their homes and the homes of their neighbors are gone. people are now picking through the rubble to find anything they can salvage. officials in west libert...

Twister is just unreal. and what looks like paper flying around can be roofs, cars, big sheets of corrugated metal. it's incredibly dangerous. >> jacqui jeras is in our extreme weather center this morning. christopher england was saying -- you could see it in a video. you don't often get video that's that clear of a tornado that you see big things being sucked up in it. you say these could be ef-4s or ef-5s. ef-5s are the most powerful. >> when we talk about the enhanced fujita scale, we're talking about a damage scale. you can't look at a tornado and say for sure that's an ef-5 because we bas...

Rotating thunderstorm and at times we didn't know how they did it. it was so difficult to keep your eye on six different tornadoes. >> these are new pictures from pleven gro plevent grove. when you look at the piblgts what is your sense of the kind of power of tornadoes that whipped through this area? >> there's a scale. it used to be a damage scale, a wind scale, and it's gone back and forth and what it really is. here's how i see it. if you're talking about an f-0 and talking in the 80 to 100-mile-per-hour range, probably les, you lose shingles and the roof. you might be able to look down in...

Camaraderie with that was just amazing. >> the tornado that hit the suburb of garland, texas has been rated an ef-4 with winds up to 200 miles an hour. that's the second-most powerful tornado on the damage scale. you can take a look there at the damage, bird's-eye view. meanwhile, there is a fierce winter storm unleashing heavy snow in the central part of the country. new mexico's governor has declared a state of emergency and activated the national guard because of it. let's start with nbc's charles hadlock in garland, texas, again one of the areas hardest hit by those deadly tornadoes. cha...