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kathy rogers and carolyn maloney. sizing up obama versus romney. plus, comedian and actor, the outspoken bill cosby on politic, and the man who killed trayvon martin. >> it doesn't make a difference if you're a racist or not. >> i'm candy crowley. and this "state of the union". but first two break stories we're following. a series of attacks across afghanistan and a deadly tornado outbreak here in the united states. we want to begin with those tornadoes that tore through the midwest and central plains overnight. authorities say at least a dozen twisters touched down across four state...

New storms are coming. meteorologist janice dean is live in the weather center. jd, you told us yesterday you thought today, these storms today really should demand our attention as well? >> actually, it's tomorrow. so friday through saturday night. jenna, i'm glad you pointed that out because i want people to be on their guard especially areas that were hit hard on wednesday in the overnight, the areas that you saw of course through the video. looking at the past 48 hours you see this storm system start to develop across the mississippi, ohio river valley and tennessee river valley, ef-4 torn...

we see any clear skies here. anderson. >> that's it for us on "360". more hurricane coverage next. hi there. good morning, everybody, from the cnn center. this is your cnn start morning. coming to you an hour earlier today to cover this storm, hurricane irene that is actually putting about 20% of this country's population under threat of this storm. we're talking about 65 million people are in the path of this sucker. you see the line there. that's the cone of uncertainty they call it. but still they believe this is the path it's going to take, right up the east coast. and we're ta...

Helicopter tracking it. you can see how huge it is. it is at least a half a mile wide. before it formed there were other tornadoes that took aim at the twin cities, one person was killed in the minneapolis area. almost two dozen others were hurt. trees, power lines down and one neighborhood after another. i want to bring in our own chad meyers. we were talking during the break. you want to give people some good news here but it just seems like this season has been really, really tough on folks. i mean huge tornadoes. are there more tornadoes? are we seeing more now? >> yes. we're seeing more k...

Much. >> gregg: these killer storms causing devastation on incredibly large scale. meteorologist maria molina is in the fox extreme weather center with a closer look at how far their reach extended. maria. >> yes. look at this map here, i think it tells the story, more than 240 reports of tornadoes touching down, and this number has risen since this morning and already is greater than that and we are continuing to see reports as national weather service survey teams continue to head out and assess the damage. more than 350 reports of large sized hail and strong winds, also a problem and this w...