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tell you what they have seen and what stories they are facing, the difficulties they are facing. there's also new and dangerous storms out there tonight as the deadliest tornado season in half a century continues. significant destruction in bedford, indiana, a tornado hit just a short time ago. damaging or destroying several homes. no immediate word on injuries. we're keeping an eye on this. and bad weather all across the nation's midsection. there are tornado watches and warnings in effect from ohio down to texas. i want to show you a staggering piece of video from that deadly torna...

that's all for us tonight. tomorrow i'll sit down with gordon brown and the former president of pakistan, with some lively comments about president obama. but for now, anderson cooper with "ac 360." >> piers, thank you very much. good evening, everyone. we're live in joplin, missouri for the third night in a row. and the story here just keeps evolving here. the horror of what we are seeing here just keeps growing frankly. there is growing frustration and anger among some family members of those who are missing, frustration over red tape over confusing answers and contradictory answer...

Forecast. first up, can i get historical perspective from you. the series of devastating storms, look at what it has done and what preceded that and what might we expect the rest of this horrific season. >> that's the big question. we're at the very beginning typically of our severe weather season. most tornadoes are not the big huge strong ones like we saw in this outbreak. about 99.6% are called ef-3 or ef-2 or lower and many of them are ef-0s or 1s. it is the ef-3s and ef-5s, once it gets over 166 miles per hour, so maybe four out a thousand, that's it. those are the ones we dealt with. we ...

Ground for a reported 15 miles. the other angle is the flooding. up in poplar bluff, take a look at the pictures now. we found out late this morning that the levee there on the black river has been breached. they were thinking that was going to happen but they were keeping their fingers crossed even before it was breached. 1,000 people were evacuated. now they've ordered more mandatory evacuations. the river heading towards an all time crest tonight and tomorrow and more rain in the forecast. and more thunderstorms. we're on another very volatile situation today and tonight across the lower mi...

Want to point out these lines. they are saying in some spots tornadoes were on the ground nearly continuously for 25 and 30 miles. you see pockets of homes where there would be half a dozen homes destroyed or damaged and other areas where 20 and 30 homes, hundreds of homes, all across the state. take a look at this incredible time lapse photography from a tower cam. don, this is amazing. this is a period of time during the evening when this rain-wrapped tornado just kind of progressed its way across downtown raleigh and moved across this balcony area that it looks like. we had reports coming o...