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It was a matter of minutes between the wail of the sirens and the roar of the funnel cloud. a storm chaser was caught in the middle of it. >> it's not like it is in the movies. i didn't see a pretty blue center. i did look up. the debris was unbelievable. it was very dark. the wind, i can't really describe. it was a sound of just, you know, they say freight train but it's just a roar that's just ear piercing. >> reporter: as quickly as it hit it left behind a carved path of destruction. homes ripped to the ground. cars tossed around. lives devastated. >> i saw people with blood dripping. i mea...

And the death toll is rising this morning after a series of powerful tornadoes slammed through the midwest yesterday. >> the hardest state hit by far is illinois. this was captured in suburb of washington where ef-4 tornado touched town and packing winds 165 miles an hour. can you hear the sheer terror as one tornado passes by this home. do you hear that? they are praying as a massive stormed passed by their home. rescuers have been out since yesterday looking for anyone alive in all of the wreckage. >> that is one of the most terrifying things you could ever see. the damage in illinois is sta...

You see the outline of the skyline. and then you're going to see it go dark. you saw it right there. you can only imagine what these folks were going through and the power of these storms. we're talking about this earlier. the power of mother nature, you're seeing it unfold right now on your television screen. like i was saying, there's a lot of prayers floating out on social media right now, including for this one woman. 102 years old, loretta. we were talking about her earlier in this newscast. her grandson sent us a tweet saying that she survived the tornado. an ef-4, what he was saying. li...

Really stripped of their bark here. power lines are down. and you can only see really interior walls left here of the homes that used to be here. so what is going on? today, the national weather service is going to come out and survey the damage. it is preliminary reports are thinking an ef-4 but they have to survey the damage and see what the structural integrity was of those homes. once they look at that they will be able to determine what wind damage could take down that strul integrity and find out whether or not this is an ef-3 or ef-4. you have to talk about the fact there are strong win...

It says on the screen, washington, we are getting more pictures if from washington so we will go define washington and gifford, both hit very bad with heartbreaking damage to livelihoods -- businesses and homes destroyed. our meteorologist, janice dean, is in the fox weather center. it is a long day and it is not over. >> preliminary reports here from the national weather service the tornado, an ef-4, preliminary reports from washington county, illinois, where we saw the pictures, winds up to 166 miles per hour and the worst damage in a small town where two people were killed and dozens were i...