Page 17 - Ef 5 News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

We're talking about a 2% risk for tornados by the storm prediction center for places like d.c., philly, all the way to baltimore. new york could see big winds coming in just after 9:00, 10:00 tonight. notice the oranges, yellows and reds all the way from boston to maine about of this gets out of here. bottom line, this is a nasty line of storms with us 18 hours producing tornado warnings and the threat is not over. if you receive at warning for a severe thunderstorm or tornado, take cover. get your weather real-time on fox, throughout the day today. griff: a quick follow-up. i remember coverin...

Ground. foundation of the house. that's it. if a roof and structure remaining, it is lower than an ef-5. you see the damage that was done to the factory, that looks to be at least an ef-3 or ef-4. the picture of the courthouse in front of mayfield, the top of the building was ripped off. the building itself is standing. it looks like a brick building. the trees on the sides were stripped down to the bark in some cases and not a lot left. let's show you what happened. the first tornado warnings issued at 6:00 p.m. arkansas and missouri and st. louis residents knew it was a dangerous day. it was...

Green. it takes a long time. they have to go and look at so many places. especially in something that's 200 miles long. this is going to take a long time to figure out how big this storm really is and it doesn't matter. the number doesn't matter. people are asking all the time, what is it? it doesn't matter. so many lives were devastated. that's what we need to concentrate on. not ef-4, ef-5, what the winds were. we've seen the damage, the devastation and the lives lost. >> the devastation is what matters. not the numbers. our breaking inews coverage continues in a moment. next up, carvana. ...

An ef-5. the damage out of kentucky potentially could be the most recent ef-5 that we've seen. as they're going through the search and rescue today they have to be so careful. they had buildings more than 100 people trapped in mayfield, kentucky and also that amazon building that you mentioned in edwardsville, illinois, they've had several casualties there and people still trapped. so it's going to be a tender situation, removing this, and also a lot of people without shelter, homes completely wiped away this morning. griff: amy freeze live for us in our fox weather center. we'll check back wi...

Time. i knew it was really getting its act together. already did bad damage in arkansas. caused some fatalities, at a nursing home, then in --ville. >> you're not a rookie at this. you've covered many of these. you're an award winning, independent journalist. how does this devastation compare when you finally got a look at things when the sun came up, to other storms you've documented in the past? >> it's high-end damage. we've been in a really strong ef-5 type drought last ten years and there's only a few high-end ef-4 type tornados i've seen that compare with this. there's the possibility th...