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Sleighager shot and killed a man. and tornadoes tearing through the midwest, and the forecasters say situations in iowa illinois and iowa and particularly dang dangerous. i want to get straight to chad meyers in the severe weather center for us tonight, chad. what i am hearing is that the midwest should be on alert, is that correct? >> yes, even though we have lost the sup and the sun's heat the storms will go for many hours. the storms were like a rake. think about raking the garden and every time a storm comes by it came by it put down a tornado, one after another after another, and they got...

The enhanced fujita scale. from something that damaged trees slightly to ef-5 which would wipe the slate away from the house. only thing left would be possibly poured concrete. we will end up with a strong ef-3 or 4 with this. this is a powerful tornado. showed you some aerials where the only thing left was the slab on the ground. we are done with that severe weather outbreak as far as the midwest is concerned. this will be day three today. today will be about 10% of what we dealt with yesterday. still have strong storms out there. they have been rolling all night across the appalachians. warm...

>> oh, it's hitting something. oh, my god. >> my god. you heard that storm chaser refer to an ef5. you only figure that out once it's done its damage and you measure by that manner. this is rochelle, illinois, 75 miles west of chicago. the tornado tearing through the city leaving a trail of destruction 25 miles long. imagine that in front of you. wow. right over. a semi. national weather service says more than a dozen tornadoes touched down across illinois, across iowa and missouri. but illinois was hit the hardest. a little north of rochelle, one woman was killed in her home. and right now, p...

I have 3 kids. i love living here and i love working in my hometown. at pg&e we are always working to upgrade reliability to meet the demands of the customers. i'm there to do the safest job possible - not only for them, but everybody, myself included that lives in the community. i'm very proud to do the work that i do and say that i am a lineman for pg&e because it's my hometown. it's a rewarding feeling. hi, mike. i'm going to tell you, it's continuing to track. it's moving a little south. it's about on main street now. >> you're looking at video shot earlier tonight from a news helicopter...

What ef-5 tornadoes create. we think about moore, oklahoma, a couple of years ago. well, this is the tornado damaged scale, called the enhanced fujita scale. you can see it ranges from mild damage to incredible damage. natalie, just a bit of information for you. >> well, california has been getting pounded. you would think the one thing they can avoid would possibly be a tornado, but no. well, the u.s. house narrowly avoids a government shutdown. so why is the senate pushing back on the trillion dollar spending package? we'll look into that just ahead. also, a famous supermodel now says sh...