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Getting under way after intense twisters reported in oklahoma, nebraska and missouri. one dead. crushing the town of quapaw near the kansas border. another death reported in iowa but those numbers are shot-changed. >> at least 18 of those deaths -- 16 of those deaths are in central arkansas. a massive twister. half a mile wide. wiping out home after home in the northern suburb us of little rock. let's bring in chad myers live from mayflower, arkansas, a small town, chad that really got the brunt of this storm. >> reporter: it certainly did, the tornado touched down rather quickly and it became...

Tornado safe rooms, virtually indestructible shelters that can survive the fury of an ef-5 tornado. in north carolina, the cleanup just getting started after an ef-3 tornado touched down on saturday, damaging or destroying more than 200 homes. some lost it all. >> it broke my heart because i lost everything. thank the lord for not having me here because i probably wouldn't be standing right here right now. >> reporter: with this new storm headed east, north carolina is hoping for the best but preparing for what could be another round of angry storms. alex perez, abc news, little rock, arkansas...

We do know that the worst of this weather may not be over yet. indra petersons tracking that for us this morning. good morning, indra. >> good morning. >> good morning, that is the concern, still dark outside. even now we have a tornado warning in effect heading towards shreveport, so definitely time to take cover. if you know anyone in the region, call them, tell them to take cover right now. we're looking at a huge line of storms that made its way across yesterday, 31 reports of damage from tornadoes, and that's not all. wind sometimes just as strong as tornado reports, 102 reports of those ...

Hours, and easily ef-3, and looking at some the pictures it is ef-4 or ef-5, and those are ek extremely rare, because not one in arkansas since the 1920s , and that is how rarified air we are looking at. today, 20 million people are at risk of severe weather from nashville to jackson, mississippi s the area of greatest threat of tornadoes and strong tornadoes. this is zoomed in. i am timing 4:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. is the greatest risk of this area. so from jackson to memphis, and tupelo, and jackson, tennessee to the northwestern sections of birmingham. if you are not in the red, it does not m...

Sure? >> we are unsure as to the process. normally what happens in that, they will try to bring them to the lower portion of the hospital and secure that rather than trying to evacuate patients. but as you said, we've got television stations that have been evacuated, one in jackson just issued a warning that they would have to go off the air momentarily and evacuate the television station, as they are reporting. so this is a historic -- i've been here all of my life. i've seen katrina, tornados, but nothing of the magnitude that we've seen here, some 25, 26 tornado warnings. seven confirmed, s...