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The other stories we're working on here in "the situation room" right now. a u.s. army sergeant hoping to avoid a death sentence has entered a guilty plea in the killings of 16 afghan civilians. rort bales allegedly went on a house to house rampage in two villages in afghanistan back in march 2012. the massacre strained already tense u.s.-afghan relations at the time. the death toll in friday's devastating oklahoma tornadoes has now climbed to 20 people. an official says a child's body was recovered this morning from the oklahoma river in oklahoma city. he also says two children and an adult...

Safe rooms that were in that community in the path of that tornado. turns out they all held. it turns out that if you had somewhere to go, if you had a safe room to take shelter in from that ef-5 tornado that hit moore, oklahoma, then that safe room really did protect you. they found 16 of them, these specifically built, specifically re-enforced safe rooms in the path of destruction in moore. the scientists from texas tech who investigated how they all faired in the storm said, quote, they all performed great. the oklahoma newspaper reports that in some cases the safe rooms were the only part ...

Oklahoma tornado was a record. the national weather service said today the twister was the widest tornado ever in the united states registered. that's pretty amazing. it was 2.6 miles wide. it was also not just wide, it was fast. it was a rare ef-5, it's a measure of tornado intensity. over 200 i believe 10 miles an hour at its peak. tom foreman is at the wall. can you show us how this monster storm developed? it was wide. >> this is really unusual, erin. we talk lot about hyperbole. this one deserves them. in your life time, you may only rarely see anything like this. this is the town up here...

Joins us. the tornado was upgraded today from an ef3 to an ef5. that really caught me by surprise. does that mean in terms of power? i mean, why was it upgraded? >> reporter: because doppler on wheels, scientists, storm chasers that we talk so much about, two teams of scientists with doppler on the back of pickup trucks spinning around found wind speeds of almost 300 miles per hour. now, those winds never hit anything. so we don't have houses that are missing because there's so much empty space here. but what we know, anderson, think about this. think about about a two-mile-wide carousel with ...

Game suspension for denying it. they're trying to hit them with 100 games total. this fight, if they take it on, appeal the suspension, would include the players union. then it would have to go to court. go in front of an arbitration panel. this could take months and months and months before any punishments are started. the player does have the option to go ahead and accept the punishment and say i'll see you in august or potentially next season. that, again, is up to the player, take the punishment or to appeal it. christine? >> joe carter, thanks. >> it will be a long, complicated, contentio...