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Twister is just unreal. and what looks like paper flying around can be roofs, cars, big sheets of corrugated metal. it's incredibly dangerous. >> jacqui jeras is in our extreme weather center this morning. christopher england was saying -- you could see it in a video. you don't often get video that's that clear of a tornado that you see big things being sucked up in it. you say these could be ef-4s or ef-5s. ef-5s are the most powerful. >> when we talk about the enhanced fujita scale, we're talking about a damage scale. you can't look at a tornado and say for sure that's an ef-5 because we bas...

F-5s. when we get the numbers in, they will be staggering at the number of large -- it is like having five category 5 hurricanes in one season all making landfall. that's what yesterday was like. >> you talk about the number, 273 now you are saying in storm terms of fatalities over six different statessome this storm system all moving northward or is it done? >> it's not done yes. i have three tornado warnings in the low country of north carolina, kind of, you know, dare county can, kind of off to the east there. and that's going to quickly move offshore. rotation will be offshore there is sti...

Helicopter. it is the most telling it is the most telling as to why the death toll has gone up like it has. ie most telling as to why the death toll has gone up like it has. h it is the most telling it is the most telling as to why the death toll has gone up like it has. ie most telling as to why the death toll has gone up like it has. we will see foundations without a house on top of it the house is gone. even if you were in a very safe place inside the house, you were gone with it. there are certain tornadoes, f-5s in general, 120, maybe even higher than that, 150 miles per hour that literal...

Happens periodically or no? >> well, an event like this might happen every five years. this is not a 100-year storm or nothing like the storm of 1974 that had seven f-5s that wiped out xenia, ohio. it is spring and it happens. but back to the original question, because i go around to get to here, and the next event will be tomorrow and tomorrow night. lit start in missouri and get up into southern illinois and southern indiana, and the threat is going to be late evening and overnight tornadoes when you are asleep. and you need to have a noaa radio that is programmed to your county that will go...

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