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and d.c., is this rick santorum's last stand? can he convince republicans that the race isn't already over? i'm wolf blitzer. you're "in the situation room." -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >> let's begin with the breaking news. tornado emergencies right now in the dallas-ft. worth area. look at these pictures that have been coming in. this was the scene in the dallas-ft. worth area just a little while ago as the sky turns dark. we see a massive funnel cloud draw closer and then this monster tornado descends on a truck park, picks up giant trailers as if they were little toys a...

Seeing right on the horizon, right on the ground is the debris that's being picked up by the tornado and there is a great threat from debris flying around. it's not just the damage itself but all the things that are moving through the air as these tornadoes cross. and this is just about an hour and a half ago. not far from dexter. that's a tornado. and here is the same area that was affected by that tornado you saw on video. and, obviously, the wind speeds in that tornado will have to be judged by the experts but we're talking well above 100 miles per hour. perhaps closer to 120 or 130 on the ...

As far as the severe weather season is concerned. march through may, we saw that this year as far as tornadoes across the southeast. we start to lift it with the jet stream as it migrates to the north. april and may, may especially a i cross the areas we're concerned with today and to the north as well. we talk about this ef scale, highlight how that breaks down, an ef-4 tornado, that means that winds are estimated to be 166 up to 200 miles an hour. this tornado on the higher end of that, ef-5, over 200 miles an hour. you get to those ranges and it really doesn't mean a whole lot. we're talkin...

Tornado, making damage as it travels all the way from about 40 miles west of the city of oklahoma. now it is north of the city of oklahoma on the ground doing damage to everything in its path with wind speeds as david was estimating, at at least 150 miles per hour. we know that the storm that moved through joplin, missouri, was an ef-4 tornado, estimated to be 190 to 198 miles per hour. there's no reason to believe that this storm at some point in its time being on the ground could not have been an ef-4 tornado. there will be fatalities. there will be casualties with this storm. there's no way...

relations. are the tensions of recent days any worse? any better? i'm wolf blitzer and you're in "the situation room." first, breaking news this hour. a large tornado has been spotted on the ground in oklahoma and storm-ravaged missouri is being hit by severe weather and possible in the coming hours, searchers in joplin have been taking advantage of the break in the bad weather for a few hours now. 17 people have been pulled alive from the rubble as of last night. but the death toll is far greater. up to 118 right now and that makes this the deadliest single tornado on record in the ...