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Trail of destruction 200 miles long. today the job of surveying the damage continues. this tornado was so big and on the ground for so long it's not just neighborhoods that were demolished, big structures and big businesses like this days inn north of birmingham badly damaged. over 70 people were staying in this hotel as gaefts. remarkably not one of them injured. even so look at the damage. the roof completely torn off. the walls and doors slammed against this railing in unison as this twister rolled through. >> the wind came in. blue in. internal pressure. off you go. >> reporter: tim marsha...

Underground in order to survive a tornado with this kind of intensity. you can really see the rotation on it. there's all that debris that you can see flying. and you know, this tornado also moved through birmingham. it was about two miles west and north of town. but debris was falling in downtown birmingham. and it can be carried, literally, hundreds of miles because it gets so high up into the atmosphere. it's just amazing to see pictures like this. this is what we call a classic wedge tornado for sure. the severe weather threat is still ongoing there. there we go. here's the ef scale that i...

Following it all. jen? >> hi, monita. it was a dangerous day wednesday across parts of the south. we're talking reportedly 151 reports of tornadoes and reportedly 279 reports of wind damage across region. this graphic gives you an idea of all that happened. we're talking about damage from texas all the way up along the eastern coastline. now, again, let's go back over to that tornado video coming out of alabama. this is out of tuscaloosa. this was take front university of alabama. as we show you this video, it will show you how the twister is going through in the path of destruction, hopefully...

Occurred. that's all done on the ef scale. for example, they've done this in north carolina and they've determined that some of the reports were just one tornado, like this one that moved through sanford. from the video that you saw and pushed through raleigh. and then northeast of there. that was an ef3, by the way, when it went through the sanford area. risk of storms tomorrow again. and yeah, we could see tornadoes as well as damaging winds. this is the nation's heartland, middle mississippi valley and ohio valley for tomorrow afternoon, tomorrow night. carol? >> jacqui jeras, thanks for pu...

This is just a pile of debris. that's one of the things with cleaning up the big chore ahead. it's going to take weeks if not several months to get all this debris. you've got to have front-end loaders, bulldozers, dump trucks. over here, two more buildings which were totaled. this is a vacant funeral home. you can notice the back end of the brick wall is gone. the ef scale goes up to about 165 miles an hour, but in the distance, there's a neighborhood, we were there earlier and we've seen brick homes that have been demolished. that could indicate ef-4 damage, the enhanced fujita scale, 166 to...