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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 united states since the weather service began keeping records 60 years ago. almost 500 people have been killed by tornadoes in this country so far this year, including one in that storm and a security camera gives another look at the power of the twisters and how much damage they can do literally in an instant. now more on the twister reported on the ground in oklahoma just minutes ago. the ....
Tornado, two or three on a scale of ef storms. it s half a mile wide moving across the interstate. there s oklahoma city. so west of there. moving into calumet. we have our eyes on it. we have our men up there driving up and down looking for the cells and helicopter shots from koco. the problem with the cells today, and i think this will be the problem for many of the hours that we see this, is that they are called wrapped in rain. there is so much rain wrapped around the tornado that you can t literally see it. even if you re being looking outside and say there is nothing coming my way except rain, it just looks like rain but it s not. this is the only second tornado of the day and there may be many more. there may be 20 to 50 tornadoes. this is a high risk day and even high risk and good possibilities for joplin, missouri. it will take a while. ....