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Already been so hard hit supposed to go if the funnel cloud is approaching? >> reporter: well a lot of them have gone to storm shelters which oftentimes are set up at schools, other municipal-type buildings. about half of the homes in this area do have basements. people who have basements who have neighbors who don't have basements are advised to get to those places. there is no better place really in the event that the tornado is come than a place with a basement because you can get down low. the worst of it goes down over the top of you. megyn: we will be back to you momentarily. stay safe. ...

Several injuries in alabama. this new video just in from meridianville, alabama. look at damage there. a roof torn off. a church building damaged. power lines down. trace gallagher has more from the breaking news desk. >> reporter: we are getting pictures and word that a tornado touched down in huntsville, alabama. and this one very bad. we are being told a number of homes are damaged and destroyed, a number of people injured there. and as you said outside of huntsville, the slime stone correctional facility, that's a maximum security prison. apparently the roof has been torn off. we do not kn...

While we start to see that beam have gone inside. my crew and i have our eye on this ditch here, the storm ditch and the drain out there. if it gets really bad we've got somewhere to go. if it gets really bad the dish on the truck won't last very long so we won't be able to stay on the air. that is the situation out here. we know that one tornado was spotted about 19 miles north of here. as i'm speaking i can hear that the tornado warning siren has just gone off. so the immediate danger i think for this area they think came and went in a big hurry. we do know that a tornado was spotted about 1...

For people. we also saw residents running for shelter in harrisburg, illinois as the tornado warning sirens went off. that was the area hardest hit two days ago. an ef4 tornado game for six deaths there wednesday. janice dean has been tracking these storms. but first we want to get to mike tobin who has moved to a shelter. >> reporter: right now what we have got on the ground, we don't have the sirens wailing. but the warning is in effect. there was a big loud thunderclap that happened as soon as we started talking. i'm seeing a lot of lightning. hearing a good bit of thunder. the wind escalat...

Kentucky. this went all the way across the middle of the country. that was rare and how many and how intense they were. 30 preliminary reports of tornado tornadoes. 20 have been confirmed by people on the ground. 12 fatalities. the big one was the ef4 tornado. the scale goes up to ef5. this was harrisburg, illinois. when you talk about ef4, you are talking about houses losing roofs, their walls, almost completely removed from their slabs. trees snapped in half. and cared just tossed. 180-mile-per-hour winds will leave you with the devastation that you're seeing here. this happened at about 6:0...