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captions paid for by nbc-universal television good morning, everyone. welcome to "today" on a sunday. i'm lester holt. >> and i'm tamron hall. jenna wolfe has the morning off. >> nice to have you. we saw this coming. >> yes. >> the warning came for over 36 hours of these tornadoes. and they, in fact, tore through tornado alley. reports of damage and casualties still being assessed. but here's what we know right now. at least five people are dead as storm sirens failed to warn residents in the town of woodward, oklahoma. two children are among the fatalities. the mayor says lightnin...

springfield. once you're there things look much better heading for the beltway or on to 395. let's go back over to the maps. no problems to report on 270 out of frederick. you see all that yellow. that's just traffic slowing down as usual as you leave i-70 heading toward urbana. we'll take a live look at the beltway north of town. this is doing well leaving college park till you hit about new hampshire avenue on the outer loop. then it's going to slow down a bit to georgia avenue. in my next report, an update on area roads again at 6:11. back to you. at 6:01, we're following breaki...

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>> i love that. my son teddy would especially love those. anyway, let's take a look at the temperatures on this cool morning to kickstart the day. widespread 30's. 37 in bowie 31 in remington, 38 in la plata, 39 in arlington. you will need a jacket. if breezy and cool in the fifties this afternoon with a few sprinkles possible. there, especially later this afternoon and evening. maybe wet snowflakes nook west of the metro area. near 50 for the high temperature up there this afternoon. slight chance of rain for us. >> breaking news from indonesia. a magnitude 8.7 quake as did the indi...

of sri lanka, australia, myanmar, thailand, evacuations also issued there in thailand. this, of course, comes about eight years since that devastating earthquake and tsunami in indonesia. in fact, that earthquake hit very close to where the one today hit. so of course that is bringing some memories, bad memories for those people there. many people wondering if history will repeat itself as a tsunami warning is now in effect. we'll keep monitoring the video and keep an eye on activity coming from that area. aaron and eun? >> richard jordan, live in the newsroom. thank you very much. w...