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garbage. it was a little depressing. but i'll bet those parade organizers are watching tv today and feeling kind of bad. because this is a pretty good parade right here. "go bulls." i like that. we got some bulls fans here. now of course, an american doesn't really require irish blood. to understand that ours is a proud, enduring, centuries-old relationship that we are bound by history and friendship and shared values, and that's why i've come here today as an american president to re-affirm those bonds of affection. earlier today, michelle and i visited moneygall where we saw my anc...

dublin, the inhabitants of manegal have a special reason to celebrate. deadly tornado leaves behind a trail of destruction, you're looking at what's left of the town of joplin, missouri, and oh no, not again. iceland's active volcanos are worrying european airlines. does this new eruption mean fresh travel chaos? we want to begin in southern pakistan, where government forces are continuing to battle it out with taliban militants at a naval base in karachi. at least ten militants stormed the site late last night, armed with guns and grenades, witnesses say that they've heard numer...

Outbreak will be in the top five in terms of numbers of tornadoes. hopefully it it won't reach that benchmark for fatalities, but that number is over 200 now and it does continue to grow. here's what i want to show you radar. if you're at home watching radar, you can look for some of these signatures as well. this is what we call a hook echo. you can see this little bend right in here on a radar signature on a supercell thunderstorm. that hook tells me there's potentially rotation within this thunderstorm. now, this thing moved up to the north and east, and it tracked right towards the birming...

That's all by itself. a super cell when you see it on radar -- you'll know it because it will have a hook echo on the bottom of it for at least some of its life -- this is what a super cell looks like. this is not the one from last night but this is an image. right there is the hook. that's the hook echo itself. a little low pressure center that's developing here and eventually that low pressure center turns into a tornado. you'll have hail north of it, and debris getting blown out. that's where tornado was sucking up debris, sucking up shingles, everything, taking them and throwing them in th...

Washington d.c. just northwest of there right now but not heading into d.c. this is washington county, frederick county and maryland. also jefferson and burkely counties and west virginia. there you can see the purple box here. you see a nice little hook echo or indentation. this is a doppler radar-indicated tornado. but you need to take this seriously and seek shelter. there is a severe thunderstorm watch. sometimes even though it's a thunderstorm watch and not a tornado watch, sometimes tornado do occur. now, it is a tornado watch across parts of florida. at this hour we saw one line move th...