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BETTENDORF, Iowa (AP) — The last steel beam among hundreds has been set in the new...

A billboard along Interstate 44 encourages voters to vote against Amendment 2 (Getty Images) The reason why the Interstate was shut was that the chase lasted 10 miles and the officials had to employ various tools to slow the vehicle that they were chasing down. Spike strips and other tire deflation devices on the highway were deployed to ensure that a deputy was allowed to travel alongside the vehicle that was being chased.  At the end of the chase, the driver who happened to be the suspect that the police were chasing ended up shooting himself inside the vehicle after a female passenger got...

>> bill, you're tracking some storms in the midwest, but more importantly, we've got a heat wave on our hands. >> yeah, this one is going from the rockies to thet coast over the next couple of days. the immediate concern and that's the thunderstorm threat today. a large area actually. so this low, it's a storm system that you can see the clear spin on it. that's already kicking up showers and storms over kansas city, those are now drifting to central illinois. not too many lightning strikes but that same storm, 16 million people at risk of severe weather. near columbia down to springfield, int...

Do in areas. it's only about 1 to 2 inches of snow. this is interstate 44 across missouri. there was eight straight accidents. a lot of them were jackknifed tractor trailers. this goes on for about a half mile to a mile. it almost leaks like some of the cars he went off the road to avoid these, numerous tractor-trailers. look at that one right there, just completely twist withed across the road. so this would be kind of the mess that they can be dealing with as we go throughout the day tomorrow. we take this front off the east coast by wednesday p.m. 8:00 a.m. around new york city, baltimore a...

>> the national weather service now confirming a tornado touched down in tulsa, oklahoma. the powerful storm causing extensive damage and leaving several people wounded, including two with life-threatening injuries. >> the national weather service confirmed it was an f-2 strength and that it hit at 1:25. we're talking about winds that are up to 135 miles per hour. there is significant damage by interstate 44 in some areas of midtown tulsa, southeast of downtown. thousands of people lost power and streets and businesses are closed. the roofs were torn off. buildings, trees and power poles were ...