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race against the odds tonight, hoping to find survivors in the rubble. and there's this, a forecast warning of more tornadoes and severe weather across the midwest tomorrow and joplin is again in the danger zone. jackqui jeras is in joplin and gives us the very latest on this stunning stunning tornado. >> reporter: people are in search and rescue mode and the best news we have heard today is that seven people have been found alive, so seven survivors in joplin, missouri and that search and rescue is the big focus, and they say it's going to be a number of days that they're going to c...

Hail continues to be a threat today in southern parts of the state and also focusing in in here along the i-10 corridor. a lot of thunderstorms lining up producing heavy downpours and some reports of hail. 113 of them today in alabama and georgia. this threat will be ongoing. the severe thunderstorm watch until 11:00 eastern time for today. tough travel conditions. we'll talk more about that in the next hour, for what you can expect for your commute tomorrow. >> do you remember when you hooked me up with the noaa weather radio a couple years back. >> did it wake you up all night long? >> the w...

>> it happened at the worst possible time between 2:00 and 5:00 in the morning and obviously all those campers were asleep, all those vacationers that were camping along that river were asleep. and so they had no way to know. the weather service issued a warning at 2:00 a.m. but unless you were awake with a radio the odds are you never would have known that and even then we're not sure whether or not people would have reacted to it so it was just a horrible convergence of a number of events and as a result of it you see this huge loss of life. >> i want to bring in meteorologist jackqui jeras....

Facet region of the neck. mark sanford confirming reports he spent last weekend in florida with his argentine lover. sanford says he's trying to rekindle his relationship that nearly wrecked his office. >> you were bemused with the tiger woods' story? >> i'm not giggling. massages and rest, john. >> that's what the doc said. let's get a check of the morning headlines. jackqui jeras in the weather center. a lot of people might want to hang out, have a relaxing day because of the rain we've got out there, causing a little stress for a lot of you. it's coming down really heavily, so that coul...

I'm not sure if it's all over. for the answer to that, we check in with jackqui jeras. what a mess. >> it's getting worse in some areas at this hour. it's spreading north across kentucky and into indiana and now we're watching states like ohio and pennsylvania. on top of the flooding, we're watching for the threat of severe thunderstorms that could produce quite a bit of wind damage. throughout tennessee, nashville, we've got a lot of flooding in the memphis area. there you can see some of the nashville pictures where the water has been ex treamly high. the doppler radar is indicating that 15 ...