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All, not even local news. this is a big tornado hitting another major big populated area. people ask me all the time, wolf, why don't big tornadoes ever hit cities? you look down from an airplane, the cities are small compared to the farms that are just so large. there's just not as much city as there is farm, and so it's just a law of averages that typically that a storm will hit a farmland, a range land. the past -- this now three times from tuscaloosa and birmingham to joplin, missouri, and now into piedmont, oklahoma, they will be picking up the pieces. we hope the people are safe. this is...

Storms today that fire in a densely humid air mass. there's cold air aloft. there's warm air. the sun was out all day. now the storms are rotating, super cell thunderstorms that could eventually -- i mean, oklahoma to joplin is a long drive, but they will stay together. the problem is they may get to joplin after dark, and that's even more dangerous. the people in joplin, what they have to understand is even a 40-mile-per-hour wind gust will move the debris that's already on the ground. these are not viable houses anymore. that's just debris that's about to get picked up. sheets of plywood abo...

relations. are the tensions of recent days any worse? any better? i'm wolf blitzer and you're in "the situation room." first, breaking news this hour. a large tornado has been spotted on the ground in oklahoma and storm-ravaged missouri is being hit by severe weather and possible in the coming hours, searchers in joplin have been taking advantage of the break in the bad weather for a few hours now. 17 people have been pulled alive from the rubble as of last night. but the death toll is far greater. up to 118 right now and that makes this the deadliest single tornado on record in the ...