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Please tell us the latest. what are you seeing around you? >> well, it's total devastation in the pratt city community, as well as the smithfield estate areas, in the northwest corner of our city. we have hundreds of people who have been injured. so far, praise god, we only have one fatality, known fatality, but there are many people who are missing and unaccounted for at this particular time. i spoke with the governor here. he is assigning about 500 national guardsmen to come up and help with the area and we've mobilized all of our emergency services to pratt city as well as the smithsfield e...

Point? >> yes. we're using other municipal auditorium as the main emergency shelter and calling on churches to assist us with people that don't have other shelters. but we've opened up the auditorium for that purpose and we're requesting volunteers. we have a lot of volunteers but we need more. anyone who needs help, make your way to that location. we have bus there is the area that we are showing people to the shelter area. >> mayor bell, i know you're busy. thank you for talking to us. our thoughts and certainly our prayers are with you and all the people who have been affected by this storm...

We begin with breaking news. a tornado bearing down on tuscaloosa, alabama, part of a massive and deadly storm system ripping its way from texas, east tuscaloosa's mayor says it obliterated blocks and blocks of that city. you can see the damage. it is just incredible. at least 31 people have been killed across the region. that number expected to rise. dozens more hurt, have been hurt. this isn't over yet. more storms now are brewing. for the latest, let's go to chad myers. he's been following it all. chad, where is this storm right now? >> moving out of alabama proper and into georgia. but we'...

Winds of 1660 miles per hour ripped d winds of 160 miles an hour ripped through this community. >> what a situation. thank you both so much. we know a lot of you are online watching this show. if you are you can go to foxnews.com under our latest news section. we have a link where you can read remarkable tales of survival. and a slide who that feature more pictures of the devastation left behind by that killer storm. unbelievable. it bring it home. we are awaiting a senate test vote on financial reform. the senate just opened for business about a half-hour ago. they work hard in the capital. t...

Overall? >> we are getting quite a bit of rain right now, and the wind that goes along with it. but it hasn't been the intensity we thought it was going to be. we feel fortunate about that. i think everybody now is hungered down and waiting for the storm to get past us. it's moving 20 miles an hour, quite past. we hope in the next couple hours it will be moving out of our way. we did open a shelter in the county with 80 to 90 residents in the shelter there. but everybody else is off the road and i think everything has gone smooth. >> so the evacuation is voluntary, a lot of people who leave to...