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Tonight. each will be searched, he says, three times, before being cleared. and the national weather service now says the damage in at least one area indicates the most powerful category of tornado, an ef-5. said winds reached 210 miles an hour, and the tornado was 1 1/3 miles wide. emotional scenes are playing out all across this community. as victims return to find homes reduced to rubble, or in some cases, no homes at all. cnn's brian todd is here. you spoke to some of those and these are heart-wrenching stories. not a dozen, two dozen, but there are thousands of people who went through hel...

Massive debris. we sent a team to analyze video of the twister to learn more about those flying killer objects. here's cnn's joe johns. >> wolf, we're here with paul of the national we her service. paul, if you would, just give us a sense of what this video tells us about the tornado, as you look at it. >> we're looking at a, what looks like a really wide tornado, violent just based on being able to pick out individual chunks of debris swirling around. these are large chunks of debris. two-by-fours, chunks of trees. in a minute we'll see the roof of a house. >> that's the roof of a house. >> t...

I couldn't believe i had t >> for the car. >> yeah. it was so frustrating to have to get keys. i just wanted to leave. i didn't even put him in his car seat. i just put him in my lap and i kept thinking they're never going to pull me over. you know, why would they do that? >> you just started driving. >> i just drove. i drove. but i started feeling guilty he was on my lap like this is a bad decision so i got him out just past the high school when i pulled over and i went to put him in his car seat but the winds were so hard it was like blowing him side ways. >> it was like torrential out there...

We started hearing voices and pulling them out. >> how were the kids reacting? they were surprisingly very calm. >> why do you think that is? >> i think they felt safe. we did our best to take care of them and make them feel loved and secure. that -- people, you know, talked about us being brave but it's just our job. we love these kids like they're our own. >> she also told me an incredible story about the moments before the tornado hit that the students were singing the national anthem, that they were preparing and had been practicing for a performance they were to put on at the school later...

Moisture on the ground in that part of the country. crazy. that's a stat to remember, one inch of rain is about ten inches of snow. >> so we need ten inches of snow to make a difference. >> for that to be like an inch of rain. ginger can explain it better than i can. i just know the numbers. that same storm system may have sent a killer tornado through texas. >> one woman was killed in hemphill where powerful winds blew a true on her mobile home. we get the latest from meteorologist jim dickey at accuweather. >> good morning. our snowstorm winding down here, but heavy snow through the early ...