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Well, we knew it was going to be cold. i don't think we knew it was going to be this cold in some parts of the midwest, minus 9 degrees, could get worse than that. mark mancuso is joining us right now. oh, boy, mark's ready. here we go. >> hey, neil, last time we talked i had this tremendously huge scarf. well, it's gone. it's in demand right now. we are looking at some dangerous cold here. it's time to break out those ugly christmas sweaters and get yourself the hat, the gloves, everything you need. the emperor of the north, he wants his blanket laid out ahead of him. it's a blanket of snow. ...

Together, chasing those storms around! hopefully they'll have a less eventful spring next time around. meanwhile noaa is releasing stunning numbers on this deadly tornado outbreak. this year's violent storms as you would imagine, looking at these pictures, are going to be in the record books, folks. take a look. 2011 is currently ranked the eighth deadliest year. we are counting 481 fatalities so far in these storms. 1925 is the one that you see that popped up in the middle there, that is the deadliest year, nearly 800 lives were lost in that year, however, this chart was updated last monday...

In the parts of the south but this year, all the ingredients come together and each ingredient seems to be of the extreme variety. martha: i spoke with a storm chaser yesterday who talked about this perfect storm, all of these dynamics coming together in a perfect way that has been gentlemen impressure effect for all those suffering on the ground in the midwest. so the next question is, mark, when does this dynamic change? is there anything you can see in the weather pattern that shakes it out of this mode we're in and when is that happening? >> reporter: okay, well, we have already seen some ...

Ming ham. mark mancuso also on site. jenna: we begin with rick reichmuth. search and rescue efforts are underway right behind you, rick. what made this storm so devastating? >> reporter: well the size of it, obviously, and the strength. likely an ef5 tornado, a little bit too early to say that officially. from the pictures it looks like way. the set up was prime, we knew it was going to be a very dangerous day for tornadoes and it returned out to be one for the record books, certainly the deadliest day since 1974. a lot of tension going on. this neighborhood obviously hit, you can see all of t...

Meteorologist mark mancuso. >> reporter: a lot of things come to mind when you take a look at the storm system. the reports coming in out of the south about complete devastation here, the horrible scenes here. you have to give special thanks to my fellow meteorologists here giving out those warnings, and without those warnings the fatalities could have been a lot worse than what we are looking at right now. a lot of thanks to people that really worked out to get out the watches and warnings. east tennessee, you showed the video there, that moved all the way up into new york state over night we...