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First of all large swaths of texas and oklahoma have been pounded with severe weather the last couple of days. and in fact some of these systems have produced hail the size of baseballs, straight line winds. torrential downpours and several funnel clouds caught on tape. you know, many of the pictures and videos you see coming out of wicked weather like this is thanks to the brave men and women who go out and actually seek these monster storms. not only to collect data for meteorologists but also provide the public with incredible shots of mother nature's fury. but yesterday evening, however, i...

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>> the transition team has meetings of potential candidates to round out the final two spots including one for secretary of agriculture elsa morano. >> almost filling the team. garrett tenney live for us. the 1, 2 punch as two monster storms hit right before christmas one claiming the west another creeping toward the east. >> we have rain slicked road making for treacherous travel in sand i didn't go go. police there reporting more than 200 crashes in less than 24-hours. >> holiday travelers feeling the effects of snow and rain. delays, cancellations now piling up at the airport. >> njanice?...

45-year-old james young just fin ired riding the raptor roller coaster on thursday when he entered a restricted area to look for a cell phone he dropped during the ride. as he was searching, he was struck and killed by the roller coaster. the park bills itselfs a the roller coaster capital of the world. it says its thoughts and prayers go out to the family. conditions primed for an elevated threat of wildfires in california this weekend. already 16 separate wildfires burning throughout the state and an estimated 12,000 firefighters on the front lines of the fires. fire officials are warning ...

To airasia. however, this area is known as the intertropical convergence zone. and in that particular area, during the northeast monsoonal season you get these monster storms. level 5 thunderstorms. they can grow in energy from 25,000 feet to 50,000 feet in a matter of minutes and engulf an airplane. but we don't want to suffer from investigation bias as i said, and we would volumehave to look at other considerations. it's much too early to tell. we have to look at the terrorism aspect. although that's a low likelihood. we want to look at all the technical data we want to look at what the pilo...