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Devastatin it was, john. >> yeah, absolutely. and it's the deadliest, woong, since 1925. in terms of the overall body count. at least 340 right now, and more than 230 here in alabama. so, you might be be asking yourself the question, with all of today's modern forecasting tools, tornado warnings, how is it that so many people died? >> our chief meteorologist rick reichmuth and i were talking about that, he joins us now. what is the answer. when we see doppler radar and can measure the debris field up to 3000 feet in a tornado, how is it so many people die. >> i'll add one more thing. pictures ...

That going? >> well, right now, we're still wrapping up search and rescue and we have a large number of people unaccounted for. we don't know whether we haven't had connections or whether they're actually part of the debris field that extends nearly six miles through the heart of our city and once that effort is complete we can begin more massi massive debris cleanup. >> where do you start when you look at the debris field. we've seen tornados before and it's maybe one or two neighborhoods, but this goes for five or six miles just through tuscaloosa. >> it's 5.9 miles, a half mile to a mile wi...

Ground. if you're not below ground, how much of the chances you will die in a tornado. >> extore year walls collapsed. interior room you're in a better state. the guy got into the only interior wall and lazy boy chair and put it on top of him and everything around him was gone. >> people who live in the tornado prone areas, you have the tornado drills when you're in a school and they save people's lives. >> people have one other question and almost 800 tornados in the month of april alone and people are asking what's going on. is this global warming, the storms getting worse? let me ask the me...

A moment for you to meet them. this morning we found billy bosh's sons and grand sobs picking up the pieces of his life. the 75-year-old coal miner lost his house to fire and the tornado took all that he had left. >> the last one out. so we went to our safe place, we thought, sat there, and a loud noise, louder and louder and louder. >> the front room exploded and roof tore off. bosh and his wife were huddled in this corner fully exposed to the fury of the tornado. >> i put my hand on her head like that, and it to the bone right here and shook and it's gone. i thought we were gone, too. >> bil...

>> this week's record storms tore through a swath of the country that's known as dixie alley. a notoriously deadly place when hit by tornados. take a look at the region's worst storms. in 1940 the great naches tornado killed 300 people in miss missecond deadliest single tornado in history. number four on the all time list in april 1936 tornado killing 216 people in tupelo, mississippi. in 1936, it00 people killed in gainsville, georgia. 1908 tornado that pounded louisiana and mississippi, killing 14 about total. and 16th overall 1903 twisters slamming gainsville and holland, georgia, killing 9...