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could be smuggled in undetected. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." it's one of the more mundane documents americans have to deal with, but for president obama, the tax return is politically charged in this, an election year. the white house released his 2011 files today along with that of the vice president, joe biden and there are some surprises in both documents. as lisa sylvester has been carefully going after these tax returns, what do you see? >> first off, the obamas, like the romneys, gave generously to charities. the president's income, which was $1.7 millio...

That's the report we got from eagle ford, texas, north dallas county was that there was a large rain wrapped tornado on the ground with power flashes and at night that's the only way we know a tornado is on the ground because the transformers blow and the power lines are snapping and that's the pure indication that we have a tornado on the ground. >> that can be even more dangerous because you can't see it coming in a recognizable way. >> right now everyone in the dallas area is hunkering down and hoping and praying. >> bill karins nbc news meteorologist this is scary stuff. thank you for help...

>> i actually talked to him the night before the tornado and his little brother called me and said that he was trying to get home in it and that severe hail had hit his car and nobody had heard from him and that was roughly about right ten minutes after the tornado went through joplin. and i actually live in tulsa, and i was in my car on the way to joplin as soon as i got that from my youngest son. >> well, i hear that he was in the car with somebody else who has survive. is there any way to use that lead as a way to help track lance down? >> well, that lead was actually how we found...

Places for shelter. the question is, did they pick the right one? their story from josh mankiewicz. >> reports we're getting of massive damage here, particularly on the west and northwest sides of town. an unbelievable day across alabama. >> jeff morrow is a meteorologist for the weather channel. over a 20-year career, his mission has been covering destructive storms. yet nothing prepared him for this. >> we were setting up on the south side of birmingham. you watched it go right in front of us. it's this huge black seething mass of clouds. a lot of power flashes, a lot of transformers going. ...

We're following a tornado on the ground in mississippi right now. want to get straight to chad meyers. chad, what are we looking at here? it looks very serious. >> it is very serious. this is jackson, mississippi. this is ridgeland, this is clinton. this storm was on the ground as it rolled through clinton and it is still on the ground right now. very close to i 220 right here, kind of sliding up to tugaloo. that's the area we've been watching with rotation. ground truth with tornado chasers seeing this tornado on the ground. reed timer was on the air a couple months ago with this amazing chas...