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At least 13 people have been confirmed dead there so far. nbc's ron mott joins me live on the phone from smithville with the latest. ron? >> reporter: good day to you. the one word that keeps coming back to me in assessing and looking at this damage in this small town is phenomenal. it's phenomenal the damage this tornado struck on this community. this morning the national weather service after having reassessed the level of the damage here upgraded this to an ef-5. that's a rare designation. it's the most powerful designation for tornado winds in excess of 200 miles an hour. this is a monster...
The florida straits and cuba and at this point a weak tropical storm and very minimal impacts in south florida and the rip current threat the biggest danger to any life. wind and thunderstorms and really nothing you wouldn't see in a good squall and during the afternoon. the storm then heads due south of the oil spill saturday morning. that's when the wind will be the highest and the waves will be the highest over that containment site and the big question is, will the cap stay on as the storm passes just to the south. then, finally, the storm should make a landfall, not expected to be a big, ...
Reconnaissance aircraft will fly in and look for a low level center of circulation and declare it a depression, which may happen today or tomorrow. generally, the movement is towards the yucatan pennsylvania la, but then, what happens next? everyone is wondering about the gulf of mexico. let's take a look at the system. i will show you computer models and where they're going over the next few days. you see a wide variance from mexico to over florida where the storm will go because the storm hasn't completely formed yet. as we get the data in from the reconnaissance aircraft, i imagine we'll ha...
What is the g-8? it's supposed to be an infornlal annual meeting of eight countries to discuss issues as broad as the economy, environment and terrorism. the original concept was to allow world leaders to meet in an intimate environment to get to know each other a little better. the first was held back in 1975 in france but at that time there were only six countries involved. the member nations are the u.s., the uk, canada, france, germany, italy, japan and russia. canada and russia were the last to join. the leaders produce a communique at the end outlining achievements and goals for the next...