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captions paid for by nbc-universal television good morning. welcome to "today" on a sunday morning. i'm lester holt in tuscaloosa, alabama. and i'm jenna wolfe in new york. and, lester, the scope of the destruction from those tornadoes is just unimaginable. you've been there for days now. what can you tell us about the situation this morning? the more time you spend here, jenna, you realize the defining patterns of these tornadoes. i'm standing on the edge of one and you see perhaps a parking garage or trees in the background about a quarter mile, a little more, that's the widt...

the extraordinary ceremony. "today," sunday, may 1s, 2011. captions paid for by nbc-universal television good morning. welcome to "today" on a sunday morning. i'm lester holt in tuscaloosa, alabama. and i'm jenna wolfe in new york. and, lester, the scope of the destruction from those tornadoes is just unimaginable. you've been there for days now. what can you tell us about the situation this morning? the more time you spend here, jenna, you realize the defining patterns of these tornadoes. i'm standing on the edge of one and you see perhaps a parking garage or trees in the back...

good evening. again, a mounting death toll from this week's historic tornado outbreak here in the south. rescuers acknowledge time is running out to find survivors. as we come on the air tonight, officials say at least 341 people are dead across seven states, making this the country's second deadliest tornado outbreak ever. thousands of others are injured. the sheer number of people left homeless by this disaster has created what the mayor of tuscaloosa has called a humanitarian crisis. and that has prompted a tremendous response. nbc's john yang joins me now to lead off our coverage...

good evening. again, a mounting death toll from this week's historic tornado outbreak here in the south. rescuers acknowledge time is running out to find survivors. as we come on the air tonight, officials say at least 341 people are dead across seven states, making this the country's second deadliest tornado outbreak ever. thousands of others are injured. the sheer number of people left homeless by this disaster has created what the mayor of tuscaloosa has called a humanitarian crisis. and that has prompted a tremendous response. nbc's john yang joins me now to lead off our coverage...

Your trip begins at michigan.org. every single person who lived through this week's tornado outbreak has a story to tell, but none of them can possibly be as breathtaking as reginald epps, a firefighter in northern alabama. he joins us by phone from a hospital in tuscaloosa. mr. epps, thank you very much, first of all, for telling your story. can you give us a sense, and our viewers a sense, of what happened when you had your 9-year-old son in your arms and that tornado hit? >> well, it started morning at 5:00. we got up that morning. the wife got up that morning at 5:00, and i lay in the be...