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>> reporter: bertie county is a rural county, very sparsely populated. the fact that you have 11 fatalities from this storm should tell you just how powerful this storm was when it roared through here. take a look at the examples all around us. this is a telephone poll right here. it's covered with mud on one side where the wind was coming through, snapped off at the base. you know how tough those poles are. look at this tree right here, completely ripped out of the ground. all the branchs are broken. every single leaf that was on there from the spring has now been ripped off. and the human to...

The weekend. the funnel cloud on the left side of your screen, there is just one of the 230 twisters reported. the death toll rising overnight to 45. half of those deaths reported in north carolina and david mattingly is live for us this morning in north carolina. david, good morning to you. >> reporter: good morning. 11 of those deaths happening right here in this county, north carolina. it is a very rural county, very sparsely populated. the fact that 11 people were killed here should tell you how ferocious these tornadoes were as they ripped across the landscape. you can see what they left ...

Balujistan are fighting for the independence of that province. they are a little bit different than the militants we often hear about in the news, but certainly security is a concern in that area. but this -- this particular place hasn't seen much militant activity. again, it's very sparsely populated. in fact, an entire province in southwest pakistan, balujistan province, is the most sparsely populated. >> that is one piece of encouraging information, and reza, i heard the phone ringing behind you. i think a lot of people trying to get in touch with you. i'll let you get off the phone. if you...

Because after iowa and then new hampshire and then south carolina, the next place that republican presidential candidates compete this year is in nevada, the nevada caucuses. nevada is third in the country for the democrats this year, fourth in the country for the republicans. so nevada is a really important early state. it's the first western state. overall nevada is very, very sparsely populated, doesn't have all that many people in it as a state but those few people are a really important audience for the presidential candidates. so it makes sense that you'd do a debate in nevada. beyond ju...

Overall nevada is very, very sparsely populated, doesn't have all that many people in it as a state but those few people are a really important audience for the presidential candidates. so it makes sense that you'd do a debate in nevada. beyond just being in nevada, though, beyond being in nevada's population center of las vegas, there's also one other reason that last night's debate venue was perfect in every way and that's because the specific place in las vegas where they held last night's debate is a hotel called the venetian, the biggest hotel and casino in las vegas. the version of the v...