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Watching closely beyond impeachment, obviously happening and central louisiana. we have been talking about the tornadoes. now hearing that there is one dead in central louisiana, this coming in from vernon parish. chief, deputy calvin turner who i mentioned a moment ago, i believe we have him on the phone. calvin turner, are you there? >> yes. >> ed: please tell us what is happening on the ground and about the one death that just came in. >> we have had a tornado touched down in the southeastern part of our parish, the southeast of roads, louisiana. we have one confirmed fatality at this time....

That ride right there. it's called the fireball ride. it broke apart, sending people flying so how does this ride pass safety checks? our next guest says he has had to shut down these same type of rides twice before. joining us now is amusement ride inspector and safety consultant walt reese. what happened here? >> it's hard for me to say based on the limited information that i have been able to see so far. it's really limited in scope to either fasteners failing or welds failing or maybe some sort of a metal fatigue but obviously there was some sort of a structure failure involved here. ainsl...

Usually buildings failures are a combination of, you know, a number of different characteristics that, unfortunately, don't meet the structure requirements. that could be the materials. it could be the connection. it could be underdesigned members. it could be an overload that it was not intentionally designed for. it could be foundation or soil failure. so it's likely a combination of these things but we don't know yet. we can't just look at the damage and make conclusions yet. >> and that was civil engineering professor dawn e leeman speaking with me earlier. meanwhile, florida's political...

Would result in an impact to the ocean in which the main body of the debris should be reasonably intact that a condensed area. however, if the plane encountered severe baseball or softball sized hail which is known to occur in these extreme weather conditions then the glide path would have been a bit longer and the debris field spread out much farther. if there was a loss of control due to severe disturbturbulence, we would have a completely different scenario. the aircraft could have become inverted. it could have exceeded the design limits it could have begin to suffer from a varied amount o...