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>> march, april and may is when the storms flourish to this level. good morning, boris and alison. tuscaloosa and birmingham and chattanooga with these conditions favorable to spawn storms. look at the storms beginning to flourish. look at the supercell thunderstorms. the ones that separated one by one. you have storms as such and they keep the energy to themselves and they can spawn. there has been a history of tornadoes with this line of weather over the past 24 hours. the threat extends for thursday afternoon for 40 plus million people. it is a lesser threat with damaging winds and isolated...

And that is really critical when we consider the altitude that they were ascending to when they asked to deviate around these thunderstorms. what we've done here in the cnn world weather center is we've stopped the satellite imagery. we're having trouble finding some of the radar imagery from this region, but satellite is important and it tells us certain clues of what took place at that last moment of contact which was roughly 7:15 in the morning on sunday local time. and you can clearly see there was several complex thunderstorm activities forming across the java sea. this is java. this is s...

Just yesterday. joins me is bret adair, who is in egypt, mississippi. bret, can you give us the latest from your end? >> yeah, we've got a pretty serious situation involves from the tupelo area all the way south at the moment with several supercell thunderstorms that are producing tornadoes, as you guys have been made aware of, such as the one that hit tupelo a few moments ago. >> bret, do we have a sense of whether there are -- when tornadoes hit, there's obvious a period of time during which an area is under watch. do we have a sense of how long the watch period may last in this part of the ...

Down there? >> it's amazing to think this is the first day of winter and we've got an ice storm, a snowstorm and a tornado outbreak on the same day. we're in greenville, mississippi. kind of seems like this is the epicenter of what happens today. behind me, an ominous sky. going to show you just an instant of what's happening here. you see this flag right here? winds are very, very strong out of the south and temperatures are 75 to 80 degrees. that strong wind from the south at the surface and a very strong wind in the upper levels of the atmosphere from the southwest that causes this rotation...

If we get a wind gust, it's going to be brief. we're not seeing the organized supercell thunderstorms we've had the last couple of days. that threat moves from around northern virginia up toward the northeastern part of the u.s. tomorrow. we'll continue to watch it. at least the threat is a little lower than it has been the last five days. >> we'll take anything. a little lower is good. thanks, tom. four months after that bunker standoff in southeast alabama involving a 65-year-old man and a 5-year-old hostage, remember that? today the fbi is releasing audio from the gunman, photos from the ...