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Tornadoes. we're told there were dozens of twisters and hail in some cases the size of softballs. hundreds of homes damaged. officials in oklahoma today revised the number of dead from 5 to 2 after they discovered three critically injured children had, in fact, survived. the national weather service is now forecasting another system that could bring thunderstorms and heavy rain. our chief meteorologist rick reichmuth live in the extreme weather center. these storms are hitting parts of the midwest. >> yeah. last time on monday it was more of an oklahoma event. this time it's stretching farther...

A moderate risk means we have a 15% chance of a tornado breaking out so this is going to be a rough day and already getting very, very active there. tornado warnings, right now, in effect for some of the northern parishes of louisiana as well as some of the counties just on the border of mississippi and the parishes of louisiana. right here working the way into pike county. you can see a strong cell north of new orleans to the south and west of hat pisburg on the move so these storms are not necessarily dropping tornadoes right now but we are seeing rotation with the cells and when doppler rad...

We've been watching south florida all morning long for the potential of tornados. we did have one confirmed report from a trained spotter just north of ft. lauderdale about an hour ago in oakland park where there was some debris reported on i-95. we had a weaker tornado warning posted for that area. but what we're concentrating on within this watch box is this warning that was just posted for -- from miami. miami-dade county and this includes homestead. this was the one we spoke about about ten minutes ago. the warning itself has been allowed to be extended another half an hour until 9:45. tha...

Of ft. lauderdale. new pictures coming in. oakland park north of ft. lauderdale. heavy rain here. we had some flooding and also there was a tornado spotter that saw a tornado. there was damage as well aside from this. this is probably the best video we have seen. there have been reports of damage from oakland park. right now, we're seeing another band of convection coming in south of marco island across the everglades toward broward and miami-dade county. right now none of these look to be severe. this severe watch box is in effect for ten minutes. they may extend it because we continue to get...

No confirmation of this touching the ground. this was closer to ft. lauderdale proper. we're watching these two cells all within this watch box in effect until 11:00 this morning. tornado watch for all of south florida peninsula as we continue to get pulses of convection off the gulf of mexico. this one just across miami-dade county. certainly the one that's the strongest. we're watching that as it gets closer to homestead. then eventually moving towards the northeast at 35 miles an hour towards miami. all right. the carolinas last night. you had your share of rough weather. over 20 homes dama...