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Pound them. i mean actually get in there and pound them. get some special forces in there from the uk, from france, that could do laser on those tanks, kill those tanks, and give the opposition those -- those thousand men who have put their lives on the line. the opportunity to take back misrata. and france and britain need to come up with a couple of regiments to put on the ground to kill this gadhafi army. >> general russel honore, thanks so much for your insight. i appreciate that. all right meantime, we want to get back to this breaking story involving this tornadic activity. activity in...

Sosa. welcome back, everyone. i'm cnn meteorologist karen maginnis. we're watching tornadic activity across the southeastern united states. a number of severe thunderstorm warnings as well as tornado warnings, which have been issues. we're looking at georgia and alabama here with lots of activity to report. where you see these dark red and purple cells, that's where we're looking at the potential for tornadic activity. as of the last several hours, most of what we have seen have been gusty winds, heavy downpours and hail. but there still exists the potential for tornados for the evening acro...

Thunderstorms. lots of tornado warnings and several tornado watches have been issued. wait until you see this red box across a good portion of alabama into western and southwestern georgia. that one was issued, set to expire at 9:00 local time. this other one, you don't see a lot of activity, but that's because the atmosphere is just getting warmed up there. when i say warmed up, i literally mean warmed up. just to give you an example, for atlanta, temperatures in the 50s. in magcon, temperatures have ben in the 70s. so a sharp temperature contrast, sharp wind contrast. dew point temperatures ...

These areas in purple. a lot of these have just popped up in the last couple of minutes. if you're wondering where this is, this is the border between georgia and alabama. and as a consequence over across east central sections of alabama, west central sections of georgia, this is where we're looking at the potential for tornadic activity. what we have seen as of late have mostly been reports of hail. that is not to say we're not going to see a tornado. with this much activity, i dare say that before the night is over, we will probably see numerous reports of possible funnel clouds or possible ...

Popping up as we take a look across the southeast. it has become increasingly volatile. right around atlanta to macon, in between, that's where we're seeing a sharp contrast of temperatures and a sharp contrast of wind direction. right around atlanta, temperatures only in the 50s. in macon, georgia, the temperatures are in the 70s. so there's a very big temperature gap here. dew point temperatures are running pretty high as well. we have a complex weather system that right along this boundary, that's where we're looking at some of these thunderstorms popping up and a couple of tornado warnings...