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Everyone in the bathtub, children first.s maybe. we just ran in and we threw everyone in the bathtub, children first. maybe. we just ran in and we threw everyone in the bathtub, children first.maybe. we just ran in and we threw everyone in the bathtub, children first.s maybe. we just ran in and we threw everyone in the bathtub, children first. pillows and blankets. didn't have time to get mattress. and the roof flew off. >> reporter: those people obviously very thankful they survived. six others died in this tornado. they were all at the rancho brazos subdivision and they were between 34 and 8...

Our meteorologist chad myers is joining us from the cnn severe weather center with a heads-up with what's coming over the weekend. what do we know, chad? >> we know there will be three outbreaks of severe weather, one saturday, one sunday, and another on monday, progressing from nebraska, eventually almost all the way to chicago. by this time of the year we should have 500 tornadoes on the ground, on average. we've only had 250. it doesn't even stack up to what we should have had in april. in's been a tornado drought. there's been a rain drought for that matter, too. we'll make up for some of ...

Does the northeast -- here we go. oh. can't show that picture. but we have -- we have all -- >> we're good. >> all clear, right? >> good to go. many areas of the east coast, finally it's not raining this morning in new england. just a few clouds. this is going to start up a stretch of really beautiful weather, great last week of spring is going to take place through much of the eastern half of the country. you notice the clouds and the storms from yesterday, clearing out and today, this is great. low humidity, temperatures in the 70s. this is as comfortable as it gets and you can save the ac b...

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Is there anything up usual about the frequency or severity? for a while we were going through a tornado season that seemed a number of reported tornadoes was quite low. what happened? >> we were into a tornado drought, and one of the reasons was is we had such a cold spring. we really need sort of a class of two air masses, very warm air from the south and we need a relatively cooler air mass to the north and west of that, and then a dry line that kind of helps to fire up these storms. we just didn't have the setup in place, and now we getting it. this is an area that knows tornadoes. this is ...