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Killed. now, making it the second deadliest tornado event since records have been kept. the toll could rise again with hundreds of people still unaccounted for. emergency officials, though, want to stress that all those people aren't necessarily missing, rather you can probably chalk some of it up to the fact there's been a loss of power and a lot of people seeking shelter elsewhere. this was, no doubt, a truly historic tornado event maybe we're just getting a good handle on. look at that, we wipe to the before and then after picture of what it looked like in tuscaloosa, alabama. see that line...

[ male announcer ] engine light on? come to meineke now for a free code scan read and you'll say... my money. my choice. my meineke. all right. 35 minutes past the hour on this cnn saturday morning. welcome back, everybody. i'm t.j. holmes. glad you could spend part of your weekend with us. unfortunately this weekend is tough for a lot of folks in the south. search crews are going through looking for people lost possibly in debris left behind for more than 200 tornadoes across the south. the death toll is now at 340. that would make this the second deadliest tornado event in recorded history...

Some folks and sent a couple dogs under the bed. this line will move through jackson, mississippi, over the next hour or two. flash flooding. this is the big story. the tornadoes are bad. the flooding will be with us for probably a week or so. flash flooding with thunderstorms south of little rock in northern mississippi and this area hasn't even rained in six hours. we still have flash flooding problems in illinois. right on the border of illinois and missouri. now, today the severe weather outbreak is likely in this area of red. once again we'll target poor arkansas, who's been hit so hard t...

Today, tell your friends the super tornado outbreak of 1974 with 148 twisters in a 16-hour period is still considered the worst tornado event in american history. that's according to the national weather service which notes that those tornados traveled more than 2,500 miles killing 330 people in 1 states. enough with the real news. let's gather around the water cooler to talk about that mindless trivia that we know you crave. tina fey announced by the world by way of the oprah winfrey child that she is pregnant with her second child. here is what tien na fey had to say to david letterman. >>...

When i was 7 years old with my dad. and it's something that i've carried out, going out and shooting video of every extreme weather event across the country. >> my goodness. well, let's see. since you started doing this since you were 7 years old but you've been really active over the last couple of days. what's been going on recently? >> there was an extremely rare event as far as i am concerned. i grew up in minnesota and i don't remember the last time we had a tornado event quite like that across the state. i actually lost lives which is really unfortunate. it takes a lot of fun out of it f...