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portions of mississippi and alabama or live in the weather center. awarding to the west, vladimir putin says he will station nuclear weapons in belarus. and risking it all for the american dream, a rising number of pregnant women and minors make the dangerous trek through panama for a chance at asylum in the us from cnn center. cnn newsroom with laila harre. we begin with a massive cleanup underway in the southeastern us after powerful storms that spawned deadly tornadoes barreled through mississippi and nearby states friday night, at least 26 people were killed and dozens injured. t...

A little less clear. joining us right now is a tornado expert and professor at northern illinois university. professor, so great to see you. >> hi, fred. great to be with you. thanks for having me. >> wonderful. so why is it so difficult to connect tornadoes to the climate crisis? >> great question. it's really their small scale. think of the size of a hurricane, like hurricane ian that hit florida earlier this year, very large storm, kind of easier to track, easier to forecast. these tornadoes like what happened on tuesday and wednesday, again, as you mentioned, nearly two dozen injuries, thr...

Maybe three-inch thick, that is really dense, really heavy, that's not going to fly through the air very easily. >> thank you dr. greg forbes, the premier expert on tornado damage. there's a tree over there that's been debarked, and a giant piece of plywood was thrown through the air and basically that tree stabbed it. you see things that just stun you, that just don't seem like they should happen. you've got a car that's up on the house, this is a pick-up truck right here on top of another vehicle. things that just don't seem to make sense, that's for sure, we will be here through the evening...

These buildings are built with usually concrete, reinforced concrete or cinder block. these have very, very strong buildings and they'll look at the degree of damage. and they can estimate what the wind speed will be. our tornado expert dr. greg forbes who is literally the world's expert in tornado damage surveys. he was with us yesterday, he says no doubt in his mind this will be rated an ef-5 tornadoes with winds, that means, brian, in excess of 200 miles an hour. he says there was an oil tank about the size of a trailer on a tractor-trailer that was thrown about 1/2 mile. he says it would t...

Know, everywhere you look, you know, you could be looking at tornado damage. we're with our tornado expert the weather channel dr. greg forbes and dr. forbes, kind of the question is, how big is this tornado, how far did it go? what is your sense. >> my sense of the total destruction is it's about three blocks of this subdivision neighborhood, so it's probably about a quarter mile wide of total destruction. we were down a little bit on the south edge of the tornado. there most of the houses are still inhabitable, there's some damage, that's about a half-mile wide in addition and there's probab...