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That something very devastating has happened. the only other time that i have personally witnessed damage like this is when we were in joplin, missouri, two years ago, it was may 2011. and 161 people lost their lives in that tornado and we fear this may come very close if not exceed that tornado. it's one of those situations wherever where you look, you could be looking at tornado damage. we're with our tornado expert at the weather channel, dr. greg forbes. how big is this tornado? how far did it go? what is your sense? >> my sense here of the total destruction is it's about three blocks of t...

Unaccounted for an potentially have parished in the tornado. we know the medical examiner has confirmed 37 fatalities. we're only a couple of hours into this. but certainly when you see the scene behind us you know that something very devastating has happened. the only other time i've witnessed damage like this is when we were in joplin, missouri two years ago, may 2011 and 161 people lost their life in that tornado and this may come close if not exceed that tornado. it's one of those situations where you know everywhere you look you could be looking at tornado damage. we're with your tornado ...

Of this field of work. he's a structural engineer and tornado expert at the same time. he helped develop the enhanced fujita scale, the scale we use today. he doesn't have official word of what this tornado was which came from mississippi, through tuscaloosa, just barely missed birmingham and headed into north georgia. likely an ef-3 if not ef-4. we have determined there is an ef-5 with winds of 200 miles an hour across smithfield, mississippi. so it's been quite an outbreak with so many large, powerful storms, anderson. >> rob, this is obviously the third night we've been covering this storm,...