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Folks well. i'm sure they'll get through this. holy toledo. thank you. >> thank you, neil. >> neil: thank you. let's get a read on this. joe bastardi. we've had more than 500 tornados this year. they can be all sizes. what is going on? >> we've had a persistent pattern of cold air in the western and northern united states and as the heat in the southeast. it's a classic setup. you could see it two or three weeks ago this pattern setting up. may is the tornado month. it's like september and the hurricane season. the reason that happens is the mid and upper levels of the atmosphere are still col...

Effort here. and we do not yet know the full extent of the damage. now that we have first light, crews should expect to find out more about it throughout the day. search and rescue teams are going door to door to find out if there were any people trapped in their homes. we did get reports of rescue teams having to go in and get some of those people, jeff. back to you. >> gabe gutierrez, thank you for that report. bill karins we had 13 straight days of tornadoes. a stretch for people living in the affected region. >> may is typically our most active tornado month, but we had day after day after...

>> mica it's tornado month. we caught one up close in west texas. it almost looked like a spacecraft land in there. that's a rotating wall cloud. in the middle is the actual funnel cloud. when it hits the ground the dust starts to fly, it's classified as a tornado. thankfully that one looks impressive. didn't do any damage at all. we have severe weather threat in the cards today through the end of the week this weekend on saturday, a possibility of an outbreak saturday afternoon. let's start with the weather map and show you where it's raining and hard this morning. it was in areas around dall...

Around. they're getting rid of the snow. six flags, one of the big amusement parks there on the south side of st. louis, winter wonderland with that foot of snow. they're opening up tomorrow! they are going to clear it all out and hopefully melt it away today, too, but you know, this is a big holiday, a lot of kids will be off from school this weekend, so they're trying to get things prepped and ready. good luck with that. we're dealing with another cold morning in the deep south. what else is new, just like yesterday, but it's actually not quite as bad. we're in the low 30s, but at least we'r...

Reports in may. we haven't had any big ones either. typically this is our worst tornado month, usually averaging 257. so we're going to be well below that it appears. really no big severe outbreaks on the way. we have a storm system bringing some cool, chilly rain, apologies to montana, north dakota, and minnesota and iowa today. not the nicest of saturdays. unfortunately, your sunday is going to be similar. here's your forecast. beautiful weather, want to talk about gorgeous from d.c. through the carolinas, even sneaking up into philadelphia, really nice saturday. northern new england is the ...