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Travel. let's show you pictures we have from the damage in the yazoo city area. and this is from some storm chasers. there you can see that really wide wedge tornado that was about 1.75 miles wide. amazing. and then these are the first pictures literally seconds after the tornado wiped through, these storm chasers went into the town, and there you can see some of that damage to a restaurant there, and then you can also see, as this advances, some homes that were damaged. all in all, the state of mississippi just suffered an incredible damage. the tornado path, at least 97 miles wide. now, last...

If they were all separate or different. here's what we looked at. this is enhanced fujita scale. that's what the ef stands for. we think yesterday the big one that did most of the damage in louisiana and mississippi that was probably on and off the ground for at least 200 miles was at least an ef-3 with winds up to 165. if you're familiar with hurricanes, you can get gusts up to about 150 or 200. usually those winds are from the same direction. what makes tornadoes different is those winds spin and swirl, that tends to tear things apart and that's why the tornado path and the devastation is so...

Tornado forever. it was just that historic, will go down in the record books. there's no time to really think about it now. we need to try to save more lives possibly today with another severe weather outbreak. the recap of yesterday, we ended up with about 16 preliminary reports of tornados. again, the main one that did all the damage was the one in moore, oklahoma. the one up there in missouri was also a little bit on the strong side. here's a look at the tornado path that we dealt with. now, this is actually a comparison of the path back in '99 that went through moore, the ef-5. and also wh...

Give people perspective. we have seen the pictures and devastation. it's hard to put that jigsaw puzzle together. this is a picture before of downtown joplin before the storm went through. from going over the firsthand accounts, roughly drew what the tornado path was through the town. the st. john's hospital is where al roker was just located. from there it went across the middle of the downtown joplin area, the south side of town, at least a half mile wide and then went up through the retail section where a lot of the big box stores and there are a lot of harrowing stories out there and then ...

It is still on the move. >> still multiple reports, fredricka. just an amazing outbreak. we're looking at a tornado path, uninterrupted, not necessarily continuous, of probably about 150 miles in that very tornado remains on the ground as we speak. mississippi emergency response people tell us that their response is massive to this. this storm has really been tracking for hours now, literally. this is the storm that we're talking about right here, and it continues to move quickly to the north and east at 55 miles per hour. so tornado warnings but most recently reported near cal adona with stru...