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back on its feet. >> and were more storms threatening tonight, is the city safe? >> if you were hear and a tornado comes through, there's no place to go. no place to hide now. >> i'll ask the world's leading tornado expert how you can protect yourself. this is "piers morgan tonight." we begin tonight with the latest breaking news. a tornado emergency near oklahoma city, the national weather service warns anyone in the area to take precautions immediately. calling the situation extremely dangerous and life threatening. this extraordinary video shows you just how dangerous. take a lo...

pillows and blankets in the bathroom. we were just praying and screaming. and it was very loud, and it all happened so fast. >> terrifying moments that changed their lives forever. >> it's indescribable. i don't know what to say other than that. i've never seen anything like it. >> what happens now? >> we're going to stay there until every home is repaired, until every neighborhood is rebuilt, until every business is back on its feet. >> and were more storms threatening tonight, is the city safe? >> if you were hear and a tornado comes through, there's no place to go. no place to hid...

He's joins us from tuscaloosa. you spent the day with the national weather service trying to determine tornado strength. what did you learn? >> reporter: well, i learned that it's a slow and arduous process. forensic meteorology, they have to get in there and see how a structure is built before they can determine how it was ripped apart. i went out with tim marshal, considered to be the rock star of this type of work. 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, and h...

Again, breaking news. new figures from the mayor of tuscaloosa, alabama. 39 killed this that city, chillingly, more than 400 people still unaccounted for. that may be duplications in their system that they haven't confirmed yet, but let's certainly hope that's the case. it speaks not only to how many tornadoes hit the south, but how powerful some were. f-5s, the worst of the worst, that kind that wipe out entire small towns. right now a team of weather experts are on the ground there in many of those places trying to determine what hit them. rob marciano joins us now. he's joins us from tuscal...

Trail of destruction 200 miles long. today the job of surveying the damage continues. this tornado was so big and on the ground for so long it's not just neighborhoods that were demolished, big structures and big businesses like this days inn north of birmingham badly damaged. over 70 people were staying in this hotel as gaefts. remarkably not one of them injured. even so look at the damage. the roof completely torn off. the walls and doors slammed against this railing in unison as this twister rolled through. >> the wind came in. blue in. internal pressure. off you go. >> reporter: tim marsha...