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We're following breaking news about what could be a historic tornado outbreak. the death toll still climbing. we learned at least 30 people have been killed in tennessee. that puts the total number of deaths across the south well above 200. a university of alabama student videoed a tornado that hit tusk loose ka. why weren't you running for cover? instead you grabbed your camera? >> i was watching the news channel that had a good stream going. a tower cam from one of the downtown buildings, had a radar going at the same time. i could tell it it wasn't going to come where i was at. i was near a...

What are you seeing? >> i have tornado warnings from new york state to washington, d.c., richmond, virginia, all the way down to atlanta. not every warning means a tornado's on the ground. it just means storms are spinning and they could be on the ground. but up here in chimung, richmond virginia, back to danville, we pick it up again where storms are really spinning and they could be on the ground in parts of tennessee, through alabama, all the way down to enterprise, mississippi. i want to just go back to this video. it's so amazing. this was coming off of a tower cam from a birmingham tv st...

There will be more than that. in fact, i'm fatherly certain there will be. >> it's sad to hear you expect the number to go up. the regional medical center in the northern part of the state, also hit by a tornado, is that right? >> many areas north alabama, cole bin county was certainly and the city of coleman had major damage. places in marshal county. other counties were affected. of course, it's not over. we're tipping to have tornado warnings and, in fact, just a few minutes ago, we still had four tornado warnings were going on and at the same time. >> and we're watching some live pictures ...

Understand, across the region there. then i want to take you into raleigh, north carolina, from the tower cam view. this is something you don't see every day either. a tornado rain wrapped coming right at the tower cam there in downtown raleigh. this is the reason we had many fatalities across the united states. these tornadoes are not hitting farmlands. we are talking about densely populated cities getting smacked with these violent tornadoes that, again, move through the eastern u.s. in a one, two, three punch fashion here. we started in oklahoma. you can see behind me on the satellite and t...

Want to point out these lines. they are saying in some spots tornadoes were on the ground nearly continuously for 25 and 30 miles. you see pockets of homes where there would be half a dozen homes destroyed or damaged and other areas where 20 and 30 homes, hundreds of homes, all across the state. take a look at this incredible time lapse photography from a tower cam. don, this is amazing. this is a period of time during the evening when this rain-wrapped tornado just kind of progressed its way across downtown raleigh and moved across this balcony area that it looks like. we had reports coming o...