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Moving in from the southeast. take a look at this. the rivers are swollen. where you saw the rescue for the rescue operation in the kodiak where they took the gentleman off the roof, this is actually a golf course and you can see he put on his vest. he got in and after they went. seemingly he was nonetheless for wear but what a frightening event. one fatality also reported from this. a woman apparently had been in her car and it does not take that much water to float an automobile. you would think it would. they found her body and the abandoned automobile. what can san antonio or southeast tex...

everywhere. i thought it was a dream. >> a dream? more like a nightmare, if you want to be honest about it. this is what was left behind by a strong storm. total devastation. several tornadoes touched down. as many as 28 people are dead. in some areas, rescue crews worked deep into the night to find survivors and victims. national guard troops were called up to kentucky and indiana to the hardest hit communities. you can see tornado in tennessee. dozens of people were injured in the storms. we are watching all angles of the story this morning. susan c susan is in ohio. rob is in tenn...

Involved -- what's that tell you about the scope of this? >> well, of course, it's unusually -- an unusually large number. the training effect of where you had tornadoes following tornadoes means that often you had -- the damage was much greater than you would normally see. this is the season for us. april is the season when we have many, many tornadoes. and yesterday was just as bad as i can ever remember. some people will make the argument it is as bad as it has ever been. certainly, there's never been this number of tornadoes that were identified. some of that is a product of technology. th...

Why. notice we're seeing what we refer to as the training effect in an area like lexington or richmond. they've had plenty of rainfall. you look farther back downstream, you see more intense rain on the way. what happens when you have the heavy rain, the ground gets saturated, then the additional rainfall comes through and the ground doesn't have time to absorb. the runoff causes flooding. that's an issue that's going to be a tremendous deal for people, millions of americans, across parts of the midwest or actually the ohio valley and into the mid-mississippi valley. it won't just be the oy vh...

And alabama and maybe that will also help do some melting where we get some more of the rain in the forecast. but unfortunately one place that's seeing rain that doesn't need a lot more of it is the northwest. it's coming down from seattle to portland, all the way into eugene. the problem is this area has been ripe for mud slides. we saw two mud slides on thursday in washington state and the problem remains that the systems are coming in one after the other. they're kind of knolling a training effect, working their way up from the pacific and all that tropical moisture is coming in and really ...