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Of the destruction in lee county. you can see here entire neighborhoods just leveled, reduced to rubble this morning, the twisted metal and debris. take a look at that, we were told by an emergency management director this was a real problem for reaching people in several, several hours. this was a cell phone tower pushed over blocking eastbound lanes on u.s. 280. georgia is also feeling the storm's impact, at least a dozen tornadoes hit that state causing still more damage. >> the same storm is dumping a lot of snow on the northeast, many public schools are closed in new york, connecticut, an...

New this morning, tensions are rising in venezuela as the self-declared interim president juan guaido tries to return home. the opposition leader has called for supporters to protest today. patrick is live in caracas with the very latest. patrick. >> reporter: hey, good morning, john. yes, juan guaido says he's returning to venezuela to save this country and that within a few hours he should be here close to where i am in caracas leading an opposition protest. if he's even in the country at that point we don't know. last night he addressed the venezuela people by social media but he wouldn't s...

And many, many of us today without any sleep, many of them without any sleep. >> i'm sure they've been up all night and you in the emergency operations center as well likely up all night. when the sun does come up very, very shortly, what do you expect to find? >> it's going to give a lot clearer picture of just how significant the damage was and just how heartbreaking it is to see a community that was affected so severely is. and we actually had two separate touchdown. and the national weather service has already been out, they came out last night. they're going to be back out this morning. a...

Work so that the work that kay lay talked about continues. the survey teams will be out trying to determine how strong the tornadoes were. they can say it was at least an fp-3 was on the ground here. that means that the wins were at least 136 miles per hour. if that were a hurricane, it would be a strong cat four. so a very strong storm is coming through here, those 23 deaths qualifying this for being the deadliest sunday, the deadliest day for tornadoes in alabama since 2011. a lot of work to be done. it all starts when the sun comes up. john, back to you. >> victor blackwell for us on the gr...

Numerous, numerous paid and unpaid fire working hand in hand yesterday. they there are no twords say how great this community is and how they come together when there's a crisis. >> they're going to need you all to come together right now to see your way through this. just lastly again i know you can't tell us or give us the latest information on the death toll, but we were told it was 23. the sheriff last night said he expected that number to rise. do you still expect that number to go up? >> our coroner actually said that he expected last night the number that he gave in the interview last n...