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Captured -- well, what has become painfully familiar af aftermath considering the power of the storms. officials have been surveying the damage today. chad myers joins us now. is there more threat from this today? >> probably five times more threat yesterday than today and we had four tornados yet. so not the emphasis we saw yesterday but there will be some storms out there that could spin like this. likely an ef-1, possibly an ef-2, weather service will be out later today looking at what exactly happened. these are not strong structures in the first place here with wind reports of 18 reports ...

Correspondents standing out there. typically on the ground, friction means the winds are not as high as at altitude where the true speed of the hurricane is measured. 1992, during hurricane andrew, there was a gust that was recorded at the national hurricane center at coral gables of 177 miles an hour, and that was right before the weather radar ripped off the roof there and then they put the national hurricane center in a bunker at florida international university. so we are going to see some high gusts, but clearly at altitude the wind speed is higher than on the ground. >> sandra: and you c...

Burn so far. that's more than a million acres more than we normally would be for that ten-year average by this particular date. again, a lot of that has to do with the fact that this year has been an exceptional one in terms of fires. right now 21 large active fires spread out across five states. one of the key components has been the heat. the heat has been a huge contributing factor to the wildfires. but it's also been a huge contributing factor to a lot of the severe thunderstorms, because heat is fuel for those thunderstorms. you look at all the storm reports we've had over the last 72 hou...

To impact other parts of the country. cnn's allison chinchar joining us now with more on that. >> ladies, it's been a busy last 48 hours, a total of 20 tornado reports from friday, seven in the last 24 hours, in addition to damaging wind reports and very large hail reports. but that system is going to continue to make its way off to the east. this is a live look at where it is now. you've got showers and thunderstorms across cleveland, stretching down across huntsville and birmingham. a lot of lightning with these storms as they continue to progress off to the east. we have a secondary system ...

If it's the bluer colors, it's been colder than normal, most of the country has much warmer than normal. so the severe weather outbreak one week ago today, we ended up with about 70 records, and then just two days ago, with that -- 434 wind reports of damage or high winds, 27 tornadoes, includes our first-ever tornado in minnesota in debits. one of the reasons we can make a link is what we call a la nina. that brings the storm track down through the middle of the country. it allows storms to grab that