clark, two unstoppable entrepreneurs both driven to better their communities. that's what earns them a spot on the next list. i am dr. sanjay gupta. hope to see you back here next week. 3 p.m. on the east coast, noon out west for those of you just joining us. i am miguel marquez. tornados rip across the midwest leaving huge paths of destruction and reducing homes to piles of sticks. we're getting a sense of how bad the damage is. surveyors say ef-3 tornados hit illinois, missouri and oklahoma last night that. means wind speeds as high as 165 miles an hour. those strong enough to rip roofs off homes and toss heavy cars around like toys. in oklahoma nine people died including two children. this comes just as those

communities struggle to recover and even bigger twister that touched down almost two weeks ago. >> oh, my goodness. oh, my goodness. >> more than 600 miles of terror, a massive storm system again sweeping through tornado alley from oklahoma all the way to indiana. in union city, oklahoma, storm chaser brandon sullivan caught a storm and maybe more than he bargained for. at least 17 tornados reported like this one in el reno, oklahoma, and then there is in in el reno, a double tornado turning into a single twister as people narrowly escape. even the weather channel's storm chaser, a heavy suv wasn't spared. a tornado found it and tossed it some 200 yards, only minor

injuries for meteorologist mike betts and his team. in an area already traumatized by storms, flash flooding in oklahoma city turned streets into rivers. some drivers could only stand on their cars waiting for rescue. outside of oklahoma city cars flipped off freeways. this woman tried to out run the storm. a state trooper helped her check for debris lodged in her hand. you can see this road falling away. across a huge swath of the country power cut to hundreds of thousands. power lines like this in brinkton, missouri, on fire or knocked right over. even before the sun rose businesses took stock of damage and trucks and warehouses badly damaged in earth city, missouri. >> one of the tractor-trailer blew over, rolled over his car. we have four or five trucks damaged. >> driving in town or highways

treacherous, not only flooding but lightning and debris on roads made for slow going across the storm's path. in gillespie, illinois, the high school badly damaged and the hope now no more tornados than a year where mother nature has been unrelenting. seems like oklahoma just cannot catch a break from the weather. two major storm cells with deadly tornados and less than two weeks and we keep hearing people there are tough and ed is live in union city for us. what are you seeing there on the ground? >> you mentioned in that piece just a short distance away from where it was toppled over here a short distance on the main road from the neighborhood we're in, and we just watched a crew cleaning up that car and taking it away, a wrecker service. what we're seeing in the neighborhoods is that process of cleaning up. have you a family over here and this is when people lean on family and friends the most, and ask myself often when you are in the situations how do you even begin to pick up the pieces here

and you hear repeatedly from people that we talked to it is just one piece at a time. you have to start going through your homes and sifting out what you can salvage and figuring out what you have to leave behind at this point. that's what we're seeing a lot of people do, not just that family here but look this is a sparsely populated area. we are on the west side of oklahoma city, oklahoma city far that way, but several homes here in this area between union city and el reno and toppled homes off the foundations and this is where the families are at. from as we look here in the distance in this area where there is probably five or six, seven homes, you see families beginning the process of cleaning up and you see the same thing over and over again people bringing trucks and trailers, whatever they can to be able to salvage what they can from their homes and belongings and see what they can salvage and drive away with. now the long hard process of cleaning up and rebuilding begins. that's what we're seeing throughout many parts of oklahoma city. back in the city one of the things we're hearing about and what people are contending with

as you get into the work week, a lot of businesses, especially in downtown oklahoma city dealing with flooding issues and cleanup involved with that. that will be a focus they're on extremely intensely today as they get ready for the work week beginning on monday. that will be something to watch out for as well, miguel. >> thank you very much. you mentioned flooding, ed. we have new pictures of flooding in oklahoma city. despite the fact that it is sunny weather today, the scope of the rain that fell from the storm system is beginning to be known. looks like an enormous field there with the oil service industry completely flooded out there near oklahoma city. in missouri two reported tornados. more teams from the national weather service say the damage in st. charles shows an ef-3

tornado and declaring a state of emergency. the latest word is more than 80,000 people are without power. several high schools were damaged forcing the cancelation of graduation ceremonies today. the damage from the system stretches into illinois. the town of gillespie, about an hour's drive northeast from st. louis is now starting the summer with a major cleanup at its high school. jennifer delgado is live to show us what happened there. what is it like. >> reporter: i am in gillespie, illinois b an hour and a half away from st. louis. they suffered their own storm damage last night as severe storms came through. what are you looking at behind me is what's left of the gymnasium. you see the bricks down on the ground. we're still waiting to hear whether the national weather service is going to say what type of damage this is. based on me looking at this, it looks more like straight line winds. you can see how the debris is all in one direction. when you talk about tornado damage you see more debris

spread around, but residents here said they heard the tornado warnings last night. a lot of them took safety and rightfully so. a lot of damage here reportedly 70 homes were damaged and 7 to 10 of those were destroyed. luckily there were no injuries here. we do have mayor john hicks here. if you can step over and talk about you're a proud town here of gillespie. this is incredible seeing that you had a tornado pretty close to the state four years ago and very close to this spot. >> almost exactly the same spot just from a different direction. instead of southwest like it was this time, it was northeast last time. bad luck two times in the last four years. both did a lot of damage to the school both times. >> you're probably very thankful that school got out on the 24th. what is next for your city here? what are you going to do for the residents? >> we'll try to clean up the property for one thing. we want people to be safe, be careful out cleaning up and do not touch wires. assume every wire is live. don't touch it. if you need help getting rid of

debris, give us a call. >> this building, this isn't a building just made a couple years ago. my parents say when the buildings come from the '20s and '30s they're well made buildings. that's a sturdy building. this is shocking. >> built in 1920 thst and they just spent a couple million dollars a few years back remodeling so it would be more up to date and it is a shame this is going to be lost now for the city. >> hopefully everybody in the city of gillespie will help you and get everything back together. right now i can tell you this. luckily things have quieted down here. we have a chance of showers and thunderstorms out here as we go throughout the day. luckily after tomorrow the weather is going to clear up and that means residents will be able to get out here and start to clean things up. >> do you know if the mayor was injured in this storm? >> no injuries. that's a great thing. that's a sign of the tornado sirens there. you also want to point out, you also have the tornado watches out there. when you hear that, that means get your plan together. don't wait around for the warning and looked like a lot of resident ds that here and that's

why we're not hearing about injuries out here. >> jennifer, the mayor's arm, though, he is clearly in a cast of some sort. was he injured in the storm or the cleanup? >> no. the mayor apparently had a little accident with his arm. my anchor wants to know what's going on with your arm here. he is well. he is out here z. he driving right through the middle of a tornado outbreak. >> i will talk with this storm chase era head. check this out. it looks like a low budget scene from star trek. mr. spock, captain kirk, played by irs workers. this video cost taxpayers tens of thousands of dollars and many are asking why would they spend their money on this?

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after a night of storms people are assessing damage today. oklahoma is the hardest hit. tornados left a path of destruction and killed nine people. >> this says the first tornado we saw yesterday near el reno

and then damage north of that. that was f-2 or f-3 damage without a doubt, cars upside down and the rest of the cells died out and the circulation was amazing on the radar but never got down to one tornado to make big damage. we now know that the moore toned that went across was an ef-0, about 60, 70, 80 miles per hour, so really blowing things around. you can get just as much as ef zero and behind me is today's story. the story of the day is flooding. that's a road. isn't a useable road any more. those are types under the road that you can see exposed. the dirt is gone. sinkhole. everything moved away. the water washed away the dirt. kind of clay dirt there, that soil, and now the road is unusable. used to be a culvert.

it was completely overwhelmed and not enough room in the culvert for the water to go through. it started going over the roadway and over the ditch here and washed that completely away. the big pipes, the big black pipe, that's pressurized natural gas. they're trying to get it shut off so the pressure is no longer in there. there is another smaller 3-inch pipe that is crude oil. that is broke. it is leaking into the canadian river and they're trying to get a crew to stop the leaking. this is going to be the story the next couple of days. the water in oklahoma does not run off fast. it is not hilly here. it is pretty flat. water takes a long time to run off. if are you seeing flooding now it will be flooding for quite some time. this wasn't go down for a couple days. it will go up before it goes down because there is still more water up river that has to wash down. we expect more flooding, more wash away, more washout, more of the road to go away. >> so many knock-on problems. seems that is feels as though this year has been a record setter for tornados. that is not the case, is it?

>> no, not even close. until two weeks ago we had half as many tornados as we're supposed to have time of year. should have had 500 on the ground by the middle of may and we had 250. it was a tornado drought because it was so cold in the east. the eastern part of the u.s. didn't have much of a spring. now it is spring and now we're seeing severe weather. now we're seeing the spring weather come here. cold air to the west, warm air to the east, that's the humidity. that clash of warm and cold makes tornados. we have had at least a couple of hundred just in the time to make up for the tornado drought. as soon as we started talking about tornado drought, then all of a sudden mother nature said, wait a minute, i forgot about that and we put a bunch down. this is not a record setter by any means. >> hope we're through the worst of it and don't have another month to come. chad myers for us, thank you very much. a lot of extraordinary video we have seen in those deadly storms across the midwest. comes from storm chasers, people

that actually drive towards the storm instead of seeking shelter. brandon sullivan is among them. take a look what he and his team ran into in union city, oklahoma. >> no, no, turn. no. go south! go south. get down! duck down! duck down! drive. [ bleep ]. >> there were a couple things going through my head at the time. is it safer to be in the car or shelter in the ditch or safer to turn a certain direction or continue? so i at that time i decided that we were south of the tornado. >> brandon now joins us live on

the phone. brandon, are you all right? well, brandon does not join us live on the phone. apparently we have lost brandon. we'll talk to him later in the hour. amazing video and lucky that he and his colleagues escaped unharmed and brought us some video that only hollywood we have seen before this could pull off. who ambushed and killed a kentucky police officer? his family and investigators search for answers. >> it wasn't a traffic stop that went bad. it wasn't an arrest that went bad. that someone actually took the time to plan it and set it up makes it that much more obviously hurtful but it makes you mad. >> when you know a guy like jason who is just a great man and a wonderful guy, you just

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we have re-established communications with brandon sullivan, the storm chaser in oklahoma who captured the amazing video just outside of union city, oklahoma. brandon, you and your team doing all right today? >> yes. we're all doing fine. just trying to get rested up and sort everything out. >> this thing went on and on. it literally looked what you were saying, you thought you were going to die. >> yeah. it definitely got very intense. off to my right was a very large

tornado. grew rapidly. in the end the tornado ended passing about a half-mile to our north. we were a good distance from it. it was so strong that the winds ripped apart a barn right in front of us and threw the debris into our car that you can see. >> it is just amazing. you have been chasing tornados since you were 14, as i understand it. i don't think you ever caught one. do you want to catch one again? >> yeah, that's correct. i have been chasing since i was about 14. we have captured a lot of incredible photos. we're usually right there in the action. we definitely got too close yesterday. yes, we are going to continue chasing, but next time i am not going to hold our team up from leaving so long. i think we will go out sooner. >> i have to give it up to your driver, brett, i believe it is. you kept screaming at him and the guy was cool as a cucumber. i take it all three of you are a little closer today. a guy in the backseat as well? >> yeah. the guy in the backseat actually

is a storm chasing friend from mississippi that came out. it was his first tornado, and you got his money's worth, and as for brett, i think he had the luxury of having to be focused on the road and not seeing what was over to our right. he was an incredible driver and definitely stayed calm and definitely saved us. >> brett can drive for me any time. the most to me the most -- it was incredible to watch the debris hitting the windshield and cracking it and you must have really been in the middle of this. the most amazing thing, in the middle of all of this you just sort of put your seat belt on like that's going to help. what were you thinking? >> well, yeah, originally we got back in the car after filming the tornados, and i was still focused on getting myself in the car and starting to get south that i forgot to buckle up. as we start getting hit by debris i almost grew concerned

there for a bit we could get blown off the road and my consciousness took over and said you need to put your seat belt on. >> brandon sullivan, thank you very much. congrats to you and your team for surviving this and stay safe out there. >> thank you. >> the search for whoever ambushed and killed a kentucky police officer a week ago today is intensifying. for his widow so is the sense of loss. officer jason ellis met his wife on valentine's day 12 years ago. they were inseparable until now. >> he was an amazing man, and i just want everybody to know what an amazing man that he was. he was a dedicated family man. he loved our family. he loved our boys. he loved me. he was dedicated to his job. he loved his job. he loved the people that he worked with. i just want, you know, i want everybody to know what amazing

man that he was. >> you can certainly see that in the turnout for his funeral. many in bards town, kentucky, are in shock over this crime. officers from all across the state joined family, friends, and the community to mourn officer ellis. even as the investigation moves ahead, here is alina mu chad owe. >> the police chief is vowing revenge. >> i can assure you we won't give up on this person until we have them either in custody or the front side of one of our weapons. >> authorities say jason ellis was driving home from work early saturday morning when he stopped to clear debris from a freeway exit ramp and was ambushed. police say someone was hiding nearby and opened fire with a shotgun killing the 33-year-old, seven year police veteran. >> he was a distance away and it was obvious that he was laying in wait for someone to stop and pick up that debris.

and as reported earlier, you know, officer ellis never had a chance. >> the officer's weapon was still in his holster when he was found. other drivers stopped and called for help, but it was too late. ellis leaves behind a wife and two young boys. his church honored his life during sunday's services. >> when you know a guy like jason who is just a great man and a wonderful guy, you just don't expect this to happen. >> police say it is not clear if the shooter targeted officer ellis or intended to shoot whoever stopped. residents of this area 40 miles south of louisville already on edge are being told to remain vigilant. >> we have a dead police officer. we have a gunman. they're capable of killing anyone. they are dangerous to the

public. >> in front of the police station a memorial of balloons and stuffed animals sits in tribute to a fellow officer gone too soon. cnn, atlanta. the police are taking officer ellis' murder personally. get the latest on the investigation from kentucky state trooper norman chaffetz that joins us live from louisville. any new developments in the investigation. >> we still continue to follow up on every lead that we receive. we have every resource available to us, made available to us from federal authorities, local and state authorities and several entities within our own agency working together to try to bring this person to justice. we will not stop until we do so. >> you have called this an ambush. do you think that the police officer was the target of the ambush and how are you so sure that this was an ambush? >> well, we cannot confirm 100% this was targeted towards officer ellis. however, most of the tips that we received, most of the leads we have developed in our

investigation are leading us to that he was the target of this attack. we know that it was an ambush because someone placed that -- deliberately placed that debris in the roadway and knew that he would probably get out and pick it up. that's exactly what he did. >> they would also have to have been following him. a very concerning situation if they were following him and watching his ways and means and the way he got around and what he was doing. was there anything that he was working on? were there cases that there might be reason for someone to want to kill him? >> you know, it is obviously something we're looking into. we have detectives as we speak going through each one of his cases that he has worked on not just for the year but the past few years, and it takes a lot of man power and a lot of time to do that, and that's something that we are looking into, absolutely. if it turns out to be that, then that will give us a good suspect to follow up on. >> trooper chaffin, i know that other police down there are concerned. is there reason for other police

officers in barredstown or other agencies to be concerned about their safety. >> i stated before this is a wake-up call not injure for the police department but law enforcement agencies around the nation. if someone would take the time to plan this, take the time to set this up, they could not just do it here but they could do it other places as well. we want other agencies to know this did happen to one of our officers here in kentucky so the next time they step out of the vehicle and step out of their cruiser to remove debris or do anything, especially rural areas, take the time to check your surroundings before you step out. that's something we're very going to be alert about. >> trooper, thank you very much for being with us this afternoon. >> thank you for having me, miguel. this just into cnn, a second man has been charged in the grisly murder of a british soldier last month. he has charged with the attempted murder of two police officers. bilaj owe and the other suspect were filmed by witnesses following the attack.

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new information on the threatening letter sent to president obama, michael bloomberg and the top gun control group. test results are in and confirm that all of the letters did in fact contain the poison rice in. susan candiotti joins me from new york. have you aobtained a copy of one of these letters. what does it say. >> that's right. the letter to mark glaze, the director of mayor bloomberg's group called mayor's against illegal guns, same exact words as the letter that mayor bloomberg got and we are told through sources is similar or the very sim that president obama was sent as well. the wording goes like this. anyone wants to come to my house will get shot in the face. the right to bear arms is my constitutional good given right

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wall collapsed while they were battling a major fire. 14 other fire fighters are being treated at hospitals. houston's fire department is the third largest in the country. i want to bring in sara who is in houston for us. sara, can you tell us more about the fire fighters that lost their lives? >> absolutely. one of the ep them was 24-year-old ann sullivan who just graduated from the fire academy in april. another one, 29-year-old robert garner, 41-year-old robert booedy, his cousin told me that immediately when he heard that his uncle had died, i am sorry, that his cousin had died he thought he must have been saving lives. this was the job that he loved. 35-year-old matthew renaud. all of them were beloved by their company. one of the public information officers told me this is the third largest company in the country yet they pride themselves on acting like a small town fire department. they all know each other very well. this morning as soon as we got

to this scene one of the fire fighters came up to me with his cell phone and said i want to show you this, it was a picture of a memorial. i think we have it to show you. it was four axes turned upside down and stuck into the ground with four helmets hanging from the axes, just a symbol, a very powerful symbol of how sad these people are here today. >> everybody loves the fire department. this is so sad to see, sara. i understand they thought there were people in the building and that's why they went in. do we know the cause of the fire that started at this restaurant? >> we don't. it will probably be several months before we do. i just talked to someone, the state fire marshal, there are so many people here, literally dozens of trucks, the alcohol, tobacco, firearms, the state fire marshal, six or seven trucks and local and state and all working towards the same thing and not rushing it. this building was destroyed. it is rubble.

it was a huge and very intense fire. walls collapsed. we know that because that's why the four fire fighters died. there is just a lot of and they're being careful not to let that go in and disrupt the investigation. >> just a blow to the community. a new look, and hall of famer joe namath was there to see it. we'll hear from the legendary football player next. a. 2004. vietnam in 1972. [ all ] fort benning, georgia in 1999. [ male announcer ] usaa auto insurance is often handed down from generation to generation. because it offers a superior level of protection and because usaa's commitment to serve military members, veterans, and their families is without equal.

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anniversary of the pro football hall of fame. joe namath attended today's opening ceremony. he sat down with cnn's carol co costello earlier this week. here is his take on it. >> i was born in canton and have been to the hall of fame many, many times. people have criticized it for being rather shabby and they've criticized the nfl for not pouring more money into it. now it's undergone this renovation. so tell me, when i go -- because i haven't been there five years or so -- what is the first thing i have to see? >> as soon as you go through the doors, that's been changed right away. it's a huge, open area that -- a couple of stories high that has history, artifacts, pictures, memorabilia of what's taken place. and then there are interactive areas where the kids and adults

can go and take part in actual video replays and make the right call. there are areas that you can listen to today's coaches calling plays right in the game, talking to the quarterback. it's just -- you could spend hours going through there. >> oh, that's awesome. so, your personal favorite bust in the canton pro hall of fame? >> oh, my personal favorite? you know what? i have to go back to the guys that paved the way, so to speak, you know. jim thorpe, those guys early on that really developed the sport. it's the sport that's the great thing. and players that hung in there and coaches that have hung in there and helped develop it, those are the guys that i enjoy seeing. >> it's amazing, jim thorpe wore that flimsy looking helmet. it's just amazing that people could is yosurvive playing in t days. >> they have shoes from the 1800s, you know, shoulder pads.

things have change drastically since, i guess it was, about 1886 when rutgers and princeton played. they took soccer, tried to adjust it. it was soccer and rugby combined and evolved actually into our game of football as we know it. >> go, joe. as a former new york jets quarterback, namath says he hopes former jet tim tebow will be back as another quarterback on another team. he said tebow just needs to improve his passing. joining you at the top of next hour, we'll bring you the latest tornado for the third in less than a month, tornadoes have killed people and created neighborhoods of debris. but now there's also flooding. ♪

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nine people died, including children. other parts of the midwest, and thousands of people are still without power. it hasn't even been two week s since a giant tornado ravaged moore, oklahoma. last night, people had to run for cover again as tornado si n sirens blared. one town that is dealing with a lot of damage today, ed laven r lavender, what's it like there on the ground? >> reporter: okay. here we go. this is an area where one of those 17 tornado that is touched down in the state of oklahoma made its way through here yesterday. came up this way and ravaged this neighborhood. these are homes that were damaged. this is an area that was highly affected by the amount of traffic and the amount of cars that were on the roadway.

very difficult situation there. several residents were saying i was wondering why people here in oklahoma would jump in their cars. a lot of people trying to escape the path of the tornado and rush hour traffic. a dangerous combination and people are left here to clean up the pieces. volunteer volunteers are showing up in these neighborhoods to help these folks, people bringing trucks and trailers to make that initial sweep of their homes, to take away what they can at this point. that is what they're facing. there were nine people killed, as you mentioned, in these tornadoes, in these storms here in oklahoma. more than 70 injured. again, as one resident just told me a little while ago, who has lived in oklahoma all of their lives, this has been the most devastating, brutal several weeks of tornadoes they've ever seen. this is a tornado season people around here, miguel, will never forget. >> i can't imagine they're going to forget any time soon. it's a very rural area this time. didn't have the massive numbers

of people and the population center that these tornadoes hit. do you have a sense because of that, it's sometimes hard for authorities to get to all these different places. do you have a sense that authorities have a handle on everywhere they need to be? >> you know, in the several area s i've had a chance to visit since we've been here in oklahoma, they have been. we've already seen some power crews and crews clean iing up power lines. a lot of those lines are down and sheriff's deputyies that hae roadways blocked off to prevent looters or at least try to keep these areas secure at night. what happens here, miguel, in the next few hours, as the sun goes down, there is very little light, if any. looting becomes a big concern. the gentleman who lives in this house was telling me last night he slept out here in a truck, was not only watching his house but his neighbor's homes as well. when you come out into these areas it gets much darker at night and more treacherous and inask you are for the people who live around here. >> ed lavandera being thank you

so much. i know it's been a tough year for you as well. thu thanks. meteorologist chad myers is in oklahoma city. we heard there were three tornadoes that touched down. is that the kind of storm damage you're seeing? >> absolutely. no doubt about t not up to the ef-4 damage and certainly nowhere near moore, what happened there, approaching the 210-mile-per-hour mark on some of those houses. we went and explored those houses yesterday. clean-up is going okay, but okay is just a relative term. what the crews are doing to those homes are just scraping the foundations now, the slabs, piling everything up right on the curb, which is literally almost as high as the old house was, and hoping that somebody will come and pick that up. yesterday the storm has developed in el reno. first storm of the day, we were on that very storm that, in fact, got in the way. most tornados in oklahoma and across the country travel

farther to the north of east. the storm yesterday traveled south of due east, which put several people in the way. another storm system developed behind that, another behind that. by the time we were done, miguel, we put 210 miles on our vehicle just trying to get away from these cells that kept coming at us and coming at us. we would have literally driven 80 miles. maybe less. maybe 40, had the storms gone in the proper direction of the northeast. one would have gone by. we would have waited. another would have gone by and another would have gone by. they didn't travel that way. they chased all those storm chasers ought of the way. obviously, they chased a lot of people out of the houses, too. those people were on the roadways, trying to get out of the way of the storm. luckily, there wasn't an ef-4 on the ground. miles and miles of parked cars on the interstate was a really bad idea yesterday and they would have all been very, very

hurt. when an ef-4 or 5 gets done with your car, there's no room left for you in it. thank goodness there wasn't a bigger tornado on the ground like there was in that may day in moore. >> an ireporter took it all in as the skies dark ened. >> tornado warning. seek shelter now. the tornado warnings proved to be all too accurate. two of them reportedly touched down, one as strong as an ef-3, according to the national weather service. 200 roads in the state are closed due to flooding. at this hour, more than 81,000 people are without power. the governor has declared a state of emergency. >> the damage from this destructive system stretches into illinois, the town of gillespie is about an hour's drive northeast from st. louis. it's now starting the summer with a major clean-up at its

high school, which was damaged from a tornado just four years ago. meteorologist jennifer delgado is live from the school for us. how are things on the ground the there? >> reporter: you know, on the ground here, this area here, about 3,000 of gillespie suffered some damage. from the high school and gymnasium, you can see the bricks down. we talked earlier about the damage here. this has been confirmed as an ef-2. the damage you're seeing in the school, keep in mind, this is built almost 90 years ago. this is a pretty sturdy structure. see how all the bricks collapsed and moved in that westerly direction. but in the northeastern part of the town, we do know that seven homes were destroyed and now we're getting new numbers in that 30 of those were actually damaged. right now, they're not liveable. what we do know is no injuries, and that is some good news. especially, keep in mind, that is an ef-2, max wind of roughly

135 miles per hour. we have the mayor of gillespie, john hicks. if you'll step in here for us, how lucky do you feel to not have injuries especially now that you see the damage here? >> we're especially lucky. many, many people here for a celebration. on a friday night, the town would have been full of people and very serious injuries, i'm sure. >> you just talked to the national weather service survey team. what do they tell you now? you saw the damage here but it's worse in other parts of the town. >> confirmed ef-2. >> tell me about some of the damage you're seeing in those other homes. >> some of the homes had roofs lifted off and some of them had them pushed down as if they were stomped on. damage is varying from place to pla place, very intense here in gillespie. >> we're glad to knhear that no one is hurt. the mayor does have an injury. this is not related to the storm

here. thank you for talking to us. meanwhile in st. louis, miguel, they had two ef-3s as well as an ef-2. oklahoma got hit hardest. we're also talking about areas like missouri and illinois. keep in mind, we move into june, we typically see about 129 tornadoes. and that's a big drop when we average in may with roughly around 330. it's been a violent season. ef-2 here, and that's a strong tornado. >> even though it's not the strongest, it knocked down that wall and could have taken lives. thank god nobody was injured there. thanks, jennifer. three people are miss iing after this destructive system hit the state on thursday. cody carpenter apparently drowned while trying to help rescue two women. i'll talk to a marine who spent four months in a mexican

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an american mom who was locked up in a mexican jail is spending the weekend with her family. mexican authorities claim they found marijuana under her bus seat. the judge freed her after he reviewed a video showing maldonado boarding a bus, just having a purse, blankets and bottles of water, nothing large enough to carry that amount of marijuana. >> i love mexico. my family is still there. so, mexico -- it's not mexico's fault. it's a few people who, you know, do this to me and probably to other people. who knows? >> the case of yanira maldonado

is raising questions whether american tourists are being targeted by mexican officials. helping him deal with stress after some stressful tours in iraq and afghanistan, a trip to costa rica. he got stopped near the border near brownsville, texas, and was jailed for four months because he had an antique rifle used for hunting in his rv. i believe the shotgun you had, you actually had a permit for. is that correct? >> yes. i registered it on the american side, paid a fee for it, got the registration, then brought it over to the mexican side and declared it. >> do you get the sense this is isolated ? you saw what happened this week with miss maldonado. were there other americans there with you? do you follow this now? do you get the sense this is an isolated incident? >> there's a lot of different things going on in the frontera

right now where the border of texas and mexico meets. there were other americans in there. some of them actually did things wro wrong, but in my case, you know, i wasn't smuggling drugs. i wasn't doing the normal thing that goes down in that area. >> i spoke to your mom early on and felt terrible for you, bus you were going down to surf, as i understand, in coassta rica, right? >> yes. >> the four months you were there, certainly much worse than miss maldonado had. what were they like? recount some of the worst that you had in that jail. >> i spent five months inside that jail. the first 2 1/2 months, i was chained to a rack, which was up against the back of a shed wall that was like an indoor/outdoor shed. you know, it was tough, you know. it's not -- it's hard to go to

jail for something that you didn't do and sit in there and keep your cool the whole time. but i got through it. sounds like she got through it. and, you know, here i am today. i'm grateful for that. >> i bet you are. there's another marine who disappeared in mexico. torres, did you know him? >> this new incident, i did not know him. i heard about it a couple of weeks back. you know, it's a shame because nobody has heard from him and he's not in a jail. so nobody knows exactly what's going on. at least when you're in a jail, if you die in a jail, eventually somebody is going to find out. or if something bad happens to you in a jail eventually the americans are going to find out. in a street in mks co-if you dippear, it's very dangerous. >> anything -- look, i love mexico. i travel down there a fair amount. would you go back? is there anything that you would suggest to people traveling to

mexico? >> i would suggest never travel in mexico at night. and try to be a good influence on mexico rather than a bad influence on mexico, because they need some help right now. >> how are you doing right now? you got out of the military, go to have this great adventure with your buddy, get thrown into a mexican prison for months on end. how are you doing now? what are you doing right now? >> right now, i'm just kind of getting back to normal. looking into, you know, different jobs i could do with myself, organize my life and advance to the next chapter. >> jon hamma, thaunks for being with us this afternoon. >> thank you. you think people are mad at the irs now? wait till you see this.

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it's another embarrassing revelation for the irs. video from 2010 conference has surfaced. dance video starring irs employees, paid for with taxpayer dollars. as athena jones reports it's not the only excessive expense under scrutiny. >> americans deserve an efficient, effective government that works for them. >> reporter: as if the irs doesn't have enough trouble already, the agency's inspector

general is set to release a report next week about wasteful spending of taxpayer dollars at irs conferences. >> to the right. ♪ >> shining a spotlight on videos like this one, showing irs employees to learn a dance called "the cupid shuffle." >> their dream, to become the next great dance sensation. this is their story. >> the irs said in a statement that the video, produced for a 2010 conference, was unacceptable and an inappropriate use of government funds. the irs and the government as a whole now have strict new policies and procedures in place to ensure that taxpayer funds are being used appropriately. the dance individual heio isn't the only one in question. its price tag of $1,600 is a drop in the bucket compared to the $6,000 they spent for two other videos.

this gilligan island one. >> i saw a ship. no, really, i saw a ship. >> gilligan, you see ships all the time. and they're usually just little specks on the horizon. >> and this star trek spoof. >> to boldly go where no employee has boldly gone before. >> open iing a new frontier of trouble for the irs. >> oh, dear, oh, dear. athena jones is on the north lawn of the white house. how is the obama administration handling this new controversy? it seems to get hit with a new one every week. >> reporter: it does seem like that, miguel. the white house isn't commenting on these videos. the administration is cooperating with congressional oversight of the irs. there are at least three hearings next week, involving irs officials and matters involving the irs.

officials here say they have a lot of faith in the new irs commissioner, acting commissioner, i should say, taking part in a system review of the entire agency in order to restore integrity to the agency's operations and warfel has said that that 2010 conference is not the kind of conference that's going to take place under his watch. and he and other officials have also stressed that new rules and policies and procedures are in place to make sure that that kind of excessive spending isn't still going on, miguel. >> so many controversies swirl ing around the white house. some of them, they say, imagined, some perhaps real, perhaps a little bit of both. the white house really not responding. what is the sense on the ground there in washington? does it feel like the white house is under fire? >> well, it certainly does feel somewhat like the white house is under fire. certainly there's been a lot of attention to many of these ongoing issues, whether it's the irs, benghazi and this leak investigation. so there's a lot going on, a lot

of questions being asked of the white house. they would say -- they are responding. they have put in place a new commissioner who is going to be making changes. he's carrying out this 30-day revi review, it's an ongoing process and he will put in any additional changes that need to be put in place in order to make sure the irs is doing its job and not wasting taxpayer money. miguel? >> lovely politics. the soup of washington. thank you, athena jones. >> thanks. around the world, millions of girls are just trying to get access to basic education. just getting to school could be a challenge. how a girl in rural peru is overcoming that challenge. >> translator: my name is olalia. i have six brothers and sisters. where i live, there are no schools. every monday, we ride a motorcycle to go to my school. when my dad is not home, i walk

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[ bleep ] in union city, oklahoma, storm chaser brandon sullivan caught a storm and maybe more than he bargained for. >> we're going to die! >> at least 17 tornadoes reported, like this one, in el reno, oklahoma. >> wow! >> then there's this in el reno, a double tornado turning into a single twister as people narrowly escape. even the weather channel's storm chaser's heavy suv wasn't spared. a tornado found it and tossed it some 200 yards. only minor injuries for meteorologist mike bettes and his team. flash flooding in oklahoma city turned streets into rivers. some drivers could only stand on their cars waiting for rescue. this woman tried