red carpet later today. her first public appearance since the actress announced she had a double mastectomy back in february. she is a carrier of the brca gene linked to breast and ovarian cancer. she will join brad pitt promoting his new film in london. much more ahead on "cnn sunday morning" which starts right now. good morning, everyone. i'm alison clis alison kosik. we'll begin in the midwest and the damage assessment from the strong storms and tornadoes. in missouri, storms are being blamed for three deaths, all by drowning. flooding followed several tornadoes that have hit the state on friday night. look at this video from the airport a in maryland heights, missouri, just outside st. louis. the security cameras caught these moments the storm blew through. a tornado touched down in the

st. louis area. and then there's oklahoma, the storms are blamed for nine deaths there. two children and seven adults. the worst of the damage came just west of oklahoma city. and that's where our george howl is today in union city, oklahoma. george, i know you've been on the ground in that area since the tornado outbreak began two weeks ago. how widespread is the damage that you're seeing? >> you know, alison, it really is hit or miss because when you consider this particular storm system that we saw the other day, it was a storm that developed and then continued to grow over the metropolitan, oklahoma city area and parked itself over, you know, many, many people and just dropped tornado after tornado after tornado in random spots. so, you find damage in different places like what we see here. again, we have the sun coming up and there in the foreground you see all this debris left over. this is where a funnel, a tornado came down, touched down

and just caused all kinds of damage out here. you find that in different spots. when you compare what we see here today to what we saw two weeks ago with the ef-4 tornado that went through shawnee and the ef-5 that went through moore. both of those tornadoes caused significant damage especially in moore, the heavily populated area. the storm system, alison, we saw the other day was so big and so random. it was just as dangerous. >> but they're talking about the comparison between the two, aren't they? the folks you have been talking with. >> absolutely. because, you know, it has just been two weeks of this. i mean, people here are used to tornadoes. i mean, it's just you live on the gulf coast, you're used to hurricanes. you know what to do. you live in chicago, you're used to cold weather, you know what to do. people know what to dein this case. it happened in the short amount of time and so many tornadoes

warning after warning each day and then you see what happened to these communities. you see what happened where two popal were killed and you look at moore where 24 people were killed in that particular storm system. and in this case, you know, again, we have nine deaths. it's just been such a short amount of time with so much damage. it's been a difficult and i would even say traumatizing experience for a lot of people. >> i would agree, george howl, thank y thank you. joining us now from oklahoma city to walk us through the danger and the damage. good morning, chad. >> alison, this whole mess started on friday. late friday, actually, about 4:45 in the afternoon. fairly a late start for some severe weather, but that was part of the problem. the day was warm. it was sunny and so all the way from 11:00 until 1:00 to 2:00 when some storms should be popping and cooling things off, we had no storms.

all we had was more sunshine. by the time 4:30 came around, it was 92 degrees in el reno watching this storm develop and watching cumulus clouds go to 50 feet tall, that's ten miles tall. these things really exploded before our eyes. we were watching what looked like pieces of cauliflower go up in the air. we had the first tornado on the ground. the first tornado of the day. some storms started turning to the right and then went south and all the storm chaser video that you see that didn't go well for some people is because the storm started turning towards them. people, as you storm chase, you want to be south of the storm looking north into it because the storm should move away from you. that didn't happen. exact opposite. as the storm turned south, drove right into them and they were trying to get out of the way and

some people didn't get out of the way quick enough. 50 miles south of oklahoma city by one storm after another, after another and very hard to get out of the way. all of a sudden, everything died off and the tornadoes did its damage and it rained, rained for hours. we got back to our hotel friday night, saturday morning, 4:00 a.m. it was still raining. lightning and thunder still going. now all that water has been running off, making this big mess back here. this was just kind of a culvert and now all the dirt is gone. just completely washed away and this is what we're seeing for the next couple of days. this flood threat because maybe you're not seeing flooding now or maybe tomorrow, this water has to run down hill, it has to run down the river and this bubble of water from oklahoma city may flood other towns along the way. now, we're in the calm. winds out of the north today and different day on monday and tuesday with nice dry air here and no severe weather.

by the time next week rolls around, the whole thing sets up, again. more tornadoes on the ground. kids are out for summer break, a lot of them are. still spring according to mother nature. alison? >> chad myers, thank you. chad, you were just talking about the amazing scenes caught by the storm chasers on friday. it's easy to forget just how dangerous that job can be that those men and women are risking their lives to get their pictures. the tornado hunt truck that belonged to the weather channel team. look how it ended up that way. meteorologist mike bettes and his crew got caught in the tornado and at one point their truck was lifted off the ground and thrown 600 feet into a field. amazingly, everyone was able to walk away from the scene but bettes did suffer some minor injuries. here's what it was like inside that car. >> viewers may not know this, but you were just married six months ago. you said you thought about your wife. what was it you thought about

when you were up there? >> good question, dave. >> i know it's tough. >> i just saw my wife's face. that's my life. i don't want to give that up just yet. >> mike bettes is going to be joining me here live coming up at 8:30. i'm going to ask him if he plans to do any more storm chasing in the future. you're not going to want to miss this interview. the storms we're talking about have some asking whether human behavior are fueling the weather. i'll talk with meteor also aolod

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good morning, atlanta. live look at the sun coming up over thepeachtree. right next door from where i'm sitting, cnn headquarters. 81 degrees the high today with a couple scattered thunderstorms. and those storms that tore through the midwest have stunned us because of their colossal power. look at this video taken friday outside el reno, oklahoma, and because of the massive death and destruction left behind, it all raises the question, is climate change to blame? joining me now from starkville, mississippi, is grady dickson. a meteorologist at mississippi state university and been known to take his students thousands of miles across the country to chase the very storms they're learning to predict. good morning, grady. >> good morning, alison. >> how unusual are this season's weather events. let's talk specifically about the tornadoes that we've seen

over the past couple weeks in oklahoma. they just seem really extreme. or am i wrong? >> every year we have this conversation and it would be irresponsible to say that the tornado in moore was not unusual because it did so much damage and hit such populated area. but, really, statistically, this is not nuls. this is may in oklahoma. averages one to two tornadoes per year and they are used to this and far from extreme. any abnormality is that the months leading up to this for 2013 were below average. we are back to normal, but seems like a shock to most people. >> when you say they were below average, is it because it was cooler than expected? >> that's a large part of it. much cooler throughout most of the year throughout the united states. that led to fewer opportunities for severe weather. >> it leads to the question of whether or not there is reason to suspect that climate change is making these tornadoes more frequent or intense. >> yeah, that's a common

question, as well. believe it or not, most of the research is pretty clear. most researchers do agree that when we have a warmer environment, we have more humidity and more unstable air and we probably will have more days with thunderstorms. however, the difference between a thunderstorm day and a tornado day is that tornadic thunderstorms need really strong winds aloft in the atmosphere, 10, 20 or 30,000 feet aloft. when you have warmer air in the north, which is what you would have in a global warming type of environment. those winds decrease. so, most research suggests that in a warming climate we'll have, perhaps, more thunderstorm days and fewer days for tornadoes. the biggest concern will be that maybe certain areas start experiencing more tornadoes than they're used to or perhaps fewer and there is a change in the preparedness of the locals. but as far as the pure volume of tornadoes, we think they'll probably decrease with time if

we continue to warm. >> interesting. you talk about unusual weather events happening in states that don't usually experience that. i think of new york and hurricane sandy. when was the last time a huge hurricane like that hit? is this in the same vain as you're talking about? >> perhaps. the really scary thing we see a place like oklahoma city that has had these really intense tornadoes hit populated areas and have had surprisingly few fatalities. these people are very well prepared and accustomed to these storms. any of the tornadoes that hit oklahoma cities in the recent days have gone through other cities. even those located in the plains but aren't as frequent as oklahoma city, we probably would have had a much worse scenario. >> anything you could see that was different about yesterday's storms that blew through that caused so many, including experienced chasers to get stuck in the path of these storms? >> that's a difficult question. we were not there.

that was our last day in the plains. i was bringing a group of students home. we spent about an hour and a half debating about whether or not we should extend our trip by an extra day and kind of pay the late charges, so to speak, of staying out. and the thing that caused us to go ahead and go home in part was the urban nature of that day's chases. we knew there were going it be a lot of people, chasers and residents and we knew it was going to be on the west side of a metropolitan area. we didn't think it was safe enough to extend our trip. of course, if we had been out there a few more days on schedule, we would have certainly tried to chase. the most unusual part was the urban environment. with that being said, some people have suggested that there was something about the movement of the storm, as far as i could tell, it was not a crazy storm. it was not very unusual. storms do turn right whenever they're rotating and storm chasers are used to that. they're prepared for that. this particular tornado was rotating around the entire updraft of the thunderstorm,

which was also rotating. and, so, you could imagine a small circulation in the tornado revolving around a larger circulation of the storm. so, it had a kind of arc-like path and perhaps that caused some people some problems and maybe some disorientation occurred. my guess is traffic was also involved and there was low visibility in part because of some of the trees on the urban fringe and because of all the rain. i think it was just a lot of factors combined into one bad situation. >> gary dickson, thank you so much. >> no problem. early warnings and forecasts are so important for avoiding even the worst outcomes for these storms. which made news of 12,000 impending furloughs at the ocean graphic even more troubling. now they say they're suspending the july to september furloughs and just in time because hurricane season began

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for the first time we're getting a look inside the underground bunker in alabama where a man took a little boy hostage for almost a week. cnn alina has more. >> reporter: this is an inside look at the underground bunker where jimmy lee dykes held a 5-year-old boy hostage for six days. just released photos show alabama and federal investigators processing the scene. here is a picture showing one of two beds. small flashlights hang on the wall, water bottles are within reach, a notebook and an animal calendar sit on the bed. the fbi released the photos

saturday, along with audio of a profanity-laced phone call between hostage negotiators and dykes. >> you just go ahead and send something down [ bleep ] to their death. >> reporter: the chilling audio gives us a better sense of dykes' state of mind as the days wore on and negotiations deterrierated. >> i mean whatever time it is, then, i will not talk [ bleep ]. >> reporter: dykes stormed a school bus on january 29th. a 15-year-old boy on the bus told dispatchers how a man had shot the driver and snatched one of the children. >> okay, is he on the bus or did he take the kid off the bus? >> he took the kid off the bus. >> reporter: the bus driver, charles poland was later hailed a hero for trying to protect his young passengers. >> was the bus driver the only person that was shot? >> yes, ma'am.

>> hang in there, honey. you're doing so good. i'm so proud of you. >> reporter: neighbors told cnn dykes was a paranoid antloner. >> bunch of sorry [ bleep ] that tell nothing but lies. >> reporter: law enforcement sources told cnn that authorities used a camera to monitor what was going on inside the bunker while fbi rescue hostage teams trained on a model of a structure nearby. agents reportedly saw dykes holding a gun. he was arm aed and managered to fire at agents before he was killed. authorities found two explosive devices. the boy named, ethan, was alive and returned to his family. he celebrated his sixth birthday after his rescue. alison? >> alina machado, thank you. she made edith bunker a

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the loving and lovable edith bunker. >> coming. >> reporter: for over 200 episodes of "all in the family" she played the kind hearted, patient and somewhat dim wife to her husband, archie. >> reporter: stapleton was a well established stage and screen actress before she landed the role that would turn her into a tv legend. she co-starred in the movie version of the show. she was surprised at the sit com's daring content. as she recalled in a 1986 interview with cnn's larry king. >> i remember when i first read it i was astonished and thought, this on tv? >> reporter: the groundbreaking show boldly addressed controversial topics like racism and anti-semitism. a 1977 episode startled viewers

by tackling what was then a tabu subject, rape. >> there is a man in your neighborhood who has been, well, he's been molesting women. >> reporter: on edith's 50th birthday, a man posing as a detective attempts to sexually assault her. the episode was so powerful, it remains so today for many who first saw it decades ago. >> i read something about a woman, 70, could have been 80 that was raped. so, we decided to do it with edith. and it was a remarkable episode. i think the american audience was ready to have a show dealing with the subject. >> reporter: in 1979, stapleton ended her run as edith while co-star carroll o'connor continued to appear on "archie's

place." played in the films "you've got mail" and "michael" before retiring from acting in her 80s. >> it is a privileged feeling to have been part of such a groundbreaker and of such quality. it's a feeling of immense, well, you know, pride. >> happy birthday! >> reporter: rob reiner who played her son-in-law on "all in the family" said "jean was a brilliant comedian with exquisite timing." he add aed, "no one gave more profound on how to be a human being lessons than jean stapleton. good-bye, edith, darling." don lemon, cnn, new york. >> and i'll see you back here at the top of the hour, 8:00

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