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kid. the dad needs to about punished. denice posting the one person the kid should trust, his parent. this little boy could clearly be seriously injured. this infewer yates me. agot another lot of twitter response. i'm gretchen. have a great day. >> a congressman that opposite threatened to toss a reporter off a ball -- balcony says he is actually relieved the government indicted him today. relieved. hear what else he said about the charges that could put him behind bars for decades. >> recorded racism. the owner of the nba's los angeles clippers facing blistering criticism after accusations he bad-mouthed black people in a bug way. whether the league takes action, he is already facing fallout from sponsors and his own players. in ukraine, --s say they're trying to save the mayor of the country's second largest city after somebody shot him in the
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back as he exercised. even as washington aims appreciate penalties as russia theirs word putin may be hiding a fort tune worth $70 million. first from the fox necessary deck, the violent storm system is on the move and threatening to bring more dangerous twisters to parts of dixie. that was the scene near little rock, arkansas, yesterday. that is not a cloud wall you see there it's a monster tornado. about a half mile wide. officials there say at least 14 people died in the state as it blew apart homes look an 80-mile path. you see the tornado's brutal power on the law. demolished row after o homes and
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some homes across the street were untouched. >> no sirens or anything went off. i felt the house shake and heard the wind like you would not believe. >> walked outside and there were trees down and the houses across the street were gone. >> most of the stuff we tried to save in storms wind chill we put it in the barn. it would be safe and wouldn't get hailed on or rain and stuff. you see how that worked out. the whole barn is gone. >> more tornadoes hit downs in nebraska, missouri, oklahoma, and iowa. that outbreak left -- killed two people. here you can see a man in arkansas, getting a look at what it's done to his neighborhood. can you imagine coming home and seeing that? piles of splintered wood. used to be somebody's home. notice the twister ripped branches from the trees and left just little stumps behind all along here. this next one here, how one family in kansas is trying to
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save what little is left standing. they covered their damaged house with what appears to be a torn bank billboard. cars upside-down across the region. a car dealer looking at what is left of his inventory. the tornado turn hi car lot into a junkyard. the animals are out and on the look. rescuers in kansas doing door to door searches with dogs, working to find any survivors who mayber buried under the debris. and after the search they put the o.k. on the side so they in the people have been there and no one inside needs rescuing. a man checks out the damage to his friend's house. it was an awful day and another one is apparently on the way. get to our chief meteorologist moderating a dangerous line of storms. first i want to get to casey in arkansas. what are you saying there? >> shepard, the damage as far as the eye can see. talking about an 80-mile path.
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think how large an area that is. this is what is left of someone's home. i'm walking through what was once the front wall of the home. the folks who live here were in their living room. and look at the flat screen tv. they were watching the weather forecast. the cable went out and they grabbed their weather radio and ran into this interior bathroom right there and grabbed their puppy,nñ?ñ?ñ?ñ?ñ? went the batd closed the door, and the man.ññ tells me he had to physically hold the -- close because the suction was so strong. the front of the house caved in. the roof blew off. he said they thought they were going to die, and then it was all over. in an instant. they emerged and they saw this, all of the walls blown away from their home. these are what is left of bedrooms and dressers still standing there, and then, shepard, if you look in the parking lot you see some 18 wheelers tossed around like toys from the lumber yard across the
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way. you know, one thing that really strikes me here, doesn't matter how many of these you cover, you have been to many of them, it is just difficult to wrap your mind around, how people can survive inside, walk away without a scratch, when this is the only thing left of their home. >> man, looks awful. have hey said how high the winds were? >> the meteorologist on the ground preliminarily think they were 130 to 135 miles-per-hour. the national weather service has teams on the ground, of course, they have to assess all of the damage to determine how strong of a tornado this was. it's rated on a scale of one to five. the enhanced fujita scale. the preliminary reports.this around an ef3. they good up to an ef5. again they have to make that official determination. the governor of the state, biffle the way, spoke not long ago and believed this may be one of the history books here in arkansas. >> just looking at the damage, this may be one of the strongest
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we've seen, and preliminarily, -- no records checks but looks like this is the largest loss of life in one tornado incident since i've been governor. >> the for says this is still very much a search and rescue operation, as k-9 units and first responders making sweeps of neighborhoods searching for survivors. >> casey, on scene. thank you. people able to take shelter were describing the terror as the tornado passed overhead. one guy had to hold on to at the shell shelter doors. one woman says drivers pulled off the highway and ran to bet other into her family's shelter they had two dozen people packed in the bunker and after the tornado passed families came out to find out they had nothing left except in many cases the clothes on their backs. with us now is mark brook. he says he was in his parents'
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house when the twister hit and ripped their home apart. i've read your statements on this. it sounds like -- looked like the world was ending out there. >> it was pretty scary, sir. >> i've read that you were inside with your family, and you went outside to look at the cloud wall and that your mom just started screaming at you and everything went black. what happened from there? >> me and my father were sitting on our carport and looking over toward my sister and her husband's lumber one hardware store, and from the back of it, it turned dark gray as it kept moving closer, and then started lightning on either side of the building and the limbs started going crazy, moving like crazy, and the weather alert went off on my phone, said take shelter immediately. i ran upstairs and grabbed pill lows for my parents to put over their heads, and we rap into the closet in our den, and i shut the door and he bunkered down and started praying, and a huge
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tree landed on the den, and then you fell the roof lift off, and then it was gone like that. >> i can see in your face reliving it is mighty painful. isn't it? >> yes, sir. this is my grandfather's homestead property that all this is on, actually, and so i grew up here, in this just unrecognizable. >> i heard the good news that your parents, in their 70s and 80s, walk out without a scratch. how do you explain that? looking around there. >> only by the grace of god. i looked up the closet door and there is would a small hole in the back wall, and we yelled for help and the fire department was there and helped us climb out of the housa, i know you have a lot of work ahead. are you good to go? do you have insurance? there is a way to put this thing back together? >> the house is a total loss, sir. we're up there now getting ready
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to get the valuables out and the antiques we can. >> do you have places to stay, people to help? >> i have three older sisters in town. my sister, of course, owns the lumber one across the street so lots of nieces and nephews so we're good to go. >> those who grew up in that area, they call it dixie alley. we have been living with tornado sirens and tornadoes hitting other people's properties all of our lives. and i know you have, too. and my family and i have always been really lucky. but one day your luck is going to run out, and i just wondered if you ever thought about what it would feel like and -- i just figured, never going to happen to me. >> no, sir, actually, until the last second, i just kept saying, it wouldn't ever happen to us. and that's whan we were standing out -- me and my father in the carport and that's when the weather started getting bad mitchell mother was hysterical, yelling at to us run for safety.
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>> mom is right, she always is, mark, from arkansas, all the best to you and your family. thank you for talking to us, i appreciate it. >> thank you, sir. >> you are seconds away at any moment it's such a fleeting thing. let's get more on the storms and where they're headed next. rick is live in the texas extreme weather center. i'm looking at central mississippi, east, and up to nashville, looks bad. >> it is bad. in fact it's kind of a repeat of yesterday. those kinds of tornadoes we could be seeing the same thing today. we have three tornado watch boxes in effect. this one here a little farther to the north parts of iowa, illinois and missouri. not the gigantic tornadoes but maybe ef1 and ef2, and the same across the southern appalachians, this one here, across louisiana, mississippi, tense, tennessee, andalabama, we expect to see large, long-track
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towards -- tornadoes. you see all these supercells rotating and there's one right here just to the southwest, and this one right here, potentially a large destructive tornado forming. just four years ago they had an ef4 tornado go through, killed ten people. so another one headed right toward them. if you're in the area, take cover immediately. >> if you don't have a weather radio, get one tomorrow if you make it through today. i don't know mitchell family was saying, we don't have a basement. we're going to stay with neighbors. i wonder how the rest of the week is looking. >> we have to get through tonight and the overnight hours. so, where you see this red that's correct the biggest bull's eye. bad news for tomorrow. there had been a slight risk issued we had been looking at but it's upped to a moderate risk, so this is moving so slowly. that's why it's multiday event. parts of mississippi again, much
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of alabama, areas of the central gulf, on wednesday, we start to see this exit. at this point not a moderate risk but we can't rule that out instant won't be up to that. so another day tomorrow, the same scenario we're looking at now. >> spring has sprung. what we'll do all hour is monitoring all of our local weather stations down there. along the line, they say between 2:30 central time and 4:00 central time, usually the worst. going to be for this. if i were living there i'd be tuned to my local and having that weather radio very close. this is going to be bad. fbi agents have taken down one of their own. prosecutors today indicted the former agent and current member of congress, michael grimm, on 20 different charges. he could face decades behind bars, and this afternoon, he spoke about the accusations. why would he be relieved?
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people. this is not one we have soon on radar. this is one that trained weather spotters have seen and it is on its way to yazoo city right now. if you're in that area, now is the time to take shelter, center part of the house, down to the basement, away from the television. the price you pay when you live in this area. you have to move out of the way of hurricanes on the coast can. have to get underground when tornadoes come. yazoo city you need to take cover. a bad day through here if the folks at the national weather service are right. first, the congressman during and allergies in the spring. -- the congressman who once threatened to throw a report off the balcony and break million in half, quote, like a boy, unquote, could spend decades in prison, but not for those "like a boy" threats. the new york republican michael grimm pleaded not get to fraud
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and perjury charges. federal prosecutors say he dodged several state and federal taxes by hiding more than a million dollars in sales and wages at a restaurant he bowing bought in 2006 after retiring from the fbi. today fbi officials ripped interest their former colleague for dishonoring the fbi code. >> as a former fbi agent, representative grimm, should understand the motto, fidelity, bravery, and integrity. yet he broke all three of those, and nearly every truth. in this 20-count indictment, representative grimm honored a new motto, fraud, perjury, and obstruction. >> after the court formally charged michael grimm, he said he was somewhat relieved. >> since day one, the press has been fed all types of innuendos
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and accusations to support -- bl witchhunt, and this witchhunt was designed to do a couple of things, first, assassinate my character and remove me from office. but today at least i get to face my accuser. >> in january, congressman grimm threatened a reporter when he asked about this very investigation. >> be clear. -- [inaudible] >> ever do this again i'll throw you off this balcony. i'll break you like a boy. at first grimm defended his comments. a day later he did not. lea gabrielle has more. what happened in court there today? >> congressman grimm's attorney entered the not guilty plea in court today. we have sketches to show you of inside the courtroom. you can see congressman grimm wearing a dark suit, no shackles
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or handcuffs. he was released on bail but has to give been bassports firearms. when he left court, media was set up to speak to him but he moved everybody to the veteran's park across the way. >> let me be perfectly clear. i will not abandon my post or the wonderful people who entrusted me to represent them. i have their backs, and i know that they have mine. i will get right back to work as i always have, with honor and distinction i will serve, and then, on top of all that, i have an election to win. >> while this may taint that campaign that the congressman just mentioned, there's actually no law no rule that would require him to step down at this opinion. >> of note, not of judgment, only of note, he -- they released he details of the inindictment after the deadline where somebody could replace hem
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on the ballot. so he will be running as the republican who has been undo ited. how did his background in the fbi play into this? >> the prosecutor said that congressman grimm actually used to investigate fraud on wall street but worked as an undercover agent investigating stock manipulation. well, the prosecutor went on to say the scheme involving his restaurant was a simple one but one he knew exactly how to run, and that he hid more than a million dollars in sales and wages. >> mr. grimm had a very sophisticated background, very sophisticated knowledge of financial instruments and financial obligations, and as i said before, it makes it all the sadder that very shortly after leaving the fbi, where he did have a very successful career, he chose to turn his become on all of that and start lying and cheating and evading taxes. >> if convicted, congress felony grimm could face up to 20 years in prison, shep. >> thank you very much. it must seem like the world is
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crashing down around the owner of the los angeles clippers basketball team. first he made absolutely unthinkable statements that were recorded, and then players started coming down on him, advertisers are bailing, they're asking whether he should be allowed to own an nba team. have you heard this recordingsing? you will after this break. new video shows the moment the south korean ferry captain abandoned his own ship even as passengers were dying. a coast guard official says crew members did nod identify themselves to rescuees him that just boarded the boats and took off. the rest of the details and we're on severe storm watch. that's coming up. (announcer) scottrade knows our clients trade and invest their own way. with scottrade's smart text, i can quickly understand my charts, and spend more time trading. their quick trade bar lets my account follow me online
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>> continuing coverage of bad tornado day in the deep south, socially in mississippi. this is yazoo city, mississippi, and this is the severe storm line going through. trained weather spotters have now spotted what they say is a tornado passing either directly over or near yazoo city. there's another one that just went between belzone and carroll ton is right here. this is four different systems. this is calhoun city. so this area from vick'sburg to calhoun city, that's whole area. it is time to take shelter and you dent -- don't have long. several major sponsors of the l.a. clippers basketball team are now jumping ship, all over the scandal involving the team's owner and a recording reportedly of him making racist comments. the opener is a guy named donald sterling. his history precedes him. in this case he is said to have told his mistress, on the
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individual -- on the audiotape, not to bring black people to games. he also criticized her for instagramming a picture with magic johnson. >> people call you ask tell you i have black people on my instagram, and it bothers you. >> yeah, it bothers me a lot. if you want to broadcast you're associating with black people. >> sleep with them and do whatever you want but don't bring them to the l.a. clipper games where the team is black and the fans are black. someone took down the instagram photo. she was photographed heaving her home. the nba accused already or extorting the clippers opener, which is a side item at very
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manipulate. she later showed up at the los angeles county district attorney's office butt mz reports sources say she didn't go there over a case but to, quote, visit friends. last night the clippers players staged a silent protest of their own during -- against sterling during warmups. they took off their shooting jerseys and then, for their warmups, had their shirts on inside out, sending a message to the owner. thanks. some of basketball's most legendary players are weighing in. magic johnson, calling for the nba to, quote, come down hard on sterling. air jordan has thin same. trace gallagher is watching them from los angeles. the clippers are on a run, trying to talk the town away from the lakers and now this guy can't keep his mouth shut. >> the team is more valuable than ever and the nba will hold a news conference tomorrow. the new commissioner, adam silver, has a couple options. he can fine donnell sterling or
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spun him or both. the suspension can be for a pretty lengthy amount of time. the owners cannot force donald sterling to sell his franchise. the owners can treat him as a pariah and try to freeze him out but donald sterling has not denied he said this comments. he said only that this comments were not consistent with who he is, and today the local chapter of the naacp here in los angeles weighed in on the statement. listen. >> if these statements are not who mr. sterling is, then he should spend a sufficient amount of time that is necessary in the african-american community to prove that he is not the person those words portray him to be or suggest he may be. >> reporter: it's also worth noting donald sterling is a billionaire with a long history of waging legal battles, and experts say it's unlikely he will just walk away from this team. >> history says that's probably not what is going to happen.
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what are players saying now, trace? >> the players just came out a short time ago and said they are planning an even stronger protest tomorrow to make an even big are statement during game five of their match with golden state. that's their home court at staples center. but doc rivers, head coach, came out and said in a news conference that he believes that really the nba should be the ones to make the biggest statement here. here's coach rivers. >> this adefining moment but we'll have more defeigning moments. i think this is a very important decision. i hope that it's a very strong message, and i believe that it will be. >> there was talk of the fans and others maybe boycotting game five but the experts say, the seats are already sold, the tv deal is already in place so you wouldn't be hurting the owner, only herring yourselves as well as the players.
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>> trace gallagher in los angeles, thank you very minute. i mentioned some big companies pulling out over all this. they're big ones. >> yes. reached out to a number of corporate sponsors today and here what they're saying. state farm says they're going to take a pause in the relationship with the team while all the facts are sorted out. kia is saying that they are going to actually dis -- they're going to be suspending their advertising and their sponsorship. they called the comments offensive and reprehensible, and surgery america told us they'll be discontinuing their sponsorship altogether. carmax said they were proud clipper sponsors for nine years, but that the comments made will cause them to end that sponsorship as well. now, also reached out to a few companies that haven't gotten back to us yet. mercedes-benz is a corporate sponsor, is so red ball. and dodge ram tolds while they're not a national sponsor, they may have local sponsorship there in california. they're looking into that.
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>> thank you very much. the man who shot and killed two teenagers after they breck into his home will not stand trial -- will not take the stand in his trial is what i meant to say. the defense rested today. prosecutors call it murder. now the jury could decide his fate as soon as this week. we'll have a live update on the trial, and the weather it guessing worse now. new reports out of western and central mississippi. we'll have breaking news update in the middle of this commercial break come canning right up. those litt things still get you.
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pottatok. four different tornado warnings in the morning part of mississippi. the important part is this is moving to the north and east so northwestern arkansas, central tennessee, around the nashville area, these thunderstorms and the funnel clouds associated with them are headed in that general vicinity and will for the next hour and a half or two, according to the reporting of the national weather service. an extremely serious weather day. if you're in the deep south or around iowa, it's time to make plans.
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and there's these two other cells headed directly towards tupelo. one towards houston. there's also been a change since the top of the hour. the storm prediction center upped this to a high risk. only happens a few times of the year, so this area in white, jackson to alabama, potentially dealing with large long-track tornadoes. we don't see this very often. unfortunately it's been upgraded to high. >> is there michigan.conditions that is making this happen? >> this is not all that abnormal for april. this is the tomorrow you see them. we have nod hat real severe weather for the last two years. so there isn't anything special other than a very vigorous storm system to the west. one storm that is headed towards the houston area, west, this is a cell just to the south of tupelo, and there's one more
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cell that is headed towards tupelo. this is the norway -- northern side of the state. if wore driving in that area and you have rain you have no visual on the tornado potentially coming your way. that's an incredibly dangerous situation. >> at it tempting to good outside, just as our guesses from arkansas did earlier. by the time he got finished, his house had fallen done on top of him. this is that central mississippi area. it's not -- it's up to the second as opposed to some others we can look at. hers the state capital, jackson, theirs yazoo city, and this major cell went over it. this pink is never good. this has finance over flora, mississippi, about to cross over i-55, marker 16. this is carthage over here, goodman, over here, this is yazoo city. this is separate. this one believed to be a tornado as well. this is winona, this whole area
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causing problems. get up to coffeeville, mississippi. that's said to be a tornado by the national weather service. that's calhoun city, that's bruce. these are towns of five, six, seven, eight thousand people, calhoun city, maybe a little smaller, bruce, coffeeville as well. but thousands live in these years. houston, mississippi, another one. going just north of you. and then here's ponotawac, mississippi, town of 20,000 people maybe. this has gone to the south and this is tupelo, birthplace of elvis presley. third largest city the state of mississippi. jackson is the largest city and they have less than a quarter million. put tupelo is a big town. 70, 80,000 people, and just to the energy of that, guntown, baldwin, mississippi, you're right in the path of this thing.
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rick was mentioning that we don't get this kind of a warning from the national weather service very often. two or they times a 'er you have very high activity. this is columbia, mississippi. one, two, the, four -- looks lick fifth to me, rick, five separate areas where it looks like the convection is there. >> super cell storms right there all with rotation, not necessarily all with the tornado on theground at the time. that pink you were showing there shep, where you say is never good to see. where that pitching is, those is the hail. hail that is baseball size. so imagine the damage of pounding hail coming town 60, 70 miles-per-hour, that is about baseball size. one other thing on the radar, back behind yazoo city, we see more cells developing there, and headed pack up toward the same area. so, we see this often.
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you end up with a tornado going through one spot and could have another tornado an hour or two later. unfortunately we could be not that scenario for today. >> all looks like it's growing out of louisiana. mississippians say bad from louisiana comes north. this is winsboro. at it all moving in this direction and the cells seem to be growing. this is duck hill. this is about to be serious. this area -- ponotok looks like it was spared but it's.to towns north, tupelo, gun town, baldwin, and probably the western outreach of tupelo as well. in a very, bad way. rick, you are sitting there and it a beautiful day, and all of a
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sudden these storms seem to form out of nothing. i mean, you -- in this area, if you look to the west, all of a sudden start seeing clouds form, you don't wait for the sirens. you're going to real a's tv the sirens, just from watching the clouds form all your life, you know it's time to get underground, and in tupelo they better know it right now. >> you also know because if you're the, it's incredibly warm and humid and you feel until the air. you have humidity and where you good to the west of that, that's where it's very dry. where you have the dry air and humid air and they meet and it's warm air and cooler air and they meet and you have a jet stream going over it at 150-miles-an-hour, you ended with this storms developing rapidly. we all know when they're going to initiate or talk about when the think they're going to initiate, and once they do, all bets are off. we have a -- not to goo too into the weeds -- we have a cap that the storms can't get above, and once they break that cap, then
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all bets are off. and the cap has been bren here in this case and these -- has been broken here and the storms will fire all night long. >> i'm watching on the big board. one thing i noticed, when you look at this line, this general direction of travel, you seat what up there. that's nashville, and, rick, it all looks like it's going in that general direction. >> well you have nashville. also throughout the overnight hours tonight, this is going to also progress to the east and that puts places like tuscaloosa and birmingham on the map for this, and overnight, atlanta. so some very big cities in the track of it. not just nash vol to the north but teethes, birmingham, montgomery, alabama, and this looks like in the tupelo, mississippi area, there's a tornado on the ground with that storm as well. >> we believe it's inside the big pink cell. here's he new watches and
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warning, greenwood, grenada, and tupelo, and those towns that are just to the north of there on highway 45, you know who you are. if you're in that area, this is as serious a storm system i have scene for that area. we'll be right back. honestly, i'm pouring everything i have into this place.
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continuing coverage of what is call the worst storm outbreak of the year. this cell at tupelo, mississippi, continues to grow. this is tupelo. stretches like this and this in the center has been confirm to us to be a tornado. all around in the pink area, that is hail. so there's a hail storm at least two or three times the size of the city of tupelo that is about to sit right on top of a town and gun town, mississippi, and bald win. this is highway 45 from the coast up, and then it continues to moves' the north and east, and this is a less populated area here, a big dam and lake
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here. and then over here, i know it's here -- there it is -- mcgee town. so, the worst of it for this cell right here is tupelo, and it appears that this is just going to go pairly to the city limits of tupelo. there are television stations there which are having live coverage at the moment, but they dent have anything to see yet. one thing we don't know, until ground radar lets us know -- we have a lot of stations in and around -- that's whether these tornadoes are on theground or -- on the ground or in the air and that's matter of minutes. rick is in the weather center. isn't it early for this? >> not really. in fact this is right at about the prime time for seeing this, and there's a tornado on theground in tupelo, and they now declared a tornado emergency for the city of tupelo. what you see right there on your screen, you see that pink area at sherman, that's the hail
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core. see the notch to the south? that where is the toward would be and that is what is headed directly in the area of tupelo. maybe just on the northern side of town but a tornado on the ground headed directly towards tupelo, and a tornado emergency declared for the up to. >> so what you should do is get to a center wall, the heftiest structure, if you can get in the bathtub do, that. you worry about things falling done on top of you, so just drop and cover as they teach us all our lives in that part of the country, and be ready to clean up after. in the totality of it wall, rick, it's just blowing up. it's that time of day. 3:30 in the afternoon in the central -- 2:30 to 3:30 is when it happens. >> we have actually had an incredibly quiet sewn or tornadoes so for -- season so far this year and because of that, a lot of people have had
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their guards let down. but that's not the case roth now. it -- not the case right now. it was three years ago, almost exactly, we had an incredible outbreak, the largest outbreck of tornadoes we have seen. so we're right on target where you would see that. tupelo needs to be taking cover you. said it, where you get into a bathtub or something. all these people you talk to the amount of walls you can put between you ask and the outside wall, that can be the defense between life and death. if you don't have a basement, get to the innermost point of your house and put as many walls between the outside and you. >> we talk about just tupelo, but there are a lot of these cells here, and as i move up towards nashville, they're headed in that general direction from nashville, clarksville, interstate 24 and along the i40 corridor. if you're in these areas, today is the day to be paying attention and not to miss
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around. >> not to diminish this for nashville, they're not in the highest risk but to the south is the larger tornadoes. >> we'll have continuing coverage right after this. a sm so that was our first task, was getting him to wellness. without angie's list, i don't know if we could have found all the services we needed for our riley. from contractors and doctors to dog sitters and landscapers, you can find it all on angie's list. we found riley at the shelter, and found everything he needed at angie's list. join today at angieslist.com
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see how fast your internet can be. switch now and add voice and tv for $34.90. comcast business built for business. continuing coverage of weather moving through central and eastern mississippi. we have been led to believe this is a tornado on the ground, which is passing just to the north -- this is tupelo, mississippi. really hard to see on this. the hail storm is over gun town and about to be over bald win, mississippi, and going south of boonville. anybody in this area is subject to some very bad weather this afternoon. one thing you'll notice, if you're watching out of oklahoma city, or maybe out of nashville or memphis, you'll have a lot of
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choppers in the air and instant coverage inch towns like this, that is not the case. so the storm moves in and moves through and we don't find out until it until later. we're very hopeful, very hopeful-this one is going to spare the largely populated areas. there's some in here that -- where there's not much of anything but trees and cows-and as much as we don't want the cows to get hurt, better than grandma and them. this storm system, this here and here, is on its way to nettleton. moving the east northeast at 50-miles-an-hour. so it's going to blow through and very quickly, and if you would just collapse that a little bit and give us a wider view. i can't touch on this wall. but that's savannah right there. and then nashville -- rick says that's not a tarring for today, but -- not a target for today but you don't have to be a norths see it's moving -- a meteorologist to see it's moving
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the that direction. if you're in this area, give it a call, some troubles in iowa today as well. there's more down in louisiana, certainly up in the northwestern corner of alabama, and then south central part of the state of tennessee. this is some live pictures going through yazoo city, mississippi. we believe this -- the worst has gone to the north of yazoo city. no time to let down the guard, though.
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>> serious situation in eastern mississippi. this is the city of tupelo, and we have a storm chaser who was under a bridge. let's go to that. apparently right now the video is frozen but it's just gotten lighter. the storm chasers are indicating this storm is just as bad as the big wall has indicated. again, still these super cells moving to the east northeast at 50-miles-an-hour.
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