. >> tell us some of the details about the tornado that touched down in cedarville. >> was ef-3 on the damage scale, and pretty strong tornado. it was the kitten's size being so small that aloud lowed it to survive. the family had the best attitude of anyone i've seen go through something like that. >> thank you for all you're doing for the folks of ohio. >> i'm glad i can help in some little way. >> kids in peril, the first one will blow your mind. what you have here is a street -- outside of an apartment building in moscow. there you see a woman walking up to that bench, she's got a bag in one hand, but she's got a newborn baby in the other. now, notice, she puts the baby down on the bench. then she covers the baby with a blanket. she leaves. she walks away. this happened just before 4:00 a.m. and caught on cctv. wasn't found until an hour and a half later. >> the baby is okay? >> as far as we know, the baby is okay. but police have no doubt that this is the baby's mother and they are lookingor her another kid in peril, this young child running in the streets, and there doesn't appea

. >>> a tornado tore through central ohio wednesday, the twister sparing the home of the cedarville man who recorded this video. several house s and farm buildings were destroyed there, no injuries reported there. let's get to nbc meteorologist bill karins. so i'm going to go farther west and let's talk about santa anas, those are two words, i'm not used to hearing, until september. we're in may. >> yeah. i mean, the heat wave is just unprecedented for this iearly i the season. the earliest 100 degree temperatures for recording stations. look at the record highs for today. san diego, alpine, chula vista, el cajon, ramona, new port beach, laguna beach, riverside, every location will see the hottest temperature they heifer had on this date today. yesterday, 99 in l.a. today we're expecting to be around 100. that 106, by the way, the john wayne airport there on the south side of town. 106. no wonder why these fires, once they formed yesterday, flared up in a hurry. the winds will not be as gusty today. that's good. but it will be just as hot and relative humidity will be very low. fire dan

fortunately, though, the twister spared the home of the cedarville man who actually recorded the video. can you believe even with that, no injuries reported, bill. that was quite a tornado. >> that was like auntie em. >> toto, we're not in kansas in im. >> the hail was huge. i mean, we had baseball size. imagine a four and a half inch stone falling out of the sky. it was incredible stuff. and the fires out west, just insane. the big story isn't that it's this hot. you know, it happens during the summer months. but this early in the season, people are like what's the rest of the year going to be like. the winds were gusting and howling. today it's going to happen all over again. it's going to be windy. we have red flag warnings. the fires that we already have could spark more and get more out of control. and new new fires that form will be a problem. calling for 100 today in downtown l.a. in the east we've got soaking rains, flood watches from north florida to buffalo. this is a slow-moving soaking rain this morning from georgia to south carolina northward. we've got to watch the areas

people in the town of cedarville are picking up the pieces after a violent tornado are you deuced this 100-year-old farmhouse to rubble. seven people were huddled inside the home when disaster struck. >> you could see the funnel and it was moving straight for us. >> it started to do the spin. it got bigger and bigger and touched down. we prayed down in the cellar. as long as everyone is okay, everything else can be replaced and fixed and whatever else. >> wind speeds of 145 miles per hour, first responders pulled the family out of the rubble with only two of them sustaining minor injuries. unbelievable. >>> a new revelation from the front lines of the new health care law's contractor award more than $1 billion of taxpayer money to process the health insurance paperwork. and one former employee says she spent her days doing virtually nothing. she says she actually quit because there was so little to do. >> our supervisor, can't speak for the other ones, but ours said if we processed one or two of these applications a month, we've done our job. so it was a lot of money to be spent on tha

. >> the meteorologist found the kitten on thursday in the debris of a destroyed farmhouse in cedarvilles surveying the damage of the storm when he came across that tiny little kitten and he and his photographer say they kept that kitten warm by blowing its coat dry with a hair drier. the kitten is back with its family. >>> a south bay family is hoping someone will come forward and return the ring to a 94-year-old grandmother in time to celebrate her anniversary. betty leery's wedding and engagement rings were stolen last night in san jose. her son david was holding the rings while his mother was in the hospital when his rented suv was broken into. she's been wearing those rings since her wedding day in 1940. they were designed by her father who's a jeweler and are a reminder of her husband thomas who's passed away. >> they're more than just wedding rings. they were a gift of love, and my family knows how much my husband and i loved each other and how much they meant to me. >> the one thing the thief did not get away with was her husband's wedding ring because she wears that ring around

a tornado touched down in the town of cedarville near dayton, destroying several homes, giving residentsuld see all the tar paper, stuff blowing everywhere. >> i couldn't hear it in the house but as soon as i came out, saw the metal everywhere and sure enough, the barn tore up. >> let's get an early look at the weather with jennifer gray. >>> we'll see a lot of shower activity moving through the east coast friday into friday afternoon, also a few spotty showers across the midwest. fire threat will remain very high in southern california with very hot temperatures. however, those temperatures should start to relax a little bit as we go forward into the weekend. 95 degrees today in los angeles, 78 in albuquerque, 63 in denver, 65 in atlanta. a little cooler for the southeast a little later this afternoon. mostly sunny for the southeast as we go forward into friday. we'll see a couple of showers right around the ohio valley. we'll also see some showers in the rockies. sunny and warm still in southern california. so, that fire threat will remain high yet for another day. by tomorrow, though,

dark this morning in ohio from a line of powerful storms, including a tornado that touched down in cedarvillemes in the town were destroyed. residents could see the frightening funnel cloud in the distance, and they took cover. >> i could see all the tar paper. there was stuff swirling everywhere. >> i didn't hear it when i was in the house. then as soon as i come out, i seen all of the metal everywhere and knew that the barn was tore up. >> let's get an early look at your weather and these severe storms in the forecast. indra petersons here again. >> good morning. >> good morning. one of the biggest concerns we'll have today is going to be flooding. take a look at the threat for flooding that's out there today, really stretching from new york all the way back down through florida. look at the position and where we do have flood watches in effect. now take a look at where this cold front is. this is the same system we've been tracking for days. it is so slow moving. that is the concern here. now, again, notice the position where we're talking about the frontal system. now look at all of the a

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