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our chad myers at the scene of the devastation in mayflower. chad, give us a sense of what you see there on the ground. >> reporter: friends helping friends, neighbors helping neighbors. it warms your heart a little bit but we know there are still people that are missing. people here trying to pick up this mess. this was actually someone's home. they lived here. friends helping friends. all this that you see, i'll bring you around this side. as far as you can see, the owners of this property this is all insured. what they're weeping inside about is a 60-pound black lab that they lost during the storm. the owners were in that structure right there. so was the dog in that basement. but after it was all done, somehow they lost track of the puppy. they were here last night. we were here this morning looking for the puppy because we were with them last night and they still have not found that black lab. all of this destruction yet the heart hurts for something like a puppy dog. this is what you feel. this is what you feel now. it's very scary. and th

you know, it's spring, right, chad myers? >> it is. you know, we had the polar vortex?w we have like the pollen vortex. >> i can barely see you from here. >> i feel like a tree sitting here. i want to sneeze. >> i need windshield wipers for my eyeballs, honestly. they're so -- the pollen is landing on my coat. but today it gets better. there will be a cold front that comes through, bringing some rain showers, and that rain will wash away the pollen. might even see it in the streets. 70 for a high today in new york city, 77 in d.c. and here we go. there is the front coming through, washing away some of that pollen, if you're suffering. high pressure in control of the rest of the week here, really pretty much, for us. couple stories, one big one, i think. if you're heading out west, a major wind event for vegas, for cedar city, even for parts of l.a. there will be dust in the air out there, and that storm moves to the east tomorrow with some severe weather all the way from nebraska back down into texas. talked about jack. here is where the air search got canceled overnigh

that was a 6. 9 foot wave. >> chad myers, appreciate it.ow i want to get back to the search for flight 370. it seems like every lead hits a dead end. but the search goes on. i'm joined by leon fox of the royal new zealand air force who flies aircraft in the search area for flight 370. i know that you're very busy. so thank you for joining us here on cnn. you have been coordinating the crew flights for the new zealand p-3. how many flights have your crews been involved in, and have they found anything? >> we've been in the area, mainly it's been the stuff highlighted, the fishing nets, et cetera. >> this is day 24 for you, your first crew maxed out there at 150 hours and you're on the second crew now. are they getting tired, are they disappointed at all? go ahead. >> we swapped out a crew about five days ago. they're not disappointed. this is what we train for. so we're finding that there is stuff in the area. we'll try and find something else. >> how much territory have you covered and do you have a feeling the search area will shift even a

but i want to check in with chad myers right now, our severe weather expert. are real fears, serious fears of horrible weather tornadoes erupting in the midwest. what's the latest? >> you bet. this is the 30th anniversary of the superoutbreak. there's snow up here. we expect that. that's the cold part of the storm. it's rotating you there into the very warm part of the storm. all those big red boxes there, those are all tornado watch boxes. we expect tornadoes to pop up and stay with us all night long tonight as we can get drilled right down here to the one near osage beach, this is missouri right now. we'll continue to watch that storm. and there are more along this line. this line is going to fire up again here. we're going to see more storms. i know we saw storms this morning, but those are gone now. the sun has been out all day. these storms are going to get much larger again tonight when the energy of the storm system that's now still to the west, about amarillo, that energy that these storms are waiting for, will punch through tonight. these storms will p

chad myers, you're going to have to do part of the job here.e was just showing us, at least our viewers got a view of that first pinger, which is the one we're talking about now. possibly not exactly, because as he just mentioned, we don't know about the dispersement of the pingers among various aircraft. that's the one on 370, effectively. looks small, but it is mighty. >> it is mighty. goes for a long time. obviously, better batteres would make it last longer or could actually be sending out other than just a ping, some type of other signal, as well. even at 12,000 feet, where we think this plane may be at the bottom of the ocean here. that's still a very deep depth to try to send anything out from there. do we have him back? >> we do. and thomas, skip over the one you showed us. and tell the one i'm fascinated about. that's the one that could be the wave of the future for black boxes, lasting for years. explain how it works. >> this is called a transponder and listens for an interrogation, a request from the tow fish being towed behind the s

cnn meteorologist chad myers is in mayflower, arkansas, this morning. search and rescue continues, carol. we got here about 35 minutes after the storm hit and people were still in their cars. people were still being rescued. the search was more active than it is now. this was a business. you know, this tornado eventually will turn into a lot of statistics. half mile wide. 40 miles long. 200 miles an hour. whatever the statistics are. this is what the tornado really means. this is someone's house. there's a bible over there. over here is all of their other stuff probably underneath their bathroom sink, underneath the kitchen sink here. a walkthrough here. someone was living in this home. look. here are some baby pictures. i'm sure they'll want these back. we'll save them for them when they come. this little guy hope he wasn't in the tornado. there's the family. you know, this is the stuff that people lose. this is the stuff that people can't replace. this is the stuff that insurance can't give you back. whether you're insured or not, this is a major loss

we're joined by chad myers in the weather center and greg stone joins us, as well. shasta, what is the situation at this hour where you are? >> well, don, what we're seeing across chile, across the coast is evacuations. in fact, some of the -- some tsunamis of two meters or six feet have already washed ashore in northern chile. so we're seeing hundreds, thousands of people moving to higher ground. so far what we've seen is it's been in a fairly orderly fashion. the deputy secretary of the interior said the biggest problem has been traffic jams with all these people trying to locate to safer areas. what he also said is that there has not been any reported deaths. so far no reports of major damage to infrastructure. again, we don't have information about all of the areas, the epicenter was off the coast of the mining town, so we expect to get more details about that area. some of the roads are blocked, complete picture yet.ave a but at this point, it looks like it's a fairly contained, mostly evacuations, and these initial tsunamis, don. >> shasta, you are in south am

our meteorologist, chad myers is standing by. picking up near you. >> reporter: we're starting to see bigger storms to the southwest that we'll wait on. we'll wait for them to come to us. up the line. we have a picture up here. this is a pretty impressive storm heading toward armory, not rotating, not tornadic but you could see some hail. maybe that will be a bigger deal today. hail and wind damage than tornado. this does not seem to be an f-5 day. there could be very large tornados and a moderate risk that could happen. today seems to be the in between kind of day where yesterday we used a lot of energy. we had major tornadoes on the ground at the same time. six to ten tornadoes on the ground from southern alabama to tennessee. today is a middle kind of off the road day. we will continue to watch that. doesn't take a big f-1 to make a big difference. you need to still pay attention to the weather we have outside. we can see the low-hanging clouds as it moves on up. we call it scud as it rises toward the cloud. looks can deceive y

i want to bring in chad myers. 150 or so miles south or so of perth. does that area give you any insight at all? >> i did a little calculation today. 47 days out. 24 hours in a day. let's say the current's moving one mile per hour. i get somewhere in the neighborhood of about 1,200 miles. guess how far augusta is away from the potential crash site. just about 1,200 miles. i don't believe in coincidences but that could be one. there is the circle of how far we think debris could be going now. all the way from northern australia, down to augusta, and maybe even into the central indian ocean. that's the potential. because there are gyres out there, there was a category 5 hurricane. it's called a cyclone, i get it. but it was 155-mile-per-hour cyclone above where the crash site was, where the potential site is. this is where the pings are. this is where the bluefin is going around looking for it. >> the first image you showed with all of those currents makes me wonder, 1,200 miles, so what, it's 1,200 miles of a curlicue path it would have to take to end u

thank you, chad myers.it. >>> another big story weaver been following on this program and throughout cnn's broadcast, gm, and the delay for that company in recalling defective cars, the delay that came so late for one family. >> they're talking about people reporting problems with ignition ten years ago. that's six years before my son had had the accident. >> that accident killed his 20-year-old son, and wait until you hear what families have gone through, just trying to get some simple answers from a very big company. it's coming up next. avo: wherever your journey takes you the expedia app helps you save with mobile-exclusive deals download the expedia app text expedia to 75309 expedia, find yours 100% greek. 100% mmm... so mmm, you might not believe it's 100 calories. yoplait greek 100. there are hundreds of reasons to love it. >>> in a little more than an hour, gm's brand-new ceo is going to face her first big test on capitol hill. and that is trying to explain why her company waited ten years to recall

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let's head out to cnn meteorologist chad myers. morning, chad. >> reporter: good morning, carol. been a long night here in tupelo for many of the residents here. now, the images i'm going to show you, not representative of the entire town. so if you can't get ahold of someone you love in tupelo, they're likely okay. this is 5% of the city, but look at this, carol. this was a gas station. people were getting fuel here when this happened. you can see right inside. they're trying to salvage what's inside. obviously right here, they already have the bulldozers ready to go. they're going to knock this whole place down. there will be nothing left here. look at that car right there. this is why we tell you, if there's a big tornado, there might not be a good place in your car, because look at that piece of metal. right straight through. then the rest of his debris, all the way from, as far as i can see, from north to south to east to west, probably half a mile wide, slightly, slightly less intense than the storm i was in yesterday, which

i want to bring in a rescue swimmer and maritime accident investigator, chad myers.are so strong there, how difficult would it be to dive down to rescue people if they are indeed in air pockets? >> you have to understand that over 500 divers have been trying for 24 hours to get in. they can't do it. that's certainly not for lack of trying. you can imagine how hard it would be to try and get out. it's a terribly difficult task in the best of conditions. with the ship on its side and you add water and current and debris, there's a real safety problem for the divers as well. >> chad myers, let's talk about the real possibility for someone to survive in air pockets. >> as long as that boat is floating, it appears that it is bows the bow is above water, that means there's air inside that ship somewhere, there has to be or it wouldn't be floating. the deal, he's talking about these tides, they're 10 feet from top to bottom. you go from high tide to low tide, the current goes somewhere between 6 and 7 miles an hour. i've been diving a number of dives on 3 to 4 knot current.

chad myers is here with a look at the forecast. good morning. >> poppy, haven't seen you all week. welcome back. an area of severe weather popped up. not many tornadoes, just yet. 58 in new york city. the cold air is here, but the warm, moist air is here. that's where the storms could pop up later this afternoon. windy across the northeast. i'm expecting airport delays. when you get 34-mile-an-hour wind gusts, you can't use all the cross runways. you can't get as many planes on and off the ground. there's the risk of severe weather from nebraska to texas. another round of severe weather into the weekend. there you go, new york city, another rainy day for you, rainy night on friday. saturday and sunday, in the plains, another round of severe weather. do you know the technical term of two rainy days following five sunny days? >> bummer. >> weekend. >> thanks for the technical term. appreciate it. >>> next, a history making night for one of baseball's great albert pujols. joe carter breaks it down next in the bleacher report. like tw. salesperson #2: actually, getting a great car with

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thank you so much, chad myers.that. >>> when we come back, we'll have our expert panel with us. what happens tomorrow? in just a matter of hours, when the search resumes at daylight. >> reporter: for schuyler ebersol, high school started pretty normally, but his luck quickly took a turn for the worse. >> i would have sometimes difficulty breathing. i'd have severe dizziness so that i couldn't really walk or see straight. for days at a time. i would faint randomly and go to sleep some nights and not sure if i'd wake up in the morning. >> reporter: at first he chocked it up to stress but then realized something was really wrong. >> no one knew what was wrong with knee. >> reporter: home from school for months at a time, away from his friends and world and very sick, ebersol desperately needed an escape, and he found it, in writing. >> i just started writing, and i would get lost in this world, and identified with this character. it was a way to keep me going while everything else in my life wasn't so great. >> report

important developments of flight 370 and the same pulse signal discovered as a black box, but as chad myerse area, that there is no easy map to follow. >> when you talk about how much you know of the moon or the mars, it is because we can take a picture of those, but you can't take a picture of the ocean floor, because you can't see through the ocean floor especially 12,000 feet deep. so we have the send pings down to the ocean floor and they ping back and give us a look at what the bottom is going to look like. it is a five-mile wide strip in any one area, and the hship is moving 5 miles per hour, and then you will get some ridiculous mapf of 130 million square miles. and it would take 593 years to map all of the oceans, and that is doing nothing else but mapping. let me show you what it looks like here in the indian ocean which is crazy. say that the search area sup here, and there is one ship that did a ping through here sh, and another one here, and look at the blue area through here that does not have one single mapping of it here. and back out here, and not one map ever, and not one s

chad myers is here. good morning to you. >> hey, good morning. a lot to cover today, so let's get to it. a great day for the marathon in boston. 1,000 flights in the sky. if you're flying today, great flying weather. maybe only one or two delays out of dallas and maybe chicago, but other than that, we are in good shape. high pressure flying out of the east coast. it will rain, though, tuesday into wednesday night. that's the next front that comes by the northeast coast, and so, for boston, you're in great shape for today. doesn't get a lot better, sunshine everywhere for you. the only potential chance for severe weather is across texarkana, down into dallas, texas, today. and if you're flying through that middle part of the country, could be bumpy later on this afternoon. so, let's get to it. spring may be finally getting here. 72 in d.c., 65 in new york city today. and here's your boston forecast. if you're going to be running, 9:00 a.m., some of you starting, 48. by the time a lot of you would be done, around 3:00. by midnight when i would be d

chad myers is in the weather center. e been looking at pictures from texas, but it looks really ominous. >> the pictures we're seeing are right from right here. denton, texas, back here. storm moved through your area 30 minutes ago and prosper, right about there and it continues to move off to the east, slightly to the north of east and let me tell you, this is what the pictures still look like with these low-hanging clouds. not seeing any touch the ground, but still a potential here that there may be tornado damage, erin, and we don't know it. this is something we called wrapped in rain tornado. a tornado in such the middle of such a heavy rain shaft, such a heavy rain shaft that you may not be able to see it. another round of severe weather headed towards st. louis. tornado watch boxes all literally all the way from st. louis all the way back down to dallas tonight and this is an area right through here, even points to the east, maybe even to memphis late, late tonight and overnight where your 3:00 in the morning you mi

our chad myers joins us at this moment from tupelo, mississippi. chad, give us a sense of what you're seeing. >> reporter: we had a tornado move through yesterday. as we were moving from little rock into memphis and then down here and the tornado touched down in tupelo and got a lot stronger. by the time it got here, this is what it did to this gas station. you can see the pump. you can see the car. there's a car under all that debris. there's nothing going to be left of this gas station. they're going to have to completely tear it down. they are removing a lot of stuff here trying to get valuables out of the place. what they had to do earlier was take that backhoe and take its arm and push the roof back up so it's a little bit secure. i'm glad some of these guys have hard hats on because things could be falling. we have sun now. you think that's great. it's a sunny day. that's not a good thing. the sun is heating the atmosphere. heating the ground. that air wants to rise like a hot air balloon. rising air makes rising clouds. rising clouds makes th

chad myers, thank you for that.rolando santos, live for us in santiago, chile. we continue to update that story. a couple other big ones too. keeping an eye on this, the head of nato says that if russia moves another inch into the ukraine, it would be making a, quote, big mistake. anders rasmussen today accused russia of trying to move troops into places it hasn't controlled since the days of the soviet union. he says nato is gravely concerned about russia's troop buildup on the border it shares with ukraine. >>> killed in afghanistan in march. zero. that's right. there hasn't been an american casualty-free month in the war on terror since january 2007. so zero is a very significant number. it does not, however, mean that afghanistan is stopping a very, very violent place. officials accuse the taliban of kidnapping and killing a politician and nine of his supporters, just last night. and since october 2001, it needs to be reminded of all of us that 2,300 u.s. military members have died there. and that is a rough num

i'm joined now by cnn's meteorologist chad myers in atlanta and from boston the vp and general managermpany that makes and designs undersea communications gear, including the pingers and also the pinger detectors. chad, i want to start with you. will ripley was telling us about what we have. we have four hit zones but they're 17 miles apart and they seem to me, you know, the neophyte in this game, to be a very strange pattern. can you help us make sense why they would be so disparate and in such a strange shape? >> we assume, you know, just from the lay person, we look at the pinger, we think it's going to ping just like a bell. it's going in every direction. that may not be the case because of the ocean floor. we know the ocean floor is a little bit rugged here. we also know that it's made of muck. thousands, millions of years of fish number two, scales, whatever, food has fallen down here and made a very mucky bottom. so when this pinger hit the ground, did it stay up on top? probably not. did it tumble down into a kre crevice? probably. rather than a ping that looks like this and go

. >> i want to bring in our chad myers. walk us through the location and the tsunami warnings. >> about 60 miles away from that town. that is the area that would have seen the waves the quickest, right along the shore. there were waves that were generated up this way. the reason why the waves didn't get up here and why the watches are canceled is because waves typically go in a straight line, not typically around a corner. if we get any type of advisory for hawaii, that wave could get there somewhere around 3:00 in the morning hawaiian standard time. but right now they're saying we're watching the buoys, all of these buoys, all in a line like this, waiting to see if any of them begin to what we stay pop. these are called dart buoys. when they do this up and down, that rhythmic motion, that means they've seen something. so that means there could be this wave moving across the ocean. but if we knew there was a bigger wave, we would have a lot more concern at this point in time. there was significant shaking called strong to v

chad myers joins me now.usly, you knew about the cyclone while it was happening, but at the time, search officials weren't looking in that area, right, so what do you think, could this really have moved debris that far, that we never saw any? >> without a doubt. without a doubt in my mind now. we were 1,700 miles away from the center of this, that was our focus, way south of this picture. here's australia over here. now remember, this is moving the opposite direction of a north hemisphere hurricane. this is a cyclone, so all of this wind now, only 300 miles from the center of this major hurricane, cyclone, was pushing waves and water that direction, at least 60 or 70 miles. we already know that this was an area that looked like a washing machine in the first place, but now we know it was even worse than that, because this storm, although we were watching, looking down here and the storm was way up here. you know what, that's 2,000 miles, no problem. now it's no longer 2,000 miles. now that category-5, at leas

and i want to go to chad myers now here with me in the studio. why this ferry could have happ capsi capsized. obviously we're looking at the renovations that could have added 180 tons. 180 tons are added to the ship. show me how that could have happened in a way that destabilizes. >> like you're putting a mattress on top of your minivan, and you're going around the corner. you have a lot of weight on top of your minivan. the difference between this and mh 370, though, the fact that we have the captain. we have is the crew. we have the piece, all of it together. we're not going have to put this back together like mh 370. we will get an answer here. now, there could have been a mechanical. the rudder could have stuck one way or the other, the hydraulics could have been wrong with the rudder as the helm has been turned that rudder there could have been some center of gravity issue. here is the center of gravity. when you start to run the ship as long as they did, you start to use fuel. fuel is used as ballast. so the renovations that were put up on

chad myers is watching this. he knows about this kind of stuff.ow likely is it that the so-called "big one" in chile or california, these parts of the world, high-risk, seismic area? >> there is a new risk, a newer risk. we have known about it since 199 the. but we're not talking about the san andreas fault. we're not talking about the big fault that runs all the way from north of san francisco all the way down to mexico, right through riverside and into the east of l.a. we're talking about a different fault. this is what the san andreas fault is going to do, all along the fault, going to slide, the slip strike. you see how that moves and you can see the pictures where defenses don't line up anymore. that's when the earth moves this way and buildings shake back and forth like this. but with this new thrust fault here, from about puente hills, it's not a horizontal thrust anymore. it's a vertical issue we're worried about. we're worried the strike, the slip, is going to be this way. it's going to slide up, and so all the buildings that are up here

cnn meteorologist chad myers is in pensacola which has been inundated by an enormous amount of rain overhe full report, chad. >> from little rock to tupelo to tuscaloosa and now pensacola, 24 inches of rain in 24 hours. i can't even imagine. five inches in one hour. in fact, governor rick scott is with me. a tough day for your state. we've had a lot of tough days across the southeast but this is one for you. >> we've got all this rain that's come, this flash flooding. we've had over 300 individuals evacuated from their homes. we still have more. still looks like we're going to have more rain. you can see the flooding behind us. areas that never flooded before. we brought high water vehicles from national guard that are on their way here. we've got roads just devastated. what you really worry about is individuals. we have the animal shelters flooded. so you think about the animals. i mean this is devastating to this part of the state. we're going to stay here and make sure every sit step gets taken care of. we've got the national guard. fish and wildlife. we've got great local efforts. th

chad myers has a look at the forecast. >> and good morning.a good wet morning to a lot of the northeast this morning. it does dry out today. the cold front takes the rain with it. still, though, some low clouds, some showers around this morning. showers across parts of the southern plains as well, still behind that initial front. it's cooler today than it was yesterday. in atlanta 66, in memphis only 62, chicago 50. but it does, again, warm up little bit better tomorrow as the sunshine now, this spring sunshine is so much more powerful than the winter sunshine, even after a cold front we can climb a few degrees, even ten degrees the day after. a couple showers in the pacific northwest, but nothing really to cause any more havoc up there. 66 memphis, 66 atlanta, all the way to 77 in dallas and 72 in kansas city tomorrow. have a great day. back to you guys. >> you look a little tired this morning. >> i look tired this morning? >> were you up all night watching basketball? >> i was going to say, gosh, that's not very nice! i think i look good thi

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let's check in with chad myers. he's just arrived in macedonia, alabama. there, chad? >> reporter: moving away from mississippi, wolf, and into alabama, i believe the energy of this system has shifted to the east, but some good news. this is maximum heating. we're 5:00 here central time. this is the hottest part of the day, and it never really warmed up. not like yesterday, so, therefore, we may be seeing a slight decrease in the potential for these storms. i just don't see them all going as super cells right now. they are bunching together. and think about this, if you have one bowl of food and you have one dog, if you let that dog eat all that food, he's going to be a big dog. if you have the same bowl but six dogs, they share the same food, you have six little dogs, not one big one. so if you have to share the food, share the moisture, the storms don't get as big. that's what we're hoping for tonight, these line up, clump together, and don't become the super cells we had yesterday. >> we'll find out, chad, stand by. i want to go to athens, alabama, right

. >>> chad myers has a closer look at this quake, and why, despite all the destruction in chile, thisould have been much, much worse. >> a very large earthquake just offshore from chile. in fact, only 62 miles from iquique here. the wave actually hit iquique in 20 minutes, and in some spots, even less than that. we know a wave was generated out into the ocean as well, but most of the energy along the larger part of the wave was right here very close to the epicenter. the shaking -- in fact, look at this here for a second -- the shaking strong to very strong. this yellow, if you go to the shake map of the southern california earthquake that hit over the weekend, almost the exact same shaking, but that was only a 5.1. but it happened right under los angeles or la habra. that's why it shook so much there in southern california, where here, the shake was truly offshore. this was, though, a great quake, 8.0 or more magnitude is a great quake. let me show you, kind of dive on down to what this means here for us. what this wave could have done is made a large wave progressing away from the s

let's bring in chad myers live from mayflower, arkansas, a small town, chad that really got the brunt of this storm. >> reporter: it certainly did, the tornado touched down rather quickly and it became large very quickly. we have now reports, we're going to talk to a storm spotter who saw this live. you're going to talk to him in just a second. he's going to think that this is probably an ef-4 or ef-5 tornado. i can only see ef-3 damage. that's it behind me. that is a store that is no longer a store, but you can still see where the walls are or at least were. that operates it was not a storm of 200 miles per hour or more. at least not here. we're standing on the edge of i-40 here, north of little rock, but we are sure that the death toll is going to rise today. scenes of devastation this morning after a series of deadly tornadoes ripped across the mid-south on sunday. the hardest hit, arkansas. the massive destruction resulting in the most deaths. more than 100 people treated at various local hospitals. >> oh, wow, guys. my ears are popping. yep, we're in it right now. we're in the to

our severe weather expert chad myers is there. t was it, like, 15 to 20 hours of nonstop rain? >> reporter: yes, and in one hour, one rain gauge picked up 5 inches of rain. they have to think this place picks up between 45 and 50 inches. what they had in some spots almost 2 feet of rain in 24 hours. that's half of a year's worth of rain. there's just no place for it to go except up and we did see this area right behind me right here, this is piedmont road here. and all the way through here, this road is completely gone. we walked this road with the governor earlier today. residents there just -- they couldn't believe it. they never even experienced flooding in ivan or katrina, nothing like this. now their road literally looks like a river. water still coming into the river and flushing on down the street. the residents told me that the drains weren't taking any more water and at that point in time it went up, up and up and roadway was washed out from below. it was a dangerous night last night because it happened at night for many p

let's bring in our chad myers who is taking a look at that. this is south of perth. it's south of perth about 190 miles, chad. >> right. >> what can you glean from that when you're looking at currents? >> i can grelean that this is where we're looking. the underwater search here. almost 1,000 miles away is what we're talking about the landing site of that. is that out of the question? no, it is not because that would be 45 days, 24 hours a day, about one mile per hour. that's about what the current would flow. now, there's something else going on in here as well. an awful lot going on in here. there was a huge cyclone. equal to a category 5 hurricane. now, they spin the other way. so we're spinning this way. right on top of that site. not only 40 days ago. debris there and blown to the south and by the current we know there are currents here, waves 10 to 12 feet. 14 feet under that cyclone. some will actually come from from the west. go under australia. and keep right on going. it's not out of the question that the debris is down here. got pushed down by the cyclone,

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. >> hold on for a moment, jeff, because our meteorologist chad myers is at the cnn weather center. s the forecast, chad, then i know you have a question for jeff yourself. >> well, as jeff just said, the tornado threat is increasing, wolf. now, the energy from the upper levels -- we're talking about some cold air coming in aloft. we're talking about shear coming in, all the ingredients like making a cake, those ingredients are coming together now. as chasers we think this is already 6:00, this should be over by now. but that's not the case. because the energy, the upper level support has been late to arrive with this system but also when jeff and i were chasing together back in 1991, we wouldn't be daylight saving time yet. it would still only be 4:45 p.m. central time because it would still be central standard time. they moved those times, those changing of your clock times a little bit. so we still had more sunshine, we still had more heat. we are not cooling down just yet. the storms are all the way from west of st. louis just through osage beach. lake of the ozarks just really g

chad myers is here. chad, more people, 9,000 more people are going to be in boston for this marathon. >> how's the weather looking? >> we're all looking at each other, is this good running weather? i don't know. >> we don't know. >> it seems so. 53 is a nice start, 57 by 1:00, and probably by the time you're done, somewhere around 60 degrees out there. i was on the plane up here with some people that were going to the marathon, and they said that, you know, 35,000 people is an amazing amount of people to be running all at one time. so, we hope that they have a great time up there. sunshine, not a cloud in the sky. it's going to be a really great day. there will be bumps across the southern part of the plains, if you are flying, and there are 1,050 planes already in the sky, and high pressure across the east coast, rain across the midwest. even severe weather possible across parts of texas, texarkana back to dallas. that's the only area, though, that we have to worry about for today. there goes the cold fr

chad myers is out front. e helm, why is it so dangerous? >> big currents in both directions, depending if we're going to low tide or high tide. major seven mile per hour this way or this way, and unless you know whether or not you have flat tide going to high or going to low, you may not know the direction of the current. this is a funnel. you're washing your car, have a hose, put your thumb on the end of the hose, that's what we have here. here's where the channel for main ships should be, but put your thumb on the hose is right through there and that's where they were. that is 6.6 knots, do the multiplication, that's over 7 miles per hour that direction and that direction. now it's not a difficult channel. it's been used for years and years and years, and we don't even think there's anything shallow enough because it's been used for so many years to cause any obstruction here. even some of the noaa charts say rocks, but we're talking 100 feet below the surface. >> that's incredible. we're going to be talking

meteorologist chad myers. what an awful story. what kind of conditions are these climbers facing? >> 10 degrees right now, fahrenheit, winds at about 15 to 20 miles per hour. not great. these ice falls, they're avalanches -- we think of avalanches as snow coming down. these are honestly pieces of glacier, pieces of ice falling from high above these guys, right at the kumba ice fall. that's why it's called an ice fall, because ice falls there. it's been happening all week long. this is the first time people actually got in the way of these ice falls. they're putting ropes up so the climbers eventually in may can make their way up. they're bringing food and medicine and supplies up to these other camps so that when the climbers finally start going in that direction, there will be supplies for them. here's the khumba glacier, here's the khumba icefall, as we move up to camp. the steepness of these -- i did not change these at all, straight out of google earth digital globe, this is how steep the sides of the mountains are. as you slide up here, called popcorn, called khumbu icefall,

chad myers now has a look at the weather. chad? >>> a pretty decent day out there, especially if you're flying today. a couple of bumps across the southeast, heavy rain in parts of georgia and florida, but the northeast cool, but at least sunny for the next couple days. here are the highs. 50s and 60s up and down the east coast. 56 atlanta, 53 new york, not a big difference there, but 44 in boston, the cool spot across the northeast. for tomorrow, things get a little bit bumpy through the plains. we could see some severe weather. colorado, back into kansas, oklahoma and west texas with the next storm. the rain from the southeast moves offshore, and it still remains quite nice across the northeast. maybe not as warm as you'd like, but still pretty nice. and for easter sunday, decent weather d.c., new york, new york city about 60, new york city, a beautiful day, sunshine all day long. 64 d.c., 79 for memphis and 74 in atlanta. a beautiful 70 and sunshine in l.a. >> a good good friday. good good friday weather. >>> so far, a fruitless

. >> chad myers saying this could be a dangerous weekend ahead, as well as jennifer. >>> all right, weto take you right now to seoul, south korea, where president obama is expected to address the press. i do not see him there yet. we are monitoring this. we will bring it to you as soon as we can, and we'll continue with other news right now, but we will monitor this and bring it to you as soon as we can. "early start" continues right "early start" continues right now. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> happening right now, the underwater search for missing malaysian airlines flight 370 is nearly complete, and so far, crews have found no sign of the vanished jetliner. is it time for a new strategy? this as malaysia's prime minister reveals exclusively to cnn wh cnn when investigators will tell the world everything they know about that plane's disappearance. we are live with the latest. >>> and a rising crisis in ukraine. soldiers fighting pro-russian separatists in the streets, battles turning deadly. the united states blaming russia for the uprising and escalating violence, givi

thank you, chad myers. thank you, and to you the viewers, for being with us this hour. have a good weekend. my colleague, wolf blitzer, starts right now. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> hello, i'm wolf blitzer reporting from washington. the search for malaysia airlines flight 370 has gone under water and it's now a race against time. crews are trying to locate the plane's black boxes before battery-powered pingers go silent. here are the latest developments. the australian ship "ocean shield," equipped with a u.s. pinger detector, is scouring 150-mile track beneath the indian ocean right now. the british royal ship, hmsecho is also scanning the ocean. the search above the water is moving full speed ahead. 14 aircraft and 11 ships were involved in today's search. and more frustration for the families of the 239 people on board the plane. malaysian officials won't let them listen to the audio recording of the last communication between the pilots and air traffic controllers. they say it's still part of the ongoing investigation. as we mentioned, the certain for

chad myers, thanks so much for that. that does it for this edition of 360. thanks for watching. make sure you set your dvr so you never miss 360. smerconish starts right now. >>> good evening, i'm michael summer smerconish. sources are telling to us stand by for new information in the missing flight 370. we'll bring it to you. we'll look at how malaysian airlines is beefing up its cockpit security. who better to address that than one of the pilots flying flight 175 on september 11th. she's advocating for better security on american planes. i want to start with the tragedy at fort hood. we have just learned new information on the shooter. in a few moments you'll hear exclusively from the neighbor who comforted the shooter's wife when she heard the news. and later i'll talk to alonso lunsford a victim in 2009 shooting. the return of our veterans is of grave concern. many of our veterans come home with post-traumatic stress disorder and substance issues and quickly find themselves on the wrong side of the law. one response has been the establishment of veterans treatment courts, fi

. >> i want to bring in our chad myers. walk us through the location and the tsunami warnings. >> about 60 miles away from that town. that is the area that would have seen the waves the quickest, right along the shore. there were waves that were generated up this way. the reason why the waves didn't get up here and why the watches are canceled is because waves typically go in a straight line, not typically around a corner. if we get any type of advisory for hawaii, that wave could get there somewhere around 3:00 in the morning hawaiian standard time. but right now they're saying we're watching the buoys, all of these buoys, all in a line like this, waiting to see if any of them begin to what we stay pop. these are called dart buoys. when they do this up and down, that rhythmic motion, that means they've seep somethin something. so that means there could be this wave moving across the ocean. but if we knew there was a bigger wave, we would have a lot more concern at this point in time. there was significant shaking called st

cnn meteorologist chad myers joins me in new york.o, joined again by sea operations specialist tim taylor. good to see both of you. >> send me to new york and then they work me to death. >> that's what happens here. let's talk about this. where is jack and how big of a problem is jack going to cause? >> jack has made the entire sea search operation cease. not the bluefin, but everything that's on the surface. the surface of this ocean right now looks look a blender. the waves are 10, 15 feet. the winds are 60 miles, 80 miles an hour. you couldn't find anything on the ocean because it's just all white caps. the surface just completely shut down. 85 miles per hour. the bluefin is quite a distance away from where the sea surface surgings. they're still under the surface there. now where they have it, i was just watching this, you can go to marine traffic.com and look for the shield, the ocean shield, it's searching at about 17,000 feet of water. let's hope they don't find it there, that would be almost an impossible recovery. >> the visu

meteorologist chad myers is watching the system carefully. actually tracking it.atching you live in the car as you head up from tupelo, from the scene of the destruction, to tuscaloosa, alabama, where things could get dangerous as well. tell me what we're expecting there. >> we have a lot of sunshine and, ashleigh, that sounds like a good thing. it's a clear day, that's great, but, in fact, that's the exact opposite we want. the sunshine is heating the ground. the ground now is warming up the atmosphere it a atmosphere, and atmosphere is going to bubble. those bubbles turn into clouds. eventually, those storms can rotate, especially a day like today. rotating thunderstorms produce tornadoes. there will be tornadoes on the ground today. a lot like yesterday. although yesterday was really an unbelievable day in my mind, where we take tornadoes, almost a 500-mile wide swath from north to south. think of it like a rake. all the tines of the rake. and mother nature just drug that rake across alabama, a half a mile wide tine. that's the damage we saw here, into louisvil

. >> incredible pictures, let's talk to jennifer gray and chad myers in alabama.r, with the tornado warnings and watches, what do we know? >> right now we have storms still in effect. the ones in mississippi and alabama expire at 9:00 p.m. central time, actually the stormings in north carolina have been the most powerful throughout much of the afternoon, where the focus yesterday was more on mississippi, alabama, we had a couple of tornado warnings just in the past hour, the most recent one expired just about a minute or two ago. you can see just to the south of 95, a lot of powerful storms creating gusty winds, large hail and a couple of reports of actual tornadoes, brief spin-ups there in north carolina. i want to focus now on the south, because we're seeing thunderstorm development across mississippi and alabama, granted, nothing compared to what we saw yesterday. one of the limiting factors, though, we have been dealing with a lot of coastal showers right along the gulf of mexico and the florida panhandle. that has been one thing that has limited that moisture

chad myers taking a look at your forecast.ning. >> good morning. 9 million people in the way of this slight risk today of severe weather. right through here, memphis, st. louis down to ped pa dukeaducah little rock. you are going for a run but you can only run to the east. run to astoria and then take the train home because it's going to be so windy. 40 miles per hour up in boston. even gusts 45. that could slow down airports, some planes today. there's the severe weather you were talking about from paducah back to st. louis. it is cold up here. 62 kansas city. 84 in memphis. that's the clash. that's going to be with us for the rest of the week. the front goes by. even rain here new york city and d.c. for friday, friday afternoon and now friday night. the bigger story will be the potential for severe weather this weekend. 19 million people saturday, sunday, monday. the biggest, i think, severe weather outbreak of the season happens this weekend. if you live in the plains, visit the plains, know anybody here, pay attention. maj