>> this is definitely one of the more intense seasons we're seeing more ef-4s and ef-5 than we normally do. more intense tornadoes. unfortunate thing is those tornadoes on the 27th in alabama with an ef-4 to ef-5 moving it over densely populated areas, you have mass casualties. and that is what happened on numerous occasions this year. that's why the death toll is what it is. out in the plains in a wheat field it doesn't hurt anybody. if you get an ef-4 tornado through a heavily populated area like we saw in joplin, these kind of catastrophes are going to happen and the conditions are right for continuation of strong violent tornadoes as we go well into the month of june and part of july based on current weather conditions across the central -- >> i'm sorry. i'm going to have to interrupt you that's been invaluable information. i'm going to go to two people that survived the tornado in joplin last night. one is tom with his daughte olivia who barely escaped with their lives. can you hear me? >> yes, piers. >> we know conditions are bad and communication is bad from joplin because of app

where the joplin tornado ranked in the ef scale? ef-5, the highest there is.qualify for ef-5? more than 200 miles per hour. the power of an ef-5 tornado? it's on par with a small atomic explosion. daytime population of joplin during business hours monday through friday, counting visiting shoppers, workers and others who reside outside of town? 270,000. population on a sunday, the day that the tornado hit? 49,000. which items us, clearly, had it not been a sunday, all the numbers could have been worse. much worse. i'm john donvan for "nightline" in washington. >> 13 minutes to react. a lifetime to rebuild. 's

we don't have these confirmed as ef-0s or ef-1 tornadoes yet. we could see an ef-2 come out of the seven tornadoes. the national weather service has to survey the damage and get confirmation. stay tuned for that. jeff ranieri will have updates tonight at 6:00, and 11:00. >>> here is the satellite for today. this is why they could see more thunderstorm activity in chico, we are not expecting a lot, but they could. the jet stream is separating the state. we are going to see moisture in the northern most portion of california. over the bay area, clear conditions this morning. that's because high pressure is keeping the second half of the state nice and dry. slight chance for thunderstorms again. if you are headed up to lake tahoe, be aware we could see moisture pass through there as well for the next 24 to 48 hours, this is the set up. what we are expecting, nice conditions. chily. gorgeous sunrise. 49 degrees in san jose. 41, two degrees away from the 30s in gilroy this morning. this is where we are headed. 70 in concord, san jose and santa cruz.

since 1950. >> we have raised the ef scale ratings to greater than 200 miles an hour and it is now a ef-5. >> reporter: with dozens of people still missing, search teams are using rescue dogs as they pick through debris. construction crews are using heavy equipment to remove some of the larger pieces of rubble. >> we are heaping to find more folks and that's why we're doing these searches. we want to make every opportunity we can to find everybody that is still in the rubble. >> oh!! >> reporter: mccoy is a nurse and her hospital, st. john's regional medical center also took a direct hit. >> hopefully, i'll be back to work. i'm sure not there. >> reporter: she is now living with her brother as she tries to figure out what to do next. a lot of people here in joplin not sure what they are going to do next. 122 people confirmed dead, 750 people injuries. and the hundreds of volunteers who descended upon joplin aren't giving up. the search and rescue efforts here will continue. live in joplin, missouri, i'm joel brown, liz, back to you. >> joel, do you know what the forecast is for the r

could go up to an ef-4 or perhaps ef-5 as they continue to analyze the damage across the sections hereond. this tornado was on the ground for more than an hour and travelled more than 100 miles. alex? >> yeah, such devastation. thank you. >>> and then potential flooding. the city is threatened by two swelling rivers. the army corp of engineers are trying to find a way to fix the problem. and then check in with alex wallace for the forecast. >> good morning to you, alex. we are seeing more showers and storms in some of the same areas we have seen them over the past couple days. and all the way down into north texas as well. we had some of the strongest storms this morning. a severe thunderstorm watch, and that's shaded in yellow until 9:00, and then in the red, that's where we have a tornado watch out until noon here for us. so dallas included in some of this. we have big storms rumbling on through this area right now. and heavy downpours, not so much a severe threat right now. heavy rain through tennessee, and into portions of arkansas right now. it's all lining up right along the fron

it was his first chance to see the unimaginable damage caused by last sunday's ef-5 tornado. he spoke at a memorial service for the 142 known victims. a live look at the president's visit just ahead. >>> and sarah palin drew attention riding on the back of a motorcycle in rolling thunder. despite all the symbolism of the moment, the former alaska governor insists she is just riding, not running, at least not yet. >> i'm an american. i have no title, i have no office, and to be an american citizen with the freedom to come out here and assemble and thank our veterans, i can't tell you how honored i am. >>> lockheed martin says the information network system has been attacked but no customer information was compromised. this is one of the largest defense contractors. they said the security team detected the attack last weekend. it says president obama and government officials were briefed on the incident. >>> this is that heavy gunfire ringing out in southern yemen today. security forces and gunmen in civilian clothing opening fire on protestors. this is in the city of tiez. the

that's the top wind of a ef-4 tornado. just looking at this damage, you can tell, just by the things being crumpled up, just by the baseboards being cleared and everything around us just destroyed. >> well, that's what everybody is talking about, it took steel as if it was just paper and wrapped it around poles, wrapped it around the cars. but let me get a sense of what's happening right now because this town cannot get a break this day, because storms have been nonstop. is this going to be unending for the next two days? >> what we've just been standing through, the hail that fell right before you went on the air, large hailstones, this continues for at least two, maybe three days here. this is a stationary pattern and these areas of low pressure will drive storms like this every day for the next two days. >> all right. well, we decided to go out and call some other experts around the country and talk to them a little bit more about what they're seeing in these weather patterns. and i know you'll have more for everyone to

based on the damages could have been ef-3 if not ef-4. we'll investigate and get you that information as soon as we can. over the next 24 hours, unfortunately, the same exact area is expected to get hit from dallas through cleveland, there you can see joplin under the gun again. torrential downpours, one to two inches, also looking at large hail, gusty winds, winds above 60 miles per hour. this area does not need it. and the possibility of yet another tornado if not more. we're going to keep an eye on it and more on the national picture later on in the show. back to you guys. >> can't catch a break there. thanks. we'll have more as marysol mentioned. including a look at birmingham, alabama now recovering after last month's tornados which killed more than 230 people across alabama. >> first jeff glor with a check of our other headlines. >> good morning. you heard the president comment on the tornados. the president is in ireland this morning, the first stop on a six-day visit to europe. the president and mrs. obama arrived in dublin where

one of the tornados was an ef storm with peak winds of bey upon miles per hour . we did research and found tornado foodfootage . this was shot with a mounted camera on top of a train moving through illinois . watch what happens when the tornado comes through. an empty box car can weigh 30 tons when it is empty and over 100 tons when it is full. that tornado blue them over like they didn't weigh anything . think about it . watch this tanker coming into the back of the train as that camera mounted on the train just gives them an extraordinary view of the horrors and powers of the tornado. we want to talk about a power and twisters and storm chasers. warren, it is good to have you with us. you were an original storm chaser. a storm chaser is not just a hobby and a foot cam, chasing the tornados in dangerous ways, but studying them from their origin and impact and let's begin. how does a tornado get start what was the reason we see tornados and why so many of them all of the sudden. >> i would like to say my prayers and thoughts go out to fam faps in alabama. seeing m

from that look, that would be an ef-3, maybe approaching an ef-4, but probably only a 3 as it moves onng stronger and still heading into the oklahoma city metro area. i don't want to say the city yet. but anywhere from norman on the south side to the city on the north side. this is a major storm heading up the turnpike. you need to be taking cover now. it will be in oklahoma city probably give it 30 minutes or so. you have that much time to get everything prepared and get yourself in a closet. get yourself covered. go ahead and get your motorcycle helmet, football helmet, basketball, whatever, anything that could protect you from the outside elements if your house is swept away. the trauma of all those houses. we saw it, wolf. we saw house that's are just gone. if you're inside those houses, you may be protected a little bit if you have more padding around you. think about yourself as being an egg. you have to put padding around you. as these storms move these houses and knock these houses down. what a brutal day in oklahoma again. as we were talking about, this is still miles away, bu

we probably would look at an ef-0 or ef-1 if that touched down. warning in chico until 6:15. otherwise we're looking at traffic issues on interstate 80 due to this rare blast of sierra snow. temperatures in the 30s. that snow expected to continue with a winter weather advisory. back here across the bay area we've cleared out from some of the heaviest rainfall. we still have that chance of showers. i'm going to go back to my computers and look up more on this chico thing and have more in a couple of minutes. >> thanks, jeff. we'll talk to you in a bit. >>> new at 6:00, a firestorm of controversy burning in the east bay where residents are accusing the city of putting them in harm's way by taking cattle off of some of the hills. kimberly tere, the issue is the weeds are waist high and they are concerned about fire season. >> reporter: that's right, jessica. this is what has residents upset, these dried out weeds and grass which could serve as fuel if a wildfire tears through here and it is just yards away from their homes. 160 condos on summit ridge. walnut creek resident frank

these wouldn't be your ef-4s or 5s, this is like an ef-1. chico. they are getting ready to get hit with heavy rain and hail. not -- you know, still a severe storm, but no raitation anticipated or seen from the doppler. chico getting ready for heavy rain. old town, 6:02. this moved through today. snow in the mountains. 80 closed because of snow. an accident. winter weather advisory in the lake tahoe area. another one that comes close to us, it will dip temperatures down. but we will start to dry out. showers today are ending. temperatures cool tonight. tomorrow day time highs back into the 60s. still below average for this time of year. thursday 1:00, you see that tweak to the north. that's enough to cool us off with some clouds. no sprinkles on thursday or friday. temperatures stay in the 60s and low 70s. forecast highs tomorrow upper 60s. below average, warmer than today. 5 day forecast, back here on the 6:00 forecast, we will watch that cell to see a severe thunderstorm up there and we will look at the severe weather in the plain states. r

if you look add the kinds of tornado said, ef-4s, ef-5s, those are hard to survive above ground, and that's why so many people have been killed in the heels of the outbreaks. >>> now we want to go back to joplin, mids miz. the latest numbers, more than 2,5 2,500 dead. some 700 injured. the search for survivors continues on the ground. we get our update tonight from ron allen. >> reporter: with more possible tornadoes in last night's forecast, hundreds from joplin came to this red cross shelter. suddenly, unbelievably, the tornado warning sirens wailed again, sending everyone to the basement. a false alarm that left carol and steven yagel shaky. >> i freaked. i wanted to freak. i wanted to just get away from it. get away from the southbound. >> your stomach just gets in knots. all i could do was sit there listening. >> reporter: tammy had ridden out the tornado in her car. today, like others here, she was picking up the pieces. this shows the tornado's path. sim six miles long, three quarters of a mile wide. >> we are going to rebuild. we are going to surviechb. rrtd meanwhile, today,

so we're thinking this is going to be at least ef-3 if not ef-4 damage. basically nothing is standing. we've got a few trees that have been debarked, cars flipped over, cars just in piles of rubble. so this is going to be at least ef-3 or ef-4 damage winds, easily over 150 miles an hour. no more severe weather here but the cleanup gets under way this morning. the search and rescue continues at falcon lake where a mom and three kids huddled in the bathtub as this tornado roared on through. the mom and two of the kids survived. one of the children is still missing. it's a 3-year-old. they'll be out looking for that young child again this morning. severe weather again today farther east. skies will be sunny and drier here in this part of the plains. back to you. >> all right, they certainly need that break. once again, sadly the number has been updated to 13 lives lost from yesterday's storm. really having a rough go at it there. we want to check in with christina. she's got a look at the forecast. they need that break. >> yeah, they certainly, certainly do.

by deadly tornadoes this week, smithville, mississippi, was decimated by the most powerful kind, an ef-5 tornado, and the police chief here, darwin hathcock, told us he was caught directly in its path. >> it was just like a monster coming and i'm just thinking there's no way any of us are going to survive this because it was huge. >> reporter: smithville, mississippi, police chief darwin hathcock scrambled to take cover inside the police station and remembers looking up just as the giant storm passed. >> we could actually see the tornado still, like, right up over us. >> reporter: what did it look like? >> it was just like a lot of dust and a rotation and quiet looking. >> reporter: in less than 60 seconds, the tornado had destroyed half the homes in town and 14 of the town's 16 businesses. it was the strongest tornado to hit mississippi in more than 50 years. >> we've lost our whole town. we've lost everything we've ever known. >> reporter: the tornado ripped houses from their cement foundations, obliterated large appliances and toppled giant oak trees. damage so severe the national w

. >> this area, even though it was hit by this incredible ef-5, they had been through a terrible ride before. >> yeah. back in the late '80s apparently the church was hit by the tornado. quite a bit of damage on the front of the church but the metal crosses with still standing. it's been standing since the 1940s. >> how incredible. how resilient, as are so many of the survivors. >> of course, you know, this afternoon a memorial service taking place in joplin. the joplin community memorial service right here in the next hour. we'll cover it for you live. the president of the united states on the grounds of joplin, missouri. he'll offer his words of comfort for that community devastated by the tornado one week ago today. building up our wireless network all across america. we're adding new cell sites... increasing network capacity, and investing billions of dollars to improve your wireless network experience. from a single phone call to the most advanced data download, we're covering more people in more places than ever before in an effort to give you the best network possible. at&t. re

that allowed for not only thunderstorms but super cell thunderstorms that produced the ef-3, ef-4, efdoes and when they hit populated areas that's when we get fatalities. populated areas are just little dots on the map like any other city. so really it's just a matter of bad luck in some cases. we had tuscaloosa, joplin. both very populated areas getting hit by ef-3, ef-4 tornadoes. they are so rare but they happen in rural areas. only one tenth of all 1% of tornadoes that touch down were ef-5. one in joplin that rolled through the center of a highly populated area. that's why we've seen so many deaths. not necessary global warming. climate change helps increase the heat. but for tornadoes to develop you need winds at different directions from different levels of the atmosphere and that doesn't necessarily come from climate change. that part of the equation we don't know. >> will there be more major tornadoes? are we done with this or more to come. >> we don't have a high risk today. slight risk. tomorrow slight risk. that's what we typically see this time of year. may and then june t

-4 to ef-5 tornadoes that produced all those deaths in the southeast. winds that could have topped 300 miles per hour. unbelievable. meanwhile, oakland, 68 degrees, winds west at 14, and we're mainly clear out here with a lot of heat in the east and the south bay. 76 in livermore, 74 san jose, 69 santa cruz and cooler near san mateo, but these northwesterly winds have started to push in, and that's really going to help warm us up for tomorrow with plenty of 80s inland and then ahead we'll be talking about some cooler changes for your mother's day weekend. so let's get a look. high pressure sitting just offshore, we'll keep it warm with those 80s inland. thursday, staying warm with more widespread 80s. we could even have a few 90s pushing here across our east end south bay sections as well over the next two-day period. a lot of you asking for the heat but now that it's here, are you going to want this? 56 san jose, 61 san francisco and 55 santa rosa. let's get a lot at those numbers for tomorrow. close to 90 in the south bay, san jose, 86. 88 fremont, 86

-4 to an ef-5, with winds over 200 miles per hour.at least 122 people were killed making it the deadliest twister in the u.s. in nearly 60 years. two more survivors were pulled from the debris in the last 24 hours. the search continues for some 1,500 residents still missing. rescue teams are canvassing neighborhoods. a family looks for a 12-year-old boy. his parents are in the hospital. >> last seen in a bathtub. we have not been able to locate the bathtub. so we are out here trying to see if we can find out any information on where he might be at or see if we can find him in the debris. >> reporter: natalie gonzalez put her son in the bathtub and made him wear his bicycle helmet. >> at one point, the toilet flew up out of the ground and hit my son in the head and then hit me in the back. the bicycle helmet saved his life. >> reporter: the city of joplin has a plan in place for emergency workers here in the field and the city has meteorologists on staff and think they can give the workers advance notice up to an hour to get to designa

-1 to ef-2 tornados with winds bat 100 to 0 miles per hour one report of a tornado near willows right across the interstate 5 corridor. two reported tornados in oroville. most of the damage going down in oroville with power lines down as well. we'll have a little bit more on why this was severe. back to you. >>> new tonight at 11:00, we already knew the earthquake and tsunami of japan was of historic proportion but now we know why. sanford research verse made an incredible discovery. george kiriyama has more on what it could mean for earthquake in the bay area. >> reporter: it's very interesting. we have a similar earthquake zone called a subduction zone about 200 miles north of the bay area. it starts at cape mendocino 600 miles north of canada. it's a zone that could pack a magnitude nine punch and stanford researchers say what happened in japan could happen here but earthquakes are very unique. geophysics researchers here believe that the earthquake and tsunami that followed was triggered by two significant events. >> it displaced the ocean floor and caused the tsunami. >> reporter

was it an ef-1, 2, 3, 4, perhaps even 5?ter this. >>> a deadly ef-5 tornado, the strongest on the scale wiped out greensburg, kansas, back in 2007. when you see the tornado destruction, it is difficult to imagine how any family, a business or a town, for that matter, can possibly rebuild. greensburg is still rebuilding. and mayor bob dixon joins us live with more on how you've been able to recover after 2007. how far along are you now the rebuilding process? >> first of all, it's an honor and pleasure to be with you today. thank you for having me on. we're probably about 65% in the completion process four years out from the tornado. >> that's pretty impressive, 65%. so what kind of recommendation are you going to have for towns that have just been devastated by tornadoes who are looking to greensburg as real inspiration of bouncing back? >> well, the first thing you have to do that we found out is, no matter what your socioeconomic status was in the community, you lost everything. so the true sustainable green thing you have

an ef-5. it obliterated 70% of the homes around here. cars have been tossed about like children's toys are commonplace. it's the stories from the people who live here that are unlike anything we have heard so far. to understand what the people of smithville, mississippi went through, you need to listen to shelley brown. she found her father amidst the rubble minutes after the tornado obliterated his house. >> he looked at me. he said she's gone. i can't find her anywhere. then he passed out. >> reporter: he was having a heart attack. his wife of 43 years was nowhere to be seen. >> he said that the tornado ripped her out of his arms as she went into the air. >> reporter: her mother's battered body was found 20 feet away. she didn't make it. her father devastated that he couldn't hold on to his wife died at the hospital. this town of over 800 people suffered unimaginable loss. the post office is a pile of bricks. the only school was ripped apart. the police station, leveled. the chief says his department can do nothing but ask for help jus

the powerful ef-4 twister had 200-mile-per-hour winds.a six-mile path of destruction at times a full mile wide. the massive twister touching down at 5:40 local time, where it sheared off the roof of the hospital, st. john's, sucking windows out of the patients' rooms, the hospital paralyzed. as it continued through joplin. subdivisions gone. streets lined with foundations where homes once stood. next to joplin high school, the roof peeled off. entire neighborhoods here have been wiped off the map. you can see all that is left of these homes as far as you can see that way and, really, as far as you can see this way, as well. this family huddled in front of their home now gone. they all survived in the bathroom. they saved a 3-year-old girl across the treeeoth scream >> we had the little girl. >> yeah, we had her. her grandma came and got her. >> but both of her parents are gone. >> she lost both of her parents? >> both of her parents. >> reporter: david muir, abc news. >>> as soon as word of the killer twister hit the news, aid began pouri

and the government is now confirming that joplin, missouri, that tornado that hit it, was an ef-5, the highest category for truck tif force. george is live with amazing pictures and, really, george, some remarkable stories of survival. >> reporter: the devastation is unbelievable. 48 hours after a twister leveled and flattened homes and businesses in joplin, missouri, another line of storms packing a violent tornado punch moved through oklahoma. >> oh, my gosh. >> is everybody out of there and safe? >> the motion is tremendous. >> reporter: another assault from mother nature, this time the target is oklahoma. >> a half a mile mile wedge. it's a killer tornado. it went across highway 1. it almost got us. >> reporter: the relentless line of storms is moving in. now on joplin, missouri, a city already struggling with so much loss. >> this used to be our home and now there's nothing left of it. >> the devastation stretches for six miles. more than a thousand structures destroyed by the f-5 tornado with winds over the 200 miles an hour. the reality is says this are live that are splintered

they haven't been 150, and haven't been 200 miles per hour, and not ef-3s or 4s or 5s. they have been manageable, and even the tornadoes we had one earlier in sedalia, missouri, and that was an ef-2, and 110 miles per hour and there were roofs missing, but no one lost their lives. if you were inside, you were safe. everything is there. and this is a typical day, and these are vanilla tornadoes i guess, and what we have been seeing in the last couple of weeks are outrageous, and 200 miles per hour, and the ef-5 through joplin is an unbelievable size to move through big cities. they can move through the plains and the prairies where there is wheat, but we don't get tornadoes like that in big towns, but this year, we do. so from erie to independenianap you will be hearing the sirens. there are small embedded wind gusts in there and small embedded tornadoes and take cover when you hear the sirens and don't take them small when you hear them and nashville, probably an hour or so away from you, and down to oxford, mississippi. debris in the air west of oxford where the univer

ef-3 tornado packed winds up to 165 miles-an-hour. the twister sparked a state of emergency across 16 counties. back in missouri, fears of more deaths as residents grappled with the death of the destruction. frances koe, nbc news. >> the tornado has hit home for one of our home. brian williams lived and worked in the hard-hit missouri town. last night brian spoke by phone about how this compares to the tragedy in alabama last month. >> it looks like a wider debris field than we just saw in tuscaloosa. having covered my share of these tornados, i thought i would never see anything to eqwa equal that. it looks like this has been broken today. bill karins has the weather channel forecast. >> the understanding of that we were dealing with. it was a month ago i was telling everyone about the alabama, mississippi and georgia tornados. here a month later, we are dealing with one of the worst fatalitywise to go through a metropolitan area. 50,000 people live in joplin this was a look at the radar. notice how it hooks around the storm. we knew

be at the side of joplin, missouri every step of the way. 142 people are confirmed dead after that efweek ago today. 44 people still unaccounted for, and all those who were hurt or suffered losses, all of them receiving the xhfrcomforts of t president of the united states. he also promised the federal government will do all it can to help joplin rebuild. here in the newsroom, we are also watching other major news on this memorial day event. what's happening right now today in washington, the annual rolling thunder motorcycle ride and rally. we will have a live report from there momentarily. now back to joplin, missouri and a memorial service has just ended there. cnn white house correspondent there. now focusing on the domestic issues here and making a very stern promise to the people there of joplin that they will not be forgotten, that the federal government will be there every step of the way. >> that's right. and you heard the president tie in that international trip to this event as well when he talked about how as he was traveling throughout europe, that various world leaders wo

the national weather service is categorizing the tornado as an ef 5 making it the 8th deadliest tornado on record. more bad weather is on the way, including the chance of more tornadoes. >>> it's 4:37. let's check in on traffic here in the bay area. good morning, sal. >> traffic is doing pretty well for the most part. we have spots, but for the most part we are off to a nice start on northbound and -- on westbound, i should say, 80 heading to the mcarthur with no major issues driving to the maze. traffic continues to look good coming into the bay bridge toll plaza. traffic is moving well coming onto the bridge. lower deck, that construction is being moved away. but you will see some lanes blocked on the lower deck of the bay bridge. i want to mention in santa rosa -- first of all, northbound 280 traffic is moving well getting up to highway 17. santa rosa clearing an accident that's been there for a while, northbound 101 at todd road. we'll keep an eye on that. 4:38. let's go to steve. >>> thank you. system sweeps in through the north bay. most of the peninsula, east bay south, more clou

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que el publica sepa que queremos estar seguro que cualquier caso que se haga de una forma con buena efy queremos estar seguros que hsi hay problema amis que esta información sea investigada. >>> uno de los casos anulados es del hijo de mariarooet y javier hubo video la pareja ha acusado a los oficiales de haber robado varios acto incluidos dos ipod y un celular que no feeueron reportados como evidencia. >>> el problema que tenemos es el tercero caso con lo mismos oficial de policía donde estamos diciendo que ellos han robado, cosas que han en panagiotis kone, otraed. >>> así mismo el de dice que un hombre sacó de su boca una droga algo que no se ve en el video el departamento de policía de san francisco declaró escrita que la alegación serán... quieren decir que los agentes son inocente hasta comprobar su culpa. >>> el departamento de policía stos. ancisco ha indicado que los hombres y númeroing son egalajadores en esta agencia y no van a loto lugar casos do nes do neshts regresamos contigo a los estudios. oaklandece que hay mucha ostodia a ungracias. tar a policía de oakland puede ---

a rare ef-5, the strongest there is. mean while, throughout the american south this morning how faith and the faithful are playing such an enormous role in the recovery efforts. >>> royal vacation. prince william and catherine postpone their honeymoon for a private weekend get away. we have new details inside the reception. what did prince harry say and the best man speech? >> and d.c. come inges, hollywood hits washington, as the stars rub shoulders with politicians at the white house correspondence dinner. the main target of the evening, donald trump. >> mr. trump would certainly bring some change to the white house. see what we got up there. >>> from abc news, this is good morning america with bianna golodryga and dan harris. >>> good morning, america, i'm bianna golodryga in new york. >>> and i'm dan harris in tuscaloosa, alabama. good morning, everybody. we're here covering the aftermath of the deadliest tornado outbreak since the great depression. this morning, look at this. we have a tale of two churches, one comp

the tornado was placed in the ef 5 category. this means that the twister had winds of over 200 miles per hour. 123 people have died as a result of this storm. 1500 more are still missing. officials say that doesn't necessarily mean that they are injured or killed. their loved ones can't find them right now. and so they are not giving up. >> we are still in search and rescue mode and will be for the foreseeable future. >> we are hopeful that we will still be finding people. >> reporter: >> but there is the possibility that the search could be suspended in a few hours as the weather is expected to take a turn for the worst. high wind and heavy rain and lightning is forecasted. there is another possibility for another round of tornadoes. >> hopefully they will get -- >> oh, my gosh. >> -- out of there and safe. >> the motion is tremendous. >> and this is why. this was a very frightening scene outside of oklahoma city. a local tv crew got up close and telephone pole snapped and was sent flying through the air. a tornado killed two p

there was one f-5 -- ef-5 in 2008. there was one in 2007. there was one in 1999. there's four already this year. we're into may and into june and we're still not out of the peak tornado season. >> i must ask you because when i see that i think of the next big storm threat which is a hurricane. >> mm-hmm. >> anything that says this historic draught, historic flooding, warm water in the gulf of mexico portends danger for hurricane season? >> maybe. the snow got here because of la nina. that is gone. la nina can bring bigger hurricanes because of the shear that it makes or the lack of it in the pacific and the atlantic and also in the gulf. i'm worried about the warmer water. we are always worried about the warmer water, but 2004 was a big tornado season. didn't kill a lot of people. we had a huge number of tornadoes. remember of 2004? i do. charlie, gene, francis, ivan. i was on the speech almost the entire summer. i didn't enjoy it because i was watching hurricanes come in one after the other after the other. >> chad myers, thanks. >>> two cities devastated by torn

. >> reporter: ef-four, 200 miles per hour winds.t a mile wide trail through a city of 50,000, nothing left standing. >> total devitation. hospital down. high school down. >> indiscribable. >> reporter: when the twister hit, some took refuge in a convenience store and piled into a small walk-in cooler. you feel their terror. [ screams ] >> the only thing left standing was the cooler we were in. everything, everything around it was gone. >> reporter: st.st. john's medical center took a direct hit. >> every window is blown out, debris hanging out of the windows. cars stacked all over. >> reporter: four people died in the hospital. x-rays sucked out of the building were found 70 miles away. even as they searched for survivors, emergency workers had to cope with their own losses. >> it has been destroyed. >> reporter: catherine heenan, kron 4 news. >>> warning sirens gave them 15 minutes to take cover but the residents say the rain and hail from the storm were so loud they drowned out the sound of the sirens. >>> it was a nice day today,

we don't get many of these ef-4s and ef-5s especially on the higher end. >> that is what you said hit tuscaloosa, alabama, last month. >> similar in strength and size, on the ground six to seven miles and we're seeing that in the damaged path and pictures. >> ali said it's like a moon scape there. the pictures don't even really give you the full sense of what it feels like because there's just piles of cars and rubble and flattened buildings just really difficult. >> and when i was down in tuscaloosa and birmingham, that's exactly the way to describe it. it looks like a moonscape. there's vegetation and buildings that used to be there and are not. you feel like you're in a completely different part of the world because that part of the world should have vegetation, should have trees and it doesn't. >> trying to tell people where to meet us for our live shot location, there are no street signs. you have to feel your way and might not be where you thought. it's a really interesting even the markers of the town. >> it's surreal. >> one other note to reiterate, when they say there's a 45%

ef 5 with winds greater than 200 miles per hour . that makes that tornado the deadliest in the united states in six decades with at least 122 dead and 7000 buildings destroid. they spent another day looking for survivors but didn't have luck. president obama plans to visit the area on sunday when he gets back home. >> our thoughts and prayers are with the family who are suffering at this moment. >> all we can do is let them know that all of america cares about them. we will do everything we can to make sure they recover. >> fema officials were on the ground to asiss the damage of the nation's deadliest tornado in 60 years. >> oh, my gosh. get out of here. massive tornado in peidmont. get out of the way. >> frightening moments in oklahoma city this afternoon. live coverage from tv station kfor as a tornado half mile wide blew through the region. it was on the ground an hour and killed two people. it forced the closer of interstate 40. they are tracking those tornados on doppler radar. you will see a large part of the plains dealing wi

. >> reporter: the devastation stretches for six miles, more than 1,000 structures destroyed by the ef-5 tornado with winds over 200 miles an hour. but those are just numbers. the reality is that these are lives splintered and torn apart. >> well, we looked at it for two days now and it doesn't get any easier when you look at it. >> reporter: if there is any hope here, it's been found by the search and rescue teams that pulled two more survivors from the rubble. hope that can be seen in survivors who are finding remnants of their lives before the storm. but that's tempered by the somber news that more victims have been identified. more than 120 people now confirmed dead as a result of the violent twister. >> world war three. this is like a bomb dropped on us. >> reporter: the aftermath of that battle is overwhelming. >> if you are alive and you got out of it, you had a miracle. >> reporter: emotions just like everything else here are stretched to their limits. jay gray, nbc news, joplin, missouri. >> and as jay just mentioned, oklahoma is also digging through tornado destruction. last

ef-4 on the tornado scale. six miles, that is it. the damage took place in eight minutes. that is whow fast it came and went and it was all done. tornado outbreak is likely here. strong tornados and life tl threatening weather. these storms will arrive late probably right around midnight. the storm system that is hitting the country today, this morning still bringing showers and storms throw wyoming and colorado. we have cleared it out. 71 tuesday. tomorrow, it looks like that is when the next storm system will bring in clouds and showers. that is a look at the nationaln day. portland seattle. update on the forecast coming up. >> bill, thank you. coming up. sony stumbles. dale outs and lady gaga and sampson. plus fans have been waiting for it. but will a last minute legal hit make them wait longer? >> the best save of the nhl playoffs. you are watching "early today." >> good morning and welcome back to "early today." >> the russian space capsule has returned to earth. the spacecraft delivered a crew of three including one american. they had been docked at the space station

ef 5 with winds over 200 miles per hour. at least 122 people were killed making it the deadliest twister in the u.s. in nearly 60 years. 2 more survivors were pulled from the debris in the past 24 hour hours. search continues for some 1500 resident still missing. rescue teams canva canvassing neighborhood. family looks for 12-year-old boy parents are in the hospita hospital. >> last seen in a bath tub. we have not been able to locate the bath tub. so we are out here trying to see if we can find out any information on where he might be at or see if we can find him in the did he breeze. >>reporter: she put her son in the bath tub and made him wear his bicycle helmet. >> at one point the toilet flew up out of the ground and hit my son in the head and then hit me in the back and the bicycle helmet saved his life. >>reporter: city of joplin has a plan in place for the emergency workers here in the field should another tornado hit. actually own meteorologist on staff and they think they can give the workers advance notice of up to

they are f-4s and ef-5s out there and much of the time they get range land.s that don't have a lot of town. we don't report on them. people are still injured and it's one and two. when you get tornadoes like we've seen, the size that we've seen. rolling through video it becomes a big story. this year we've had a kohler than normal air outlook bumping into south and warm air always to the south. warm air doesn't come from the south. look at all the humidity and the heat. look at down in barbados. doesn't happen, small little things and warm air from the north clashes with the warm air that thinks it's already springtime. hey, i'm spring. we should be wife. cold air comes down with a cold front with an upper level system that comes out of northwest and it pushes this warm air up, and when warm air rise is it gets bubbly and the same warm air you feel in an aircraft flying across the country. you have rising current and we've pushed that rising hair and higher and higher in the sky and can get select tornadoes and that's happened and we're not really at a report

-4, ef-5 scale. when you have 75% of the town completely eblit rated here. those are the kinds of wings we're talking about. we'll pay attention to what the survey crew says. there are the explosion of thunderstorms that we had through the day on sunday. weather front continues to move east. the weather front diminishing significantly. so the good friends in joplin will be recovering with just some scattered showers behind this. certainly not expecting severe for today. so excellent news here. we'll keep you posted on what the survey crews find. this is a radar, zoomed-in radar perspective, the classic hook echo that we're used to seeing. i've circled this here. that shouldn't be there. that's not a hail core or rain, that's debris as did got picked up by the radar. as it got picked up by the tornado. that's why your neighbor's house can end up several miles away. incredible scenes coming out of joplin. the other story is the developing tropical storm. with the latest computer model forecast, a littl