storm chaser jason mclaughlin caught this one on camera. amazingly. look at the size of that thing. any deaths. rescue crews as i said combing through the wreckage thousand. jason joins us from arlington, texas. jason, that was like enormous. >> yeah, it was pretty intense. the tornado that affected this area and caused scenes all across the metroplex, this particular tornado touched down five miles south of here yesterday afternoon and it was a very violent tornado. >> is this one of the more violent ones you have caught on camera? >> just mainly the proximity of where it was. just all the damage that did occur from it. you know, being in a big area like this there's a lot of homes all over. there's subdivisions all over f if -- the areas where the tornadoes touched down. not nearly the strongest tornado i have seen, but they were relatively small, but they were relatively intense. that was something different about them. >> have you ever experienced so many tornadoes coming down at one time? >> there's been very, very limited times. this is the only time i can think of this has oc

storm chaser jason mclaughlin caught this tornado. >> tornado down. tornado on the ground.right behind the tree. tornado on the ground. large tornado on the ground! large tornado! large tornado on the ground >> a short time later he caught this tornado in southeast dallas. >> i'm en route behind the storm. that's a tornado right there. it's important that everybody take cover. this is not a storm that you can -- you shouldn't be outside during this. very strong. the tornadoes have not been -- they haven't moved consistently. they have kind of wobbled, back filled throughout the day. so again, very dangerous situation. this is on 548. oh, my goodness. we've got what appears to be a roll of businesses being hit at this type. oh, no it's going to hit forney high school. >> jason is "outfront" with us on the phone. what was the most frightening or bizarre thing you saw today? >> one of the most frightening thing i had seen, in the forney part. it was kind of immediately everybody came running outside screaming and it's just -- it's just one of those things you don't ever want t

that is the same twister that storm chaser jason mclaughlin recorded and he was shocked by the amount he saw from it. >>> number two, the united nations confirmed what outfront has been saying more than a week that al qaeda is becoming a fwroeg threat in northern mali. two weeks after a military coup seized power in the country, the u.n. security council called for an end to violence and return to constitutional rule. there have been reports of violence in the north and power outages across the country. an american is working and living in the capital and he came outfront earlier today. >> things are mostly calm here, but it's pretty clear that we're going to start having some problems. there's still commercial banks that you're able to get money from, but the central bank has been shut down. we're stocking up on fuel and basic essentials. in the north of the country there's at least two rebel groups that have effectively taken control of all of north mali right now. there's a lot of different reports about looting and there's been allegations of vandalism, of rape even. a lot of peop

storm chaser jason mclaughlin captured this dramatic video of a tornado touching down in forney texas i was thinking about the homes and the lives and everything people have built up until this time just destroyed in a couple of seconds. >> reporter: dallas-ft. worth is struggling to its feet today. they've had to cancel 200 flights and they are checking the planes that were on the ground when the hail storm blew through. it is expected and hoped that by the holiday weekend things will get back to normal there and people will be able to get on with their easter plans. miguel marquez, cnn, arlington, texas. >>> more than 100 planes were damaged by hail as they sat stranded on the tarmac. cnn ireporters captured the sound. listen to this. i want to bring in chad myers. you were on the air yesterday when all of this happened out of dallas. explain to us what we can anticipate today or in the days ahead. >> today we're okay and tomorrow we're okay. this storm that the upper level storm that's coming out of the rockies kind of stalled. and when that happens you don't get the progression. w