video from jefferson county alabama. costs hundreds of homes destroyed, a torn apart by tornadoes. at least two people have been killed. rescue teams went door-to- door to check on people. take a look at this video from center police, alabama. seven counties in the state reported damage from the tortoise. if the salvation army at red cross are set up. arkansas, tennessee and mississippi were also hit. >>mark: is san francisco, the latest on ross mirkirimi, an ex-girlfriend has now come forward claiming that he was abusive toward her when they were dating three years ago. his court in february 24th. he will be facing three misdemeanor charges stemming from an incident on new year's eve. he has pleaded not guilty at his wife denies that mirkirimi attack her. he will also be a core of thursday's fighting a protective order issued by the court which keeps away from his wife in a two year old son. new details of the san francisco prosecutors arrested on suspicion of domestic violence, it turns out the prosecutor's husband was also taken into custody brief there were both booked into jai

this is paradise valley northeast of birmingham and this is jefferson county, alabama. actually a spot the tornadoes went through back in the spring when we had the big huge one that went from tuscaloosa to birmingham. this is an area hit tomorrow night now, and a lot of people lost their homes and amazing we didn't have more fatalities. the pictures are incredible. the official count from our rare january tornado outbreak, it looks like there was about 12 total tornadoes. national weather service is still doing the surveys. we had more reports but some of those may have been long track tornadoes like this one may have been started here and gone through the area we just showed you the picks of. arkansas had their fair share of damage also. the that storm system responsible all of the tornadoes is safely up into canada and cold front is pushing off the east coast. the cold front will take the moisture and clouds with it but leaving behind a lot of fog. especially here in the southeast. so keep that in mind for your morning travel. just not a lot of cold air on the map. i

of faja along >>darya: this is from jefferson county alabama, tornadoes destroyed hundreds of homes. beware people were killed and more than 100 injured. rescue teams are going door to door. this video is from center point alabama. seven counties reported damage from 20 as. the salvation army at red cross have deployed to the area. the storms come as the state is recovering from last april's deadly tornadoes. >>mark: new details in san francisco. the latest on ross mirkirimi, an expert fred is coming forward saying he was abusive towards her. the judge set a date for the domestic abuse trial. he is facing three in this trial * three misdemeanor charges. his wife denies that she was attacked. meanwhile, mirkirimi is due back in court on thursday and friday in a protective order issued by the court which is keeping him away from his wife and two year-old son. >>mark: a san francisco prosecutors arrested over the weekend, now it turns out her husband was also taken into custody. she is an assistant da. she and her husband were both put into jail on saturday on suspicion of misdemeanor do

. >>> in other news tonight, an update on the january tornado outbreak in jefferson county, alabama, as we showed you here last evening. there's still so much damage. the death toll stands at two with two dozen people hospitalized tonight, 200 homes destroyed in all and another 200 damaged. the twisters also destroyed an elementary school and some folks are worried about qualifying for the money they need to rebuild the school because that county filed for bankruptcy protection back in november. if you live in the northern u.s. or canada, you're in for what could be a heck of a light show tonight if you can stand the cold temperatures outside. expected to hts ar be visible as far south as montana, maine, upstate new york, perhaps the edges of pennsylvania. the lights will be one by-product of a massive solar flare that has triggered the strongest solar storm in more than six years. waves of energy and radiation, because this happened a few days ago, they're just now getting here, are bombarding the planet earth at 4 million miles an hour. that could cause minor disruptions to satelli

this is jefferson county alabama, actually, not tennessee.he tornadoes destroyed several homes and at least two people have been killed. more than 100 people were injured. rescue teams went door-to-door in neighborhoods to check on people. here is if tornado video from the center of the town in alabama, offs seven counties in the state reported damage from these tornadoes. the salvation army and red cross deploy teams to the area. the state is still recovering from last april's deadly tornadoes. arkansas, tennessee and mississippi were also hit in addition to alabama. >>mark: we will be right back as the kron4 news continues. call we are finally drying out around the bay area. off >>james: by 2:00 p.m. and will see widespread '60s. los '60s. 61 or 62 will be the warmest. grace of sunshine mostly cloudy, your 7 day around the bay, really nice. tuesday through monday it mild weather. temperatures in the 60s for the most part. wednesday and thursday is the warmest of the two days. >> i do not see any hot spots, major delays or problems. the west

steve osunsami is in jefferson county, alabama. >> reporter: what happened here?nn and jim adams are struggling to understand why. why them? why their home was destroyed in the tornadoes last april. and why it happened again. >> we're probably more terrified this time than the first time. >> yeah. >> because we knew what was fixing to happen. >> reporter: this time, most of the walls held. but every window shattered, sending them running for cover. >> we were on the floor. and we think, what have i done to deserve this again? >> reporter: the adams and so many other families here had time to get to their safe place. >> a tornado warning. >> reporter: because the warnings came early. >> the western corner of the state. >> reporter: the forecasters began spreading the word last thursday. two people were killed and there were many injuries. authorities tell us tornadoes that strike at night often kill more. families were glued to their smartphones. michael rogers had an alert on his that woke him up. since monday, 20,000 people here have downloaded the app and signed

but it was jefferson county, alabama, that got the worst of it. that same storm system now stretches from the gulf coast to the great lakes and is moving east tonight. mark strassmann is on the ground in the town of clay, alabama. mark? >> reporter: we've heard so many amazing stories of survival, scott. i'm standing in what was the front bedroom of a 73-year-old woman who was home alone. the tornado knocked down all the walls of that bedroom and neighbors found her over here, her head still on the mattress she was... her head on the pillow covered in bricks. but she was unconscious but alive. this is your bedroom. wow. >> reporter: aaliyah orr was startled awake at 4:00 a.m. by the sound of 150 mile per hour winds. when you look at your son's room now, it's amazing. >> i can't believe he was sleeping in that bed just minutes before this happened he was in that bed. >> reporter: and this is the bathtub where she and her husband roy orr darted for cover with her two-year-old son mitchell. >> we got in the tub, he got on top of us and we just... we

he's very concerned he thinks people are at the breaking point and he uses the example of jefferson county alabama which was part of an open rack at the local politicians who accepted bribes from j.p. morgan well he said even if one tenth of one percent of the population there starts burning cars in retaliation against j.p. morgan you have a big crisis on your hands right well why is this such a huge leap to make if the banks with obama steal the nation's wealth then they're going to people who are just a franchised rising up in the burning cars is one way to get their voice heard they're not their voices are not being heard at the ballot box or they don't have a jobs. we were all stolen they have the money it was all stolen and the thieving is continuing with the pension funds are going to be thieves this year and a lot more of the nightmarish larceny will continue of course you can have burned cars but they don't make the connection do they they don't make the connection between burning cars in l.a. and there's some more arson going on the east coast as well as just reading about with the confis

at least two people now are dead, and jefferson county, alabama. damage is reported there and in arkansas. and tornado watches still up in a number of places. cnn meteorologist rob marciano, i heard you back there. can't keep up with the board and everything else going on. what's the latest? >> what's eerie about this situation is that there's a path of the tornado took is a similar path to the one that hit them in april. north of tuscaloosa and northern birmingham. not similar results but still two fatalities. and i want to show you the latest on where this is all going. the most damage has been north of birmingham. and center point, paradise valley. this area here about, i don't know, maybe 15, 20 miles north of birmingham, alabama. this happened overnight when it was dark, dangerous situation. two fatalities. a tat least 100 people injured with this storm. and there was another cell south of birmingham with similar results, although it's less populated down there. we didn't have as much structural damage, but injuries nonetheless around clayton

patton road, upper columbus road, such as that. >> we are looking at pictures i believe from jefferson county, alabama experiencing in tuscaloosa county. because we have seen homes that are completely collapsed and debris across requir debris across roadways. what are you hearing about what's happening there? and what storms are coming at you? >> the storms that went through jefferson county i believe came through northern tuscaloosa county. we had a tornado warning as it entered tuscaloosa from pickens. and then we had an extension of that as it went from east tuscaloosa into jefferson. so, you know, we can't overemphasize enough particular storms that come through this time of morning that people need a way of being alerted to that, an all hazard radio, so that when something comes through in the hours of the morning when normally you are not up you have that ability to be awakened and go to your safe place. >> i was in tuscaloosa not very long ago, and you could still see the damage from last april's storm that really didn't look like they had made a lot of headway. i guess the cleanup had been don

alabama and our correspondent for the southeast, jonathan serry and some of the worst is in jefferson county, alabama. what are you seeing? >> well, everywhere you look we see utility crews wasting no time getting the power back on. officials in jefferson county between 250 to 300 homes were damaged or destroyed and as bad as it is, the two people lost their lives in these twisters, local officials say they're amazed the death toll isn't any higher, given the timing of this tornado. it came through here during the early morning hours, when most people were still asleep in their homes, shep. >> jonathan serry live in the middle of it all in jeffers county, alabama. >> new recordings, new to oust, surfaced from the night on the cruise ship disaster off the italian coast. we'll see what more the capital had to say and some passengers were quite literally dying. and a u.s. senator triggering an alarm at an airport screening check point so they say i want to pat you down. and the senator says, no you don't. that's ahead from the journalists at fox news on this monday's fox report. we know a place where to

. >>> at least two tornadoes ripped through jefferson county, alabama, overnight killing two people and more than 200 homes were destroyed. hundreds of others are heavily damaged. >>> senator mark kirk is intensive care following a stroke. part of his skull had to be removed earlier to allow for swelling in his brain. no word yet on how long his recovery could take. >>> representative gabrielle giffords resigned over the weekend. today she spent one of her final days in office finishing the community meeting she started more than a year ago, the day she was shot. giffords is expected to attend a state of the union address tomorrow. >>> now back to hardball. >>> we're back. president obama's gearing up to make the state of the union address tomorrow night, of course. we wanted to examine some of those tall tales that republicans have been pushing about president obama over the last three years. jonathan alter wrote a ground-breaking piece taking issue with some of those myths republicans like to spin. joining me now to walk through some of the list, our political white house reporter dav

alabama. entire subdivision wiped off the map. in jefferson countytornado with 150-mile-per-hour winds struck early yesterday, many families were actually sleeping when it hit. bob van dillen is joining us from clay, alabama. pob bob, we know two people have lost their lives in clay. rescuers are they still looking for survivors? >> no. at this point they are not. that rescue stage is over with. everybody is accounted for. what they're doing now, if you can look behind me, a lot of people that own those houses are trying to pick through and see what they can salvage. about everybody at every blank house, look at the damage we have, it's in all degrees. one pile of rubble behind me, that's a house that is totally gone. that one is just absolutely demolished. a little bit of the slab is still visible on the left and the debris pile is off to the right. the next house you go to is another house that has a couple rooms left, but we only had one serious injury in this subdivision and it was at that house right there. a guy got sucked out of his room and t

. >>> amateur radio reporting, quote, complete destruction in jefferson county, alabama. >> wow. >>>ue workers will pump out fuel from the costa cordia cruise liner. meantime, search teams discover a 13th victim. at least 19 people are still unaccounted for. >>> and it's the new york giants, new england patriots in the super bowl. less than two weeks from now. the giants beat the 49ers in over nnight if you missed it. at rematch of super bowl xlii which the giants won 17-14. i want to show you this quickly. very rare that the new york post and the "new york daily news" has the dame headline, super bowl! they both did the same thing. "super! ." i love it. i don't know anything about football but it looked like a super headline. >>> gabby giffords is stepping down. >> she's going to make it official later on this week. and, also, we're watching mississippi as well because a judge there could rule on whether some pardons were legal. it's very unusual video we're showing you. that's gabby giffords. we're definitely talking both stories. i don't want to confuse you. >> there are the pardo

we have been talking to emergency management officials and in jefferson county, alabama, we have at leastof damage down there. we'll continue to watch the situation. tornado watch in effect in central alabama until 10:00 a.m. as we go to the wide view of the u.s. satellite and radar, you can see the long line of showers and thunderstorms stretching from the great lakes down into the gulf coast. back behind it, we have snow developing. rain, mountain snows in the pacific northwest. rain down to california today. freezing rain in pennsylvania. new york into new england. we have the risk of strong storms down through the southeast. >> good morning, everyone. there could be minor icing in some of the neighborhoods north and west of baltimore to start the day today. temperatures will climb above freezing in most areas. we should make it up to 44. be >>> and that's your latest weather. matt? >> coming up next, a woman facing five years behind bars though she was acquitted of murdering her husband. she'll speak out in an exclusive live interview right after these messages. . i am so glad to get

an 83-year-old man and a 16-year-old girl were killed in jefferson county, alabama. the teen's body was found 40 feet from her home, still on her bedroom mattress. her father said, "she just la looked like she was sleeping like a baby. but she wasn't sleeping. she was gone." rescuers in italy have found another body aboard the "costa concordia," bringing the number of dead to 16. another 16 people are still missing. the cruise ship crashed more than a week ago and survivors have still sharing their stories. you're looking at video shot by denise and david saba of miami. they were on the ship for their honeymoon. they were among the first passengers to evacuate and say crew members were clearly not prepared for this type of emergency. >>> new developments in a shocking story that we've been following. scores of misplaced headstones found at several military cemeteries across the country. in addition, eight people were buried in the wrong spot. veteran affairs department says a review was ordered last october after workers at ft. sam, houston, national cemetery in san

this just coming in, you're looking at new video of a neighborhood destroyed, destroyed in jefferson county, alabamafter a series of mons strous storms ripped through the area across the southeast. i should say, as well, at least two people are dead. another 100 injured. more than 200 homes were simply ripped apart. that number expected to go up as the day goes on. those who marrowly escaped the disaster are simply happy to be alive. >> we made it just in the nick of time. the good lord blessed us. we lost our house but at least we have -- i'm sorry -- we got our family -- and that's all that matters right now. >> cnn meteorologist reynolds wolf is joining news clay, alabama and he's right in the middle of the devastation. reynolds, set the scene for us. this is horrific! >> it is hard to believe, wolf. this is the second time in less than a year we've had a deadly tornado incident in the state of alabama. hast last year we had parts of the area in tuscaloosa and some west of birmingham were devastated. this is northeast of birmingham here in clay where we have the issue. the george brook community.

alabama. jefferson county. mostly the paradise valley area was hit the hardest. 200 homes, 100 injuries. when you see the ddamage like t it's amazing we only had two fatalities. those are the first tornado fatalities of this year. this is the map. they started in arkansas and then we had a little bit of a break and then they formed on the border of mississippi, alabama and then the really big ones were right here just outside of birmingham. and in all, it looks like there's about 12 tornadoes and some were long track tornadoes, on the ground for a while. it appears that about six of those in alabama. we'll get the official reports in the next two or three days. very rare for january. not unheard of, but rare. that storm system responsible for -- it's now up in canada. a pretty quiet day in the eastern half of the country. but the next storm is on its way. and this is throw mover and will bring a soaking rain it our friends mis-texas. our computer is estimating that we could see some areas picking up two to three inches of rain. text as still has this drought that's gone on for like the l

homeowners in jefferson county, alabama picking up the pieces this morning after violent, deadly tornadoeshe storm responsible for killing at least two people. just look at these aerial photos. you can see that these houses in birmingham, completely torn apart. look at the devastation. it looks like a bomb went off in those neighborhoods. this morning, people are starting to pick up the pieces once again. let's look at the map, find out where the rain is and as you can see, portions of the new england states, also we've had some overnight through the mid atlantic, moving out to the atlantic. rain at this hour, along the gulf coast and in the panhandle of florida. also a little bit of snow through the dakota, through the western portion of nebraska. current readings, teens and 20s north and central plains. freezing now in rapid city. only 28 in chicago. here in new york, we've got 43. mid atlantic temperatures, in the 50s. along the gulf coast, temperatures currently in the 60s. later on on this talks going to be a beautiful day in tampa where they had the debate last night. 82 should be th

alabama, area. a 16-year-old boy, an 82-year-old man. this in jefferson county. this damage you're looking at is at center point, alabama, which is northeast of birmingham. as these systems have pushed through, we have a severe risk of severe storms from louisiana all the way to atlanta. as this system pushes in. and as you look on the radar, we've got a severehunderstorm watch. and i should say now a tornado watch for central alabama till 11:00 a.m. in georgia till 4:00 this afternoon. we could be looking at anywhere from dangerous lightning, winds and gusty hail. so we are going to be really watching this over the next 12 hours. matt? >> we'll get your local forecast coming up in just a moment. thank you very much. >>> now to the battle for florida as the gop presidential race heats up on the heels of newt gingrich's big win in south carolina. nbc's peter alexander's live in tampa for us this morning. hi, peter. >> reporter: matt, good morning to you. after getting badly beaten in south carolina, as you mentioned, mitt romney hustled down here to florida. he's a