it was marciano who provided the access to all the mahdi the somali president. became to get presidential authorization to import toxic waste. so was there a network put in place to export toxic waste to somalia leave the ship books also no matter. they can only eat and there was no note or talk yes here i'll do this to sinbad for a lot of that you will let me tell you it was just to make money it was a fraud that i shouldn't take the money upfront and then say sorry i couldn't do anything he and he the material couldn't be shipped or some such excuse through free it's a sort of scam should be the way it works is i offer to do something for you you pay me to vance to do it but in the end it doesn't work out in the meantime i've made twenty or thirty thousand a year go for it you. let your dish will inquiry established that then somali president was also to receive his share from the toxic waste straight roughly thirty five percent of the profits. today ali money is no longer president he lives in ny. the cultural capital of kenya and refuses to speak to journali

he says marciano plan to hide the radioactive waste in huge container such as this one. these containers were to be buried in the jetty of a porch he was building in north mogadishu. italian authorities used amateur photos showing such metal containers being buried in the concrete as evidence. where they full of radioactive material a schedule only claims. today the port is out of bounds it is in the hands of al qaeda islamised malicious. new images here to console lies ahead some serious problems i'm not sure maybe someone told him if you can first of this we can help you much after all the ship that arrives fully laden with waste up the coast of somalia if it wasn't going to do enter a port in offloading barrels the barrels would just be dumped at sea and that's it was the problem will show up with. on a day that the journalist ilario lp was killed with a camera man in the streets of mogadishu a white italian man was the first on the scene. he seems to know more about it than the others is none other than john carlos marciano. sad because i arrived right afterwards and

he seems to know more about it than the others is none other than john carlos marciano. sad because i arrived right afterwards and there was a lot of confusion i was upset. i thought it was a planned ambush because the core had been machine gunned down nine bullets need a good i said to myself they should never have been in this place and then what they said and how they got to be here well my conscience is clear being when working with boffo know what progressivity are questions about the lp murder brought the interview to an end cause. that's enough why are you asking these questions you know no one has ever been charged with the murder of the lottery and i'll be here i have never nor for trafficking waste. the will to fuel the. italian authorities did eventually find a somali citizen guilty for the killing of the journalist is always proclaimed his innocence and many believe the case is still unresolved. any evidence from the phone tapping of skag loonies network has been thrown out as invalid. none of the three men will be troubled as a tally in magistrates have neve

rob marciano in the extreme weather center with a look at that. so rob, what's it looking like this morning? >> well, good morning, guys. folks who live in the south, south of the mason dixon, you should be okay, but north of that, we have trouble. over 170 reports mostly of wind, damaging winds yesterday, across the stationary boundary and the bigger cities including chicago and detroit, got hit pretty hard. guess what? the bigger cities now off to the east will get hit hard too. a piece of that energy is rolling across the allegheny and the appalachians down through across delaware into the new york city area. severe line of thunderstorms stretching from the 684 interchange and 84 all the way down through trenton and this is moving rapidly off to the east at about 60 miles an hour. so the big apple about to get pounded with heavy rain, a lot of lightning and gusty winds with this. these are deemed severe. just be careful over the next 30 to 40 minutes, if you can, take cover, do so. we're also going to reinvigorate this line of storms that devel

rob marciano is here with us in new york. rob, yesterday the search and rescue folks had a couple lightning strikes and bad weather yesterday and could get hit again today. >> this is not the perfect weather for doing what they're doing right now, which is trying to save lives and dig through dangerous territory. we had almost two inches of rainfall since the tornado came through. a lot of times when a tornado comes through, with a cold front, the weather clears out and at least it's dry. and not windy. but yesterday they had wind, rain, they had thunder and lightning and now we have flash flood warning out for joplin proper, that's the red highlighted counties there. we don't expect to see a whole lot of rain in the next few hours, but later on today we expect things to ramp up. here's the rainfall, the bulk of it, a couple rain showers should miss joplin proper. this is moving to the east. folks on the east coast are going to be under the gun for severe weather today too. back through nashville, ten vi, through across the a

let's check in with rob marciano at the extreme weather center in atlanta. what are we looking at as we head into this memorial day weekend? >> a little quiet for some, active for others. what was supposed to be a less turbulent day, we only had five reports of tornadoes yesterday, over 300 reports of winds that brought on some damaging. saw some of that in alabama and georgia, upstate new york, parts of pennsylvania, seeing some of this also. here's the cluster, the second cluster that moved through atlanta last night and at one point we had over 2 hun,000 people without power. that number down to 50,000. we have fatalities because of falling trees in and around the atlanta metropolitan area. the action last night and even now across the northeast has mostly been north and west of the i-95 corridor, from the allegheny and cumberland through the finger lakes region, northern parts of the adirondacks and into vermont. as a matter of fact, saint lawrence county, upstate new york near the canadian border, 65-mile-an-hour wind gusts and northern vermont seeing 6

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rob marciano reports from terrebonne bay. >> reporter: greg's family has been farming oysters here fore than 100 years. >> this is basically where the fresh and the saltwater meet. >> reporter: perfect for oysters. but get too much fresh water like during a historic flood and the oysters die. >> being out on the water, there's a lot of unexpecteds. it's very similar to harvesting any crop out in the land or out on the water. >> it's been a lot of back to backs, katrina, gus taf, oil spill, now this stuff. >> ike. you missed that one. >> it's been tough for you guys. >> we just have -- you know what? there's a little bit of pirate in each one of us. i think you figure your way through it. >> reporter: we tie up to a working boat to check on his crop. >> once everything is on the table, these guys go to town and they start working the oysters. >> they're going to town all right. look at the harvest so far. we're not even mid morning. what kind of take will you have on a day like today? >> we'll probably end up with about 50 sacks which is about 5,000 pounds. >> time to sample the product

cnn meteorologist rob marciano is in alabama for us.een four days, i guess it is four days too early to ask if things are getting back to normal? >> reporter: well, they are trying. we have a huge influx of people from really all over the country here that have come down here unsolicited just to volunteer and help. we are in the community of hope just north and east of tuscaloosa, a very hard-hit area. you can see that from the devastation behind me all across the valley, but peek over here. this is just one of the many kind of depots of supplies or victims can come here to grab food, water, grab diapers, grab baby food, anything they might need just for basic survival. and that's all volunteers and donated. we spoke to the woman who ran that operation, she said it all developed with grassroot efforts of her saying i'm going down to tuscaloosa from talladega to start this operation. it has blown up. this is what she said earlier. >> for our families from talladega and the people that we met, we were just driving around the first day aft

thanks so much, rob marciano.find out how you can make a difference to help tornado victims in the south, visit our impact your world page. that's at cnn.com/impact. >>> so the national weather service now confirming that the tornado that nearly wiped hackleburg, alabama, off the map was an ef-5. that means winds of more than 200 miles per hour. cnn's martin savidge talked with one woman who was visiting her in-laws when the tornado blew the house apart. >> at first it felt like if you just hooked to something and just took off dragging it. the whole house. and then after that it just felt kind of like being in a drier with lots of sticks and rocks and sand in your face and your eyes. then everything just stopped. >> did you say anything, scream anything? >> oh, my god, oh, my god. that's about all i could get out. just hang on, hang on. >> were you able to all hang on? >> we did all hang on. my son is 2. and he did come out of the -- the huddle. and he landed probably about ten feet away from us sitting. >> hunte

. >>> let's check in with rob marciano. we've been talking for days that seems like one area after another is under the gun. how about today? >> today looks lighter than the last two days. last night was no picnic, as you know. 81 reports of tornadoes yesterday. from what we can tell no fatalities. that in itself a small miracle. it is rotating slowly off to the east. the only watch and warnings that we've seen so far this morning. down across texas. there you go, corpus christi. a little cell there that was at one point severe. that's been allowed to expire. that thunderstorm watch stays in effect for the next few hours. here's the main system itself. centered over minneapolis. you can see it elongating. it's beginning to weaken somewhat, but the threat for severe weather will exist mostly to the east of louisville and up to charleston. along the appalachians. as it progresses eastward, it will get weaker still. nonetheless, 2:00, 3:00, the usual time period of the highlighted area in red, that's where we thing the severe

cnn meteorologist rob marciano is here to explain.we're seeing some pretty apocalyptic scenes, particularly from joplin here. what is going on? is there a bigger picture involving the weather here, not just in america, but globally? >> when you think about scary things like this and when you think about how much we know and then how much we realize we don't know about the atmosphere and how the atmosphere works with the oceans and land, it scares you, doesn't it? and the elephant in the room is, people want to associate this with something. global warming or climate change. and the bottom line is that, yeah, increasing the temperature of the globe will increasing the moisture content. more evaporation. that adds fuel to the fire, for sure. but the question is, do we increase the shear? do we increase the power of the jet stream? it's the shear. winds coing out one direction at lower levels of the atmosphere, winds coming at a different direction up high. that's what really spawns the tornadoes. and we don't know what climate change wi

thanks so much, rob marciano in holt.eciate it. >>> families, you know, a lot of families don't know exactly where to begin, what to do. especially if they have children. that's why a special activity bus is actually in tuscaloosa, one of the hardest hit communities, to help the kids cope with the aftermath of wednesday's devastating storm. c.j.'s bus is what it's called. it's the brain child of a woman who actually lost her own son in a tornado six years ago. earlier i spoke with katherine martin about what she hopes to accomplish in tuscaloosa. >> the devastation is just -- there's no words. the families. we've already heard from the kids that we've been working with, a lot of them have lost everything. so it's -- it's very widespread. >> so this has to be very difficult for you, too, in so many different ways. because you lost your 2-year-old son, c.j., to a tornado. then here you are going to a tornado ravaged area. i imagine that all of those memories are coming back to life at a very big, real way. yet you are tryin

we are going to check in with rob marciano. the houston astros highlight of the year.w you this video right after the break. it is ten minutes aft hour. ♪ 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. rethink possible. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >>> 13 minutes past the hour. thousands of people in alberta, canada, are waiting to find out if their homes burned to the ground. month are than 7,000 were forced to get out of the area known as slave lake area. wide fires have already burned a lot of the northern alberta town. the firefighters thought they could get them under control but because of high winds kicking up, they haven't let up since. >> remarkable pictures. >>> 15 miles of the mississippi river in this country remains shut down as floodwaters rapidly cloth

rob marciano joins us now. we've been talking about tornadoes all spring.this is just, we hope it's a period on the sentence of a horrible spring, but still trying to figure out the extent of the damage there. >> early similar to what went down in tuscaloosa and other parts of alabama and mississippi and georgia. the only hope i have here that it may be different is that the storms that rolled through the tuscaloosa area, came during kind of a blackout. they had earlier storms that morning and a lot didn't hear the warning. so, you know, hopefully i know 89 is a big number to swallow and will probably grow. >> more than 300 were killed in alabama. >> yeah. >> i'm hoping more people got the warning because power was on before the storm came through. doppler radar one of the ways we give that warning. we have this ability. this is a high resolution what we call gibson ridge radar. you can see that hook. a hook and well-defined super cell that have a tornado and it's in the backside of that where you see that hook, this doppler we pick up debris that's flying

rob marciano is in mississippi county, missouri. >> reporter: day two of the exploding levee extravaganzataken for really an extreme flood event. we haven't seen this level on the river here in mississippi and along the ohio since 1937. and yesterday they blew up a second levee. take a look at this video. soil and earth being blown above the treetops. that is at the opposite end of this floodway. so that some of this water can begin to drain. this is farmland. this is now not so good farmland. at least for this year. that has a lot of farmers upset. class-action lawsuits happening. the state of missouri not happy at all about this solution that they've had. we tracked down a retired farmer, who was here during the 1930s flood, and here's what he had to to say about the situation. >> they've just been lucky that the few years they haven't had a flood. this is one of the things that happens once in a great while. you just have to take it on the chin. >> reporter: needless to say, it's not just farmers who are affected. there are hundreds, if not thousands of homes that will bed flooded in t

. >>> rob marciano is in the extreme weather center for us right now.e record-setting weather across the country yesterday and today, rob? >> it's toasty, especially east of the mississippi, guys, and in places like chicago, they're heading to the beach. in their case, that would be on lake shore drive or lake michigan. here's video of that. yesterday temperatures easily got into the 90s. feeling like the middle of july than memorial day. so enjoy that as you soak in the sun, but don't forget to wear the sunscreen. today's temperature similar but not quite that. a little rainfall move into the chicagoland area. here it is on the radar scope with the thunderstorms rolling through eastern nebraska. they had a slew of tornado reports across parts of nebraska yesterday. now this front and associated storm system is moving off to the east. kansas city about to get -- is getting hit with some thunderstorms. garden variety stuff. there's a couple of severe ones embedded in this. it's not terrible. this will move through joplin later on this morning and in thro

. >>> and i'm rob marciano. another rough night, this time on the east coast.vere weather reports with flooding and wind damage. now the table is set for more severe weather across the plains. plus the memorial day weekend forecast in the next hour. >>> and i'm alison kosik at the new york stock exchange. if you're in the market for a new vehicle, better get moving. new cars could be hard to come by this summer and prices of used ones are rising. i'll have details in the next hour. >>> also ahead, the death of a former marine and iraq war veteran at the hands of s.w.a.t. team officers. in the next hour we'll have the startling results of a sheriff's department investigation into what turned out to be a botched drug raid. &t is at work, 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 giv

rob marciano is in the extreme weather center in atlanta for us this morning. hi, rob. >> good morning, guys. let's talk shuttle launch, pretty good chance. 68 degrees the temperature. a chance of seeing sh showers but i believe most will hold off to the afternoon. 70 or 80% go due to launch, better than average. we have rain across parts of the northeast and this is going to add to the troubles for flooding across northern new england. look for the rain to pretty much begin to fill in and intensify, not just today, but really through the rest of the week. and that's going to be the main concern i think is the potential for seeing heavy rain from the mid-atlantic towards new england. daytime highs today will be around 68 degrees there in new york city. so above average. here are the latest forecasts for the cresting river situation. the number in the middle is the date that we expect the rest and the number on the right is the feet above flood stage. natchez, vicksburg above flood stage and in baton rouge and new orleans seeing a little bit of alleviation due t

rob marciano is in port allen this morning.ear, it was the oil spill they were concerned about, the oyster harvest. they can't get a break. >> no, a double whammy. but for the same reason. let's remember that the majority of the oysters struggled last year from the oil spill because we were releasing water from the mississippi and other rivers to kind of try to flush and push the oil out of the marshes, and that added fresh water to those areas. and as you mentioned, the salinity factor, that's the key to whether oysters survive and thrive or die off. there was a 50% reduction in the crop this year because of the fresh water pouring into the marsh last year. we went out there with oyster farmers to take a look at their crop and, quite honestly, do some product testing. with the fresh water coming down this year with this flood, it looks like it will be the second year in a row where they'll be struggling. >> being out on the water, there's a lot of unexpecteds. and it's very, very similar to harvesting any crop. on the land or

>> rob marciano with us live. we are going to talk live with missouri governor, jay nixon, on the l e latest flood developments. >>> checking on stories across country, happening in alabama, a benefit for the thousands of storm victims impacted by last week's historic tornadoes. these are live images from cnn affiliate, wbtm in birmingham teaming up with the united way to organize the fund-raiser. >>> parents of a boy scout troop rescued from a flooded campground are glad to have their sons back home. had he rescued the six scouts and two leaders presumed missing. they were missing in a national forest. >>> the fai has joined the u.s. coast guard in the search for a 65-year-old woman reported missing from a cruise ship. she was on board the celebrity millennium as it sailed from cab bowes san lucas to mexico. >>> we will talk with a congressman that got back from pakistan. he was just 30 miles from the osama bin laden compound. we skl if the subject of bin laden ever came up while he was in pakistan. >>> as the u.

rob marciano is here with more on that. three days now of very extreme weather and tornadic activity as they say in your business. >> last night, i feel like -- we had such strong storms rolling through oklahoma and kansas and arkansas and missouri. some of the storms, luckily, dodged some of the more populated areas. that hasn't been the theme this year, has it? i mean that's why we've had so many fatalities. we've had big storms, big tornadoes but they've rolled through populated areas like tuscaloosa and joplin. a look at the storm reports, part of yesterday, or since about 8:00 last night. and in total, 56 tornado reports, over 600 reports of wind and some of those reports stretch all the way to the northeast as well. we're looking at tornado warnings right now, just north of st. louis. looks like the last one was allowed to expire. southwest of st. louis and east of springfield and rolling through the east. tornado watch in effect for the next few hours here. you can see this well-developed storm system, pinwheeling sl

our rob marciano is there. rob, it's been nearly four days. how are the people coping? >> this volunteer effort and the community coming together to supply these people with what they need for everyday survival is extraordinary. we are running into people not just from here, not just from this state, but from all across america who have migrated here with supplies, and it's an incredible thing to watch. the things they do need, though, they need physical supplies of -- baby food and diapers seem to be the biggest thing. they have plenty of food and water for the adults, but baby food and diapers. they're not done with search and rescue efforts, and yesterday we went out with a search and rescue crew to get a taste of what they go through every day. >> you've given us a dna strand that allows us to do what we do. >> a somber prayer at the morning briefing exemplifies the serious nature of the rescue work. >> we can all realize that after three days in rubble, potentially this is the last viable day. >> the crews get their assignments and head out. >> remember your safety

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cnn meteorologist rob marciano live in cairo, illinois. the question, did it work?m what we can see here it seems to work for cairo but you know, where the water goes from here it goes to another spot, and not everybody happy about that especially those with farmland in missouri. from what we're told, it's the best option for what they had to do. want to show you a um couple of things. some sandbags the national guard set up because what this road does, typically, while not typically, but what it was doing yesterday was separating the mississippi river from the ohio river, which typically come together well south of this point at the very southern tip of town. and one point yesterday they were almost touching down this road. you can see it kind of made its way back to closer to where they should be, but we're nowhere near that, record flood stage, drew. we haven't seen the ohio this high since 1937. desperate times, certainly calls for desperate measures. this town has been evacuated. you know the pressure was so intense that the water was actually bubbling up from

rob marciano has found that there actually may be some good that comes out of this flooding.s us along in another boat, this time with government scientists to sample the swamp water. >> we're going to be going pretty fast to get you out to the river. >> hold on. this is the intercoastal waterway. >> reporter: cruising the swamp, a spectacular slice of nature where majestic wide birds stand guard along the swollen bayous. we're out in the basin and going to take a couple of measurements. we'll figure out the stream flow, where the sediments and newt yets are going to the lower basin. we're not even to the basin and already this current is ripping through. this is dry land over here. the river has already come up 12 feet and it's coming up another 7 feet. that's over my head. >> all right. it's 12.5 feet right here. this is normally exposed. >> yeah, this is normally dry land. >> reporter: these scientists are testing the waters. some of their gear is already submerged. >> i take it that instrument is not supposed to be totally under water? >> no. that's pretty much ruined rig

our cnn's rob marciano is with us from greenville, mississippi.tell us what is happening where you are. >> reporter: well, the rivers continue to rise here. as a matter of fact, it's not going to crest until monday, and we're not even halfway down the state of mississippi as we continue our journey along with the floodwaters that are historic with this event. behind me, a familiar scene that we've seen especially on the eastern banks of the mississippi river. another casino that's submerged in water. so this town, the economy once again somewhat paralyzed because of the closing of these casinos. this used to be the normal river bank of the mississippi until they made all she's shortcthese. but now the river goes where it wants toug except where we've built these really big levees. look at the size of this levee that protects the city of greenville. it can take waters up to 75 feet high, and the crest of this river, come monday, is expected to be 65 feet. so we're hoping that -- we expect the city to be okay, but there's been a number of leaks. the

. >> rob marciano is live there this morning in morgan city where some residents are hoping to stay aboveersonal stories, people are, you know, leaving it in the hands of god and people are saying, we'll be back. i mean you see a resilience that's really remarkable given what they're dealing with. >> this is their home. i mean that's the bottom line. and you know, nowhere else, i shouldn't say nowhere else but louisiana, south louisiana, is special as far as the culture here and the people that are entrenched here. they do not want to get up and move away. that's for sure. in the atchafalaya basin where we are, they know that there's always a risk for flood. certainly not of this historic proportion, they don't expect it, but they get floods on and off every couple years. talked about traffic, barge traffic into the rivers if the flow gets too high it gets dangerous. i was talking to a tug boat captain earlier today and he was telling me all the things you wouldn't think about driving your car when driving a boat it's a different thing especially if you have a big barge. that same captain

rob marciano is there in butte larose this morning.like as these waters continue to rise? >> well, the river is still rising around here. but folks are still trying to make a living. some craw fishermen heading out. about 400 traps out there. trying to bring in the harvest, so to speak. you're right, butte larose in this area, they've been told to get out. the mandatory evacuation goes into effect tonight and by 8:00 a.m. tomorrow morning, they're not going to be letting anybody into or out of this place. it's been a week now where folks have been moving their stuff out. i've talked to a number of people that have been frustrated because boom, they're out of their houses for a week and a lot don't have a place to go. red cross shelters haven't been opened up yet so there's a handful of random shelters that are opened and if you're a single person they won't always let you into that. folks are kind of struggling here for sure. right now we're at 21 feet. it's forecasted to go up to 27 feet. but that forecast crest isn't until the end of

cnn's rob marciano is in morgan city, that's about 70 miles west of new orleans, where people are goingir homes. >> reporter: carol, the folks who live in the path of the morgan city spillway express, the water that's pouring out of the right side of the mississippi, some of them are take something drastic measures to save their home, especially those who live outside of the protective levees and sea walls. check out the house behind me. it's an old one. 150 yearsed old, so worth saving. once the flooding is done, they're going to make it a permanent structure. the flood walters are coming in here. the river itself should be 400, 500 yards that way so it's encroaching rapidly. spoke with a family member who grew up in this house earlier today. people say, well, they live outside of the floodwall, i shouldn't feel sympathetic to them. >> some people say that because we chose to live here. we chose to live here because it's hard to find riverfront property and it's pristine. i loved growing up here. a lot of childhood experiences. love it. >> reporter: two bedroom, one bath, got electrici

rob marciano is in mississippi town, missouri, along the mississippi river.today? >> reporter: well, the waters haven't gone down a whole lot even though they have been blasting holes in these levees to flood the floodways. this is not a river or a lake. this is the floodway. this is supposedly dry farmland that's been flooded to alleviate some of the pressure. well, it has done just that. they have more water upstream that they are releasing. that's a problem there. yesterday, we went out with the usgs to take some measurements of the flow of the mississippi into this floodway. they had to do that to kind of work with the army corps of engineers to figure out what they want to do, what the next step was to be. they decided to blow a third hole in the levee. that's going to happen later today. that's the southern end. this is the northern end. we have water coming in and taking some of the energy away. southern end, we will get water going out and back down into the mississippi. extraordinary measures, carol happening here. this is not over, because we have m

cnn's rob marciano tried to find out. >> we have about 300,000 acres under water today in the yazoo backwaterump in place, we would still have about 200,000 under water but that would include moseley trees. >> reporter: the plan was to build the world's largest hi hydraulic pump. peter says it's been approved since 1941, but still no pump. >> everybody's got it. absolutely i think we deserve our pumping plant. >> the pump moves water from one area to the next. here in louisiana there are lots of pumping stations. the modern-day epa was not happy to have another one built. >> the wetlands and floodplains are the first line of defense, and so this massive project that would have harmed or destroyed 67,000 acres of wetlands was vetoed by the usepa. >> they claim over 600,000 erics would be reforested. >> we figured let's make it good for the economics. what you came out with at the end was a project that was good for the environment the economics. it was a win/win for everyone and everybody. >> reporter: critics say the only winners would be the farmers whose land would be drained. the environme

the latest now from cnn's rob marciano along the riverbank. >> reporter: suzanne, people who live inotected by the levee have been told to get out. they're not doing that all at one time. they're kind of taking their sweet time. here is where the river stands now. this is chapelia, and has come up significantly from yesterday, but moving pretty slowly as far as the rise is concerned. they have opened those spillway gates. and that water is pouring out of there ferociously. but the afternoon after laya basin is. folks have been told to get out. and folks who live in morgan city are planning for those oncoming waters. but there is updated forecasts for that river crest expected now to be a full week from today, and morgan city to be eight days from today. so a lot of folks up and down the after are feeling the benefits of these folks being more or less sacrificed for the many that live in those highly populated areas. suzanne? >> thanks, rob. >>> from arkansas to tennessee, people are still trying to recover from another disaster, the tornadoes that tore through the deep south that hap

our meteorologist rob marciano is soing joining us with some oe answers. >> it's startling and the less the scarier it becomes isn't that the case? more reports last night, over 81 reports of tornadoes across the area. but the good news is we had zero fatalities. so maybe mother nature becoming a little bit more merciful. thunderstorm watch out for more tornadoes across parts of the eastern appalachians. the set up across the u.s. is different from any other place in the world where you have cold canadian air that comes down from canada and this time of year in may and april, we have worm humid air from the south and then also dry air coming in from mexico. this year is different. earlier on we had this la nina. it starts to kink up the jet stream more than usual and that gives it more energy, allows more cold air to drop down and that allows a battleground to light up more. tornadoes and then fairly quiet couple of weeks in may. just what we had this past week is this classic set up. we haven't had as often but we had it this past week. that allowed for not only thunderstorms but super

but our own rob marciano can kind of explain this for us. that's incredible. what is that?a tornado or something? >> it's a tornado over water. water spouts are typically smaller and less intense. they can often happen in pairs or even tripletts like in this case. this is actually spinning in the opposite direction that tornadoes spin in the northern hemisphe hemisphere, which is the way it works south of the equator. there you go. that was one. and there's two. >> wow. >> in the tropics this happens quite a bit. sydney not officially completely in the tropics, but nonetheless, they've had some pretty intense storms roll through with flash flooding inland and just off the suburban shorelines of sydney. >> is there any way you can tell how big it is? >> they estimated that winds were probably 80, 90, maybe even over 100 miles at the time. if it were to come onshore, it would do some damage. if you were to drive your boat there, it wouldn't be a bad thing either. you want to stay away from it and hope it doesn't come onshore. here's the cyclone and storminess that's been affe

i want to bring in our meteorologist, rob marciano, to tell us essentially what the forecast is.who are going to be in danger? >> i think we're going to see more storms today, suzanne. you saw in jacqui's live shot that it was relatively sunny and breezy too. that's typical of this time of year out there and they're probably going to see more storms today and tonight. last night we saw big-time storms across the east coast. almost 600 reports of storms. most of it wind damage from the deep south all the way to the northeast to the canadian border. winds gusting 60, 70 miles an hour, a lot of trees down. mostly straight-line winds but they do just as much damage in some cases and there were fatalities. all right, now that front will stall here. we'll see severe weather across upstate new york and parts of new england again. then we reset the table across parts of tornado alley, as another piece of energy comes into the plains, taps a little more moisture and humidity. right now a slight risk of seeing severe weather across that area. that means that we'll probably see some thunder