one twister roared through shawn shawnee, passing i-40. radio station kfor wads on the air and on the ground. meteorologist david payne was in the middle of it, while jim gardner described what he saw. >> this is unbelievable. this keeps growing and growing, and it's pulling everything in. >> reporter: left behind, a path of destruction and homes flattened right down to their concrete slabs. >> that's their hour, it's just gone. >> reporter: in northeast piedmonte, a frantic search for survivors. they found a woman and two children. this morning, the 15-month-old child dies while the search continued for it 3-year-old. in arkansas, three were killed. and another tornado ripped through central can canc. the violent stort erupted and blew an enormous tree onto a van, kimmi killing two people inside. it's sad news every day. over fiechb00 people have lost their lives this year. this is the deadliest since the 1950s and we have two weeks to go. if you look add the kinds of tornado said, ef-4s, ef-5s, those are hard to survive above ground, and

also tornadoes tracked on the east sides of norman, up near i-40 near shawnee. and we just filmed a couple more tornadoes east of shawnee and east of oklahoma city. now we're tracking tornadoes back towards tulsa, where i live, tornado warnings are in effect in tulsa. we just had a tornado on the ground literally about five miles to the northeast. i'm on i-40, tracking between tulsa and ft. smith and that's where the tornadoes are tracking at this time, as well as -- >> and jeff, jeff, if i may, just -- jeff, if i may just interrupt you there. i understand that you personally were helping with the rescue operation and pulling people out of debris and stuff. is that right? >> today, not in that situation, but in joplin on sunday, yes. i stopped to help with the tornado damage there in joplin and recover people out of rubble and finding people, both alive and that had perished. >> and obviously, the death toll in -- yeah. i mean, the death toll in joplin has now risen officially to 124. they're expecting that to rise again. the figures from oklahoma at the moment,

she has tried shawnee and tulsa. the body keeps moving around and she finally says to a newspaper publisher, if you change your name to jim thorpe, consolidating get their municipal service together and change her name to jim thorpe you can have the body. so they sign a contract. i've seen a copy of it, for a body and he goes to jim thorpe pennsylvania. >> is it still there? >> it is still there, yes and the town has dutifully honor jim thorpe all these years. there is jim thorpe high school and they have done well by what they have thomas to do. but, the surviving children, jack thorpe sadly the youngest son just died a few weeks ago. that leaves two sons left. whether they carry on this battle, the lawsuit that was filed last spring almost a-year ago, it under the native american graves protection repatriation act to get the remains exhumed and returned to oklahoma and buried near his father kyle for. >> what is the status again of that case and where do you see it going? >> the status is with jack dying, they got

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a tractor trailer on the road in shawnee, oklahoma, taking a direct hit on tuesday and shredded to bits. the driver had stopped, not knowing what to do. he suffered minor injuries. >>> it's been six days now of relentless tornado action, part of the deadliest tornado season in almost 60 years. so far this year there have been at least 1,22 twisters, more than 500 people have been killed. compared with the normal average of 60 deaths for an entire tornado season. >>> this morning the senate is scheduled to take a final vote on a four-year extension of the patriot act. three provisions of the anti-terrorist law expire at midnight tonight, assuming it passes. the legislation will be flown to europe for president obama's signature. >>> yesterday the democratic-led senate voted down that republican controversial republican proposal to privatize medicare. the plan was introduced by congressman paul rind. >>> in other political news, more speculation that former alaska governor sarah palin will make a run for the white house. sarah mergener is at the white house with more on that. good morning

now on this video, focus on the white semi truck that's right in the tornado's path in shawnee, oklahoma. you see the twister slamming into the semi, just ripped it into shreds. this is what was left. the driver very fortunate, though, was able to make it out on time. but here is a look at what's left and what it is like to be a survivor of that terror. customers and staff inside this yogurt shop in joplin, missouri spotted sunday's tornado. they rushed to cover. moments later the twister blew out the shop's windows and sent debris flying. >>> for people living in joplin the shock is slowly wearing off and reality is kicking in. joplin, missouri 124 people have been killed, an estimated 1500 are missing. but nine have been rescued and search crews are not giving up hope. joel brown is live in joplin with the latest. >> reporter: this powerful twister was caught on tape as it tore through chickasha near oklahoma city. >> oh, no. >> reporter: the tornado swirled through the small town splintering homes leaving one person dead and several more injured. the severe weather battered oklahoma,

this twister near shawnee oklahoma.atch and you can see the tornado slammed into a semi ripping it apart. amazingly, the driver survived. >>: i close my eyes, i put my arms over my face, i bounced around in the cab a little bit. >>: some 1500 people are still unaccounted for in joplin missouri after the deadly tornadoes sunday. >>: of thing as catastrophic as all of this, you do not know if there and need a piece of wood or in a hospital or where he is at. we have searched and searched. >>: gov. jay nixon says they are bringing in more resources to look for victims and deal with the growing anger and frustration over delays, red tape and misinformation. >>: families need to see their loved ones and dispel rumors, find out if a 12 year-old is still alive. >>: tornadoes reported wednesday from northern california to ohio. this rare twister was spotted and glenn county california, no serious damage was reported. greg black reporter. >>: we will have more video from the california twister throughout the morning. major torna

i met him there about an hour away from shawnee. he took me home and all my family was, like, oh, that's amazing, are you okay. they all wanted to make sure i was okay. then they were all -- they were saying, that was awesome! >> well, it's an absolutely remarkable story of survival. in a few days, when there has been so much tragedy. i can only congratulate you, jeremiah. what a remarkable escape. what a lucky man you are. i know you know that and you've been very humble in this interview. thank you very much for joining me. >> yes, sir, thank you very much. >> the whole region's bracing itself for more storms tonight. tornado's already been spotted near midtown memphis. cnn's meteorologist jacqui jeras is in joplin, missouri. jacqui, we just did the extraordinary interview with this guy whose trailer was tossed in the air. what is happening right now? >> well, all the thunderstorms have moved east of where we are, so that's the good news for the folks here in joplin. but the threat of tornados is still out there tonight. we've had

they showed a twister that chased down, then ripped apart a tractor trailer on an interstate near shawneee driver miraculously escaped with minor injuries. >> i closed my eyes, pulled my hands over my face. i felt bouncing around in the cab. somehow or another i'm pretty sure i went out the passenger side of the cab. >> sreenivasan: but oklahoma's death toll was raised today to ten, after authorities found the body of a three-year-old boy. his brother had also been killed. in all, 506 people have been killed in tornadoes across the u.s. this spring, just short of the record set in 1953. seven american troops were killed by a roadside bomb in afghanistan today. an eighth nato soldier, and two afghan policemen also died. the attack in kandahar province was the worst single taliban bombing against nato forces since 2009. the news came as the u.s. house narrowly refused to speed up the u.s. withdrawal from afghanistan. the vote was 215 to 204. the pull-out is to begin in july, and end by 2014. in iraq, thousands of supporters of shi-ite cleric muqtada al- sadr rallied in baghdad against letti

>> reporter: right now we are due east of shawnee and about 20 minutes ago we did see a tornado that crossed i-40. looks pretty intense. it was a rope tornado and that one moved off to the north. we're dropping south down to the red river. earlier we saw a tornado that was about a half mile wide in northwest oklahoma. seems like every single storm has a violent tornado underneath it. >> are you seeing any tornadoes now as you're driving south across i-40 in that region? >> right now we have a rotating wall cloud just to our north that could put down a tornado any second andwe we're trying t get in position to deploy probes to collect data on this one. it could touch down any second. i'm looking at it to my north. and it's right at the intersection of 377 and interstate 40. >> all right, well, if anybody's listening, and we hope they hear the location of that devastation and certainly either get below grade or get out of that little region right there. what are the wind speeds that you can tell? can you measure that from the car that you have? >> well, it's off to our north, so we don

in shawnee, another tornado tears by nearby.her children took refuge in a bathtub and were buried when the storm hit in the debris. the mother and two of her children badly injured while searchers look for a third child still missing after being pulled from her mother's arms. this morning there are many facing the daunting task of rebuilding. >> i came around the corner, saw that my house is gone and my cars. everything was just a loss. >> thank you for the warning. you saved our lives. >> reporter: back here in piedmont this morning the streets have been levelled like in joplin. these were brick ranch houses. this is probably at least ef-3 if not ef-4 damage. so far we have had 53 killer twisters, ann, this season. in a year we normally see 24. another sad and deadly statistic. there's more severe weather on tap today. >> it tells us again why the warnings are so important. thanks so much. air travellerers in europe may soon breathe a sigh of relief as eruptions are dying down from iceland's volcano and ash clouds are beginning

old shawnee town junction, brookporkts and galconda are being asked to evacuate.els there were continuing to rise in cairo a few days ago. this is a picture of a home in cairo, illinois. the water slefl so high the homes are inhabitable. i saw many homes like this but i also saw some superhuman efforts, which are hard to even describe, where people decided even with a home that close to the river they were going to build a wall of sandbags around their home and save it. it sounds impossible, but they're doing it. and the sandbags are up to five feet high, holding back the water which, tab it weren't there, would have in-- which, if it weren't there, would have inundated the home. people are up night and day, 24 hours day, in rowboats going back and forth trying to preserve the one thing on earth that means so much to them: their home. that's the kind of battle taking place in homes all around alexander county and cairo. the sustained water level has put an unprecedented amount of pressure. the ohio river expected to stay at or above flood stage for the foreseeable