alongside, todd richards and tiffany simons, i'm todd harris. the superpipe final. we have had a bag of conditions. we have gone from bluebird skies to blistering cold winds. today, in between, temperature, 21. wind moderate. it's partly cloudy. a far cry from what we had last month in breckenridge, colorado. as we kicked off the season of the winter dew tour. breckenridge was the first top. iouri podiadtchikov, a new bag of tricks. >> one to look for, and could take the victory. he is riding injured. four points in killington, vermont. breckenridge it was a different story. he was on fire during practice. his first run was nothing short off mazing. iouri would have a fall that heed would leave the pipe with a hurt face. he hit his head. however, on his second run. he overcame the little head bump and did enough to get third place. >> second place belonged to louie vito, dew cup champion. felt good out here. a lot of talent. the best bag of tricks. >> louie did. came in swinging as well. he has the double corks. he can do them in his sleep. and if it wasn't for a ce

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todd. up next, mike allen. >> look, they've got joe klein's gigolo picture again. he was the fill-in for richardere in -- >>> mike allen is next with politico's top stories of the morning. but first, bill karins. a tornado touching down in alabama, bill? >> yeah, they p can't catch a break. another devastating tornado has struck just the last two hours in alabama. this time north of birmingham. the town for paradise valley, clay, and jefferson county. those are the areas that are getting reports of major structural damage. some locations, homes don't exist on the ground. the city of birmingham located right in here is sending all of their heavy rescue crews up to the north. the area where the tornado affected was up here from springville to gardendale, and that moved through about two hours ago. as soon as we get any of those pictures in, of course we'll let you know. but at this point it'd be a surprise if there was no significant injuries and maybe even some lives taken by that tornado. as far as the tornado threat, it will end as we go throughout the morning. all that heavy rain will move int