on the tree house pass alone and the other semifinal on wednesday night now back in england match the city have improved their chance of playing in next season's champions league one will win for them last night cement in fourth spot in the premier league. with a goal his first to city since his forty million dollars me from the specs and that gives his side a four point cushion over talking and doing face and also after that last campaigns league spot as with blackburn they only stay out of the relegation zone on goal difference tonight if a cup final staged a second forty moves in the middle and starting the potters themselves a five points in the relegation zone while balls have the worst away record in the top flight that we would see them actually the drops. will more draw one more point but through and through the terms twenty seven. surely for him really. dogmatic about who it is because he really wants me to. win this one if we win the last two games and that's you know because i don't know what's going to be. i don't think anybody. i know nobody else knows what's going to be.

because i'm still certain the millstones are true some of the tree house today is the blue goldman's homes remember this room it used to be the montague much of the world from the ruins hotel. which marty coming to live from moscow at the top stories france is military initiatives in libya and ivory coast backfire at home with president sarkozy losing points and allies of the french public are angry their leaders and very own visions are costing the country its money and reputation. india's faster internally tronics waste dump with western companies sending computer junk to the poverty stricken country instead of recycling it while the consumer society provides work for locals their health is being put at risk when those students return is trash. and russia is preparing to launch one of the most promising projects or in the future of space exploration the biggest telescope ever to enter orbit it will allow the deepest corners of the universe to be scanned with extraordinary clarity. up next as turbulent oil prices sway conferees around the world russia's finance minister tells r t ho

trees stripped, in the debris everywhere. you can see the house, collapse, trees on the car. the person who posted says it was taken up their grandparents' house. thankfully everyone made it out safe and time. >> pam: it has been four days since a gunman opened fire killing two people, wounding four. sweet jimmy's is still closed for business. there's a lock on the front gate. oakland police are still trying to identify the suspects connected to the shooting. 22 year-old adam williams was one of the victims. williams was recently hired at a school for an after- school program. today the principal their shared promotions about losing an i'm very emotional the 22 arab adam well as worked prior to being shot to death. she told me she has been holding back promotions following the tragedy. now, she's ready to talk about losing atom. >> am very angry, very angry that broom the type of violence that killed at them. -- room. you can't conceive of them having to learn that someone they love, their work with daly is no longer part of their lives because of a violent assaults. >> >> rep

the alarm probably written by santa latins although we don't know for sure also appeared on trees and houses on october twenty seventh seven hundred seventy three it said it hath now been proved to you that the east india company obtain the monopoly of bad trade by bribery and corruption at the power of us obtained they have prostituted to extortion and other the most cruel and horrible purposes the sun ever. and then hughes says on a cold november evening the first of the east india company ships of tax free tea arrived on the twenty eighth of seven hundred seventy three whose rights the ship dartmouth with one hundred twelve chests arrived it was now evening and i immediately dressed myself in the costume of an indian equipped with a small hatchet and club after having painted my face and hands of coal dust in the shop of a blacksmith i repaired to griffin's worth worth where the ships lay that contained the tea when i first appeared in the street after be invested skies i fell in with many others who were dressed and equipped and painted as i was and who fell in with me and we marched in

the tree came through her house. she luckily survived. these neighborhoods destroyed. even the trees have nothing on them. this is a grandmother with her grandchildren as they lie on a mattress. this is many of the first responders she is holding a young child in her arms as they continue to look for people who survived. >> pam: stay with us for continuing coverage, coming up we will look at the path the tornadoes touched. turning now to news around the bay, a former doctor at uc-berkeley has been arrested on suspicion of sexually assaulting patients. he was in court today. >> reporter: prosecutors alleged robber shown here heading into court began molesting patience starting back in 2006. prosecutors say he legally penetrated his male victim during an exam. the next case happened in 2007 with a similar crime. in all, they say he sexually assaulted six victims over five years. uc- berkeley police say was a march when the victim came forward. in that meeting the patient provided detailed allegations of illegal sexual contact -- illegal sexual contact. it's that unusual f

is not something that you play with raising the debt limit is not an option you know if a tree falls on your house and you need to raise your credit card limit another few thousand dollars to pay for the tree that just landed on your house you do it do you like doing it now is it something that's necessary to do absolutely and so the fact that they're saying in essence they're not and i think they were if they just fell on our house because of some theoretical problem that we have is irresponsible and frankly ridiculous and one of the things that good i find really curious and maybe you can give me some insight into the sarah is why is everything is future pays off this present moment whenever the debt ceiling is talked about or whenever the debt is talking about this fourteen trillion dollars it's by republicans as talked about as obama's by the news media it's talked about as something that future generations are going to pay off nobody's point you know that this is a debt that ronald reagan began running up and it was mostly run up by two george bush's. why so i referred to as a republican reme

trees and arkansas and other spots. this one smashed into an s u v after landing across the front lawn of this house. ndreds of big trees came down across the state in some cases killing people. in garland county and man and his baby girl were killed when lelane hit the street which fell on their mobile home. they were crushed in their bed. a tornado swept through southeast oklahoma late last night killing two sisters in the '70s. it also injured dozens of people. storm chasers cut these pictures of funnel clouds forming. if the twisters left piles of rubble where homes have been. these people in the town trying to retrieve anything they can, but there wasn't much left. people's rooms homes were damaged but not destroyed all fortune is. >> with no windows, everything is wet and covered with glass bud we still have our roof and walls which were lucky. >>catherine: this has been the deadliest form of the season aside from the tornadoes a lot of the damage is being blamed on straight line winds, sudden violent downbursts which hit with hurricane force. >>jacqueline: warmer weather continues through the e

the high winds and lightning knocked down trees and damaged houses. the same line of storms hit kentucky and tennessee. an 87-year-old man found dead in his home in memphis was electrocuted by a downed power line. in western kentucky, seven people working at a plant suffered minor injuries when a possible tornado hit. >> i looked outside and saw everything flying and just grabbed the closest person to me and we hit the floor. and then after that, it was chaos. >> all of a sudden, i heard this humongous crack. and i looked and the tree just started to split. >> power was knocked out all over the south. at one point, there were more than 145,000 customers without electricity in georgia. and over 130,000 were in the dark in tennessee. the storm should clear out late this morning except in florida where they are expected to last a little bit longer there. >>> today, federal aviation officials are going to mandate emergency inspections of certain older boeing 737 planes, they're similar to the southwest jet that lost a piece of its fuselage last week. the

house? >> a tree fell on it. >> reporter: did a big storm come? a big storm, but you're okay. >> yeah. >> reporter: but your house isn't okay? the red cross told us jaquan's house has been destroyed. he doesn't know that, and for now, seems happy playing card. this is just the heart of it, the absolute core of the tornado passed right where we're walking. this looks like "the wizard of oz." disabled army veteran tony shealy showed us where he went when the storm was coming. he ran across the street to the piggly wiggly supermarket to buy food and was rushed into an adjacent drugstore as the manager was locking the door. that, he said, saved his life. this is what happened to his apartment, his neighborhood, all destroyed. >> this used to be my place, right here. >> reporter: how many times have you said thank god you went to the market? >> if i would have stayed home, i would have been trapped in there, dead and gone. >> reporter: you saw a lot of things that day. how are you going to process that? >> i'm going to pray about it, brian. that's all i

tornadoes have been reported in several southern states, even as far north as illinois, trees toppled, housesed as twisters howl through towns. death toll is on the rise this morning and our weather team has been tracking this extreme weather all night. we'll have the latest for you coming up in about 40 minutes, as you said, plus gas prices are going up at a higher rate than ever. five states now averaging $4 a gallon. record-breaking numbers are due as early as memorial day which, as you know, is one of the busiest driving weekends of the year. we'll take a look at whether this is just the beginning of a rough ride for drivers that upcoming summer and then some new clues this morning in the search for that woman who was taken from her home by a man in camouflage. our lindsey davis is on the ground in a sleepy town in tennessee with the latest on a developing story and this is a fun one. if you've ever dreamed of owning your very own country, here's your chance. this is a tiny country nestled in the alps. it could be yours for a mere 70 grand a night. what do you think about that? >> yeah, i

we try to limit the pruning until the tree is big enough that it won't be damaged by that. >> i was wondering if you give advice, if someone has a particular house in a particular location, they know they need a tree, can you help them choose a good one? >> we can. if they're planting a tree in a sidewalk, they would fill out a tree planting permit application. it is really important, we encourage to contact us, because as i said earlier there, are species that won't do well in san francisco, and some of those windy foggy areas of the city, there's only a few tree that is will really thrive there. it is important to make sure you get. >> they can call your office? >> they can call the bureau, get on the website, we have some information on the website about species, we're trying to bolster that, friends of the urban forest is a nonprofit group. they good information on their website about which trees do well. we're happy to give that kind of advice, because we much rather have a healthy urban forest. >> if they wanted to call you, what number would they call? >> the best number. well to get to the bureau directly, 641-2676. >> a pment to plant a

was able to get at&t to help pay for friends of the urban forest to install trees to mitigate its ugliness. when i leave my house, i appreciate those trees. but the box is still there and still ugly. i am impacted by that every time i pass it. or the one on castro and 15th, or the one on castro and market. the last one, i wonder why we spend so much money getting the city to replace the ugly newspaper boxes. i cannot tell you how many times i have called 311 to get, in the city to paint over graffiti on that one box. yes, we want technology and competition, but not at the expense of losing the beauty and accessibility of our neighborhood. i believe there are feasible solutions to the technological challenges. please require an environmental review so that at&t will be forced to find them and we will not be stuck with the first inning long line of degradations of our streetscape. thank you. >> my name is karen croney. i want to address one small item. i want to refute at&t's position that they cannot place these boxes on private property. just think of the number of apartment buildings in san francisco where long

i have a couple of trees and of my house and it is my job to keep them well maintained. some streets in san francisco -- for no reason, the city maintains those trees. i am responsible to maintain my trees, my neighbor -- the responsibility is done by the city. we have three crews responsible for maintaining tens of thousands of street trees in san francisco. the three of them cover the whole city and this is an adequate for us to do this. we are supposed to do this every three-five years but with the resources that we have an only do this every 10-12 years. these go on to the backlog west, and this can take us years to get to those trees. we prioritize the safety issues first and we may not have the resources to do this. we want to relinquish this responsibility back to private property owners, this would be more equitable and more fiscally sustainable. there is a long answer to a short question. >> if anybody has questions that they would like task, we have speaker cards. i will do my best to get the mayor -- >> this is for community partners, united. four times of tigh

in raleigh, the young woman who lived here took cover in an upstairs bathroom, but a tree smashed the house and smashed the bathroom into the first floor. they usually tell you to go to the bathroom -- >> right. that's what she did. jumped in the bathtub for safety. >> reporter: tonight, she's in critical condition. today, north carolina's governor went to look for herself. the images she saw were heartbreaking. just so many broken homes and damaged families. >> it's just a hard time. we just all got to pitch in. but thank god there weren't as many lives lost, which could have been, when you look at the damage. >> reporter: the storms also hit virginia. a woman and two children were washed away when they tried to drive over a bridge covered in water. the woman and a 9-year-old drowned. getting around raleigh has been incredibly difficult because of all the trees blocking the roads that need removing. it took us this morning, david, a few hours, just to move a few miles. >> and that scene being repeated across several states, we know. steve osunsami, thanks so much. >>> in north carolina, wh

two people had previously died when a tree fell on a house.'s the low pressure creates around the house. >> the pressure drops so quickly the house, even though you many holes can't recover fast enough. that is why you are not supposed to run and open the windows. now it's just get down stairs. >> open the windows on the other side of the house for a tornado. >> exactly, but it doesn't work. >> we are dealing with severe weather on the travel forecast and showed you the awesome pictures of the tornado. we are going to have a calming trend for most of us. slight chance of a sprinkle in the north bay but most of us will be dealing with warmer weather starting today. looking loo look at this beautiful picture, sausalito in the foreground and san francisco in the background. temperatures warmer this morning upper 40s to low 50s. we do have a 47 in redwood city. 44 in los gatos. 46 in half moon bay and 54 in antioch. around the monterey bay and inland, temperatures in the mid to upper 40s. warmer afternoon, today and sunday. a stray shower possible

it depends on where -- how many trees are near your house and what kind of leaves they have. >> so if the gutter fills up or even just enough to block that little down spout there, that's enough to have the water overflow into some location where you don't want it to be. either underneath in the front or under in the back or something. and cause real serious problems. >> we just had a situation off of a street in the jordan park area of san francisco where the down spout was blocked up and it just went over the lip back under the siding and it rotted out the whole quarter -- corner of the house just because a lack of maintenance, a lack of failure to clean out the gutter. >> i put this in here because the stairs and various kinds of tile work can be so beautiful and san francisco has so much lovely work. it's not impossible to maintain. all you have to do is scrub it and clean it and once every 40 years have someone come through and polish it and it's gorgeous. the lack of simple maintenance will cost serious problems. here's a metal grill, metal gate. i'm sorry to say we see these al

the tree in front of your house is your responsibility to maintain. there are others were the government has the responsibility to maintain those trees. it is not only an ecological situation, it is a fiscally unsustainable one. and where maintain those trees like many of us do. besides continuing to look at the administrative efficiencies, i look forward to hearing your questions and comments. >> and the chief financial officer for the health apartment. why live in district 2. i am very happy to be here today. it is a beautiful spot for a meeting. as the largest department in the city. because we're the largest department and we get the most about the general fund, and of the largest of budget reduction target. lived asked her to reduce our health department budget by $70 million. when i am very proud to tell you is that we think we have closed $60 million of the $70 million without any reduction of services that all. we weren't sure that was going to be possible. we have leverage state and federal money. live been able to identify significant deficie

destruction across much of alabama, scenes like this where trees have been uprooted by the wind, just pushed over, sitting on top of this house right here. amazing, one tree down, another left standing. but you don't have to look too far to see tarps on rooftops and power poles just snapped in half. this same storm system has just shifted to the east and north tonight, continues to cause tornadic destruction. >> that's a tornado, man. >> reporter: as a huge tornado swept through raleigh, north carolina, the storm was captured by an amateur photographer. the destructive winds damaged homes and businesses and destroyed a lowe's store in nearby sanford. the tornado was so massive that it sent debris falling miles from where it struck. at least 150 tornadoes have been reported in the last three days, and counting. by far the biggest outbreak this spring. in sandy springs, georgia, the cleanup began from severe winds that battered the town overnight. >> one power pole was actually snapped like a toothpick littering this road right here. >> oh, my god, this is not good. >> reporter: since thursday, the twisters and strong winds hav

strong winds in tennessee top trees down onto houses and cars. in kentucky dozens of trees uprooted. and in georgia downed power lines knocked out power to thousands of customers there. from the gulf states to the carolinas residents being warned that heavy thunderstorms today could produce tornadoes. >>> back here at home governor brown just signed a bill that authorizes the transfer of thousands of state prisoners to local jails but with a catch. the governor planned to fund the measure with the tax extensions he had hoped to put before voters in june. but he gave up on that option last week because of republican opposition. so when the governor signed the bill he wrote in that the measure will not take effect until california has figured out a way to pay the counties for the extra responsibilities. >>> the streets of san francisco are clear this morning, but that's after a day of action brought out more than 1,000 protesters. [ indiscernible ] >> this is how it looked last night along market street. a crowd made up of mostly union workers came

it's filled with houses, cars, trees, even bodies. it's about 70 miles long and is already causing problems with shipping in the pacific approximate the first signs of the debris are expected to be seen in about a year. >>> max the cat just moved cats do in fact have nine lives. last night we told but the santa cruz feline shot with an arrow. his owner says max is back to go out in the real world but she's not going to let that happen. the 3-year-old max was taken to a veterinary hospital where the arrow was removed from the poor cat's head. it appeared to come from ail cross bow and lodged two to three inches into the cat's head. the vet said he was lucky it didn't fracture his skull. >> it actually ended up going straight through his ear and it was down kind of low on his ear so it went through a little bit on his head. but it was above the scalp, just under the skin. >> animal control officers are still investigating how this happened. what a trouper max is. >>> still ahead, the high-tech twist that makes throughng throu ay ba amug

trees uprooted. nearly all of these houses demolished. >> a bunch of trees were flying. people were yelling and screaming. >> reporter: and in oklahoma, they're still cleaning up from this, a storm that brought hail so big, they are nearly equal in size to baseballs. and if you've got photos of storm damage near you, we want to see them. send them to us on twitter at gma. for more on the national forecast, we'll do that in just a few minutes. bianna. >> all right. casey, the wrath of mother nature. that storm is bringing heavy rain and eight states are under flood watch or warnings this morning. in colorado the red river has risen overnight to near its most dangerous level ever. barbara pinto is there for more with us this morning. good morning, barbara. >> reporter: bianna, rain is the last thing they need around here. you're already looking at one of the worst floods in recorded history along the red river. to give you some idea, the banks of the river are a quarter of a mile that way. after a watchful night, it looks like the sandbag fortress they built around this ci

not far from your father and son were killed while sleeping when a huge tree limb fell on their house. stay with us more news coming up. ♪ let's go out to the dmv ♪ it's ok that we're number four hundred and three ♪ ♪ we'll find ourselves a comfy seat ♪ ♪ and watch some shows and stuff ♪ ♪ ♪ let's follow that lady with the laptop ♪ [ male announcer ] now you can watch hit tv shows on your laptop with u-verse online and on your smartphone with u-verse mobile, included with most plans. or get u-verse tv for as low as $29 a month for 6 months. in the network you can take entertainment with you. >>jacqueline: temperatures cooling and additional five to even 10 degrees tomorrow. the winds are really going to pick up. never led by neighborhood, 64 vallejo, 61 richmond, 59 san francisco. quite cool next to the coastline where winds could go up to 40 mi. an hour. low 60s for the bay shores and low 60s in the south bay as well. the high clouds, pushing over the bay area clear skies going to fill land but them we have a storm brewing up to the north. this will bring as rain locally and even sno

were killed, including a georgia man and his 3-year-old son, found huddled together after a tree fell on their house. fierce winds and as many as 38 tornadoes swept in from texas to florida and up to the ohio valley. tens of thousands of people were left without power. >>> and taking a look, now, at this morning's weather from around the nation. much calmer and drier in the east today. showers around chicago, detroit, cleveland and pittsburgh. also, out west, more heavy downpours, from seattle to portland. and up to two feet of snow buries the cascades. 6 to 12 inches in the central and northern rockies. >> 54 in boise. 77 in albuquerque. and near 90 in phoenix. mostly 50s from fargo to detroit. kansas city hits 70. dallas, 81. 74 in new orleans. 68 in atlanta. and 57 here in new york. >>> well, it is the most famous painting in the world. and also, the most mysterious. now, italian art historians think they may have unlocked the secrets about the woman behind the mona lisa. >> they say it may be a portrait of the wealthy silk merchant's wife. they're looking, now, in a florence convent for her rema

of emergency has been declared in southwest mississippi a three year old girl died when a tree fell on her house she slapped. two main rival palestinian organizations have reached a reconciliation deal with will see hamas and fatah form an interim government and fix an election within a year from us has been in power in gaza while otto spent running the west bank for more than four years but israel's prime minister said the palestinian authority can't have both peace with his country and with hamas which has carried out bombings for several years. security forces have opened fire in a huge demonstration in the yemeni capital killing twelve people and injuring almost two hundred tear gas and live rounds were fired into the crowd with some of the gunman wearing civilian clothes it comes after a deal was reached president saleh rule within thirty days but protesters one had to go immediately. britain's prince william and kate middleton made a pretty wedding appearance at westminster abbey less than two days before their latter ceremony the couple were joined by the bride's parents william's brother

residents finally saw the destruction, car windows shattered, trees uprooted and nearly all the houses demolished. >> a bunch of frees were flying and people were yelling and screaming. >> oklahoma, they are coming back from this. hail so big equal in size to baseballs. >>> that was casey curry. she was reporting it's not over yet in the midwest or southeast. >> another round of storms from the ohio valley further to the east. one of those tornados was like a mile wide. it was incredible. fortunately known was killed in that. we're talking about beautiful weather here. no storms to speak of. nice shot from the roof cam. plenty of sunshine to go around. still on the cool side but the accu-weather forecast, i'll tell but next storm system heading our direction by tomorrow in a few minutes. >> carolyn: also ahead, it's not too late to enjoy the cherry blossom festival. it's in san francisco's japantown. dry mouth is uncomfortable. it can also lead to serious dental problems. [ male announcer ] new act total care dry mouth is alcohol-free and has fluoride to strengthen teeth. stronger teet

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and streets were impassable-- littered with trees, pieces of houses and overturned cars. tuscaloosa's mayor said the city now faces a cleanup beyond imagining. >> this is going to be a very, very long process. the amount of damage seen is beyond a nightmare. i don't know if i've ever seen in my life anything as destructive and tragic as what's transpired in tuscaloosa. >> brown: alabama's governor robert bentley, a native of tuscaloosa, declared a state of emergency and called out 1,400 national guard members. >> we're making sure that we >> brown: elsewhere, just north of birmingham, half of the courthouse roof was ripped away in the town of cullman. trees and power lines were down and officials said it could take several days for crews to fully restore power. >> oh, my graous, theres no way ome every imagining how much of a loss. >> brown: statewide, nearly a million people lost power. the storm even forced the brown's ferry nuclear power plant near huntsville to shut down its three units because of damage to transmission lines there was no damage to the plant itself. p

trees down on power lines. the whole area is wout power. this is one of the lucky house where is the tree fell parallel to the house and the house is in good shape. as far as we know, the only injury from what we think was a rain-wrapped twister, it was hard to see, but there was a washout before it hit. one injury cause bid flying glass at the airport. as rain begins to fall, that will be the issue for today and tomorrow. more rain and thunderstorms, but tornado threat has diminished. amy? >>> springtime is tornado time. we've been talking about it more than usual this spring, is that true? >> it is. april averages ant 150 twisters in the lower 48. we've confirmed over 300, twice the average and a few more days left in april. some of the horrible twisters and the fatalities in last week's outbreak and we've broken the april record. you can add six to what happened last night. and here in the st. louis metro area, they've had twisters on the ground three nights out of the last week. a week ago friday, tuesday night and last night. they're tired of this. but there are mor

all of you must intuitively go, "of course it's good to plant trees," of course, i want to put a rain barrel on my house." but is there a measurable environmental impact? trees are going to take up a lot of stormwater over time and are kind of a long-term green investment. we've had more than 200 volunteers come out planting street trees. we need people to make active changes on their property. and to reduce the amount of flow that's going into the combined sewer lines, we're trying to install 4,000 rain barrels. narrator: homeowners can disconnect roof gutter downspouts from the sewer system and divert the stormwater into a rain barrel. schombert: the rain water then can be used to water lawns and gardens and infiltrate back in the ground slowly, rather than being piped to a creek where it disappears moments after the storm's over. it's being held within the watershed and it helps regenerate ground water and stream flows. hecht: that's what we're going to do this afternoon is think about how to get more of those people involved. if there's less water in the streets, there will be less water in the pipe

this is tennessee a woman killed in a house when a tree hit the roof 14 people killed in tennessee.he situation. >> justine: live pictures right now of what is happening, one twister if measured 1 mi. wide. this is the alabama of possibly even georgia. one of the hardest-hit areas, what i am reading is a mayor who went out to assess the damage said he didn't recognize anything he was seeing. this is a better idea of what happened when tornadoes hit the area. the roof is just ripped off, but the house is shredded to pieces. even part of that route is split in half, taken off and lane on the ground. we will monitor these pictures for you, they are breathtaking to look at in the hard way. we will continue to get the latest information as we follow the story this morning. >> darya: we will continue that because james is tracking that in national radar as well as local weather. >> james: starting with a national view. from florida all the way up the stern seat board we focus in on the south where we see the most damage and destruction. it is moving through georgia in through south caroli

it used to be a tree-lined street with dozens of houses. and now they are all debris.series of storms in the south in nearly 40 years. in tennessee, residents said they felt lucky to be alive and mourned those who didn't survive. >> this is just something you can build back. but that life you can't build back. [ crying ] >> it's gone. >> reporter: in georgia, shocked neighbors surveyed what was left. across the south, thousands are homeless and millions more are without power. officials expect it will take a very long time to rebuild. kendis gibson, cbs news, birmingham, alabama. >> president obama will travel to alabama tomorrow to tour the damage. meanwhile, the state's governor has activated 2,000 national guard troops to help with the rescue and recovery. >>> a grisly discovery turns bizarre for santa cruz police. now, officers were called to a tiny apartment earlier this week by the neighbors who reported an unusual smell. inside that apartment, they found 63-year-old parolee john clauer living with a badly decomposed body of a 30-year- old woman. police are now c

house. i heard trees snapping like match sticks. >> reporter: as rescuers try to recover bodies, tornado victimsm about six states still coming to grip with the depth of destruction. this is what their new reality looks like at least for now. >> you wake up and you see everything you worked for and how long it took you and it all gone. >> yeah about 10 seconds it's gone. >> reporter: president obama says he has never seen damage like this before. he met with families in tuscaloosa and making a promise to help. >> we're going to make sure that you're not forgotten and that we do everything we can do make sure that we rebuild. >> reporter: this year's surge of spring tornadoes have been brutal. killing hundreds and leaving thousands homeless. emerging from the rubble are clear sobering recollections. >> i actually thought we were going to die. that's what was going through my head. i could look up, the rain was hitting me. >> reporter: and as night has fallen a mandatory curfew is in effect for many parts of this state as some 2,000 national guard troops are already on the ground assisting members

house. i heard trees snapping like match sticks. >> reporter: as rescuers try to recover bodies, tornado victimsm about six states still coming to grip with the depth of destruction. this is what their new reality looks like at least for now. >> you wake up and you see everything you worked for and how long it took you and it's all gone. >> yeah about 10 seconds it's gone. >> reporter: president obama says he has never seen damage like this before. he met with families in tuscaloosa and making a promise to help. >> we're going to make sure that you're not forgotten and that we do everything we can do make sure that we rebuild. >> reporter: this year's surge of spring tornadoes have been brutal. killing hundreds and leaving thousands homeless. emerging from the rubble are clear sobering recollections. >> i actually thought we were going to die. that's what was going through my head. i could look up, the rain was hitting me. >> reporter: and as night has fallen a mandatory curfew is in effect for many parts of this state as some 2,000 national guard troops are already on the ground assisting membe

singing of a bird which had a nest in the peach tree within the tiny yard of the white wash cottage. in the midst of this a show screamed over the house instantly followed by another and another. in a moment the air was filled with the most complete prelude to an infantry battle ever exhibited. every size and form of sheldon to british and american gunnery sweet and whistled over our ground. as many as 6 in a second, two burning over and around the headquarters made a very hellfire that amazed the oldest officers. they burst in the yard and next to the fence on both sides garnished with the hitch forces of aids -- one fell and then

a tree slammed through this home in little rock, arkansas. >> tore the house completely up.on't look that good but we're alive and healthy and blessed. >> reporter: t.j. winick, abc news, new york. >>> looking now at your wednesday weather, those storms have moved out to sea making for a much calmer day. just showers now in the ohio valley, chicago and also detroit. a soaker from seattle to portland. and heavy snow in the cascades. about 6 to 12 inches also in the rockies. >> mostly 50s from billings to salt lake city. 77 in albuquerque. 89 in phoenix. indianapolis gets up to 63. kansas city 70 and dallas, 81. 55 in boston. 68 in atlanta. and 74 in new orleans. >>> well, boeing is now rushing to create inspection and repair instructions for hundreds of planes after admitting that it made a miscalculation. engineers say that they expected the metal joints on their 737 jetliners would eventually begin to wear but certainly didn't think it would happen so soon. at least five planes have turned up now with cracks in their fuselage. >>> well, things are back to normal now at the

. >> reporter: the storm uprooted trees and power lines and lifted homes right off their foundations. >> took the house. it actually moved the 2200-foot over. >> reporter: it moved to arkansas. a tree smashed through a mobile home in garland county killing a baby girl and her father. residents here say they get their share of stormy weather, but it doesn't make it any easier. >> you don't get used to this. me and my wife, we was holding on there for a while. >> reporter: a man died here in scott, arkansas, when a tree smashed through his rv. the winds then turned to the deep south, trying weather warnings from tennessee through louisiana. alexis christoforous, cbs news. >>> wow. after all the bad weather that we had last month, the flooding and the strong winds, today governor brown declaring a state of emergency for 19 counties including alameda, contra costa and santa cruz counties. the state's requesting immediate help from the feds. >> you may remember it rained just about every day in march. and good news, i guess we're -- we might get a little this weekend. is that what you said? i thought we had

caller: you had a caller that said we ought to cut more trees and build more houses. think we are addicted to natural disasters and man-made disasters. we have plenty of oil. all we have to do is use what we have now. as forest trees go, i have been in construction all my life. my relatives are on one of the biggest lumber companies in the world. with alternatives that. we have steel and iron. we have alternatives to all this. let's stop destroying this planet. host: more negative news for the faa. an aircraft aborted landing with michelle obama. it came too close to a military transport plane. it was aborted still abort -- was ordered to abort its landing. it was returning when the boeing 737 jet they were in came within 3 miles of a boeing c-17. it was lining up to land at andrews air force base. because the wings had severe turbulence, others are required to state 5 miles away. there were too close then rules allow and they were opening an investigation for the national transport safety board is also examining the incident but has not decided to open a formal invest

that hurts me. >> reporter: but the tornado was so strong, it blew over this massive oak tree, splitting the house in two. maya was in the tub, it crashed down to the first floor. >> she went to the bathtub for safety. >> reporter: this morning, she's hospitalized, on a ventilator, and fighting for life. all across the state, there are scenes like this. one house destroyed, the one next door barely touched. >> yep, there goes a roof off the house. >> reporter: as the tornado hit, this family went to the neighbors. >> we started running. >> the first tornado i have ever seen. >> reporter: when that house was hit, it was nearly destroyed. it's set to be condemned this morning. the rizzo home is still standing. they've taken their neighbors in. >> we would do it regardless. it's help thy neighbor. >> last night, she put her 4-year-old son to bed in his neighbor's house. >> mama loves you. he asked to see his room. we told him he couldn't. he got sad then. but he's been very strong. >> reporter: the family took us to their broken home and said they believe god has a plan. they say the houses are destr