see, they're harder to track, but also the air is cooler and they tend not to be as severe. we'll keep watching, though, as the night goes on. anderson? >> chad, we've heard in the town of coleman, alabama, churches, hospitals, schools have been damaged as well. the national guard have been sent to some of the hardest-hit areas. just the pictures are extraordinary. again, that death toll is likely to rise. you see the power of that storm. chad, when you see that picture of that cloud, what exactly is going on? >> that storm is spinning at its base at about 150 to 200 miles per hour. scouring the ground, picking up everything in its path and taking it and sucking it into the middle of the thunderstorm. many times today on our doppler reports and all other kind of emergency management reports, we had debris falling from the sky ten miles in front of the thunderstorm that was producing the tornado. so the tornado was picking up stuff, tearing it up, just ripping it out of the ground, taking it up into the top of its