birmingham. i had a conversation with the chief of police. we're at the staging area here, which is city hall. one of the only few structures in this community that has not been obliterated as a result of the tornado. he described it striking about 6:00 last night, coming a swath a half-mile wide right through the middle of the city. they know they have six people confirmed dead, however, he believed that the death toll will go considerably higher. they have nine search and recovery teams out in the affected neighborhoods. they have five more teams staging and getting ready to head out. he says people are still trapped in their homes, and that they are being freed all the time. we have already witnessed that there are bodies still to be recovered out in the area that has been hardest-hit. this is a town of about 10,000 people, so they're taking it extremely hard. the damage is quite striking. i will have to say this. you know, everybody here measures it back to the big storms they had in '98, an f-5