And hopefully you got a chance to enjoy it yesterday. Things could be changing. The mid section is getting hammered. You are right. Seek whats going on. But you know what, we have got video in from indianapolis. Our sister station. I want to show you this because they have video of downed trees and snapped power liens across the area and all of it is courtesy of the system across the middle the nation right now. You can see the heavy rain coming neigh cross the area. It will continue through the Morning Hours and reports of trees into houses and telephonepoles blobbing fire trucks as well. This line of showers and thunderstorms will continue to push into our area as we go through the rest of today. You can see underneath the yellows and the greens here. Some reds and pinks. These are tornado watches and warnings across the area. This line will continue to slide in as we go through the rest of today. As it comes towards us, we have the potential for some gusty winds across the area as w
Bill you know i thought our playbyplay today on the tightrope walker. Martha do you think we have a future covering circuses . Bill i think we have a chance. Martha how is your trapeze knowledge. Bill im working on it. Martha we are on the flying trapeze every morning. Have a good day. See you tomorrow. Jon dangerous storms brewing across the country. Large hail, high winds and powerful tornados all very real possibilities. Highly unusual at this time of year but the springlike temperatures coupled with high humidity are making conditions ripe for severe storms. Our meteorologist maria molina is live in the fox extreme Weather Center. Maria. Hi, jon, good to see you. Thats right were talking about tornados being a concern today any up from texas to indiana. A large section of the country looking at possibility of Severe Weather. Not just tornados but wind gusts up to 60 miles an hour. And large hail that could cause damage to any cars outside. Look at the Severe Weather outbreak were e
other quadruple amputees up at walter reed. they re recovering and about 300 overall have lost limbs from these wars. brepd dan marrocco is shown here before his surgery in a new home built by a group called homes for heroes in staten island where he is from. his house was damaged by hurricane sandy but he says it is being rebuilt. patti ann? patti ann: a lot to go through. how long before he might be able to use his arms? reporter: well it is very interesting. his doctors described how he is going to gain about an inch of nerve and feeling every month. so this just happened, this surgery just happened on december 18th and so, he has some feeling. he started to move his arms. this is what his doctor, andrew lee, just said. brandon will also engage in intensive hand therapy which he already began a week after transplant. because the nerves regenerate at the maximum speed of one inch per month,
carisa coony our research manager. cindy cohen and kate knots, our transplant coordinators. mary grace hands sell, operating room nurse manager. jon: if you want to continue watching the news conference we ll have it streaming live on foxnews.com. doctors at john hopkins hospital in baltimore announcing they have down a double arm transplant on a very brave army soldier, brandon marrocco. he was the first american soldier to survive the loss of two arms and two legs. it happened in an ied explosion in iraq. it is an experimental surgery but doctors say he will be discharged from the hospital today after they transplanted donor arms. they hope that they will in essence take and that he will be able to gain more utility from those transplanted arms. it is a phenomenal story and he is a very brave veteran. patti ann: just incredible.
gusts up to 60 miles an hour. and large hail that could cause damage to any cars outside. look at the severe weather outbreak we re expecting? very large. the greatest chance of the severe weather is area shaded in red. most of the state of arkansas, if you live in little rock, heads up you have a risk for esear storms or longer tracked or stronger tornados. some of those can basically just track for longer distances. greenville, you re also in that area. memphis, tennessee, you re looking at that risk for severe weather as well throughout the day. as we head into the overnight hours the real danger out here you will not be able to see any of those risks out there. we have a tornado watch just issued across eastern portions of oklahoma and portions of missouri. until 3:00 p.m. local time. we re looking at a possibility again for tornados. right now no tornado warnings. we ll bring you the latest. then the storm heads eastbound. more storms for florida up through the mid-porti