indication he wanted to do that and therefore his killing was appropriate. reporter: u.s. officials say they re already getting usable information from the computers and hard drives and five cell phones seized at bin laden s mansion and flown back to the u.s. cia is putting out an urgent call for more arabic translators, working 24/7 to get al qaeda secrets. hoping to find the names of bin laden s big donors and the details of any attacks or after-death repriceals okayed by bin laden. homeland security officials testified, no special alerts so far. that could change. it could change tonight. it could change tomorrow. reporter: analysts say bin laden s followers don t need a death photo to remind them al qaeda lives on. and they say this could be an image of bin laden s success oran war al awlaki. he s fiery. he s facebook-savvy and based in yemen and born in new mexico. anwar al awlaki is american, but at or near the top of america s hit-list. i m steve handelsman, ne
pretty much. only the clouds have come in, and there are already rain drops on the radar. they ll go away. it s not going to be a washout. but there will be many dry hours for us, but a chance for rain drops to get your sunday wet. outside, not a full deck of overcast over washington just yet, but these clouds will continue to thicken up. we ll get breaks of sunshine, but on the whole, the clouds will win the day. temperatures upper 40s to around 50 degrees in many spots. 48 in sterling, virginia. 45 manassas. 48 degrees in bethesda, maryland. 52 in annapolis. take a check on the radar there. i need a backwards button on the remote control. a couple of light sprinkles now moving into the panhandle of west virginia. there are steadier showers way back across kentucky. most of those should dry out as they come over the mountains of a passing rain drop too. highs today in the upper 60s. you get less rain and a few extra breaks of sunshine. you ll probably be up in the low 70
caused death and destruction. reporter: cole, a university sophomore said the windows started to break and the house shook. he hid in a closet when the twister rolled through. for about a minute in the bathroom in the closet praying, and the house was shaking. it was pretty intense, pretty scary. it sounded like a train was going by. you couldn t hear if i was right up to your ear screaming. reporter: when he walked outside, he saw the destruction firsthand. an oak tree had split his car in half. he was able to talk to his father about 15 minutes after the tornado was gone. life is fragile. when your child is caught up in something like that, it really pulls on the heart stringss. reporter: david s friend brandon tully is a freshman. he was on campus when he saw the tornado tear a path of destruction through the university. you see people walking down the street carrying a backpack and a trash bag, and that s all they have left. the i think the best description i
captions paid for by nbc-universal television good morning. welcome to today on a sunday morning. i m lester holt in tuscaloosa, alabama. and i m jenna wolfe in new york. and, lester, the scope of the destruction from those tornadoes is just unimaginable. you ve been there for days now. what can you tell us about the situation this morning? the more time you spend here, jenna, you realize the defining patterns of these tornadoes. i m standing on the edge of one and you see perhaps a parking garage or trees in the background about a quarter mile, a little more, that s the width. this particular tornado went across tuscaloosa. so there s so much damage like this and then you go a few blocks and everything is fine. they re starting to get power n onto many of the affected neighborhoods in tuscaloosa. the death toll went up one overnight, up to 342. here in alabama alone at least 250 people were killed. this morning officials are racing against time trying to find the hun
good saturday everyone. i m craig melvin. those twisters ravaged the south. today the national weather service confirmed two more touched down in virginia bringing the total to 12. a twister that hit mississippi is classified as an e-5, the strongest rating for tornado damage. the death toll is now more than 340. 600 are still missing most in the alabama. chris clackham has the latest on the recovery efforts there. the massive relief effort to the help victims in alabama is matched only by the massive need. we have some of the greatest people that care about their neighbors and it was evident today. every place that we went, we saw so many volunteers. with a tattered flag recovered from the rubble of tornado ravaged tuscaloosa raised for inspiration, the mayor calls this a humanitarian crisis. although we have been ravaged beyond comprehension, we still remain that shining city on the hill because the world has seen our faith in god and our faith in each other. the