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warnings happening now and chad, carl, thank you very much. we just wish folks the very best. i know this has been such a tough, tough time for a lot of people. some of these tornados were f 4s, 5s. we have a lot of loss of life. even if you do the right things, you may not be able to save your life unless you re underground in a cellar and very few people have those storm cellars like they used to have in kansas. like wizard of oz. put a safe house in your home. bolt them down. you can with stand the tornado. great advice. if you re listening, watching, that s what you need to do. thank you. beyond the headlines, stories of loss, heartbreak. we re going to talk with an ireporter about his family s ordeal. i was driving in northern california. my son was asleep.
it s more difficult to secure americans when they re traveling around the world. so frankly, because of their ability to travel, particularly from north africa into europe, you saw in the summer of 2010, the european al-qaeda threat. so in the nearer term, i worry about american interests in the region in places like pakistan and afghanistan, but also americans traveling over the summer holidays in a place like europe. all right. thank you very much. want to go beyond the headlines for more on the tornados. carl azuz and chad myers are with us. i want to begin with you, carl. it sounds strange, but at one point, meteorologists and folks could not warn or did not warn people about impending storms and tornados. can you explain why? you re exactly right. it s mainly because the thinks at the time, tools were so primitive in predicting weather patterns. the thinks at the time was it was better to leave people in
here s what we have, here s where we re going. you can plead or we ll see you in court. do we have any idea which way he may go? really not. i said there is the concern he has about starting a public interest law firm if he were to plead to a felony, he d have to give up his law license. that s this guy s livelihood. he was a very successful trial lawyer before he entered politics and would probably like to get back to that life, although the question is whether that s in the cards for him. thank you. sometimes the main thing standing between a tornado and certain death is a warning system, right? we re going to look at the life saving technology with chad myers and our carl azuz. uildings network all across america. we re adding new cell sites. increasing network capacity,
and i understand it was a very populous area where that tornado hit, major businesses in the area as well. health care providers are among big ones, suzanne, in joplin, missouri. st. john s regional medical center is 1 of 2 hospitals in this area and st. john s was hit directly by the tornado. city officials are reporting significant damage. cnn affiliate kshb said there were fires throughout the hospital after the tornado hit. carl, is this the first the city s been hit by a tornado? no, they saw something like this back in the 1970s. in fact. it was on may 5th, 1971, the city was hit by an f-3 rtornado killing one man and injuring almost 50 people. the tornado that went through last night is considered to be much larger from that one from the 70s. you heard me mention f-3, as a reminder, meteorologists use the enhanced fujita scale. the lowest is 65 to 85 miles per