outfront tonight, breaking news in the midwest. death and destruction, more severe weather tonight, a series of tornados ripped through five states starting very, very early this morning. leaving a path of devastation in their wake. here is what we know at this moment. at least nine people so far confirmed dead. 100 are injured. more than 300 homes have been damaged or destroyed today and twisters touched down in kansas, missouri, illinois, indiana and kentucky. harrisburg, illinois was one of the hardest hit. the tornado hit just before 5:00 a.m. this morning. the mayor says despite the loss of life and property, his town will endure and he is outfront tonight. those images are stunning and disturbing. can you tell me when you found out about this? what you heard this morning when you woke up to this. well, actually this morning as the alarm was going off, sirens were going off about ten to 5:00, i woke up, got my family up. i went outside an was trying to assess where
starting with the mall. there s a big walmart over there. here is a strip mall. this was a cell phone store if you walk in here, you can see there they are, cell phones, all the inventory still here. it is well guarded with police help. i have to tell you, instead of looking at the daniel and destruction like this here s what people are looking forward to, to the clean-up as you can see the workers over there cleaning this town up. they re putting on new roofs, they re securing what they have. and all the things that are not in the good enough conditionton withstand a little bit of wind, they re going to bull doze it and tear it down. here s the interesting thing though that we re hearing, brooke. you can talk to chad meyers about this. another storm system is brewing, and they re preparing for that one, as well. yep, we re hearing friday, don lemon. thank you so much. want to move long next on reporter roulette. nick paton walsh is in afghanistan for us. two more american
i m erin burnett. out front, breaking news in the midwest. death and destruction, more severe weather tonight. a series of tornadoes ripped through five states, starting early this morning, leading a path of destruction in their wake. here is what we know at this moment. nine people so far confirmed dead. 100 are injured. more than 300 homes have been damaged or destroyed today. the twisters touched down in kansas, missouri, kentucky, illinois, and indiana. harrisburg, it hit the town just before 5:00 a.m. this morning. eric gregg said despite the loss of life and praurptd, operty, his town will endure. the images are stunning and disturbing. can you tell me when you found out about this? what you heard this morning when you woke up to this? well, actually, this morning, the alarm was going off, sirens were going off about ten till 5:00. i woke up, got my family up. i went outside and was trying to assess where the tornado was coming at. we had heard it was imminent, and it
i m erin burnett. out front, breaking news in the midwest. death and destruction, more severe weather tonight. a series of tornadoes ripped through five states, starting early this morning, leading a path of destruction in their wake. here is what we know at this moment. nine people so far confirmed dead. 100 are injured. more than 300 homes have been damaged or destroyed today. the twisters touched down in kansas, missouri, kentucky, illinois, and indiana. harrisburg, it hit the town just before 5:00 a.m. this morning. eric gregg said despite the loss of life and praurptoperty, his will endure. the images are stunning and disturbing. can you tell me when you found out about this? what you heard this morning when you woke up to this? well, actually, this morning, the alarm was going off, sirens were going off about ten till 5:00. i woke up, got my family up. i went outside and was trying to assess where the tornado was coming at. we had heard it was imminent, and it was jus
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