not that far from tipton and vidalia, georgia. move you ahead farther along, these storms are still on the ground. for a while, there were ten tornado warnings for ten separate storms all at the same time. seven storms may have had a tornado on the ground at the same time. now let me show you how this is an important storm for lee county. this is, right here, the tornado on the ground. this is the tornado signature, the doppler signature of what was on the ground at the time. and i know we ve lost 23 souls from this storm. but it missed auburn by about three miles. it missed columbus, georgia, and phoenix city, by about five miles. so it strung right through the most populated areas and missed them. it got some very bad damage near beauregard and in lee county itself, but i can t imagine our story this morning had this hit through auburn where the university is or through
these are first-rate maintained radars by technicians and u.s. military and not unusual that an airplane could evade search radar. yeah. we lost him for a short period of time. this is prolonged over go ahead. yeah. but frankly, it was only lost for a short period of time over there. what we don t know is whether or not the plane really made a left turn after it left malaysian air space and contacted hanoi control. we have a report from an undocumented source from somewhere in malaysia from one radar. frankly, i discount this. you are not believing the data, the guy with the calculation of possibility of where the plane down, you don t believe that? well, i believe it s very difficult. it is not new math. it s a common processing technique, doppler signature. that tower is 23,000 miles up. they fly tangentially to that.
condemnation from fellow republicans. rick santorum says the comments are absurd. the white house is also being drawn into the uproar. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. let s get right to the breaking news, a huge tornado outbreak stretches from alabama to indiana and beyond. millions of americans are under tornado watches. tornado warnings as well. professional storm chasers have been following these twisters all afternoon, providing dramatic images of an unfolding disaster. new tornado reports are coming in literally by the minute. with indiana, kentucky, tennessee and other states all seeing multiple touchdowns only in the last hour. we also have this video from evansville, indiana. it s far from over. storms are on the move. the destruction could go on for hours. let s bring mayor jim coppinger of hamilton county in tennessee, where chattanooga is located. mayor, set the scene. tell us what s going on inur county. well, we did have a ouchdown of a torn