0 place. you can get my whole take on this topic, making america a more healthy place, at cnnhealth.com. go there. let me hear from you as well. got much more news now with deb feyerick in the cnn newsroom. you are here with us in the cnn newsroom, hello, everyone, i m deborah feyerick. well, this weekend across several states winter came early and winter came hard. in just 24 hours temperatures went from springlike to below freezing in texas, oklahoma, arkansas, and tennessee. and we re not talking about the fluffy stuff, the sleds and snowball kind of thing, we are talking about sleet and frozen slush and high wind that is making driving incredibly dangerous and knockouts of power all over the place. central arkansas was 75 degrees earlier this week, it will not be above freezing at all this weekend. oklahoma, all counties are under a state of emergency today, more than 7,500 homes have no electricity, and the red cross churches and community groups are opening kitchens and
stood. it covers a quarter of the city with some 2,000 buildings impacted. we saw the entire wall of debris coming at us and we saw it wrapping around and the semis getting picked up and thrown. the whole house was shaking and it felt like it would come up and it was the longest three and a half minutes of my life. this is what the terrifying minutes looked like to the tornado chasers who captured the ferocious storm. six and a half miles wide. oh gosh, that is a monster tornado. once the storm had passed, entire neighborhoods were leveled. many victims pinned under debris. some of the dead were found in cars that had been flipped over and crushed. ambulances screamed through the streets, making their way around debris and downed power lines. victims were taken to temporary triage areas and it was heavily damaged with three people killed there. emergency workers continued their grim task today sending out search teams to look for survivors. we re trying to both se