developing now, severe weather pounded the midwest last night with more expected to be on the way here. baseball-sized hail, raging winds and in three states more than half a dozen tornadoes touched down but the storms had one unexpected upside a tornado. the days won t be as pretty ahead. jennifer delgado is in st. louis. reporter: we re in st. louis and have been going through rounds of storms bringing gusty winds. as we go through the afternoon, we ll look at severe threat once again increasing. i know yesterday we had a report of a possible tornado touching down, and it looks like today we could see more of this happening. we ll be looking at tor:con numbers. that s your tornado condition breakdown number setting up today right around 4, in addition to the tornadoes, we ll also be looking at hail as well
attractive for hydroelectric development, that have the gradient that s suitable for that are the ones that we use for white water paddling. reporter: the one drawback to small dams? it also produces small amounts of electricity. this dam here, fewer than a thousand homes. i mentioned the grand cooley, 4.5 million homes powered by that dam. but if you add all these small dams up, it does make a dent in our energy needs. jon: dan springer streaming live. thank you, dan. jenna: we have some new econ numbers out showing even more americans are in need of jobs. one group having a tough time in particular, veterans back from afghanistan and iraq. we re live at an event meant to help all of our heros get back to work. we re live at the uss intricep bid just ahead. if congress really wants to balance the budget.