city, spilling debris and pulling water off the missouri river. we begin, now, with john hendren. reporter: it s a rare sight. far north of tornado alley, several deadly twisters swirled through massachusetts, a state that hasn t seen one since 200. this is historic. this is the first tornado that we ever had. reporter: several are dead. others, left stuck in their cars, trapped by downed power lines. the house is totally flattened. we ran down to the basement. and everything was shaking. reporter: tens of thousands were left without electricity. there s trees down everywhere. parts of roofs are even ripped off parts of buildings are down. reporter: massachusetts gets an average of two tornadoes a year.lethal twister was in 1995. last week, they said it was the end of the world. it didn t come last week. but it came now. reporter: one sheered off roofs in the town of monson. this is what s left of town hall. i went down into the cellar and just prayed. r
pulling water off the missouri river. we begin, now, with john hendren. reporter: it s asight. sight. far north of tornado alley, several deadly twisters swirled through massachusetts, a state that hasn t seen one since 200. this is historic. this is the first tornado that we ever had. reporter: several are dead. others, left stuck in their cars, trapped by downed power lines. the house is totally flattened. we ran down to the basement. and everything was shaking. reporter: tens of thousands were left without electricity. there s trees down everywhere. parts of roofs are even ripped off parts of buildings are down. reporter: massachusetts gets an average of two tornadoes a year.lethal twister was in 1995. last week, they said it was the end of the world. it didn t come last week. but it now. reporter: one sheered off roofs in the town of monson. this is what s left of town hall. i went down into the cellar and just prayed. reporter: photos from the backy
city, spilling debris and pulling water off the missouri river. we begin, now, with john hendren. reporter: it s a rare sight. far north of tornado alley, several deadly twisters swirled through massachusetts, a state that hasn t seen one since 200. this is historic. this is the first tornado that we ever had. reporter: several are dead. others, left stuck in their cars, trapped by downed power lines. the house is totally flattened. we ran down to the basement. and everything was shaking. reporter: tens of thousands were left without electricity. there s trees down everywhere. parts of roofs are even ripped off parts of buildings are down. reporter: massachusetts gets an average of two tornadoes a year.lethal twister was in 1995. last week, they said it was the end of the world. it didn t come last week. but it came now. reporter: one sheered off roofs in the town of monson. this is what s left of town hall. i went down into the cellar and just prayed. r
in a controversy over a racy picture tweeted from his account. it was someone sending a picture of a wiener on weiner s account. the congressman fires back this morning. and caught on tape. a home invasion nightmare. an includer breaks in right in the middle of the day. targeting a mom and her son. they re okay. but we have the 911 call you have to hear to believe. and what a scary sight it was in springfield, massachusetts, last night. tornadoes like this don t often touch down in massachusetts. but this one was a killer. governor deval patrick has declared a state of emergency. we ll talk to him live in a minute. it was a scene out of the movie, twister. right at the evening rush hour. shearing roofs off buildings. tearing right through the cities downtown. josh elliott is there and has the latest for us. good morning, josh. reporter: good morning to you, robin and george. those haunting images last month. first in tuscaloosa, alabama. then, joplin, missouri,
filming this right now. seriously, the ceiling, look. oh, my god. oh, my god. these guys made it out alive but four people were killed. we will show you just how bad the damage was. shelling heard from a roof top. street fighting breaks out in the airport in yemen s capital. flights canceled and there is new concerns of a coming civil war. google says hundreds of personal g mail accounts have been hacked. they blame a giant fishing operation based in china. the sputtering u.s. economy and the creeping fear that things are only going to get worse, that grim outlook sent wall street sliding. the dow plunged near 280 points. that is the biggest one-day drop since last summer. nasdaq also saw its value evaporate by more than 2%. its 66-point slide was the worst one-day loss in four months. ali, this is kind of a snowball effect of bad economic news, right? yeah. we ought to be careful not to get too far into it. that s what used to happen where you start to think it i