escalating wharf words between iran and israel and why one word president obama used today may make all the difference. let s go out front. i m erin burnett. out front tonight we have breaking news. there are powerful tornadoes now ripping apart the midwest and southern states at this hour, and it s a very rapidly changing situation as the storms are touching down. five are dead at this hour in indiana. more than two dozen tornadoes have been reported in six states. we ve got tornado warnings right now in effect for 50 counties through this evening. all right. this is pretty frightening thing. some of these storms have been incredibly powerful. we ve been talking about storms with winds up to 170, 180-mile-per-hour. they could be hitting heavily populated areas. we start with gary tuchman who is in nashville, tennessee, tonight. gary, what have you seen and heard? reporter: earin, this is one of those heavily populated areas. music city, tennessee. 1.7 million people are