government approved a ten year extension for the oldest of the plant six reactors. the article went on to say because public opposition to nuclear power makes it hard to build newer power plants, they nuclear operators are lobbying to extend their plants beyond the statutory limit. here in the united states, half of our nuclear reactoring have been in commercial operation for more than 30 years. the red triangles. are our agin nuclear power plants and how worried should the rest of the world be worried about japan s. thank you kate and johanna. got in the new york times today about how they are simply extending the life at least on paper of these nuclear reactors over in japan so they don t ve to build new ones which is not very popular to do. sure. whether you re talking about nuclear reactors in the united states or in japan, the
only 21 tornado deaths, all of last year we had 21. this hasn t been a high number count. the ones we had hit a lot of mobile homes, that s where a lot of deaths occur. the last 24 hours, all the red triangles from yesterday, pretty much covered all of central oklahoma up into southern kansas. of course oklahoma city is where one of the deadly ones did occur yesterday. here was the setup as we went through 8:00 last night. the jet stream is active, blowing dry air off the rockies. same time the gulf of mexico is open and bringing moisture to the north. those winds when they intersect like that cause the storms to spin. that s why we had the tornado outbreak yesterday. what does today look like? today we have a slight risk of severe weather. that s the area in yellow. yesterday at this time we had a high risk. we knew we were going to have a tornado outbreak. we do not expect one today. jet stream winds in the same, similar direction. we can see large hail and damaging wind in the areas
we re starting that now. we have crews mobilized. they ll put this place back together. it will be a few days as opposed to a few hours. chris leclair. it is a stormy saturday for some parts of the country. let s got the details from bill karins. good morning, bill. good saturday morning, alex. just a lot going on. severe weather, flash flooding, just a miserable day here in the new england area. but as far as the severe weather, the pictures we have been showing from st. louis area tell the story. that s where the tornadoes hit last night. that s where the worst of the damage was. thankfully only reports of the minor jinjuries at this time. the red triangles show you where the tornado reports were. the most part, there was a tornado outbreak, mostly two areas of tornadoes, one in the ozarks of the northwest corner of arkansas and then right through the st. louis area with large hail, damaging winds and, of course, the damage, we re going to get that during the day. those storms ha