and ask about an $800 prepaid card. comcast business. powering possibilities™. or visit angel view .com. call 1 803 731891 order now mattingly at the white house, and this is cnn. oh, my god, it s violent. no internet no. that s video from storm chaser aaron j. jack in pleasantville, iowa. that was just one of many tornadoes to hit the central us in recent days. on tuesday, at least nine tornadoes were reported to an iowa seven in illinois. the town of kelowna, illinois, was hit and suffered severe destruction . you might be able to see some of this on your screen. several buildings were damaged and multiple semi trucks toppled over along. i 88 a tornado also devastating bollinger county,
from storm chaser aaron j. jack in pleasantville, iowa. that was just one of many tornadoes to hit the central us in recent days. on tuesday, at least nine tornadoes were reported to an iowa seven in illinois. the town of kelowna, illinois, was hit and suffered severe destruction . you might be able to see some of this on your screen. several buildings were damaged and multiple semi trucks toppled over along. i 88 tornado, also devastating bollinger county, missouri early this morning, killing at least five people. injuring five more there. and tonight that same storm system puts more than 50 million people from texas to new york under a severe weather threat. joining me now is that storm chaser? aaron j. jack hey, erin. great to see you. so you re in in indiana right now. tell us what you re seeing. yeah, i mean laporte, indiana, which is in northwest indiana. and we just
parts of the southern plains thursday. of that s a look ahead. the next couple of days are looking pretty clear for the most part. that is where we find nicole valdez, our fox weather reporter. she has just made her way into rolling fork. we still can t get cell signal out there to get your picture up, but i think we ve got you on the phone here. tell us about what things look like on the ground. reporter: rick, i ll be honest,st the hard to put into words, just the extent of the catastrophic damage, and it just goes on for miles. it s difficult to make out what s what between a home, a building, a church. there are semi trucks piled on top of each other, and beneath them pieces of what s likely a family home. i see mattresses and kids toys. i mean, it s gut-wrenching, truly. and you mentioned the cell service. i mean, it s nonexistent. we had to drive a few ownses over just to be towns over
that is sort of the state of things here. all of this began late last night around 9 pm eastern time, when the first tornadoes believed to have touched down here. that s a long track tornado, it went some 80 miles leaving destruction along the way. early data suggests there may have been around a dozen tornadoes that touched down in all across the mississippi and alabama. we know that the national sir weather service is going to be on the ground, surveying, looking at to see how strong those tornadoes were. already, we re hearing something like debris filing 30 to 35,000 feet in the air. we ve seen semi trucks that have been completely flipped over and moved. feet from where they were sitting. so, that gives you a sense of the strength of this storm. how this completely removed from their foundations. we spoke to a few people who are here, when that tornado touched down. they described seeing it and hearing that whistling sound