rescuing people and going through the buildings. so dangerous and no power. first light is coming now but, at the same time, severe thunderstorms are rolling through so they have an hour or two before the storms are gone. let me get you familiar with the town of west, texas. on i-35 north of waco and south of dallas. it s small. quintessential small midwest town. here is the town itself. this is the northern portion of the town where most of the destruction was done. right-hand side of the screen is where the fertilizer plant was and where the initial fire was. the tanks are on the northern end of this facility. let me show you shall things in town are. the middle school literally located across the street from the fertilizer plant was empty at the time they are reporting thankfully because the blast happened around 6:00 yesterday evening. also a nursing home they were trying to evacuate at the time of the explosion that is literally only two blocks away from the fertilizer plant. so i
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we have had the visual evidence of the tornadoes already today, i want to take these warnings very seriously. that now coming into arlington as we speak. the cell that is off to the east still does have a tornado warning on it. that circulation is now right along 45 south of dallas. it appears that it will be heading up through the areas between dallas and mesquite. the east side of dallas is where that next circulation is heading. again, the last that we saw, i don t know if we still have those aerials. it did appear to be dissipating. you see people at the bottom of the screen. they re over to the damage of these big rigs. these semis. you see them standing out. i imagine in many cases in disbelief when you see something that sides tossed, as if it was a child s toy. literally one after the other after the other. if you get back to this wide shot of this screen here, you see to the left, to the right,
there is a difference between south dallas and south of dallas. so we re understanding that it is south of dallas. a tornado, a possible tornado on the ground south of dallas. this is video from johnson county, right outside of ft. worth, texas. in fact, i ll have to be honest with you. i am getting text messages from family members in the area right now and they are telling me that they are preparing, if they need to, to get into safe spots within their homes. and perhaps hunkering down. we ve seen some extremely volatile weather in the midwest and the south, as you well know, which we ve covered on many of these being fatal tornadoes ripping through parts of the midwest and the south. so we ll keep you up to date. right now, a possible unconfirmed tornado on the ground, south of dallas, texas. some very ominous video coming in out of johnson county. that s right outside of ft.
this is what they re seeing on the ground. we ve got a number of calls in, people trying to find out the weather conditions and if schools are being, taking action. nonetheless, this is a tornado warning right outside of tarrant county. that would be ft. worth. this is johnson county. a number of watches and warnings in place throughout north texas. in fact, most of north texas under a tornado watchful this is some of the ominous video coming in out of johnson county, right outside of ft. worth. some of the small towns in that area, burleson, texas. joshua county also. now we re hearing that a tornado is on the ground in south dallas. this is the report we re getting in right now. tornado watch for most of north texas. we re getting unconfirmed, i should stress, unconfirmed reports that there is a tornado on the ground in south dallas, or south of dallas. let me get a distinction.