soledad o brien spoke to tim in 2004. how close was too close? the tornado was about 100 yards and closing. how fast do they close on you? this particular tornado is moving about 15 to 20 miles an hour. wow. yes. in fact, we can see telephone poles being ripped out of the ground and absorbed into the tornado as i did the first. we re going to die. reporter: brandon sullivan and his storm chasing team also had a close call. you okay? yeah. reporter: they survived, not a scratch, but there were some very scary moments. in a massive storm spawning a series of tornadoes, most of the nine people killed died in their cars. one of the things we think happened this week with all the congestion on the roads is that people were out trying to find other buildings and places to go to. reporter: another hard lesson in this season of storms, unless
somehow water has not gotten inside this home. if you look right down the street water has gotten into many other homes. shepard: tonight, there are reports all over the place in arkansas, a flash flood and possible tornadoes. a storm spawning a deadly tornado about 25 miles north of little rock where emergency crews say a twister leveled an entire town. you can see from these images just how powerful these storms have become. team fox coverage. shay ryan in the weather center. trace gallagher. let s start with the flooding. this is a widespread problem? it is, shep. all the sandbags in the world couldn t hold this water back. you go from illinois and missouri and arkansas. city after city is flooded. this right here is johnson, arkansas, near fayetteville. it was almost katrinaesque. you had first spownders that were going literally home to home, door to door. pulling out children and pets and elderly residents. the rescue effort here lasted for hours. in gail, illinois, the missi
circle which was our scheduled topic with you guys. thanks so much for pinch hitting on the news coming out of the white house. a fox news alert on our weather situation. this time tomorrow you will see a lot of snow behind me in this window. a massive winter storm is moving across a wide swath of the country with dangerous amounts of snow. chicago already getting hid hard by this storm. several inches shutting down air travel, even at o hare. the nation s capital still a mess from last weekend s storm is bracing for another hit. dangerous snow buildy expected to put rooftops and hines to the test roof tops and power lines to the test. the big apple is going to get hit big time. this storm spawning a slew of
edges in the states we mentioned. gregg: ab stoddard, good to see you a.b. jenna: rick scott declaring a state of emergency after heavy rains from hurricane debby flooded low lying neighborhoods in the state s panhandled. knocked out power to thousands of homes and businesses. the storm spawning several twisters in paul county that blasted through the neighborhood, leaving several homes as you can see on the screen in khapl -bls. the storm is being blamed for creating this giant sink whole in ocala forcing people to evacuate. it doesn t look safe now tkoeuts. a deadly tornado kills a mother of three as she shielded her toddler from the storm. the little girl was found alive in her mother s arms in the woods to her home. quite a testament to a mother s love, and again she lost her