however, of course, early reports were there could have been as many as 100 dead. so 24 is the number tonight. at least seven of the children were killed at the plaza towers elementary school and that building is now almost completely flattened. only a few walls actually remain. stories of those who did survive are just starting to be heard. i had to hold on to the wall to keep myself safe because i didn t want to fly away in the tornado. we had to pull a car out of the front hallway off a teacher and she i don t know what that lady s name is but she had three little kids underneath her. good job, teach. another elementary school, briarwood, reduced to rubble. this one, i mean, just complete and total rubble. another miracle, every single person in that school is alive. you can see the storm strength in this ireport video of inside a car as debris swirls around.
high winds. some parts of new england should see more than 2 feet of snow. experts say this could be the biggest storm on record. here with more on the blizzard being called nemo, rick reichmuth. what s the latest, silk. the two storms have completed the process of merging. now we ll continue to see the storm strength, which means heavier snowfall rates and stronger winds coming in. take a look at the radar picture. where you see this blue here, that s very heavy snow. last hour we had reports of 5 inches of snow in one hour across parts of eastern connecticut. that s almost unheard of snowfall rates. you get that kind of snowfall rate, and you will very quickly be pushing the 20-25-plus range. already a few areas at 13 inches as of about an hour and a half ago. these numbers will go out. also the case of central and eastern long island, where we ll see a bull s eye of some of the heaviest snowfall totals. this is filling in across parts of new jersey also. let s take a look at how t
see more than 2 feet of snow. experts say this could be the biggest storm on record. here with more on the blizzard being called nemo, rick reichmuth. what s the latest, silk. the two storms have completed the process of merging. now we ll continue to see the storm strength, which means heavier snowfall rates and stronger winds coming in. take a look at the radar picture. where you see this blue here, that s very heavy snow. last hour we had reports of 5 inches of snow in one hour across parts of eastern connecticut. that s almost unheard of snowfall rates. you get that kind of snowfall rate, and you will very quickly be pushing the 20-25-plus range. already a few areas at 13 inches as of about an hour and a half ago. these numbers will go out. also the case of central and eastern long island, where we ll see a bull s eye of some of the heaviest snowfall totals. this is filling in across parts of new jersey also. let s take a look at how this will unfold over the next several of hour
at least a few showers towards d.c., light sprinkle in harr harrisbu harrisburg. these are in the direction of minneapolis over a couple hours that may cause airlines delays. 11 a.m. central watch. in line of the fire for some thunderstorms. chicago on the dry. but at least hot side of things. easily with mid 90s. cooler temperatures in time fort gik of the weekend. gulf coast, if you re heading in that direction, next couple of days we ll be continuing to track tropical depression 13. if it mansion to reach storm strength, you ll be talking about tropical storm jose at that point. wet weather into chicago, some of that toward the mid-atlantic and northeast corridor in time for sunday. weekend plans i split weekend. saturday the pick of the two in new york city and towards d.c. by monday. many of the same areas clear out. lynn? thanks, todd. coming up, a reality tv star is
storm strength as it already made landfall at cape look out north carolina around 8:00 yesterday morning. it s been grazing the coast and still holding on. however, look at this, we re starting to see some problems on the bottom edge of this storm. when we look at the scientific aspects of this, we know it s not functioning on all of its quadrants as a hurricane should. that means we re not getting as much water wrapping around the bottom edge which is going to help us a little bit when it comes to the flooding issues. we definitely want to underscore it s goings to be a problem. wind gusts, we have a 39-mile-per-hour wind gust at jfk. it s been fluctuating at new york city s central park, around 65 miles per hour. right now at the moment 29-mile-per-hour wind gusts. the winds directly out of the east, talking storm surge that has been reported in excess of four feet. in fact, from the national hurricane center there saying we re looking for a range of