sgood morning. give us a sense of damage and the most recent death toll that you know. well, yeah, we ve been working with the states. alabama seems to be the hardest hit. we had loss of life in mississippi, impacts in georgia all the way up into virginia. they re comparing this outbreak to the 1974 super tornado outbreak. the amount of fatalities unfortunately is now being reported close to a little over 200, and search and rescue operations are still under way in alabama and some of the other areas. tell me about that. how many people has tefema sento alabama, and what exactly are they doing? right now, last night the governor requested assistance. president obama declared an emergency declaration. that allows us to send in direct federal assistance to the governor s team. we recognize as bad as this tornado is, a lot of the response is being done by local officials, mutual aid from surrounding communities as well as the governor has called out the national guard.
much. as we speak, this same weather system is actually moving now towards the northeast. nbc news meteorologist bill karins is tracking that system. bill, what s the latest on it, where s it at, and how much more devastating could it get? at the tail end of our three-day outbreak. we don t think we ll see anything today like we did yesterday. yesterday was just off the charts. we haven t seen a worse outbreak since 1974. the super tornado outbreak that killed over 300 people, and then you have to go all the way back to 1930s in alabama when 300 people died from a tornado. this is probably the second worst in alabama state history. so as far as what we re dealing with out there now, we do have a couple tornado warnings out, there but nothing too devastating. severe thunderstorm watch for areas of new jersey, pennsylvania, new york, still a tornado watch that includes baltimore and washington, d.c. as far as the worst of the storms, we had a tornado warning with a possible strong st