we re following the breaking news this hour, a tornado outbreak that scraped parts of the midwest this morning, killing at least nine people and injuring more than 100. hardest hit, harrisburg, illinois, where at least six people died, including two children. within the last half hour, we learned the tornado was a category ef-4, with winds, get this, up to 170 miles an hour, and as wide as two football fields. in the last hour, the mayor spoke at a grief-stricken news conference. we have suffered the loss of lives. we ve suffered many injures, and millions of dollars worth of is it damage, but first and foremost the loss of lives breaks my heart today. in neighboring missouri, the governor puts the damage in the tens of millions. there s also damage in kansas and kentucky, where the national guard has been called out. let s get the latest, chad myers is watching what s going on. the heartbreaking to see it, not a whole lot of warning. what s going on now? i think the mo
here to pepeka. no fatalities. nine people were injured there. one person critically injured. governor of kansas is declaring state of emergency there. let s get right to our meteorologist rob marciano who is tracking these storms for us. that same line that produced the tornadoes last night across parts of kansas and missouri moving into parts of kentucky and indiana and illinois. dangerous storm with a tornado dropped down to harrisburg, illinois, damage there and search and rescue actually under way. that s with this line and this cell moving just to the south of evansville, indiana, just to the north of hender son, kentucky. another storm just northeast of paducah. another one just southwest of that. these are strong storms moving quickly. 65 to 70 miles an hour. and in somepla places it s stil dark. tornado watch is up until noontime central for parts of kentucky and also it s kind of sliding back through just north of memphis. this storm is a big one. it stretches all
of the family members, which are the two aunts, the grandfather or t.j. lane. photographs not showing facial features will be permitted. is that brings us to the issue of rule 7, detention, which is the main purpose for us being here today, and with that prosecutor joyce, it s the burden on the state to demonstrate to this court the requirements of juvenile rule 7-a which reads prior to final disposition unless enough following applied. one, detention or shelter care is required, a, to protect the child from immediate or threatened physical or emotional harm, or b, to protect the person or property of others from immediate threatened fill or emotional harm, two, the child maybe abscond, three, the child has no parent, guardian cuss to doia or earn and return the collide to the courtroom required so prosecutor joyce, the floor is yours. thank you, your honor. yesterday officers reported to chardon, a student by the name of t.l. had a .2278 handgun and was shooting other st
gasoline prices jumped 3 cents a gal just overnight to a national average now of $3.61. that makes 16 straight days of higher prices. and experts say we re heading for $4 a gal gas by summer if not sooner. president obama seized the political warning signs and knows the attack s already coming. this afternoon in florida he tried to stay ahead of the curve. since it s an election year, they re already dusting off their three-point plan for $2 gas. and i ll save you the suspense. step one is to drill and step two is to drill. and then step three is to keep drilling. anybody who tells you that we can drill our way out of this problem doesn t know what they re talking about, or just isn t telling you the truth. let s take a closer look at the problem. our chief business correspondent ali velsshey. oil. increase of oil prices up $1.53 a barrel to end at $107.83. that s for the oil that we buy here in the united states. that s not a huge increase. opeq has sort of said they w
early to tell what killed her. that s, of course, all pending the toxicology results. don lemmon is covering the story for us just outside the l.a. county coroner s office. don, bring us up to speed. you and i were listening to the press conference, our viewers were as well. beverly hills police, you also spoke with the assistant county coroner there in l.a. what do you know as of this moment? reporter: well, you heard some of it, brooke. you heard them say that their investigation at the hotel pardon me; we re right outside the coroner s office where there is an ambulance coming through here but you heard me say the investigation at the hotel was over. whitney houston s body has been released, and the coroner told our producer here just a short time ago that to the best of his knowledge, whitney houston s body has been removed from the coroner s office and it will be on a private flight soon back to the east coast, back to new jersey. what we also know, brooke, is what