essentially wiped off the map. we have a live report ahead this wicked few months of weather just continues. a heartbreaking scene in the middle of the country this morning. seek the pictures shows you devastation. we ll get to as rob said live details. this half-hour the president arrives in dublin this morning where he will reconnect with his irish roots. we ll be previewing his very big trip. later on this half-hour, an uh unusual copy right case goes to court and involves get this, a tattoo artist s work, mike tyson and hangover movie sequel which opens later this week. controversy already. not even out yet. didn t see that coming. who hasn t woken up in a bathtub with a tattoo like that once or twice. it happens. we begin with the breaking news, in the devastating bachl of tornados just steamrolling the midwest. there are reports that dozens of people are dead after a mile wide tornado ripped through joplin, missouri. as many as 70 twisters have touched down in s
some showers come through. there is your big storm system out to the west, moving through ohio, kentucky and tennessee with violent weather and you ll hear more about that in a moment. and right now current conditions at reagan national, 65 degrees. humidity 97% and the winds are calm. the forecast for today, partly sunny today. i don t want to paint a picture that it will be rainy and cloudy all day. it will be partly sunny, warm and humid with scattered showers and thunderstorms popping up here and there through the day. look for a high of 84 degrees. that s a look at what is happening with the weather. now let s get an update on rush hour traffic with julie wright. i wanted you to know kevin off of twitter yesterday he went out and bought a box of nutty buddies and he ate them all. knowing your addiction to nutty buddies? yes. an overturned suv picket street closed off. now a change at the scene. we do have some traffic able to get by. and that was the vehicle over
forecasts news alert on brand new weather dangers for tornado ravaged southwest missouri. jenna: severe thunderstorms packing high winds and hail are in the forecast for joplin and that s hampering the search for survivors in a town that have seen utter devastation, and words don t do it justice. jon: take a look at those pictures, absolutely amazing, 89 dead but that number expected to climb as a monster twister suggest a cut 56-mile wide path of death and destruction, one of more than 60 tornadoes to tear across the midwest. joining us on the phone, mike o connell, missouri department of safety communications director. mike, we just talked about 89 dead in joplin. is that the latest number that you know? we just finished debriefing and we re told that that number has risen now to 90. so there are 90 confirmed dead, coming out of the city of joplin. you mentioned that severe weather. they had to suspend search and rescue efforts because of that severe weather that moved
dozen homes destroyed and hundreds damaged. reporters given a tour of destruction came across a battered still standing miracle cafe. we ll get it cleaned up. we ll get it back. if the building is gone, then i ll rebuild. reporter: in minneapolis, a tornado blew through this neighborhood. other funnel clouds were spotted in missouri and nebraska adding to an already unprecedented twister tally. 875 tornados in april alone have killed 361 people. in kansas, hail the size of golf balls pounded the pavement and shattered car windows. many areas will get hit with severe weather repeat lead for the next several days. reporter: while out west there is growing concern over the record amounts of snow dwarfing the plows trying to clear it. across a huge swath of landscape, pack levels are greater than 150% above normal, a nightmare flooding threat as it all starts to melt. as we progress into late spring, early summer not a good recipe. we will likely see flooding into the l
will be coming to the state of missouri to do the cleanup. so how do you tkpwreupblg the bridge the gap when you don t know how much funds are going to come in but you have so much work in front of you? really, the funding is not an issue for us. we are going to restore joplin. the funding will come from whatever sources that governor nixon mandates. and i can tell you that governor nixon has charged general danker with leading this cleanup effort and one of the pry ofrts will be really as much of the cleanup as possible, we want to do through local resources. meaning creating jobs. because when you look at all the destruction in joplin, it was businesses, and those are jobs, and so governor nixon and general danker, again, just another small way we can help the community and that s by providing them with jobs to get through this disaster. gen jen major tammy spicer, you joined us before and you re joining us again today. we appreciate your insight.