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police advise residents not to drive if they didn t have to. one man was killed in an accident on a snow covered road the there. people in northern louisiana are clearing up after a weekend storm that brought strong winds and some tornadoes leaving tens of thousands in the dark. one resident says people were stunned and scared. the lights went out and they came back on so everybody thought that we were going to be okay but then they went off again. the winds hit. the doors started opening up. i went to hold the doors. the next thing we know, saw little like circles on the ground and that is when stuff started falling so that is where it went crazy from there. you can hear the windows busting in the cars and on the building and that s when everybody took off and started hiding. cleanup this morning in arkansas. the national weather service saying an ef-2 tornado touchdown down in the town of hughes and ripping off roofs.
folks with having really great health care plans. and then i think we ll start to see people being really pleased with what they ve gotten. the brain trust will be back later in the hour. thanks, guys. i do want to get back to that breaking news that we ve been covering here. we continue to watch the severe weather racing across the midwest. joining me live on the telephone, director of the illinois emergency management in spring field. jonathan, first of all, what damage at this point are you aware of so far in illinois specifically in central illinois where we saw a tornado touchdown a short time ago? absolutely. so we have a lot of issues happening. overall confirmed with the national weather service we have t ten independent touchdowns across the state, most significant hitting washington, illinois. there we had several dozen homes that were significantly damaged or destroyed completely. we do have confirmation of one
holiday inn in missouri after people were reported being injured. an amazing perspective from tornado chasers. this is what it was like for chasers at tbn, and they touched a tornado touch down in el reno, oklahoma. horizontal! it s going to be right in front of me, mike. it s coming down right now. an entire vortex coming down to the ground. mike, i have to back out of it. wow. wow.
cnn hero, tad agoglia. i have never seen anything like this. watching the news and literally seeing this tornado touchdown right before our very eyes. oh, my god. we knew it was powerful. there it is. it is a mile right there. the first response team was prepositioned and we were able to get here within two hours after the strike. we saw a massive destruction right off the bat. we were able to get police escorts and we were brought right to the school. search and rescue had just begun. we had some equipment onsite that really was needed. cranes, to lift up heavy debris, cat machines with grapple buckets to move the debris out of the way. we were digging through an area of the school where we thought there could be young children trapped. seeing the deasks, pieces of