and d.c., is this rick santorum s last stand? can he convince republicans that the race isn t already over? i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. captions by vitac www.vitac.com let s begin with the breaking news. tornado emergencies right now in the dallas-ft. worth area. look at these pictures that have been coming in. this was the scene in the dallas-ft. worth area just a little while ago as the sky turns dark. we see a massive funnel cloud draw closer and then this monster tornado descends on a truck park, picks up giant trailers as if they were little toys and sends them flying. look at this. flying through the air. that s just one of the twisters on the ground today. let s go straight to our meteorologist chad myers. chad, for viewers who are just tuning in, update them on what has happened over the past hour or so. what has happened as two tornadoes, one going up 35w and one going up 35e. you have to understand, from san antonio to austin there s
most houses intact, but as fema reported earlier, erin, almost every single house damaged in some way. we put the hel kaumeicopter in d near here because this area looked hard hit. this trailer area, this camground, we see trailers blown over. there s an airstream on its side, and we came over to this house that was mostly destroyed. the sorm surge, the storm surge came up about two feet here in this mucky silt is everywhere, much deeper than this in many places. when we got to this house, we found armando, who is here with me now. armando, come here for a sec. armando chose to try to ride out the storm. and you stayed in your house right here until a certain point. but then what happened? after the tree fell down and then the house can t support any more, and then the lift all the roof up. that s when i decided to go in the backside of the house, and then after that, i wait until