loud crash and boom. that came from this truck. this truck fell out of the sky. the tornado had passed, crossed mcfarland boulevard, was moving farther off towards the east and over the top of the the tornado came these trucks, this giant truck landed with a loud crash. he had the one week that he mentioned went through his living room, from the krispy kreme doughnuts, this one came after the tornado had passed, and obviously it s just a perplpe perplexing that the guy survived. how do you come to terms with a thing like that? it s amazing. over 200 people in alabama that have passed away, over 300 around the region, and every now and again you find a story of an amazing, compelling story of survival like chris s. it s really hard it to believe. t.j. all right. reynolds wol with one of those good stories. alabama hardest hit here. we ll be continuing to check in
making it the snowiest one so far. another perspective to show you, 22,000 miles above the earth we are tracking pictures from nasa showing us the tornado outbreak as the satellite takes the temperature of the high cloud tops, why it s bright white here, see the sharp contrast of air. there s the tornadoes ripping across alabama, mississippi into tennessee. a different perspective from space, but it really does show you how intense these storms were. t.j. bonnie schneider keeping an eye on things, good to have you with us this weekend, bonnie. many of you you want to help out in the south, help those tornado victims, maybe like the one you heard, randy guyton tells me a story, visit our impact your world page at cnn.com/impact. the nfl season is on the line. the lockout now back in effect. we ll take a look at how they got there again. also, hats on parade at the royal wedding. we ll show you who s responsible
it brings a lot of people together. it s something that s it s just a disaster now any way you look at it. a lot of communities have gone through this all over the united states and you ve got a lot of help coming in from all over the south. so we re going to make it. we re going to do fine. amazing to hear that days after one of the worst outbreaks of tornados in this country s history. man can say we re going to be fine. 10 past the hour. turn to bonnie schneider, keeping an eye on something else, nasty rain. we have flooding, this is serious stuff going on in arkansas. arkansas, t.j. a lot of flooding there, strong storms rolled through and the flood threat will push from arkansas through the midwest. take a look at pictures out of the arkansas area and a lot of the roads were covered with water, making it difficult to pass. so for those of you traveling today, look at the flood advisories all the way from little rock straight up to detroit. but i think the worst will be in
survivor stories coming to us out of alabama. the hardest hit state in that outbreak this week, it was now the second worst tornado outbreak since the weather service began keeping records. the second deadliest on record. one man will be joining me to tell me how he made it out alive. also, it s a tradition, of hats in england. and yes, we saw that tradition on display at the royal wedding. but the wife of one of the most powerful men in england decided she didn t want to play along and now she is hearing it from the british people.
it all across parts of the south, especially here in tuscaloosa, alabama. it tj, three days ago, people coming to this parking lot in tuscaloosa and go to this krispy kreme doughnut, owned by one of our new friends evan smith. out of respect for mr. smith we re not going to walk into his place, but the door used to be right here. that door now just bits and pieces of shattered glass. inside, just devastation. you can see the counter, see the sign in the background, krispy kreme doughnuts. you see the sign above that, handwritten where it says, will be back. that s kind of a testament to the spirit of mr. smith but representative of the spirit of the people of the great state of alabama. it s my home state, very proud of these folks. they re going to rebound, but they re going to do so with heavy hearts. as we pan over a bit more to our, i guess, our right, don t know my right from left this morning, you might imagine more of the damage from some of these ovens over here, the roof damag