so we hope this stays a rescue effort and not just a recovery. all right. the disaster area is threatened with more severe weather in the days ahead. meteorologist jim dickey joins us now live from accuweather. jim, what s the very latest? well, we are still tracking storms at this hour. in many cases, severe storms. all of these polygons, the most wipeding down. speaking to the fact that the tornado threat has wound down, you usually see that. we move to daytime, storms weaken. still producing strong, gusty winds. this yellow box across oklahoma, that is new severe thunderstorm watch where storms are refiring here. we unfortunately do have a new tornado warning to report, just off to the south and west of indianapolis with these storms tracking in. doppler radar indicated rotation, hendricks county under tornado warning until 3:30 a.m. we ll keep an eye on that storm here. anywhere along the line, you get gusty winds. you see the storms bow out like the storms are doing. an indi
rob, help me out here. what s going on? they re filing out, don. they ve just suspended festivities at lollapalooza because of the line of storms that s moving in the last couple years we ve had a rash of accidents and unfortunate events with concerts and outdoor venues during summer time severe weather events like we re having right now. that s what s happening out at lollapalooza. we have another tower cam showing michigan avenue outside of our cnn bureau there in chicago. traffic at a standstill there as skies are darkening and things are getting a little more ominous. let s show you the radar and show you this nasty line of storms which has been producing damaging winds from davenport, iowa and east into northern illinois. it s about to slam into chicago. already some of the western suburbs reporting 60 and 70-mile-per-hour winds. that yellow box you see there is a severe thunderstorm watch box. it s been posted. that s in effect for the next couple hours and will be ex
emily, this hasn t been just a weather vaent. it has been an economic event. businesses haven t been able to operate. reporter: hi, gary. it has been such a long week for people. when you see trees like this that toppled and the power lines that came down more than a week ago, it set off a chain reaction so big that the experts, the government and even small businesses say they just haven t been able to add up the total costs yet. what is clear is that as the power comes back on, people are beginning to see just how much they lost. though it only takes an instant for the lights to go out in a storm, things can get darker for days. a chevy chase supermarket just outside washington. disaster hit three days after losing power. a refrigerated trailer compressor blew up and with it the family-owned supermarket s back-up plan. we lost everything in the trailer. then everything in the frozen food case here. basically we ve lost everything in the entire store. reporter: it mean
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in on the republican cd candidates who want to be president. announcer: from cnn world headquarters, bringing you news and analysis from across the nation and around the globe. live from studio 7, this is cnn saturday morning. we start now with the devastation across the midwest and the south. these are the scenes people are waking up to today. debris now sits where their homes once stood. at least 31 people are dead. a series of tornados are being blamed for the destruction. there are emergency declarations in place in indiana and kentucky. national guard troops have also been deployed there. before we take you live to indiana for the latest there, i want to show you now an amazing piece of video. it comes from west liberty, kentucky, shot just as the tornado was forming over the town. now, listen very closely to the desperate prayers from one woman as she pleased for her safety. take yourself away from our home. the prayers were answered. she did come through that s