that hit at 5:00 in the morning. that s rare for that to happen. that s not saying storms won t continue, because they will, and you ll see rumbles of thunder and there may be a tornado, but they re not going to have the f-4 or f-5, the 200-mile-per-hour tornadoes. they re not going to happen at 2:00, 3:00 in the morning. as you see it, the storms are moving to the northeast. they ll move to the carolinas and go down pp hill, as they do into north carolina, south carolina, they ll lose some of their intensity as well. i m concerned in the gulf coast where it s muggy, humid. that s what the gulf coast is almost all of the time, but it has the potential to keep the storms going for quite some time. i m going to drag it down on the upper side of this system. we have snow coming down behind that banner. from michigan into wisconsin. and even into the higher elevations there of the u.p. it s kind of an ironic snow this late in the season when you have tornadoes. here is the cold a
captions by vitac www.vitac.com tonight we re tracking a danger ouz tornado outbreak. powerful twisters across ohio, tennessee, mississippi, alabama and indiana where four deaths have now been confirmed. in kentucky a yellow school bus slammed into a building. its front half obliterated. in tennessee, homes are ripped from their foundation, splintered by the winds. at least six people critically hurt in that state. in alabama a trailer home lifted up and crashed upside down near a tree. the naked lot and a few stairs all that s left. and here s a power line crumpled like a paper clip. millions are affected and this is far far from over. we re keeping an eye on it all with the help of our cnn meteorologist chad myers in the severe weather center. chad, what are you watching right now? john, i m watching 11 literally 11 states with a tornado watch in effect. i m watching 21 tornado warnings. watch a short word, not quite as important, warning the bigger word. more let