and just might change how you trade forever. because once you experience thinkorswim® by td ameritrade there s no going back. welcome back. when tornadoes hit kentucky and arkansas hard, americans gathered more than 1600 volunteers to help homeowners there. the president of samaritans first joins us now. merry christmas to you. you were in kentucky yesterday. merry christmas. thank you. griff: on the ground helping hundreds of families devastated by the tornadoes. tell us what you were doing yesterday. well, we have volunteers. we are working at different homesites. cutting trees, removing the
tornados in arkansas around little rock. let s get right to bill karins with latest. an hour ago is and waufring the storm and now we ve watched it move on the ground for the better portion of an hour. a large, violent tornado, 3/4 of a mile wide. from the pictures and the devastation, you can expect many, many injuries. unfortunately, i d be surprised if there were not a lot of deaths from the tornado. it s dark in the area. search and rescue operations go through the night outside little rock. it hit mayflower arkansas hard. now near latonia, starting to weaken. there was debris falling from the sky in the area and radar indicating the debris from the ground being shot 8,000 feet up in the air, a very serious, violent storm, exactly what we re afraid of as we went into today. we ll continue to follow this. now we ll take you back to msnbc undercover.