tornadoes. it has really picked up when this cold air that has tried to push farther in the south a little later than usual, even planting from across the midwest has been delayed because the weather just isn t wet enough. cold air clashes with the warm air that s not already across the south. the south is warm all spring long and get the conditions like what we had in alabama a couple weeks ago and get conditions today that extend all the way from texas and earlier today you were on the air with it. we had tornadoes in henepin county, basically minneapolis, minnesota. 1,000 miles away from where this tornado was tonight. chad myers, stand by. our reporters and photographers who were there, shot these pictures and we re so grateful that you send them here to cnn and that you re joining us. here s what i had to say. the governor of missouri jay
it s from chasertv.com. rob, roll it. oh, my. and then just a short time ago, storm chaser, his name is steve polly got out in the middle of this driving on the interstate, and he said he didn t think he was going to make it touch and go for a while. these videos he took at a gas station. listen. come on. yes, it is. all right. our jacqui jeras, our meteorologist joins us now. some officials in missouri reporting that there are at least as many as 24 fatalities from this tornado that touched down, and they are saying there s widespread damage across the city s south side. that s right, don. it was just an incredible tornado that touched down just before 6:00 local time there. a multi-vortex tornado touched down in downtown joplin and just stripped a path of destruction through the city. there are many buildings which have been damaged. homes have been flattened and trees broken off and stripped from their bark, and, unfortunately, we re concerned that that death t