did. we got in there. obviously, it was coming right behind us. as we got in there. we heard a big boom. didn t hear anything else for a while, we walked out. then just came out to around ten trees. down in our yard. how frightening, at night as well, we re gonna go to priscilla thompson and silver city, mississippi with the very latest. just a few minutes ago. another story we re following at this hour. crews in pennsylvania are searching for five people after an explosion at a chocolate factory. two people when people are pulled from the rubble overnight. we re gonna live report from pennsylvania later on this hour. we go to more developing news now, the investigation into donald trump are accelerating this weekend. as he deals with several legal setbacks. it comes as new york investigators are looking into a death threat, and white powder having been sent to da alvin bragg. the substance was deemed non hazardous. the letter came hours after trump warned of potential
that is sort of the state of things here. all of this began late last night around 9 pm eastern time, when the first tornadoes believed to have touched down here. that s a long track tornado, it went some 80 miles leaving destruction along the way. early data suggests there may have been around a dozen tornadoes that touched down in all across the mississippi and alabama. we know that the national sir weather service is going to be on the ground, surveying, looking at to see how strong those tornadoes were. already, we re hearing something like debris filing 30 to 35,000 feet in the air. we ve seen semi trucks that have been completely flipped over and moved. feet from where they were sitting. so, that gives you a sense of the strength of this storm. how this completely removed from their foundations. we spoke to a few people who are here, when that tornado touched down. they described seeing it and hearing that whistling sound
we ll just keep chasing. there are tornadoes that are too strong for us to intercept. those we ll try to avoid. bill: i think it s interesting you say when it gets to the metro areas folks like yourself have to back off because there is so much debris in that area is that right? for research for interest septembering the tornadoes directly, a tornado filled with debris is not one that we d want to be inside. we d want to be in a tornado that is in the middle of nowhere, not harming anyone, doesn t have that debris. we are trying to better understand the wind circulations inside tornadoes. to do that when you have debris filing in there it could easily roll our vehicle that attaches to the ground and is covered with armor to protect us from it but when it s going through a dfw area, for example, i mean that is just it s unfortunate and there is all kinds of debris flying through the tornadoes. bill: what can do you with the information you re gathering, reed? right now we are in t