The first sunday after orthodox easter, the day families here remember their loved ones this year children missing their fathers and wives mourning husbands who died fighting for ukraine s freedom. they bravely defended our city, this woman says, so that we could breathe and carry on living today nato began a massive pre-planned military exercise in poland nato says that exercise is not aimed at any country not related to the war in ukraine. kate kelly, thank you. back in this country, 14 million people are under a severe weather threat tonight following that devastating tornado that tore through a kansas town. we re seeing strike ing new images of that twister. and today we learned three meteorology students were killed after that chasing that storm morgan chesky has more. reporter: tonight in kansas, one mangled mile after another following a friday nightmare.
And then just a year later another cat 4 storm. that s the first state that has ever seen two back-to-back cat 4 storms. i think this will become the norm. i think meteorology students will learn these powerful storms that we didn t know about way back when. you will be hard pressed to say there s not a correlation between climate change and these storms. we put together graphics to explain what we think is happening. when you have climate change, you have warmer air. we talked about oceans that were 90 degrees at times. when we saw ida go up the coast it weakens. waters get shallow. you get upwelling that brings up cooler air. it was 90 degrees and deep yesterday. it continued to fuel the storms. when you think of hurricanes, they are like engines. they need gasoline like cars do. if you have constant flow, you ll get that. we had a rapid intensification
More than 52,000 unaccompanied children have crossed the border since october 1st and that number grows. hurricane arthur now to our top story. flooding the world of social media. we have been watching a lot of those reports and those that happen right around eight hours ago when the center of arthur hit the coast. our nbc affiliate justin kissenberry had this vine and took it in moorehead, north carolina. arthur just hitting at least the center of arthur just hitting where he was reporting from in moorehead city, north carolina. he has had about 67,000 people watching that loop. then there was this coming from meteorology students. they were at a gas station three hours after the center of the storm had hit landfall. at the gas station seeing that wind and there were reports of wind damage in the area of
Port area but the sand and the area that s south and north of where he was. 67,000 times this has been played so far. again, that is where the eye appeared to hit landfall. also want to show you this from the wolfpack at the university of north carolina state. wolfpack weather posted these videos. these are meteorology students at a gas station. this is about 2:00 a.m. or 3:00 a.m. local time. lots of wind damage reports in the raleigh, north carolina, area. this is three hours after that center hit landfall. all right. you are having a little bit of trouble earlier, you might remember this, betty. our reporters that are out by the storm itself. that s because of satellite trucks. they are aimed up into the sky. same situation on wednesday. sometimes they don t have the best connection. and this is jim cantore. he posted this saying, this is why my shot went down. this is a radar shot. 80-mile-an-hour winds is why he was unable to perhaps get his broadcast up to the bird, as