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The killer twisters touched down in Mena Ark and Murfreesboro Tenn. ABC's Steve Osunsami and CBS' Kelly Cobiella both filed from Mena, where the tornado hit on Thursday evening. "Most of the injured were at the Masonic Lodge for a meeting," CBS' Cobiella told us as she displayed its debris. Residents recounted to ABC's Osunsami that "the sky turned green." NBC had Ron Mott in Cartersville Ga, which was in the path of further devastation. "It has been an awful day indeed," Mott declared. Hailstones, he reported, had been "the size of apples." Atlanta-based meteorologist Stephanie Abrams of the Weather Channel, a sibling network of NBC, counted 17 separate tornadoes in four states in a system that stretched from Kentucky to Alabama.
The drought-parched grasslands of Oklahoma and Texas provided fuel for brush fires; 70 mph winds provided energy. Together they scorched 100,000 acres. NBC's Jay Gray showed us the NASA satellite picture. At times, he reported, the flames leapt 100 feet in the air. "Flames and ash were carried high into the sky and rained down on more fields, fueling at least 30 dangerous wildfires," was how Don Teague described it on CBS. More than 100 homes were destroyed in a single suburb of Oklahoma City. "Another man's home was destroyed while he was attending his wife's funeral." ABC's Ryan Owens (at the tail of the Osunsami videostream) found relief at hand--"a 100% chance of rain on Easter Sunday."
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