Reports say 194 people across the southern United States are dead after tornadoes and storms ripped across the region–and that number is expected to climb. An estimated mile-wide tornado struck the town of Tuscaloosa, where there’s a University of Alabama campus. Katelyn Ingram is a sophomore there; she talks with us about her experience with the storm. Harold Brooks, research meteorologist at the National Severe Storms Laboratory in Norman, Oklahoma, also weighs in.
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