BRIGGS: Breaking overnight, a wintertime wrath of deadly tornadoes breaking out on the lower Midwest, 19 twisters tearing across Missouri and Illinois. Meteorologist Pedram Javaheri has the latest this morning.</s>PEDRAM JAVAHERI, AMS METEOROLOGIST: Good morning, Dave and Christine. A wild day certainly on Tuesday across parts of the country with a significant amount of severe weather reports. We're talking over 250 of them, and, of course, 21 of which were reported in tornadoes there. I want to show you some video that shows you the damage left in place and we know a large number of fatalities in the region. And you get a large outbreak of tornadoes and that's precisely the case. And not much as what we saw in the month of January. In fact, in January, about 141 reports of tornados, 36 is what is normal. That is almost a 400 percent spike from what is a normal and then in February now, 76 tornadoes tallied where 29 is normal. That's over 250 percent of normal. So, you put that together, it has been very active. We're certainly not out of the woods just yet. And you take a look, severe weather concerns inline here for 100 million today, includes Nashville, includes Cincinnati, into Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, and even New York. The highest concerns a little back towards the West here for some afternoon storms that could certainly have more gusty winds, large hail and even isolated tornadoes, guys.</s>ROMANS: All right, Pedram. That will be a tough day for some of those folks here today. I wish them well as they get out there and survey the damage.</s>BRIGGS: Indeed.</s>ROMANS: Twenty-seven minutes past the hour. President Trump goes before Congress for the very first time this morning. We're going to bring you the reaction to what he said, how he said it and what he didn't say. We'll explain.
19 Tornadoes Hit Missouri, Illinois.