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>>> good morning, everyone. welcome to "today" on a saturday morning. i'm lester holt reporting from henryville , indiana , a town that was it lutterly devastated by friday's storms.
>> i'm amy robach inside studio 1a . here's what we know. 31 dead, 14 in indiana , 14 in kentucky and three in ohio. that number is expected to rise today. authorities say it's difficult to determine how many people are missing as searchers struggle with the lack of electricity in many areas.
>> reporter: more than 85 tornados were reported on friday. it was the second time in a week that storms swept across parts of the nation's midsection. ten states were under some kind of weather threat. the hardest hit areas are in southern indiana , kentucky , ohio, tennessee, and northern alabama . now, in terms of size, this storm system was enormous. we watched it building all day. it stretched from the gulf coast to the great lakes. it was so side that an estimated 34 million people were at risk for severe weather . that's according to the national weather service , amy .
>> and, lester , you were just in harrisburg, illinois. and i know you arrived in henryville about an hour ago. can you describe where you are and what you've about seen?
>> reporter: we're about 30 minutes or so from louisville , kentucky . and like so many of these tornado scenes, you know, it just happens upon you. you're driving, everything looks normal, and suddenly you realize the trees are all leveled, the buildings are all down. this is the henryville junior/ senior high school . the left side is actually the elementary school . that part was built only about a year ago to tornado standards. you see the buses here in the parking lot ? what they had done was realizing storms were approaching, they emptied out the school . they shut the school down early and sent the children home. there was no tonigrnado reported at that point but they sent children home knowing it was on the way. they decided to bring the kids back and got them inside to safety, and you can see what's left of the bus. we'll tell you more about that story later on. of course, this is one town among many in several states hit by that onslaught of storms that marched through the midsection yesterday. nbc's tom costello is in chelsea, indiana . he's got more from there. tom, good morning.
>> reporter: hi, lester . good morning do you. by point of reference we're 30 midnights north of louisville , straight up highway 62 . this was a gentleman shed, a family's shed. back there is the home. that's not where the home used to be. it used to bo about 100 yards that way behind the cameraman. what happened is the mother and daughter were gone yesterday afternoon. the husband was here alone. he saw this massive storm coming. estimates of 150-mile-per-hour winds, maybe an ef-4. he saw this thing coming, realized he could not possibly survive it by staying here, got in his truck, and he started driving. he managed to get away. unfortunately three family members just across the road, they were not so lucky. this is all that's left of henryvillhen henryvilhenr henryville high school . this indiana town 20 miles north of louisville , kentucky , saw some of the worst of it as a string of powerful storms ripped a path of destruction from northern indiana to southern alabama . the kids got out of school only 15 minutes before the winds ripped it apart.
>> we got on the buses and started heading to my house, and the tornado was following us. luckily this woman was so generous to let us stay in her basement.
>> the clarke county sheriff's office describes marrierieysville gone. this is what it looked like after flattening harvest, alabama . a tornado hit there ten months ago.
>> we just got in in january, moved back into the house and getting ready to move that mobile home . it picked it up, turned it around, and slammed it into the house.
>> reporter: west liberty , kentucky , didn't have that much time to recover. this is the second deadly storm to hit the town in just 48 hours . in the thick of the storm , hail pelted cars coming down so furiously that they had to pull off the road. power lines and trees are down everywhere, blocking roads and trapping victims of the storms in the middle of the wreckage and keeping rescuers out. for people in this part of the country, it's hard to imagine that so much could be lost and so much damage could be done in just a few short hours. it's hard. it's just hard on everybody. everything's gone, you know. everything's just gone.
>> reporter: here's the headline in the morning paper. it just says it all " terrible tragedy " here in southern indiana . again in this area, chelsea, four people dead. lester , just as we were running the tape record, the sunrise kind of broke over the horizon here and i said to my cameraman, it's just everywhere. the devastation is everywhere. and i'm just now getting a good look at it now that the sunrise is coming up, but throughout this entire farm region, trees are ripped to shreds, homes are gone. it is just a terrible scene. back to you.
>> reporter: and as you were talking, i had the same realization. i got here a short time ago. you're right. as we look around, we'll be showing more of this, it is unbelievable. the weather channel 's jim cantore is also here in henryville in front of what was a brand-new elementary school . jim, good morning to you.
>> reporter: yeah, good morning, lester . it's hard to believe the same devastation that you and tom are looking at may stretch for 80 miles . this is very similar to the type types of tornados we had on april 27 of last year and mother nature decided to start in march this year. look at this. you see this house behind me. moved 50 yards, torn right off its foundation. there's debris everywhere, especially trees, pieces of homes. here's the elementary school that you guys are all talking about. you can see the classrooms ripped apart here. this isn't just wood. brick, metal framing just twisted like licorice. 30 minutes before that tornado , there were kids in that classroom. you can't even imagine what that must have been like certainly for ones that were taking refuge in the school down below. it's very much a breaking story. much, much search and rescue has to be done. rural towns and roads haven't been gotten to. you can see why. piles of debris everywhere you look. winds with this will probably be 170 to 200-plus miles per hour, and we haven't gotten to potentially some of the worst damage yet. 95 tornadoes right now. if that stands, this will not only top the wofrlt outbreak ever in march history of the united states , but it will equal the march average of todays by one day. back to you.
>> reporter: it is stunning, isn't it? jim cantore , thanks. henryville 's high school as we heard suffered extensive damage. we have the principal, the superintendent of the west park school and troy albert who's the principal of the junior high school . at what point did you order the kids out of school ?
>> well, the tornado warning had not hit just about the time we had the dismissal. we had some conversation with the school here and told them it looked good, it looked like it was going to be a while before it hit, thought we could get the children home. they actually got them out, i think, about ten minutes earlier than planned. got most of the kids on buses an got them out.
>> you mentioned the buses. before we continue, i want to let folks know here. we see buses wrecked. some of the buses returned with the kids, correct?
>> yes. they saw the storm clouds or saw tornadoes forming and returned to school . there were very few students left in school , though these gentlemen can tell it much better than i can. there were very few students left in school , and what students were there, they got them in interior office spaces and they weathered the storm .
>> reporter: i want to show very quickly. we have a bus across the lot that blew from this parking lot probably 400, 500 feet. that's how strong it was. dr. riggs, you were inside.
>> we were in our office core. we had about 40 of us in three small offices. basically, you know, we're lying on the floor in the office, and there was like a decompression. it felt almost like your skin was going to be peeled off your face and your ears popped. of course, people were a little upset. some of the children were upset. and then the sound hit, and that was when the tornado hit the building, and it was just crash, bang, break. everything you could imagine.
>> reporter: you knew the school was breaking up around you.
>> we knew the school was going up around us. and then the ceilings began to kind of fall apart and there was like a dust in there for probably about a minute. and then it did stop. and we know -- we knew at that point, praise god, we were fine.
>> reporter: and, troy, you were in another part of the school with another group of students. how were you guys doing?
>> we were in the same situation, but it seemed to be a little bit more calm, just because they were listening and following instructions. we had the 11 students that were on the bus that is in the building over here.
>> reporter: the bus that we see embedded in a building, you had kids --
>> there were 11 students that i held the door open, got them inside with their bus driver , the bus driver did an excellent job of getting them there. basically what we did was go into our storm situation, and we had guests in the building and other workers, and we got everybody secured. and then i made a call to the staff, if there's any staff in tilde bein the building, you need to get to a safe area now.
>> reporter: any injuries to the kids or staff?
>> none. none.
>> everybody is safe. not an injury, one.
>> reporter: i can only imagine the scene afterward. frightened children, parents wanting to get to their kids. how did you get them reunited.
>> basically we got the kids to the community center after there was a second round of hail. we had baseball-sized hail that was very interesting on what was left of the roof also as far as sound. after that came through, wejts down to the local community center, where we were able to reunite parents and children. we had a lot of kids that would have been here late anyway because of the day care facility we have on campus as well also.
>> reporter: i'm sure the parents are glad for what you did with the students and everyone is safe. amazing stories like this, we're going to hear a lot more certainly as we continue throughout the day.
>> all right, lester . thanks so much. unfortunately the damage continues for many residents in harvest, alabama . friday's storm is a terrible case of deja vu . nearly one year ago the town was ripped apart by a strong tornado . friday's storm damaged nearly 200 homes. the weather channel 's mike seidel is there this morning. good morning, mike.
>> reporter: and good morning, amy . a big difference this time around. it was a much weaker tornado and the huntsville times says it all "damage but no deaths in the aftermath." they're thanking their lucky stars . only injuries and those folks are out of the hospital and at home. no fa tilts. last year, an ef-5 with winds 100 miles or higher came through and destroyed the town. there was a mobile home last year. it was blown to smithereens. it was left back there. yesterday morning, the first tornado of the almost 100 preliminary counted yesterday touched down here and blew the other mobile home the owner put back on the foundation and it's back wrapped around the tree. take a look over here. i talked to the homeowner, kevin moss. he got it reconstructed. his siding got ripped off and the circuit breaker box. big difference this year also is the fact that this tornado was an ef-2 on the fujita scale , winds estimate at 125 miles an hour. it was on the ground for about 14 miles and 19 minutes . two tornados in this area, two miles north of huntsville, alabama . all in all, alabama did very well in this outbreak compared to last april 27th . amy , this morning, they're happy to feel the cool weather. temperatures around
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A replica of the "Jonah Fish" bone box, on display at Discovery Times Square in New York, shows a fishlike figure on the left side of the box's front. Small fish figures are inscribed in a border along the top of the box. The right side of the box's front is incomplete because that area was obscured by an adjacent bone box.
By Alan Boyle
The debate over a 1st-century "Jesus Discovery" tomb that may, or may not, contain the earliest known evidence of Christian iconography has taken on some of the fervor of a holy war, with some scriptural scholars protesting what they see as the "Da Vinci Codification" of modern culture.
The controversy focused on whether a fishlike figure carved into one of the limestone bone boxes from the Jerusalem tomb was really meant to be a fish ? or something else. It's a key point, because fish have historically been seen as early Christian symbols, and such symbols have not previously been found on Jerusalem bone boxes.
"The 'Jonah Fish' is just the next installment in the Jesus-archaeology franchise ? timed, as always, to precede a major Christian feast," Steven Fine, director of Yeshiva University's Center for Israel Studies, complained in a posting to the ASOR Blog, which is published by the American Schools of Oriental Research. "I, for one, am wearied by the almost yearly 'teaching moment' presented by these types of 'discoveries.' I am hopeful, however, that ? this time ? a forceful and quick display of unanimous dissent by the leading members of the academic community will be taken seriously by the media and the public at large."
The underground chamber, known as the Patio Tomb because it lies beneath the patio of a present-day condo building, was explored a couple of years ago with the aid of a camera-equipped robotic arm. The project came into the global spotlight this week with the publication of "The Jesus Discovery," a book about the finds made there.
A documentary TV show, reportedly titled "The Resurrection Tomb," is due to air on the Discovery Channel this spring. It's not yet clear whether that show will be broadcast around the time of Easter Sunday, which falls on April 8 this year (April 15 for Orthodox Christians).
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In addition to the "Jonah Fish" bone box, investigators examined a different limestone bone box that had an inscription scrawled in the central area of the front face. They interpreted the third line of the inscription as referring to "lifting up" or resurrection. Such a reference could be read as a statement of faith. This is a replica of the casket that is on display at Discovery Times Square in New York.
This week's claims about the Christian character of the bone boxes seen in the Patio Tomb have attracted sharp criticism from outside experts. The tone of the debate has become so sharp that one of the scriptural scholars behind the discovery, James Tabor of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, appealed today for an end to the "personal innuendos and ugly charges about greed and corruption."
"I ask my fellow bloggers in our field to circulate this call for a change in our tone and approach to one another," he wrote on his own blog. "Enough is enough. ..."
One of Tabor's partners in the tomb study is Rami Arav, an Israeli-born archaeologist at the University of Nebraska at Omaha who has directed excavations in Israel for more than two decades. Arav told me today that the controversy over the findings was not unexpected.
"Whenever you make a pioneering discovery ... there will always be questions about the interpretation of what you see, particularly when things are not unequivocal," he said. "My philosophy in this kind of thing is that a good theory ... is elegant and solves more problems than it creates."
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Biblical scholar James Tabor glances over at replicas of two bone boxes found in Jerusalem's Patio Tomb during a Tuesday news conference at Discovery Times Square. A camera-equipped robotic arm like the one seen here was used to examine the boxes remotely.
Believing a fish story
For some, the claims about the "Jonah Fish" constitute a big problem. Tabor, Arav and another partner, documentary filmmaker Simcha Jacobovici, have suggested that the figure alludes to the biblical story of the prophet Jonah, who was swallowed by a sea creature and vomited up alive three days later. That story held extra significance for Christians, who believed Jesus died on the cross and rose from his tomb on the third day.
The critics of the "Jesus Discovery" team say they're not swallowing the fish story. Instead, they maintain that the figure depicts a type of funerary pillar or tower, known as a "nephesh tower," or perhaps an amphora or vase. Some experts included pictures from other bone boxes, showing nephesh towers with pointed roofs.
Arav and Tabor said they had considered the interpretation of the picture as a tower or a vase, but decided that the fish made more sense. "If we suggest it could have been a tower, then we would have to put the ossuary upside down," Arav said. "This doesn't have any precedent, and I think this is even more problematic than saying it is a fish."
The team's video examination of the box also spotted several small, simple fish figures carved into an ornamental border around the main figure.
"It creates problems which I indeed don't think are problems," Arav said. "We know that the Jonah motif appears later on, but that doesn't mean that it began later on. This is not a real problem."
Jacobovici told me that he put the picture to the "Mishi test," named after his 5-year-old daughter. When he heard that some experts were suggesting that the picture showed a tower, he called Mishi over to take a look. "I said, 'What do you see here, sweetie?' She looks very intense, and says, 'A person inside a fish?'" Jacobovici recalled. "It passed the Mishi test."
Why fuss over a fish?
What difference does it make whether the picture shows a fish or a tower? The eventual outcome of the debate could have a big impact on the course of biblical archaeology. If the iconography is determined to be Christian, that would lend much more significance to what otherwise might be seen as a run-of-the-mill Jewish tomb.
What's more, Tabor and Jacobovici contend that the discovery of a Christian tomb strengthens their far more controversial claim, first made in 2007, that bone boxes in a nearby tomb might contain the earthly remains of Jesus and members of his family. The investigators reached that conclusion based on the names inscribed on the boxes, and their similarity to the names listed in biblical accounts of Jesus' brothers and sisters. Tabor says additional studies published since 2007 have strengthened his case, but other scholars are unconvinced.
Arav isn't getting involved in the debate over the "Jesus Family Tomb." But he does want to return to the Patio Tomb and go beyond the fishy debate. "We did non-invasive research in this place, and we discovered what we discovered," Arav said. "But we need also to do some invasive research."
Current estimates suggest that the Patio Tomb was used sometime between 20 B.C. and A.D. 70, when Jerusalem was destroyed by the Romans. Arav would like to get a better sense of the date, and perhaps run DNA tests on the remains "to see if they are associated with groups of people that we know of." It might also be possible to run tests on a cooking pot that was brought out from the tomb years ago, "to see what was offered to the dead," he said.
"There are a lot of things that hard science can help us with," Arav observed. "There are a lot of things to do."
More about bone boxes and biblical archaeology:
Replicas of bone boxes from the Patio Tomb and the Jesus Family Tomb are on display at Discovery Times Square in New York City, which is also hosting an exhibit about the Dead Sea Scrolls and daily life in biblical times. The exhibit runs through April 15.
Alan Boyle is msnbc.com's science editor. Connect with the Cosmic Log community by "liking" the log's Facebook page, following @b0yle on Twitter or adding Cosmic Log's Google+ page to your circle. You can also check out "The Case for Pluto," my book about the controversial dwarf planet and the search for other worlds.
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BOSTON (AP) ? Singer Bruce Springsteen has taken to Facebook and Twitter to help find a missing Boston College student.
On both networks, Springsteen posted a missing person poster Wednesday of 21-year-old Franco Garcia of Newton. Garcia has been missing since he left a bar popular with Boston College students early on Feb. 22. Springsteen also tweeted a request for anyone with information about the case to call the Newton Police Department.
Springsteen's son attends Boston College. Garcia was studying chemistry at Boston College and played clarinet in the symphony band.
Meanwhile, state police divers continued a search for Garcia at a Chestnut Hill reservoir, but turned up nothing. They also searched Garcia's home for clues on where he might be.
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