A DAY CARE PROVIDER LEADS POLICE ON A HIGH SPEED CHASE WITH FIVE CHILDREN INSIDE THE CAR!!! POLICE WERE TRYING TO ARREST THE WOMAN ON FELONY CHECK FRAUD CHARGES AND THEY WERE NOT AWARE THERE WERE CHILDREN INSIDE THE VEHICLE AT THE TIME OF THE CHASE. THE WOMAN ENDS UP LOSING CONTROL OF HER CAR AND THEN SLAMS INTO A POLICE OFFICER'S VEHICLE AFTER SHE HAD ALREADY STOPPED. THE WOMAN'S MINIVAN HAS TINTED WINDOWS AND COPS THINK SHE BOUGHT THE VEHICLE WITH A STOLEN CHECK. THE WOMAN ALSO HIT AN OFFICER ON FOOT, BUT HE ESCAPED WITHOUT SERIOUS INJURY.

A POLICE CRUISER'S DASHBOARD CAMERA CAPTURED A TORNADO ON VIDEO IN DYER COUNTY TENNESSEE. THUNDERSTORMS PACKING TORNADOES AND HAIL AS BIG AS SOFTBALLS RIPPED THROUGH EIGHT MIDWESTERN STATES KILLING AT LEAST 23 PEOPLE, INJURING SCORES AND DESTROYING HUNDREDS OF HOMES. THE DASHCAM VIDEO SHOWS POWERFUL WINDS WHIPPING DEBRIS IN FRONT OF THE POLICE SQUAD CAR. TENNESSEE WAS HARDEST HIT, WITH TORNADOES STRIKING FIVE COUNTIES. MOST OF THE STATE'S 19 DEATHS WERE REPORTED ALONG A 25 MILE PATH FROM NEWBERN TO BRADFORD. THE HIGHWAY PATROL SENT TEAMS TO THE AREA WITH SEARCH DOGS TO CHECK THE DEBRIS. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS, MANY PRODUCING TORNADOES, ALSO STRUCK PARTS OF IOWA, KENTUCKY, ARKANSAS, MISSOURI, OHIO, ILLINOIS AND INDIANA. STRONG WIND WAS BLAMED FOR AT LEAST THREE DEATHS IN MISSOURI. A CLOTHING STORE COLLAPSED IN SOUTHERN ILLINOIS, KILLING ONE MAN. THE WEATHER SERVICE'S STORM PREDICTION CENTER SAID IT HAD PRELIMINARY REPORTS OF 63 TORNADOES.