Tornado rips small southern Minnesota city apart

Surveyors from the National Weather Service confirmed at four tornadoes touched down during severe storms on Tuesday in southern Minnesota and northern Iowa. The small town of Taopi took a direct hit with several homes and buildings leveled, some trees uprooted, and numerous cars overturned in the storm. Taopi is in Minnesota's Mower County, about 120 miles south of the Twin Cities. Despite the damage, there were no reported injuries.