Four high voltage power towers down, power lines are eyeball height across the road, many roads closed.

Bus contained 5 kids ages 10-12, one driver, all hospitalized but no life-threatening injuries

Helicopter not for the bus! It's the police using it to assess the area. (Whew!!)

40,000 without power

Feeling thankful the tornado waited to touch down until it went over the most populace portions of this area, touched down NE of city

Lifeline helicopter on the way to the site of the bus crash :*(

Tornado sirens here, sighting to the north

Six Rockford schoolchildren injured, bus thrown a long distance into a ditch

Just reported first report of injuries

Tornado touched down near where we go fishing, at least one structure leveled. A school bus flipped.