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A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1:30 P.M. CDT FOR SOUTHEASTERN ITASCA AND WEST CENTRAL ST. LOUIS COUNTIES: At 12:52 P.M., a severe thunderstorm capable of producing a tornado was located over Taconite, or 8 miles northeast of Grand Rapids, moving northeast at 65 mph. Locations impacted include: Nashwauk, Pengilly, Hibbing and Keewatin.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1:45 PM CDT FOR SOUTHEASTERN ITASCA, AITKIN, NORTHWESTERN PINE, EAST CENTRAL CASS, SOUTHWESTERN ST. LOUIS, CARLTON AND CROW WING COUNTIES: At 12:50 P.M., severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from 7 miles southwest of Grand Rapids to near Palisade to 6 miles southeast of Deerwood, moving east at 50 mph. Golf ball size hail and 70 mph wind gusts.

. Basketball Maturity

Noah Adams speaks with Mike McCleese, coach of Howard University's varsity basketball team. They discuss the maturity of young basketball player's today in light of the incident earlier this week when Nick van Exel of the NBA Los Angeles Lakers shoved a referee after being given a second technical foul and being tossed out of a game. Coach McCleese believes pro basketball players are not necessarily mature when they enter the pros and coaches in the pros are not there to help them with that part of their life. All in all, coach McCleese says, players are learning the right things in college sports and incidents like these are abberations.

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