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Surveyed the damage behind me and they found this to be an ef-2 tornado. thats winds up to 135 miles per hour or over 200 kilometers per hour. two tornadoes striking this area within the course of a year, people are wondering if this is their new normal. derek van dam, jefferson parish, louisiana juror at the border. it includes a surge of resources to the border like hundreds of migrant processors and another 2500 contractors and agency workers. ten new temporary so-called soft-sided facilities...

Weather service came to survey the tornado damage you see over my left shoulder and they called this an ef-2 tornado. thats winds of up to 135 miles per hour. now, thats equivalent to a category 3 hurricane, anderson. youre familiar with hurricane katrina. so are the residents of this area. it actually approached the gulf coast as a category 3 as well. but of course the difference here between a hurricane and a tornado is that a hurricane can cause damage over hundreds of miles, whereas a tornad...

Serious injuries, and we also know about 145,000 people are without power across this region. this major storm is still on the move tonight. it is headed east. its going to bring with it up to 16 inches of fresh snow in upstate new york, lester, so while the storm here has moved on, its certainly not over. lester. >> a lot of snow, miguel. thank you. in the south that same system causing death and widespread destruction from dozens of tornados that swept through seven states. morgan chesky in ...

This crash shutting down both sides of interstate 76 in somerset, pennsylvania. our stephanie ramos, in syracuse, new york. >> reporter: the same system spawning that deadly tornado outbreak, at least 52 tornadoes tearing through the south. incredible new video from louisiana showing two funnel clouds circling each other before combining into one tornado. the moment this tornado hit the metro. >> lifting this home off its foundation. family actually inside when that happened. that family uninjur...

This wicked start to winter. >> the national weather service actually surveyed the damage from the tornado directly behind me. and they have preliminarily rated this an ef-2 that, is winds up to 135 miles per hour. with two tornadoes striking this same area within the past year, people here are left wondering if this is their new normal. wolf? >> lets hope its not. thank you very much. just ahead, new video appears to show a massive explosion in if eastern ukraine. the united states finalizes ...

Mile away. >> dont mess with weather. if you hear the sirens going off, please shelter in place. >> reporter: more devastation in wayne, oklahoma, where a confirmed ef-2 tornado left homes ripped to shreds. roofs collapsed or torn off. trees reduced to kindling. in nearby norman drivers caught in flash floods after a torrential downpour. meanwhile, up north in the great plains, trucks sidelined along ice covered highways. south dakotas governor urging people to stay home. >> we have a lot of ice...

The mississippi and the tennessee river valley bringing flooding rainfall and tornado, hail and damaging winds, severe storm threat. it is pretty incredible to see likely threat for louisiana, mississippi and the texas panhandle in middle of december. there is potential for ef-2 plus tornados for mississippi, alabama to the florida panhandle and the flash flood risk of heavy rainfall, inch or two and we didnt get to the blizzard, which is happening for northern plains to midwest, we have one to ...

As a massive winter storm heads east. joining us now with more is morgan chesky live from grapevine, texas. what are people there waking up to? >> reporter: they are waking up to the full extent of the damage that yesterdays tornadoes left behind. im standing in front of whats left of just one of the business that was damaged yesterday. in addition to several homes. the damage just as tornadoes so often do, hitting one business or home and leaving the next untouched as it tore through this part ...

Across several states. a mother and her young son among the dead. all part of a massive system bringing snow, blizzard conditions, rain, and ice, dangerous driving for millions. and now, of course, heading into the east tomorrow. these are the new images just in tonight. that funnel cloud in louisiana, right outside new orleans. jefferson parrish. it is now a confirmed tornado that has just touched down there. more than two dozen reported tornadoes in the past 24 hours. we now know it was an ef-...

Inas pofthcitea here is a tonan the ground. >> it is the second tornado to hit the new orleans area today with st. charles parish taking a direct hit, at least one person was killed there. >> holy moses. >> the storm part of a monster winter system causing chaos froe izzardditihave stwn major highw. further west in louisiana, several houses and a medical center were damaged as the suspected twist errorred through new iberia. the storm turned deadly overnight as an ef-2 tornado tore through the s...