Particular house but neighbors are nearby. Witnesses say this sounded like a car accident. The fiercest part of the storm just arrived. When they looked out their window and saw this. Easily the tall estest tree on this block crashed into their home. The tree crushing through the top floor of the house. Ripped down power lines as it fell. Witnesses say the wind and rain had been whipping for three or four minutes when they heard the enormous crash. I was in my room on the internet and all of a sudden i heard the wind rip through the neighborhood. When that happened, i heard a loud crash. It was pretty jarring. I jumped up and looked outside and i saw what i saw. Reporter no one was inside the house, again, when this happened, but a couple of the neighbors actually watched the tree fall. Said it happened almost in slow motion. We can tell you now that the house obviously that is underneath this tree is not safe to occupy right now. There are several homes on this block that are still wi
This is nbc nightly news. Reporting tonight, lester holt. Good evening. There is a lot to tell you about tonight. We want to start with the threat of dangerous weather. Strong storms and the potential for tornadoes popping up across a huge part of the country this hour. Storms from texas all the way to connecticut. It started what is looking like a severalday outbreak. Lets turn to al roker who joins me in the studio. Al where is the biggest risk tonight . Right now, texas, lester. In fact we have a tornado watch in effect for northern texas and a cell around amarillo. There is a funnel cloud on the ground. Warning is in effect until the top of the hour. For tonight we are looking at this risk of strong storms from lubbock, houston, austin but we also have an enhanced risk including dallas. 22 Million People at risk for severe storms and 70mileperhour wind gusts and tornadoes, twoinch hail. Tomorrow the risk moves to the east. New orleans under the gun. 24 million folks at risk. Damagi