david, a lot left to clean up. marcus, thank you. 40 million americans bracing in several states tonight. this of course, all moving east. let s get back to meteorologist rob marciano. he has been tracking this since this time last night, and where is it tonight? we have similar dynamics tonight like last night, and we ll see multiple rounds. two lows you see on the map, they will combine on the east coast tomorrow for a mess. tonight already, over 60 reports of damaging winds or hail, and we have got multiple watches and warnings ongoing. the highest risk area across much of kentucky, the ohio and tennessee river valleys. several rounds. you see more firing up across kentucky, and another round through tennessee. by tomorrow, it s in the southeast, through birmingham, montgomery, atlanta, charlotte and all likely to get hit from folks likely to hit in the storm zone. have your phone alerts on and your local abc stations. take the warning seriously. rob, thanks. we have other n
has the it making i way toward the nuclear coast. still atrong category 4 hurricane. and then other computer models hopefully, showing the storm veering off towards the atlantic. still a lot of variables at play here. 1500 mile spread between the models and that means there is still a lot of uncertainty to go. we have a long way before the storm, really, threatens the landfall here in the united states. but of course, that s, the next major storm we have to keep a close eye on. talk about harvey, what it is doing now. see it rotating across the ohio and tennessee river valleys. this storm system has produce sewed much raso much rain. flash flood warnings. kentucky. tennessee. let s not forget what is happening in southeast texas and louisiana. how could we. george and i 24 hours ago. sitting at the banks of the river. in fort bend county. south and west of houston weeft saw how the water was creeping up. in fact, we have 25 flood gauges
went down yesterday. this radar is remarkable how it blew up. we ll run through this real quick. the tornado itself, the radar, just really ripped through joplin after exploding across southeast kansas. this wasn t a long-lived event where it went 200, 300 mile super cells like the last ones that rolled through alabama. it was enough to have all the ingredients to explode and notice it moved to the south and effort. 48 reports of tornadoes yesterday. 20 on saturday. also a deadly tornado in kansas saturday. of course our friends in minneapolis we re thinking of you, several injured with one fatality from a tornado yesterday. one of the 48 here. here s where the action is today. this is not severe at the moment but rolling through parts of the ohio and tennessee river valleys. later on today we expect to see a threat for some severe weather if you are doing travel, there will be be spots in new york where you have to deal with drizzle, but the highlight of the area there is where we e
many ran to seek safer ground, but boy, the devastation is coming to light today. that s right. 12 hours later life has changed in joplin, missouri. a powerful tornado ripped that city apart. the red cross said 75% of the town is virtually gone with reports of at least 30 people killed and dozens more injured. 50,000 people live in the city. no phone service, power lines are down, cars and trucks smashed and flipped. the governor calling out the national guard and declaring a state of emergency this morning. to make matters worse the city s main hospital st. john s medical center where people would have gone to get help suffered extensive damage. witnesses say windows were blown out on some of the top floors. medical records, x-rays and other items scattered nearly 70 miles away. at least 100 patients hadden to transferred to other area hospitals. crews combing through mounds of debris and rubble searching for survivors. brian todd is live at joplin at st. john s. when we
jacqui jeras. take it away. a far-reaching storm that will have major impacts on eastern portions of the u.s., at least through the middle part of the week. storm packed quite a punch in the midwest, and now the worst of the storm is focused here across the great lakes and down across the ohio and tennessee river valleys, at least in terms of the wintry aspects of it. some of the heaviest so east of nashville. look at this over parts of kentucky, and over towards the cleveland area where you re under a winter storm warning, you ll likely see a couple of feet of snow by the end of the week on the lee side of the lake as the lake-effect snows continue to kick on in. ahead of this system in the warm sector, it s been rain all day long. new york, up towards boston, all throughout new england. you d expect snow this time of the year, but you re in that warm wedge, but that was enough to cause some major delays at the airports. we have major delays for the midwest, from the northeast, to