under a couple of watches for severe thunderstorms and flash flooding. alison? >> alina machado, thanks. that picture of the rainbow and the funnel cloud, the awesome of mother nature, amazing. >> all in one frame there. you can imagine the people are waking up this morning and it's a mess. >> oh, yeah. >> looking at what they have to clean up. let's go to meteorologist ivan cabrera who is with us now. yesterday, we were looking the potential 17 million could face severe weather on saturday. it's nearly doubled today. >> it's going to hit more of the metro plexus so have to with watch that. the severe weather continued through the overnight and happening right now. the worst of the weather, of course, as far as tornado potential that will be this afternoon as we get maximum heating. you don't hear of torngs in the morning dr of tornadoes in the morning and there is a reason for that. if you're watching this from