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>> many thanks to both of you. happening right now, a severe threat into the ohio valley and the southern plains and appalachians. strong winds caused some damage overnight. joining me now, weather channel's reynolds wolf. reynolds, what's going on out there today? >> good morning, melissa. it can be a crazy day in parts of the country, parts of the central plains moving into the midwest, the ohio valley. we could deal with potential rain, damaging wind, and at the same time maybe even tornadic activity. one of the issues in terms of the wind could be destructive stuff. we're going from the ...

A lot of people getting to different destinations. we'll have highway headaches. some of the interstates asaturday, louisville to norfolk will have rainy weather. harrisburg to knoxville. i-70 we could get severe storms from kansas city into st. louis. from sunday we'll watch chicago to cleveland, buffalo. 40 will have a lot of rain, too, on sunday. by monday, the i-95 corridor has a chance of rainy weather. 85 from alabama into charlotte, north carolina. 20 from birmingham to dallas could have isolated storms. there will be headaches as we go into the holiday weekend as far as weather, no one...

Great. >> reporter: check out these stunning images out of oklahoma, though. hardest-hit region with this ice, oklahoma panhandle. they got up to an inch of ice overnight, creating a lot of problems. once that ice starts coating trees and power lines, it becomes so heavy, they begin to topple and snap. thousands without power there. also, into st. louis overnight, they had power lines sparking. they had power outages there as well. the biggest impact, though, with this storm that we've seen throughout the region has been on the roads. very slick. at least six deaths reported in oklahoma, kansa...

Meteorologist tom seder joins us from the cnn weather center. what's the latest, tom? >> it is a category 2 storm, john, but i wouldn't pay any attention to that at all. for days and days it was an category 4, so all of that energy and upwelling is still with it. and all that water has to go somewhere and it's plowing northward. the forward momentum could still give us a landfall. as expected yesterday, tornado watch now in effect, as we've already had a few. the worst is over for jacksonville, now that the winds are coming from in the west, we'll see all of that water, which was pushed up int...

Taking forever. we've been here all night long waiting for the storm to go by but it's only moving 10 to 12 miles per hour and it's going along a 300 mile seashore all the way from jacksonville down to about daytona. and that's where it goes. eventually gets into myrtle beach. eventually moves out to sea. but the risk today is the water going up the st. john river, going into st. augustine, going into daytona. i think, and this is kind of i'm calling this an audible off the cuff, we had a shot from daytona beach, it was a surf line shot. see if the control room can find that. there's a fence o...