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Dangerous situation for parts of the u.s. tornado watches have been issued in at least nine states. the national weather service has been busy issuing dozens of warnings for twisters and hurricane-force wind gusts. tornadoes have already hit in arkansas. rescue teams were deployed after an ef2 tornado struck. the damage is significant. more than 100,000 are without power tonight from texas to tennessee. and that number is expected to grow. the line of storms will move east tonight, and the threat continues through thursday morning. and cbs' janet shamlian is on the ground in memphis, tennessee...

Been a tough 48 hours or so for manville. i've been watching you reporting all day long. each time you're in a new location shining a light on another tough tragic story. they've been dealing with historic flooding and several building explosions. what's the situation there right now? how are people coping with everything that happened? >> so we're trying to get a lay of the land here in manville. there's a lot of different areas that were affected by the flooding here of the last 48 hours or so. one of the reasons is because this town is surrounded on three sides by two rivers and a stream. s...

Water, fuel and still without power indefinitely. that is what the president is likely to witness when he travels through laplace and some surrounding areas here. we have no definite timetable on when some major relief will get to these areas. we heard from officials who said while the state did give them some help in the past couple of days, it's been a little water, a few tarps and that doesn't go where it needs to for the long road to recovery ahead. this was an incredible storm that will be remembered for many years to come. not only bringing the 140-mile-per-hour winds but just putting so...

This grog back down to a tropical system and turning into an area of low pressure by tomorrow evening. then it's the tennessee valley, ohio valley, mid-atlantic dealing with that dumping rain, but winds will start to die down. the flood threat, the storm surge is still an issue. some totals from nashville to new york city, we're talking about 5 to 10 inches. the problem for tonight, now it's dark, and we are going to see very large areas that will be dealing with tropical storm warnings. now they're starting to flood into areas of mississippi. i expect parts of south georgia to get into this. ...

Minute, and the pounding rain is just intensifying here. down here, here's another danger. another reason why you shouldn't venture out in a hurricane after dark when the power's out, things like this. this is a construction site that they had to leave obviously and leave a lot of equipment and debris and 2 x 4s and things here. you're not going to be able to see stuff flying around. there's been debris flying around and that's going to be a concern if people try to venture out in this. no visibility. you're not going to be able to see flying objects. that has been a particular concern of our ...