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together in this location this evening for a potential outbreak of severe weather. >> reporter: a tornado watch was just issued for parts of mississippi, tennessee, arkansas, and louisiana, and this area has seen its fair share of severe weather so far this year, and it is not even peak tornado season. norah? >> norah: omar villafranca, thank you so much for your reporting. form where the storms are headed tonight and through the weekend, let's bring in meteorologist mike bettes, from our partners at the weather channel. good evening, mike. >> norah, good evening, we anticipate tornadoes and extreme winds to rake across the south the remainder of the night. the target zone, the mississippi river valley. intense storms could last well through the night, well after time people go to bed tonight. memphis, nashville, jacksonville, birmingham, all risk cities and a very intense line that comes to atlanta in the morning of all of those storms could be there in the afternoon among the southeast coast. in addition to that, there is also a flood risk with a lot of rain forests here. about a thousand miles along could see high water over the next 24 hours.
newtons for the to get temperatures this far below freezing can have drastic effects on people the homeless are at particular risk cities across the midwest have opened warming centers including police stations and roving buses for anyone seeking shelter from the cold the bone chilling weather has caused more than two thousand flight cancellations school and office closures transit delays and multi-car pileups on slippery roads even the u.s. postal service whose unofficial motto takes pride in all weather work has halted mail delivery in many places the polar vortex looks to be lingering through the rest of the week only then might it release millions of people from its icy embrace . or correspondent miles waiter is in chicago where temperatures are described as wife threatening. well as we've heard they've been setting up warming centers a lot of the city's major institutions governments have been shut down for the past day through possibly also tomorrow
got about three different layers on top and bottom right now so as prepared as they can be. and. this is good heard. everyone needs to get here and watch your experiments to newton's to get to illustrate the effects of extreme cold chicago based reporter through a couple of boiled water in the air. the water froze almost instantly and fell back down as snow. temperatures this far below freezing can also have drastic effects on people the homeless are at particular risk cities across the midwest have opened warming centers including police stations and roving buses for anyone seeking shelter from the cold the bone chilling weather has caused more than two thousand flight cancellations school and office closures transit delays and multi-car pileups on slippery roads even the u.s. postal service whose unofficial motto takes pride in all weather work has halted.
this far below freezing can have drastic effects on people the homeless are at particular risk cities across the midwest have opened warming centers including police stations and roving buses for anyone seeking shelter from the cold the bone chilling weather has caused more than two thousand flight cancellations school and office closures transit delays and multi-car pileups on slippery roads even the u.s. postal service whose unofficial motto takes pride in all weather work has halted mail delivery in many places the polar vortex looks to be lingering through the rest of the week only then might it release millions of people from its icy embrace . with. temperatures are described as. she told us how authorities there are. extreme weather. well as we've heard they've been setting up warming centers a lot of the city's major institutions governments have been shut down for the past
wind chill and it's more than minus fifty the culprit for the cold chaos a massive subzero air called a polar vortex so named because it normally stays put around the north pole but this week it's humble people further south. this is the big boulders of ever see that i've got about three different layers on top and bottom right now so there's a can be temperate and they're going to find their energy think this is good her protection would hold for everyone needs to get the pier one church germans to newton's of the to get to illustrate the effects of extreme cold a chicago based reporter through a couple of boiled water in the air. the water froze almost instantly and fell back down as snow. temperatures this far below freezing can also have drastic effects on people the homeless are at particular risk cities across the midwest have opened warming centers including police stations and roving buses for anyone seeking
neither rain nor hail nor sleet nor snow may stop the mail but dog bites do. the highest risk cities for postal workers, houston, los angeles, cleveland and san diego. >> how do you keep from being bit? >> you have to be big. you have to be bold and you have to be dominant in your personality when you see a dog doing something. >> reporter: that's the advice for grownups. for kids, experts say don't approach dogs you don't know and if a dog attacks, roll up in to a ball or get a cat. david wright, abc news, los angeles. >> yeah, get that cat. that's the best cat ever. >> hero cat. >> check out some chat points. signals a dog may bite. almost sounds like a human. tense body, stiff tailed, furrowed brow, pulled back ears, eyes rolled so the whites are visible. some other ones, as well. >> yawning. >> that's a strange one. >> yeah, a yawning dog is
took about a 20% cut. in my view, again, i'm just one person, why not take a 20% cut across the board for all of us and instead of whacking out various cities. >> the department of homeland security says louisiana gets other grants for port security. it said security, and it said money eliminated to cities is the result of congress's $780 million budget cuts, adding, "the highest risk cities in our country continue to face the most significant threats, and consistent with the recommendations from the 9/11 commission the fiscal year 2011 homeland security grants focus the limited resource that's were appropriated to mitigating and responding to these evolving threats. that means new york, washington, d.c., los angeles, and other major cities will keep their grant money. smaller cities like buffalo, right across the border from canada. salt lake city and indianapolis will not. republican congressman peter king, chairman of the homeland security committee, agrees with the dhs, saying main terror