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Trees. in illinois, and severe storms and tornadoes alerts stretching from texas to ohio this evening. along with the drenching rain and flooding here in the east. abc's phillip mena in the storm zone. >> that's it right here! >> reporter: tornado sirens warning of the approaching danger. >> see the rotation right there? >> reporter: arkansas tech students nervously watching the skies. as a powerful system brings heavy rain and winds to the region. roofs collapsing. even this road washing away. >> this tree being sent right through the middle of this house. >> reporter: thousands without power...

It weighed 10,000 tons, which is bigger than what we thought around midday yesterday. and the blast was about 500 kilotons. that's a massive atomic bomb scale -- >> we talk about being greater than what was dropped on hiroshima. >> yes. and it was much greater than that. almost twice as strong as they thought it was. and this is a fairly midsized rock that came out of space. >> so why is it that more people were not killed by this? >> and that's a saving grace, it seems, from this event. you've got 1,000-plus folks hurt and injured from the glass. >> people go to the window -- they're seeing s...

>> shepard: roads are still closed and 10,000 homes and businesses still have no power three days after a massive blizzard. slammed the northeastern u.s. this weekend: get this now. the storm dropped up to 3 feet of snow in some parts of new york and connecticut and the commonwealth of massachusetts. at least 15 said to be dead and the u.s. and canada which was also walloped. fortunately airports were getting back on schedule. some say the clean up has been simply too slow for them. >> this is crazy. a lot of snow. this is terrible. >> roads are treacherous. side roads around plowed up yet. >>...

Wk wick released hundreds of thousands of pages of u.s. military and diplomatic documents. the snow in new england is causing a major headache for some schools. there are concerns about roofs collapsing. hartford, connecticut, firefighters are trying to clear snow off the roofs. officials are deciding not to take chances. robin, i know you have been tracking the storms, the weight of that snow unexpectedly causes roofs to cave in. >> in a lot of spots it is on the roofs all winter long especially in the northeast. we had a number of collapses where the winter weather has yet to let go. we ha...

The game? three to six inches of snow forecast there as well. the winter storm warning remains in effect in dallas until noon central time and more than 1,000 flights were cancelled at o'hare airport during this week's storm. the airport is dealing with a huge backlog of delayed travelers. the big dig goes on in the windy city. two feet of snow buried chicago n. the northeast, big problems with roofs collapsing. we have video of a canopy at a gas station in shelton, connecticut, just crashing down under the weight of heavy ice and snow. connecticut has seen more than 130 roof collapses. some s...