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Tell you what, talk about too close for comfort. we were about to do a live shot on fox business network. there was a loud crack of lightning and it blew out one of the lights right here at our live position. so we are getting a big squall line coming in right now even though we could be potentially 24 hours or so away from actual landfall. look at the gulf of mexico back here in galveston. you know, the state of texas has got 367 miles of coast line and virtually all of it now under hurricane or tropical storm warnings. you can see the surge coming up back there the waves already high. but fo...

Intense rain snarling new york's morning commute. roadways flooded from new jersey to massachusetts. some shut down. this is a major street here in new york city, going right through central park. but today nothing is going through here. subway stations turned into waterfalls. this after more than 200 severe weather reports in the last 24 hours. powerful winds slamming the great lakes region as the squall line moved through. >> it sounded like a jet engine, a jet plane was just parked on my deck. it was so loud. >> reporter: gusts above 90 miles per hour in parts of west michigan. a security c...

Weekend. this was east of the dallas area. responsible for at least four deaths. that's the tornado. big wedge tornado on the ground. estimated to have 165-mile-per-hour winds. ef 3 place it at. it was also on the ground continuously for an hour. that's why the damage was so extreme. damage near the gulf towards pensacola, panama city area. watch that closely. atlanta about to get rain. later this afternoon, winds stronger, wind damage, isolated storms ahead of the squall line, we could get a couple tornadoes. 80 million people. the threat if we're going to get any central new york, pennsylvan...

So we won't have a ton of tornadoes, but we could have one or two strong ones once we get to the dark hours, it will be moving fast. that's when we get to the storms that could be deadly and of great concern today. later tonight through the ohio valley, the greatest concern for louisville, lexington, columbus, cleveland, maybe as far north as detroit, there's going to be wind damage during the overnight hours as thunderstorms roll on through. then by the time we get to wednesday, those thunderstorms continue. how about this? 87 million people at risk of severe storms. this storm system will be...

End. what are you seeing? >> yeah, well i did actually stop, go ahead so i could get a view because i wasn't really getting a view but as you can see behind me, winds are picking up, same squall line. things are really kicking up for a moment there i was not quite full whiteout but it was definitely getting close to that whiteout conditions. certainly what most people would not be driving in at all. i was going maybe 20 miles per hour and i think this road is like at 50 miles per hour speed limit. so, gives you a little idea of the precautions you have to take sometimes, even though i'm out, i...