missouri jaf jay nixon will look at the severe damage. the threat of tornados extends from the ohio valley to the gulf coast. martha: we have complete fox coverage. maria molina is in the fox extreme weather center. kim hudson from fox affiliate ktti gives is the update from the ground. let s start with you, maria. good morning. i want to show you why we re looking at the risk for severe storms. ahead of the system we have warm temperatures. early this morning we re looking at temperatures in the 60s across georgia, alabama and the carolinas. that will help fuel thunderstorms. behind the front very cold air. between the two air masses that s where we expect the thunderstorms and severe weather to erupt as we headed later on today. yesterday we had 250 reports of severe weather from texas to louisiana all the way up into the northeast across parts of pennsylvania. areas of new jersey saw rough storms move on through through and very dangerous
brittany yells that the tree came down and put a hole through the roof right where she sits. it was right there. so it s pretty much devastated the house. it was a bad wind storm, worse than anything i ve ever seen. more than 50 miles an hour. easily, he s leave. i don t want to guess, it was fast and loud. some areas they said had over 07. i believe it. this tree was huge and it didn t seem to be weak at all. it toppled down like nothing. to kansas, a storm heading to the east coast right now leaving as much as 8 inches of snow on the ground there causing very dangerous driving conditions. live team fox coverage. meteorologist janice dean is track the storm in the fox extreme weather sent term. first let s go to national correspondent steve centanni live in maryland with an up close and personal look at this storm, steve. very close and very personal. it s wet and cold out here with the snow coming down in higgerstown, maryland 60 miles
as many days to slam the heartland of our country. heavy snow across kansas and missouri while lashing the texas panhandle with hurricane-force winds. take a look at these photos. the winds whipping, stranding dozens of cars in the road there in amarillo and making road travel extremely treacherous. tens of thousands of people are without power that are still reeling from the last storm. it s making it very tough to clear the roads this time around. wind is blowing that snow up over the too much these plows and right back up on the windshield. it makes it about twice as hard as just trying to drive through it. jenna: tough work indeed. blinding snow also a real problem in kansas city, missouri. with a new blizzard blowing in only five days after the last one, it s been a kick turn around. we have live team fox coverage. maria molina is in the fox weather center.
xvith successor. house speaker john boehner said the prayers and gratitude of american catholics are with pope benedict xvi today. our team fox coverage continues. the fox report s correspondent jonathan hunt with us here tonight from our newsroom. this caught everybody by surprise, didn t it? it certainly did, bill. that was the first sentiments expressed by pretty much everybody within the catholic church within the world of catholicism the fact that the pope would resign. second sentiment we heard expressed a great deal today by cardinal dollan in new york city was a sense of sympathy for what the pope has been going through and admiration for the decision he made. listen. my affection for and my admiration for pope benedict the xvith has skyrocketed. it was already high. but i love him so much as a
surprise. in fact both the archbishops of number and washington, dc said they were, quote, startled. with the head of the catholic nations, added the church faces a kind of challenge it has not seen in hundreds of years. the first time in modern history that we have had a pope resign. how do we work with all of that? and how do we face the reality now of moving on in a new situation, where we will have a italian pope. the vatican report catholics make up roughly 17.5% of the population, a number that has remained fairly steady in recent years. king fox coverage continues with jonathan hunt. jonathan, this seems like general quinn shock across the