leading town officials to send out a call for neighbor to help neighbors. they were asking people to come into town because they were having to help dig some people out of their homes and my son s parked way out of town and walked in because they were begging for folks to come and help. two people died when an apparent tornado ripped through sullivan, indiana, first responders worked through the night to clear the streets so they can get to the places hit the hardest. and in illinois baseball sized hail damage some vehicles so badly they had to be towed from the roadside. look at this. gosh it is battered that vehicle. let s start our coverage this morning with cnn meteorologist derek van damme. unwin arkansas. yeah, derek, what are you seeing there on the ground? it s harder, boy, you know imara victor. the mayor described it best yesterday when he said this twister literally cut his town in half. we find ourselves directly in the middle
a 3 inch hail stone. you don t want to be under that when it falls. just really impressive hailstones that fell. 2 1/2 to 3 inches, that is the size of the hailstones. there was also 12 reports of wind damage. 49 reports of hail damage in particular. but the national weather service highlights some of the larger hailstones reported, those are 2 inches or larger in diameter and nine reports of that. and you saw that picture. there is still the potential of severe weather overnight, so heads up shreveport to lake charles, this is an area that will see the line of storms move through the overnight hours and into the early morning hours on friday. there are the showers and thunderstorms picking up some of the moisture, maybe perhaps a bit of circulation from the gulf of mexico, but they start to peter out middle of the day on friday, and really we just focus our attention on precipitation along the entire eastern sea
across the midwest and great lakes, no problems today, but i do believe that changes will be changing here especially across the greater chicago area. and we ll get into the details of that in a moment. but we have had a busy past 24 hours. yesterday we actually saw over 100 reports of wind and high wind gusts as well as wind damage across the east coast. 31 reports of hail damage. today s severe weather threats just a marginal risk across the carolinas with a departing tropical system. greatest severe weather threat today, across central montana and across the northern plains as well, damaging winds and large hail. monday the big day, july 6th, independence holiday here in the united states, this is an area where we re monitoring for the potential for several strong storms to develop. it is right now at a slight risk, level 2 out of 5. damaging winds and hail, lots of heat building underneath this.
common in this country. building materials are hard to come by as well. and so this community will need a lot of help getting back on its feet even without the russians present. and this is only, you know, one small fraction of the total damage in a country that still has potentially months to go in this war or longer. that s right. scott mclean, thanks so much. and the death toll is climbinging a iin iing a ukrain officials say at least 21 people and a child were killed when an attack hit a housing block. ukraine s president says russia is conducting terrorism against his country by targeting cities and civilians. here he is. translator: three missiles hit an ordinary residential building. a nine story building in which
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