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what you re seeing there is a massive tornado passing over andover, kansas, on friday. the governor has declared a state of emergency. city officials say at least a dozen people have suffered minor injuries. and 50 to 100 structures have been damaged. the national weather service says there were more than a dozen tornadoes reported, most of them in kansas and nebraska. all part of a severe storm system passing through the region this weekend. let s get more from cnn meteorologist karen mcginest tracking all of this. tell us more about it, karen. michael, we re getting a better idea hour by hour even though we re in the overnight hours and you can t make a complete assessment, but the fire chief said there were nearly 1,000 buildings that were in the line of sight of this
tornado. of the 14 tornado reports, there were 15 throughout the country. 14 of those were reported in nebraska and kansas. and the bulk of those were in kansas. central and eastern kansas. now, andover, that s about a 20, 25 minute drive to the northeast of wichita. it wasn t just there but between kansas city and wichita, along that turnpike region, interstate 35, that s where we saw violent weather for the evening and overnight hours. very vigorous weather system that is making its way towards the east. now we ll start to see that shift of severe weather move all the way from the great lakes down into arkansas. but it looks like that threat of tornadic activity is a little bit less than what we saw on friday. but still nonetheless there, could see hail, high winds and some localized flooding due to some of the heavy downpours. but take a look at this, this is what you re going to talk about with your friends. this video, this is from elena
oh my gosh. oh my gosh. holy. just look at that video. we have been following this storm pushing into the midwest this weekend. this is one of more than a dozen tornadoes that hit kansas and nebraska on friday. and we will have more on this coming up in a live report from the cnn weather center. that starts at the top of the hour. now, people living in the western u.s. are experiencing a long-term megadrought. have a look at these new images of lake meede straddles nevada and arizona. it is so low one of its original water intake valves you see at the bottom of the screen there is exposed for the first time. cnn stephanie elam with more. reporter: sometimes it s hard to see just how much the climate
stay frozen, the ramps stay frozen. you can have drivers pick up a lot of speed on the wet, clear road, hit the icy patch and get into trouble. at the end of the day the road crews pulled out all of the stops because no one was surprised by this storm. they maximized their staff, the storm wasn t as bad as predicted, at least not here in nebraska. they stayed on top of it. as the storm moves east you see the scenes repeated, the driving snow, airports with the flights canceled and that s what you have to look forward to out east. martha: all right, we are getting ready. thank you very much, mike, mike tobin. let s go over to january is where there is more weather th janice dean where there is more weather to talk about down south. concerns down south, right jd? reporter: yes the storm is moving eastward. we have another storm system that will move across the country this weekend and perhaps hit kansas and nebraska again early next week. look at these storm totals. 18 inches in nashvi