Good morning. Lets get to our lead story. The deadly storms in the nations heartland. Theres more extreme weather on tap for the south and midwest after a severe storm system claimed at least 19 lives. The dallas area in particular hit hard with nine strong thunderstorms. We get more now from abcs megan hughes. Reporter the christmas twisters marched across the texas landscape. In rowlett, they tossed trucks and tore trees from the earth. You can see the transformers blowing up. Reporter the survivors count themselves lucky. Just very grateful were alive and were all safe. All this can be replaced. Reporter in missouri, flooding like this led to several deaths. And led the governor to declare a state of emergency. In oklahoma, west texas and new mexico, snow created whiteout conditions on the roads. Mike springer from affiliate just last week, it was 60 degrees in ross well. Today, everything is covered in snow. Reporter trucks out of control rest in the snow bank. More than 20 motoris
Lets get to our lead story. The deadly storms in the nations heartland. More extreme weather on tap for the south and midwest after a severe storm system claimed at least 19 lives. The dallas area in particular hit strong with nine strong thunderstorms. We get more now from abcs megan hughes. Reporter the christmas twisters marched across. In rowlett, they toss trucks and tore trees. You can see the transformers blowing up. Reporter the survivors count themselves lucky. In flooding like this led to this. In oklahoma, west texas and new mexico, snow created whiteout conditions on the roads. Mike springer from affiliate koat. Today, everything is covered in snow. Reporter trucks out of control rest in the snow bank. More than 20 motorists were stranded on i40 between amarillo and the new mexico border. All of this weather impacted air travel, too, more than 1,000 flights in the u. S. Were canceled. More than 4,000 delayed. I would call it living hell. As megan mentioned the storm system
Change over between snow, sleet and ice will happen throughout the morning and early afternoon, but by the Late Afternoon and evening all of iowa should primarily be seeing snowfall, and this is also when the heaviestnow totals will start accumulating. On top off all of this the winds will be very strong today with gusts up to 40 mph possible causing blowing snow and low visibility. Temps will hover in the low 30s during the day today, but after that we tank our temps into the mid to low 20s and even the teens by the end of the week. Lets get into the top five this morning. Elias concerns over the incoming winter storm have Law Enforcement urging iowans to stay off the roads if at all possible. Even the most experienced drivers will want to use extra precaution given the predicted conditions. For those who get standed, state troopers say to stay inside your car where it is safest, and make sure to say to stay inside your car where it is safest, and make sure to pack an emergency kit if
Still going to be here until we make you whole. Reporter volunteers from across the country and the world are now helping complete strangers get their lives back on track. It is not about who you are helping. Its about the fact they need help. Reporter and the damage is widespread. At least eight people have been killed with 18,000 homes damaged or destroyed across 2,000 square miles. 200 miles of road also still looked like this. Its really hard. It is clearly very devastating. Yeah, im overwhelmed. Reporter at one point, 1200 people were listed as unaccounted for. That number has now dwindled down to six thanks to communication lines being restored. With repair projects picking up steam, inspectors are going door to door, checking the integrity of homes to see if they are safe for families to return. The Transportation Department hopes to have temporary road fixes in place by december 1st. Once winter hits it will be extremely difficult to complete any repairs. John, diana. Thank you
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