morning and a big spring storm, and we have winter weather on the backside of this spring storm, and 7 million americans waking up to those alerts. and that s going to increase the fire danger especially in the southwest. and we have a stationary front sort of draped over the great lakes bringing the heavy rain this morning notice that blue on the map, that is where the snow is falling and we re talking blizzard conditions in april, as we go throughout this tuesday, especially this afternoon we re also talking about on the warm side a severe storm outbreak with that we re looking at the chance for tornados. some could be very strong, long tracking 42 million people at risk for severe storms as we go through this afternoon, and the overnight hours i do want to note the overnight hours because when you have nocturnetual tornados or nighttime tornados they re doubly dangerous into mez and also arkansas could
because of the high winds knocking over power lines or, you know, blowing up transformers, that sort of thing. that is the issues that people are dealing with this morning. the good news is no injuries, no deaths being reported because of this storm. of but the size and it s the second severe storm outbreak we ve seen just this week. we were in oklahoma earlier this week where we saw the intense high winds. really this storm serving as a reminder that the spring storm season is off to a very early start, don. ed covering it for us from texas this morning. thank you. wow. okay. so let s go to louisiana now. three short. carlos is there. good morning to you. the sun is not up yet. what is the damage like? good morning. that tornado that hit here was on the ground for under a minute. in that time, it damaged a number of homes and businesses. we are in a neighborhood here in shreveport where that tornado moved through and we re seeing
it could take a week to reach some areas. of. these are the trails. we created just to get out of the house down to the street. it seems like every time we failed. it comes right back. we re not a city. the we re unincorporated. we need help. people are trapped in their homes. they cannot get medicine. in the sierra, nevada, an avalanche struck a three story apartment building. thankf thankfully there were no injuries. in yosemite, that reopening is postponed. 40 million people across the south are also breaking for a severe storm outbreak. strong tornadoes, large hail and flash flooding all expected. the severe storms are beginning this morning in central texas. they ll intensify this afternoon and move northeast towards the mississippi river overnight. the storm prediction center is warning a few long lived intense tornadoes are also possible today. now to the war in ukraine this morning.
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