When will the power be back on? It s a question thousands of people are still asking after Monday s blast of wind, rain and lightning. Also, the National Weather Service has
steve: dangerous twisters tearing across the country right now and now there s flooding as well. scott is in memphis with the details. hey, scott. live here at memphis international airport where we re experiencing major flooding. major system swept through the memphis metropolitan area around 10:00, 11:00 last night. you can see this via duct underneath an overpass where passenger planes go completely flooded at this hour here in the city of memphis. no cars are allowed to go through. but we have seen a couple of 18 wheelers successfully go by. down in the state of mississippi across the border, major, major winds. at least one confirmed tornado. other straight-line wind damage down there. very close to mississippi. across the state of tennessee, specifically western tennessee, there s
likelihood of tornadoes, large hail, and straight-line wind damage. the highest rick for tornadoes at least late this afternoon and early this evening, southern and eastern missouri and also southern and southwestern parts of illinois. overnight this line will probably form what we call a squall line a solid line of storms, so the threat late tonight and early wednesday morning will be more of hail and straight-ly straight-line wind damage. we don t think it will be like the outbreak over the weekend but nonetheless, there could be tornadoes and it just takes one. we expect the worst of the weather to hit here sometime during rush hour. thank you, mike seidel, live for us in st. louis, missouri. thank you. be sure to check out weather.msnbc.com for all the updates on the severe weather we are expecting. breaking news out of houston where three children have been injured after a kindergarten student brought a loaded handgun to school. it happened at the ross elementary school. the s