Powerful storms have caused extensive damage in the southern and midwestern regions of the United States, with at least 15 lives lost.Rescue workers and police searched for victims in the rubble and treated dozens of injured people. Deaths were .
Powerful storms killed at least nine people and left a wide trail of destruction Sunday across Texas, Oklahoma and Arkansas after obliterating homes and destroying a truck stop where drivers took shelter during the latest deadly weather to strike the central U.S.
There is an 85 percent chance that the countries and U.S. states bordering the Atlantic Ocean are in for a difficult "above-normal" hurricane season this year.