of heavy rain or hail. we re looking for a tornado on doppler radar. so we ll continue to monitor that. that moves eastward. we had a tornado warning looks like that has been lifted for parts of north texas. the threat continues tonight. all of the areas here are shaded in yellow. then, we ve got that no weather activity you need to be alert. taking a look at tomorrow severe threats heading into to the day, late afternoon evening, we re still looking at the threat moving into the ohio river valley. then that bull s eye, again now for parts of texas moving into arkansas and louisiana so this is the area we re going
anchors referring to the may 3, 1999, storm, those storm trackers saying this tornado is actually wider than that storm, which killed 36 people, the one from 1999. we still don t know anything in terms of the death toll with this one. hopefully there won t be one. we saw two schools destroyed and dozens and dozens of homes. i want to bring back chad myers, who s at our weather center in atlanta. chad, we know that there is another tornado warning outside oklahoma city in the lake stanley/draper area east of mccloud. obviously people should still be on alert for any other tornadoes, weather activity. what have you learned more about this horrific, horrific scene aas we see the individuals come from their shelters and try to make sense of what just happened. i do think, as you look at this, you sigh, you as the father of an 8-year-old, you take it very hard. but we do have still tornadoes
were states that are key swing states are going to be seeing weather activity, including wisconsin where we do have showers already early this morning. it is cold enough that some of the rain showers are actually going to be transitioning to some snow. keep an eye out for that. slippery roadways could be an issue. northeast is dry, but very cold. temperatures below freezing. highs only widespread into the 40s with some sunshine. northern parts of florida, dealing with showers and also thunderstorms. we re seeing some of that activity early this morning coming down quite heavily at times. that does also include the state of georgia and also south carolina. pleasant across the plains. out west, a lot of sunshine. no issues whatsoever out here with the weather. the only issue might be that it s a little too warm for this time of year. 91 for your high in phoenix and widespread 80s across southern california. steve: great. gretchen: thank you. and new video of what sandy left behind
family is in this area and the sirens are still going off. and like so many other families, they re not able to go and get children out of school. for their own safety and the safety of the children. but there are teachers who are there with those children, i imagine, comforting them. this is obviously frightening weather activity that has been hovering on the ground now. we ve been watching this for well over an hour. and it is continuing to move and impact the local area. you were saying during your own broadcast that your mother happened to be at home with one of the children. two children. a 2-year-old and an 11-year-old who happens to be at home sick today from school. and i said to her, how are you? she applied, i m good. everyone else is good. that s what her apply was to me initially. i said where are you? she said i m sitting in the hallway. todd, my brother has call the school. they re in lockdown. it s raining really hard right
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