pulaski county. the victims drove onto flooded roadways and their vehicles were swept away in the raging water. flash flood watches are in effect for more than one-third of the state. and officials are warning that the downpours could be historic. and much of the county in the grip of extreme weather tonight. alerts now in effect from parts of the southwest to the northeast from snow to tornadoes to flash flooding. what a mess. meteorologist janice dean tracking it all from the fox extreme weather center. janice, what more can we expect tonight? hi there. we have another severe threat going into the overnight tonight east of the dallas area. eastern texas into arkansas, louisiana and mississippi up towards the tennessee river valley with hail, damaging winds and isolated tornadoes. people are advised to keep your noaa weather radios on tonight and listen to your local weather forecast. and then tomorrow, the threat
declaration for 4:00 counties of his state and warning tragically that the death toll could rise. abby: meteorologist janice dean live from the fox weather center. what is the threat for today? we have threat of tornadoes today, eric and abby. good morning. parts of mississippi, alabama and florida panhandle. this is day eight for severe weather this is unprecedented for december to see this amount of severe wither in such a long stretch of time. and we have a tornado warning right now for the florida panhandle around pensacola, moving north and east. doppler radar indicated. unfortunately we have a risk for strong storms throughout the afternoon and into the evening hours for parts of the panhandle and parts of alabama and tennessee. not as big of a threat as we ve seen in previous days but still the risk for strong to severe storms as we head through tonight. so just be on alert. no weather radios. of course listen to your local forecast.
pulaski county. the victims drove onto flooded roadways and their vehicles were swept away in the raging water. flash flood watches are in effect for more than one-third of the state. and officials are warning that the downpours could be historic. and much of the county in the grip of extreme weather tonight. alerts now in effect from parts of the southwest to the northeast from snow to tornadoes to flash flooding. what a mess. meteorologist janice dean tracking it all from the fox extreme weather center. janice, what more can we expect tonight? hi there. we have another severe threat going into the overnight tonight east of the dallas area. eastern texas into arkansas, louisiana and mississippi up towards the tennessee river valley with hail, damaging winds and isolated tornadoes. people are advised to keep your noaa weather radios on tonight and listen to your local weather forecast. and then tomorrow, the threat
falling over on the contributing. and in the mean time, elisabeth, brian and steve residents are stocking up on water, nonperishable foods, weather radios, batteries and making sure they have a source of medication and cash as instructed by emergency management. all right, anna, thank you very much. live report from seaside heights new injury spip a search for answers at the college massacre in oregon. ten people lost their lives including the shooter. seven others are injured. the gunman has been identified as 26-year-old chris harper mercer. disturbing details are emerging about why he may have carried out this rampage. we re live in oregon with new developments. good morning, william. this is awful. yeah, well, elisabeth, it could have been a lot worse. you know, this was the second day of class. this campus serves over 5,000 students. it is a gun-free zone. they have one security guard.
folks need to have those weather radios and get near those safe places. you can see from the water vapor map there was a lot of fuel from the texas border to canada. yesterday 29 tornadoes. last week we had over 70 saturday and sunday. it was the same place, tornado alley, up to the north. this is the one you saw in the video, in elmer, which is off to the west. this is medicine park outside oklahoma. if we have isolated tornadoes, they re going to be smaller in size. mainly a threat for wind wind damage and hail today. cooler temperatures back behind this. 74 a high today minneapolis. temperatures are going to fall throughout the great lakes and new york this week. it s only a slight risk and that s good news compared to the last several days. on the radar picture, we re