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Local news viewers in new orleans watching a short time ago as a tornado roared through the city with early reports of damage. it s all part of a sprawling weather mass that has brought crippling blizzard conditions to the u.p. u.p. and violent storms in southern states, killing at least three people. there are new watches and warnings posted tonight in the south. the weather service calling it a particularly dangerous situation as the east braces for the storm s next act. we have it all covered tonight starting with morgan chesky in louisiana. reporter: tonight a huge tornado churning across new orleans. there you can see a very large tornado. oh, now we ve got the power flashes. you get to your safe place right now. reporter: the twister striking the lower ninth ward and parts of st. bernard parish. damage unnoent at this hour. it s part of a deadly tornado outbreak, devastating parts of the state. twisters tearing across roadways and ....
Being carried out in my estimation doing this even the risk of some blowback would would reduce the risk of some sort of nuclear event in ukraine. that is a great idea. i hope the pentagon is listening. this kind of rhetoric is definitely very frightening. john jordan, thank you very much for taking time and staying up late for us jonathan. my pleasure. and a fox news alert from new orleans reports of a powerful tornado that swept through the city late tuesday. at least one person is dead. the storm also tore across the city s suburbs leaving in its wake widespread destruction. trees and power lines up down, cars flipped over and homes without roofs, parts of st. bernard parish which borders new orleans to the southeast appear to have taken the brunt of the weathers fury. that s where the death occurred. a number of other people were hurt. some 8000 homes and businesses ....
Night. into parts of st. louis and then chicago, i think, late saturday into sunday. and that, of course, that does move to the east. and right behind that is another system for next week. david? tracking it all for us. rob, thank you. next tonight, to the growing battle over abortion tonight. another state in the news, this time, missouri, where the senate there has passed a very strict abortion bill and it comes after alabama virtually banned all abortions. the governor there signing that bill 24 hours ago. but tonight, even some conservatives say this might be a step too far. mary bruce on the hill tonight. reporter: for the second day in a row, a state taking sweeping new action to eliminate abortions. the time of choice is the time of conception, not after conception. reporter: early this morning, missouri lawmakers agreed to ban most abortions after eight weeks, even if the pregnancy is caused by rape or incest. doctors would face prison time. the governor promising to ....
Has no idea what he s talking about. it s so warm here in new york. unbelievable. you ll never you would never know that it s february with these record highs in the east. pedram javaheri joins us with the forecast. yes, the big heat is the big story. record warmth widespread across the eastern seaboard today. behind it, as interesting as it gets when it comes to a weather pattern for this time of year, more on that momentarily. over 0 records possible on this 60 records possible on this wednesday. stretches over a 1,000-mile stretch from central florida toward portions of new england. you ll notice this talking about temperatures shattering all-time records for the date there. 68 in new york city. we re going to get up to 71, i think, by this afternoon. boston, 68 is what we re expecting, 63 is the record high temperature. we talked about texas and the significance of the weather here. a big-time ice storm in progress across the northern and central tier of the state. gene ....
We ve seen the winds shifting back and forth, still a category 5 system, just skirting the southern tier of st. croix into the virgin islands. and of course on direct approach about four hours away from landfall into eastern puerto rico. but radar imagery shows you one piece of good news. the eyewall of this storm where 215-mile-per-hour gusts are observed, skirted just south of the island. this duns look like it made direct landfall on to parts of st. croix. they did have wind gusts of 137 miles per hour. of course 213, 137 significant difference. but again, a better end at least to portions of st. croix here with this not being directly impacted. but it s going to go right into eastern portions of puerto rico. at this point it looks almost impossible for this, to miss puerto rico on approach. areas indicated in white are 100-plus mile an hour winds. impacting portions of eastern puerto rico, the most densely populated part of the island. pushes offshore by the afternoon ....