Holiday weekend, more than 70 Million People are under a Severe Weather threat as intense tornadoes baseball hail add Near Hurricane Force Winds hit the Central Plains and parts of the midwest. Lets bring in now cnn meteorologist, at elisa rafah. So at least so what areas are you watching most closely . We are really bullseye in parts of oklahoma and kansas today. Again. And whats been a very active Severe Weather season. We have a moderate risk level four out of five there you can see in the red from its your todd down towards Oklahoma City where we could find baseballsized hail intense, strong, long live, violent tornadoes possible, and damaging wind gusts. Notice is if youre Weather Threat though, does stretch down across the deep south, including places like atlanta. And then theres another little portion of it up in the northeast as well. But where we could find these ef2 or greater tornadoes with the intense winds that could pack up to 100 or more miles per hour. Thats in the bul
Americans and book your first cleaning today for just 19 this Situation Room with wolf blitzer. Week nine to six point cnn you are in the cnn newsroom. Hi, everyone. Im jessica dean and washington and we start with Breaking News. As Severe Weather threatens more than 70 Million People. This Memorial Day Weekend, intense tornadoes baseballsized hail, and hurricaneforce winds, all threatening parts of texas, oklahoma, and kansas take a look at this storm chaser video in oklahoma city. You see blue sky overhead, but they are also driving straight into that gray sky as well. Its very ominous looking cnn meteorologist elisa rafah joining us now, and at least it looks like those tornadoes are starting to spin up and it typically happens are a lot of times when the suns starts to go down yeah, the sun is what we need to fuel the atmosphere to create these intents and strong thunderstorms. And its been doing that all de the atmosphere has been cooking all day. Thats why the storms are blowing
wealth. i m are like signs at the white white house. and this is cnn it is monday, may 27th, one boreal day. and right now on cnn this morning, over 100 million americans facing severe weather this whole mortal day after a weekend of violent storms killed at least 18 people the libertarian party should nominate, for president of the united states donald trump heckled and booed at the libertarian convention. is he prepares for the resumption of his hush money trial and more than 2000 people believed to be buried alive by devastating landslide in papua new guinea it is it is 5:00 a.m. here in washington. that is a live look at capitol hill on this memorial day. good morning, everyone. i m jessica dean in for kasie hunt. it is great to be with and right now, the severe weather threat continues for a lot of america on memorial day, more than 120 million people are at risk of intense storms. much of it now concentrated over the east coast. this after dangerous and deadly sto
And it s not just covid and rising costs of goods and services that are going to be the democrats political demise next year. it s also our wide open southern border and the crime wave that is gripping the nation after a year of democrat lockdowns and calls to defund the police. now if you had a choice, think about this, between starting a family or opening a business right now, if you are doing one of those things right now and you could go to either chicago or let s say nashville, which would you choose? now if you chose chicago, get ready for a weekend after weekend of death and destruction. two police officer shot this weekend, one killed, more on her life and we will talk about her later in the program. police are describing all of this at a breaking point. people are at their wits end. telling the chicago sun-times, our police officers have been under siege, underappreciated,
Tenness tennessee, virginia and georgia seeing the amount tick back up. north carolina, virginia, kentucky, georgia is where most of the moisture is. you can see heavy rain to the south, but take a look. say nashville, especially the northern suburbs, you re getting that wintry mix, freezing rain, where snow is more heavily focused on places like virginia as well as north carolina. but here s a tighter look at nashville. the city proper still right now looking at rain. off to the north, you re looking at areas coming down with heavy sleet or very thick rain in some places and that will make areas very slick. places like raleigh, greensboro looking at snow right now, and in some cases it s coming down heavily. charlotte, this all depends where you are. in the northern tier, you re getting that snow. in the downtown area it s kind of a mix. and in the southern area, guys, they re still looking mostly at rain.