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unleashed tornadoes and fan the flames of wildfires and deadly dust storms.

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A second round of violent weather is barreling across the central

and southern United States after a deadly and destructive Friday night. The storms have spawned

violent tornadoes and fanned wildfires and dust storms that have claimed at least 17 lives

and destroyed scores of homes. More than 200,000 people are without power across five states.

Many of the fatalities have been in Missouri, where at least four tornadoes touched down.

The National Weather Service says there's a heightened threat of tornadoes tonight,

stretching from the deep south to the Ohio River Valley.

Earlier, I spoke with Matthew Capucci, senior meteorologist at my radar.

He's in Mississippi tracking the storms.

I asked him how unusual a multi-day tornado outbreak like this is.

So either of these two different events would in and of themselves be very significant.

Last night we saw roughly 140 tornado

warnings in a 24-hour period with numerous fatalities and at least 18 tornado warning simultaneously.

So last night was a big deal. And yet that's the appetizer for what's been happening all day

today into the evening hours. We have a level 5 out of 5, a high risk, which is issued only less

than 1% of the time.

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