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6/12/2026, 5:30:06 PM
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Tonight, more than 65 million people on alert with severe storms set to rock the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic tonight.
It comes after at least 20 reported tornadoes slammed the Midwest.
This one in Streeter, Illinois, an EF3 with winds up to 136 mph, sending pieces of homes swirling in the air.
One man trapped under the rubble, the anxious race to get him free.
Lee Goldberg with the forecast in just a moment, but first ABC's Alex Perez in the storm zone tonight.
>> Tonight, the same system that spawned the tornado outbreak in the heartland, including this monster twister, is on the move.
Overnight, an outbreak of more than a dozen destructive tornadoes tearing across multiple states.
This one southwest of Chicago on a collision course with the town of Streeter.
Moments after it hit,
>> Hey!
>> freelance photojournalist Scott Laster says he heard a woman screaming for help, leading him to this man trapped under his house.
>> I think I got broken leg.
>> Here you go.
>> Oh my god.
>> It's rolling.
>> Handing the camera to the woman, he
worked to free the man as much as he could
until law enforcement arrived and got him out of the rubble.
>> The violent storm rolled into this neighborhood and destroyed it in seconds.
You can see behind me here these homes completely shredded, and if you look over here, these cars wrecked.
>> Home after home leveled, the trail of destruction miles long.
East of there, and over the border, a tangled mess of power lines and debris in Maryville, Indiana.
>> It's instant homelessness.
>> Yeah, man. It's like that.
>> It's instant homelessness.
>> even said, "Dad, does this officially mean we homeless?"
>> Conrad Jefferson and his wife Ebony Gowens in disbelief. Their family lost their dream home in seconds.
>> It's just about us just trying to figure out what's our next step, and not having a clue on where to goes through, you know.
>> Our Chicago station WLS flying over the destruction in Maryville and survey crews from the National Weather Service are out tonight assessing the damage.
At least two of the tornadoes from the outbreak so far are rated EF3 with wind speeds of at least 136 miles per hour.
And with the difficult process of picking up the pieces for these families is only just beginning.
That storm has made its way east where it's expected to create even more problems tonight.
>> What a just an awful scene behind you, Alex Perez.
We appreciate it. And those dangerous thunderstorms, as Alex mentioned, firing up right now.
Let's get right to ABC's senior meteorologist Lee Goldberg.
>> With the same storm that caused the tornado outbreak in the Midwest yesterday, it's moving into steamy air in the northeast.
We've had severe storms in the New York City and DC area.
Severe thunderstorm watches going to affect from New York to Virginia all the way through 9:00 tonight.
Damaging winds the biggest concern.
The storms, they come back to the Midwest tomorrow after come back to the Midwest tomorrow after a one-day break.
Comes in two rounds in Kansas and Missouri.
One in the morning, another round in the evening.
That's a level three out of five risk for Kansas City.
And after the humidity briefly breaks in the northeast tomorrow, it's back on Sunday.
So, that could fuel more storms in the Mid-Atlantic and the
northeast in the late day and early evening hours. Severe storms possible anywhere from New York City to Philly to DC right down through Virginia.
That's in the mid-afternoon through early evening hours. And then the humidity breaks early next week again. Whit.
>> All right, still a ways to go here.
Thanks, Lee.
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