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4/18/2026, 5:43:39 PM
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All right, now to the severe weather outbreak impacting tens of millions of Americans.
Multiple tornadoes reported overnight from a system stretching from the Great Lakes to Texas.
51 million Americans spent Friday under severe weather advisories.
This morning, communities across the Midwest and Central Plains have begun the cleanup process and it comes after several days of severe weather.
On Wednesday, a 41-year-old man was killed by a lightning strike in Wisconsin.
That marks the first lightning related death in the US this year.
CBS's Jonah Kaplan is in Rochester, Minnesota this morning where at least one tornado touched down.
Jonah, good morning.
>> Yeah, good morning. And when you think about a tornado, maybe a small funnel cloud.
You have to think about the force though and the winds.
Look at this. It
knocked over this massive tree like it was a bowling pin.
But if you think this is kind of an extreme site, wait till you look at this house over here.
Or what I should say, what's left of this home.
First of all, there's only the front facade.
As you get to the back of it, there are no walls.
There's nothing in between.
You just see all of this mess, this debris.
And this is why even
when the storm has passed, the disaster is still very much in the present.
And this is just one scene here in the Midwest after it's been a very long week of severe weather in the Midwest.
As a shower of hail pelted Minneapolis, a funnel cloud formed about 90 miles south in Rochester, Minnesota.
And this was the result.
They say it sounds like a freight train.
And it did.
>> David Veetch was at work when he saw the tornado approaching his 89year-old father's house.
>> And we stepped out on the loading dock and holy smokes, there was one coming right at us. And the boys ran in the building.
Uh, I jumped down over the bank and hung on as a few evergreen trees and the edge of the tornado must
have went where we were and then the main part of the tornado hit dad's house.
While the house took extensive damage, Vetch is thankful his dad wasn't hurt.
Hundreds of miles away in Lena, Illinois, you could see the moment a tornado wiped out power.
the electricity went out and I took the dog and went down in the basement in the shower and I heard a big old crash and I thought, well, there goes there goes the roof.
But it wasn't. It was obviously this.
Authorities in Lena called the damage extensive, but said there were no deaths or serious injuries.
>> We're getting rain right now and we're seeing a lot of flow on the road, too.
So, flash flooding is also risk.
>> A twister touched down in suburban Kansas City, too. shredding houses and knocking out power, but the severe weather cleared out without any fatalities.
It's been a destructive week across the nation's midsection with more than 800 damaging storm reports, dozens of tornadoes, and dangerous flooding.
But back here in Rochester, they're also starting to put the storm behind them.
>> I don't even know who a lot of these people are that are out helping, but our neighborhood is pretty good at watching out for each other.
And you know, these warnings, they're not suggestions.
And all of this, they're such important reminders about
why you need to take shelter when those warnings come in.
Because it's not necessarily that funnel cloud that's the danger.
It's all the debris that it picks up.
And you can just see what this picks up.
And you can just see what this kind of cleanup is going to be for all these people.
Adriana,
>> oh my gosh, just such a sad scene, but
so hopeful to see everyone helping each other even though they don't know each other.
Jonah, thank you so much.
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