
At least 34 people have died across Missouri, Arkansas, Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas and Mississippi as powerful storm systems swept through the Midwest and South.
The storms have left hundreds of thousands of customers without power, injured 29 people in Arkansas and caused fatalities linked to wildfires in Oklahoma.
Nearly 9 million people are under tornado watches, including in Mississippi, Alabama and Tennessee. Another 82.8 million are covered by wind advisories, particularly in the middle of the country.
The severe weather threats are moving eastward overnight, with Georgia bracing for heavy rainfall, flash floods, damaging wind gusts, and quickly-developing tornadoes. More here