Deadly US storm heads for the coast
A weekend storm brought tornadoes that killed at least five people in the US South, officials say
Atlanta/New York — Tornadoes, wind gusts of up to 112km/h and pounding hail remained threats early on Monday from eastern New York and into New England, as the remnants of a deadly weekend storm push out to sea, the National Weather Service said. "This is an ongoing threat," said meteorologist Brian Hurley at the NNWS Weather Prediction Center in Maryland. "It's halfway through the eastern states now. By daybreak it'll be cutting through New York City, eastern Virginia and into Boston by 7am or 8am," he said. The weekend storm brought tornadoes that killed at least five people, including three children, in the US South, officials said. The massive storm system sped from Texas eastward with dozens of twisters reported as touching down across the South from Texas through Georgia into Pennsylvania. More than 134,000 homes and businesses were without power early Monday in Virginia and Pennsylvania, according to the tracking site PowerOutage.US, with thousands more outages reported in No...
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