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Recovery begins after storms that kill 11 in parts of Midwest, South
No injuries were reported in the area either.
The NWS said more than 18 million people in Louisiana, Arkansas, Texas and Oklahoma remained at risk of tornadoes and flooding rains. One person, a man inside the home was killed.
Of the victims, a police officer and a firefighter were killed in Lubbock, Texas on Saturday morning, with another critically injured, after they were hit by a vehicle while responding to a traffic accident, Xinhua news agency reported.
Nacogdoches County is one of many locales experiencing downed trees, storm damage, and power outages from the deadly system that hammered much of the eastern half of the country.
The National Weather Service gauge at Harry P. Williams Memorial Airport near Patterson recorded south and southeast winds of 18-25 miles per hour from about midnight Friday until about 7 a.m. Saturday, with gusts of up to 36 miles per hour. More than 350,000 homes and businesses were without power in 10 states - Georgia, Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee, Kentucky, Ohio, Texas and West Virginia - by 7 p.m. ET, according to the online project PowerOutage.us. The PowerOutage.US website, which tracks outages, reported more than 11,000 outages in NY as of Sunday evening.
About 91,000 customers were without power in Alabama on Saturday evening, according to Alabama Power.
"Power could be out for days, with temperatures below freezing", he said.
As the system pushes eastward, rain should end overnight in many southern states, but the northeast and New England can expect severe weather to last for another day.
The National Weather Service says it was a tornado packing winds of at leas 134 miles per hour (215 kph ) that hit Alabama's Pickens County on Saturday, killing three.
Parts of southwest IN and western Kentucky were under a flash flood watch until Saturday evening.
In Alabama, three people were confirmed dead near Carrollton in Pickens County, the National Weather Service in Birmingham said on Twitter. "Heavy rainfall along the OH and Wabash rivers will cause water levels to rise to minor flood stage around mid-week". Ongoing winter weather, flood, and lakeshore flooding advisories are in effect for the city and the greater northwestern IL region.
Also in St. Mary, Vitalant said the holidays and the severe weather alert in the Morgan City area caused the cancellation of blood drives and the adjustment of hours for the donation center.
It was 71 degrees in Pittsburgh on Saturday, breaking the record of 68 degrees set in 1890.
Two other cities that set record highs Saturday were Blacksburg, Virginia, (67, breaking 59, set in 2005) and Poughkeepsie, New York (68, breaking 63, set in 1975).
What I'm saying is I share the president's view that probably- my expectation was they were going to go after our embassies. That was a full 20 percentage points higher than when Americans were asked about Iran tensions in May of a year ago .
Hundreds of quakes have shaken the island since the new year, though most were too slight to be felt. Since then aftershocks, majority barely perceptible, have been part of daily life on the island.
The S&P 500 gained 21.65 points, or 0.67%, to 3,274.7 and the Nasdaq Composite added 74.18 points, or 0.81%, to 9,203.43. Geopolitical risks in the Middle East , therefore, have a smaller impact on the global market compared to the past.
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