At least 14 people were killed as powerful tornadoes tore through Missouri and parts of the US Midwest and Southeast overnight, leaving widespread destruction in their wake.
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00:00At least 14 people were killed as powerful tornadoes tore through Missouri and parts
00:08of the U.S. Midwest and Southeast overnight, leaving widespread destruction in their wake.
00:18It looks pretty extensive.
00:20The roof's blown off of it.
00:22Everything around it here is really bad.
00:24The trailer park up the street had fatalities.
00:28We don't have nothing compared to anything like that.
00:30I still have a home.
00:31They don't.
00:33My sign was bent down and knocked over.
00:37I've lost some roof material, got some trees down, damaged the buggies, that kind of stuff.
00:44A meteorologist at the National Weather Service's Weather Prediction Center said 26 tornadoes
00:50were reported, though not all have been confirmed to have touched down.
00:54The storms, fueled by a low-pressure system, swept across Arkansas, Illinois, Mississippi,
01:00and Missouri late Friday night into early Saturday.
01:04The Missouri State Highway Patrol reported tornado-related deaths, including two in the
01:09Bakersfield area of Ozark County and a third in Butler County.
01:14No details were provided on the remaining fatalities.
01:18Forecasters warn that the tornado threat remains high into Saturday night as storms continue
01:23to strengthen.