Powerful storms bring heavy snow, rain, tornadoes, flooding to much of U.S., leave several dead
CBSN
A storm packing high winds and heavy rain was sweeping through the Northeast early Wednesday while wild winter weather elsewhere brought tornadoes and deadly accidents in the Midwest and South, flood threats in Florida and blizzards in the Northwest.
Hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses up and down the East Coast and in Michigan had no power early Wednesday, according to PowerOutage.u.s. And FlightAware.com said hundreds of U.S. flights were canceled as of Wednesday morning.
New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy declared a state of emergency ahead of the storm on Tuesday afternoon and New York City officials evacuated nearly 2,000 migrants housed at a sprawling tent complex ahead of predicted wind gusts as high as 70 mph. Riverside communities were flooded in at least one New Jersey county Wednesday, CBS News New York reported. And police in Clinton, New Jersey posted photos of flooding in their town on X.
