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(From CNN News)
Byline: Howard Kurtz
TONY HARRIS, CNN ANCHOR: We've been checking state wires out of Indiana, where we understand a tornado has touched down. Several deaths reported. BETTY NGUYEN, CNN ANCHOR: Right. Several counties involved. HARRIS: Yes. NGUYEN: We're hearing extensive damage. Brad, what do you know about this tornado? How strong of a tornado was it?
BRAD HUFFINES, CNN METEOROLOGIST: That -- really, we're just now finding that out presently. What we're seeing is a line of severe storms, many of which have been producing isolated tornadoes all the way from northern sections of Tennessee, through Kentucky, into southern Indiana, and now moving into western parts of Ohio. This line of thunderstorms goes now from Nashville, where power is out for hundreds of residents, then through Cincinnati. As this line of thunderstorms continues to push into Ohio today, more severe thunderstorm warnings, more tornado warnings are possible. And a lot of this then turns to a snow system across the U.P. of Michigan. So some very heavy weather. As we talked about yesterday, severe thunderstorms moving across parts of the Ohio Valley. What's happening right now on radar, looking at live radar presently out of Cincinnati, what we're seeing is heavy thunderstorms, severe thunderstorm warning just issued just east of Cincinnati. Brown County also seeing an active tornado warning for the next few minutes. And we're also seeing up north across the northern sections of Ohio severe thunderstorm warnings, as well as heavy thunderstorms pushing toward Cleveland and Mansfield. Of course, the heaviest storm that we are now seeing and hearing about with people flowing into Evansville, Indiana Hospitals is that storm that is now breaking news with the possible tornado already sliding across parts of southern Indiana. Watching that as a developing news story. Today, we're watching this line of thunderstorms coming across Kentucky and Ohio. Expect to see heavy weather, in fact, more severe weather today across portions of Kentucky and the eastern Ohio, West Virginia, and Western Pennsylvania. Folks there please be weather aware all day long, because some of these storms could reach heavy or severe limits, as we've been seeing all night long. Temperatures across the east coast today, mid 60s up toward Boston. Mid 50s, Portland. In New York City today, 70 degrees for the Marathon scattered afternoon and overnight thunderstorms. Could be heavy or severe in the northeast. 73 in Washington. Better chance of severe storms later today. Atlanta, 75. Maybe some overnight storms tonight. And then down south in Florida, temperatures in the mid 80s today, with partly cloudy skies. Still following up on that tornado, we'll be getting more information for you here on CNN, as we're really calling to see what is now a breaking news story in southern parts of Indiana with possible tornado causing numerous deaths and injuries. We're again efforting to get more information. Have it for you as soon as we can. HARRIS: And as a matter of fact, Brad, stay with us here. We want you to see this as well. We're getting actually some video from the Web site of WEHT, our affiliate in Evansville, Indiana. We're going to show this to you right now. Streaming video right now on the web of some of the damage. I don't know clearly we can make that out, but there it is. NGUYEN: You can see a house in the top right corner that's panning over. Oh, look at that, the destruction. HARRIS: Yes, yes, yes. NGUYEN: Lots of debris there in the roadway. We understand a mobile home park has been damaged called the Eastbrook Mobile Home Park near Evansville's southeast side. Some 80 people, according to the Associated Press, have been taken from the ruins of that mobile home park to hospitals. Again, so far, we've learned that authorities are saying at least several deaths. There's no exact number at this time. But as daylight breaks, we're going to see the extent of the damage. And you can already see some of it from the streamlined video.…