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And now, Preston and Steve's news update with Kathy Romano.

Today is Monday, March 4th.

Good morning, Kathy.

Good morning in the news.

This morning, a tornado tour through the southern U.S. state of Alabama on Sunday killing 23 people, uprooting trees and causing catastrophic damage to buildings and roads, a local sheriff said. Unfortunately, our toll as far as fatality does stand at 23 at the current time. Lee County Sheriff J. Jones said acknowledging that children were among the dead. Other people have been hospitalized, some with very serious injuries.

Search operations for those still missing were halted on Sunday night due to hazardous conditions, but Jones added they would resume on Monday morning.

The destruction left by the storm was a quarter mile wide and stretched for several miles that it traveled on the ground.

Still and video images showed trees

that had been snapped into debris all over the roads and wrecked houses in the wake of the storm.

More than 6,000 homes were left without power in Alabama and 16,000 suffered outages in

neighboring Georgia. Authorities warned the death's hole could rise further as rescuers searched

through the debris about 60 miles east of the state capital Montgomery.

The National Weather Center had issued a tornado warning for the area, including Lee County earlier Sunday, calling on residents to take cover now, move to a basement or an interior room on the lowest floor of a sturdy building and avoid windows.

It tweeted on Sunday that the southeastern U.S. struck by a severe storm system could see

damaging wind, large hail, and isolated tornadoes overnight.

Pennsylvania State Police confirmed that two people have died after a crash in Milford

Township, Bucks County Sunday night.

It happened at 5 p.m. along 6.63 near Spinnerstown Road. Police say the 17-year-old driver was from Pots Town. He was taken to Lehigh Valley. He was taken to Lehigh Hospital with injuries. Now, there were two passengers that were in the car. 18-year-old Michelle Godwin of Pensburg and 18-year-old Daniel Pearson of Red Hill. Both of them were killed in the crash.

Route 663 was shut down for several hours. It's not yet clear if weather played a role in the crash, but the roads were snow covered at the time. Police said the vehicle went off the

roadway and stuck a tree during the storm. No charges have been filed at this time. State police

say the accident investigation is ongoing. City offices in Philadelphia will be open today after another round of a winter weather

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