Severe weather refuses to let up across large parts of the US with heavy rains and

tornadoes wreaking havoc.

For that in all of the day's other headlines, we head back to Washington and are Stephanie Cy who has the detail.

Stephanie?

Yes, I'm in Jeff.

Farkinsaw is the latest state to deal with extreme flooding.

Nearly 11 inches of rain turned backyards into ponds and sent water rushing

through streets in parts of Marion County. Officials said dozens of

residents had to leave their houses. At least 80 people were evacuated from a local nursing home.

While in the northeast upstate New York is cleaning up after a tornado ripped through

Unida County, Governor Kathy Hockel said her flight to the area gave her a bird's eye view of the damage.

You cannot imagine the impact of seeing from the sky how vast the destruction is.

When you see entire swaths of trees just collapsed

like they were toothpicks.

Meanwhile, across the U.S. hundreds of thousands are still without power after a series of

storms, withoutages spanning from Texas and the south through Illinois and up to New York in the northeast.

Prosecutors have formally appealed of federal judges ruling to toss out Donald Trump's classified documents case.

On Monday, District judge Eileen Cannon

ruled that special counsel Jack Smith

had been unlawfully appointed by attorney general,

Merrick Garland.

Cannon's decision went against decades of precedent by other federal courts that upheld such appointments.

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