Tuesday, April 28
Good Morning America
ABC News
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 28 April 2026
⏱️ 71 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Live from ABC News headquarters in New York City. This is Good Morning America. We have a lot to get to, |
| 0:08.0 | including the latest on gas prices and how long the sticker shock will last. First, the severe weather |
| 0:13.1 | overnight and the new threats. Damaging tornado softball-sized hail, hundreds of thousands of |
| 0:18.0 | power right now. Ginger starts to soften Lebanon, Illinois. Good morning, Ginger. |
| 0:22.7 | Yes, George, we're right outside of St. Louis. |
| 0:24.7 | And right behind me, this is a trucking company that had a warehouse. |
| 0:28.3 | And you can see the wall was peeled off by those severe storms. |
| 0:30.8 | The roof is gone and the insulation just blowing in the wind. |
| 0:34.7 | This is one of more than 240 severe storm reports in just the last 24 |
| 0:39.4 | hours, and we are on day six now of this relentless run of severe weather. |
| 0:46.8 | Dangerous storms ripping across the Great Lakes down to the mid-south. At least two tornadoes |
| 0:52.4 | reported. Tennis ball size hail in Bloomington, Indiana, |
| 0:57.0 | and several rounds of warnings around St. Louis. Just landed in St. Louis, very turbulent, |
| 1:03.0 | but now there's a tornado warning here in St. Louis. A ton of lightning around us, so we're |
| 1:08.0 | going to pull over to get safe. After the sunset, storms moving into southern Illinois, north of Carlton, terrifying skies |
| 1:15.6 | as severe storms sliced across the landscape. |
| 1:18.5 | Areas in Clinton County seeing some of the worst damage, some structures destroyed. |
| 1:24.5 | In Missouri, wind gusts to almost 70 miles per hour ripping through Springfield. |
| 1:30.3 | Holy snow. |
| 1:31.3 | And in Ottawa County, Michigan, what's called Awake Low, creating wind gusts over 60 |
| 1:37.3 | miles per hour, knocking down power lines, trapping two students and a driver inside this school bus, |
| 1:43.3 | rescue crews getting everyone to safety. |
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