ROMANS: Millions are in the path of violent storms moving across the country this morning. Severe thunderstorms ripped through parts of the Midwest Wednesday. Large hail, heavy winds, flash flooding, damaged buildings and leveled trees. This morning, residents are left to pick up the pieces after a tornado tore through Missouri.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I thought the roof was going to come off. I could hear the hail popping. Every once and a while, I looked out and went back to the bathroom. It was horrible. I could not see anything. I kept waiting for it to get done with. It would start in again. I looked out. I thought, my Lord.</s>ROMANS: Thousands are still without power in Missouri and Illinois. Ninety million people facing possible severe weather today. Meteorologist Derek Van Dam is tracking those storms for us.</s>DEREK VAN DAM, AMS METEOROLOGIST: Good morning, John and Christine. The same storm system responsible for the severe weather across the Midwest this Wednesday continues to march eastward. We really do have a collision of two different air masses. Warm and moist air from the gulf colliding with our cool and dry Canadian air behind our cold front, that sets the stage for more severe weather today. In fact, we have 95 million people under the risk of large hail and damaging winds and possibility of isolated strong tornadoes. Keep in mind this does include Chicago, Detroit, Cincinnati and all the way south to Nashville, Little Rock and just outside of Dallas. Here is the storm system continuing to move eastward. High pressure will eventually clear out the skies and make for a pretty decent weekend across the Midwest including the Chicago and Detroit area. Our forecast radar shows quite a bit of heavy rainfall moving from Illinois through Wisconsin and even parts of Michigan and the Ohio River Valley. Temperatures today will be rather cold for New York, 46 degrees for your daytime high compare that to 86 in Atlanta. Not too bad. Back to you.</s>ROMANS: All right, Derek, thanks for that. You may want to take a second look at the hummus sitting in your fridge right now. Details of a major recall next.
Severe Weather Rips Through Midwest