ALISYN CAMEROTA, CNN ANCHOR: At least five people are dead after severe thunderstorms ripped through the central U.S., spawning a tornado, as you can see on your screen, and widespread flooding. Severe weather now set to batter the Midwest and the Northeast later this week. CNN meteorologist Chad Myers is live in our Weather Center. What are you seeing, Chad?</s>CHAD MYERS, AMS METEOROLOGIST: Alisyn, officially 12 tornados over the weekend. We did have fatalities with the storms. Three fatalities from tornados directly. That was the first tornado death in 283 days. Now, that is a new record for length of time between tornado deaths. That's one record, I guess, that's good. Eventually it had to break. But we did it this weekend. Lots of rainfall too. Some spots in Arkansas picked up 12 inches of rain in 48 hours. So there is going to be more flood threat. Now, the storm is moving away. It's moving through the southeast. A little bit of snow to the northeast, little clouds as well. But the storm system, as it moves away, builds another one. Watch what happens back out here for Tuesday and Wednesday, another storm right over the top of where the last one was. And we do expect more tornados for Wednesday and possibly Thursday through the Midwest and the Southeast. Chris.</s>CHRIS CUOMO, CNN ANCHOR: All right, buddy, keep us aware of what we need to do.</s>MYERS: I will.</s>CUOMO: President Trump reportedly wants the death penalty for major drug dealers. Could he get such a harsh punishment passed? And wait until you hear who inspired this latest idea, next.
Five Killed in Severe Storms