13 Killed as Severe Storms Strike, Children Escape Church School Just Before It's Destroyed: 'Please Pray'
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- Authorities believe the stormspawned possible tornadoes
which slammed intobuildings, toppled trees,
and left behind a path of destruction.
One person died when a suspected
tornado hit a Louisiana home.
A man and a wife died when another storm
struck near an Alabama community.
Authorities say the injured include
a seven-year-old childin critical condition.
In Alexandria, Louisiana,crews worked overnight
to remove debris from roadways.
The winds blew apart achurch school; the children
evacuated minutes before the storm hit.
Some cities opened sheltersfor those let homeless.
- The devastation, it's bad.
There's animals out of houses, tore down.
- There's houses--
- The barns are gone.
You can't even find someof the properties, houses
that used to be here youcan't even find them anymore.
- [Mark] Near Shreveport, Louisiana
two more suspected tornadoes touched down.
- [Witness] This is wherea tornado came through.
- [Mark] Meanwhile,other parts of the nation
are dealing with a differentkind of deadly storm.
Snow, sleet, and rain leadingto accidents resulting
in the deaths of at least 10people over the past two days.
This storm now movingfrom Central Pennsylvania
into Southern New England;snow and a glaze of ice
is making travel very dangerous.
This huge storm system has already dumped
several inches of snow onKansas, Missouri, and Illinois.
Across the Northeast,winter weather advisories
are in place, Mark Martin, CBN News.