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At least 68 million people were under severe weather warnings on Memorial Day, as storms turned toward the Northeast after claiming the lives of at least 19 people and leaving half a million homes and businesses without power across the central United States. Heavy storms will move across Arkansas and Tennessee and into the Ohio Valley before heading north up to the East Coast, through the Carolinas, Pennsylvania and New York.
Some emergency phones lines had been damaged and were not operational, Kentucky State Police said, according to NBC affiliate WNKY of Bowling Green, Kentucky. Monday's weather warnings come after a torrid night across southern states and in the Great Plains. Eight people were reported dead in Arkansas; seven in Texas; two in Oklahoma, and two in Kentucky. The deaths were caused by weather-related incidents including falling trees.
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