LATEST: More than 1,000,000 homes and businesses in the Midwest were without power Tuesday morning after a storm packing winds of 100+ mph tore through the region.
following a police-involved shooting, which resulted in street closures and public transportation shutdowns.
“This is our version of a hurricane,” said Northern Illinois University meteorology professor Victor Gensini. He said Monday's derecho will go down as one of the strongest in recent history and would likely be one of the country's worst weather events of 2020. People search for cover as a derecho storm pushes through the area on August 10, 2020 in Chicago, Illinois. The storm, with winds gusts close to 100 miles per hour, downed trees and power lines as it moved through the city and suburbs.Indiana had more than 100,000 power outages Tuesday morning, according to utilities. More than 500,000 were reported in Illinois; 400,000 in Missouri; 36,000 in Michigan and 400,000 in Iowa.
Several people were injured and widespread property damage was reported in Marshall County in central Iowa after 100 mph winds swept through the area, said its homeland security coordinator, Kim Elder.
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