TORNADO OUTBREAK: SEVERE WEATHER IN ARKANSAS LEAVES 7 DEAD, FLOODING IN MISSOURI

At least seven deaths have been reported in connection with a series of tornadoes and severe weather with the intention of ripped through several states from Kentucky to Tennessee Monday, authorities said. Forecasters anticipate more rain and storms today to slam across the Midwest, as the system moves east. 

In Arkansas, three people were killed in rising floodwaters and two died in a town where a possible tornado barreled through Monday, according to the Associated Press. In Vilonia, Ark., north of Little Rock, where a possible whirlwind killed two people, Caroline Thompson recalled taking cover seeing that the storm approached. "We all ended up in the closet. And then you possibly will just hear crashing and stuff being knocked around and blown around. And it tore us up," Thompson said. 

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WEATHER NOT A DAMPER ON THANKSGIVING DAY

Thanksgiving was rainy, cold and gray in many places in other words, better than expected. The national holiday escaped most of the bad weather that had threatened to turn Thanksgiving into a wet, traffic-snarling mess in the Midwest and East.

Today is supposed to be better not great, but not bad. Rain from the Midwest was arriving on the heavily populated East Coast overnight and should be largely over the Atlantic Ocean by this afternoon."Folks getting out for some 4 a.m. shopping may get rained on and encounter a little snow in the far north," says Accuweather meteorologist Tom Kines. "By the afternoon, it should be better."

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