Monster storm leaves at least 36 dead across US

Hundreds of homes were destroyed and at least 36 people were killed over the weekend as intense early spring storms moved across the central and southern US. As of this writing, 12 people were killed following a tornado outbreak in Missouri, six people died in Mississippi, and three in Arkansas, among other states.

In Kansas, eight people were killed and dozens injured in a 55-vehicle pileup along I-70 after an intense dust storm impaired visibility. More than 200,000 people—largely through the mid-South—were left without power by late Saturday, with the system bringing widespread downpours across the mid-Atlantic by Sunday. To the north, some locations in Indiana and Kentucky reported 2-inch hail and winds nearing 70 mph.