Tornado touches down in New Orleans as severe weather batters US south

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NEW ORLEANS - A large tornado swept into New Orleans on Tuesday , shearing off roofs and trapping people, local media reported, a day after twisters destroyed homes and injured people elsewhere in th

e deep South.

A video posted on Twitter by Fox8 television showed several firefighters near a house in Arabi with no roof and its walls toppled over. Utility provider Atmos Energy told Nola.com more than 15,000 customers were without power, including 8,000 in New Orleans. The storm front was bringing heavy rains of up to 6 inches and wind gusts of 45 miles an hour to Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama as National Weather Service forecasters warned that some 5 million people in the region could see dangerous weather on Tuesday.

 

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