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A slow-moving storm battered lakeside communities in northern Michigan, pushing jagged ice floes through windows and walls as floodwaters rose. Heavy rain and rapid snowmelt swelled the Cheboygan River, sending massive...
By Andrew Kozak and Kerry Breen Updated April 18, 2026 / CBS News Communities across the Midwest and Great Lakes began cleanup Saturday after a series of tornadoes and severe storms moved from the Great Lakes down...
Multiple funnel clouds and tornadoes moved across the Midwest and Great Lakes on Friday, tearing through neighborhoods, knocking out utilities and leaving millions at risk for additional severe weather into the weekend.
A series of tornadoes swept across the Midwest overnight as a large storm system moved from the Great Lakes toward Texas, leaving communities across the Central Plains and upper Midwest beginning cleanup and recovery.
Updated April 17, 2026 — 11:02 PM EDT A tornado touched down in Lena, Illinois, late Friday as a large storm system moved toward the Chicago area. The National Weather Service issued a tornado warning for Lena at 4:45...
More than 35 million people from Wisconsin to Oklahoma faced a severe weather outbreak Friday that produced violent storms and multiple tornadoes. By early evening officials had received reports of 12 tornadoes across...
By Emily Mae Czachor Updated April 14, 2026 Typhoon Sinlaku — the planet’s most powerful tropical cyclone so far this year — struck the remote U.S. islands of Tinian and Saipan in the Northern Mariana Islands early...
April 7, 2026 — Chimney Rock, North Carolina Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin visited Chimney Rock on Tuesday, saying he plans to overhaul how the Federal Emergency Management Agency operates rather than...
In Altadena, California, one man is turning burned lots into blooming plots of hope. Rene Amy walks the blackened plots left by the Eaton Fire, scattering poppy seed by seed as part of what he calls the Great Altadena...
By Emily Mae Czachor, News Editor Updated March 25, 2026 / 11:20 PM EDT / CBS News A heat wave that gripped the Western U.S. last week pushed east on Wednesday, producing a string of daily high-temperature records...
Powerful storms and heavy runoff this month produced what officials called the worst flooding in Hawaii in two decades, leaving rivers and low-lying neighborhoods overwhelmed, homes swept away, roads washed out and...
March 24, 2026 — A large explosion early Monday at Valero's Port Arthur refinery on the Texas Gulf Coast sent smoke and flames into the air and led officials to issue shelter-in-place orders for parts of the city. Port...
