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Radar shows tornado touched down at Denver airport
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DENVER (AP) -- Radar indicated a tornado briefly touched down Tuesday over the east runways of Denver International Airport, where thousands of people took shelter in bathrooms, stairwells and other safe spots until the dangerous weather passed, officials said....

New NYC evacuation zones include almost 3M people
NEW YORK (AP) -- Nearly 3 million New Yorkers' homes are now in evacuation zones that cover more than a third of the city's population, under new maps released Tuesday....

Tropical depression heads toward southern Mexico
MIAMI (AP) -- Forecasters say a tropical depression is dumping heavy rains on Central America as it trudges toward southern Mexico....

Police up presence in Sandy-damaged sections of NY
NEW YORK (AP) -- Police have increased their presence in New York City neighborhoods still struggling with the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy....

3 more deaths blamed on storm that hit East Coast
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WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (AP) -- Three additional deaths in North Carolina are being blamed on the massive storm system that started in the Upper Midwest and brought soaking rains and heavy winds to the Mid-Atlantic....

Massive storm system surges toward Mid-Atlantic
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CHICAGO (AP) -- A massive storm system originally forecast to affect one in five Americans from Iowa to Maryland surged Thursday toward the Mid-Atlantic after largely failing to live up to its billing in ferocity through the Upper Midwest....

State-by-state look at Iowa to Mid-Atlantic storm
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Massive thunderstorms swept through the Midwest on Wednesday. Meteorologists warn that the line of storms could launch a weather event called a derecho, which is a straight-line wind storm spanning at least 240 miles. Here's a snapshot of what is happening, state by state:...

Midwest could see strong windstorms from derecho
MILWAUKEE (AP) -- The National Weather Service was tracking a so-called derecho weather pattern in the Midwest on Tuesday that could spawn severe windstorms in major metropolitan areas with gusts as strong as 100 mph....

Weather Service confirms 3 tornadoes in Md.
BALTIMORE (AP) -- The National Weather Service says it has confirmed that three tornadoes touched down in Maryland....

27-car Nev. sandstorm pileup kills 1, hurts others
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Twenty-seven vehicles slammed into each other during a sandstorm that blinded drivers on Interstate 80 in rural northern Nevada, killing a truck driver, seriously injuring several other people and sapping already thin emergency resources, officials said....

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