A multiday outbreak of severe weather — including the potential for strong tornadoes — will begin Friday as a strong storm system barrels across the Lower 48. Parts of the Deep South, Mississippi and Tennessee Valleys and even the East Coast will be impacted by severe thunderstorms,

A severe weather outbreak has brought violent, long-track tornadoes to parts of the South, with damaging winds of up to 80 mph and large hail.

Abe Cook, the director of an emergency management agency in Franklin County, Missouri, discusses the widespread damage from severe weather and tornadoes across the state.

Arkansans are taking time this morning in parts of the state to check for damages and injuries following severe storms.