Violent Weather Rips Through the South

The Takeaway

For the second straight night, severe storms ravaged the South, killing at least one person in Arkansas and damaging more than 100 homes in rural East Texas.  Harold Brooks, research meteorologist at the National Severe Storms Laboratory, talks to use about the storms.

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