At least 30 people are dead after severe weather that swept across the nation Friday and Saturday.
Deaths were reported in Kansas, Mississippi, Arkansas, Texas and in Missouri, where at least were three killed Friday night when an EF-3 tornado with peak winds of 140 mph ripped through Bakersfield, the National Weather Service said Saturday.
The threat has not abated as more than 60 million in the U.S. are at risk on Sunday, the weather service’s Storm Prediction Center warned. A tornado watch is in effect until 7 p.m. ET for areas of Maryland, Pennsylvania and Virginia.
The Storm Prediction Center had logged 56 preliminary tornado reports in seven states since Friday, including more than 20 in Mississippi and 13 in Missouri.
The destruction comes after sweeping cuts at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration by President Donald Trump and the Department of Government Efficiency.