Cities like Philadelphia, Baltimore or Washington, DC are included in the highest risk area.
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At least four people have died in the last hours in the states of Indiana, Arkansas and Georgia as a result of tornadoes and storms that have hit the United States and have caused multiple flight cancellations.
On Sunday, Two people died after a tree fell on their house in the town of Carlisle, in Lonoke County, Arkansas.where several houses were damaged by the storms.
In addition, the director of the Martin County (Indiana) Department of Emergency Management, Cameron Wolf, explained to the press that a tornado struck a home on Windom Road, killing one occupant and injuring the other.
In Indianapolis, the capital of Indiana, the fire chief of the city of Bargersville, Eric Funkhouser, told NBC News that although there were no victims, some 75 houses suffered moderate or severe damage.
And in Georgia, In the city of Atlanta, a 55-year-old man died after being struck by a tree that fell in a storm.
In Ohio, severe tornado-spawning storms caused Some 400,000 homes and businesses will be left without electricity. due to the meteorological phenomena that keep the eastern part of the country on alert, from North Carolina to Pennsylvania.
With the storm system moving east, more than 90 million people are on severe weather watch Monday.
Cities like Philadelphia, Baltimore or Washington, DC are included in the highest risk area.
As a consequence of severe weather phenomena, hundreds of flights were canceled this Monday at some of the main airports on the east coast of the United States.
According to the FlightAware website, which monitors airspace, so far 1,202 flights to or from the United States have been canceled, while at least 3,329 have registered delays.
The unstable line of thunderstorms contributed to the power outages for 702,304 US utility customers in Wisconsin, Michigan, Indiana, Kentucky, Arkansas, Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia, according to electricity tracker PowerOutage.us.
According to the online tracker, more than 550,000 utility customers in the nine states were still affected by outages as of early Monday morning.
In Tennessee, power restoration is expected to last several days, the Memphis Division of Light, Gas and Water said in a statement Monday. The company is urging residents without power to make a plan.
With information from EFE
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