Live updates: 36 dead as storms head east; over 380,000 customers without power across East Coast, South and Midwest The storms have left nearly 16 million under tornado watches from Florida to the Carolinas. The deadly storms that ravaged much of the South and the Midwest this weekend are heading east today.

Millions of Americans across the country are on alert for a severe weather outbreak as violent, long-track tornadoes with damaging winds of up to 80 mph and large hail are expected across the Midwest and South with the cross-country storm moving east.

Dakota Henderson said he and others rescuing people trapped in their homes Friday night found five dead bodies scattered in the debris outside what remained of his aunt's house in hard-hit Wayne County,