
Powerful storms bring heavy snow, rain, tornadoes, flooding to much of U.S., leave several dead
CBSN
A storm packing high winds and heavy rain was sweeping through the Northeast early Wednesday while wild winter weather elsewhere brought tornadoes and deadly accidents in the Midwest and South, flood threats in Florida and blizzards in the Northwest.
Hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses up and down the East Coast and in Michigan had no power early Wednesday, according to PowerOutage.u.s. And FlightAware.com said hundreds of U.S. flights were canceled as of Wednesday morning.
New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy declared a state of emergency ahead of the storm on Tuesday afternoon and New York City officials evacuated nearly 2,000 migrants housed at a sprawling tent complex ahead of predicted wind gusts as high as 70 mph. Riverside communities were flooded in at least one New Jersey county Wednesday, CBS News New York reported. And police in Clinton, New Jersey posted photos of flooding in their town on X.

Trump's tariffs target Heard Island and McDonald Islands, Australian territory inhabited by penguins
With his announcement of widespread new tariffs on Wednesday, President Trump spared very few places on the globe from his effort to upend global trade — even the remote Heard Island and McDonald Islands, a sub-Antarctic Australian territory inhabited by penguins, but no people.

Researchers are predicting an above-average Atlantic hurricane season in 2025, likely producing stronger and more frequent storms than a typical year but at the same time with less intensity expected than last season. The annual prediction is closely watched in Florida and other coastal states at risk when hurricane season officially starts June 1.