The Weather Channel's David Malkoff reports from Fishers, Ind., where snow and wind are expected to increase over the next few hours, with record-breaking snow possible for much of the Midwest.
By NBC News staff and wire reports
A major storm that unleashed heavy snow and deadly winds on the nation?s midsection on Christmas Day was moving across the East Coast Wednesday, bringing more wintry conditions and the risk of new tornadoes.
Snow was expected across the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic, with northern Ohio, northern Pennsylvania and southern New York set to bear the brunt, according to Weather Channel meteorologist Guy Walton.
Further south, driving rain and thunderstorms were expected throughout the southeast Atlantic, with the tornado threat highest in the eastern Carolinas, according to the national Storm Prediction Center.
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Yet more snow is forecast for Thursday in the Northeast to the west and north of the I-95 corridor Thursday into northern New England, with upwards of one foot possible.
The storm claimed three lives on Tuesday: Wind-toppled trees killed a pickup truck driver near Houston, Texas, and a 53-year-old man in north Louisiana, while NBC affiliate KJRH reported that?a 28-year-old woman was killed in a crash on a snowy highway near Fairview, Oklahoma.
Witnesses report significant storm damage in Mobile, Alabama. WPMI's John Dzenitis reports.
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A record number of Christmas Day tornadoes battered southern states, according to the Weather Channel?s Jim Cantore, with 34 reported. Some were captured on dramatic home videos.?
After sweeping through the Midwest with blinding snow, a major winter storm brought a rare white Christmas to parts of the South and set off damaging tornadoes. The Weather Channel's Jim Cantore reports.
A state of emergency was declared in?Mississippi, where homes, roads and businesses were damaged in at least nine counties.
At one point late Tuesday, holiday celebrations were darkened for at least 150,000 customers in Alabama and a further?21,500 in Arkansas, according to Arkansas Entenergy and Alabama Power.
The worst of the tornadoes hit Tuesday afternoon in Mobile, Ala., where Rick Cauley's family was hosting relatives for Christmas.
Not taking any chances, he and his wife, Ashley, hustled everyone down the block to take shelter at the athletic field house at Mobile's Murphy High School in Mobile.
It turns out, that wasn't the place to head.
"As luck would have it, that's where the tornado hit," Cauley told The Associated Press. "The pressure dropped and the ears started popping and it got crazy for a second." They were all fine, though the school was damaged, as were a church and several homes, but officials say no one was seriously injured.?
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"The people of Alabama are strong," state governor Robert Bentley said in a statement released by his office. "We will recover together.?First responders are doing a tremendous job helping people in areas impacted by the storms, and those efforts will continue."
The statement added:?"I also want to offer my prayers for everyone impacted by these storms. We will work on the state level to do everything we can to help communities across the state."
First responders told NBCDFW.com they responded to 71 crashes in Forth Worth, Texas between 5 p.m. and 9:50 p.m. Tuesday as slush turned to ice, making roads treacherous.
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In Indianapolis, Mayor Greg Ballard ordered "non-essential" workers to stay home Wednesday.
Some places didn't just get a white Christmas, they set daily snowfall records. Cantore told NBC News that?Little Rock, Ark. had its snowiest day ever with accumulation of nine inches.
Greg Forbes, a meteorologist with The Weather Channel, said?thunderstorms with damaging winds and hail would make their way across the Deep South into Wednesday.
By the time it leaves the New England coast Friday, the storm will have left snow from coast to coast.
The Weather Channel's Jim Cantore and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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