The sheriff’s office had initially told CNN two of the injured were parents of the children. The updated news release did not include details on the injured. “It was a terrible scene to witness and respond to,

Powerful storms are forecast to move east after pelting the central U.S. with heavy wind and giant hailstones, causing at least five deaths and leaving hundreds of thousands without power. Parts of the mid-Atlantic and the Southeast are bracing for storms that damaged buildings and whipped up tornadoes in the Midwest and Southern states.

Commuters woke up to a line of severe thunderstorms tracking through the Southeast Monday morning as another round of severe storms threatens some 86 million people across the eastern U.S. with damaging winds and a few tornadoes.

The mid-Atlantic and the Southeast braced for storms as the front moves east.

At least one person is dead after a swath of severe weather ripped across a section of the United States that stretches from Michigan's Upper Peninsula to Texas, spawning tornadoes, damaging straight line winds and hail.

At least two people were killed Sunday after severe weather battered the central U.S. as FOX Weather continues to track the threat of more destructive storms on Monday.