Five dead in Arkansas as floods, tornadoes hit again

A tornado destroyed 50 to 80 houses and killed at least two people in an Arkansas town on Monday and floods caused at least three deaths in the state as storms continued to lash the region, authorities said.

In Missouri, a warning of imminent failure for a levee on the Black River in the southeast part of the state prompted the mandatory evacuation of about 1,000 people. (Reuters)