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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez refuses to blame Mayor Bill de Blasio for his failure to prepare New Yorkers properly for last week’s fatal storm. Instead, she echoes his line of blaming climate change and the NWS.

A tornado ripped through parts of Long Island over the weekend, toppling trees, downing power lines and even ripping the roof off a building in Nassau County.

According to the NWS, heavy rainfall was reported in the eastern Antelope Valley and San Gabriel Mountains, with 0.47 inches in 15 minutes.

The government agency confirmed the twisters tore through towns in Monmouth, Ocean and Burlington counties during Saturday's severe weather event.

The NWS called the shocking footage, “almost unbelievable” in the tweet.

In the past nine days, 10 people have died along the Emerald Coast because of rip currents, according to the NWS.

NWS storm surveyors found evidence of peak winds up to 122 mph along the 1.64-mile path of the twister.

"We have had reports of a tornado in Pismo Beach and Grover Beach - unconfirmed but the convective (environment) is primed for severe convection," the NWS Los Angeles wrote on X Wednesday afternoon.

Other air travelers also benefited from this powerful jet stream on Saturday and Sunday with commercial airline speeds reaching over 800 mph. Data from the NWS balloon near 35,000 feet shows upper-level winds peaked at 265 mph. Airplanes can ride...

The NWS office in Topeka, Kansas, said it received several reports of damage across Osage County, to the south of Topeka.