Portable toilets and portable barriers at Kauffman Stadium were toppled by a severe, tornado-warned thunderstorm that moved through Kansas City on Tuesday. The National Weather Service determined a short-lived tornado touched down nearby. Tammy Ljungblad [email protected]

Kansas City is seeing flooding around the metro, plus downed trees and traffic crashes, after a "confirmed large and extremely dangerous tornado" was reported in Raytown near the Truman Sports Complex.

Missouri senators have approved over $100 million in tornado relief for St. Louis and hundreds of millions of dollars of incentives to try to keep the Kansas City Chiefs and Royals in Missouri.