Sign up for the Morning Brief email newsletterto get weekday updates from The Weather Channel and our meteorologists. A blizzard is underway in the High Plains as W​inter Storm Diaz pounds the area with heavy snow and strong winds. T​he storm has forced major road closures across several states because of impossible travel conditions as the worst of it kicks into gear. There were blizzard warnings in place for parts of six states on Tuesday morning and that's where the...

One resident describes what the Mauna Loa eruption looks like. “There’s an energy in the air that’s very, not scary, just powerful. You feel life,” Shantell Walker Otare says. ...

Heavy rains triggered a powerful mudslide on an Italian resort island killing one person and leaving up to a dozen people missing. Officials say some were buried in the mud. ...