Severe weather has been battering states in the South and Midwest. Tornadoes leveled homes, and the system is being blamed for at least 31 deaths. Jason Allen reports for CBS News New York.

Many communities will have a lot of clean-up ahead in the coming hours, especially as the sun comes up and the damage becomes more visible.

Several full-time employees and contractors at the Martí stations were immediately placed on administrative leave.

All full-time employees with the government-funded Voice of America, the nation's largest international broadcaster, were informed Saturday that they have been placed on administrative leave, multiple sources confirmed to CBS News.

Violent tornadoes and high winds decimated homes, wiped out schools and toppled semitractor-trailers as a monster storm that killed at least 32 people ripped its way across the central and southern U.

A swarm of dust storms and tornadoes tore across the southern United States over the weekend, killing at least 39 people and leaving behind wrecked communities.