Video Shows Tornado Twirling in New Orleans' Vulnerable Lower Ninth Ward

The deadly outbreak of tornadoes across the southern United States continued Wednesday, this time making a swath through South Louisiana and rapidly moving east as night falls. One New Orleans-area TV station captured a tornado touching down in the city's Lower Ninth Ward.

The Lower Ninth Ward is an impoverished neighborhood that gained national recognition when a levee broke after Hurricane Katrina in 2005. About 9,000 people in the neighborhood died from flooding.

WDSU's tower camera on Wednesday caught a tornado touching down in the area while it was live on the air. Here's what was seen touching down in Arabi and the Ninth Ward.

The storm pelted much of Louisiana starting Tuesday night and all day Wednesday, especially hitting the Interstate-10 corridor fairly hard. A tornado was captured on video in New Iberia.

Here's the one in New Iberia, with the Twitter user saying, "WOAH! Watch as this tornado grows from a rope to a wedge in New Iberia, LA moments ago. Damage is being reported in the town as the storm moved through."

Another hit Gretna in the Greater New Orleans area and more twisters have been reported around the Crescent City, including the town of Marrero and southeast into St. Bernard Parish.

The storms have been blamed for at least three deaths in Louisiana so far, including the small northwest town of Four Forks, which is just south of Shreveport and almost a stone's throw to the Texas border. The New Orleans Times-Picayune reported that a twister in nearby Killona is responsible for one death and seven injuries.

Tornadoes began dropping in Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana and Mississippi on Tuesday, and the system is producing more life-threatening conditions again. Now, many counties in Mississippi, Alabama and the Florida panhandle are under tornado warnings. The Gulf Coast cities of Gulfport and Biloxi (Mississippi), Mobile, Alabama and Pensacola, Florida are all in the storm's current path.

The Times-Picayune is reporting that at least 30,000 people are without power in the New Orleans Metro area as of 5:45 p.m. local time.

There are roughly 5 million people in the storm's path who are at risk throughout Wednesday night.

The storm on Tuesday swept through the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex, dropping a tornado on the town of Grapevine. It continued moving through East Texas and into North Louisiana and then north central Mississippi and Alabama. Today's line of storms is expected to reach all the way south of Tampa, Florida, by Thursday.

This system is part of a cold front moving across the country. In the Midwest, blizzard conditions are expected through Wednesday night and into the weekend.