HOUSTON (AP) — A tornado that raced through residential areas north of Houston damaged more than 100 homes, tearing off roofs, moving garages off their foundations and smashing windows, authorities in Texas said.

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No injuries were reported in the storm Monday that uprooted trees, downed power lines and created paths of debris throughout some neighborhoods.

Heavy fog made it difficult to assess all the damage Tuesday morning, but calmer weather conditions were expected to prevail in the area. Heavy rain and severe thunderstorms were expected farther south during the day, considered one of the busiest travel days of the Thanksgiving holiday period. Rain and snow was in the forecast in other areas of the country closer to Thanksgiving, according to the National Weather Service.

Some people hunkered down in their homes and hid in closets during the Texas storm. More than 20,000 customers were without power at one point Monday.

“I had the door and I was trying to hold it shut so that nothing would end up in the house,” Miriam Harris told KTRK-TV. “It was so forceful.” She suffered roof and tree damage, and some of her holiday light display was mangled.

In Klein, about 25 miles north of Houston, officials were working to fix multiple reported gas leaks, remove trees that were blocking roads, and clean up debris around homes and businesses, said Ja’Milla Lomas, a spokesperson for the Klein Fire Department. Damage also was reported in Cypress and Spring.

One engine crew temporarily took shelter in a resident’s garage as high winds moved through the area, posted the Cy-Fair Fire Department, which represents a collection of stations throughout the Houston region.

Photos and drone video posted on Facebook by the Harris County Precinct 4 constable showed roofs with shingles ripped off. Some debris blocked roads.

The damage affected the Memorial Northwest neighborhood, according to the office of Mark Herman, the constable. There also were several weather-related vehicle crashes.

The Houston Fire Department dispatched five members of its saw team to cut up and remove toppled trees, spokesperson Rustin Rawlings said.

The weather service had issued a tornado watch for southeastern Texas, including Houston, until 1 a.m. Tuesday. It also issued a severe thunderstorm warning for parts of southeastern Texas.

As holiday travel begins ahead of Thanksgiving, an updated weather forecast now has the Twin Cities under a winter storm warning starting at 9 p.m. on Tuesday.

This system is expected to bring snow, gusty winds and hazardous travel conditions to parts of Minnesota and Wisconsin.

As of early Tuesday, the weather service predicts four to eight inches of snow is possible in the Twin Cities before the winter storm warning expires at 9 a.m. on Wednesday.

Here’s what we know as of early Tuesday:

What has changed?

The Twin Cities office of the National Weather Service has issued a winter storm warning from 9 p.m. to 9 a.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 25 to Wednesday, Nov. 26, 2025. (Courtesy of the Twin Cities office of the National Weather Service)

“An overnight forecast update has increased snow amounts which has led to an expansion of the Winter Storm Warning across the area,” the Twin Cities office of the National Weather Service reported on X early Tuesday.

The winter storm warning begins at 9 p.m. on Tuesday and ends at 9 a.m. on Wednesday.

During the day on Tuesday, expect a drizzly high of 48, with a breezy afternoon. Tonight, it gets colder and gustier, with rain eventually turning to snow and a high of 27.

When will the snow begin in the metro?

The Twin Cities office of the National Weather Service has issued a winter storm warning from 9 p.m. to 9 a.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 25 to Wednesday, Nov. 26, 2025. (Courtesy of the Twin Cities office of the National Weather Service)

“Rain transitions to snow this evening with hazardous to impossible travel overnight due to reduced visibility and blowing snow,” the NWS predicts.

How will this impact travel?

Tuesday’s local commuters should not be impacted, but if you’re heading out of the metro, there could be hazards.

“If you have travel plans ahead of Thanksgiving, the best advice we can give, especially if traveling north of the Twin Cities, is to leave Tue morning, or wait until Wed afternoon,” the NWS advised on X as of late Monday. “It would be best to avoid non-essential travel Tue night through Wed morning.”

Especially if you are headed west or north, check Minnesota’s road conditions at 511mn.org and Wisconsin’s road conditions at 511wi.gov.

How much snow is predicted?

The Twin Cities office of the National Weather Service is predicting the season’s first significant snowfall with a winter storm warning set to begin at 9 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 25, 2025. (Courtesy of the Twin Cities office of the National Weather Service)

This system is not currently expected to break any snowfall records, at least not in the Twin Cities. But you will need to dig out those scrapers, shovels and gloves, if you haven’t already. Umbrellas and coats, too.

Here’s the current projections:

Rain is expected to transition to snow later on Tuesday, with gusty winds expected.

By the time the system rolls out of the area and the winter storm warning ends on Wednesday, the NWS says, the entire area is expected to see at least an inch or two of snow from this system, but there is possibility of a few inches or more in the metro, with the total range currently set between four and eight inches.

More widely, here’s the winter storm warning info from the weather service:

“A potent storm system will move across the area today and tonight. Rain will transition snow from west to east as cold air arrives. Periods of heavy snow are expected with rates of around an inch per hour at times. The heaviest totals will be found across central Minnesota and northwest Wisconsin where around 6 inches are expected. Farther south across southern Minnesota and parts of west central Wisconsin, 1 to 3 inches are expected.”

Thanksgiving forecast

It will be quiet but cold by the time we sit down for that turkey dinner on Thursday. The weather service currently predicts partly cloudy skies, with a high temperature hovering somewhere between 24 and 28 degrees.

This is a developing story and will be updated.

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If he ever felt like sleeping in and skipping his workouts over the summer, Cretin-Derham Hall senior forward Maverick Timmons needed only to think back on the last day of February and how his junior season ended.

The Raiders trailed rival St. Thomas Academy by a goal in the closing seconds of their section title game before forging a tie with 13 seconds to play. But the storybook ending eluded Cretin, as STA won in double overtime and advanced to the state tournament.

Cretin-Derham Hall senior forward Maverick Timmons had six goals and 14 assists for the Raiders as a junior. (Michael Murray / Courtesy Photo)

“That game stung,” Timmons said after a preseason Raiders practice at their home rink in Highland Park. “The whole summer, every single day, waking up early, practicing, lifting, it’s the only thing that was on my mind.”

The Raiders went 23-4-1 last season, with all of their losses coming at the hands of state tournament teams. Looking at the team that coach Matt Funk has put together for 2025-26, the keen eye will note a trio of players who are not there as much as the returning roster.

After leading the Raiders with 50 points in 28 games as a junior, and earning a scholarship offer from Colorado College, Nate Chorlton opted to spend this season with Chicago in the USHL. It’s a similar story for Max Anderson, bound for Miami (Ohio) and spending this season with Sioux City in the USHL. Defenseman Phoenix Cahill, also a Colorado College commit, is spending the winter in Prince George, British Columbia, playing Canadian major junior hockey.

For Funk, the departures are a sign of a “different world” in which players are being urged to make potentially life-altering choices about their future when they are 17 or younger.

“There’s a lot of things that go into those decisions. I stressed with them that everybody’s development path is a little bit different,” Funk said. “You’ve got to make sure you’re making the right decision for you and that it’s informed, which is hard because these guys are getting things thrown at them. All you can do is be there for the kid. They’re all doing well in the places they’re at.”

The Cretin-Derham Hall roster features a mix of youth and experience, with a relatively untested top goalie in Luca Sciara, who got just one start last season (he won it) but has the full confidence of his team.

“He’s a big-time goalie. Highly ranked as a youth hockey player, done a lot with USA Hockey, making the national camp as a 15-year-old,” Funk said. “He’s big. He’s also extremely smart in school. Like, he’s over a 4.0 student, taking AP classes. So he’s a kid that is a student of the game.”

The Raiders’ roster also features one of the more intriguing personalities in Minnesota prep hockey. In addition to being dangerous on the ice, junior forward Marcus Matyas can best be described as Cretin-Derham Hall’s international man of mystery.

“He spent his summer in Russia. He’s a native Hungarian. He grew up and spent some time in Sweden. He lived in California. He has been all over the place,” Funk said of Matyas, who averaged a point per game for the Raiders last season. “And his dad watches every practice. He’s up in the corner. He does a lot of hockey. He’s the one guy that takes his gear home every night. He skates. And so Marcus is a character.”

Cretin’s season started last weekend with a dive right into the deep end of the pool, facing Hibbing/Chisholm, Minnesota’s top-ranked team in Class A. The Bluejackets got a pair of late empty-net goals to win 6-3. Jonny Bloedow, Cretin’s top returning scorer, had a pair of goals in the loss.

The Raiders visit section rival Eastview on Tuesday night in Apple Valley.

Overall, the Raiders are young at forward and are looking for players like Bloedow to pick up where they left off last season.

“Up front, we’ve got a young team. We’ve got two sophomores that led our team last year, Brody (Ruprecht) and Jonny. They’re gonna have big seasons,” Timmons said. “We’ve got a couple of seniors up front, and then two freshmen coming on our team this year that’ll have really good starts. They’re good players.”

And while they saw some talent leave early, the Raiders also benefitted from incoming transfers, with key players coming to Cretin-Derham Hall from Hopkins, Grand Rapids and Shattuck-St. Mary’s. Timmons said new faces and all, the team has gelled quickly, with important time spent off-ice playing knee hockey and getting to know each other, which they expect will translate to chemistry on the rink.

Funk acknowledges the youth in some key areas. Then he brings it back to that season-ending heartbreaker versus STA and the lessons learned by the Raiders that night, whether or not they were on the ice.

“We have a lot of guys back, some guys that were playing with us for sections on the practice team, helping us get ready. There were guys that were up in the stands watching, a lot of guys that were on the JV team,” he said. “So I think it’s fresh, still fresh for everybody. And when you lose in double overtime, with the way we came back, to a rival, it just means more.”

While teams like Rosemount and Eastview will certainly have their say between now and late February, Section 3AA is widely expected to be a two-horse race between the Raiders and Cadets once again. Their lone regular season meeting is Dec. 27 in Mendota Heights.

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By DAVID RISING, Associated Press

BANGKOK (AP) — Rights groups on Tuesday slammed the Trump administration’s decision to end protected status for Myanmar citizens due to the country’s “notable progress in governance and stability,” even though it remains mired in a bloody civil war and the head of its military regime faces possible U.N. war crimes charges.

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In her announcement Monday ending temporary protection from deportation for citizens of Myanmar, also known as Burma, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem cited the military’s plans for “free and fair elections” in December and “successful ceasefire agreements” as among the reasons for her decision.

“The situation in Burma has improved enough that it is safe for Burmese citizens to return home,” she said in a statement.

The military under Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing seized power from democratically-elected Aung San Suu Kyi in 2021 and is seeking to add a sheen of international legitimacy to its government with the upcoming elections. But with Suu Kyi in prison and her party banned, most outside observers have denounced the elections as a sham.

“Homeland Secretary Kristi Noem is treating those people just like her family’s dog that she famously shot down in cold blood because it misbehaved — if her order is carried out, she will literally be sending them back to prisons, brutal torture, and death in Myanmar,” Phil Robertson, the director of Asia Human Rights and Labor Advocates, said in a statement.

“Secretary Noem is seriously deluded if she thinks the upcoming elections in Myanmar will be even remotely free and fair, and she is just making things up when she claims non-existent ceasefires proclaimed by Myanmar’s military junta will result in political progress.”

The military takeover sparked a national uprising with fierce fighting in many parts of the country, and pro-democracy groups and other forces have taken over large swaths of territory.

FILE – Smoke rises from debris and corrugated roofing of a school structure that was burned to the ground in Taung Myint village in the Magway region of Myanmar on Sunday, Oct. 16, 2022. (AP Photo, File)

The military government has stepped up activity ahead of the election to retake areas controlled by opposition forces, with airstrikes killing scores of civilians.

In its fight, the military has been accused of the indiscriminate use of landmines, the targeting of schools, hospitals and places of worship in its attacks, and the use of civilians as human shields.

An arrest warrant was also requested last year for Min Aung Hlaing by International Criminal Court prosecutors accusing him of crimes against humanity for the persecution of the country’s Rohingya Muslim minority before he seized power.

The shadow National Unity Government, or NUG, established by elected lawmakers who were barred from taking their seats after the military took power in 2021, said it was saddened by Homeland Security’s decision.

NUG spokesperson Nay Phone Latt said the military is conducting forced conscription, attacking civilians on a daily basis, and that the elections were excluding any real opposition and would not be accepted by anybody.

“The reasons given for revoking TPS do not reflect the reality in Myanmar,” Nay Phone Latt told The Associated Press.

In her statement, Noem said her decision to remove the “TPS” protection was made in consultation with the State Department, though its latest report on human rights in Myanmar cites “credible reports of: arbitrary or unlawful killings; disappearances; torture or cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment; arbitrary arrest or detention.”

And the State Department’s latest travel guidance for Americans is to avoid the country completely.

“Do not travel to Burma due to armed conflict, the potential for civil unrest, arbitrary enforcement of local laws, poor health infrastructure, land mines and unexploded ordnance, crime, and wrongful detentions,” the guidance reads.

According to the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners, more than 30,000 people have been arrested for political reasons since the military seized power, and 7,488 have been killed.

Still, Homeland Security said that “the secretary determined that, overall, country conditions have improved to the point where Burmese citizens can return home in safety,” while adding that allowing them to remain temporarily in the U.S. is “contrary to the national interest.”

John Sifton, the Asia advocacy director at Human Rights Watch, said that “extensive reporting on Myanmar contradicts almost every assertion” in the Homeland Security statement.

The decision could affect as many as 4,000 people, he said.

“Homeland Security’s misstatements in revoking TPS for people from Myanmar are so egregious that it is hard to imagine who would believe them,” he said in a statement.

“Perhaps no one was expected to.”