Deadly tornado strikes Matador, Texas during severe storms.

Violent storms and tornadoes have caused severe destruction and fatalities in the small town of Matador, Texas, leaving hundreds of thousands without power in the state. The town of nearly 600 is the latest community to be pummeled by dangerous storms and tornadoes in a year in which 69 people in the United States have already died in tornadoes. The storms in Texas are happening in the middle of a debilitating heat wave that has temperatures soaring past 100 degrees and exceeding 110 in some places.