High Winds knocks out power to several thousands of residents in the valley.

Also several school are closed today due to those outages. Mahoning County was hit the hardest with over 20 thousand people without power.

Other hard hit areas are Poland, Austintown, Campbell, New Springfield, and Boardman.

Also in our viewing area 6,000 are without power in Warren, and power has been restored to all but 500 residents in Columbiana.

In Pennsylvania, 3,000 people have no power in Mercer County and nearly 500 in New Castle.