Tornado moves through Dallas, Cowboys beat Eagles, Children's Health System: Your Monday morning roundup

A tornado left a miles-long trail of heavy damage from northwest Dallas to Richardson late Sunday.  [Morning roundup]( 10/21/2019 By Nataly Keomoungkhoun and Mallorie Sullivan Good morning! Here is a look at the top headlines as we start the day. 🌦️Weather: Rain in the morning, and then a sunny, breezy day. High of 74 degrees. 🔎 Prefer the online view? It's [her]( People gather in the parking lot of a shopping center near the intersection of Walnut Hill Lane and Marsh Lane in Dallas where a storm hit Sunday. (Ryan Michalesko/Staff Photographer) WEATHER [Tornado leaves heavy damage, power outages in its wake after moving through Dallas]( A tornado left [a miles-long trail of heavy damage from northwest Dallas to Richardson late Sunday](. Tornadoes also had been reported in southern Dallas and Rockwall counties. No fatalities had been confirmed by 11:30 p.m., but first responders were going door to door in some neighborhoods to check on residents. Parts of northern Dallas, including the Love Field area, were especially hard hit. KXAS-TV (NBC5) meteorologist Rick Mitchell estimated the tornado’s route may have stretched 17 miles, though the path of its damage may not have been continuous. Oncor reported more than 95,000 people were without power at 11:30 p.m. Dallas ISD announced that crews were assessing damage to decide whether classes at some campuses would be canceled.  Watch: Storms [brought heavy rain, damaging winds and hail]( to Dallas neighborhoods Sunday night.   ADVERTISEMENT SPORTS[In wrecking the Eagles’ plans, DeMarcus Lawrence and the Cowboys’ defense elevate Dallas’ hopes]( From sports columnist Tim Cowlishaw: Jimmy Johnson taught Cowboys fans, players and anyone else who cared to listen a generation ago that if you’re going to talk the talk, you better be prepared to walk the walk. No Cowboy today talks it and walks it quite like DeMarcus Lawrence. The man who challenged the red-hot New Orleans Saints a year ago before the Dallas defense shut down Drew Brees’ offense in the Cowboys’ best 2018 win took the bait this week from Philly coach Doug Pederson, who promised an Eagles victory. "Is he gonna play? Then he might want to shut his ass up,’’ Lawrence said Thursday. On Sunday, [Lawrence helped chew up Pederson’s team in a hurry as the Cowboys scored 14 points off two turnovers]( in the first six minutes of a 37-10 beatdown of Philadelphia.  Clothing taboo: Is wearing blue jerseys a jinx for the Dallas Cowboys? ["Enclothed cognition" suggests yes.](   College football rankings: [B]( jumps Texas and SMU rises above Boise State]( as a top G5 school.  BUSINESS [Naming the football stadium isn’t enough. Children’s Health will pay Prosper ISD nearly $3 million more]( From business columnist Mitchell Schnurman: You may already know that Children’s Health System in Dallas is paying $2.5 million to put its name on the high school football stadium in Prosper. But that’s just the half of it. As part of the deal, Children’s will contribute dozens of other benefits valued at an additional $2.85 million over the next decade. They range from programs for school nurses to student-trainer scholarships to coach’s movie night at the stadium. [Why pledge over $5 million to become "the official pediatric health care partner" of Prosper schools?](  Food expansion: An immigrant family created [an egg roll dynasty in Dallas' industrial district.](   Health care: A tech-focused health insurance startup named Oscar [is looking to make a splash in Dallas.](  ADVERTISEMENT EDITORS' PICKS - Courts: A Dallas drug dealer has been [sentenced to 60 years in prison for killing an 18-year-old]( outside a Fort Worth motel after the teen tried to buy marijuana with fake money. - Back to work: Told he’d never fight fires again, a firefighting [amputee returns to duty in Denton.]( - Dallas residents: What intersections do you find dangerous? [Curious Texas wants to know](. An artistic recreation by paleoartist Elisabeth Daynès of Homo naledi, which is estimated to be around 300,000 years old, was photographed on Oct. 4, 2019, at the Perot Museum of Nature and Science in Dallas. (Shaban Athuman/Staff Photographer) FINALLY... [‘Origins’ exhibit brings two famous fossils exclusively to Dallas]( When the two dignitaries landed with their entourage at DFW International Airport, security agents rushed them through customs and helped them into a pair of waiting black vans. As their chauffeurs rolled toward downtown Dallas, a police escort trailed behind. [The guests are unlike any that have visited North Texas.]( They flew in from South Africa and have been dead for more than 250,000 years. Now their dismembered skeletons lay inside a half-dozen pieces of carry-on luggage and one cargo crate. Nicknamed "Neo" and "Karabo," these early human fossils are the stars of the Perot Museum of Nature and Science’s "Origins: Fossils from the Cradle of Humankind," which opened Oct. 19 and runs through March 22.  👋 That's all for this morning! For up-to-the-minute news and analysis, check out [DallasNews.com](. Share the love! 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