>> sgood morning. >> give us a sense of damage and the most recent death toll that you know. >> well, yeah, we've been working with the states. alabama seems to be the hardest hit. we had loss of life in mississippi, impacts in georgia all the way up into virginia. they're comparing this outbreak to the 1974 super tornado outbreak. the amount of fatalities unfortunately is now being reported close to a little over 200, and search and rescue operations are still under way in alabama and some of the other areas. >> tell me about that. how many people has tefema sento alabama, and what exactly are they doing? >> right now, last night the governor requested assistance. president obama declared an emergency declaration. that allows us to send in direct federal assistance to the governor's team. we recognize as bad as this tornado is, a lot of the response is being done by local officials, mutual aid from surrounding communities as well as the governor has called out the national guard.