know, things out there, so just encouraging everyone to stay home, just signed an executive order enacting a 9:00 p.m. curfew. governor brian has called me personally twice today sending in state officials and national guard members to assist with the curfew. mayor shelton, thank you very much for your time. martin savidge is also in tupelo. mart martin, restroom, where the employees were, a miracle. talking about the residential areas where he s saying, look, they are at this point going door to door and hoping no one was home. he doesn t think if anybody was home there d be any survivors. reporter: yeah, the damage where we re standing, which is in the area of the mall, that s the barnes crossing mall, we haven t been able to get there, primarily because of the fact it s a combination of damage and there s a gas leak. there s a definite smell of gas in the air and the concern is they want to keep everyone back until they can get that under
control, because you don t want another catastrophe on top of what you ve already had. if you think of any mall and the buildings that surrounds it, hotels, chains everybody knows, they ve all been extensively damaged, not obliterated, but heavily damaged. the stories you talk of miraculous survival, let me show you one restaurant here, we ll make it slow to try to let you see it here. it s in the background, that building, it s an institution known in tupelo since 1975, been at this location since 1991. on the outside here, maybe the damage doesn t look so severe, but it was devastated on the inside and the people who were there went to one of three coolers, and that s where they sought shelter. in fact, people in the area realizing they couldn t get to regular community shelters, came to this restaurant and went inside those coolers. that s probably what saved their lives.