with this breaking news. rescue teams are now on a desperate searching rescue for survivors after powerful destructive storms ripped through the south tornadoes tearing through mississippi overnight. at least 23 people are confirmed dead. another dead in alabama. dozens more injured and at least four others are still missing at this hour and many of the deaths happening in the town of rolling fork, mississippi neighborhoods there are simply leveled extraordinary scene there. the mayor sharing this bleak assessment of the damage on cnn this morning. right? that s all i see. a lot of families here are affected. uh lot of families are hurting. uh this community is. in the situation that we never expected by city is gone. but we will resilient and we re going to come back. wow my city is gone. cnn s isabel rizal is on the scene in rolling fork. right now that the sun is up, the heartbreak is becoming a lot more noticeable for the residents here at rolling fork everywhere you look
devastated by the loss. the whole trailer park behind the building is gone and we don t know where everybody is. we don t know it s alive and who s gone. cnn s isabel resilience is live for us on the scene there in rolling fork. what are you learning there? well further damage is incredible and just awful anywhere you look, it s sort of appears as though an explosion has gone off. i mean, imagine the power of this tornado, fred to do something like this to a semi truck just ripped apart into pieces. imagine what that would do. to a trailer park, which we saw was leveled just a couple of feet away from this and you can see over here what it has done to buildings collapsed. several buildings, homes are gone. it is just terrible for this community . but fred, there are signs that help is coming here in the last hour we saw 18 t trucks coming in and restoring some of the cell reception, which was a struggle for first responders. i saw them holding up cell phones trying to communi
celebrating adam sandler. that s tomorrow night at eight eastern right here on cnn. hello again. hello again, everyone. thank you so much for joining me. i m fredricka whitfield and we start with this breaking news tornadoes ripping through the south, leaving a trail of destruction in hard hit mississippi. at least 23. people are now confirmed dead. another person was killed in alabama, and dozens more were injured in the storms, and now a desperate search is underway to find at least four others still missing at this hour. in rolling fork, mississippi homes and businesses were simply flattened neighborhoods leveled many residents there are simply thankful to be alive today. mcafee unity. and. thank god we re alive, but also were so
the jury still out, it s not over yet. don t you someday want to see a woman president of the united states of america? is hillary clinton finally ready to throw her hat in the ring? this is new day, with chris cuomo, alisyn camerota and michaela pereira. welcome to new day, it s friday april 10th 6:00 in the east, we begin with breaking news tornadoes tearing through the midwest and the pictures and the sounds show devastation. more than a dozen tornadoes touching down across three states. illinois hardest hit. wind gusts so strong a tractor-trailer was no match. watch this and that was the least of it. look at the video. the powerful tornadoes leveling homes and reducing everything in their path to rubble. at least one person is dead the full extent of the damage remains to be seen. let s get to cnn s brian young on the phone in one of the hardest-hit areas, rochelle