at least 23 people are dead, but dozens are missing or injured. the national weather service has confirmed one large tornado caused catastrophic damage across several cities and towns . but there were a dozen reports of tornadoes across alabama and mississippi. now the storms, flattened homes and buildings and knocked out power to more than 100,000 customers across alabama, alabama, mississippi and tennessee. let s go to the ground. there were cnn s isabella isabelle rose salas is live in rolling fork. mississippi look, we spoke with the mayor a couple of hours ago, and he told us that his town is basically gone. is that what you re saying? that is certainly an accurate assessment of what we saw in rolling fork and guys if i can first tell you that i m actually a little bit beyond the city limits three miles away. i want to show something to you right over here. this car. we re told by family members that they were driving last night as the tornado. hit and the strong winds f
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
emergency after a devastating outbreak of tornadoes ripping through the south. at least 23 people are confirmed dead in mississippi and another person was killed in alabama. dozens more are injured and at least four others are still missing. at this hour. many of the deaths happening in the town of rolling fork, mississippi. neighborhoods there were leveled the mayor sharing this bleak assessment of the damage on cnn this morning. when daylight comes, you can get a more visual of what happened last night. it was dark. we re using flashlights. so now i can see what i didn t see earlier this morning and is worse than i saw. this morning at three o clock throughout the throughout the morning. it s worse. communities. let s go. cnn s isabelle rose hollis is there in rolling fork, isabel? um i mean the mayor, saying that town is gone. and fred, the constable of a nearby county who came here and saw this with his own eyes described this as a landfill. and if you take a look right b
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