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
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 behind me, you can see why these are homes. business is just completely flat, and i even saw a semi truck just stripped down to its bones. mean imagine the power of this tornado to do this sort of damage. once the sun came up, we startedsee much more energy families coming out. sifting through this debris . first responders going in through there to through the piles, and the reason being is that they re not sure everyone is accounted for fred. we know that 23 people have died from the storm in the state of mississippi. four people are unaccounted for. dozens of others have been injured. but i do also want to say, fred that there is signs of help on the way, right? right to my left
some of the video that has come in from this particular area again, you can see the cars being lifted up on top of buildings flipped over. you have complete homes down to the foundation down to that concrete platform. these are the things that the weather service will go out and they will take a look at today. but the other thing again that we talked about is was it one single tornado? was it multiple tornadoes? when you look at where all the tornado warnings have been over the last 24 hours, you can see this pretty much straight line here from rolling fork all the way up through huntsville. they re going to have to determine if that was in fact, one single, very long track tornado, or was it multiple tornadoes? for today? we do still have the potential for some severe weather, not just in the south. we have the severe thunderstorm watch in effect for the next several hours, but to secondary areas here, fred, where we re going to be looking at the potential for some additional severe t
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back there, okay? it s so hard to listen to that you can feel her pain there through her tears and doubted lee. the focus right now is on helping anyone who might be trapped here. but the recovery process will also undoubtedly be very long city hall and the police department here have been severely damaged . the mayor told me, fred, it is just unbelievable sight to say, and it looks like a lot of people who are walking behind. you are many of them coming to assist in whatever way they can , or they, you know, trying to see if their properties are left standing. what do you know about the people behind you? yeah they re trying to just take into account of what do they have left? the most important thing is that their family is okay. and a lot of these people. this is a tight knit community, fred. they know their neighbors. they go to church with these people they eat with these people. they know the names of those who have passed. it s just incredibly traumatic. so there s first that