nearly a mile wide and stayed on the ground for more than an hour. leaving nothing but destruction in its wake. bill: it touched down near rolling fork, mississippi. a town of 2,000 people. that community is wiped off the map. sandra: houses reduced to rubble. some ripped off their foundations. the storm had winds reaching 170 miles-per-hour. that s strong enough to send cars and power lines flying through the air. bill: satellite images. on the left a picture of rolling before the storm hit. on the right is what happened after ward. an elementary school, trees, homes, cars, all of them are now gone. sandra: leveled. a church left unrecognizable with the steeple blown off. the scope of destruction is hard to fathom even for those who lived through it. it was dark. call for help. it was quiet. to hear those little kids hollering help. it s devastating. i look around town and i m saying i know we can rebuild, but what do you do with the devastation? what do you do w
there is so much of that video to look at. new hour begins now on monday morning. a i m owe bill hemmer. sandra smith is with us. sandra: good to be here. at least 25 people were killed across mississippi, another died in alabama. hundreds were left without homes. the towns of rolling fork and silver city absolutely destroyed. the stunning satellite images of rolling fork taken before and then after the storm showing the extent of this devastation. bill: the latest weather radar shows more storms on the way. president biden issued an emergency declaration. survivors recall moments of absolute terror. things started flying and i had my back against that door trying to hold it. we made it to the tub just in time. by the time we got over in the tub it was right on top of us. this is he have -devastating. this is so many friends, family, memories that have been destroyed. bill: robert ray is live in rolling fork, mississippi where he has been for a couple of days
down hanging onto people s roofs and on people s lawns. over here the home looks like it is split in half. workers are trying to clear debris from that structure this morning and trying to get this place back together. we have also got utility workers who apparent will i have come in from tupelo trying to upright a lot of utility polls and get the power lines back up so these folks can have power and work through this disaster a little bit better and more comfortable. when you see all this devastation, you wonder how people made it through. we ve spoken to a ton of people here in town and asked them what it was like being in this powerful tornado. this is what one woman told us. the back door realized one of the dogs was left out. bring her is. as i bring her in my husband is like get in the tub. he gets me in that tub and is on
will get worse over the course of the next year. that s more than triple the 15% who say the state of the economy will get better. the white house knows that lately when talk in the news has been about the economy, it has been about runs on the banks. they want to try to clang the subject and that starts tomorrow, bill. bill: we ll watch. nice to see you from the north lawn. peter doocy. it s total devastation. it is the wreckage like i have never seen. it is only a miracle of god that there are not hundreds of fatalities in our town and our area. it s houses leveled, houses completely destroyed. businesses. sandra: that s a pastor in rolling fork, mississippi finding a silver lining after a tornado ripped through the small town. the community starting to pick up the pieces.
closets as this storm came over, 166 mile-an-hour winds, the ef4 traveling through friday night ravaging this and other communities, 25 people dead here in mississippi, one in alabama, another community ravaged by mother nature. bill: you said it. what can they do? right now not much. robert ray, me is miss reporting there live. thank you, robert for being there for us. what do you do? take a bulldozer through town and break the news to the people who call it home? some families have been there for decades. sandra: some families still stopping and saying thank god they made it true. thank god they are alive. one family joined us last hour. dad, shea, casey and mother and 12-year-old son parker describing the horror. didn t have a clue a tornado was coming.