massive tornado formed near rolling fork, mississippi. it flattened much of that town as you can see as well as others as it roared eastward across the state into alabama. mallory white for mississippi emergency management standing by live for us as is adam klotz live in the fox weather center but first, let s check in with charles watson live in emory mississippi near the alabama border. i know you been talking with residents today, what have they told you about how much of a heads up if any at all they got before they were hit by the twister? as you mentioned we ve been talking to folks out here throughout the day and many of them say they had plenty of heads up. they say they got the tornado warnings from the national weather service, text watching the news so a lot of these folks were able to take cover but when you talk to these folks who live in the community, you can t help but feel really bad for them they worked their whole lives to build up their homes and their b
administrator deeann criswell to come to mississippi to survey the damage and see what fema can do to help these folks. the damage behind you is absolutely job breaking jaw-dropping. you look at the drone video, it s wild to see the fact that the tornado will pick one house leaving his standing and annihilate the one next to it. the people you ve been talking to, i imagine they are dealing with cell phone outages and power outages, are you seeing help from whether the federal or state government, any outside help rolling in? we ve seen the salvation army on the ground as well as the red cross. we ve seen a lot of utility workers from the state of mississippi and outside the state of mississippi sort of marching into this town trying to a bright a lot of these utility poles to restore power.
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massive tornado formed near rolling fork, mississippi. it flattened much of that town as you can see as well as others as it roared eastward across the state into alabama. mallory white for mississippi emergency management standing by live for us as is adam klotz live in the fox weather center but first, let s check in with charles watson live in emory mississippi near the alabama border. i know you been talking with residents today, what have they told you about how much of a heads up if any at all they got before they were hit by the twister? as you mentioned we ve been talking to folks out here throughout the day and many of them say they had plenty of heads up. they say they got the tornado warnings from the national weather service, text watching the news so a lot of these folks were able to take cover but when you talk to these folks who live in the community, you can t help but feel really bad for them they worked their whole lives to build up their homes and their
search and rescue efforts are underway going through a lot of these homes to see if they can find folks who survive the tornado so it s important first responders out here have cell phone for service and electricity to get through this important work quickly. these folks are going to need help in the coming hours and days. thank you for that live report. one of the hardest hit areas of mississippi is small town of rolling fork. it took a direct hit literally, the mayor says his town is gone. fox weather correspondent nicole is on the ground and she has this update tonight. what you see around me is sheer devastation here in rolling fork, mississippi. small town but this damage goes on for miles. you see me stepping over pieces of power poles and trees that line roadways. behind me what used to be someone s home, among all of