mike: president biden approving mississippi disaster declaration earlier today after tornadoes tour through the state friday killing more than two dozen people carving path of destruction more than 100 miles long. play for these teams so a tough pill to swallow. we heard from the superintendent from schools who says that the schools will be closed for at least a few days now because there s some damage to some of the schools down here and there s a lack of water and power but, mike, i can tell you that we have seen utility crews out here all morning long, in fact, some here behind us working on utility pole and they are beginning the process. we spoke to one of the city workers this morning who tells us that half of the town is at least with power now, so plenty of progress going on here, mike. mike: charles, have they given you context of how bad this is compared to previous storms? charles: yeah, i ve spoken to a lot of people who live in this particular town and a lot o
Charles: i haven t been able to identify. clearly identify any federal resources but we have seen the salvation army here as well as the red cross. they ve been out in the neighborhoods trying to, you know, connect with folks and make sure that they have shelter and the appropriate things that they need in the coming days and weeks but we have heard from president biden and fema director who is in mississippi today and deploy some of the federal assets to help some of the folks, mike. mike: charles watson starting us live from the disaster zone. many thanks. the national weather service giving rolling fork e4, this chance as more severe weather threatens parts of the southeast once again. meteorologist adam klotz has more on the fox weather center. adam: talking about the strength of the tornado, really kind of a rarity this is.
Mike: here are the military bases there. why are we there, sir? that s a good question because right now i m trying to figure that as well. four years ago we were talking ago in the administration why should we keep our troops in syria because initially when we defeated isis and we defeated isis, brought down the caliphate, we can reset and move away from syria. this camp is important because this is really a sensor-base war, this is a road that comes out of baghdad, iraq into syria but the whole area right here. when you look at it up here that s where the primary of troops are at and the military wanted us to be there. when you look at erdogan in turkey, they were controlling with the pkk and the curds out there and also we became just targets and the question we all had why should we keep our force there is if we become targets. when you switch over, what actually happened iranian
Funds. i too am impressed with the spirit of can do, there s no victimhood in this community today and we are there with you, we will be back again and we are with you for the long haul. senator mike: that s mississippi senator, you have been listening to state and federal officials following devastating tornadoes in mississippi this week. alejandro mayorkas on the ground with the fema administrator sending message that washington will be there through the very difficult process. let s bring in today s political panel, with me south carolina republican congressman nancy mace, member of the arms services oversight and veterans affairs committees and florida democratic congressman. welcome to both of you. thanks for having me. thank you for having us.
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