service even issuing an alert that didn t mince words, exclaiming quote to protect your life. take cover. now a former mayor of rolling fork told a local television station that a tornado blew the windows out of the back of his house. and the sharkey county sheriff s office reporting gas leaks and people trapped in piles of rubble, mississippi governor tate reeves saying in a twitter post that search and rescue teams are active and that more ambulances and emergency assets are being sent to those affected areas. the governor also saying quote many in the mississippi delta need your prayers and god s protection. the storm prediction center, saying the greatest threat of tornadoes overnight will be in arkansas, louisiana, mississippi and tennessee. storms with damaging winds and hill also forecast from eastern texas and southeastern oklahoma into parts of southeastern missouri and southern illinois. let s go now to fox weather meteorologist ian oliver, who s standing by with th
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natural gas power lines that were ripped to the roadways. um everything you can imagine, from a total devastation standpoint is what we witnessed. when we came into town, and then of course that had no, we have people who have been tossed around in the tornado. we had people that were trapped, yelling for help. it was it was a war zone like team when we came into town. did you continue to follow the storm once it moved through rolling fork and tornadoes touched down further away, did you? did you follow it further? no i mean, once we came into rolling fork and i mean, it s kind of one of those things where the storm chaser when you come across something like that, but chase is over. you go into i was able to get on social media and request help. we had local law enforcement there were requesting ambulances. search and rescue assistance. my partner like i said my partner, frankie shepherd. immediately started doing search and rescue efforts trying to help people out of