friday night, impacting the towns of amory, rolling fork and silver city. winston says she found aubrey among the debris. and i didn t see no house. no nothing. and i looked around. i think the baby lying a little bit from her mom. i mean from her, grandma. you saw them doing cpr on aubrey? yes. that must have been horrible to see had walked away. mother was in the hospital when the storm hit giving birth to a newborn just hours after losing her two year old daughter, even though my money s gone i m glad you re not suffering. it could have been worse. my whole family was here . jessica drain also spoke to cnn drain says her eight year old son was in the same mobile home as two year old aubrey with her parents. he is now in critical condition on a ventilator. he has a severe brain injury. they had to go in and take parts of his skull out. he s been through surgery. yeah
winston lost her two year old great niece, aubrey when an f four tornado hit mississippi late friday night, impacting the towns of amory, rolling fork and silver city. winston says she found aubrey among the debris. and i didn t see no house. no nothing. and i looked around. i think the baby lying a little bit from her mom. i mean from her, grandma. you saw them doing cpr on aubrey? yes. that must have been horrible to see what was i had walked away. mother was in the hospital when the storm hit giving birth to a newborn just hours after losing her two year old daughter, even though my money s gone i m glad you re not suffering. it could have been worse. my whole family was here. jessica drain also spoke to cnn drain says her eight year old son was in the same mobile home as two year old aubrey with her parents. he is now in critical condition on a ventilator. he has a severe brain injury. they had to go in
pretty much ground 0 for amory where the tornado went and hit. we were owe fortunate but a lot of damage. bill: mississippi unfortunately around ten years ago was hit with a tornado and your parents remembered that experience. what does this look like today when you arrived? well, the cleanup has started. this was for the most part above ground tornado from what i understand. so the pine trees, giant pine trees crashed into homes and the cleanup has started but you hads as i was driving on saturday they were chain sawing and getting into this neighborhood. it is sad to see. it was one of the more beautiful, peaceful places that i ve ever been and now you see pretty much mass destruction. so it will take years to get it
just hollered. and my husband opened the door when i said cooler and he started shoving us all in. as he was closing the door he looked up and said i see the sky. incredible stories coming from the scene of this massive tornado. rescue and recovery efforts underway across the southeast now after one of the regions deadliest tornado outbreaks in a century. two dozen dead. 1500 homes and businesses gone. charles watson is live on the ground in amory, mississippi with the latest there. good morning, aishah, a bit of good news from the emergency management agency. monday folks were able to conclude the search and rescue efforts. after that were able to downgrade the death toll in mississippi from at least 25 to now down to 21. walking around amory this
in between. varying degrees and levels of damage. but yes, in a place like rolling fork where literally everything was completely knocked down to the ground it will take a long time and require intermediate steps such as finding ways in which to provide housing. because in areas that are more densely populated you have the options of hotels or the options of maybe multi-family units. you don t have that option in the middle of a rural county like this. so there are some challenges there. i was on the ground up in amory on saturday afternoon and you saw a lot of people, a lot of volunteers there making progress but we have real issues with the power grid system in amory as well as the water system. the mayor said it was holding up at that time but a constant battle in the short run. bill: we ll stay in touch with you and the folks in mississippi. you need a lot of help. good luck to you. jimmie burrow is the father of