emergency after a devastating outbreak of tornadoes ripping through the south. at least 23 people are confirmed dead in mississippi and another person was killed in alabama. dozens more are injured and at least four others are still missing. at this hour. many of the deaths happening in the town of rolling fork, mississippi. neighborhoods there were leveled the mayor sharing this bleak assessment of the damage on cnn this morning. when daylight comes, you can get a more visual of what happened last night. it was dark. we re using flashlights. so now i can see what i didn t see earlier this morning and is worse than i saw. this morning at three o clock throughout the throughout the morning. it s worse. communities. let s go. cnn s isabelle rose hollis is there in rolling fork, isabel? um i mean the mayor, saying that town is gone. and fred, the constable of a nearby county who came here and saw this with his own eyes described this as a landfill. and if you take a look right b
your team from just about anywhere. expand your team with a fiber freelancer. good morning, everyone we do begin with breaking news this morning. east palestine, ohio resident and mother, misty allison says the toxic train derailment in february has put a scarlet letter on her town, alison testified at wednesday senate committee hearing about what she saw following the incident. we will never forget the night that train derailed. i could see a huge fireball from my driveway. it didn t seem real. little did we know this was only the beginning? my seven year old has asked me if he is going to die from living in his own home. what do i tell him? this preventable accident has put a
actions that have been announced or put in place. case. hmm. are you glad that you did this? i am really glad that i did this and i m really glad that senator cantwell reached out and wanted somebody from east palestine to shine a light on what is going on? i think it s so important to put a face on this disaster and what everybody is going through. um i was really positively, uh, overwhelmed by the bipartisan support that we received and how so many different policymakers did reach out to me. one thing i would like to say that i heard recently is that this is really like um on partisan issue, and so i think that that s so powerful because i think everybody can agree that when it comes to our children s health moms will stop at nothing to talk to everyone engaged in that process to ensure that our family s health and well being really does come first. so this does transcend politics. and i think that i witnessed that firsthand this week. all right. misty alison, thanks to you and
all the best to you, your family and everyone there in east palestine. thank you so much. all right, in the new cnn original series, searching for mexico actress and activist eva longoria is taking us on a journey across the country. i don t know the secret to happiness. all i know is every time i eat mexican food, i m happy. i m eva longoria, oren and bread in texas mexican american roots. i m going to get a t shirt that says more falta. i m exploring mexico to see how the people their lands, and their past have shaped a culinary tradition as diverse as its 32 states here today, we are going to be making our food pilgrimage. look at that. i don t know if i ve ever been this excited to eat anything. falcon was going to do this. that s why people here are so