explaining quote to protect your life and take cover. now a former mayor of rolling fork also described the tornado hitting his home, telling a local television station at the tornado blew the windows out of the back of his house and the sharkey county sheriff s office reporting several gas leaks and people still trapped in piles of rubble. mississippi governor tate reeves saying in a twitter post that search and rescue teams are active right now, and that more ambulances and emergency assets are also being sent to help those who have been affected. the governor also saying quote many in the mississippi delta need your prayers and god s protection. and this storm is not over yet. let s go now to fox weather meteorologist jane men are for the very latest on the track of the storm. jane hello, marianne . yeah definitely. just a devastating night. we saw these storms really start to fire up once the sun went down and tracked across mississippi, where we saw the worst of the dama
ripped across more than 100-mile path. that is in just one state. one resident in roland park mississippi said the town is gone. welcome everybody. it s good to be with you on this tragic day after a storm, a series of storms that hit much of the southeast. we ll be focusing on mississippi in just a second work most of this wrath played out. right now i want to go to well who is in texas who got this nasty weather so the states try to dig out as well. what is it look like there? our damage here does not compare it s not in the league where neighbors are seeing. for the navels and check neighbors here in tennessee where i am this morning it is a lot to deal with an elective process. we think straight-line winds are the culprit or the national weather service was inc. 60 70 mile-per-hour wind gusts and brought them several shops outdoor buildings like we are seeing here we have neighbors spending their morning out comforting at one another, going through these areas that ha
happening now, joe biden and house speaker kevin mccarthy can just wrapped up their first high-stakes talks on raising the nation s debt limit. mccarthy telling reporters moments ago that he thinks he and the president can find some common ground. also tonight, mourning in memphis, as tyre nichols is laid to rest three weeks after he was brutally beaten by police. we ll take you inside the emotional funeral and the urgent outcry for police reform. and cnn is in the trenches with ukrainian soldiers on the eastern front, as officials in kyiv warn that russia is gearing up for maximum escalation of the war. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. stories. important developments in the debt limit showdown right now. joe biden and house speaker kevin mccarthy just wrapped up a very high stakes meeting at the white house. their first face-to-face since mccarthy won the gavel. our reporter is on c
so we want to bring in now, cnn s lucy kavanaugh, she is live for us in denver, what is the situation, lucy? well, alison, this is what not a lot of fun looks like. denver airport unfortunately leaving the airport a shunt in terms of flight delays and cancellations, more than 500 flights delayed, more than 468 flights canceled, 75% of those coming from southwest. and that is unfortunately not denver alone. those numbers reverberating. those delays reverberating across the nation. impacting travel all across the country. i wasn t anticipating a nightmare, but it became a nightmare, it did. christmas maybe over, but for thousands of passengers, the travel nightmare goes on. they canceled our flight. they said they can t help us. so we don t know what to do. southwest airlines at the top of the list for cancellations. the airlines ticketing counter at baltimore s airport is a zoo. denver s airport lines for the southwest to counter even longer. we have to wait in a l
flights canceled, 75% of those coming from southwest. and that is unfortunately not denver alone. those numbers reverberating. those delays reverberating across the nation. impacting travel all across the country. i wasn t anticipating a nightmare, but it became a nightmare, it did. christmas maybe over, but for thousands of passengers, the travel nightmare goes on. they canceled our flight. they said they can t help us. so we don t know what to do. southwest airlines at the top of the list for cancellations. the airlines ticketing counter at baltimore s airport is a zoo. denver s airport lines for the southwest to counter even longer. we have to wait in a line that was four hours, and we are still in line. and nobody is giving us any direction on what to line to get in. it is a total, you know what, show here. for those trying to call to rebook, good luck getting through. calling southwest, calling other airlines, they are nowhere to be found. actually got hung