powerful tornadoes ripping through mississippi overnight killing morethan 20 people and leaning behind of devastating destruction. to see what might be coming in front of you last night, this massive tornado was only able to be viewed by intermittent flashes of lightning and transformers blowing out in the distance. is that i can hear it. hi, aishah. iowa good to see you. i m aishah hosni in washington. officials there say that town is essentially gone with entire neighborhoods leveled as you can see here in this video and thousands without power or anywhere to go. we are being told by officials on the ground that there are 23 people dead in that area. griff: it has hit them hard, in fact. powerful interview with rolling folks mayor, neil cavuto earlier. he literally looked to left and right and nothing was left, rolling fork is down in delta area. i went to school in mississippi, grew up there. damaged not only homes but areas but also hospital nearby as well. nearest town
lost everything but this is what folks in mississippi are dealing with this this afternoon, guys and throughout the day. we will be around checking out some of the damage and we will get back to you guys a little later today, griff. aishah: charles watson live for us in devastated smithville, mississippi. we really appreciate it. we are going the move onto some other news now. rescue crews digging through the rubble after a major terrifying explosion at a historic pennsylvania cobbing late factory and officials say that at least two people are dead and five others are still missing. cb cotton live with the latest on the story. recovery efforts continue today. people holding on hope they will find survivors. mi.this is incredible given howe
the street. if you pan out to the other side, that s it across the street. that s what she was going through. the rubble is over there. her address is over here. and she has been here all day. she was able her dog, as you can see, is with her. she s just sitting in front of her house. she didn t want to talk to us or do an interview but she didn t mind us showing her home. she essentially said, it was a beautiful home. she said it was gorgeous. you know, so much and around the neighborhood, there were beautiful homes in this area and all around. but just to show you that image, and it is certainly striking to us to see it, people holding on to the only thing that they have left sometimes. you see little items, pringles and things that she s been able to pull out. she hasn t been able to find her passport or anything of significance but she is holding on to her dog. to what you talked about a moment ago, two clocks have been ticking here. one, trying to get to people and
damage, stay out of their way and stay home and watch cnn, and stay home. and so there are three areas that were hit hard, downtown area hit hard with apartment buildings, and home depot where ceiling beams were turned into twisted piles of metal, and the third is this, what was once a walmart and now little bit more than a field of debris. look at this part of the store accessible which is the parking lot. watch this with me. this car upside down. windows shattered. totally demolished. this pickup truck destroyed. it is one car after another. the amount of devastation here, and here comes this vehicle. i want you to see this. you don t see this it is just incredible to take this in and see what is happening here. just car after car after car like that. and this is the joplin neighborhood, and look at the car here, because the grandmother who owns it came this close to being in that car s driver s seat when the tornado hit sunday. this is her granddaughter speaking. s
the fifth-worst earthquake in the history of earthquakes, folks, an area rocked by an 8.8 8.9 earthquake and just within hours one of the powerful after shocks, another earthquake measuring 6.8 and so we take a look at the pictures 24 hours ago when this crisis and tragedy began to unfold with that initial 8.9 quake this is a story that continues to unfold and these are elements that are changing by the minute. and we are mobilized and folks are on their way to japan. and some are going to be there within next couple hours, when you take a look at video from inside this is an office building i believe in tokyo. yes. hundreds of miles from the epicenter to see these people holding on. they re holding on for deer