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
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searching for survivors, starting to get a better picture of the full scope of the damage. let s go straight to chief meteorologist rick reichmuth. rick: hey, guys, we ve been trying to get our reporter out there, but the cell tower in rolling fork is gone, so they can t get any cell service. sunrise time there, local time, 7:01, so exactly right now. we ll start to get some of these images in daylight. this tornado happening in the dark can last night, we ve not had any daytime, so search and rescue efforts will continue. this is that storm right now, a weakening storming which is good news. today the severe weather threat key minishingses diminishes quite a bit. the tornado first dropped in rolling fork and then cut right here across rt parts of north-central mississippi. at one point it looks like this tornado was on the ground probably for around almost 100 miles. this, obviously, national weather service folks go out and do some investigation, make sure, see if sometim
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
several hours to get a closer look at the destruction. also the middle of the damage, charles watson for we in mississippi what is the latest? surveying for a couple hours now and it s hard to believe all the destruction we are seeing. a lot when tornado hit but it doesn t look like a bomb hit, take a look at the level of destruction. tons of tree branches down, large trees. look at this house, you can see folks beginning what is expected to be a lengthy cleanup. we spoke to one of the folks who live over there who told us there carport was lifted up and detached from the home so that s what those folks are dealing with over there. the street you can see a lot of debris hanging around for folks to clean up. we ve seen folks in the streets in this particular community working as fast as they can to try to clean some of this stuff up so they can get roadways clear so folks can get to their properties to assess the damage but a simple look and you know it s going to take folks