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with this breaking news. rescue teams are now on a desperate searching rescue for survivors after powerful destructive storms ripped through the south tornadoes tearing through mississippi overnight. at least 23 people are confirmed dead. another dead in alabama. dozens more injured and at least four others are still missing at this hour and many of the deaths happening in the town of rolling fork, mississippi neighborhoods there are simply leveled extraordinary scene there. the mayor sharing this bleak assessment of the damage on cnn this morning. right? that s all i see. a lot of families here are affected. uh lot of families are hurting. uh this community is. in the situation that we never expected by city is gone. but we will resilient and we re going to come back. wow my city is gone. cnn s isabel rizal is on the scene in rolling fork. right now that the sun is up, the heartbreak is becoming a lot more noticeable for the residents here at rolling fork everywhere you look
o er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming? and the rocket s red glare, the bombs bursting in air, gave proof through the night that our flag was still there. oh, say does that star-spangled banner yet wave, o er the land of the free and the home of the brave? rachel: good morning we go straight to a fox weather alert. a desperate search for sush vivers in mississippi. a tornado levers 14 people dead and one monster twister believed to be a mile wide carving a path of destruction over 100 miles. will: small town of rolling fork hit before 9:00 p.m. and toppling homes and downing power lines and trees and leveling communities. it sparked multiple explosions. a second twister touching down in the city of amarie. that s where the damage is apparently extensive. this map shows how many mississippi delta communities were hit. pete: there s the path there. the system was triggering flood warnings for millions and 100,000 people are without power at least this morning.
massive tornado formed near rolling fork, mississippi. it flattened much of that town as you can see as well as others as it roared eastward across the state into alabama. mallory white for mississippi emergency management standing by live for us as is adam klotz live in the fox weather center but first, let s check in with charles watson live in emory mississippi near the alabama border. i know you been talking with residents today, what have they told you about how much of a heads up if any at all they got before they were hit by the twister? as you mentioned we ve been talking to folks out here throughout the day and many of them say they had plenty of heads up. they say they got the tornado warnings from the national weather service, text watching the news so a lot of these folks were able to take cover but when you talk to these folks who live in the community, you can t help but feel really bad for them they worked their whole lives to build up their homes and their b