flashes that quickly grew into a quarter mile wide tornado where they ended up crossing at pretty close range in front of me right before and fortunately , insert the this town that we actually had to rescue and erin. what town were you in? that was in the town of rolling fork, mississippi. i literally arrived there. seconds after the tornado had hit. it was still pouring rain. there was lightning everywhere. there was still thunder, and there was just a constant rain of people yelling for help, so i quickly went to the nearest one that i could where i went to one home, and i found a lady that had been crafting her living room. it looked like she had gotten knocked over trying to get to cover. and we were able to take a lot of that debris off of her and free her and get a medical attention. there were able to get her on the stretcher and get out of the demolished poems. and then we went to the home just across the street, which was even more severely damaged than her house and her enti
lines coming down over roads, and that was complicating some of these search and rescue efforts for the crews there. the storm reports from their past further off to the north into alabama, where we saw numerous tornado reports as well. unfortunately this has been a catastrophic outbreak of severe weather. the national weather service will be sending storm survey crews up and down the path of these storms, which you do see extended for several 100 miles, not continuous tornado for that stretch, but one cell produced severe weather from mississippi, the mississippi river all the way into northern parts of alabama from here. this powerful line of storms continues to progress across the southeast, still tracking some powerful thunderstorms. we ve got numerous severe thunderstorm warnings through northern parts of georgia, east tennessee, and now crossing into north carolina, with some wind gusts possible even now, through the overnight hours and into the early part of our saturday up over
lower. dexcom g seven is the most accurate cgm call now to get started. amazing. all right, we re out of time.tie thank you. michelle tafoya, jeff lawrence.. and get good time.e. our awesome studio audience, fox news tonight with dreamy trace gallagher. thanks, greg is a fox news alern marianne rafferty in los angeles. at least 11 people are confirmed dead and an unknown number of people are injured and trapped in rubble after a powerful tornado tore through rural mississippi, the worst of the destruction, reportedly northeast of jackson in the rural towns of silver city, rolling fork and ameri, the violent storm moved across several southern states that prompted authorities to give people stark warnings like lie. there s a live life threatening situation, the national weather service, even issuing an alert
link the track of this storm and all of these rural towns that were hit very hard. it sounds like marianne. as you mentioned, this has been a horrific night of severe weather. this outbreak of tornadoes across the south. this is something that we feared in the fox weather forecast center forecast models over the last several days had been indicating that this potential was here. the threat for long live intense tornadoes , which is exactly what developed and moved across effectively the entire state of mississippi. as you mentioned the storm developed here, just off to the east of the mississippi river that was moving through places like rolling fork. and silver city, where sadly, the national weather service has confirmed that at least one fatality of very powerful storm that was continuously on the ground. this tornado for at least 90 miles from there, it cycled somewhere near interstate 55. this tornado lifted, but then from there, it dropped again every bit as intense as it was
fork told a local television station that the tornado blew the windows out of the back of his home and the sharkey county sheriff s office reporting gas leaks and people 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 crews are being sent to those in affected areas . the governor also said quote many in the mississippi delta need your prayers and god s protection, the storm prediction center, saying the greatest sort of tornadoes is in arkansas, louisiana, mississippi and tennessee. storms with damaging winds and hill are also forecast today and tomorrow from eastern texas and southeastern oklahoma into parts of southeastern missouri and southern illinois. once again, at least 14 people are confirmed dead now, with an unknown number of people believed injured and or trapped under huge piles of rubble. after a powerful twister slammed into the rural mississipp