ended the speech. started and ended talking about the 250-year challenge and dreaming big dreams and working to make those dreams come true. that s the spirit of america. bill: we shall leave it there. thanks for coming back. marsha blackburn from tennessee. thank you for your time. shannon: deadly tornado ripping through the midwest. at least three people killed. we re live from one of the hardest hit towns. bill: grading the president s speech republicans weighing in. democrats weighing in. we ll tell you about that. how they score it and what is next? president trump: millions lifted from welfare to work is not too much to expect. and streets where mothers are safe from fear, schools where children learn in peace, and jobs where americans prosper and grow are not too much to ask. [applause]
people are dead following an outbreak of tornadoes. georgia is one of the hardest hit towns. twisters killed more people in the united states in one weekend than all of last year. several people still unaccounted for. are the storms over in the southeast? meteorologist pedram javaheri has the latest. john and christine, across the southeast, conditions now beginning to improve. the storm system that spawned 50 tornadoes from thursday through sunday with a couple in south florida, finally beginning to exit the area. the severe characteristics is done with. far from over when it comes to impacts left with the storm. this morning, in parts of the northeast and boston metro area, winds are 45 to 50 miles per hour observed. heavy rainfall as well. millions of people, 16 million people under a high wind
all right. i m afraid we ve lost marianna. now we re going to turn to the devastating wildfires still burning in tennessee. while the worst appears to be over for the hardest hit towns, the damage and heart ache is widespread. look at these images. at least three people we know are dead, more than a dozen hurt and thousands have been chased from their homes. nbc s kerry sanders is live in pidgeon forge, tennessee. kerry, i understand the evacuation order has been lifted, but what s the situation now? reporter: well, evacuation in certain areas has been lifted in certain areas of the pidgeon hill area. i m in spring hill where they have lifted, indeed, the evacuation order. you can see the damage behind me. people want to come back and see what s happened to their homes, some crossing their fingers hoping that maybe their homes was missed. this was a firestorm that came through, moved very ferociously and quickly and as you can see took out homes. on this one street nine homes
about what he saw and what the first step is to rebuilding. the river here went up 35 feet, a tributary to the mississippi, it s now going down and there s a lot of debris, so, we re here with the locals working through a program in which we re going to get a disaster declaration. are you getting or expect you ll get the federal help you need? what do you need? well, we re asking for expedited disaster declaration so we can access folks on contract there. much like we did in joplin. it s hard to rebuild while you have all of this stuff here. in order to get out the damaged stuff, you need to move quickly. so, we ll be working with the fema as well as the corps of engineers and our national guard to make sure we get a program to move this out of here quickly. dan simon is joining me now from eureka. this is one of the hardest hit towns in this entire disaster. tell us what you re seeing.
record high flood waters are receding in the st. louis area. this puts millions of those in the community further south on alert for flooding. missouri s governor wrapped up a tour of the damage. i spoke with him a short time ago, where he made it clear the danger continues. this is a storm that went all the way from the western side, touching the oklahoma border all the way to the illinois border and then down to arkansas and quite frankly, the water is still rising in southern missouri. so the massive nature of what we re dealing with here, concentrated significantly some of the worst damages here in the st. louis area. but it s a storm we re dealing with in the emergency management side. dan simon is joining me from eureka. this is one of the hardest hit towns, you see the debris behind dan and you understand why. tell us about what you re seeing