standing. and in that little section of standing house they found the family cat, the cat was fine. a remarkable story of survival amid so much devastation. this is a little town. it exists along the highway. there are 900 people here, a few subdivisions, a police station and a few restaurants. it is as if this tornado just chose to travel right through the center of the town and obliterate most of what was smithville, mississippi, yesterday morning. just about all of the homes in the little subdivisions are stripped to the slab foundation. 13 people out here were killed and in a town this small with 13 people killed, no one escaped the sorrow. no one escapes heartache of what happened. there are five people missing. everyone out here is searching from volunteers to professionals. and jail inmates are searching
panel and the driver s side door of this grand prix, and there s more wood like that stuck in this car. this tin roof flown in here from somewhere, it s hard to tell really exactly where. this tornado is now estimated as an ef3, and if you look around, you see a lot of evidence that s consistent with that. significant damage to structures, but most of the structures still standing. you see all of these trees that were knocked down, you see the power lines that are down. there s some 11,000 people in this area without power right now. you also see evidence that this tornado skipped along. i can say that because you have so much damage on this street, you look through the backyard, not as much damage to the houses to the back, and the windows aren t even broken out across the street. something else we talk about, you generally don t have basements, houses are built with a slab foundation. this house, of course, ripped right down to the slap. you know if someone was in this house, there s