hi alicia. alicia: i am alicia acuna in for arthel neville. rescue crews and first responders still digging through flattened neighborhoods and a desperate search for survivors. at least 10 twisters confirmed to have hit mississippi, alabama and tennessee they are still at risk for more severe storms today. eric: another big story we are watching and waiting for formal president trump to be indicted by a manhattan grand jury this coming week. over the hush money payments to stormy daniels. will he face indictment? what would that mean for the presidential race? a politician was put in prison and knows firsthand about prosecutors joining us. former illinois governor ron, there he is in chicago. he will join us in a moment to react and tell us what he thanks about the case and his prediction about what will happen former president trump. but first let s go to charles watson who is in mississippi the aftermath and the clean up the starting today, hi charles. hey good afternoo
mike: president biden approving mississippi disaster declaration earlier today after tornadoes tour through the state friday killing more than two dozen people carving path of destruction more than 100 miles long. play for these teams so a tough pill to swallow. we heard from the superintendent from schools who says that the schools will be closed for at least a few days now because there s some damage to some of the schools down here and there s a lack of water and power but, mike, i can tell you that we have seen utility crews out here all morning long, in fact, some here behind us working on utility pole and they are beginning the process. we spoke to one of the city workers this morning who tells us that half of the town is at least with power now, so plenty of progress going on here, mike. mike: charles, have they given you context of how bad this is compared to previous storms? charles: yeah, i ve spoken to a lot of people who live in this particular town and a lot o
this all comes after the tornadoes ripped through mississippi and alabama. officials say so far at least 26 people have been killed. a pastor in hard-hit rolling fork, mississippi says nearly the entire town is completely destroyed. exodus total devastation. it is a wreckage like i have never seen. it s only a miracle of god there are not hundreds of fatalities in our town and in our area. houses leveled, houses completely destroyed. businesses like the majority of the businesses in our small town are completely destroyed. it is just terrible wreckage. alicia: and fortune of the severe weather threat for the region is not over urologist adam s life in the forecast said with the latest pickwick snowstorms continue to push across the south easily continued to the sunday. maybe even a lingering a little bit into monday. here s what we are currently looking at. some of the green polygons on your screen flooding and portions of north-central georgia. you see a severe thunderstor
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
for the devastation apparently began in a town of rolling a fork mississippi miles northwest of jackson. the mayor said damaged assessment quote my city is gone for the national weather service says that same tornado is believed to have erased eastward at 70 miles an hour, never weakening as it slammed into silver city mississippi and several towns in alabama on a 100-mile path of destruction. mississippi governor declaring a state of emergency in affected counties in mississippi emergency management agency said search and rescue teams are on the ground. arthel: we have talked to starstruck this hour. meteorologist adam standing bite storm chaser zachary hall is on the ground was served charles watson who is live in mississippi with the very latest in there, charles. say, eric, we are in anne-marie, mississippi right now we are trying to make it to the downtown portion but the closer and closer we get to make it into the downtown area. part of the reason you see the line of c