damage. it is heartbreaking. horror and heartbreak gripping much of mississippi after deadly tornadoes ripped through the state will speak to a disaster relief organization about what s being done on the ground to help plus vladimir putin planning to put nuclear weapons closer to ukraine and right next door to a close u. s ally in the region for live in moscow and kiev with the latest and march madness like we ve never seen before massive upsets in both men s and women s matches. cnn sports ploy wire joining me live to break down the tournament. live from cnn center. this is cnn newsroom. with kim bruun hooper. we begin in the deep south of the us, where another round of severe storms could be heading their way in the coming hours. hopefully they won t be as destructive as the ones that pummeled mississippi and nearby states friday night into saturday, leaving images like these have a look. these used to be homes now mangled mass of crumbled buildings, vehicles scattered like
afternoon to you. i m yasmin vossoughian on a very big saturday afternoon. we are following some major breaking news this hour out of memphis. 24 people are dead or as tornadoes ripped through the states. we are live on the ground, a deadly scene in pennsylvania after an explosion at a chocolate factory. we are also following the developments in the strikes and counterstrikes between the u.s. and iranian-backed syria. and, we are just hours away from $1 trump rally in texas. that comes as a potential indictment hangs over his head and it is happening in a place that has become sacred ground for some of the worst extremists in the republican party, more on that. we want to begin in a state of emergency. the tornado break that has killed over 24 people. teams are working to look for survivors across multiple counties devastated. the town is getting particularly hard. dozens of buildings collapsed there. biden releasing a statement saying that he and the first lady are praying f
will: remnants of ian continue to devastate the southeast. videos and photographs don t do the devastation any justice. it looks like a bomb exploded frankly. we ve been through irma, wilma 15 years ago, this is something i have never seen in my life. i need you to get up in there and i will hand her to you and you need to hold her. i don t know what else to do. only thing we can do is pray. will: a shelter in place warning issued in florida after a possible levy breach with potential to unleash 15 foot floodwaters into areas already devastated by hurricane ian. pete: that warning sent to eastern sarasota county, one of the hardest hit areas by the storm when it made landfall as a category 4 hurricane this week. search and rescue efforts underway is 30 people confirmed dead. 7 deaths alone in florida. more than one million people in florida without power this morning. will: en making its third and final landfall searching inland as a post-tropical cyclone
and i am trying to be brave and know that my family and i are safe and i will worry about all of that other stuff later. i am 67, lived here for five years. and now it is gone. it is underwater. underwater. so much of that area still underwater there, want to go to matlacha in florida. where liz mclaughlin standing by for us. let s take us there if you will once again. joining at the top of the last hour, as you are still in that area that is just completely devastating to see a road completely broken up really. crumbled upon itself. water still surrounding the area. what more are you seeing? absolutely yasmin this does not look like the result of a hurricane. this looks like an earthquake or something. it is just crumpled concrete, the only artery to the height of pine island behind me. matlacha, this idea like kind of fishing village now just completely crumbled. and in fact there are some remains of homes here. one zahra behind it are completely gone. just washed out
into sharper focus. this picture shows fort meyers beach one of the hardest-hit areas before the hurricane and here it is after. homes wiped out. sea of debris and rubble stretching to the horizon. there is this marina during normal times in fort myers. and then after. a scene of utter destruction. the damage throughout florida. 2 million still without power. it will continue for some time. ten people are confirmed dead thus far. the number may change as search and rescue teams work their way through the flooded neighborhoods. we re moments away as dana mentioned and get an update from the florida governor ron desantis back in tallahassee. team fox coverage. city manager marty lawing is standing by. robert ray is back with us today. we begin with track of ian. adam klotz is in our studio watching that. we still have a hurricane as we remember this storm left the coast of florida as a tropical storm but we ve spent a good chunk of time over the atlantic ocean. winds curren