emergency after a devastating outbreak of tornadoes ripping through the south. at least 23 people are confirmed dead in mississippi and another person was killed in alabama. dozens more are injured and at least four others are still missing. at this hour. many of the deaths happening in the town of rolling fork, mississippi. neighborhoods there were leveled the mayor sharing this bleak assessment of the damage on cnn this morning. when daylight comes, you can get a more visual of what happened last night. it was dark. we re using flashlights. so now i can see what i didn t see earlier this morning and is worse than i saw. this morning at three o clock throughout the throughout the morning. it s worse. communities. let s go. cnn s isabelle rose hollis is there in rolling fork, isabel? um i mean the mayor, saying that town is gone. and fred, the constable of a nearby county who came here and saw this with his own eyes described this as a landfill. and if you take a look right b
human talk but then also going and assessing and figuring out that they might not have anything physical left. that is a hard pill to swallow, fred indeed. alright. isabelle rose alice. thank you so much. let s go now to cnn meteorologist allison chinchar in the weather center. this is some bad weather , but it s not over. no it s not . and when you take a look at the damage that that we ve seen from a lot of the videos again, one thing to notice that the national weather service this crews are out, surveying the damage because they have a lot to figure out. one was this just one single tornado was this multiple tornadoes. and even in that regard what type of tornado wasn t the scale goes from zero all the way to ef five. so what they do is they look for what we call indicators. they look at the overall scope of the damage , you know, with their well constructed and whole frame houses just leveled. because that would be on par with, say, e f four type damage cars and other objects thro