thank you for being with us this morning, dame rachel de souza. severe weather is hampering the recovery operation in the us state of mississippi, which has been devastated by a tornado. at least 26 people have died and hundreds of others have been forced to flee their homes, with the worst affected areas being the towns of rolling fork and amory. 0ur north america correspondent, sophie long reports. from the air, you can see the direct path of destruction cut by the tornado. people who survived it say it was as big as the town itself and turned the whole sky black. some trees have been stripped of their branches and uprooted. others are totally untouched. as you drive into rolling fork, you can see the extent to which this community has been devastated. salvage what i can. as survivors sift through what remains of their homes in the hope of salvaging something, they re still coming to terms with what s happened here. i sit here and.
severe weather is hampering the recovery operation in the us state of mississippi, which has been devastated by a tornado. at least 26 people have died and hundreds of others have been forced to flee their homes, with the worst affected areas being the towns of rolling fork and amory. 0ne resident has been telling us what sort of devastation it has caused there, and we ve also heard from the american red cross, which is helping with the relief efforts. there are several houses damaged, some with roofs missing. some with just recently installed metal roofing just ripped completely off as if it was nothing. a lot of our main buildings of commerce are destroyed. a lot of our historical places have taken some damage. there are several trees torn up along our roads. some of them as far as four feet down in the ground, the root systems just ripped out.
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