chief meteorologist rick reichmuth. rick: good morning, the town of rolling fork has about 1,750 people so imagine a small town like that everybody knows everybody, and now you re going to have everybody who knows somebody if you weren t yourself impacted by the storm. it s going to be a really rough day for people as the sun comes up just exactly one hour from now. this year has been a really active tornado season. we ve had 282 tornadoes. typically so far in the season we would have 174 tornadoes, and you get a look at that. this is just your statistical averages. march right there, we are headed into our what is generally really active months of april and may and june. doesn t mean that ll be the case this year but certainly that trend has been the case. all of this has been those storm s that have been coming across california, have made their way across parts of the south where its been really warm, above average temperatures for a long time, and those temps are still re
Our coverage here continues. Our breaking News Coverage with my partner anderson cooper. Let me hand it off to you, anderson. Viewers who are just tuning in, these are live pictures from bowdoin, maine, the home of a man Authorities Say murdered 18 people in two locations in the nearby City Of Lewiston yesterday evening, the countrys Deadliest Mass Shooting this year. Police and fbi agents went to this home earlier today, returned there in force a short time ago. In the last 45 minutes or so, if youve been watching, they have been heard asking at least one person to, quote, come out with your hands up. Cnns brian todd is on the scene for us, as is shimon prokupecz. Lets go to brian. Lets start off with you. Explain what you have been seeing for those who are just joining us and what assets that you can say are on the ground. Well, anderson, for the more than past hour, we have been here while kind of this influx of Law Enforcement just kind of poured into this area right in front of th
at this time. rick: and mayor just to that is everybody accounted for? are you hearing yet of any people who are still searching for that they need to be working on search and rescue efforts in your town? no. all of the recon has been conducted thus far. we ve accounted for everybody thus far. everything looks good right now. again, we ll wait until dawn breaks and then we ll assess the damage further. will: mayor i know that you re waiting for daylight. it should be happening soon there in mississippi. can you tell us where it is you re standing right now? we see the destruction behind you. i don t know if you can show us more but what part of town are you standing in right now? so i m actually on the northwest portion of the community actually where the storm actually entered the town. i m actually in a supermarket area. the store behind us pigly wigly is destroyed. as we go further east here, just to the east, everything behind me is destroyed. so most of the homes, a lot of
around and don t drown. basically telling people don t try to go through this water, drive through it. it s cause aid nightmare. we also have this tweet from the president in the last 11 minutes. great book by a great guy. highly recommended, retweeting sheriff david clarke, his book cop under fire. we have seen families in water up to their necks, trying to get out. you see it here. we are going to continue to follow this throughout the day. there are children and families holed up in homes that can t get out right now. they re waiting for daylight, which i should come any moment, so they can get helicopters in the area and look for people who may be on their rooftops. inside politics with john king continues right now. with an unlimited mileage warranty on your certified pre-owned mercedes-benz,
so that s all we know. waiting for more information from the pentagon on what exactly happened. and why. ailsen? joe, we ll try to get some right now from elgin. on the phone is eglin air force base official andy borland. i think the information you just heard was quite ache rat. i would stress we re waiting for daylight. the team from both the coast guard as well as our county partners as well as air force first responders are currently forming near the scene. we have begun to see debris washing ashore on both the north and the south side of the sound. it s an area east of the navar pass if you re familiar with that area. but i will highlight also that the coast guard has already secured that waterway.