we begin with a weather alert and it s not good. more severe storms and flooding threatening parts of the south already devastated by a deadly tornado outbreak over the weekend. rachel: at least 26 people are confirmed dead and several towns are left in ruins. will: look at those images over rolling fork showing the images. on the ground in mississippi. robert has the latest. good morning to you all as a very swift wind is coming in here into rolling fork. a cool temperatures this morning and you could see the destruction behind me. unfortunately. this is a home, a large wood beam that has smashed to the ground from this ef-4 tornado. 166 mile-per-hour plus winds. mile and a half long this town of rolling forks is in shambles. it will need to be completely rebuilt. over 2,000 people live here. 24 people have lost their life in the state of mississippi one dead in alabama. federal, state and local on the ground yesterday. talked to governor tate reeves listen to what h
sean, i can t even begin to express what an enormous loss this community has suffered here today and here at this vigil at the fair play here in valge county and the families that came here to honor the 19 children that died came here. they said a broken heart with just a need to be together in a time off mourning. you can see everybody leaving right now. we ve got t a lot of crowd behid us . but i got to tell you, sean, earlier today it didn t matter where i went in this town. people were hugging each other. they were saying, youay know,ha i knew a childt that went toad that school and it made sense. this is a population just over 16000 people. so everybody knew somebodyne everybody was connected to somebody i did know somebody in this town. i knew i knew a family here that i lived only about maybe a an hour and 40 minutes from uvalda here in texas and the family was shocked and stunned to discover that a number of people on their daughter s softball team had been killed in
[crying] i had to protect my children. spruance issued or shooter another classroom and launched a nearly 40 minute ambush that claimed all of those innocent lives before a member of the border patrol unit kicked him out. take a look at this photo showing that agents had to after the confrontation purity suffered a braced one to the head. look at to be alive this morning. carley: ashley strohmier with breaking details, ashley. such a tough interview. guys, good morning to you. the community together with a prayer vigil in the wake of the horrific shooting. some with a tribute with bible verses and as many of the people with their heads bowed, the governor abbott was also in attendance and we are now learning more about the victims of the senseless act. 19 of those lives lost were children between the ages of eight and ten. one of those children had just turned ten years old, 16 days ago. her father a first responder finding out his little girl was killed when he respond
this was totally predictable. that s what beto o rourke said today when he provided the only unpredictable moment in the unfolding story of mass murder at a texas elementary school. the mass murder that occurred yesterday was predictable. we just could not tell you the exact location that it was going to occur or the exact day that it was going to occur. it is now predictable that a virtually identical shooting will occur again in texas and in other states. what has been said in the aftermath has also been totally predictable. but beto o rourke s crashing of the news conference by greg abbott was not predictable. beto o rourke went to that news conference in uvalde, texas to listen and then to tell greg abbott and other republican elected officials on the stage, quote, this is on you. the shooting right now when you are doing nothing. no! he needs to get out of here. this is totally predictable. sir, you are out of line! sir, you are out of line! sir, you are out of
indescribably sad. 14 little kids and one of their teachers are dead in texas, and countless more are traumatized after yet another mass shooting. this one at robb elementry, an elementary school. the school is nrlt uvalde county texas, 58 miles west of san antonio. texas governor abbott identified the shooter as an 18-year-old uvalde res den. he shot and killed horrifically and incomprehensively 14 students and a teacher. in addition to that, it has been reported that the subject shut his grandmother right before he went into the school, and there is i have no further information about the connection between those two shootings, and the subject is reported to be a student to have been a student at uvalde high school. he added that the shooter abandoned his vehicle and entered robb elementary with a handgun and possibly a second firearm. abbott added that the shooter was likely killed by responding officers but the events are still being investigated. it is unclear wh