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everyone. and welcome to cnn. this morning. saturday, march 25th. what victor? what? i m ambro walker. are we doing like another studio change? i m victor blackwell. so here s what happened. the air conditioner in the studio didn t work. so we did the six o clock hour in 80 degrees plus lights sweating. we were sweating. and then we said , we can t do this. so we moved to separate studios that were air conditioned. during that hour. at seven. they fixed the a. c. now we re back in this studio. hopefully it works first weekend back with us. you brought the chaos. bring the heat. you brought the heat. you sure did. i don t like it so much. alright. here s what we re watching this morning. when he came through. it sounds like helicopter real real fast, and it came so fast and quick. we can do nothing but get up on the cover. severe storms ripped through parts of the south more than 20. people are dead more than 100,000 people without power. one mississippi town is describe ....
at least 23 people are dead, but dozens are missing or injured. the national weather service has confirmed one large tornado caused catastrophic damage across several cities and towns . but there were a dozen reports of tornadoes across alabama and mississippi. now the storms, flattened homes and buildings and knocked out power to more than 100,000 customers across alabama, alabama, mississippi and tennessee. let s go to the ground. there were cnn s isabella isabelle rose salas is live in rolling fork. mississippi look, we spoke with the mayor a couple of hours ago, and he told us that his town is basically gone. is that what you re saying? that is certainly an accurate assessment of what we saw in rolling fork and guys if i can first tell you that i m actually a little bit beyond the city limits three miles away. i want to show something to you right over here. this car. we re told by family members that they were driving last night as the tornado. hit and the strong w ....
with this breaking news. rescue teams are now on a desperate searching rescue for survivors after powerful destructive storms ripped through the south tornadoes tearing through mississippi overnight. at least 23 people are confirmed dead. another dead in alabama. dozens more injured and at least four others are still missing at this hour and many of the deaths happening in the town of rolling fork, mississippi neighborhoods there are simply leveled extraordinary scene there. the mayor sharing this bleak assessment of the damage on cnn this morning. right? that s all i see. a lot of families here are affected. uh lot of families are hurting. uh this community is. in the situation that we never expected by city is gone. but we will resilient and we re going to come back. wow my city is gone. cnn s isabel rizal is on the scene in rolling fork. right now that the sun is up, the heartbreak is becoming a lot more noticeable for the residents here at rolling fork everywhere yo ....
devastated by the loss. the whole trailer park behind the building is gone and we don t know where everybody is. we don t know it s alive and who s gone. cnn s isabel resilience is live for us on the scene there in rolling fork. what are you learning there? well further damage is incredible and just awful anywhere you look, it s sort of appears as though an explosion has gone off. i mean, imagine the power of this tornado, fred to do something like this to a semi truck just ripped apart into pieces. imagine what that would do. to a trailer park, which we saw was leveled just a couple of feet away from this and you can see over here what it has done to buildings collapsed. several buildings, homes are gone. it is just terrible for this community . but fred, there are signs that help is coming here in the last hour we saw 18 t trucks coming in and restoring some of the cell reception, which was a struggle for first responders. i saw them holding up cell phones trying to c ....
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