dead. that number sadly is expected to grow welcome to fox news but i am alicia in for arthel. super i m eric shawn. at least four people remained missing at this hour. dozens more injured from the powerful storms. the catastrophic twisters and the town of rolling fork, mississippi about 60 miles northwest of the state capitol of jackson account basically has been wiped off the map. national weather service is the same tornado that devastated that town is believed to have raced eastward going 70 miles an hour pretty did not weaken as it then slammed into mississippi in several towns in alabama on a 100-mile path of destruction. x thousand the twisters path and loss of power some reporting on port 80% of customers without electricity. mississippi governor kate reeves declaring a state of emergency today president biden says fema director on the ground there tomorrow. too far from the very latest coach of the ground charles watson is an armory, mississippi or is the hardest hit
been paying attention to their phones, to their tvs, to the news to hear the warnings and heed the warnings. that may have played a role in whether the death count is so high here. we have heard from the mississippi emergency management agency which confirms our work 23 deaths associate with this tornado plan as search and rescue crews go around too these communities and continue to check some of these homes and businesses that were damaged during that tornado, we have gotten word we can possibly expect that number to get higher. we do not want to see that but that is a possibility in terms of the death toll, eric regrets emergency services say there some life saving mode is a still search for any potential survivors. charles watson on the ground, charles thank you. alicia: eric, while the severe
makes sense but also more broadly applicable than it appears. that criticism could officers done something different applies in every shooting now. so the idea that it might continue to apply in future shootings doesn t seem of particular concern to me. well, we have a lab experiment of sorts in la grange, georgia. let s see what happens. thank you for being here seth stoughton. thank you for having me. via social media, via the world of twitter. what do we have, kathryn? you shoot to eliminate the threat, period. once the threat is stopped then you go into life saving mode. imagine a school shooter. drich, in your scenario, sadly very timely for the arraignment we re about to televise live, they re, you got to take out of threat. in a standoff situation.
governor. they haven t left because of one disaster or emergency after another. but they are doing really well. we look forward to visiting with administrator criswell, this will be a long haul. we know we will need assistance with the housing program, we are putting together preliminary information this week that can potentially drive and appropriation. we will work through cedric richmond on that, mr. president, to make sure we can get a program up and running just as soon as possible. but i want to finish it through the most important thing. we are still in life saving mode here during search and rescue. the roads, the highways into the most affected areas were completely clogged with downed
mode here doing search and rescue. the roads, and the highways into the most affected area were completely clogged with debris, downed power lines and trees, and we are making really good progress. we actually started our ground search and rescue this morning at daylight. we dispatched those forces and by the way, we already had search and rescue teams from 16 states in louisiana as of yesterday, and they started to move to the affected areas at 3:00 this morning and 6:00, they were actually doing search and rescues from 911 calls that came in over tonight that couldn t be responded to, and then by 6:00 this morning, we actually were affecting rescues out of the air as well. and the last thing that i want to say is that the very first rescues occurred at the hospital in galliano in la fouche that