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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 ....
emergency after a devastating outbreak of tornadoes ripping through the south. at least 23 people are confirmed dead in mississippi and another person was killed in alabama. dozens more are injured and at least four others are still missing. at this hour. many of the deaths happening in the town of rolling fork, mississippi. neighborhoods there were leveled the mayor sharing this bleak assessment of the damage on cnn this morning. when daylight comes, you can get a more visual of what happened last night. it was dark. we re using flashlights. so now i can see what i didn t see earlier this morning and is worse than i saw. this morning at three o clock throughout the throughout the morning. it s worse. communities. let s go. cnn s isabelle rose hollis is there in rolling fork, isabel? um i mean the mayor, saying that town is gone. and fred, the constable of a nearby county who came here and saw this with his own eyes described this as a landfill. and if you take a look r ....
Front becomes stationary. so keep in mind some of these same areas, maybe going through some more severe thunderstorms tomorrow again. oh, my goodness . all right, allison chinchar. thanks so much. all right, joining us on the phone right now the constable of neighboring yazoo county, mississippi. jeremy mccoy. jeremy glad you could be with us. so give me an idea. generally how long does it take for you to get to rolling fork? and what was your experience this morning? when i understand you ventured to see for yourself what happened? ah good morning. yeah it took. it took us about 30 minutes to get there. uh and we actually encountered another phase of severe weather. ah in route and route to, um you know, uh, near the had to pull over because it could be, uh, and route to it, but i should have made it there about 10 30 last night. ah! and i got that one. the tire the entire community is gone. uh, uh , it s just a model with ....
Emergency management agency. fema is in route to help in the recovery efforts and joining us right now on the phone is fema administrator deanne creswell. deanne glad you could be with us, so what is going to be the first priority for your fema teams? hello, fredricka. yeah right now we still are in a life saving and life sustaining mode, and we want to make sure that the state has everything that they need, as we work to make sure that no additional lives are lost. i think is used are watching the images and i m watching these images. it s just heartbreaking to see the devastation that this community has sustained overnight. and so we are sending a team right now they re in route to, um, integrate in with the state emergency. operations staff and make sure that we have any immediate needs resources that need to come in, but also to start to plan for what the long term recovery is going to look like here. yeah i mean, because when you look at this, it just ....
He then tweeted out his excitement for the event he was en route to. getting ready to address the farm convention today in nashville, tennessee. love our farmers. love tennessee. a great combination. the problem was the event was in new orleans. the tweet was taken down this morning before leaving the white house for new orleans. he responded to the claim the times article that he works for a foreign power hostile to the united states. mr. president, yes or no, have you or are you now have you ever worked for russia? yes or no? i never worked for russia. and you know that answer better than anybody. i never worked for russia. not only did i never work for russia, i think it s a disgrace that you even asked that question. because it s a whole big fat hoax. do you know if you re currently the subject of a counterintelligence investigation? the people that started that investigation are mccabe, who s a proven liar and was fired from the fbi. ....