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least 19 people are now dead in mississippi. officials report at least 13 deaths in hard hit sharkey county where homes and businesses were flattened and trees and power lines were knocked down. three others were killed in humphreys county, and at least two people are in critical condition there, and we ve just learned that three more people were killed in carroll county search and rescue teams and first responders are on the scene in the hard hit areas north of jackson. we spoke with the resident from the town of rolling four who was on the phone with her grandmother when the tornado went through. listen to this. there s power lines all over the road. there s trees all over the road that there s brick buildings that are that are just laying out in the street. um actually. two houses down from my grandmother s house. everything is just a debris field that the houses are are just destroyed. alright let s get the latest now from cnn meteorologist karen mcginnis. karen, un ....
Karen, unfortunately, since we spoke last hour of the death toll from this tornado has just gone up. what s the latest? yes it has. and unfortunately, rolling fork is the county seat of sharkey county is the county seat. it is still a fairly rural county a lot of that area around the mississippi delta is then you hop over to humphrey county and in black hawk. they also had fatalities there. these are small communities and to have this number of fatalities already is devastating at first responders have said. sarah s pretty much nothing left untouched, if in fact not destroyed and rolling fork, mississippi well, all of that moved towards the east, but that one tornado or so it appears. it moved from rolling fork to silver city to winona. and then ....