tornado outbreak wreaking havoc across much of the midwest and south friday. there are now at least 50 preliminary tornado reports in seven states. at least 10 people have been killed and dozens of others are injured. most of the deaths are in arkansas, where the damage is catastrophic reports of at least a dozen tornadoes there. governor sarah huckabee sanders , declaring a state of emergency and activating the national guard. as the storms gutted entire communities. she s expected to give an update on the storm damage at any moment now and the hardest hit areas of arkansas. that was the town of when. we don t know what s left . all my neighbors house is about destroyed. my two boys are out now trying to help dig people out of their homes. little rock also bearing the brunt of these storms, the city s mayor, telling cnn today that entire neighborhoods were flattened. impact is devastating . i just came out of nowhere. clearly no, it was coming. everyone took cover, as relate
Southeast as well. places like tallahassee on up into savannah and columbus will be dealing with the same concerns. just not as likely, so there s the system moving through. watch the time frame here. there s three o clock in the afternoon across the southeast east. storms really take on the energy of the afternoon and start to fire up. once we get into the evening, we lose the heat of the day and we lose the threat for storms. it pushes back off into the atlantic, but the northeast syria are two o clock in the afternoon. there are the storms, really starting to ramp up and watch this bow out. we move into the afternoon. there it is. that s the wind threat that i m starting to talk about here where we can have winds over 60 70 even 80 mph, and then it moves out throughout the evening saturday, and it s cold enough to produce snow. so here we are, with 57 tornado reports over the last 24 hours, we ll watch these continue on possibly rise. we are already over 150% of average or tornado r