spinning. you could see the debris as it started spinning around in a circle. and i started hearing trees snap and telephone poles snap and power just went immediately out. and it pushed through here in just a matter of moments. there s a lot of damage back towards the city. and, like i say, as a lifelong resident, it s going to be a little hard to to stomach at first, but we ll be able to pick up from this. albertville, alabama, where as you just heard, people are reeling from severe storms that spawned a tornado late last night. at least one mobile home park and homes were destroyed. earlier yesterday in neighboring mississippi another tornado tore through that state, killing at least ten people. three of them children. right now rescue crews are out in force searching for more potential victims. entire neighborhoods were leveled and governor hayley barbour describes what he saw in
widespread there as well. richard, give us an idea. reporter: yeah, fred. you talked about utilities and difficulties there. surely that is the case here in albertville where electricity still not in many of the homes that were hit overnight. we re in the center of downtown albertville. about a three by five mile area. 15 square miles where they believe most of the damage is. that s where officials are really zoning in on. behind you can see some of the damage. this house over here to my right, the rear part of the roof has been torn off. this carport is down here. and the back part of this entire building here, gone. now, if you look down this road right now, it is clear. but last night it was absolutely filled with brush and trees and remnants from the houses that were hit by this storm. but they came through around 3:00 a.m. and they were able to clear out the entire road. one of the residents here, which is francis willisson. she was in her house when it did
she said, oh, my gosh. we went out and looked. that s when we saw the street scape had totally changed. reporter: francis was telling me earlier she had just had three of her trees cut down here right behind me from 19 down to 16. as you can see she only has three left now standing. whether she actually needed to have them cut down the day before, maybe not in this case. richard lui, thanks so much in albertville, alabama. let s try this again, go back to mississippi, one of the hardest hit from this storm. ed lavandera we think is on the phone with us now. ed, give us idea what s happening where you are. reporter: hi, fredricka. we re in a small town of ware, mississippi, in choctaw county. this is an area where five people were killed in this tornado yesterday. we are along a little street called white grove where we believe that three of the youngest victims of this storm were killed yesterday. a 14-year-old girl, a 9-year-old girl and a 3-month-old baby girl
different locations. ed lavandera is in mississippi. richard lui is in albertville, alabama. jacqui jeras is here in the severe weather center tracking all of this nasty weather that has swept across the country this weekend. let s get started with ed lavandera. he s actually joining us on the phone. you re seeing the worst of the damage where you are, ed. you ve been hiking through mississippi really trying to tra version this state that was hit so hard by this tornado. give me an idea what you re witnessing. reporter: all right. therein lies part of the problem. the devastation that has hit much of the southeast, communication is spotty, very difficult to get confirmation, sometimes, of being able to reach out to people. we ll try to reach back out to our ed lavandera momentarily when we can. meantime, let s go to albertville, alabama, where we find our richard lui there. the devastation is quite