protect your life take cover, now a former mayor of rolling for telling a local television station that the tornado blew the windows out of the back of his home. and the sharkey county sheriff s office reporting gas leaks and people still trapped in piles of rubble. mississippi governor tate reeves, also saying in a twitter post that the search and rescue efforts were ongoing , and that more ambulances and emergency assets are being sent to those areas that are affected. the governor also saying many in the mississippi delta need your prayers and god s protection. the storm prediction center, saying the greatest threat of for more tornadoes overnight as an arkansas louisiana again in mississippi and tennessee storms with damaging winds and hail are also forecast from eastern texas and southeastern oklahoma in the parts of southeastern missouri and southern illinois. once again if you re just joining us 10 people now confirmed dead and unknown number of people. injured and pos
lines coming down over roads, and that was complicating some of these search and rescue efforts for the crews there. the storm reports from their past further off to the north into alabama, where we saw numerous tornado reports as well. unfortunately this has been a catastrophic outbreak of severe weather. the national weather service will be sending storm survey crews up and down the path of these storms, which you do see extended for several 100 miles, not continuous tornado for that stretch, but one cell produced severe weather from mississippi, the mississippi river all the way into northern parts of alabama from here. this powerful line of storms continues to progress across the southeast, still tracking some powerful thunderstorms. we ve got numerous severe thunderstorm warnings through northern parts of georgia, east tennessee, and now crossing into north carolina, with some wind gusts possible even now, through the overnight hours and into the early part of our saturday up over
put your name on it. you got a beef with amy klobuchar, put your name on. exactly. actually, that is fair. if you have a beef with her, put your name on it. totally agree. i thought amy klobuchar did something brilliant. the thing i fond most remarkable about bill clinton s victory in 1992 and i couldn t believe as a republican because i had gotten used to republicans owning the middle of america, bill clinton won every state on the mississippi river. i mean, there was just a blue line that cut it was like a dagger in the heart of republicanism and amy klobuchar talked about the mighty mississippi starting in minnesota at a place where you can walk across it and took us through a journey down the mississippi river all the way down to new orleans and, my gosh, i ve always thought if democrats are going to start
charge of the army corps of engineers described this as an off ramp of the mississippi river highway. this is one of the few places where water can come off the river. even though it has to come off the river basin, it makes its way to the gulf of mexico. i don t want you to go far away because we re going to come back toia. right there in louisiana, right where it s happening in morganza. stand by because you mentioned the army corps of engineers. i m going to go to ed fleming. i know it s a difficult decision to open the morganza spillway after 40 years of not having to use it and the heartbreak for people who know they re going to get flooded. the amount of water that is coming down the mississippi river all the way from cairo, illinois, all the way through louisiana is record-setting, and we operate this as the system, this is one of those that ed mentioned, and we operated it started today, and we re thinking this is a successful operation going on right now. i have been tel
swollen levee system, a taxed levee system, and they don t know if it s going to hold even with this. they re being inundated with water. people who have dealt recently with tornadoes just a couple weeks ago, and hurricane katrina and rita that hit the area and have done so much devastation to louisiana. you can t take your eyes off the pictures. imagine if this was happening in your community. this much water, knowing your homes, your hafarms, your livelihood would be flooding. wheler get to the players. ed lavendera on the ground. he ll join us in a second. look at inflooding. this is what is being flooded. this is all just moments ago. once they started to release the pressure on the morganza spillway and let that water out, look at the levees. water pouring across the levees. that s the mississippi river there. look at that. unbelievable. we re going to follow this breaking news story for you because we don t know what is going to happen here. we don t know how this is go