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The tornado that struck Rolling Fork and Silver City was nearly a mile wide and tracked for almost 60 miles.

JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) – Gov. Tate Reeves (R-Miss.) announced flags will be flown at half-staff in honor of the 21 Mississippians who died during the tornadoes on Friday, March 24. “I am directing that flags be flown at half-staff on all public buildings and grounds until sunset Friday, March 31, in honor of the 21 […]. Local Mississippi Breaking News Story from CBS 12 New WJTV, your Jackson, MS news leader

On Friday, a devastating and rare EF-4 tornado struck near Rolling Fork, Mississippi. It quickly and furiously disassembled buildings, disabled vehicles, and left thousands of residents without homes.

The gym of a Rolling Fork school has become a makeshift hub to get much-needed emergency aid, meals and hope for thousands affected by the tornadoes.

Electricity and water service. maggie vespa is with us from rolling city, what are residents able to do now? what are they facing and what do we know about this potential presidential visit? >> reporter: sure, well start with what were seeing on the ground, garrett. i mean, this frankly is what theyre facing. i know its hard to make it out at first glance. thats a semitruck. you can see the undercarriage of it. that semi-trailer flipped onto its side and someone hung an american flag in the afte...

JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) – The University of Mississippi Medical Center (UMMC) is partnering with the Mississippi State Department of Health (MSDH) and Mississippi Emergency Management Agency (MEMA) to deploy a mobile field hospital to Rolling Fork. Officials said that large tents and other components necessary to create a hospital are being set up at the […]. Local Mississippi Breaking News Story from CBS 12 New WJTV, your Jackson, MS news leader

Forward just a little bit. weve heard story after story of survival and people just riding out the worst of this storm with their homes being decimated around them. heres one woman who rode out the storm, the tornado with her family of 11 as the house collapsed in on them. all 11 pulled from the rubble, all 11 survived, but now they have lost everything, chris. take a listen. >> how long do you think it will take to rebuild? >> i really just dont have an idea. i really dont. >> a whole community...

Heard them? they said, oh, yeah, weve heard them before. they all said they dont think they went off that night, and they also said theyre not sure, though, how much of a difference it would have made because of the speed and power of this tornado. we have the damage here of what used to be a chiropractors office and also a juice bar, which is now just frankly rubble. we havent shown this yet, on the towns water tower, rolling forks water tower that is now just a crumpled mess basically, bent in...

Entire towns were devastated across Mississippi over the weekend in a tornado outbreak that killed at least 21 people.

"We are going to try and replace these homes," Franklin Graham says.