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The son and nephew of Cedric Miles search for belongings inside the Miles family home after thunderstorms spawning high straight-line winds and tornadoes ripped across the state in Rolling Fork, Missi

ROLLING FORK, Miss.

Severe storms hit southern US states on Friday, producing hail the size of golf balls and causing fatal injuries.

There. i just outside of rolling fork with the latest reporting. lets bring in now. sheriff bruce williams. hes humphrey county, mississippi is on the phone, sheriff. thank you for being with us. first we know that there are active rescue efforts or any of those happening in new york county. yes right now we have a deal may on the ground doing assessments , going down neighborhoods and checking on homes and, um, seeing what equipment that heavy equipment that we need to bring in at this time. oh...

The destructive tornado killed at least 26 people, leveled buildings and left thousands of customers without power.

Search and rescue teams have been deployed to assist those impacted by the tornadoes.

Systems we can sing winds up to 60 miles an hour, a bit of hail and conditions and ingredients that caused big tornadoes the other day not quite here but enough to fire up thunderstorms and ring and heavy rain. this is going to be continuing through the evening into early tomorrow morning as you look at severe storm to targeting a big area across the southeast and we seen a lot of the activity in southern georgia so far. currently if you look at the storms that, red means likely yesterday evenin...

Possible that we could see that death toll rise very quickly here, neil. neil: all right, nicole, thank you. i hope it doesnt rise, but with so many missing, you cowonder. thank you for that. want to go to phillip gunn, the speaker of the house in mississippi, kind enough to join us. mr. speaker, thank you. the damage the is just beyond comprehension, and it all apparently happened so quickly. what are you hearing and what happens now for those are residents? >> well, good morning and thank you ...

That the storm was coming over and all we could hear was the house. breaking apart. and its also important to mention that mississippi emergency management is saying despite what youre seeing and your desire to come here and help theyre asking people to please not self deployed in volunteer that way that might slow down the process. instead consider donating resources water to the rolling fork civic center, fred all right, isabel rose ellis. thank you so much. lets go now to cnn meteorologist al...

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