response kicking into high gear across america s south. a weekend of violent storms and deadly tornadoes. officials saying a full recovery in places like mississippi could take years. volunteers and nonprofits, including the american red cross, salvation army and samaritan s purse flooding into the area offering assistance, food and shelter. they need a lot of all of it. welcome, brand-new hour starts now. i m bill hemmer. dana has time off this week. a big welcome to aishah. aishah: i m aishah hosni. search and rescue operations are officially over in mississippi. now comes the harder part. officials turning to longer-term issues. we are talking about housing, food, public services. a task made even harder with local government buildings destroyed. they aren t even there. the offices are gone. many neighborhoods reduced to rubble. no power, no phones, no gas stations, nothing. meanwhile survivors who lost everything telling their incredible stories. my husband opened the
we begin with a weather alert and it s not good. more severe storms and flooding threatening parts of the south already devastated by a deadly tornado outbreak over the weekend. rachel: at least 26 people are confirmed dead and several towns are left in ruins. will: look at those images over rolling fork showing the images. on the ground in mississippi. robert has the latest. good morning to you all as a very swift wind is coming in here into rolling fork. a cool temperatures this morning and you could see the destruction behind me. unfortunately. this is a home, a large wood beam that has smashed to the ground from this ef-4 tornado. 166 mile-per-hour plus winds. mile and a half long this town of rolling forks is in shambles. it will need to be completely rebuilt. over 2,000 people live here. 24 people have lost their life in the state of mississippi one dead in alabama. federal, state and local on the ground yesterday. talked to governor tate reeves listen to what h
there is so much of that video to look at. new hour begins now on monday morning. a i m owe bill hemmer. sandra smith is with us. sandra: good to be here. at least 25 people were killed across mississippi, another died in alabama. hundreds were left without homes. the towns of rolling fork and silver city absolutely destroyed. the stunning satellite images of rolling fork taken before and then after the storm showing the extent of this devastation. bill: the latest weather radar shows more storms on the way. president biden issued an emergency declaration. survivors recall moments of absolute terror. things started flying and i had my back against that door trying to hold it. we made it to the tub just in time. by the time we got over in the tub it was right on top of us. this is he have -devastating. this is so many friends, family, memories that have been destroyed. bill: robert ray is live in rolling fork, mississippi where he has been for a couple of days
warnings that could persist right through the weekend, severe storm, even tornado type the possibilities. rick reichmuth following all of that. are rick, what are we looking at? rick: rolling fork is really the first town to get hit by this. they don t have any cell service. a lot of the cell towers have been taken offline, so it s the hard to get any communication in and out, we re having a hard time getting reporters to be able to talk to us about exactly what they re seeing. this is a look at the storms. this one right here, that s the path of what was likely the strongest of the storms last night, and you see touching ground just to the east of the mississippi river about 4 or 5 miles east, that s where that town is, rolling fork, and watch that line of storms. that one tornado probably on the ground maybe up to the about 100 miles or so. now they ll go out and investigate that today, as they re doing that, weather good. 9 all the search and rescue efforts that are going
for the devastation apparently began in a town of rolling a fork mississippi miles northwest of jackson. the mayor said damaged assessment quote my city is gone for the national weather service says that same tornado is believed to have erased eastward at 70 miles an hour, never weakening as it slammed into silver city mississippi and several towns in alabama on a 100-mile path of destruction. mississippi governor declaring a state of emergency in affected counties in mississippi emergency management agency said search and rescue teams are on the ground. arthel: we have talked to starstruck this hour. meteorologist adam standing bite storm chaser zachary hall is on the ground was served charles watson who is live in mississippi with the very latest in there, charles. say, eric, we are in anne-marie, mississippi right now we are trying to make it to the downtown portion but the closer and closer we get to make it into the downtown area. part of the reason you see the line of c