dead. that number sadly is expected to grow welcome to fox news but i am alicia in for arthel. super i m eric shawn. at least four people remained missing at this hour. dozens more injured from the powerful storms. the catastrophic twisters and the town of rolling fork, mississippi about 60 miles northwest of the state capitol of jackson account basically has been wiped off the map. national weather service is the same tornado that devastated that town is believed to have raced eastward going 70 miles an hour pretty did not weaken as it then slammed into mississippi in several towns in alabama on a 100-mile path of destruction. x thousand the twisters path and loss of power some reporting on port 80% of customers without electricity. mississippi governor kate reeves declaring a state of emergency today president biden says fema director on the ground there tomorrow. too far from the very latest coach of the ground charles watson is an armory, mississippi or is the hardest hit
Meteorologist Craig "Ceecee" Croskery has spent the last two years identifying, verifying and logging buildings that he described as "almost impossible" for the average citizen to easily find, despite the fact that they are meant to be places of refuge in life-threatening severe weather events. Mere seconds can mean the difference between life and death when a tornado strikes and time matters even more when seeking out the closest public storm shelter. "It matters because oftentimes seconds c
damage, what people are really struggling to come to grips with is how quickly all of this unfolded. keep in mind, this part of the country is no stranger to tornados. there are several tornado shelters right here, including a local library. i spoke to residents who said there was simply no time to get to safety. it unfolded so quickly. some thought they wouldn t survive. take a listen. and there was a time where i thought that i was going to die and i was going to leave a lot of things undone. i know there is people here who died today serving our community, and some of the best people i ever met in my life are here in this town. reporter: so much grief. this is a close-knit community where people know one another, people help one another, and those are the skills that folks are going to be relying on. right now people are finally