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A tornado killed a man and injured 10 people Saturday near Port Isabel. The EF scale measures a twisters destructive power. An EF1 is a relatively weak storm.

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Inland, weakening to a tropical depression. elwyn lopez leads us off. >> reporter: tonight, claudettes damaging winds and heavy rain spreading inland. rain falling as fast as two inches per hour. dangerous flash flooding along the gulf coast. water surrounding homes in hancock county, mississippi. more than 10 inches of rain. about 20 people rescued. >> five was in my truck, and i was standing beside my truck. >> reporter: so, the water came up to here? >> yes, maam. >> reporter: including terra...

Off for mardi gras break right now. we are not scheduled to return back to campus until wednesday as i understand it. parts of the campus damaged heavily from what i have seen in the media reports. my office is about an hour and a half, almost two hours away from where the university of southern, mississippi is located in hattiesburg but we have a number of our own personnel on the ground who have su surveyed it first handd the damages are quite extensive and they will have their work cut out fo...