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Ktxt. hatt hattisburg, three people are hurt as the twister touched down in southern mississippi. with tornado watches for the region, they're saying until night fall and we know that and know that everywhere inside at that red watch box or warning box, it extends those warnings, not just warnings, but those warnings extend at least through the hour and we're determining some more details on the injuries and at least thee people have been hurt according to the fox affiliate. kpxl. we'll share with you a busy and dangerous weather night. we knew it was shaping up to be this way, we had a very c...

Television. unrile. i can't believe this is happening. >> i called him, you better come home from work. bill: mike tobin leading coverage. it is early for tornados especially in that part of the country. good morning. >> reporter: in this part of the country it is early to have all the warm weather. you see people walking around in shirt sleeves in warm weather but there is downside. the cold air rolled in. that is what happens when you get the cold air and warm air colliding. it whips up tornados. winds now estimated at 135 miles per hour. that tornado spent about a half hour on the ground an...

Volunteers who have poured in and the first two people i met were from kentucky. and, so, as always, when things are at their worst, the people in this state are at their best. >> and something that's absolutely remarkable kelly. yesterday, we were on the southern end of that bad weather. it was warm, it was shirt sleeves type of weather. now, we're on the northern end after the weather has passed through, winter weather again and that's just what happens, warm air colliding with the cold air and call this a multi-vortex storm and that's what you have with all of this destruction. back to you ...

Beating us out of the house. thunder clapping and stuff. >> reporter: to make things worse, theernsds were rain-shrouded making them invisible to the naked eye. >> when you get tornadoes shrouded in rain it's difficult to see the funnel cloud or the tornado from a long distance away, so as a result, it's obstructed and people can't prepare as much. >> reporter: for others the problem was floodwater, way too much. some neighborhoods now completely inundated and strong wind downed power lines, leaving tens of thousand in dark. this is all of the result of warm southern air colliding with cold no...

>> it's a little bit like opening the refrigerator and the cold air comes out and moves into the rest of the room. >> reporter: it may have to do with the melting of the arctic ice sheets. the magenta line shows here where the ice was in the '70s. the white area, where the ice is now. it's the jet stream that acts as a border between the arctic air and the rest of the world. normally keeping the frigid air trapped near the north pole. some studies now suggest that melting arctic sea ice is making cold zones warmer, weakening the jet stream's grip, allowing colder air to spill down south. >> a ...