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Im Marianne Rafferty in new york. Tornado watches and warnings canceled. Reports of major damage in hattiesburg. The governor has signed a state of emergency for the area. We know at least 20 people are injured. On the phone is jeff brent the spokesperson for the mississippi Emergency Management agency. What can you tell us . What is happening there right now . Seems that you will probably have to wait until daylight to get a true picture of the damage. We are facing a couple of situations. Any area that was impacted by the tornado that went through the area is without power. Dark of course, r...

responders in the area to continue the search and rescue operations makes it more challenging. additionally you can see on the radar there is still heavy rainfall falling throughout the area and very strong thunderstorms we are watching right now is moving through maryan into lamar county and expected to move towards or are to the south of the hattiesburg area. they are not over yet. flash flooding still a concern because of the storms falling over the same areas over and over and over for the past several hours. we go to get through this and we will get on with surveying the damages...