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And nearly two dozen injured when a powerful twister swept through the mississippi town of lewin on the night. they gave it a rating of three. severe-ologist chad has more on how it's impacting the country. >> quite a few severe weather reports from virginia, all the down to the gulf coast. the most severe along the gulf coast itself with tornadoes reported down there. some hitting some towns with damage down, they're also, another event, very very heavy rainfall. 6 to 10 inches of rain fell in a short period of time with flash flood emergencies in effect. here we go, this is what the computer...

Cnn meteorologist chad myers has more on the dangerous weather impacting the country. >> quite a few severe weather reports of the way from virginia, down to the gulf coast, the most severe along the gulf coast itself, with tornadoes reported down there. some hitting some towns with damage down, they're also another event very heavy rainfall. 6 to 10 inches of rain fell in a short period of time, with flash flood emergencies in effect. now here you, go here's where the computer thinks the rainfall is going to look like throughout the day on tuesday, taking all the way to wednesday. notice what...

Homes and destroyed structures one by one trying to find if there are more people bury inside the rubble. all told in mississippi 50 counties suffered damage. there are 82 counties in that state. so that tells you exactly how widespread the damage was. the way a couple of people died, a trucker driving an 18-wheeler near oxford slammed into a tree, another man's body was found downstream from a suv that he had been riding in. it was swept away in a torrent of water, he was swept out of the vehicle. they did find him later on. on to georgia, now, as the storms came through the northeastern part...

A tornado like this sometimes 287 miles an hour, a guy like that trapped, nevertheless. on the phone with us now bill mcdaniel is director of broadcast media relations for the university of alabama. bill, we just saw some of those pictures taken from fraternity row, and i'm sure that so many parents -- because you have students there from all across the country who may not have been able to reach out to their parents because of the telephone system damage. how many, how badly was the campus itself affected? >> well, jon, we were very blessed on the campus. we did not receive any structural dam...