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Assistance assessments in by tomorrow and hopefully get a quick and affirmative answer. >> shepard: what -- >> let me just say, fema has been on the spot, fema, federal emergency people have been on the spot since the night of the storm, working well with our people. >> shepard: that's great to hear. that agency has come a long way. governor, people -- we're getting emails from people saying how do i help. what is your advice? >> wait 24 hours and we'll have a lot better set of answers for you. the red cross is here, the salvation army is here. and it's very -- they're doing very good work. wh...

>> yesterday happened and it was gone in the blink of an eye. >> a storm picked the bottom of my house and laid the roof on the concrete. >> some of the worst damage in yazoo county, area known as blues and catfish and cotton, 28,000 people. a baptist church left in pieces. folks showed up for sunday services any way. chris is live there. the federal emergency management teams arrived in the area? >> yeah, they did. they arrived several hours ago and are looking at the damage here. utter obliteration is how the mississippi governor described the damage here in his home city of yazoo city. the ...

Bounce, stay down 30 seconds, rip up trees and they're gone and that's usually what happens but not this time. >> that's right. this storm got on the ground in louisiana, crossed the river, hit eagle lake, mashed i can't yazoo city and stayed on the ground more than 100 miles to the other side of durant. it hit in clay and monroe counties, which is on the alabama line north of columbus. this is a very bad storm. lots of people hurt but by god's grace, ten killed, if you saw the destruction, shep, you would say what a blessing it was only ten. >> you flew over it. i remember 50 some miles of co...

That. >> shepard: i appreciate it. good luck to you and the folks in yazoo city and choctaw county and around the state of mississippi who have been through so much. amazing to watch that storm. you could see it coming over from louisiana, one enormous blob on the map that looked like an entire red area over mississippi. lines started going through and areas opened up and in the northern part of the state, it was beautiful on saturday. you can see exactly where the tornado went and the straight line winds as well. memphis, 3 or 4 inches of rain on friday and on an on. it was a horrible storm. ...

Have enough damage. that's the way the system works, that could happen. >> shepard: all right. governor, i know you're from there. your family's from there. what happened at your place? >> well, the storm went south of my home. in fact marsha and i still live here. but it went south of my home by a couple of miles. it went between my two brothers. one of my nephews had significant damage but nobody was hurt. they were there in a closet. but by god's grace, all of our family are well and we are seeing a lot of friends and people we've known all our lives who lost their homes and we're trying to...