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Weather in the mid south where tornados are hitting and winter is just beginning. jennifer gray is in the weather center now. show us where the threat is most imminent. >> right now northern miss misami mississippi. this is a tornado in progress for white awhile started in western mississippi and has a path of destruction. we've seen reports of damage with this tornado, so if you're in the path or know loved ones that are, a lot of people are, it crossed i-55 and this is a very dangerous situation, in fact, this one particular tornado watchbox out of all of these, where we seen this particular...

You see on the screen right now and he said go over to this house, there's been a shooting there. he gave them more information, we don't know it. but the gautier police tell us this guy called on his cell phone to the police down on the coast and said, go check the house. they did. they brought the coroner over, and the woman with whom he had been living, according to police in go shy, was dead, and he was gone. he left in his green suv, and police now believe that he left gautier, mississippi, went north up i-55 through jackson, up to cleveland, mississippi, over on the river. you can see th...

Cell that is headed towards tupelo. this is the norway -- northern side of the state. if wore driving in that area and you have rain you have no visual on the tornado potentially coming your way. that's an incredibly dangerous situation. >> at it tempting to good outside, just as our guesses from arkansas did earlier. by the time he got finished, his house had fallen done on top of him. this is that central mississippi area. it's not -- it's up to the second as opposed to some others we can look at. hers the state capital, jackson, theirs yazoo city, and this major cell went over it. this pink...

Illinois to iowa. the tornadoes have lined up basically in mississippi south of tupelo and as far west as i-55. don't go outside for today. wolf, it's important to stay inside and hunker down in your safe spot. it could be deadly. >> potentially millions of americans in harm's way. jennifer, we'll get back to you shortly. these devastating tornadoes touching down today in mississippi. as you just heard, alabama, tennessee, maybe illinois, iowa, they are all in line as the severe weather continues to pummel the south, the midwest. we'll go live to the disaster zones. that's coming up. [ male an...

Just yesterday. joins me is bret adair, who is in egypt, mississippi. bret, can you give us the latest from your end? >> yeah, we've got a pretty serious situation involves from the tupelo area all the way south at the moment with several supercell thunderstorms that are producing tornadoes, as you guys have been made aware of, such as the one that hit tupelo a few moments ago. >> bret, do we have a sense of whether there are -- when tornadoes hit, there's obvious a period of time during which an area is under watch. do we have a sense of how long the watch period may last in this part of the ...