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>> all right, we want to thank jeff pleasant -- joseph pleasant, i should say with our affiliate wapt. he's joining us tonight from mississippi. we'll be checking back in with him. nice job. thank you very much. interesting. people are concerned about their loved ones. you heard the emergency management official there say, hey, listen, we don't know exactly what is going on there. there is still watches and warnings throughout the state. they're still finding damage. people are still in the hospital. they're checking to see if there are injuries, are life threatening or not. a lot going on. so...

Violent, long track type tornadoes that can stay on the ground for a very long period of time. i'm going to say this is likely an ef-3 tornado that moved through here with estimated winds potentially up to 165 miles per hour. the national weather service is going to go out tomorrow and to yazoo city and give their official assessment on that they're telling us it was likely at least three quarter of a mile wide as it moved through the city. >> jacqui jeras, thank you very much. stand by. viewers, as you can see, things are changing as we're on the air here. a warning and then watches go up and...

Managers, which are responsible for reporting the damages and the injuries to us, they're in their response mode. they're out in the field, really trying to get control of the situation. we do understand that the governor is going to be using the assistance of the national guard in yazoo county to help maintain some control and get assistance to the residents there. so that is something that is on the horizon. we had the state of emergency for the entire state, which, you know, this is still a developing storm system. we're not out of the woods yet. we have one active tornado warning in the st...