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gone. us president joe biden back home after meeting with prime minister justin trudeau in canada, why illegal immigration across the u. s northern border was a hot topic. and people all over the world getting ready to turn off the lights to mark earth hour. it s a way to help raise awareness about the climate crisis. from cnn center. this is cnn newsroom with leila harare. we begin this hour with extreme weather in the southeastern united states, where multiple tornadoes barreled across mississippi in the past few hours, the national weather service says a large tornado cost significant damage in several towns, including rolling fork and silver city, leaving homes and buildings flattened and trees and power lines down. search and rescue teams and first responders are on the scene in the area northwest of jackson. we spoke with the president of one of the town s hard hit in mississippi should described what she went through. we watched this tornado form. through the lig ....
mississippi officials reported least eight deaths and sharkey county, which includes the town of rolling fork, where homes and businesses were flattened, and trees and power lines were knocked down. humphreys county. at least three people were killed and at least two people are in critical condition. search and rescue teams and first responders are on the scene in the area northwest of jackson, and we spoke with the president of one of the towns that was hard hit, who was on the phone with her grandmother when the tornado went through? listen to this. you could hear the tornado in the you could hear the roar in the background and she started screaming. for help. and she said that, um she wants it stopped roaring her, she said. it s raining through my roof. it s raining through my roof, so we rushed down to evacuate her immediately. officials in morgen county, alabama, say first responders freed up to seven people who were trapped in a group home and as the storm system ....
Are just laying out in the street. um mhm actually. two houses down from my grandmother s house. everything is just a debris field that houses are are just destroyed. and as the storm system moves east or nato, and severe thunderstorm watches are now spread across parts of alabama, tennessee, georgia and into north carolina. let s get you the latest now from cnn meteorologist karen mcginnis, karen yes. all night long. we ve been tracking these storms. it s all part of a big system that is impacting the deep south. we solve this potential for severe weather several days ago, and indeed it came to fruition. it did verify, especially across mississippi, so devastated by the severe storms and the tornado one in particular that really raked across the state pretty much from the west central portion, the state all the way into the northeastern ....
Massive tornado, and it was suspected to have been on the ground for 75 miles. but let me qualify that by saying from rolling fork. all the way to silver city. that s about 75. miles then you go about another 75 to 80 miles, and then it s winona. and then you go to amery that goes from the west central portion of mississippi all the way to the northeastern corner of mississippi and then from there, that particular tornado looks like it may have been one tornado that kind of touched ground and then went back up in the air, and we saw a report. it s tornado reports coming out of south central and southeastern tennessee northern sections of alabama. we had a possible tornado reported in northwestern georgia. i want to report that out of morgan county , alabama, not getting a lot of attention. most of the attention has been on mississippi, where ....