>> my curiosity took me into interviewing you. thanks very much. >> wolf, pleasure, thank you. i'm suzanne malveaux, join us weekdays in "the situation room" from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. eastern and every saturday at 6:00 p.m. on cnn at this time every weekend on cnn international. the news continues next on cnn. hello, everyone, don lemon, breaking news here, and this is getting worse by the moment. we're talking that deadly and unpredictable storm system that's raging through the south right now. pay attention, if it's raining in your area, dark clouds or what have you, you need to watch because your safety could be in jeopardy. emergency officials are now saying seven people are dead in mississippi, two of those, they believe, are children. and you need to be on alert this hour if you're in alabama, kentucky or tennessee or

anywhere along the region, even in the midwest, we have gotten some reports in st. louis, already there are 43 unconfirmed reports of tornadoes from northern missouri through mississippi, that's a really big area. and perhaps the most destructive one hit yazoo city, mississippi before the storm cell traveled across the state and then into alabama. the tornado that blasted through there was almost a whole mile wide, imagine that. the yazoo city fire department says 20 homes were destroyed and he says some people were inside of them when that happened. search and rescue efforts underway at this hour, overall 12 counties are reporting injuries here, that's according to the mississippi management agency. let's get to our expert now, meteorologist jacqui jeras tracking all of this. jacqui this is getting worse? >> it's not getting better, that's for sure, this is going to be ongoing through tonight and even tomorrow as this storm system approaches the eastern seaboard, the areas of concern

highlighted in red here and it does stretch from missouri all the way down into the florida panhandle and it's this midsection right here, these watches that we see here, called pbs watches, that's where we're expecting more violent long track tornadoes, they can cause a lot of damage, just like they did in yazoo city, this one in the st. louis metro area. there you can see st. louis, and the storm itself right up here to the north and east. this is i-55 leading all the way up through springfield, so this entire area under a tornado warning at this hour, this area has a history of producing some wind damage. the next area we're watching, nashville, tennessee and areas off to the west and southwest. see how the storms are developing right along this line? any one of these are developing rotation, and you can see one that has it and it could be impacting nashville, so be aware, your storm's right around the corner, and last but not

least, we're looking at storms that have been firing up across parts of alabama, these storms started out in mississippi and we could see these strengthen and intensify as well. so a lot of different areas we're going to be watching in the next couple of hours. what can you expect as we head through the rest of tonight and into tomorrow? look at this huge area of high risk. we only get a handful of these high risk outlook days per year, don, so we have had a really slow start to the tornado season this year, we have a 50% shot that a tornado is going to come within 25 miles from your home if you live in that area. this will spread through parts of pennsylvania all the way through the sunshine state. so the risk tomorrow is not as favorable for tornado development. got a picture we want to show you from our affiliate, wbdv tv and this is from their tornado in yazoo city, and i want to point out that was a home that

you're looking at there, that whole entire home was picked up and pushed over. you can tell that that was a tornado, because straight-line winds just don't cause damage like that. and this tells me this was easily probably an ef-4 tornado, maybe the worst of all, and there's no way to survive any of that if you're living in that home, you absolutely have to be under ground. please get to the lowest level of your home, away from doors and windows and when those sirens go off, make sure you have a plan, and now that we're getting towards sun down, it's a little bit more dangerous because we can't see what's going on and those search and rescue efforts still going on in those areas. >> stand by jacqui jeras, we'll be getting back to you. we're getting reports now confirmed seven people have died. we're getting information as well from the mississippi emergency management agency. i just got an e-mail from them talking about the damage and

exactly where that damage is, what's going on, it says that there's been damaged homes, with numerous trees down, holmes county jasper and mississippi governor haley barber, he was at his home in yazoo city when that tornado hit. we're told he is okay, but he's got a long night ahead of him as damage reports keep rolling in across across the separate, i want you to take a look here at the governor. >> we're here in yazoo city where we had an enormous tornado that appears to be several miles wide. by god's grace, it did not go into the central part of the city, or the most populated, however it went through the southern edge and eastern edge of town, but through a number of large neighborhoods. as you can see, there are a number of businesses that have been destroyed, others that have

been severely damaged, there are churches that have been obliterated and as you go into the areas you can't get to right now because of the trees that are down and the power lines that are still down because the crews can't get to them. there are many, many homes that are damaged, some that are destroyed. >> all right, now we want to get to governor haley barbour's spokesperson, he joins us by telephone from jackson, we really wanted to hear from the governor especially since he was at home at the time and we know that he's taking some media reports, we have seen him on other networks air. can you try to get him on? we know he's busy, but we want to hear from him. >> we have unconfirmed reports generally, we don't release those type of statistics until we have heard from the various coroners that are involved, but what we're looking at is

probably an ef-3 tornado with winds of about 150 miles an hour. it cut a three-quarters of a mile swathe, starting in louisiana and it came across the river and it hit an area near vicksburg, and destroyed about 30 homes there. continued to go across the state, as you heard the governor describe, that part of yazoo city, and the terrain in that area is what makes search and rescue particularly difficult. yazoo is right on the edge of the mississippi delta, so you come down into a hilly area, down into the delta and it's hard to get into some of those areas right now because of the destruction. >> that's what i wanted to -- that's my next question, oftentimes when things like this happen, we don't discover the damage until much, much later, you're not exactly sure just how

much damage there is, you may come across more? >> we may be coming across damage for a day or two, just because of, like i said, the terrain and getting from one place to another, clearing the roadways to get to the houses and the various businesses in that area is going to take a little time. >> mr. turner, what is the governor out doing now? is he dealing with his home, or is he out assessing damage? what's going on? >> he's had a busy day, we drove up, at my understandi ining rigs the storm hit, he was just a few miles away from it, went in and saw the early parts of the damage. we have established a command and control center there and had rapid response teams deployed. we have heard that the mississippi management agency is on site, they have gone up and viewed the damage from helicopter.

he's busy working the area. >> do you have enough resources to deal with all of this? >> we have probably the resources to deal with the emergency end of it, yes, and, again, the people in mississippi have responded with neighbors helping neighbors, very much like it happened after katrina. long-term, we'll have to see how extensive the damage is and what the dollar total is to know whether we can truly deal with it. >> all right. listen, we want to thank you very much, and again, our invitation is extended to governor haley barbour to come on, as we're going to be carrying the news live on the air. we hear that damage reports are just coming in, as a matter of fact as i said before this, we just got a damage report from the mississippi emergency management agency, i got an e-mail here, and it says, it goes through to tell you exactly

what is going on. mississippi emergency management agency continues to receive reports of damages from counties across the state related to a severe spring storm system and possible tornadoes moving through the states, and then it goes in a list of counties, 10, 12, 13, 14 counties of the damage, homes, trees, all kinds of properties and also seven, we are told, seven people are dead. we are going to talk to the mississippi emergency management right after this break. this breaking news, severe weather, deadly weather hitting much of the southeast. for me to breathe.copd maked

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breaking fwhuz news we're following here on cnn so please stay tuned, we're looking out for your safety, and if you're not in the area, a big part of your fellow americans are dealing with this. we're told seven people just in mississippi have died and this storm is moving, it keeps moving into the midwest, we're told all the way from mississippi to

missouri, so take a look at this. is this from one of our i-reporters? this tape that we have in, guys? yeah, this is from one of our i-reporters, at the height of the storm when it was rolling through, and look at the destruction that's happening on the ground, you can see the structure, look at that, wow, unbelievable. the structures are just to the ground, a lot of them just really demolished here because it came through so quickly, a lot of people didn't have time to take this next job so our viewers can see the destruction of this, the one preview, the shot, the ground video, claude, ground video, please. that one, thank you very much. that's what we want to show you, that's exactly what is happening right there, imagine being in

that home or anywhere near it. so let's go now to the ground, joining us from mississippi is the mississippi emergency management agency is greg flynn, greg, you are just outside of jackson, mississippi. the biggest danger now that you're seeing and where are people needing assistance? >> don, right now thankfully most of the weather has moved east of mississippi, but it has left behind a large trail of destruction, as you mentioned before, unfortunately we are confirming that seven people have died across our state. we had three in choctaw county, three in yazoo county, and one in holmes county and two of those fatalities in choctaw county were children. right now we are undergoing a massive cleanup effort and recovery effort, still making sure that folks are all accounted for. there is just untold damage number in yazoo city. the hometown of our governor, haley barbour that has been

obliterated using his words from earlier today, just a large swathe of destruction from the mississippi river all the way to the eastern edge of alabama, all from what seems to be one tornado that they said was three-quarters of a mile wide and possibly an ef-3 with winds up to 150 miles an hour. >> unbelievable. listen, we know it hit a big part of your state, as you said, three-quarters of a mile wide. there are some reports that said it was up to a mile wide. so that's incredible damage, tough economic times for not only cities but states as well. what about your resources there. >> we, thankfully, prepare for these kind of things, we keep that set aside. we have all the state agencies right now working together to provide resources to all these communities that have been hit, everything from the red cross, the salvation army to our department of transportation, public safety, department of health, all of these resources are flooding the areas just to make sure that they're taking

care of the way that they need to be. >> greg flynn, we want to thank you very much and we know that you're very busy, if you get anymore information please call back because people are interested and we want to help out people who have been at least touched by this really deadly tornado. >> don, if i could point out one thing, that is one thing, i know that we saw this after hurricane katrina and we have had a lot of folks that have called wanting to know how they can help because they want to help with the cleanup effort and the donations, but at this time right now, the areas are so saturated with emergency workers that we're really asking people to kind of take a step back and wait possibly even until tomorrow because it's just not safe to be in some of these areas, we have some of the generous people in the southeast that want to come in and help, but right now we need them to hold back just a minute until we can make sure that these areas are secure. >> greg flynn is with the mississippi emergency management agency and he will get back to us if the situation warrants to update you on it. good luck greg, best of luck to everyone there.

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getting back to our breaking news this just a moment. our jacqui jeras checking on all of it as those tornadoes rip through the southeast. the coast guard says that oil rig that sank off the louisiana coast is leaking 1,000 barrels of oil a day.

11 people were killed in tuesday's explosion, so joining us now to talk about it is petty officer john edwards. thank you for joining us now. when did the coast guard discover the oil leak and what's being done to stem it? >> first off, the unified command announced today that the mobile offshore drilling unit the deep water horizon was located capsized on the sea floor approximately 1,500 feet northwest of the well site, that's where the reiser wise er located. we found a place that was leaking, one was from the rise er and one was near the well itself. our technical advisors are saying this is fresh oil from the well. >> is that how you discovered this? >> right, we have had the submersible r.o.v.s down for a few days now trying to locate the deep water horizon and to

locate the condition of the rise, the riser is what connects the unit to the seabed itself. once that 1,000 feet of riser had been located, we noticed the leaking not only from the pipe, but from the well site itself. >> this is not an easy cleanup, is it? tell us about it. >> it's not going to be an easy cleanup. the flight command is bringing together the regulatory and technical experience necessary to perform these sort of cleanup operations, already we have successfully recovered 33,726 gallons of oily water mix by surface skimmers and we have deployed 1,900 gallons of dispersements that are being used and we have 11,060 feet of boom currently in place to contain the spill. >> we said at the top of this that 11 people were killed.

initially they were searching for them hoping they were alive, but the search has now been called off. >> that's correct. the search was suspended pending further development. the unified command has certainly shifted its focus over to the containment and recovery operation, but certainly our thoughts and prayers go out to the family of the affected. >> they certainly do, very well said, thank you very much john edwards who's a petty officer with the coast guard, we really appreciate it. more top stories right now at cnn. as we just told you here, and this was at the lead of our show, the breaking news here, seven people are dead in mississippi, a dangerous weather sweeps the south, perhaps the worst of it was in yazoo city where a tornado almost a mile wide flattened it down. the storm cell raked across the entire state before crossing into alabama. we're going to keep you updated

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back to our breaking weather news in just a moment. we'll tell you about some other news now, a state law targeting illegal immigrants has run a long running and emotional debate. yesterday arizona's governor signed a bill that's called one of the toughest in the country. it requires immigrants to carry their registration documents with them at all times and requires police to question anyone they suspect is in the country illegally. and it also targets the businesses that hire illegal day laborers. thelma, are things winding down now at the capitol? >> reporter: don, there are definitely not as many people here at the state capitol as there were yesterday. however, later tonight, another candle light vigil is planned.

the vigil protests all that's organized by students activists and while this is just one opinion on a very complicated immigration issue, they're definitely leading the charge to fight back. >> after the hurt and anger over s.b. 1070, student leaders in arizona jumped into action. >> my name's christian vito, i am 18 years old and i'm organizing a group to protest against the law. >> i'm jessup fino and i'm a youth organizer here in arizona. we're going to kick off the summer of hope, it will be 90 days of organizing and getting together. >> reporter: this organization of student protesters are going viral. >> we're using databases, we're using text messaging systems and doing phone banks. >> i have thousands and thousands of people looking on to us for what is next.

>> reporter: jeff, an arizona state university graduate student in public policy is organizing a coalition of college students to fight the law that was signed friday by arizona governor jan brewer. >> as soon as she signed that bill, it took the foreign citizens, not only our community, but the nation, we have solidarity events going on in north carolina, and denver, and new mexico washington and new york. people are all flooding us with support and we need to garner that support. >> reporter: back on the streets of phoenix, christian led a cor chorus of high school protesters from a pick-up truck. it's a knew that will separate families and friends. >> it tears at a piece of our heart that they're taking with them. >> brito, a high school senior

says for him this is personal. >> my dream is to become a marine, i want to serve this country, i want to serve everybody in it, i want to help them and protect them. >> christian is in a marine program for aspiring recutes. he says he wants to defend the u.s. constitution, even though he believes that the law in his own state is unconstitutional. >> thelma i understand that the challenge to this new law may come from city hall right there in phoenix? >> exactly, don, in fact that challenge is suspected to come from phoenix's mayor, phil gordon. he says that on tuesday, he will direct his city attorney to file a legal action possibly against the state that would ask for this law not to take effect also declaring it unconstitutional. don? >> thelma, thank you very much. we want to get back now to our breaking news, we told you about the situation that's happening in the south and even the midwest as far up as

missouri. we're going to get to our ed henry now who's joining us by telephone, ed is traveling with president barack obama in ashville, north carolina. ed, you have been briefed, he has been briefed, i should say, on this situation. what can you tell us? >> that's right, don, we have a little bit of information, obviously the white house is paying close attention to cnn, there's been seven deaths. the president has been briefed of the tragedy and he says the situation is being followed by the white house. we're trying to get more information right now as we are gathering and discussing exactly how terrible this tragedy is, the president and the first lady who are traveling here in north carolina have been -- the president got this briefing to get up to speed on this situation. the first family is now having dinner here in asheville, but as phil gordon said, they're

getting as much information as they can as quickly as they can because this is an evolving situation. clearly the president wants to be on top of it now. >> and you hear about seven dead from something like this, the president usually speaks out about it, our ed henry traveling with the president who's on vacation in ashville, north carolina. the president has been briefed on this and we will be checking back with ed to see if there's anymore information. so, listen, we are following this situation that's happening in the south. a line of storms, really beat a path through the south today. we are told killing at least seven people. i'm being told joining us by telephone now is governor haley barbour, mississippi governor. mr. barbour, we understand you were home when this tornado happened. >> actually we were on the road between jackson and yazoo city, trying to get to yaz city as soon as the storm hit. the storm hit about 10 minutes

after 12 central time and we got there about 30 minutes later. but this is a gigantic storm, this tornado in places appeared to be several miles wide. it set down on the ground in madison parrish, louisiana, and crossed the river into mississippi, hit eagle lake, by t -- in yazoo city, it skimmed the edge of town, it hit a lot of neighborhoods just outside the city limits, went through a shopping center, absolutely obliterated a church. it's a very, very bad storm and regrettably we have some fatalities. reportedly five at this point, that's not official. but the other side of this is the outpouring of volunteers in

the community who went out in these areas that are on state roads and county roads and some even on dirt roads, went with four whaeelers and took a chain saw and helped out their neighbors. people immediately within the hour were out trying to get roads open and save people from their entrapment. >> governor, listen, you're saying five and you're still checking on, this is according to our check here, and, you know, it would be great if this number goes down, we're hearing seven, we're hearing three in yazoo, one in holmes, three in choctaw and two of these three in choctaw, sadly children. >> i was going say the five number is for yazoo county, though one of the -- the holmes county, the way yazoo and holmes county meet, it's in a big rural area and there was a lot of damage in there, so it could have been on either side of the

county line. but, yes, i was led to believe that there might be fatalities in choctaw county. >> and with those children, when this thing comes through, things like this, a tornado, there's really not much you can do unless you get some warning and many times there's no warning, you get the storm system warning and a lot of times there's no warning after that. >> particularly people who live in rural areas or children anywhere, they may not have been made aware. but i can tell you the devastation for this storm, there was some people killed who knew it was coming. this storm was very powerful and enormous. >> you knew it was come ing. i will bet you there were people who were killed who knew it was coming because you could have gotten in the closet inside your house and still not have been saved. >> yeah. >> but there's sometimes there's

nothing you can do, especially when the whole structure is demolished as we're looking at these pictures as you're talking, governor. we're going to get back and talk about the folks there, but i got this from the mississippi emergency management, governor, and it just goes on to list the counties here, choctaw, desoto, holmes, jasper, holmes damagmes and it just goes on and own. i know you guy dos plan for this, but when something like this happens, especially during tough economic times, it costs a lot of money, do you have the resources to deal with this? are you reaching out to washington to deal with these resources? >> some of these areas we anticipate will qualify for federal disaster assistance, we will begin in ernest putting together the figures that are required for the federal government to make that determination. we already have people who have arrived in mississippi from

fema, the federal government. so right now, we're still on the search and rescue effort, you may not -- your listeners may not know it, but the areas you talked about, many of those counties were the same tornado, one line, but then desoto, jasper, we have other parts of the state that were hit by other tornadoes. we had a big, big swathe of bad weather that went through here and spawned a lot of tornadoes, not only in mississippi, but probably in arkansas, louisiana and alabama as well. but yet, we have got the resources to help our people, we're putting the national guard on the ground tonight for security. won't be any looting here. and then hopefully some of these people will qualify for the federal programs because they're very beneficial. >> i want to update our viewers, you're listening to governor haley barbour, governor of the

state of alabama, many structures we're getting word that seven people have died and that is from officials in mississippi, but there are still, still many areas there as we were told by the governor's spokesperson that they can't get to. so they may find more damage. so governor, let's continue real quickly and talk about the people of mississippi and beyond. if people are watching, especially in areas that are in the path of this storm, your advice? >> well, this storm system spun off some powerful, powerful tornadoes. we live in a part of the country where we have tornadoes. the one that hit yazoo city, mississippi and stayed on the ground for about 150 miles was a huge tornado in width and extremely powerful. it went through some very hilly land, we don't have mountains in

our state, but it went through a lot of changes in elevation and never got up off the ground. for any appreciable length of time. it is a bad or it was a bad, bad, devastating tornado. worse than we're used to, i would say. >> people who are looking for loved ones or information on loved ones, governor? >> the red cross is setting up as is the salvation army, the red cross has two centers in the state that they have set up, one in yazoo city and one in vicksburg, i suspect there will be others particularly around choctaw county where it seems to have been an extremely large amount of damage, what we're seeing here, don, is a lot of damage in nonmetropolitan areas, but areas that have healthy populations. neighborhoods and lots of people

who live on this county road or that county road and so you're seeing that a lot of these areas are hard to get to, particularly if you got 100 trees down every mile. and you go to clear them, and that's the case in many places. we have lots of resources that we're going to apply here, and there are tons of volunteers that are just pouring out to help their neighbors. >> one quick question before we let you go, you've got a lot of people who are homeless, without homes, what are you doing for those folks? >> as we say, we have red cross shelters that are set up, i will be very surprised if not tonight in many areas of mississippi you don't have families who are taking in family members or people that go to their church or people whose kids go to school with their kids, whose kids play little league with their kids. this is a very, very giving

state and our people, particularly because of katrina bend over backwards to help their neighbors and even to help people they don't know, as was the case so often today in mississippi. i don't think we're going to find people who don't have a place to be tonight. but we will have a lot of people tonight who are not where they slept last night. >> the governor of mississippi who was near this tornado when it came through, got on the ground and started helping there very quickly and he has just offered some information to you if you want to find loved ones, get in touch with the red cross, governor thank you for your time, you mentioned people that are homeless, they are offering areas for them, from the red cross. this is a really big deal. he said they haven't seen a tornado like this ever, according to him. he said it was very unexpected and very big. mentioned the homeless people. this was shot by one of our very own who works here, homeless

people here sitting in the back of what was their property and you see their truck there and that's what they having to deal with tonight in mississippi and other areas in the southeastern part of this country. unbelievable. we're going to continue to follow this breaking news and again our thanks to mississippi governor haley barbour talking to us here on cnn. the tornado led to a string of tragedies, communities are mourning their dead right now. many on this storm coming up right after the break. ing you? fight back fast with tums. calcium rich tums goes to work in seconds. nothing works faster. ♪ tum ta tum tum tums it can happen anytime,

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all right, we're told at least seven people dead, many more wounded from today's storms and we're told two of them were

children, it's really a violent storm that moved across the southeastern portion of the united states and you need to be on alert this hour if you're in alabama, kentucky or tennessee. because there are people as we said who have been killed because of this. i want to get to now dr. richard somers, he is the chairman of emergency medicine at the university of mississippi medical center joining us now live. listen, we hear that you got a number of patients. tell us about that and what's the severity of their injuries? >> we have about a dozen patients from the accident, from the tornado, victims. and about four in critical condition. i'm sitting in the med com room where we run our disaster system out of and we're the only level one trauma center in the state so we sent a helicopter and a crew to a parking lot up in yazoo city to stage some of the victims and bring back the critical ones by helicopter. >> listen, here hearing about,

you know, the governor said that he had five in one county or what have you. often you guys will share information about other hospitals and other injuries and what they're dealing with at this hour? >> yes, from king's daughters in yazoo city and the lexington hospital that we're affiliated with, we are hearing information from them and actually in the staging that we did in the parking lot of a grocery store up there with our helicopter system, we did send some minor injuries to those closer hospital where is they could handle those and brought those critical ones back to us. >> to you. i guess i would imagine the stories for these for when the victims come in, they just say, obviously it sounded like a freight train, we hear that all the time. but it really just came out of nowhere and i'm sure they were surprised really just by the magnitude of this storm system? >> yes. we had heard that there was a storm coming for a day or so. but everything seemed fairly calm and then it just hit all of a sudden.

>> do you expect to get more? i know that's not an easy question to answer. >> yes, i think that we got the initial phase and as they explore the path of the tornado through to get to other areas, we're expecting another one or two waves of victims. >> the governor said to me here just a fewinutes ago sis one is powerful than he has seen in a while. can you -- do you feel the same way? >> caller: from the crew that we've had come back from the staging area, they were amazed and astounded about the amount of damage. and said it was sure realistic. >> rich art summers the chairman of the emergency medicine at the university of mississippi medical center joining us by phone and saying they've got at least 12 patients, other hospitals in the area, they've got more patients they're keeping in touch with each other. there, to try to get all of those injured patients treated

and well. again, and he said he expects to get more, and again as the governor said, if you're anywhere in the path of this storm system you need to seek shelter because this one was bigger and more powerful than he had seen in quite a while, if ever. we're following the breaking news here on cnn. make sure you stay tuned. your safety, our utmost importance.

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here's breaking news going on when it concerns the weather and we're on top of it here at cnn. we want to update you now. we're being told that seven

people have died in a tornado that touched down in mississippi, and they are still assessing the damage. the governor says they may find even more damage and they are concerned about the safety of the folks there. it is getting dark here in the southeast, and so that creates another problem with electrical lines and debris and what have you, so we're checking on that for you all the way up to missouri, we are told. and this tornado that touched down there, there are reports that it was up to a mile wide. it affected really a big portion of some counties there as the governor said, skipping over from louisiana to mississippi and then moving on and on and on, so we're following it for you here, this breaking news on cnn. the damage, it's just unbelievable. there are folks now who are homeless because of this. the red cross is having to go out and help people and according to the governor of mississippi, they're finding shelter for people who may be seeking it tonight or either tomorrow when the sun comes up