>> powerful tornadoes ripping through mississippi overnight killing morethan 20 people and

leaning behind of devastating destruction. to see what might be coming in front of you last night, this massive tornado was only able to be viewed by intermittent flashes of lightning and transformers blowing out in the distance. is that i can hear it.

hi, aishah. iowa good to see you. i'm aishah hosni in washington. officials there say that town is essentially gone with entire neighborhoods leveled as you can see here in this video and thousands without power or anywhere to go. we are being told by officials on the ground that there are 23 people dead in that area. griff: it has hit them hard, in fact. powerful interview with rolling folks mayor, neil cavuto earlier. he literally looked to left and right and nothing was left, rolling fork is down in delta area. i went to school in mississippi, grew up there. damaged not only homes but areas but also hospital nearby as well. nearest town being vicesburg but crews are working to get in there now. >> the trees and homes are mangled. it's unrecognized. the landscape completely changes, so you have people waking up today returning to their homes that they were lucky enough to get out and looking around and not recognizing anything. those who live there become accustomed to nocturnal weather events. that's where you can't depend on your eyes to see what might be coming in front of you. >> i think it's coming right for us. >> the flat landscape allowing for wedgier tornado to turn on from one state to the other aishah, you mentioned 2,000 people. the damage there is grim and small but beloved business district completely destroyed. just like the endless homes that surrounded. we had homeowners send us videos. thankfully that are able to get in safe place. you see the car there, exterior. too much to process. i spoke with the home owner by

phone. too much to take. you're watching from the outside and feeling completely blessed that this is not your home, that he dye ploy crisis volunteers, also salv -- salvation army. >> thank you, alex. fox news meteorologist adam klotz. adam, what can you tell us. >> this was a long-ranging tornadoes. these are recaps of storm reports over the last 24 hours. the red poligons are paths. you see it running across the state, well over a hundred

miles. we see it measured on radar. the debris ball. this was a real wide destructive tornado, catastrophic and it was a powerful storm. if you are covering across the areas, sunny, temperatures to 8o get out and clean up a little bit. slightly better chance for rape on sunday as you're seeing perhaps another chance for severe weather south of that. i'm going to touch on that in just a moment. it is not the system that it was last night. potential for severe thunderstorms but that would bring damaging winds possibly large-hail tornadoes at this point from this line of storms

it's unlikely that we are going to see more of that as we watch sweeping across the region. severe threat for today continues in the area, again, a lot of the fuel used up. we are not expecting another large outbreak for now. slightly better chance for severe weather as you look towards sunday. here on scale, scale to the top, yesterday so friday we were up toward significant. still lower on the scale for your sunday but again across a lot of the areas that were at least some way impacted through mississippi over towards alabama and georgia, you can see severe thunderstorms, strong winds, there's a lot of moisture, humidity in the atmosphere right now. you see can flooding across the areas over the course of the weekend. there's still plenty to pay attention to and there could be more severe weather on the way. maybe the good news if you're looking at the forecast particularly across the northern parts of the state, mississippi and alabama where the worst this is all clear.

so folks will be able to get back and look through things and see how things are. aishah: a little bright spot. residents apparently didn't have much warning if any at all. is that because as alex was showing us, you know, this kind of happened in the dark, hard to see or did this storm just develop so quick that there was no warning? >> there's two things, dark is a big part of it. it's hard to see when it's coming. the other things these are quick moving. 65-mile an hour. that does not give a lot of time for people to get the warning. usually you have more time. 65-mile an hour moving tornado of that size, there just isn't a lot of time to warn folks. aishah: it is storm season and hopefully people are paying attention and getting prepared. thank you so much. adam. griff. griff: adam and aishah, let's go to mississippi where we find

nicole on the ground there. nicole, images are unbelievable of the devastating damage. >> it's probably not exaggeration to say that almost the entire town has been wiped out. there are dozens of buildings and homes and churches that are just leveled debris scattered for miles. i mean, it's hard to make out what is one building, what's another, where one begins and ends. meanwhile there are literal semitrucks piled on top of each other on top of all of that debris. debris that was once people's homes. this is incredibly difficult for people to process. they are just now getting their eyes on what was their community, what still is, of course, and their jaws are nearly on the floor here. we spent very early morning hours in rollingfork the use

flashlights to see through the darkness to get a sense of this and evidence that there was extremely powerful storm, how intense, we are not going to find out until the national weather service gets out there to give us their estimates. right now governor tate reeds is on his way to rollingford, he already said this is a tragedy adding the loss will be felt in these towns forever. earlier this morning we heard confirmed 7 people in rolling fork alone that were killed, 23 mississippians in all since the storm track more than 100 miles through the magnolia state. we are now learning that the death toll for rolling fork alone may already be rising and rising quickly, chris. griff: nicole, let me ask you, what is mobility like there in getting around. i've covered some of these and i

know that just getting to where there may be trying to conduct rescue missions can be difficult. >> very difficult. you are talking about roads that in some cases are impassable. there are power lines all over the place, debris that need to be moved, trees that need to be cut down. it's very difficult right now not to mention power outages are adding to the problem and communication is near to impossible to the point we are actually standing in hollandale, 20 miles because there's no service to get out a live signal, even a phone call. part of the issue that is probably going to play out among the dead, several missing and injured and getting word the families whether they are safe or need help has definitely been a challenge today, we hope that can be restored soon e rather than later because i'm sure that

can help those missing and accounted for. aishah: before we let you go, i'm seeing tweets on twitter from folks that i believe are on the ground asking where fema is. i imagine there would be a huge need. before we get on the phone with the fema director, are you seeing any fema personnel down there right now, are you seeing anybody from that agency? >> we drove out of rolling fork, i want to say 45 minutes ago and i had not seen fema there myself, however, as we were driving out in order to bring you this live shot i was told that governor tate reeves was on his way there and expecting his helicopter to land shortly to check on things, check on the folks who live in that community. so that could have changed at this point. he could be getting there soon. fema could also not too far

behind. aishah: hopefully they are dispatched and will get with the director in just a few. thank you, nicole of this live coverage of this horrific event. griff: great coverage and the coverage continues on the fox weather app, scan qr code that you see on the screen there and head to fox weather app to follow the latest on the devastating mississippi tornado as well as your own local weather updates. aishah: meanwhile to the border we go where authorities. >> rushing to rescue migrants after a mass casualty human smuggling incident happened there in a train car just east of uval deferment, texas. the tragedy drawing parallels to a similar incident that just happened last year outside of san antonio where 53 migrants died inside a tractor trailer. alexis mcadams live along the border right now in mission,

texas with the latest on what just happened. alexis. reporter: good afternoon, very sad update in uvalde, texas as migrants didn't make it out alive, two of them at least and some in critical condition. it was 100 degrees in south texas and hotter in rail cards for migrants. they said they couldn't breathe and someone called 911. >> this continues all over south texas. i mean, it happens -- we are up on the northern border with canada making about immigrants up there. why don't we pay attention to our southern border. how many lives have to be lost. alex: that's the question for the people who live out here too. how much more chaos has to happen in the southern border before someone in the administration here steps in. here is what he's talking about this morning eagle pass, texas, a group of at least 50 migrants

walking across the border just hours police got the 911 call alerting them that there were several migrants in tape cars. we know at least two migrants have died and 15 others were in need of serious medical attention. you can see the heavy police presence there on the ground after the migrants were found suffocating inside of those cars on friday afternoon in that sweltering heat. sources telling fox news that the migrants were being smuggled into the u.s. on those trains were told this is where the migrants got on the train, that's in eagle pass, texas, as you have seen they have cars lined up on the tracks and that's a look now. a lot of the migrants do get on the train and found before most of the time they take off and railcars are locked. as we work to get an update on the conditions, we want to mention it was less than a year ago this past summer that more than 50 migrants were found inside of that semitruck near san antonio, texas.

smuggling here a dangerous and deadly game every day in the southern border, a aishah. aishah: alexis mcadams, thanks so much. griff. griff: president biden says he will forcefully protect american citizens in syria, but did he live up to that promise. we will ask lawmakers from both sides of the aisle. ♪ ♪ ♪

griff: for more on the powerful series of storms sweeping through mississippi overnight and the rescue and relief efforts now underway we are joined by the president of samaritans first, reverend franklin graham. rev reppe-- >> we have equipment in route, we will be set up this time tomorrow will be taking volunteers trying to help people find their things and try to recover as much as they can, griff, the most important thing right now is prayer. as the governor tate said the

devastation will be felt forever in these communities as the lose of life, 23 people and the number will probably go up and people need prayer that god will just comfort their hearts and put loving arms around them during difficult time. the houses can be rebuilt after time, businesses will come back after time, those things can be -- can be fixed with time, but the loss of life, that's -- that's so difficult. it's going to be felt for a long time as the governor said forever and i agree with governor tate, we need to pray for the people. griff: prayer is so important for people facing a very uncertain future. reverend, i've had the honor of going with you when you have gone to these places with samaritans first in oklahoma, devastating ef5 tearing the community much like this tornado has done in mississippi. if you can for our viewers sort of tell, explain the challenges of getting in there and dealing with a destruction and how you

can help people. >> well, first we go in and we meet with the local officials fema, we want to get their input and we don't want to go down there and get in people's way. we want to go through an area that certainly needs our help. and so we all coordinate and we all work together so that we will take one area, they'll take somebody else and take another area. we will just go in and assess it and start helping. we bring in volunteers. person's houses may be flattened, they are looking for wedding ring or pictures and our volunteers go in and help go through the rubble of the home trying to find the valuables. house that is just lost roof but still standing will have tars so we can get the house back in the dry to keep it from further damage. we will take work orders and

help people who are asking for help. we will be there for some time. this is a bigger storm, over a hundred miles and -- >> griff: yeah. >> it's massive. griff: well, just, i want to lastly ask you how important time is, you're raising against the clock, the first 24 hours are very important. >> it is very important but the first thing right now for the local officials this is search and rescue. so you have to just stay out of the way and let your local authorities do what they do and tomorrow things will begin to open up where we can come in and start helping the homeowners but right now search and rescue, we need to pray for them that if there's life that god would get to them and it's very important. we saw this in turkey where we have been working where people were trapped for days before they were rescued and it's just

a very difficult, difficult situation where you see this kind of devastation, it's just massive and it's going the take time. griff: and you can see at the bottom of the screen. samaritansfirst.org if you want to try and help samaritansfirst they are among the best in situations like this and certainly bringing a lot of relief to those that need it the most right now and, of course, as you said reverend, prayers, prayers for this community and all those affected in this hundred mile path. reverend franklin graham, good luck, we will let you get to work. >> thank you, griff. aishah: we also want to get to breaking story affecting our troops in syria where iran-backed militias launching a series of attacks of coalition bases in the region after the u.s. launch retaliatory strikes following death of american contractor from a suspected iran-made drone. lucas tomlinson live on the latest of the biden

administration's response which, lucas, is already facing criticism. >> no question about that, aishah. another american soldier wounded in syria after iranian-backed soldiers launched more strikes against them after retaliatory strikes. first green beret says the u.s. needs to strike back harder. >> why did we wait until someone was killed to then take action? iran is going to push until it meets steel and the problem now with the administration's policy is iran will trade some of these local militias. lucas: forces launched pair of eagles to destroy sites in eastern syria used by iran's islamic revolutionary guard corp which were used to kill american contractor and wound six u.s. troops and another american contractor. in canada president biden was asked if more needs to be done.

>> iran keeps targeting americans. lucas: roughly 900 u.s. troops in syria right now, the top u.s. general for american forces in the middle east says his troops have been attacked nearly 80 times since president biden took office. the attacks on u.s. forces comes as the white house is trying to pivot away in the region to asia to take on rising china. in recent weeks china moved in brokering a deal for saudi arabia to resume relations with arch enemy iran, of course, kirby offered the following explanation on why iran is launching the attacks. >> it's clear that the iran-backed groups, militant groups that tehran is supporting they don't want to see the united states presence in iraq and they don't want to see in syria and they are retaliating. lucas: kirby says american forces are posted in syria and

iraq to make sure isis is defeated which says is a delete. aishah: thank you, lucas. let's bring in now democratic congressman from massachusetts and member of house transportation and infrastructure committee jake, he also serves on the house select committee on china which has been getting a lot of attention in recent weeks. congressman, good to see you. i want to start where lucas left off here with the deteriorating situation between the u.s. and these iranian-backed militia groups. we saw more attacks last night after we responded as well. there's been some gop criticism that this administration hasn't been strong enough in its response, what do you make of that? >> it's also a dangerous one as we have seen tragically over the last few days. the president responded with

precision air strikes in eastern syria to demonstrate that wherever u.s. service members or contractors operate the world over, the commander in chief has their back. i think that response was proportionate and the president has the appropriate scope of action right now in syria. >> let me step back for a minute here and just take a look at the overall picture congressman, when you look at the russians knocking down our drone, before that, it was the chinese spy balloon flying all over the country and, you know, the white house got some criticism for both of their responses to these situations not to mention the deal that china's xi just made with iran and saudi arabia. aren't we seeing our adversaries become more emboldened? >> i think we are seeing the gop respond to domestic politics and fervor to attack joe biden for anything and everything and not responding to geopolitics.

let's look at the state of affairs right now. in the middle east of failed forever wars president biden has gotten us out and we need to double in abraham accords which is bipartisan effort to bind israel together with arab neighbors to counter iran's increasing belligerocity and demonstrate the world over that the united states stands with freedom and democracy and we are continuing our support for taiwan in the terms of arms sales and in support of countering disinformation and propaganda so that taiwan can continue to be a flourishing democracy. president biden the world over is representing american values and advancing our priorities. aishah: but this is the same president who said that he wanted to pull out of a decade-long conflict in afghanistan and now we are involved in a conflict in ukraine so i think there is

criticism about -- >> that comparison is inaccurate on a number of fronts. first of all, afghanistan had u.s. boots on the ground and for 20 years the u.s. national security establishment had been -- president biden had the courage to tell the american people and ukraine has no u.s. troops on the ground and instead we are putting u.s. military ammunitions behind ukrainians behind the front lines. if we fall in ukraine if we allow ukrainians to cave to vladimir putin as donald trump would have them do, the post war rules based order that allows peace and prosperity to spread the world over will begin to unravel. aishah: congressman, happy with the biden administration's response to what's happening in the east all over the world. thank you so much for joining

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response lived up to that promise? >> well, it looks like so far his response in this instance has livered up to it but it's the duty of us to protect all americans but our adversaries, griff, have become completely emboldened across the world. we'ven the iranian backed attacks skyrocketed since president biden has taken office. we have seen china deepened their economic and diplomatic ties in the middle east and buying russian oil and iranian oil and natural gas. we have even seen saudi arabia, traditional u.s. ally deepening the ties with china because the biden administration doesn't have a plan to counter china, iran or anyone. griff: that's a great point, my colleague aishah asked your

colleague russia taking down our drone now, the iranian backed militias, is this administration lack a strong enough response on the world stage? >> absolutely. we didn't have these issues when donald trump was president. china is clearly not the united states' friend, the biden administration needs to understand that. i mean, the fact that they sent a balloon all over our country proves that. russians are not the united states' friend, they shot down our drone just over a week ago. we have to counter their aggression using the economic aspects and tools that we can. we saw donald trump do that with china, they backed down. we need to do that again. griff: your committee ways and means just held hearings. you're looking into the trade aspect of this since you brought it up are we taking a tough enough stance with china in

regards to trade? we have tiktok hearings all week. >> this administration is not taking a tough stance in china. our trade deficit with china last year was almost $400 billion, griff. our supply chains of food, energy and medicine, they're all vulnerable because we are more reliant on china manufacturing than ever before. a country that relies on another nation for the most basic goods needed for national security is no longer independent, they are politically dependent, we have to separate ourselves from china. griff: congressman, they are giving me 15, 20 second here, quickly your thoughts on whether we see former president trump indicted this coming week. >> well, i sure hope not. what the prosecutor in new york is doing is absolutely unconscionable, not a solid prosecutor in this nation with half of a brain would ever

indict under these kinds of situations. this is all clearly targeting political enemies, political opponents and it's exactly what's wrong in third-world countries. unfortunately it's in new york state. griff: congressman jason smith, thank you very much for your time. aishah: massive tornado damage across parts of the south, at least 23 people are confirmed to be dead dozens of others are injured. still waiting for those updated numbers. for more on the federal government's response joining me now by phone is fema administrator diane chriswell, thank you for calling in. really good to have you in this awful moment for the folks in mississippi. i'm sure you are looking at the pictures along with was, the damage is astounding and i imagine director that there will be a long-term need for shelter

for these folks. is fema being dispatched? >> good afternoon, aishah, this is definitely an incredibly heartbreaking event that we are watching unfold across mississippi. i did speak with the governor this morning and this is definitely going to be a longer-term recovery effort. it's going the take the entire federal family coming together to support these communities some of which -- some of our poorest communities in the state. and so we want to make sure that the full force of the federal family is in there to support them. i did have an opportunity to update the president earlier today and i will be traveling in the next day. i think tomorrow is our target to go assess the damage for myself to make sure that we are getting the right resources into these communities. aishah: director, can you tell us what the president told you?

>> he wanted to make sure just as i said that we are bringing everything that we have available from the federal family into these communities to help them with their immediate concerns. right now we are still focused on our life-saving, life-sustaining mission and making sure we are taking care of those people and getting to a safe place and it's a dynamic situation and there's weather going through our southern state and making sure that we are getting the warning out to individuals and making sure that everything the federal government has to support these families. aishah: you said you're heading there tomorrow, how quickly can crews get to something like this -- get to ground zero and walk me through what they'll do first, what are the first steps? >> yes, so we are sending one of our incident management teams out of our regional office that's going to go start integrating to help coordinate the resources that are needed.

right now the state has enough search and rescue assets and so they haven't asked for additional resources and want to make sure that if they do have a need we can quickly move resources. we have distribution centers with supplies like food and water that are staged nearby and as soon as we understand the magnitude of the impacts and what the needs are going to be, we will be able to move those closer if they are needed. aishah: and then as far as shelter goes, director, do you expect to see fema shelters being put up? i'm looking at the video. there's nothing left. >> yeah, we will work with our partners at the read cross. such tremendous partners. they take care of the sheltering. what we will do is provide additional commodities but we work closely together. there's already some shelters that the red cross has set up and they are going to send more people today to make sure we are taking care of these immediate needs and getting people to a safe place now and then we will work with the state on getting

some of the interim sheltering options that perhaps fema has available for longer-term while they continue to figure out how long it's going to take to rebuild and repair some of these homes. aishah: yeah, the weather i'm told is good today for people to go back and try to find whatever they can. what's your advice for people on the ground in terms -- i mean, this recovery is going to be like you said years probably before they -- what can they do now in the immediate hours? >> yeah, so there's a few things right now. so those areas where it is safe, because there is still weather moving through the south but areas that have been impacted where the weather is safe to go in. we need to be cautious. we have downed power lines, we have hazard debris and chemicals that have been disturbed like paint and refrigerators and so people need to be really concerned and cautious about what they're touching and what they are going through and they

need to take care to not create additional injuries. you know, the other thing that i just want to emphasize too is sometimes we will go and put generators. if somebody can go back into their homes and use generator but we see a large number of carbon monoxide deaths after disaster like this and making sure that we are using that type of equipment in an appropriate way and take pictures right now, take pictures of the types of damage that you have so we can use that to help with insurance claims or additional federal assistance as needed. aishah: we are running out of time and i know that you are especially busy, thank you so much for joining us. griff. >> thank you, aishah. griff: great interview, on the ground in the mississippi path of destruction the storm left. that's nexts. ♪ ♪ ♪

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talk to your doctor about rinvoq. learn how abbvie can help you save. griff: back to top story now, massive tornado damage across parts of the south, at least 23 people are dead, dozens of others injured. charles watson live with the latest. charles: we are 30 miles of the city of tupalow and i have to tell you just a lot of awful, awful damage here on the ground in smithville. on the hour that my crew and i have been on the ground we have run into homes like this that have undergone a lot of extensive damage. you can see the home here, the extent is up on the roof, a lot of wood and metal panels stripped off by the power of the tornado that ripped through here yesterday. you can actually see portions of

the home are exposed. we spoke to the homeowners out here who say once that roof went, they started taking on water inside of their homes so they've got a pretty extensive amount of water damage in the home. you can see there on the porch, a lot of the furniture has been tossed around. what was there is either sitting there broken up. a lot of it, though, has been lifted up and throne hundreds -- thrown hundreds of yards to this president. this is obviously dangerous aspects of the tornado and aftermath of a tornado is debris hanging around in the tree, you know, that could potentially fly and harm people. you can also see the large trees down on the property. we actually have a property on there, mr. paul johnson here with us, paul, you said that you and your wife judy were home as

this tornado hit yesterday. first of all, how are you and what was it like last night? >> it was pretty rough. we were hearing the sirens go off and hear h -- tornado emergd we got in our closet and just prayed and when it hit it shook the house. it didn't last very long but it probably less than a minute but it just shook the house and you could hear sound like it was crumbling metal like you would take it and crumble like a tin can. charles: i spoke to your wife judy and spoke to you for some time and you guys both said that

you feel lucky that you walked away with your life. this is a property that you all retired in 2019 and has extensive amount of damage, talk to me about how you're feeling? >> well, you know, we are going to rebuild but it's going to be a tough one because we had done everything to be able to retire and that's rough when something like this hits but we are thankful that we are safe and we have a lot of work to do on the house but we have family and friends and -- and we have to talk to the insurance company. i've already talked to the adjustors little bit this morning. they are going to put our name on the list and hopefully get that started. charles: thank you so much, paul. and as you guys can see they have a lot of damage that they have to clean up out here. wooden -- excuse me, cabin that has very large tree on it, toppled over it and completely

lost everything but this is what folks in mississippi are dealing with this -- this afternoon, guys and throughout the day. we will be around checking out some of the damage and we will get back to you guys a little later today, griff. aishah: charles watson live for us in devastated smithville, mississippi. we really appreciate it. we are going the move onto some other news now. rescue crews digging through the rubble after a major terrifying explosion at a historic pennsylvania cobbing late factory and officials say that at least two people are dead and five others are still missing. cb cotton live with the latest on the story. >> recovery efforts continue today. people holding on hope they will find survivors. mi.this is incredible given howe

explosion looked captured by the weather camera from fox affiliate just after 5:00 friday afternoon large pieces of debris were sent through the air and thick plumes of smoke filled the sky. rm palmer chocolate factory has been in business 1948 and northwest of philly, the company's website says more than 850 people worked here. at least 8 people were taken to the hospital with injuries because of this exm -- explosiod sadly 5 people are uncounted and two people have died and miraculously one person found in the horrific wreckage overnight but we know from those overseeing crews on the ground, they are up against the clock to find survivors. let's listen to what an official there had to say this morning.

>> someone was found alive that was, you know, in rubble and not knowing whether they. >> going live or die and fortunately we found that person and they got a second chance. hopefully fingers crossed we are going to find more and, you know, if not, we will have to, you know, come together again as a community and support those folks that will need the additional support in the worst case scenario meaning someone has passed away. reporter: aishah, just to recap, crews are leaving no stone unturned for recovery efforts, they are using k9's and imaging technology to look through the rubble. it's such a tragedy for this to occur this time of year. rn palmer known for eastern chocolate that we cherish and enjoy this time of this. the investigation of how that happened underway and will be in the foreseeable future.

aishah: takes my breath away every time we see the building explode. if we can put it back up. it's incredible. do we have any details of when we might learn what happened? it's a chocolate factory, what could have gone wrong? >> there was a press conference held this morning and reporters asking really insightful thoughtful questions. somebody asked, i think there's been a bit of speculation in the community right but the mayor samantha kegg pushed back on that. we heard about the speculation. we know that this has had huge impact in our tight-knit community but we can't surmise on how the tragedy occurred. of course, like you said incredible images coming out of redding, pennsylvania right after 5:00 yesterday afternoon and horrific to know that at least two people have died and

families of 5 people still had the uncertainty this morning as crews look through that wreckage to try to see if there are any survivors, of course, our thoughts and prayers are with those families that are facing the uncertainty this morning. aishah: everybody wants to know what happened, what went wrong. cb cotton, live for us. great reporting. reporter: thank you. aishah: searching for survivors after the deadly tornadoes left widespread destruction in the south. we are going to take you down there. we will have team coverage at the top of the hour. ♪ ♪ ♪

aishah: well, devastating day for the u.s. as more than 20 people are now dead, dozens injured and several are missing after devastating tornadoes ripped through mississippi overnight. several towns are reporting overwhelming damage. you can see it right there in rolling fork, mississippi everything is gone. emergency crews are still trying to pull survivors out of that destruction. welcome to another hour of fox news live, i'm aishah hosni, hi, griff. griff: i'm griff jenkins. thousands remain without power this afternoon as severe pummeled the region last night. hey, alex. alex: