richard lui is in albertville, alabama. jacqui jeras is here in the severe weather center tracking all of this nasty weather that has swept across the country this weekend. let's get started with ed lavandera. he's actually joining us on the phone. you're seeing the worst of the damage where you are, ed. you've been hiking through mississippi really trying to tra version this state that was hit so hard by this tornado. give me an idea what you're witnessing. >> reporter: >> all right. therein lies part of the problem. the devastation that has hit much of the southeast, communication is spotty, very difficult to get confirmation, sometimes, of being able to reach out to people. we'll try to reach back out to our ed lavandera momentarily when we can. meantime, let's go to albertville, alabama, where we find our richard lui there. the devastation is quite widespread there as well. richard, give us an idea. >> reporter: yeah, fred. you talked about utilities and difficulties there. surely that is the case here in albertville wh