. >> reporter: a recovery that dennis deere desperately needs with no savings, no renter's insuranceo prospects. he is clinging to the life he almost lost. >> reporter: del, sad stories here, and you could see in the poor estate in the country, mississippi, even though state and federal aid will help folks in the short-term, what is their long-term prognosis? i mean you look at the pile of rubble that i'm standing on here -- this window frame, it seems like -- how do you clean all of this stuff up? and the question is how long will it take? i was in joplin three years ago. at that point when you looked at the mess, the miles of destruction you wondered how will they actually clean all of this up, and get this town back in order. a year later i returned, and i amazed at the progress, the power of people. i'm assuming the same thing will happen here, but in the meantime people are grieving the loss of 14 that are dead across any state and ten here. >> robert thank you very mump. >>> crews are trying to contain wildfires in southern california before the strong winds return. a blaze beg

third of lewisville, mississippi,'s residents already lived in poverty paralyzed on one side, dennis deere relies on a disability check to pay his rent, just $300 a month. >> it's time for me to go. i don't know where else to go. find me somewhere else to rest my head until i leave the world, you know. >> in the last 10 years, two other tornados have touched down here. each time, dennis stayed, thinking it could never happen again. >> well, and it hit the apartments and then they fix them and build them back, but this time, ain't no fixing it back. >> so much of lewisville, mississippi looks like this. most of the people here in this apartment complex are now scattered around town in shelters. they have no other place to go. two people lost their lives here one man was crushed to death by debris. another was thrown 100 yards into a field and passed away. >> at a red cross shelter w met yolanda tripli who lived in the apartment complex. now, she is sleep okay a cot and grieving the loss of her neighbors. >> some of them didn't make it. complc yolanda is unsure how they will start again. >>