the hardest-hit area, central mississippi.t ten people were killed by a tornado that was about 1 1/2 kilometers wide. i spoke earlier with correspondent ed lavandera, who had just toured the damage zone there. >> reporter: we've driven around this community here this afternoon. we have sensed the many people who are simply stunned by how quickly this storm just ravaged the city here of yazoo city. one family in particular that we met as we arrived here, a couple by the name of robin ashley saxon. they were driving on a road right by here. their family owns this restaurant. there's a restaurant you see here behind me. they were trying to race to get to this restaurant because their family had taken cover in the freezer in this restaurant. but as you'll hear right now, they didn't make it on time. >> i get the sense from what you guys were describing to me you that were right in the middle, it was right on top of you lirlly. >> it was. it was glass, debris flying. when i got out of the car, thinking she was going to get out behi

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 wi

that path may increase on this killer tornado in mississippi. back to you. >> pentagon officials tell nbc news defense department is negotiating with senator lieberman in the showdown over documents of the attack at ft. hood. the chair and raining member issued subpoenas to two of president obama's cabinet secretaries. pentagon officials could not say whether the justice department, which was also subpoenaed, was involved in those negotiations. senators lieberman and collins want to find out why the joint terrorism task force knew some 10 to 11 months before the shooting that the suspect, army psychologist hasan was exchanging e-mails with a known al qaeda recruiter but failed to warn the pentagon or army. >>> more ammunition for washington and its battle against wall street. ahead of the hearing on capitol hill, goldman sachs releasing more internal e-mails showing the company was aware the housing market was collapsing but kept selling investments tied to real estate. a trader said he just sold some of those exotic products to widow's and orph

, and here has done huge damage around yazoo city, mississippi. we have fatalities, a number of people that we're still trying to rescue who are trapped in buildings. but it is a major, significant tornado that went on from here up further north in the state. and i-- it did some serious damage and perhaps some fatalities north of here. >> glor: governor, i was going to ask you how bad the damage is outside other i cans across the mississippi here. >> it's reported in another county there may be fatalityes. that's 80 miles from here, 70 miles from here. so the tornado was on the ground for at least 150 miles. >> glor: governor haley barbed our from mississippi. thank you. we appreciate your time this evening. >> sure, jeff. >> glor: to the south of the tornado zone, the coast guard announced today the aftermath of the oil rig explosion that took 11 lives is worse than originally believed. new information is showed oil is leaking from that rig in the gulf of mexico from the ocean bottom, creating an oil slick many miles long. don teague has latest.

that's all the way across mississippi.ll touched down just across the mississippi river, and the folks here had warning. they had about an hour's worth of warning knowing that a tornado was on the ground just to the southwest of them. what they didn't know is it was going to take a direct aim right at them. and people said they just couldn't believe what they saw when they looked out the windows. they ran for cover. just over my shoulder here is a steak house. i talked to the owner who said he saw the tornado coming, ran back into the restaurant, got his employees and some of the customers there into the cooler of his restaurant. the restaurant was obliterated, the back half of it is gone, but everyone in that cooler survived. take a look at this ravine here. the trailers and other debris that were up on the hill here are blown into the ravine. up on the bridge, it looks like a lumber mill. those are houses over there. the roofs have been blown off, the timers shattered and blown into the wind. they're still looking for su

track 2g near valley park, in mississippi.nd some of the cities under the gun for this tornado include holly bluff, tinsley, and benton. all moving to the northeast, pretty rapidly at about 55 miles per hour pap fast-moving storm right here. you can see. in between these two highway, 20 and 55. there's jackson. now, the counties are under a tornado warning. at least for the next 15 to 20 minutes. part of a widespread area of severe weather that's breaking out. this is one the first reports that we have of a confirmed tornado on the ground by national weather service officials. remember, mississippi is part of an area that we are tracking today for severe weather throughout the day and into the evening as it tennessee and alabama. and even into parts of georgia seeing severe weather right now. mississippi in particular is part of a region, again, the area we're tracking for severe weather right now with tornadic activity. a particularly dangerous situation meaning tornadoes that come through this area, violent. tracking it agai

the mississippi tornado packed winds of 150 miles an hour. and the same system spawned more twisters in south carolina last night. >> eric horng reports from yazoo city which took a direct hit. >> reporter: in this community of shattered homes, survivors claw through rubble, searching for any sign of the familiar. >> i don't know what to do. i'm just totally lost. i have nothing left. just nothing. i don't know where to begin don't know where to end it. >> reporter: the destruction in yazoo city is measured not in air but in blocks. on the ground, you can feel it. >> with moving forward, with the community like this, you know, it's so painful. >> reporter: the twister was one of several that caused a path of destruction almost 200 miles long, killing at least ten people, including a baby and two other children. this woman survived by huddling in the bathroom. >> it came in the bathroom, and just with with the wind, we got down and prayed. >> reporter: in this deeply religious community many spent this sunday praying in churches and for them.

we've got tornado warnings for kemper county, mississippi. this is a doppler radar indicated tornado right there at the bottom of your screen and we've got another warning here for fayette, pickens and tuscaloosa counties and this is again a doppler-indicated radar tornado. and we'll take you on up into northeastern parts of alabama, and this did have a history of producing a tornado with a little bit of damage. we don't know how serious it is, but we still have a warning in effect for marshall county. it does appear that that storm is starting to weaken a little bit so hopefully we'll see that to begin to expire. now i want to take you into the nashville, tennessee, area. severe warning. you can expect to see winds in excess of 60 miles per hour. and heavy downpours and lots of lightning. oh, there you can see it on our live lightning tracker as these storms to push eastward, we'll have to continue to watch them and see if they pick up any rotation but it doesn't look like that's a likely indication at this hour. now, we're expecting to see

two in alabama and ten in mississippi, where yazoo city was crippled by an enormous tornado. don teague has more. >> reporter: there are parts of this town that like the roof of francine cox's house are simply gone. >> i don't know how to put it into words, you know. it's just gone. that's all i can say. >> reporter: at least 340 homes and businesses across mississippi are no longer recognizable. twisted -- >> it hurts all the way through. >> reporter: -- thrashed, or swept away by a massive, fast moving twister that left ten people dead and more than three dozen injured. it's the second time this church has been destroyed. the first time by an arsonist. but what's amazing isn't what's gone, but what, or who, is still here. dale thrasher was alone in the church when the storm hit. he hid under the communion table. >> i asked the good lord to protect me and it's like he put his arms around me. everything else was thrown around except for me and that table. >> reporter: the cleanup is just beginning as neighbors help each other deal with so much loss. volunteers have come from

we just took a live picture from weir, mississippi.an have a tree standing and a house next to it completely gone and another house next to it standing. >> i haven't been back yet. we spent time at ground zero helping pull people out and streaming video live back to you guys. i saw first hand the extent of the damage but i didn't go any further than that. >> you do incredible work and we greatly appreciate you coming on to talk to us about it. be safe on the next storm you're out there chasing. thank you very much. >> thank you. have a great day. >> you do the same. >>> the vatican has accepted an apology from the british government over an embarrassing internal memo involving pope benedict. the leaked memo offered tongue in cheek suggestions for the pope's upcoming vice toit tsit . they include on this list opening an abortion clinic, blessing a gay marriage, and launching a papal brand of condoms. nbc's jim maceda joins us from london. jim, i went online looking at some of the reaction. people were in disbelief that even though this

a powerful tornado touching down in western mississippi. we're getting word that at least six people have been killed. >> i'm in a tornado right now. it's coming down everywhere. >> that dramatic video shot by a storm chaser caught in the tornado in yazoo city, mississippi. emergency officials saying the tornado hit three counties in that state, damaged or destroyed buildings, up rooting trees. rescuers have been setting up centers in a mall parking lot. mississippi governor giving this assessment after touring the area by chopper. >> it's gigantic tornado. several miles wide in places. it came down in louisiana and stayed on the ground all the way through. >>> by the way, that was the governor's hometown that was it. yazoo city. we have team coverage. domenica davis is live in our extreme weather center. first, joining me by phone is reporter, live in yazoo city? >> i am standing next to the tree. ambulances and now taking to the people to the hospitals, treating them for the injuries, but i have to tell you. there are tons of people still

large hail is possible in parts of the mississippi valley. and heavy thunderstorms could bring up to 2 inches of rain for the area. weather channel's mike seidel is in greenville, mississippi. he's joining us live. i see the sun has risen a little bit. there's a lot of dark ominous clouds, mike. >> reporter: there are. that's looking back from mississippi into arkansas, chico county. the next county over, ashley county, is under a tornado watch right now. all the storms are missing us in this part of the mississippi delta, coming out of louisiana into southeastern arkansas and moving northeast. storms are moving at 50 to 60 miles an hour. even if you don't get a tornado, there's a likelihood some of you today will get straight line wind damage. those are winds that come down to the ground. we had wind gusts to 09 miles an hour in eastern texas. the severe weather indices are through the roof today. this is the most dangerous day we've seen all season. we've had a late start to the severe weather season. the jet stream was so far north in marc

the most severe storm-ravaged parts of mississippi.e damage there killing ten people including two children and a 3-month-old baby. fema teams are on the scene now. the storm cut a path of destruction some 50 miles long and more than a mile wide. two people died in northern alabama. hundreds hurt. homes damaged and destroyed. and in missouri, no injuries but power lines and trees were knocked down. you warned us that this would be quite a weekend event and something to be mindful and cautious of. you were true to your word there. >> it wasn't difficult to see. the only obvious part we couldn't do anything about, tony, is we saw it moving from the plains, less populated, to the mid south and southeast, much more populated and people get in the way of the storms. they go where they want to go. yazoo city got the prubrunt of saturday afternoon. it tore a path 97 miles long, at times almost two miles wide and got all the way to alabama. yesterday, that was no picnic for the folks in south carolina and north carolina. we have ireport video

, mississippi.his check of things, how's it looking? >> well, you just showed that lightning strike from the golf tournament, the pga tour stop in new orleans hitting that tree on the course. they didn't even get the second round in yesterday. today's nation ride series race in talladega will likely get rained out. people are out there camping. one place you don't want to be is in a camper. this is a very dangerous day. this is the most severe day we've seen as far as the indices we use to forecast severe weather this season. a late start because the position of the jet stream. now the jet stream is digging down, a front's coming in and a lot of moisture's coming out of the gulf of mexico. as we are showing you on the radar this morning, we've got a lot of boxes out, watch areas. the latest one coming over from the right side of your screen, northern and central alabama, into tennessee. nashville, you're in the danger zone. tuscaloosa, birmingham. these storms are moving east-northeast at 50 to 60 m

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scales and what kind tornados these can cause, we don't have the official word yet out of jackson, mississippi, how strong this tornado was but based on the pictures i've been seeing, don, i would say at least an ef-3 tornado, which would be considered a severe tornado and winds around 165 miles per hour and i've also seen a couple of pictures where some of these homes have been wiped clean off of the slates and if that is case and these are well-constructed homes maybe see this upgraded to an ef-4 or more so we'll watch that and of course as we get word from them tomorrow we'll bring that along to you so this threat continues overnight with that high risk, don, especially mississippi, alabama on into western kentucky and tomorrow this moves into the eastern seaboard and though

breaking news the death toll in mississippi now stands at nine.t is rising and it could rise after a deadly storm system tore right through the southeast. two of the victim, we're told, are children. and you need to be on alert this hour if you're in alabama, kentucky or tennessee, or anyone in the path of this storm system. already there are 43 unconfirmed reports of tornados from northern missouri, right through mississippi. perhaps the most destructive one hit yazoo city, that's in mississippi, before the storm cell traveled across the state and into alabama. the tornado that blasted through there was almost a whole mile wide. the yazoo city fire chief says 20 to 30 homes are destroyed. and he believes some people were inside of them when that tornado came through. search-and-rescue of the s are under way at this hour. let's go over now to our meteorologist jacqui jer awho's been tracking this all for you, throughout the evening. jacqui. >> dorng the threat remains widespread at this hour from parts of missouri, stretching wall way down the pan

we're in a small town of ware, mississippi, in choctaw county. this is an area where five people were killed in this tornado yesterday. we are along a little street called white grove where we believe that three of the youngest victims of this storm were killed yesterday. a 14-year-old girl, a 9-year-old girl and a 3-month-old baby girl as well. we just pulled into the neighborhood trying to get a sense of how it all unfolded here yesterday. what we're seeing is massive trees all splintered and shattered to pieces as well as dozens of homes. it's a small country roads that we're on. this was a heavily devastated area with a very tragic unfolds as three of the youngest victims were killed in the area where i am right now, fredricka. >> all right, ed. what about these three children among the ten killed in that state? what's your understanding about how that family's doing? >> reporter: we understand that the -- the 14 and the 9-year-old girls were sisters. and that their parents are being treated in hospitals as we speak. the mother of the 3-month

the paths of some of those tornadoes led right through yazoo city, and mills springs, mississippi. nbc's charles hadlock was among the first to report from the scene. he starts us off again tonight from yazoo city. charles? >> reporter: good evening, lester. more help poured into the storm-ravaged region today as tornado victims and their neighbors began the tremendous task of rebuilding their lives. the tornado carved a ribbon of despair across central mississippi, claiming ten lives, including three children. in mills springs, j.w. carter mourns his loss. the grandfather of five says his son and five grandchildren were trapped outside this house. the father clutched all his children, but the tornado's winds ripped two from his grip. >> he said he grabbed the kids and tried to get on top of them and tried to put them all in his arms with, but the wind left them off. >> reporter: in hardest hit yazoo city today, residents salvaged what they could and told stories of survival. >> did not see it coming. had heard the sirens. >> reporter: evelyn had just returned home from the grocery

a twister cut a path of defrux from louisiana to mississippi. -- of destruction from louisiana to mississippi. we have the latest. >> reporter: a tilted cross outside a mississippi church ripped from the foundation by saturday's deadly tornado. >> we are all saddened. we are all shocked. but jesus is in control. >> reporter: the twister reportedly packed winds as high as 200 miles per hour blowing apart homes, tossing cars an tear path this restaurant. >> that taught me a lesson. you don't have time. >> reporter: several people huddling inside as the tornado lifted off its roof. >> by time we got into the doors of the restaurant, everything was coming in on top of us. >> reporter: more than 15 mississippi counties damaged by the storm's fury, beginning in louisiana and moving east. >> it is just remarkable to see the people who pull a four wheeler out of the backup truck, sling the chain saw over the back and just ride in where the trucks can't get, where nobody can go. >> reporter: the national guard and emergency crews sift through the wreckage looking for anyone who may have survived and f

a dozen people, including three children or killed in mississippi and alabama. hundreds of homes damaged. authorities trying to get it complete picture of the destruction caused by the twister. if the senate will vote today on whether to bring a final reform bill to the rigid bring the final vote to the reform bill to the floor. they will try to attract more republican votes. derivatives are blamed for helping cause the financial crisis. >>> activists want president obama to fight arizona's immigration laws. they say it will lead to a resident of legal immigrants and u.s. citizens who look hispanic. the law requires police officers to question people about their immigration status if there is reasonable suspicion that they are in the country illegally. >> it is 5:15. people who took part in the earth day rally want to send a message to lawmakers. thousands of people attended yesterday's rally and concerts. 2010 marks the 40th anniversary of earth day. the event is aimed at pushing lawmakers to pass comprehensive climate legislation. >> we are encouraging them to

how are you going to pay for that in mississippi? >> well, that's the problem.if this, in fact, becomes law and goes into effect out in the four or five years from now, when it's supposed to go into effect, it's going to cost mississippi state's government $150 million to $250 million, and we don't have that money. >> are you going to have to raise taxes? >> it is, in fact, a tax increase on the people of mississippi and virtually every other state. states like california and the billions of dollars per year, for us, a couple of hundred million dollars per year. and the fact is we don't have the money and expanding medicaid -- we're going to expand it by about 50% in my state. we're going to go from about 650,000 people on medicaid to more than 1 million people on medicaid. candidly, candy, if somebody had proposed last year self-standing, without any other legislation, hey, i got a great idea. let's put about 15 million people on medicaid, what would the american people have said? that's a craziest idea i've ever heard of. medicaid's always in financial trouble

. >> state of emergency, a destructive tornado tears through mississippi killing at least 10 people. dozens of families are left in mourning tonight and others homeless and fox's chris gutierrez is following the developments. >> reporter: trees, cars and homes tossed around by a powerful tornado. the twister cutting the path 3/4 of a miles wide through yazoo city and other towns. >> and i grabbed my son, we got on the floor and all the windows were blown down and the house started flooding. >> reporter: governor haley barbour has a home there. and you can see there are a number of businesses destroyed, others severely damaged and churches obliterated. >> reporter: authorities say it caused fatalities and are reporting dozens of people injured. the mississippi national guard has been deployed to protect people and property. >> went through the southern edge and eastern edge of town and through a number of large neighborhoods. >> reporter: residents check out the damage making their way past toppled houses, torn-off roofs and damaged cars with dozens of structures ruined, cleanup will

but mississippi clearly took the brunt of it. eric horng reports from yazoo city. >> reporter: in this community of shattered homes, survivors claw through rubble searching for any sign of the familiar. >> i don't know what to do. i'm just totally lost. i have nothing. nothing. there's nothing. i don't know where to begin it, i don't know where to end it. >> reporter: the destruction in yazoo city is measured not in buildings but blocks. from the air you can see the full scope of the catastrophe. on the ground you can feel it. >> the hardest part of moving forward is just to see the community like this, you know. it's so painful. >> reporter: the twister was one of several that carved a path of destruction almost 200 miles long across mississippi, killing at least ten people, including a baby and two other children. morgan hayden and jaziah moto survived by huddling in their bathroom. >> we came in the hallway and we could feel the wind just coming through the hallway, like picking us up. we went straight here to the bathroom and

how are you going to pay for that in mississippi? >> that's the problem. if, in fact, this becomes law and goes into effect out in the four, five years from now, when it is supposed to go into effect, it is going to cost mississippi state government $150 million to $250 million minimum. we don't have that money. >> reporter: will you have to raise taxes? >> a tax increase on the people of mississippi and virtually every other state. states like california, in the billions of dollars per year. for us, a couple hundred million dollars a year. the fact is, we don't have the money. expanding medicaid -- we have to expand it by about 50%. we are going to go from 650,000 people on medicaid to more than 1 million people on medicaid. d candidly, candy, if somebody had proposed last year, hey, i got a great idea, let's put about 15 million people on medicaid, what would the american people have said? that's the craze yest idea i ever heard of. medicaid is always in financial trouble. it is not like government -- it is not like the federal employees health benefit p

nbc's thanh truong has our report. >> reporter: in baptist town, mississippi, there is no shortage of prayer, poverty or pain. every sunday at church, names of the sick are announced. with each name this doctor shudders. >> i see lack of access to the care that's needed. >> reporter: back in the civil rights era, dr. shirley fought just to practice medicine here. now at age 77, he's fighting for a new solution to the health care crisis. he thinks he's found it in a very old country, iran. >> come hell or high water, we'll have a health housup and running. >> reporter: the health house is an idea from iran where community health workers, not doctors, deliver screening and basic medical care. dr. shirley and his colleague james miller traveled more than 7,000 miles to see health houses first hand. iranian doctors came to mississippi to see if the idea could work in baptist towns. >> the community health worker doesn't it for them to come to the health house. they go out amongst the community and knock on the doors. >> reporter: theorldealth organization commends the health house model a

hundreds of buildings are destroyed and hard hit mississippi.s rescuers look for anyone unaccounted for. >> we worked for something for 44 years and just in a matter of a minute or two and it's all gone. >> reporter: residents now focus on cleanup as the national guard patrols from the ground and the air. in a helicopter, mississippi governor haley barbour toured the devastation. the images of a ravaged county is one he takes pearlly he viebd what he saw as utter obliteration. because of the sheer magnitude, the national weather service says it may not understand the full scope of the deadly storms until tuesday. in new york, terrell brown, wjz "eyewitness news." >>> and first warning weather coverage continues once again with meteorologist bernette woods with the intensity of the twisters that touched down this weekend. hello, again, bern. >> hello, i want to show outef scale because it's official it's an ef4 tornado that brought the damage and unfortunately the deaths to mississippi. you can see on the scale that's a very high level tornado. a

it is estimated that the storm destroyed at least 1,000 homes and businesses with mississippi reporting the bulk of the damage at 700 destroyed properties. state leaders say they will seek help from the white house to aid in recovery efforts. the mississippi governor says crews are still trying to tally the damage so he can apply for much-needed federal help. >>> another story making head line this morning, strong words from venezuela's president hugo chavez aimed at the united states. >> coming up, hear why he believes that the u.s. is looking for an excuse to attack his country. av ♪ my subaru saved my life. i won't ever forget that. love. it's what makes a subaru, a subaru. it was in my sister's neighborhood. i told you it was perfect for you guys. literally across the street from her sister. [ banker ] but someone else bought it before they could get their offer together. we really missed a great opportunity -- dodged a bullet there. [ banker ] so we talked to them about the wells fargo priority buyer preapproval. it lets people know that you are a serious buyer because you've been

live in yazoo city, mississippi, i'm jay gray.joe, back to you. >> long time to recover for many aspects of this whole event. thanks very much, jay. >> unbelievable devastation. >>> president obama paid a visit to west virginia to deliver the eulogy for the 29 coal miners killed in an explosion three weeks ago. >> president obama pledged to the miners,' loved ones mine safety reform. he met with each of the victims' families before he spoke. he promised that improvements would be made to the mining industry. mr. obama said the current regulations are riddled with loopholes. >> our task here on earth is to save lives from being lost in another such tragedy, to do what we must do individually and collectively to assure safe conditions underground. these miners lived as they died, in pursuit of the american dream. >> there will be a senate hearing on the mine explosion tomorrow. >>> this morning d.c. councilman jim graham says more needs to be done to put an end to youth violence in the district. last month four teenagers were gunned

the war began in 1861, twin was living in new orleans, working as a river boat pilot on the mississippi river. not wanting to be drafted in either the union or of confederate navy, twain left the war in new orleans and went to stay with his sister in st. louis. a few weeks later he went back to him hometown of hannibal, missouri, where he was talked into joining a new group of confederate military gorillas known as the marian rangers. the rangers weren't exactly a crack outfit. they spent most of their time arguing about strategy, falling off their horses, and constantly retreating from what they imagined were hoardes of union soldiers. one ranger accidentally shot his own horse one night, for not giving the proper password. another guy carried off by a watchdog, the entire group managed to fall down the hillside one night into a creek. and sam clemens sprained his ankle when he jumped out of a burning barn that he set on fire in the first place by smoking in bed. in fact, rangers did so much marching and countermarching that one old farmer in the area said they're bound to win the war

. >>> to mississippi now, where many are stunned and grieving from yesterday's deadly tornadoes. ten people were killed, dozens more were injured. emergency crews are combing through the rubble now to make sure they have found everyone. now that community in mississippi begins the overwhelming task of cleaning up what the tornadoes have left behind. jay gray now with that story from mississippi. >> reporter: it is the day after in yazoo city. >> that wind was just so furious. i mean, we've got double -- we have double windows on and it broke every one of them. just came through there, and just demolished the front of our house. >> reporter: the damage stretches for miles across at least 16 counties. and evidence of the intensity of the tornado is everywhere. the winds so strong, trees were snapped in half, and their bark stripped away. others literally pulled from the earth. electric lines were tossed to the ground and left in a tangled mess. cars and trucks tattered and rolled on their sides. most all of this community is now broken and battered. >> it's sa mazing how something

iranian doctors came to mississippi to see if the idea could work in baptist towns. >> the community health worker doesn't wait for them to come to the health house. they go out amongst the community and knock on the doors. >> reporter: the world health organization commends the health house model and helped cut the infant death rate in iran by more than 70%. compared to the rest of this country, this state ranks at or near the bottom when this state comes to diabetes and infant morality. >> i would love to see a doctor to get a check-up. i don't have insurance so i don't get to see one. >> reporter: sylvester hoover runs the only business in baptist town. he doesn't care where health solutions come from. so now the community is planning. with proper funding this empty store could be turned into the mississippi delta's first health house. lee bella is a nurse and ready to volunteer. >> we have to go to the people that can't come to us. >> reporter: it's an example how the common enemy of illness can forge unlikely alliances. thaun trung, nbc news, baptist town, mississippi. >>> when

it's footage from ireporter cameron scott in olive branch, mississippi.t shows rain and heavy wind gusts that lasted for about 15 minutes. tornadoes hit at least four southern states yesterday, killing ten people in mississippi. a tornado almost a mile wide kept going for about 150 miles in that state. >>> the pittsburgh steelers did not pick a quarterback in this week's nfl draft. this is another sign that the team is standing by its star, ben roethlisberger, who will bring suspended at the start of the season. the league announced this punishment after georgia prosecutors decided not to file sexual assault charges against him. richelle carey discussed this case with ryan smith, host of "in session" on tru tv and mike galanos of hln's prime news. >> first of all, i want to know, ryan, you've worked for the nfl. is this what you expected? >> well, i -- i will tell you what i thought might be appropriate, which was eight games. i am not surprised he got six. and that actually fits with the way the nfl usually does things. because in these cases in the past

jay gray, nbc news, yazoo city, mississippi. emergency teams continued to work on the ground here through the day. officials say it's certain to be a new and difficult recovery. >>> new concerns off the coast of louisiana. that ca tatreau fee left 11 workers missing and now presumed dead. crews were able to siphon off much of the oil slick from the surface and put containment booms in place to keep the oil from drifting. >> there is a moderate amount of residual oil on the surface we are working to clean up as far as offshore as possible. vehicles are trying to close valves deep underwater. if that fails, crews would co drill what's call add interessential weld. that's a process that could take months. >>> today president barack obama will deliver a eulogy for the 29 workers killed in a mine explosion earlier this month. the president and first lady will attend the memorial service in beckley, west virginia. investigators are still trying to figure out what sparked the explosion inside the upper big branch mine. the vice preside

nearly 700 homes were damaged over the weekend in mississippi alone. 12 people were killed. 10 in mississippi. two in alabama. officials are tallying the costs so they can ask for federal emergency declaration. >> good morning. it is drizzly out there. we have missed coming down. today it's going to be a transition. we will see sunshine when the smoke out. the clouds will thicken out. the crowds move back this afternoon. afternoon showers especially south of town are possible. a good job of the week will be dry and pleasant and pushing near 80 by the end of the week. today's forecast, and drizzle, sunshine, then more clouds. >> it is a fantastic ride even on areas of west pavement. 95 in and out of baltimore is good. between virginia and springfield, looks good. if nothing near the pentagon on 395. 66 between marshall and vienna, i have nothing to report. everyone is behaving out of waldorf on route 5. on 228 and who 10, and-- aqndnd 210 looks fine. >> its 53 degrees. >> a controversial supreme court case. and if the fed taking on facebook. to the government taking aim at the technology world

mississippi will file a state of emergency making federal assistance possible.ity was hit the hardest. 100 homes in the town and surrounding county are no longer habitable. we go to west virginia where barack obama attended a funeral service for the 29 coal miners who died earlier this month. ♪ my comfort my shelter ♪ >> the workers were killed in an explosion of the nation's worst mine disaster in decades. today's service feature add photo of each of the men with their families placing miner helmets atop of 29 white crosses. president obama talked about the men who chose to take on such dangerous work. >> all that hard work, all that hardship, all the time spent underground was all for the families. it was all for you, for a car in the driveway, a roof overhead, for a chance to give their kids opportunities that they would never know. and enjoy retirement with their spouses. it was all in the hopes of something better. so these miners lived as they died -- in pursuit of the american dream. >> the president also called for a better safety measures for coal miner

it killed 12 people in mississippi and alabama. you'll hear from mississippi's governor that will give you the latest on the recovery effort and show you the dramatic picture. one on one with the independent senator joe lieberman. he was in the middle of the big climate change debate. it happes collapsed now. he'll talk about the political climate here in washington, d.c. on my radar tonight, fascinating stories including one democratic governor's unusual job pitch. she'd like to come to washington. guess where she'd like to work? and whether the supreme court should step in to keep your children from playing violent video games. >>> you're not getting what you want from washington tonight. most of you, anyway. and i'm guessing that doesn't come as a big surprise. two-thirds of americans say they support tougher rules on big wall street financial firms, but the senate decided tonight that such a debate has to wait a bit. why? well, you make the call. here's what happened. democrats failed a short time ago to get the 60 votes they n

this is yazoo, mississippi.from a bar in yazoo city was found three miles away. >>> tiger woods is back on the golf course this week. he will be playing in a tournament that is not as tightly controlled as his masters was. our own rafer weigel is at the quail hollow club and he joins us live and points out the difference between the masters tournament and this tournament and how that will equate to how the media can get at tiger. good morning. >> good morning, robin. everything about this tournament is different. much more representational of how the general public feels about tiger. let me set the scene for you. golfers coming in all morning to come in and take in some practice rounds and, however, we have not seen tiger woods come out and practices. which is different when he practiced up to three days before the tournament teed off. the masters is the vip section or the box suite at the baseball game, this is more of the bleachers. not less prestigious, just more accessible. more middle class, families, teena

as tornado season ramps up in mississippi and louisiana. meteorologist domenica davis is at the fox weather center with more. what is the latest? >> well, the latest is, we're already looking at the tornadoes firing up. we've had four reports of touchdowns just this morning through the eastern part of mississippi. this is going to push off to the east. what we are looking at today is a particularly dangerous situation in terms of severe weather. this is just the beginning of it. several tornado watch boxes are up. we do have those warnings in effect. several of them right now through tennessee, alabama, mississippi, that is likely where we will see it stay right into the afternoon. so here is a look at the radar. these clouds are moving quickly. off to the east, about 30 miles per hour. so these are fast-moving, dangerous cells that are carrying the potential for some tornadoes, very large hail. i have seen a lot of report, brian, of hail coming in, golf-ball sized hail and the winds even where we don't have tornadoes and the thunderstorms

. >> host: let's take a call out of mississippi. >> caller: hello, sir. i'm a former member of the organization, as you know, it was a very active -- >> host: charles. all right. let's move on to christine in west virginia. >> caller: hello. i have a question. you mention the tea parties earlier and some people on the extreme right that really haven't crossed over yet into the direct oppression and whatnot. do you think these people, you know, are at risk of becoming a member of the extreme right? >> guest: i think we're seeing a great deal of mixing of these groups and cross pollination. yeah, i think when you look at the tea party phenomenon, what you can't say is this is uniformly radical right-wing. i think that's false. that said, you look at them and there are many streaks or kind of veins of conspiracy theories, of racial feelings, sometimes real racist feelings and other kind of propaganda that have been absorbed from other groups. what i'm saying is for instance, the tea party, many people with absorbed the conspiracy theory that originated in ra

overall not a whole lot of rain but confined around the lower portion of the mississippi and the tennessee river valleys and we do expect the clouds to increase. not a whole lot of rainfall from this event but it will try to move in on the area but for today we do have ourselves the expectation of sunny to partly sunny clouds and tomorrow watch the clouds to begin thickening up across the area. a very split flow at least indicated by our forecast model heading on into wednesday

the most destructive hit yazoo city, mississippi, where three people died.s massive and it blew to pieces homes, businesses, churches, anything it came across. rescuers are searching for more in the rubble. emergency officials expect, sadly, the death toll to rise. keep it tuned here to cnn. those are your headlines this hour. i'm don lemon. keeping you informed. cnn, the most trusted name in news. ♪ [ male announcer ] let's kick our excuses to the curb. cover 'em up with an extra bag of mulch. let's get our hands a little busier. our dollars a little stronger. and our thinking a little greener. let's grab all the bags all the plants and all the latest tools out there. so we can turn all these savings into more colorful shades of doing. more saving. more doing. that's the power of the home depot. so, at national, i go right past the counter... and you get to choose any car in the aisle. choose any car? you cannot be serious! okay. seriously, you choose. go national. go like a pro. >>> preparing to swim with great white sharks without a cage produces two reac

>> i went down to mississippi and you saw kara in africa.he food bank to of feeding america. >> i went to seattle to talk with melinda and bill gates about what they're doing globally. and we went to kenya together. >> larry: let's break them down. children's health fund. what is that? >> children's health fund. is that the one that you went -- >> that's not the one i did. but it was singer/songwriter paul simon. he founded it. it helps for pediatric care. >> then you have malaria no more. >> larry: i thought we wiped out malaria. >> we eradicated it here, but not in other parts of the world. but it can be eradicated. i think that's what's amazing. bill and melinda are 100% behind the eradication of it. and have the resources to do it. >> larry: what's feeding america? >> feeding america is something i just learned about recently, and i went down this morning. david arquette is involved. i think he's the chairman. it was called second harvest, they renamed it feeding america. in the last few years, it's amazing. you assume that the people th

the mississippi governor called it utter owibility ration. he said the full scope won't be known until later this week. the governor declared a state of emergency. survivors went back to the demolished homes to see what they could salvage. >>> we were talking about the rick of severe weather in that part of the country. so the weather service is already targeting that area. the clean-up continues today. as far as our weather is concerned, we'll see -- we could see some thunderstorms later o we don't expect much in the way of severe weather for today. i just don't think the dynamics will be there although some of the thunderstorms could contain some gusty wind and some hail. we are in the 50s right now currently at reagan national airport. it is 54 degrees. 53 at dulles and 51 at bwi marshall. the storms that came through our region yesterday evening, some thunderstorms primarily to the north of washington, d.c. that is where the heaviest rain and the most thunderstorm activity was. this morning, we are left with some mist and some humid condi

to the south, the national weather service says it was an ef 3 tornado that struck in mississippi, leaving a trail of destruction at one point the twister was a mile and a half wide and damage is evident tonight. chris gutierrez is in yazoo city with the latest. >> reporter: a tilted cross outside a miss miss church ripped from the foundation by saturday's deadly tornado. torn hearts mourn the lives taken. but church members say their faith is still firmly planted. >> we're all saddened, we're all shocked, but jesus is in control. >> reporter: yazoo city in central mississippi was hit the hardest. the twister reportedly packing winds as high as 200 mile an hour. blowing apart homes, tossing cars and tearing apart this restaurant. >> i thought we had passed. that taught me a lesson. you don't have time. >> reporter: several people huddling inside as the tornado lifted off its roof. >> by the time we got into the doors of the restaurant everything was coming in on top of us. >> reporter: more than 15 mississippi counties damaged by the storm's fury, beginning in louisiana and moving east acr

but first let's go back to day in yazoo city, mississippi. >> reporter: good morning.to try and understand what happened to their church. this church burned down years ago because of arson. it was rebuilt. and church parishioners are saying despite all of the adversity, h church will be back bigger and stronger. but this morning it's hard to imagine how long that process is going to take. you cannot tell one section of a church from the other. the sanctuary from the operating areas of the church and the administration offices. it's all scattered and that's what ever of yazoo city looks like this morning. but, again, the good news is the severe weather has cleared and much of the country is quiet today. let's go to the maps and take a look. we have rain which will slow things down in the northeast corridor. the 95 corridor, d.c., new york and boston. south will dry out with the exception of florida where you can see some scattered showers. southwest is going to be nice and hot and in the 90s in the northwest, partly cloudy, everyone, head manage to tuesday, rain rolls i

nearly 700 homes were damaged in the state of mississippi, more than 300 in yazoo city alone. the same storm system is responsible for tornadoes and heavy thunderstorms in at least six other states across the southeast. this massive mile and a half tornado knocked down buildings and smashed car windows leaving a path of destruction and violence. 12 dead, including three children, one of them only three months old. ♪ >> reporter: church members gathered for prayer on sunday in front of the rubble that was once hill crest baptist church. dale thrasher said he climbed under this communion table and said a prayer. were you terrified yesterday? >> not until it was over. >> reporter: dale managed to escape and although he admits he was shaken, his faith was not. many people might ask where was god yesterday. >> he was with me right there with his arms around me. >> yeah, it's a miracle. >> reporter: ashley saxton is lucky to be alive, but her family restaurant in yazoo city is gone. the roof ripped off, the building caved in. and she lost much more. two relatives, including a cousin