thank you very much, dr reed timmer - very much, dr reed timmer meteorologist and storm chaser bringingin mississippi overnight. security forces in france remain on high alert, after legislation to raise the state pension age caused massive protests. the dispute and outbreaks of violence forced the authorities to postpone a planned state visit by the british monarch, king charles. meanwhile there have been separate demonstrations in western france, linked to concerns over water usage by large—scale agricultural producers. bethany bell is in paris for us. bethany, talk me through what you know, what is the latest on these protests today? the know, what is the latest on these protests today?— know, what is the latest on these protests today? the situation seems to have calm — protests today? the situation seems to have calm somewhat _ protests today? the situation seems to have calm somewhat from - protests today? the situation seems to have calm somewhat from a - protests today? the situation seems to have calm somewhat from a few l to have calm somewhat from a few hours ago when we saw

right now, someone who saw that tornado as it hit rolling fork, dr reed timmer. he's a meteorologist and storm chaser. who was there in mississippi last night, and it's still there right now. so you live streamed. right doctor? the storm on your youtube channel. um and what? what did people see? well, it was a classic outbreak. after this time. storms fast moving tornado but our and i'm standing river delta and as soon as he thought it was fun right up the valley and just after on it became a tornado producing machine. very large tornado that in the storm was electrified two. it had strobe lightning just incredible lightning as it began to become a tornadic as these storms often do, and you can see the whole structure of the supercell as well. a very large walk out and then on one lightning strike happened on the backside. it was suddenly a large wedge of about half mile in size. and you could tell it was very fast moving. you could tell it was violent, had horizontal. fortis's people in the path of it in rolling fork because it was moving so fast and also the to

a little earlier we heard a short clip from the meteorologist and storm chaser, dr reed timmer, who was well, he spoke to my colleague frankie mccamley. well, yeah. all the ingredients were in place for a large—scale tornado outbreak, fast—moving supercell storms moving at speeds of up to 60 miles an hour. and we were actually chasing storms for about four to five hours during the day. none were going tornadic. and then, right at sunset, it was like a switch was flipped from off to on, the low level winds started to accelerate above 60 knots. and as soon as the storm hit the mississippi river, as those southerly winds were streamed up, the delta there, it went tornadic. and there was a long track tornado that was possibly on the ground continuously for over 50 to 100 miles. we'll have to see if it was consecutive tornadoes, multiple tornadoes or one long—track one, but we were heading from south to north, from vicksburg toward rolling fork. and the storm was absolutely electrified. the lightning was pulse lightning — so, frequent, strobe lightning, so you could see the whole structure o