. >> tom, stay with me because we've got robert latham of mississippi emergency management on the phone. robert, if you can talk to me a little bit about some of these amazing pictures that we have seen. they're very alarming i will say. what can you tell us? this is obviously a populated area, and there are concerns, of course, that there may be injuries. what can you tell us? >> the tornado, obviously, we had spotters on the ground that said it was a large wedge tornado. >> that it was a what? >> a large wedge tornado. >> okay. and what does that mean to the layperson? >> it's kind of like an inverted triangle, and it was obviously smaller at the ground but much larger it goes up. it started first reports of damage came in from lamar county which is the county just west of forest county which is where hattiesburg, mississippi is. we also have the university of southern mississippi. the reports that we have now after talking to the director, we have several subdivisions with significant damage. some areas they're not able to get to because they're still trying to cut through the debris