Almost 70 million people were forecast to be in the path of the storms on Wednesday night, local media said. The hunt was made complicated because so many had left for the holidays. The statement describes the victims as a 19-year-old female and two 22-year-old males.
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Those killed were in the states of Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas, CNN said.
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Not far away, Ann and Antonio Yzaguirre had no such shelter. The woman and her 1 1/2-year-old sister were sleeping in a bedroom of the house, when winds uprooted the tree that crashed through the roof. Three homes were destroyed. Crews were searching house-by-house and to make sure residents were accounted for.
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The death toll is now at 14 but could rise in the coming days.
Holmes said reports of tornado activity in Bibb County, also southwest of Birmingham, have not been confirmed.
Newly homeless, Perkins said she was happy just to be alive especially after learning two of her neighbors had died in the storm. Two were in Marshall County, and the other was in Tippah County. An hour later the National Weather service confirmed that first responders were on the scene along Jefferson Avenue, a working class neighborhood less than 10 miles from downtown Birmingham. Rainfall totals of as much as 4 inches were common.
As the couple surveyed the damage Thursday, broken glass and mud covered most of their home’s interior.
Parts of central and north Alabama and northwest Georgia are spending Christmas on the lookout for more heavy rain and flooding. Heavy rain and thunderstorms moved east from Atlanta to the Carolinas, but the threat of tornadoes eased.
Gov. Phil Bryant declared a State of Emergency on Thursday for affected areas of the state.
Red Cross volunteers were working in MS and Tennessee Christmas Eve, WREG, Memphis, Tennessee, reported.
Thirteen counties in Tennessee reported damage, with a post office destroyed and a state highway washed out.
In Perry county, Tennessee. west of Nashville. rescuers searched for people buried under the rubble.
At least 40 people across six Mississippi counties were injured in the storms, said Greg Flynn with the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency.
In the eastern United States, one of the warmest Christmas Eve’s on record unfolded as temperatures soared 15-35 degrees Fahrenheit above normal.
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The Mississippi Emergency Management Agency says dozens of people are being treated for injuries after Wednesday’s tornado outbreak. Paul International Airport, an airport spokesman said.
Police say splintered trees covered a road near Clayton.
More than 3,500 power outages were reported throughout the state.
The storm managed to take a swipe at a number of small communities in northern Mississippi.
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Unseasonably warm weather Wednesday helped fuel twisters from Arkansas to MI.
