Tag: Missisipi

Biden Declares Emergency as Crews Dig Through Storm Wreckage

President Joe Biden early Sunday issued an emergency declaration for Mississippi, making federal funding available to Carroll, Humphreys, Monroe, and Sharkey counties, the areas hardest hit Friday night by a deadly tornado that ripped through the Mississippi Delta, one of the poorest regions of the United States. At least 25 people were killed and dozens…


Daunting Recovery Underway in Tornado-Devastated Mississippi

ROLLING FORK, Miss.—Help began pouring into one of the poorest regions of the United States after a deadly tornado wrought a path of destruction in the Mississippi Delta, even as furious new storms Sunday struck Georgia, where two tigers briefly escaped their badly damaged safari park. At least 25 people were killed and dozens of…