Deadly Tornadoes Ripped Through Texas To Alabama
SANCHEZ: People in the southeast are assessing the damage from several deadly tornadoes over the weekend. About six of them flattening homes and snapping large trees in Mississippi. The only volunteer fire department in Monroe County had its fire house destroyed. One person was killed there, another 10 injured. A storm chaser says that mobile homes in the area were no match for the tornadoes.</s>BRANDON CLEMENT, STORM CHASER: The mobile homes that took a direct hit from the tornado either aren't there or so badly damaged and mangled and flipped that you can't really recognize what they are. Mobile homes are probably the worst case scenario in the tornado or any high wind event.</s>SANCHEZ: The weekend's huge storm system ravaged areas from Texas to Alabama. In addition to the death in Mississippi, at least four people were killed in Texas, two others killed in Louisiana, and one in Alabama. Mississippi's governor declaring a state of emergency for areas affected by the severe weather.</s>ROMANS: All right. The small city mayor with a funny name, Pete Buttigieg formerly declaring himself a candidate for president, Sunday. The 37-year-old mayor of South Bend, Indiana announcing his run in a hometown speech. For the most part he focused on policy and avoided attacks on President Trump, and this was one of the few exceptions.</s>BUTTIGIEG: When something is grotesque, it's hard to look away and the horror show in Washington is mesmerizing, it's all consuming, but starting today we're going to change the channel.</s>ROMANS: CNN's Vanessa Yurkevich was in South Bend for the announcement. She filed this report.</s>VANESSA YURKEVICH, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Hi, Christine and Boris. That's right. Pete Buttigieg making his announcement to run for president official. And he gave a very policy heavy speech. He talked about his three principles, freedom, security and democracy. He talked a lot about the most important freedom to him being the freedom to get married to his husband, Chasten Buttigieg. They were able to get married last year, and he points at something that is crucially important to him and his campaign. He also took on the president without specifically mentioning him by name. He tackled a lot of his policies and also gave a little dig at his Make America Great Again slogan.</s>BUTTIGIEG: The problem is that they're telling us to look for greatness in all the wrong places, because if there's one thing that the city of South Bend has shown, it's that there is no such thing as an honest politics that revolves around the word again. It is time to walk away from the politics of the past and towards something totally different.</s>YURKEVICH: And as his campaign is now officially launched, he'll be hitting the road right away, heading to New York Monday evening for a fundraiser, and then heading off to Iowa and a swing in New Hampshire this weekend. Back to you guys.</s>ROMANS: All right. Vanessa there at the event for us. Thank you.</s>SANCHEZ: The first daughter Ivanka Trump is on an overseas trip to Africa right now with an event being held just a few moments ago. We have a live report next.