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10 dead after Mississippi tornado obliterates homes; severe thunderstorms hit the South Rescuers are ready to comb neighborhoods of splintered homes and twisted debris in Mississippi, a day after a devastating tornado sliced through the state and killed 10 people, including three children.

James Jackson, a deputy state fire marshal, said crews took a break overnight but were organizing at first daylight to resume search and rescue operations. All was still Sunday morning in one of the hardest hit areas of Yazoo City, except for the National Guard soldiers who blocked the roads and the occasional emergency vehicle.

The high winds on Saturday tore roofs off buildings in hard-hit Yazoo County, where Gov. Haley Barbour grew up. He described "utter obliteration" among the picturesque hills rising from the flat Mississippi Delta.