corroborating, I posted this at 3pm yesterday:
Disturbing news, I just heard from a friend that had family in Bay St Louis that there are many, many dead there, almost everything near beach gone. They are going through rubble and marking the doors with X's because they have no other way to deal with them at this point, this is going to end up being ground zero and likely "hundreds and hundreds" of casualties. He said maybe thousands, but this is not an official statement.
Houses 15 and 20' high and there is nothing left-- no sign there was ever a building.
CNN reporting the same this morning & showing pics of many houses with just shreds of building materials & foundations left.