One person has been arrested in connection with the incident, according to police in Southaven, Miss.

Denver Mayor Michael Hancock has apologized after urging citizens to avoid travel, then hopping on a flight to see his own family in Mississippi.

Mississippi will fly a new state flag with a magnolia and the phrase "In God We Trust,'' with voters approving the design Tuesday.

The topics include a replacement for Mississippi's Confederate-themed state flag, a proposed change in Rhode Island's official name to remove the word ``plantations,'' and efforts in Nebraska and Utah to strip an exemption to the ban on slavery from the state constitutions.

Louisiana and Mississippi residents were under evacuation orders on Monday as Hurricane Sally churned across the Gulf of Mexico.

“The main point is that we’re going to have a significant hurricane make landfall late Wednesday or early Thursday,” National Hurricane Center Deputy Director Ed Rappaport said Tuesday.

Mississippi has a 38 per cent Black population — and the last state flag that incorporates the emblem that’s widely seen as racist.

The House voted by more than the required two-thirds majority to suspend legislative deadlines and file a bill to change the flag.

Cristobal made a Saturday afternoon landfall between the mouth of the Mississippi River and the since-evacuated barrier island resort community of Grand Isle, with 85-kph winds.

The family plans to rebuild their home right where it was before.