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six people are now confirmed dead. cnn s polo sandoval is live on the scene. the warehouse took a direct hit. what are you seeing? what are you hearing? what s the latest? reporter: what we heard from ill know s governor is that local officials with look into this to see if anything else could have been done to see if there was anything to prevent what took place. just for background for our viewers, it was on friday evening when the tornado seemed to have zeroed in on this amazon shipping center, basically cutting right through it and causing these large concrete walls to collapse, eventually leading to the death of six employees inside friday night. speaking alongside with the governor, we heard from a couple of amazon executives who maintained they did everything that they could to ensure the safety of those employees, that they followed the protocols,
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inside, all the employees inside, could remain safe. and that included using bullhorns to make sure those employees can head to what s described as a shelter in place location in the interior of the building. but those amazon executives also making it clear that was not meant to serve as a storm shelter. this building, because of flooding concerns, does not have a basement. and technically it s not required to according to building codes. that s what we heard from state officials. perhaps this is certainly an opportunity to revisit those building codes and perhaps make changes in the future. of course, that federal investigation from osha that is also ongoing right now. osha representatives have been on site since saturday as they clean up the debris. and ultimately they are the ones that are going to decide whether or not there could be some citations here or some monetary penalties that could be considered here. that s if any potential workplace violations are discovered. in the mean
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partially collapse. polo sandoval is outside of that warehouse in edwardsville, illinois. what do we know about this investigation? and another one being done by the state of illinois. jake, referring to what the illinois governor j.b. pritzker announced that local authorities will be looking into what happened here on friday night. the governor here saying that natural disasters, they may not be able to be prevented but tragedies of this magnitude can. here s some background of what took place friday. some of those images from the last several days. it was an ef-3 tornado according to authorities that part of this tornado outbreak from friday that almost seemed to have zeroed in on this amazon shipping facility and basically cut through it. that caused these large concrete walls to come crashing down, killing six people inside. there were some amazon executives, about two of them, that spoke alongside the governor today that maintained this building was built up to code but the nigh
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