community. thank you. thank you so much. about three hours north to edwardsville, illinois, where a tornado ripped through an amazon facility bringing part of the roof crashing down and find nbc s morgan chesky. great to see you this morning. thank you for joining us. give us the latest on that building and the people that were inside. reporter: yeah. absolutely brutal past 48 hours for everyone impacted by the tornado that s an ef-3. the warehouse is still standing. the one ajace ent is not. causing the concrete walls about 40 feet high to fall in. and the roof as well. this is a section of that building that you are looking at right now. the tornado absolutely demolished cutting essentially
kentucky s had at least 64 deaths. this one already is the third deadliest tornado in kentucky s history. look at all the other months, may and march dates are on that list. we don t yet know how strong the one tornado was that went through mayfield. they ve out doing the damage surveys. you can imagine they have to go along the entire 200 mile path and try to see what the peak was because that s what they ll rate it. the one that hit the amazon facility was rated at ef-3, 165 miles per hour winds. that s severe damage on our scale, almost into the extreme damage category. when you see the pictures from mayfield and bowling green and dawson springs, which is pretty much destroyed, you know you re in the ef-4 range and maybe if they see enough evidence we could possibly get our first ef-5 tornado since 2013, over eight and a half years ago was the last time in this country we officially had a tornado that strong on the ground. and it can happen in areas like illinois and kentucky. at le
0 that is it for us at 5:00 and we will see you back here at 6:00 for a full hours of news. th weekend news is captioning sponsored by cbs duncan: tonight desperate search. scramming to find the missing after tornadoes leech a catastrophic trail through the south and midwest. over 100 people now feared dead. kentucky among those hardest hit. the devastation like none of us have ever seen before. entire towns destroyed and devastated. i m david begnaud in mayfield, kentucky, where you have the community coming together to remove debris while at the same time search and rescue operations are still under way right now. countless homes now splint erred ruins. survivors struggle after losing everything. i m lilia luciano in bowling green, kentucky, where nearly a dozen people lost their lives. with no power, the temperature dropping. i have been in afghanistan twice and i think this is the worst. duncan: president biden returns to washington, pledging help is on the way. a
kentucky, where to edwardsville, illinois, where part of that amazon facility collapsed to the white house with the latest on the response. dawson springs in western kentucky is dealing with the crushing effects of the torn tornadoes. there is destruction almost everywhere and as cnn s ed lavendera tells us, residents are numb at the sight of it all. reporter: the city of dawson s springs has nearly 3,000 people and much of it has been left like the ruins that you see behind me. we are about 70 miles east of the city of mayfield, kentucky. and this is an area where many of its residents were watching the storm as it started moving toward them. we spoke with one gentlemen who was watching and tracking the tornadoes on a radar. and when he realized that his neighborhood, this neighborhood, was about to take a direct hit, he decided to leave and get away, which was probably a smart decision, because for miles and miles, many of the homes look like what you see behind me. piles of rubble
collapsed candle factory in mayfield where they remain unsure how many people are missing or dead. in neighboring illinois six people are dead after 20 to destroyed in amazon facility, officials to operations have shifted to a recovery mission. meantime the governor of arkansas said two people died in the state one in a nursing home in one side in a dollar general store. in tennessee for deaths are reported to be a fox team coverage from across the region beginning with c. live in mayfield kentucky. under tremendously hard conditions officials say they re trying to do the basics to find and identify the death and reunite families with one another and feed and shelter everybody. officials say the storm that hit here the tornado was in ef three wind speeds of 165 miles per hour could have been higher.