i am glad to know you and your families are safe and so sorry for all of you, what you re dealing with. thank you for joining us this morning. i appreciate it. thank you. thank you. and we are staying on this devastating story from kentucky. up to illinois where there is a new investigation into an amazon factory, that collapsed during the storm and killed six workers. plus, exactly one year exactly one year since america s first vaccine dose was given during this very show. new data from pfizer on its anti-viral pill that could be another game-changer. if it works on nfl jerseys it ll work for you. and it s cold. so you will turn to cold? fine! that guy needs to chill out! i thought i was managing my moderate to severe crohn s disease. then i realized something was missing. .me. my symptoms were keeping me from being there for her.
alive since saturday. to the people of america, - there is no lens big enough to show you the extent of the damage here in graves county- or in kentucky. one of the worst affected towns is mayfield. eight people were confirmed to have died at a candle factory, destroyed with more than 100 employees inside. and, at an amazon factory in neighbouring illinois, at least six employees are reported to have lost their lives. president biden has declared a major federal disaster in this state. he says he will ask the environmental protection agency to look into whether climate change played a role in the storms. it s going to be a long process to repair this damage, caused in such a short space of time. lebo diseko, bbc news. edward marlowe is a reporterfor a local radio station in kentucky. the warning systems in place were
here in mayfield attended. it is about 100 years old and people here tell me it only took around ten seconds for the tornado to blow through and destroy so much of it. some people actually took cover in here on the night that the storms came. nearby churches have opened up their doors to give shelter to those who survived. jerry and his father managed to escape. his mother, who is in a nursing home, is unaware of what has happened. my mother still doesn t know the house has gone and we re not going to tell her. why not? it would break her heart to let her know that the dream house that she designed has gone. an operation is still under way at a candle factory in mayfield. more than 100 workers were on the night shift when the tornado tore through. a0 people managed to make it out. in the state of illinois an amazon factory is looking for its missing employees.
on productions in britain. in 2013, the amount spent on high end tv drama in the uk was around £400 million. this year, it s topped four billion. and driving this ten fold increase are the new tv giants netflix, hbo, disney, amazon. there are now more jobs in tv drama than steel and coal. i spoke to the boss of bad wolf, jane tranter. she feels the moment that changed everything was the decision to film game of thrones in northern ireland. the amount of drama production in the uk, it s exploded, hasn t it? it has. and i think that the success of game of thrones, and the success of what that show gave to belfast and the region was probably very influential. she s a fine woman, your sister. this is generating quite a fewjobs. it s generating an enormous
number ofjobs. i mean, just in wales, i think in the first five years, so bad wolf has been going for about six years, i think we counted the number ofjobs generated in wales alone in the first five years as something like over 2,200. and it s growing and it s growing and it s growing. when bad wolf first started in wales, it was quite empty. you know, there was bad wolf and we were kind of, we re here, come on, everyone comejoin us. and now, you know, you can t get a spot in the car park. and the growth looks set to continue. amazon is moving production of the lord of the rings tv series from new zealand to the uk. britain s studios are reaping the benefits from a multi billion dollar battle between the streaming giants. david sillito, bbc news, cardiff. time for a look at the weather. here s darren bett. hello. it has been a cloudy day for