in feet and will continue to measure the snow in feet across the mountains out west where we could see more than four feet of snow across the sierra nevada, lower elevations, a lot in the way of rainfall. and you add in wind here, it s going to cause very treacherous driving conditions. that s why about 30 million people, jessica, are under winter weather alerts at this time. thanks so much. and i ll see you back here at the top of the hour. for now, let s send it back to boris and amara. this month s devastating tornados took at least 77 lives in kentucky alone. one of them was robert daniel, pictured here. he was a deputy jailer who was supervising inmates on a work release program on a candle factory when the tornado hit the town of mayfield. the entire building collapsed and daniel died inside but not before leading all seven of the inmates he was responsible for to safety. and for that, he is being hailed
the images in realtime and was learning in realtime what all that huge pile of debris was, that indeed it was a candle factory. we learned in realtime that there had been 110 people or so, according to the governor, had been trapped in there. sadly, your brother was one of them. when you look at the devastation this tornado has caused and looking forward to the future, what would you like for all of us at home to understand and what can we do to support your community and your family? well, just as a community and all, this is a very strong community. we will build back up. there s no doubt about that. as you said, this is going to devastate us for a while. but, you know, we may be down, but we re going to get back up. we re going to keep fighting and we re going to keep doing what
supervise these seven inmates and he was quite excited about it. how many days had he been at this candle factory working, supervising inmates in this work release program. and i understand he was quite excited about this new position. he was very excited about it. he had only been there this was his fourth night. the picture that you have of him smiling was because he was on his way for orientation out at the candle factory and the deputy that took the picture was kidding with him and said something along the lines of, you re on your way to your first day in school. and he kind of he always had this thing where he would smile and wave at you like, get out of here. and that s kind of what he was doing there. he was very excited about it. you know, we covered the story the moment that it happened and, you know, we saw