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i need a car. and just don t have no transportation, nowhere to live, and that s the biggest problem i m going through right now. other than that i guess it s it s just hard right now. it s just hard. well, charles sherill, thank you for giving us an update and we wish you the best. and for more information for all of our viewers who want to help, there s lots of great organizations to help those folks in kentucky like charles. just go to cnn.com forward slash impact. charles, thank you so much. yes, ma am. and we ll be sure to keep in touch with charles and return to kentucky for an updated story in the months to come. worldwide not just in the united states, coronavirus cases are sharply rising, and that has more countries canceling holiday traditions to try and slow the spread. cnn has correspondence around the globe, and we ll check in with them.
forgotten. i want to sty with you for the long haul because i know there s a lot of attention in the beginning and then it begins to subside as people forget and move on. the death toll from last weekend s tornados just in kentucky stands at 77. thousands of people are putting their lives back together and mourning their losses after those deadly tornados last weekend. one of them is charles sherrell of mayfield, kentucky. he survived the storm by getting into his bathtub and here is what he told me last sunday. so this is your house. where was the bathtub? right there. that s where you were, right in there? yes. look at this. you were right in there. right there. laying down right there. right in there.
did make it. i m sorry for the ones that didn t make it but that s where i was. i m so sorry. i can t imagine looking at pretty much the only problem i have i guess when the tornado hit it pulled the pipes out and came close to drowning. wait, what happened? the waterline, see they busted and the water was just shooting into the tub and i almost drowned, but other than that i was okay. and what happened it stopped under. i got out of there. i had water up to here and i couldn t see because it was so dark. and i had a first cousin that had to get me out. charles, first of all, how are you doing on the weekend? i m doing okay. best as i can be at this moment.
sherrell, looking through rubble of stuff and it turns out the rubble was his home. he wore out the storm by sheltering in his bathtub. here is what he said. reporter: so this is your house. where is the bath tub? right in there. look at this. right there. reporter: look, right in there. and what were you thinking when? just praying. praying that, you know, that god will take care of me, my kids. reporter: where were your kids and the rest of your family? they were in another house couple blocks over, but they were okay. hardly did any damage there. reporter: you must be feeling really lucky. am i first cousin lives across the street, helped me