wonderful little girl. i m going to miss her so much. i already do. reporter: in kentucky, we met survivor mikaela emery in her hospital room, the 25-year-old said she worked in that candle factory on and off for three years when the monster tornado hit during the night shift. all i can remember, i hear all kind of voices, the next thing i do, i open my eyes and i can t move my legs. reporter: so all of this concrete was literally, a concrete wall. reporter: did you think you were going to make it out alive? i honestly don t think they were going to find me. under that concrete slab, she spoke to a pregnant friend. i said we re going to be dead. i m not going to be able to breathe, we re losing oxygen. reporter: they were trapped for six hours. first responders eventually
her two sisters. i knew where they were going to be in their safe spot. reporter: 15 minutes after her parents posted this photo, annistyn died in the tornado that ripped through her home she was a wonderful, wonderful little girl. i m going to miss her so much. i already do. reporter: in kentucky, we met survivor michaela emory in her hospital room the 21-year-old says she d worked at that candle factory on and off for three years. the monster tornado hitting during the night shift. the only thing i remember after that is i heard all kinds of noises next thing i know, i open my eyes, i m stuck. i can t move my legs. all this concrete had just fallen on top of you literally a wall, a concrete wall, was on top of me. did you think you would make it out alive? i honestly did not think they were going to find me. reporter: in the darkness, under that concrete slab, she spoke to her pregnant friend and prepared for the worst. there s no telling
the president will be coming here to mayfield and also to dawson springs. the death toll in kentucky remains at 74. a dozen of them are children. we spoke to another one of those survivors, stephanie, from that candle factory, a woman named michaela emery, and she told me a harrowing story where she was trapped underneath a concrete slap for six hours with a pregnant co-worker. they were able to get out alive, but another one of her co-workers who she had spoken to right before the tornado hit did not make it out. here s some of our conversation in her hospital room. the only thing i remember after that is i heard all kinds of noises, and the next thing i know i opened my eyes and i m stuck. i can t move my legs. so all this concrete had just fallen on top of you. literally a wall, like a concrete wall was on top of me. did you think you would make it out alive? i honestly did not think they
this hour. here is the governor. we are up to 74 kentuckians we have lost. the age reporter: oakland kuhn is among the cigar pastor after into a car seat as they huddled in their home in kentucky friday night. it wasn t enough. oakland is thought to have suffered a stroke brought on by her injuries. a report from nbc the candle factory where the aid workers died and another eight missing the workers were told as the tornado sirens went off they would be fired if they left. the company denies those claims was another cable factory workers telling her story of heroism. we had a guy play superman. i don t know who i was, i wish i could thank him. a concrete wall, lifted off of
governor choking up getting images, 5-month-old baby who was lost in the storm, the oldest person 86 years old and that death toll is a little bit fluid, 74 at least. 74 people were we are getting more stories of survivors across areas of kentucky, probably around 200 mile stretch that had one tornado on the ground. we talked about the candle factory in mayfield, but stories of survivors coming out, listen to what one of the survivors had to say. we had superman, i don t know who he was, i wish i did so i could thank him, a concrete wall, he lifted off of me and 3 of my girls got up because of him.