more than 70 years. there have been floods, he told us, but not like this. translation: you can run i from fire, but not from water. tens of thousands of people still don t have power. and they re on alert. water levels have dropped in some areas, but few here feel safe. you can see how powerful the water is here still, and what s worrying people in this area is thatjust upstream there s a dam. experts say it s unstable. they re still inspecting it, but people think if that dam breaks the water is heading in this direction. and with every hour, news of more deaths. people are still missing. with mobile networks down, it s hard to know how many made it to safety. they re desperate for help here. this was a caravan park. how to even begin clearing up? we met the owners, still visibly in shock. translation: indescribable. we ve been here since 1979.
are the people in safe living conditions right now? sheltering is very important there are 900 folks in kentucky and shelters right now. the majority our state parks. they have opened up the state parks so they have safe places to stay. a lot of people have damage to their homes and they still stay in their homes and they don t have heat. they may not be a safe place for them to stay so we are concentrating on those individuals. so feeding those 900 folks and those in the area that don t have power is a challenge. and critical supply. clothing and coats in medicine and shoes. all of those are important to us. molly: there are stories all across the nation of the diet on - giant trucks being donated with goods but people look at these pictures with remarkable stunning pictures how can we help?
tell us how the people in your parish are doing. you have one family living with you. give us the status update of your folks. we re just all hanging in there by the grace of god. we haven t had any loss of life in our congregation. many lost their homes. many were in their homes that don t have power, those sort of things. we re dealing with that with generators and such. the grid is starting to come back on in some places. much of it is not. my biggest worry, i have one family that has a lot of critical problems out of state right now, a larger facility dealing with their problems. they were in their house when the tornado came through. then moving on from that, just worried about the folks, where do we go from here, a lot of folks in our church and a lot of folks in our community have lost their livelihood. they don t have a job. this is a large farming community. we have a large poultry farming
from nashville, so it was about a two-hour drive. i was struck by 80 miles away, there were people who didn t have still don t have power. they don t have water, and gas is becoming limited and that s 80 miles away from this scene and they were thankful that they at least might have heat tonight because it s going to be a cold night ahead as well. not just people in this immediate town, but this entire state just devastated. and what about folks that don t have anywhere to go tonight? they don t know where they re going to sleep. they re searching for their families. obviously, their belongings, completely gone. are there areas organized areas for them to stay? i know the red cross has been involved. fema s not going to endorse at this point. are there areas in mayfield where people are going to be staying overnight? reporter: they are trying to put them up in the public schools. i drove by the high school, the parking lot was full of cars. there are other areas that are
divide we were hearing often about from biden transition officials between some of the institutionalists who were being very cooperative faciitaing the transition and by loyalist who were circumventing the process and keeping the biden team out of the loop. the biden team was very specific about when they raised some of these issues. even the bureaucratic recognition of biden as the president took some time. it was only much later in the process when we heard multiple times from biden transition officials about the fact that the pentagon specifically was where they were finding some of their most serious roadblocks. this was a critical point. the transition of power from one administration to the other is the most perilous moment for our democracy in normal times,