you can see these postal trucks. one on top of another. look at this car, you re seeing things like this, a postal vehicle. look at this. this is one of those postal trucks. it s compacted as if it were in a trash compacter. i want to spin around and just show you this isn t one of those camera tricks where there s a little spot behind us that s devastated. everywhere you look for blocks and blocks, you see this. this is the downtown of mayfield. it s a town of about 10,000 people, which is large, and this is the downtown core, the courthouse is gone, the fire station is gone, there s no power around here. there are houses that are entirely disappeared. this is not, by the way, where most people lost their lives. that s at the candle factory, which is about eight minutes from here, where that roof collapsed. about 110 people are thought to have been there when the tornado hit on friday night into saturday morning. they have recovered they have saved 40 people, roughly, out of there,
sun has risen to the disagree that it has. unfortunately, it s not like it looks better than it did yesterday. it s a little cleaner because there have been crews out moving debris around so cars can get around, but this is mayfield, kentucky, it s the downtown of mayfield, kentucky. this tornado or series of tornadoes was huge. more than 32 touched down across a series of six states. one of them or a family of them, it will take us a little while to figure it out, traveled for more than 200 miles. this one here in mayfield looked to be well over a mile wide. this is unusually large and an unusual length of rack for a tornado to take. take a look at kind of damage that we re looking at roup. i am joined here by representative james comer. he is a representative from illinois s first district. he was with us on the phone yesterday. first of all, thank you for taking time to see us this morning. you brought us a lot of