huge metal poles bent in half if not broken. buildings that are no longer there. huge trucks that have been picked up and thrown. and sadly, far too many homes that people were likely in entirely devastated. this will be, i believe, the deadliest tornado system to ever run through kentucky, now, earlier this morning, at about 5 a.m. we were pretty sure that we would lose over 50 kentuckians. i m now certain that that number is north of 70. it may in fact end up exceeding 100 before the day is done. the damage is even worse now that we have first light. a couple of places have been hit incredibly hard, certainly mayfield here grace county, but everywhere along the line of this tornado that touched down and stayed down for 227 miles
situation and help somebody. there are people coming from all over the country here right now. we are very blessed with what the with what we re having, with the help and the situation. our sheriff s department, and i m not going to start naming folks, our police department, our fire departments, our volunteer fire departments, e.m.s., hospitals, health department, so many of them are out there right now and they re going through. and you know what s we re all here and right now there are still streets and roads that are blocked, people needing help so i ask you, prayer, prayer, please, pray for these folks. they will need supplies, the governor s helping with his administration to help get supplies in here to grace county. but what i m saying to you is, if you if you just need somebody might need someone to talk to.
as a series of devastating tornadoes strike the central united states, this has been the most devastating tornado event in our state s history and for those that have seen it, what it has done here in grace county and elsewhere, it is indescribable. and we ll be taking an in depth look at the papers with our reviewersjoe mayes and ros altmann stay with us for that. health officials have renewed their call
about it and i didn t feel good about it and as the thing, as the governor said the 200 miles on the ground, watching it head toward grace county and you know, that it was a reality at that time. so the only thing i can say it you all at this time, what we need from everyone is we need your prayers, we need your help. the governor, our federal and state, local, everyone, so many surrounding counties, judge climber is here with us our adjoining county, our local officials right now, you want to know where heroes are they re out here in the trenches taking trying to find people. that s what they re doing right now and they don t ask for nothing. they just want to resolve the
right now we re crossing to kentucky because the governor has just started speaking, giving an update on those devastating storms to affect so many states. let s listen in. , , , in. this will be, i believe, the deadliest in. this will be, i believe, the deadliest tornado in. this will be, i believe, the deadliest tornado system - in. this will be, i believe, the deadliest tornado system to l in. this will be, i believe, the . deadliest tornado system to ever through kentucky. earlier this morning at around 5am we were pretty sure that we would lose over 50 residents and i am now certain that numbers north of 70. it may end up exceeding 100 before the day is done. the damage is even worse now that we have first light. a couple of places have been hit incredibly hard. certainly mayfield here in grace county but everywhere along the line of this tornado that touched down and stayed down for 227 miles over 200 in kentucky has been