100 miles per hour snapping trees and taking down power lines. highways were closed in kansas where it was raining mud as heavy as rain with a wall of blowing dust. that is something else to imagine on the highways near kansas. that s a shot from there. iowa there. we re keeping a close eye for you. dana: the national weather service has upgraded the violent tornado that hit western kentucky to an ef4. the second most powerful designation a tornado can ever receive with estimated peak winds of 190 miles an hour. ground surveys find the twister was up to a mile plus wide. put those two things together alexis mcadams you wind up with this horrible devastation you are seeing there, alexis. that s right. you can tell how powerful the tornadoes were. four according to the national weather service that touched down for more than 200 miles here in kentucky. what it did just as this
we just announced fox is donating a million dollars to help the american red cross in their disaster effort in kentucky and elsewhere. red cross.org if you want to donate, too. have a great day. see you tomorrow. bill: good morning, inflation at your front door. voters say rising prices are causing them pain financially and they argue that president biden is only making it worse. i m bill hemmer. that s what we found in the fox polling. how are you? dana: who are you? bill: i m bill hemmer. dana: i m dana perino. bill: it is tough to find good news in the poll at the white house. dana: if i was there i would have to work hard to say and the good news is. i would try to find it. the inflation is the biggest surge in nearly four decades and one of the reasons the polls are so bad. americans are not impressed
Location in mayfield. the winds of nearly 200 miles per hour leveling this area and leveling this business. also making this entire brick wall tumble down and walking closer with me this way you can see the back book case there is actually a safe room behind there the people working at the time the storms rolled through took shelter inside barely escaping from those strong winds. not everybody was able to make it out of western kentucky. right now at left 71 people in the area were killed during the tornadoes. the death toll expected to climb. 12 of those people who lost their lives were just children. as a community is still cleaning up today the loss of life is weighing heavy on everyone here. people telling me they are checking the coroner s reports reading through the names to see if they know anyone on the list that day. now on wednesday president joe biden surveyed the destruction in western kentucky announcing he has now amended the disaster declaration to cover 100% of eligible
Room for up to 30 days. there are still 100 people missing in kentucky as those people in the area replay the tragic moments of that night. listen. there was an instance of a boyfriend and girlfriend who went to the sheltering place and the boyfriend jumped on top of the girlfriend to protect her and the boyfriend disappeared. just vanished. and has been found deceased. now of the goals in mayfield is to get the power grid back up and running because those strong winds leveled that grid. it is gone and non-existent. one of the things we re working on every day continuing to clean up the streets. people who used to live and work here are still coming by taking a look at the destruction the took the lives of so many of their neighbors and family members. dana: thank you for being there. we want to make sure that everybody knows this is quite remarkable and wonderful, glad to be part of this company.
Fox has donated a million dollars to the american red cross to support relief efforts for america s heartland. if you go to red cross.org/fox forward and you donate there, they will help us track and see how people are doing, getting the money, the red cross does an amazing job and a great donation. bill: very generous and also for the people in kentucky and arkansas, illinois and tennessee. they need the help and it is pretty apparent from that. dana: we ll be there. bill: great job. the cdc says reported cases of the omicron variant are doubling every two days in america. it expects the surge by early january. dr. marc siegel professor of medicine, a virus expert. doctor, good morning to you. with delta and omicron today, what have you learned from this virus that will help us understand what the next wave is or is not? we re learning a lot, bill. listen, from south africa they