that is it for us at 5:00 and we will see you back here at 6:00 for a full hours of news. th weekend news is captioning sponsored by cbs duncan: tonight desperate search. scramming to find the missing after tornadoes leech a catastrophic trail through the south and midwest. over 100 people now feared dead. kentucky among those hardest hit. the devastation like none of us have ever seen before. entire towns destroyed and devastated. i m david begnaud in mayfield, kentucky, where you have the community coming together to remove debris while at the same time search and rescue operations are still under way right now. countless homes now splint erred ruins. survivors struggle after losing everything. i m lilia luciano in bowling green, kentucky, where nearly a dozen people lost their lives. with no power, the
help keep pouring in from all over the country. thank you. to everyone. we feel your love here in kentucky. i ll speak with kentucky s lieutenant governor about the monumental and delicate search and rescue operation under way. dozens of tornadoes friday night into saturday also killed at least 16 people across illinois, tennessee, missouri, and arkansas. president biden will travel to kentucky to survey the damage on wednesday. in mayfield, kentucky, one of the hardest-hit areas, at least eight people working at a candle factory were killed and eight more missing. one woman and her children were feet apart inside that factory when the tornado to her right through them. she glanced away for a moment and when she looked back, he was
monster supercell that carved an hours-long 250 mile path from eastern arkansas to western kentucky. over 100 people are feared dead, at least 80 of them from kentucky. cbs s david begnaud is in the devastated town of mayfield. i know that a lot of times the pictures and the video just don t do these stories any justice, david. good evening, you know, the police said tonight they re gettng a lot of calls like this, will you go check on my relatives, see if they are okay. i m worried about them, i haven t heard from them. land lines aren t working, cell phone service is spotty, tht is why we don t know for sure how many people died and are still missing. because of all of that tonight they are still doing what they interest calling a search and rescue operation. in mayfield, kentucky, crews with heavy machine ree were powered up, clearing piles of degree in downtown. right near the center of town we caught this 360 degree view showing what businesses look like before the tornado, and
now, it s up to other weather service offices to say exactly how long it was. the record is 219 miles. so this is already 124 and is going to go up higher. this easily may be the longest tornado in our country s history we ve observed and yes, in december. i ll get more to that in a second. we don t know the intensity. it s rare to get ef-4 and ef-5. it s at least an ef-3 in mayfield. a couple more, the one that hit the amazon facility in illinois. on the scales, it goes up to five. that s the highest. we haven t had a five in almost eight and a half years. we have had significant ef-5 s before, but notice the dates the last couple. they were all in april, may. those were our peak tornado months in june. as far as the last time we had an ef-5 tornado in december, it was 195 7. 64 years haeg.
0 that is it for us at 5:00 and we will see you back here at 6:00 for a full hours of news. th weekend news is captioning sponsored by cbs duncan: tonight desperate search. scramming to find the missing after tornadoes leech a catastrophic trail through the south and midwest. over 100 people now feared dead. kentucky among those hardest hit. the devastation like none of us have ever seen before. entire towns destroyed and devastated. i m david begnaud in mayfield, kentucky, where you have the community coming together to remove debris while at the same time search and rescue operations are still under way right now. countless homes now splint erred ruins. survivors struggle after losing everything. i m lilia luciano in bowling green, kentucky, where nearly a dozen people lost their lives. with no power, the temperature dropping. i have been in afghanistan twice and i think this is the worst. duncan: president biden returns to washington, pledging help is on the way. a