the night. let s bring in meteorologist brent jeff bridget mahoney. i have to say we expect this weather to happen in the central part of the country. some or summer or maybe late spring. it is unusual to see this this time of year, but it does not necessarily never been seen before. we do see tornadoes in december time and time again, but it is one of the lowest periods of the year. we are seeing this devastating situation play out as as you can see this is look at the last several hours with radar as we see a lot of active and severe thunderstorm warnings them as well is tornado warnings that continue to spread into central illinois as well as indiana, hitting through kentucky national as well as arkansas as we speak. so fox weather, we ve been monitoring the situation all night. here s a look at the severe storm risk as we go into the
the building here as well as a massive amount of emergency response. there s also been a building collapse in madison county, illinois, and were working to confirm details as far as the injuries and that collapse as well. this also been reports of damages, and tennessee a tornado struck the sandburg reelfoot volunteer fire station in hornby, tennessee, where people are reportedly trapped inside. also in tennessee people trapped in their homes in union city, with some saying they have gas leaks and cannot get out. so very dangerous situation. and right now kentucky come as you mentioned, this is happening in real time. were seeing results of a tornado at the circuit court in mayfield and were going to keep close eye on this developing situation so happening as we speak. we will touch base with you throughout the hour as we move on. the severe weather is far from over. is expected to last all through
are also getting fresh pictures of the destruction of the grace county circuit court house. that situation is still unfolding right now. also breaking, reports of damages to a hospital in kentucky and we are also keeping an eye on that as well. incredible. were talking about illinois, missouri, kentucky, arkansas, tennessee, all over the midwest and the deep south even. just incredible. i will touch base with you hopefully before the end of the hour to see if we can get more news from you. thank you. we will be monitoring. thanks, kevin. so blatant we tilt this continuing to swarm the country. the white house says, listen, several law enforcement agencies are doing their part to combat these types of crimes, however, critics say the you re simply not doing enough. not nearly enough. we welcome our next guests, a retired lieutenant from the
amassed emergency response there. my prayers are with the people of edwardsville tonight and i reached up the mayor to provided resources. our illinois state police are both coordinating closely with officials and i will continue to monitor the situation. and also grim news coming out of arkansas for there are reportedly two killed and five injured after tornado hit the nursing home. that a thing craighead county. the county judge told the ap that the building has been destroyed but they had some warning due to the tornado sirens, thankfully. some residents were found in the basement up the nursing home. some local reports indicate that could be around 20 people still trapped inside. there are 86. also located inside the nursing home. and right now we are also monitoring news coming out of kentucky. local reports saying that in mayfield, kentucky, there are several buildings that of collapse. no reported deaths so far but there are people still trapped inside a candle factory and we
we are learning more about those severe storms that have been wreaking havoc across the midwest. we want to bring in marion rapidly. some of the pictures we ve seen are really quite striking. the devastation has crossed the leased by states, arkansas, tennessee, kentucky. fox weather is reporting their court late 18 million people across eight states without turn it up watch and 90,000 power outages so far. in illinois, 25 west of st. louis and amazon warehouse is seeing a major structural collapse. there are reports that there could be up to 100 people still trapped inside that building which has about 1.5 billion speed of space. the management agency called think calling this a mass casualty.