still without electric and the overnight temperatures are dropping into the freezing digits. dana: destruction spans more than 200 miles from arkansas to kentucky and the bluegrass state bearing the brunt of the damage. bill: look at these satellite images. this is above mayfield, kentucky, the town basically wiped off the map. meanwhile we re hearing stories from survivors that say all it happened to them in the blink of an eye. i ve never been through anything like that in my life. we got stuck downtown and all the rubble i went through. i don t know it was like a war zone or something. it was so awful. my apartment and my car, people say live in the apartment with me lost everything, too. i don t have anything. i ve been through the town a couple of times and saw everything but it is just it s upsetting to know that s the town that you grew up in and everything and you know,
jose, we don t see anything like what we just saw. and as a matter of fact, the paducah, kentucky national weather service has called in for structural engineers, and that kind of hints they may think this had been a high category 4 twister or maybe a low 5. so either way, the devastation as you ve been showing us, is just unimaginable. and our hearts and prayers go out to everybody in those communities across those six states. they really do. al roker, it s i really appreciate your time. thanks for being with me this morning. a crucial part of the mayfield, kentucky community was severely damaged by the deadly tornadoes. next, i ll talk to the director of a women and children s shelter about how their residents survived. you re watching jose diaz-balart reports. art report.
getting the most attention rightfully so is mayfield, kentucky in the county of graves, which is on the southwestern corner of kentucky near the tennessee border. steve harrigan has been reporting from there all morning and want to get back to him now. i don t know what you heard and something that caught your ear or eye perhaps where you are standing in mayfield. the governor nailed it when he said the phrase a mountain of waste we still have to clean up. they are really attacking that mountain, some giant tree stumps they re trying to cut up and move out of the way. we have some buildings on the road, too. buildings lifted up and placed on the road. you can imagine if what we re seeing here just a few square feet and also down the street here, imagine 200 miles of this trying to clean it up. the governor said it will be a years-long process and it certainly looks that. they re getting at it. this is the physical damage. something you can see and
time and everything else. what was this right here? this was an office building. this housed a customer service. show me a little bit around here. and commissioner, so mayfield is about 10,000 people, the county you represent, 38,000 people. that s correct, that s correct. what i mean, this is just difficult to explain. what was this? this was a restaurant, this was a steakhouse restaurant, that, you know, a historical building. you ve got the post office next door to it. you ve got church buildings, you ve got office space, you ve got apartments. those apartments over there held up pretty well, but part of the roof is gone, and to the right, it s it s almost as if this tornado, this series of tornadoes, you know, it it just hit and went, hit and went, hit and went. but for the most part, it also had this swath of complete destruction. it s amazing, commissioner, you live just about a mile and a
1-855-306-8959. or applying for help online through the connect site. walgreens in mayfield is the only pharmacy that has been open. starting today, walmart plans to open for prescription fulfillment. this is in mayfield. if you need a refill, it would help if you can bring your medication bottles. but the pharmacy recognized that you probably don t have them. so if you have a list of your medications, that would be helpful, too. mayfield nursing and rehab has been closed due to storm damage and will need to rebuild. all residents have been relocated. kentucky state police is asking, especially in the gray s county area for any family members of missing loved ones, you should report to the office building of his house ministries to provide a reference to standard a