the landscape zigzagging at times. power is a big concern for a lot of communities in tennessee. i want to show you what s leading to the power outages issues. this is a video from paris and tennessee of the kentucky border, a major tva transmission tower. these lines are what they did for electric cooperatives so they can send them to homes and businesses. when towers like this it s a major undertaking to get them restored. there several counties who do not have direct damage from the tornado outbreak. there are effective because so many areas are without power with the major lines being down just like this one. all of this happening as another cold nice hudson. jon: fox whether multimedia journalist, thank you. complete storm coverage you want to download hour by hour update
business works hard but you don t get a split everything up this is socialism gone bad. you cannot always do evenly. i hate to end the conversation there but we have to the fox report with jon scott starts now. jon: utter devastation in kentucky after friday night s tornado outbreak leveled homes industry businesses throughout kentucky and several neighboring states. residents cost the region are beginning the long road to recovery. good evening i am jon scott and this is the fox river. kentucky governor called the outbreak the most devastating tornado in his state s history and federal officials surveyed the damage in several areas of the state including the
government of tornado victims, an emergency declaration for kentucky and says he ll be ready to do the same for other states as needed david spunt is live at the white house with more on all of that. the president is also at the white house as evening. he continues to receive updates from the storm ravaged states and small towns. today the whole insecurity secretary and fema administrator to kentucky where they are right now. i make it perfectly clear that we are here physically today and but we will be here tomorrow and the days and weeks and months ahead until the recovery is complete. i want you to know the nation, your country is praying with you today for your speedy recovery and for all the tragedy that you ve endured. president biden served and signed an emergency disaster
the death toll not exactly clear roughly 80 dead in kentucky but that number is likely to rise considerably and abrupt onset page after page of names on list of people who are still missing to the tornado the debris made it hard to find people and phone service is down so it s hard to contact people as well. the destruction of houses, cars, businesses is so overwhelming some people are not sure it will ever come back. i pray to god we get this town back i know it ll take time it s a small town but i m telling myself there is no town anymore i don t know what they re going to do this is devastating i hate this for the whole town. no houses anymore that is a short-term priority they have to get housing there putting people in shelters and schools and state parks and hotels until they can start to build.