who might not have survived. and again, we ve heard from people in this community, of neighbors they know that did not make it. alicia. ellison, it is absolutely heartbreaking. i do have to ask you, for those who have lost their homes, where are they staying tonight? reporter: so there is a mix of some people saying that they ve gone up to the school, there s an area where people are giving supplies out to the school down on main street. there s what looks like kind of just like a business i m not even entirely sure what it is, but they have a sign up saying, food, shelter, we have it here. neighbors, i know it sounds cliche to say, neighbors are helping neighbors, but that s what s happening. the few homes that are still standing, they are taking each other in. a lot of people have spent their entire lives in this community so they have i have just lost you nbc s ellison barber, thank you very much for being there and for your reporting. a lot of our coverage following the
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and we even had our dog in there with us. it just picked us up and just threw us around and landed us on the other side of the neighbor s house. all just scattered out. nbc s ellison barber is in dawson springs, kentucky, with the latest on the recovery effort there. the governor described half the town of dawson springs as flattened. what are you seeing there? reporter: it s exactly that. there are so many homes that you get up to what would be a house and you wonder if this actually was a house, because it s hard to tell so many homes in this community. roofs are gone, many of them are entirely collapsed. we ve met a number of people who have harrowing stories of survival, just like the one you heard from that man a little while ago. we were talking to a family, one woman who has lived here with her husband for 31 years.
countless communities across six state. so tonight we wanted to give a voice to someone who s not only been witnessing the aftermath of these storms, but someone who is on the air watching the radar, and forecasting what was happening. noah bergen is a meteorologist for the nbc affiliate in paducah, kentucky. he tweeted this last night, quote, the sun is setting over mayfield, but the soul is not. this has been one of the toughest days i have ever experienced. i can t even describe it. we ve cried, we ve hugged, and now we rebuild. noah joins me now. let s start with you posting, it was one of the toughest days of your life. how are you doing covering this severe weather so close to home? it s really tough, especially when a lot of people here at the station have impact. on the air live, and there were people who knew that their life, their children, their
you would have fell back to the ground and it would have and it was raining, we had no light. so everyone that was conscience was trying to help each other out. inside the collapsed factory, others like key ana parson perez live streamed the harrowing moments on facebook. somebody please send us some help. we are trapped. the wall is stuck on me. nobody can get to us. reporter: she was one of the last people to be rescued. of all days, on her 40th birthday. she s grateful to celebrate life, while loved ones of the missing wait anxiously for answers. when the time is right, i ll grieve. but right now, i m looking for a miracle. that was nbc s kathy park reporting from kentucky. next, the number one podcast on apple s chart is american radical. my friend and colleague ayman mohyeldin joins me to talk about the latest episode. it is out today. this episode dives into the deadly consequences of
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