ceremoniously, they ve handed it to her. she s determined to put that flag back upsh in this town whe they rebuild this to the may field she knows. we have a long road ahead of us, but still holding up hope for good news. we want to go over to morgan chesky in edwardsville. at least six people have died there at that ma amson facility. reporter: good morning. officials are saying this recovery effort is still on going. they had a press conference yesterday evening in which they said they reev searching for an signs of life as they comb through that debris outside this massive warehouse north of edwardsville here. this is a building that essentially took abu direct hit from this tornado. this was not the quad state tornado that hit mayfield. it was one of the more than 30 others that sprung up across
behind before and after images like this. it continued to track and we were tracking it for roughly four hours friday night. it went over mayfield as well, same system that left behind before and after images like this in neighborhoods in mayfield. absolute destruction. not only did that quad state tornado potentially track more than 200 miles, but we could have potentially seen two tornadoes track more than 200 miles. the national weather service has to assess the damage and do some research here to make sure that the two did track more than 100 miles. so that s something that we ll have to confirm a little later down the road. what we have seen here and the national weather service has sent out crews to begin surveying the tornado damage to determine the intensity of these tornados, just from aerial views here in kentucky, we have seen ef-3 level damage. once we get on the ground and start assessing the damage, it could be possible that some of those tornadoes in kentucky are
The National Weather Service will confirm if a single tornado tracked over 200 miles from Arkansas to Kentucky, which could set the record for longest tornado in U.S. history
track and long duration event unfolded late friday into the early morning hours of saturday. the same tornado moved into northern portions of kentucky. it actually covered four states. this is an image of one of the courthouses. this is an after-image, you can see the tops of that building completely cut off, just toppled by this powerful, powerful tornado. and i bring this to your attention because we have, if verified, the potential to break records with this long track, long duration tornado. here it is forming across portions of northeastern arkansas, just near jonesboro, missouri, tennessee and central kentucky. this is a quad-state tornado. as you recall, back in 1925, a tri-state tornado made headlines then. that was the longest duration single tornado event at all times. and that covered about 219 miles. well, this particular tornado is
elevated from 30,000 to 34,000 feet. they re launching 34,000 feet into the sky. this is a significant tornado that s spanning several different states. and we have already seen the destruction. of course, we will get the true toll of the destruction, once the sun rises, roughly about 7:45 this morning. we already have 26 tornadoes. i can barely keep up with updating this graphic. it just continues to escalate in numbers and quantity as well. we can t forget about the severe wind reports that we ve had across arkansas, missouri, into tennessee, kentucky, ohio, illinois. the list goes on. let me take you to monet, arkansas, where the line of destructive tornadoes began late friday evening. this is a long duration, long track tornado, this same tornado tracked through four states. we re now calling this the quad-state tornado because it tore a path of destruction from arkansas to tennessee, as well