State and local partners, as well as throughout the state and elsewhere and in addition, were grateful for the support that we have imbedded from our israeli and mexican teams that have joined our operation. We have a full set of social Services Available to the families. At the hotel, where most of them are staying, and so they are operating in shifts. Theyre available around the clock with grief counseling, rabbis, other religious leaders all onsite to assist our families during this difficult, difficult process. Many groups have volunteered, as well, to help and were coordinating their services. Chief among them, Jewish Community services, which also operates the 211 help line here. Licensed clinicians and they specialize in trauma and grief counselling. Also, our Community Action and Human Services agencies and juvenile services department, those are county departments with our own licensed psychologists and social workers on the scene assisting. Florida blue has also offered to as
State and local partners, as well as throughout the state and elsewhere and in addition, were grateful for the support that we have imbedded from our israeli and mexican teams that have joined our operation. We have a full set of social Services Available to the families. At the hotel, where most of them are staying, and so they are operating in shifts. Theyre available around the clock with grief counseling, rabbis, other religious leaders all onsite to assist our families during this difficult, difficult process. Many groups have volunteered, as well, to help and were coordinating their services. Chief among them, Jewish Community services, which also operates the 211 help line here. Licensed clinicians and they specialize in trauma and grief counselling. Also, our Community Action and Human Services agencies and juvenile services department, those are county departments with our own licensed psychologists and social workers on the scene assisting. Florida blue has also offered to as
State and local partners, as well as throughout the state and elsewhere and in addition, were grateful for the support that we have imbedded from our israeli and mexican teams that have joined our operation. We have a full set of social Services Available to the families. At the hotel, where most of them are staying, and so they are operating in shifts. Theyre available around the clock with grief counseling, rabbis, other religious leaders all onsite to assist our families during this difficult, difficult process. Many groups have volunteered, as well, to help and were coordinating their services. Chief among them, Jewish Community services, which also operates the 211 help line here. Licensed clinicians and they specialize in trauma and grief counselling. Also, our Community Action and Human Services agencies and juvenile services department, those are county departments with our own licensed psychologists and social workers on the scene assisting. Florida blue has also offered to as
have set up that coordinates all of the donations. this wasn t just kentucky this was arkansas. this was tennessee. this was illinois. there were six states actually affected by this tornado. we have had deaths in other states, the death toll is likely to exceed 100. the danger today is that they are still trying to rescue people, particularly from this candle factory, about eight miles from here. but they re not done there yet. it is cold. it is warming up now with the sun. but the bottom line is this is still a dangerous and active situation. they are hoping there are going to be rescues through the course of the day and some parts where the tornado hit, like in illinois, they moved away from the rescue phase and into the recovery phase. that is not the case here in kentucky. so this continues to be the case, rescues will be under way all day today. i will be here all day today. and reporting to you on all of those developments as they become available.
what s the latest? well, wolf, we re thankful that the floodwaters have receded now below flood stage. we almost hit that 17-foot record from 1896. thankfully we did not but still widespread damage across the city. many of our neighborhoods are still recovering. we are not doing rescues anymore thankfully. so we re transitioning out of the rescue phase into what promises to be a very long and challenging recovery. we re showing our viewers some live aerial shots over an area you know well, the vine street expressway still flooded withstanding water. does philadelphia have enough resources right now to clear this vital roadway? no, not by ourselves. we re working very closely with our state and federal partners as we ve been doing really since the rain started to fall. we had firefighters, medics, dispatchers, all of our different partners working together in the water-making rescues overnight and the first night of the storm all the way through yesterday we ve been evacuating bui