least near the churches, even though they re not standing. tell us what you re seeing and what s going to happen today. victor i m standing in front of the heavily damaged when first united methodist church on this palm sunday a significant day for people of the christian faith leading up to easter next sunday. i want you to see what this church looked like before the tornado. or through with this path of destruction. and then once you see that beautiful building now take the mast cam from our satellite truck to get more of an aerial perspective to see the devastation that was left behind by this powerful, powerful twister. this is just a drop in the bucket of the destruction that happened here and when arkansas the town s mayor, describing it best literally splitting the town in half, but it wasn t just here. it was across the entire midwest. take a listen. tornado
ordering the house of mouse to pay back 700 plus million dollars in taxes. florida radio host. one of the premier talents of this region. nationally syndicated joins us now. thanks for having me. you said come to the metro diner. three cameras and a satellite truck. amazing. brian: some of the typest people. all these people your listeners. is this a good move for desantis. there is no bad move for desantis. arguably the most popular governor this state and probably any state. the people in the state of florida are kind of fed up with wokeness as you pointed out. go woke, go broke. florida is where wokeness goes to die. disney was acting up. ron disantd said we can t be business partners if you are going to take all the money you make from the benefits we give from you working in the state and invest in undoing the legislature that the people want. we know the people want it because look at the election. ron desantis landslide and if you ask any one of these people here desantis
charlie and the surge now of katrina. two storms. we know they re always all different, you know? and you re going to get a lot less than randi. do you have a place to go? can you get out of there? reporter: yeah. we have identified a parking garage for us because we re also concerned about our cars flooding and floating away, but also for our own safety we do have a parking garage to hunker down in and some other safe areas. buildings for our satellite truck that we can sort of hug up against and make sure that we do remain safe because we are bracing for the worst of it. you talk to people around here, you can tell they re on edge. i mean, certainly charlie when charlie came through they didn t have a lot of notice because it made a quick right turn, right, chad? they re preparing for this. there s quite a concern here. chad, if you can, you mentioned a 16 foot storm surge in some areas.
east perry elementary school, perry county one of the hardest hit places. you can see these pallets of water given out just today and still more water to give out. i m going to show you how much there really is. i have a camera on top of the satellite truck. you can see just how much water there is. this is what they re trying to do is get this water out as quickly as possible because people who don t have power, they may not be able to get to cooling places, so water is what they need. so they come here, they take this water, people do and put it on maybe atvs or other off-road vehicles and drive it into these hollers still blocked off because of flood waters that took away the one bridge or the one road they had into those areas. so even though there s been a lot of progress in six days, an amazing amount of progress and we ve watched from the ground here with cnn, there s a long way to go in kentucky. it s going to be a long time for that community to rebuild, that region.
search and rescue and ultimate recovery from the most devastating flooding event our state has ever seen. cnn s evan mcmorris is live in hazazhazard, kentucky, what e latest there? reporter: today is the day that the governor has been warning about. the day when the heat comes. it s 11:30 in the morning, it is already extremely hot, and it s also very humid. i m sweating, i ve been sweating all morning. the name of the game now is water. getting it to people as quickly as possible. i m at an elementary school in perry county that s been turned into a relief center. i m going to have lorenzo throw the mast up on the satellite truck. you can see how much water they have around me and our photojournalist, both down here amongst the water being given to families that need it because they still can t get it. some don t have power, some still are having trouble with other services, maybe getting out of their house. now, a big challenge for those people is immediate. but there s also what