you can see what is left of it. the storm uprooting trees, turning homes into rubble. at least 13 people were killed. more than a hundred are still missing. cnn s ed lavandera is in dawson springs with the latest. reporter: the death toll continues to rise here in hopkins county, kentucky. we are in dawson springs, a town of about 3,000 people. officials tell us that 2/3 of the city was decimated by the tornadoes that ripped through here on friday night. and this is the destruction that many people are still trying to comb through at this time. everywhere you look, it was a stretch the emergency officials tell us that the storm left a swath about a half mile wide of destruction, that it went from the western county line, all the way to the eastern county line here in hopkins county. it s unlike anything the residents of this county and this community has ever seen. and that really goes well with
the tornados. this is what s left of the kentucky town of about 2,700 peoples. the storm uprooting trees, reducing homes to nothing but debris. the governor of kentucky telling cnn this morning that the list of people still missing is about eight pages long. and here is governor andy beshear right now heading to a podium updating us on the latest efforts to return kentucky to normal. we have lost far too many of our brothers and sisters. the damage is devastating. entire blocks more than one block with nothing standing. to the people of america, there is no lens big enough for show you the extent of the damage here or in kentucky, nothing that was standing in the direct line of this tornado is still standing. we currently have 18 counties
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