More powerful, destructive, and deadlier storms will be the "new normal" as the effects of climate change take root, the top US emergency management official said Sunday after massive tornadoes ravaged six states.
US President Joe Biden called the rare late-season burst of twisters in the US heartland "one of the largest" storm outbreaks in American history, and on Sunday night declared a major federal disaster in Kentucky.
US emergency workers searched for survivors of ferocious tornadoes that killed dozens of people across several states and left towns in ruins, but the governor of hard-hit Kentucky warned that cadaver dogs were still finding bodies.
At least 64 people died in Kentucky from devastating tornadoes that left a trail of destruction across the US state, the governor said Monday, with 14 people confirmed killed in other states.
WILMINGTON, Dec 12 The powerful storm system that devastated parts of the United States overnight is likely to be “one of the largest tornado outbreaks in our history,” President Joe Biden said yesterday. “It’s a tragedy. And we still don’t know how many lives are lost and the full.