still without electric and the overnight temperatures are dropping into the freezing digits. >> dana: destruction spans more than 200 miles from arkansas to kentucky and the bluegrass state bearing the brunt of the damage. >> bill: look at these satellite images. this is above mayfield, kentucky, the town basically wiped off the map. meanwhile we're hearing stories from survivors that say all it happened to them in the blink of an eye. >> i've never been through anything like that in my life. we got stuck downtown and all the rubble i went through. i don't know -- it was like a war zone or something. it was so awful. >> my apartment and my car, people say live in the apartment with me lost everything, too. i don't have anything. >> i've been through the town a couple of times and saw everything but it is just -- it's upsetting to know that's the town that you grew up in and everything and you know, memories are all gone. >> bill: just story after story. to help us through that story today hunter davis is live in arkansas. a tornado there killed two people. steve harrigan is live in mayfield, can en ken. what are you standing in now? >> good morning, bill. this was once a pre-school. wide open now. you talked about the roads being clogged up. that's what has happened here. this pre-school was lifted off its foundation moved about 30 yards over into one lane of this road here. it used to be over there about 30 yards. this wind strong enough to pick up buildings and move them, blocked the road and making it tough for people to get around. people are coming back now to try to search to try to find whatever they can pull from this wreckage. some key items people are looking for, medicine, people are looking for pets, also for insurance information. when you walk around here and talk to people many of them who look stunned even the survivors, even people who rode out the storm and whose family all survived have been through some real trauma. a real life or death situation. when you talk to them sometimes it is like they're almost ready to burst. here is one woman we spoke to, angela, about what she went through. >> we put the pillows over our heads as we heard it coming. when i heard windows breaking i looked and i said it's here. you know, we looked at each other. i love you. this is it. it's over. >> how is your mood today? >> i'm -- i want to go home and i don't have a home to go home to. >> that's what really got me. a middle-aged woman with her family all survived but she is really broken. she needs to go home and her home isn't there anymore. the governor said the death toll roughly about 80 but it will change. he expects it to go up. here is the governor. >> for the people of america there is no lens big enough to show you the extent of the damage here in graves county or in kentucky. nothing that was standing in the direct line of this tornado is still standing. >> you can see they're trying to clear this road. heavy machinery out trying to pull some of the wreckage away. a real mixture of buildings, houses, trees, everything trying to get people from point a to point b. they need housing here, they need electricity, phones, running water. to do that they have to clear the streets first. >> bill: amazing sight there. steve harrigan with that story from mayfield. back to you shortly. >> dana: southern illinois crews search the rubble after a roof and wall collapsed at an amazon facility. at least six deaths. a look at the facility before and after the damage. search efforts are expected to continue for several days. authorities say it is unlikely they'll find more survivors. a live report later this hour. >> from steve harrigan's position we take you 165 miles southwest to truman, arkansas, hunter davis from fox weather not far from where a tornado killed one person at a nursing home, another at a dollar general store. what does it look like there from arkansas? >> we're 20 or so miles from both of those locations. this is actually where that tornado started and it went well into tennessee. taking a look at some of this damage having seen two deaths this weekend our hearts go out to those people but you look at this type of damage and you think how was it not more? governor hutchinson credited those early warnings due to the fact we didn't lose more people. when you look at these homes and you look at this metal that has been completely bent over twisted into a ball and thrown somewhere else it is extremely hard to imagine how people could have stayed safe during this. like i said he is crediting all of that warning time that we had. he also says hundreds and hundreds of homes were completely destroyed. that's really getting us a picture of what people are kind of getting their week started off with. most people would be getting their kids ready for school this morning. in truman there is no school this week. a lot of the schools were also damaged. another area damaged here their emergency responses, fire department is completely destroyed. this that we're looking at now is the medic one where their ambulances come out of. you can see it is in shambles. we're standing on the inside. we're standing on hardwood floor right now. there is no building. there are no walls surrounding this place hardly anymore. just this interior part. if we come around to the other side this is really giving us a view this structure, these walls just completely collapsed in on themselves. this -- part of this brick wall is completely intact at the bottom where it fell over and crumb beld and we're looking at the inside of this structure. it is really incredible as we look at this type of damage not just here on main street. main street is the direct path of this tornado. the damage is extensive. it stretches throughout the city. something we've noticed over the weekend is that this damage, this debris really just flies across these cities, smaller cities. this ske really only has a population of just over 6,000 people so you can imagine what devastation like this will do to their infrastructure moving forward. that's the main focus is moving forward. governor hutcheson says hark saw people will come together and move forward together and something we've noticed over the weekend. people offering water to cook food, to give clothes, especially given it's cold. it's 38 degrees right now and it has been that way for most of this weekend during this cleanup. like i said that arkansas spirit that spirit of this part of the country is really just coming through this weekend. >> bill: remarkable images. there huntser davis in truman, arkansas. >> dana: our next guest is a pastor. they have opened their doors as a red cross shelter. he is from lone oak first baptist church in paducah. >> we've had 25 to 30 folks in and out over time. we're set for up to 75. we just added a few more early this morning. we've had a crew of volunteers in here to make sure they were taken care of. >> bill: you must feel so fortunate. it appears you are outside the worst of it and because you are, you can offer help to others. >> yes, we hope to be a good staging ground because mayfield is about 15 miles south on u.s. 45. we can get stuff from here to them and so that's why we've served as shelter and kind of a relay center to get things down there. >> dana: as the morning gets going here and people start to realize that they perhaps lost everything, what are the words of comfort that you provide? >> well, everybody has to process this in their own way. the lady that was on just a few minutes ago said that she was just in total shock. some folks have come in here in total shock. some folks want to talk about -- they want to talk about everything that happened to them. they want to repeat it. they want to relive it and some folks just want to go to sleep. so we want to be here to give them food and water and make sure that they get some clean clothes and a shower if they need it just to get them recharged where they can talk on the phone with their insurance company or find friends and family just a place where that's possible for them. >> bill: it is so important the work you are doing, hank. i know you are aware of it but it should be pointed out again. people have a place where they can go, share their stories and grieve together. this storm hit after dark on friday night late. but there were warnings early thursday morning that a storm such as this could be life threatening. were you aware of those warnings on thursday morning? >> we were. we were preparing in whatever ways that we could. of course, we had no idea that the damage could be this bad. and so we didn't activate volunteers in advance or anything like that. but we did keep an eye on everything and so we had folks that we knew were ready to come in about 11:00 p.m. when the police department called us and said they needed shelter right away. we had folks who were ready to be here. >> dana: pastor, thank you. as god works through you to help all these people we pray for your strength as well. thank you so much. >> thank you. >> bill: thanks. the president notified of this on saturday. he approved the request for kentucky's emergency declaration. the president pledging full federal support for victims of the outbreak promising whatever is needed for relief efforts. here he was on saturday. >> president biden: you will get together and the federal government will not walk away. we aren't democrats or republicans. sounds like hype he shallly but it is real.americans and we stand together. >> bill: he said he plans to visit the state soon to vair the damage. it may take several days, however. a lot of times presidential delegations go there and interfere with the work more than anything. i'm struck, dana, by these daytime photos, the aerial shots taken from our drones in that area. what do you pull from these piles of rubble that you can salvage or even want to salvage? >> dana: a lot of people saw that photograph from 1942 that was there in mayfield, kentucky but ended up 130 miles away in indiana and got reunited. hopefully people can find hope. the community spirit is alive and well. i read a story about a woman who was rescued under rubble and as the rescuers get to her she says what time is it? what day is it? it's 2:00 a.m. she said wish me happy birthday. that was how she spent her birthday. they were able to wish her a happy birthday. >> bill: everybody has a story. we heard some of the debris went to 30,000 feet. that's where airplanes fly. the other remarkable thing just reading about this is one of these storms was on the ground for 200 miles. we haven't seen or recorded a storm like that here in the u.s. in close to 100 years. 200 miles on the ground, a trail of destruction. we'll get the kentucky governor coming up later this hour and the latest from there. he is holding on the hope the number put at 100 is less than that. >> dana: they have done a great job keeping people informed. we'll bring it to you as soon as we get it. >> bill: at the height of the holiday shopping season the state of new york rolls out a new mask mandate today. how is that going to affect the people and how does that affect small businesses? 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thanksgiving. hospital capacity is what keeps me up at night. >> republicans like new york congresswoman stefanik are criticizing the mandate. essentially hochul is asking businesses to be responsible for checking the vaccine status for every individual, which is an untenable and outrageous request of our business community. it is no way to govern. new york city is also requiring the city's private sector workers to be vaccinated by december 27th. businesses say the mandates are too much too fast. >> we can't be seeing unilateral mandates come from one level of government without consultation with the business community and expect economic recovery to proceed, expect return to the office to proceed. it just messes things up. >> at least one county executive here in new york says they will not be enforcing the mask mandate. those who don't follow the mandate face a $1,000 fine. >> dana: thank you. >> bill: what does it mean? marc thiessen, former speech writer to george w. bush. good morning to you. here in new york we're back to wearing masks just so you know. it will go for a month's time. biden's approval, he is down 16 points from 57 since january down to 51. okay. it's clear and apparent that this has been trickier than he expected. >> yeah, this whole adding the vaccine mandate, having the mask mandates. covid brought out the inner stalin in public officials. they love telling us what to do and they don't want to give it up. omicron you look at this. according to w.h.o. as of december 10th reports no deaths from omicron, none. maybe that will change. right now there is no evidence this is bringing us back to march of 2020. but all of a signed they impose the mandates in response to it. 72% of the population is fully vaccinated including 86% of those 65 and older. the vulnerable population. in addition to that, bill, you have well over half of the population that has natural immunity from prior infection which studies show 27 times stronger than vaccinated immunity. the government don't recognize it. that is even more so for the unvaccinated population because one, they are unvaccinated or more likely to get covid and they aren't sitting at home with masks over their face. they are out living their lives and more likely to get the virus. so you are talking about a population of about 10 to 25 million people in this country that is really vulnerable to serious outcomes. we can't shut down the entire country because of that. even so we have treatments for them. you have pills from merck and pfizer, you have regeneron monoclonal antibodies and a drug that's available widely reduces covid deaths by 91%. we have multiple layers of defense. we have to go back and start living our lives again. >> bill: there is going to be another mandate that comes our way as bryan llenas was reporting in a couple of weeks in new york. you will be required to have a vaccination in order to work in a private company. from colorado. the governor there said he said the covid-19 emergency is over. and he says if you get sick it is your own darn fault. you have writing this. it is 2020 campaign message centered returning to a post trump normal. he needs to sell americans on a post covid normal. that day is coming sooner rather than later for a lot of people is it not, marc? >> it is. look, the pandemic is over. endemic is here. we'll never get to covid zero. we will have to learn to live with covid. we have multiple layers of protection. kathy hochul says she is worried about hospital capacity. why impose a vaccine mandate that could kick 10 or 15% of hospital workers out of their job now? the vaccine mandate doesn't recognize natural immunity which is more powerful than vaccinations. in the middle of a labor shortage and a supply chain crisis caused by people not returning to work because public officials keep panicking them about covid, why would you throw people out of work who are fully immunizeed just not from a vaccine and kick hospital workers out? we have a shortage right now of chemotherapy drugs. people will die from cancer because they can't get their chemotherapy drugs because they are throwing people out of work because of vaccine mandates? it doesn't make sense. we have to start learning to live with covid. >> bill: a sound bite from colorado, the democratic governor there. >> our top goal is always to follow the science and there was a time when there was no vaccine and masks were all we had and are we needed to wear them. the truth is we now have highly effective vaccines that work far better than masks. the emergency is over. so public health doesn't get to tell people what to wear. it's not their job. >> bill: he also said everybody had more than enough opportunity to get vaccine if it were their choice. the governor of colorado said that. nice to have you on a monday. we'll see you later in the week. >> dana: fox news, heartbreak in the heartland. we have a report from near the destroyed amazon warehouse. 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rapidly changing. over the past two days we've seen these crews out here working this site. they have been looking for people that might be left inside of that building. today they are working to stabilize it and said everyone that was missing has been accounted for. so if they do come across anyone that is going to be unexpected for these crews. but just yesterday they announced the names of the six people that died here after that tornado ef3 tornado came through this amazon site. their ages ranging from 26 to 62. most of them on the younger end of that age range. so you can only imagine there are so many people in this community that are going to be impacted or that are already impacted by this loss that happened over this weekend. i spoke to an employee who does work here and he was actually on the clock that night and he was just about 20 minutes away from work. he was coming to return his truck and he almost could have been here. but he was grateful he was not here for that but also sad for his co-workers that lost their lives and those that were struggling that night. he said most of them ran towards the front of the building and hid in a bathroom. 45 people did make it out safely that night. i also spoke with a photographer that was out here yesterday taking photos because this is a historic moment for this town. it is an unfortunate one but she came to take pictures and part of this community. she got a close-up look at this and she was saddened by it. at that time they hadn't released the names. she was just saying a lot of people here were anxious to see who lost their lives because they didn't know if it was people that were close to them or not. but regardless, this is a community -- small community and everyone here will be impacted. going forward they will keep on working to stabilize this building. just today we saw a portion of it is already gone. things are rapidly changing. >> bill: thank you for that. brandy reporting live there just on the western edge of illinois across in st. louis. this is brandy's location. edwardsville, illinois. you see every red dot on the map behind us is where a tornado was reported or spotted in illinois, eastern missouri. down through arkansas we were live in truman, arkansas a moment ago and you start to see things pop in northwestern tennessee and then into kentucky. it was really that mayfield candle factory that held a lot of drama from over the weekend. a briefing from the governor coming up at the top of the hour. it appears the initial possibility of many, many more deaths may not come to pass. we're hoping that's good news coming up. i will advance it one time and show you, you see the whole red area here? this is the path of the storm and if you started in mayfield, kentucky and went up past beaver dam to a county called breckenridge there in kentucky, you had one tornado they believe that was on the ground for 205 miles. it is stunning to think about that and rarely has it ever happened. this is the area where we are most focused on from northeastern arkansas to the area of beaver dam. let's go back with dana and see what the governor has to say. he has been out and about very little sleep for a good reason. a lot of people depending on him. >> dana: that's a part of the country you know well having grown up in cincinnati. you know those communities and how they pull together. we have a number for the red cross. it is on your screen and also the red cross.org. they do amazing work and encourage you to donate or if you need help call the red cross. >> bill: speaking of growing up in that part of the country a lot of ways it's tornado alley. with this system on friday night you had a cold system from the west and warm system from the east and they collided and things blew up. here is what you remember from tornadoes when you were a kid. it never leaves you. it stays with you for the rest of your life. when you are in a basement and that storm blows overhead and 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dana. good to be with you. what stunning images bill brought us from kentucky. i would just say larry summers has been talking about it for months. when the federal reserve said inflation was transitory he said it is not transitory. we're looking at a major problem. you also questioned the word transitory, that the federal reserve kept throwing out. finally jay powell in the last testimony in front of the capitol said we need to retire the word trance toefrment it is not going away. unfortunately if there is one thing the american people notice easily is when their wages disappear. a lot of people have gotten wage increases in 2021 and unfortunately any increase that they've seen has been zapped up by the price of inflation now at a near 40-year high talking about 60% increases in the price of gasoline year-over-year. 40% increases in certain foods, hotels up 25%. all across the board you are seeing companies raise prices. they are passing their costs on to consumers. what is stunning to me is democrat lawmakers are still at this moment trying to push through this build back better plan where we now know after it passed the house that a third of middle class americans will face higher taxes. so on top of all of the inflation costs that we're talking about, if this plan goes through, we will actually see even more costs coming at the american people in the form of higher taxes. you also have higher taxes for small and family-owned businesses as well as fees and higher mandate fees for energy companies in this build back better plan, dana. the costs are going higher and it is hardly transitory in 2022. >> dana: i want to put the number you reference, the inflation numbers versus wage increase. inflation 6.8%. wages up 4.8%. most people can do the math in their heads. if you are somebody concerned about your budget, you know exactly how much everything costs. you add it up in your head constantly and always know how much money is in your bank account because it is a source of anxiety. when you have people in the administration saying you should be grateful for wage increases. people don't think more of what they're selling will make their lives better. fine at last word. >> that's right. the honesty factor. even if it's bad, people want to hear the truth. we have jen psaki saying too bad you couldn't get the peloton and ron klain seeing this is a rich person's problem. it is not. we're all feeling it. these are items we're buying for the kitchen table every day. these are necessities not extra things we want. inflation is here, costing americans a lot and that is why this president's approval ratings are going down. it is unlikely we get a vote on this bill and certainly unlikely this passes in 2021. >> dana: we'll keep an eye on it. bill is asking me is it going to pass? i'll say call maria. we appreciate it. >> bill: it may be on the dock in 2021. it may be on the dock in 2022 as well. friday you had the double whammy maria described. inflation numbers and how much it will cost. 2 1/2 times higher than what we thought before. how is manchin going to swallow that? i think not. >> dana: he has been silent this weekend. on wednesday the fed meets and maybe they will see if they can do something about it there. guess what? sports got killed. they killed my sports reader. i was real excited about it. we'll try to bring it back. data shows violent crime is up in america's big cities including new york city. mayor bill deblasio says this. >> bottom line is that there is -- today in new york city a much safer city than we were eight years ago. >> dana: the numbers are telling a very different story. where is the disconnect? an alleged human smuggler the southern border facing charges after crashing into other car killing a mother and daughter. we're live in texas next hour. designers and do-it-yourselfers. parents and friends. if joint pain is getting in the way of who you are, it's time to talk to your doctor about enbrel. enbrel 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"wall street journal" piece you wrote last week. yes, the crime wave is as bad as you think. progressives gas light the public by claiming things used to be worse. funny that you should mention that. here is new york city's mayor bill deblasio on with chris wallace sunday. >> eight years i've been mayor, index crime, major crimes new york city down 11%. we'll go back to where we were pre-pandemic. we will remain safeist city in america. there is today in new york city a much safer city than we were eight years ago. >> bill: there it is claiming things used to be worse. rafael, go. >> well, i think democrats are starting to get nervous as crime becomes a really important issue in the minds of more and more voters. it has been polling as a top concern for some time now. what mayor deblasio was doing there and other sort of reformers have been doing is basically aggregating crime. he is saying look at all these categories of different crimes. if you put them all together then we can say crime is down. what it ignores is shootings, homicides, aggravated assaults are all up. one, these are the crimes that people are most concerned about but two, these are the crimes that people have continued to have opportunities to commit. the fact that home burglaries have been down over the last couple of years is not at all surprising given the pandemic and given the fact that more and more people are spengd time in their house. we really shouldn't be surprised by a decline in crimes that have seen fewer opportunities for commission. what we ought to be troubled about the homicide spike and aggravated assault spike and that's what people are really worried about. >> bill: what deblasio says. the numbers on overall crime versus murders. he said overall crime in new york is down 11%. murders are up at 37%. make sense of that for us, then. >> yeah, well again so there are a variety of crimes. things like residential burglaries for example where the opportunities to commit those crimes have gone down in number. whereas homicides haven't been responsive to the pandemic shutdowns in the same way that other crimes have. as more and more people get back out onto the street, more and more businesses open for longer and longer hours, as more and more people start going back to work during the day i think we'll start to see the other numbers catch up. homicide numbers, aggravated assaults have always been indicator for broader crime trends. i fear it will continue to be the case and i don't think the public ought to feel better about the fact if you put enough crime categories together you can say crime is down. >> bill: you have the whole defund the police movement. i mentioned it a moment ago. a lot of places being reversed. minneapolis is one of them. here is what the white house has to worry about. approval, disapproval for the president on crime. 61% disapprove. that will get your attention to the west wing. >> yeah, i think that's exactly right and they have a lot to be worried about. at the end of the day i think the left really has to own this issue. they have spent the last several years pushing policies that have lowered the cost of committing crimes and raised the cost of enforcing the law. i think those chickens are coming home to roost now. >> bill: interesting piece in the "wall street journal" as well. glad to have you on. we'll speak again. thank you. all right. >> i can't describe how seeing my town has just devastated us all. >> dana: we're waiting to hear from kentucky's governor after the deadly tornado outbreak to tore through the heartland. crean-up and recovery efforts underway. president biden dismissing criticism of his afghanistan withdrawal. what he said about the disastrous departure next. like a bigger kitchen, a swimming pool for the grandkids, or a backyard deck. your va home loan benefit and the newday 100 va loan make it possible. by borrowing up to 100% of your home's value you can take out up to $60,000 or more. with 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against that war in afghanistan from the very beginning. we were spending $300 million a week in afghanistan. over 20 years. now, everybody says you could have gotten out without anybody being hurt. no one has come up with a way to indicate to me how that happens. >> dana: that was president biden once again defending america's exit from afghanistan despite the deaths of 13 u.s. service members and a country now under taliban rule. here to talk about it is fox news senior strategic analyst jack keane. i imagine this is what -- he was going to say this no matter what. he is convinced he did the right thing and always defend it. even this weekend, general, i was helping somebody who stuck over there, an american citizen trying to get back threatened with losing his job here. wife and child are stuck in the refugee camp. it hasn't ended. >> oh no, not in the least. and certainly what the president is saying here trying to get some distance and run from his decision for obvious reasons. it is a strategic blunder of some significance that we haven't seen since world war ii. the only thing that compares to it is the horrific exit from the vietnam war. i would submit the conditions were very different. listen, he is presenting a false choice to us here, something president obama used to do quite a bit. and that is that we would have had considerably more casualties if we stayed. there would have had to have been a surge of troops if we stayed. certainly there is a risk of casualties, that would always be the case. but the choice on the table that is military commanders, intelligence commanders were recommending to him and also all of the allies, nato allies that were with us in afghanistan was to keep a modest amount of forces there. imperfect solution but it would maintain the status quo and prevent the taliban from taking over the government and it would prevent foreign terrorists from establishing a base of operations in afghanistan. something our european allies had great concern about and something we had significant concern about. so that was the choice that was on the table. now, if we stayed, would there be casualties going forward in the future as there has been in the past? yes. that is very likely. but the choice was to keep afghanistan in control of the government and prevent foreign terrorists from having a safe haven. that's the decision that he made and walked away from. and he knows. he doesn't like this answer he got. i don't think anybody involved in agreeing with his decision certainly wanted the taliban to take over the country again. but that's the problem with an unconditional withdrawal. if he had set conditions for the withdrawal, taliban was supposed to talk to the afghan government. wouldn't a condition be a cease-fire, another would be a peace treaty. why would we walk away until there is an enforceable agreement and some prediction of political stability going forward? those are realistic conditions that should have been on the table and they walked away from all of that. >> dana: i read a long piece in the new yorker this weekend, "new york times" magazine both had long pieces about what actually unfolded there and it is quite distressing to read and now a hunger crisis as well. general jack keane, always appreciate you. >> bill: one of the stories of the year for 2021 and how many points from that kabul chaos can be pulled. and connected. >> dana: probably in the decade. also humanitarian crisis. you will see that more and more unfold in winter. >> bill: did we get to the whole hour and never got to sports? >> dana: we're working on it. >> bill: stay tuned, okay. >> dana: i'm working on my sports thing. a day of grieving, cleanup and recovery after dozens of tornadoes cut through our heartland. governor beshear is going to give an update and how people escaped the candle factory. he expects the number of deaths statewide to reach at least 50. i'm dana perino. >> bill: i'm bill hemmer. good morning. you get the news friday night and hoping for the best at day break. in this case it was not to be. >> dana: almost -- when you see the destruction it is hard to imagine it was only 50. that is a blessing but they have so much to clean up. >> bill: this terror from the tornado stretched out hundreds of miles and now survivors are struggling to put their lives back together. many could be without heat, water and electricity for a long time. emergency crews struggling to restore receives. kentucky's governor offering words of comfort and vowing to rebuild. >> we again open our homes for each other and we'll make sure that we are fed and we will rebuild. we'll make it. we are grieving people today. >> bill: that's the governor. here he is live now waiting on the news conference. live to kentucky we go. >> we lost lives in at least eight counties and at least 18 counties suffered damage. as of this morning, our best count for confirmed deaths, the most accurate count we have as of this morning are 64 kentuckyians. remember, this is fluid and the numbers will change and sometimes they have thank god gone down. other times they've gone up. it breaks down as follows. 20 in grave, 13 in hopkins, 11 in mullen berg. we believe it is 11. 12 in warren, 4 in called well. one in marshall, one in taylor, one in fulton and one in lyon. undoubtedly there will be more. we believe it will certainly be above 70, maybe even 80. but again, with this amount of damage and rubble, it may be a week or even more before we have a final count on the number of lost lives. currently we believe there are at least 105 people in kentucky unaccounted for that we are still working to find. currently we have 300 national guard assisting rescue and recovery efforts. a few more than that. hundreds of state employees from transportation cabinet, division of forestry are clearing roads. we saw a light of hope yesterday and we were able in mayfield to get from just clearing roads to starting to haul debris away. i believe that's the same in mueller berg county. work directly with groups to get cell service back in hopkins, marshall, and i think it's up and going in fulton county as well working on hickman. to recap, we declared a state of emergency roughly midnight -- before midnight before the storm really hit. we received immediate federal emergency declaration i believe on sunday, which is the fastest we've ever seen and last night we received a federal declaration of major emergency. i think the fastest that has ever been issued and we are really grateful. fema is here and will give us an update on what that means. but it is really good news for our families. it means fema will be on the ground documenting losses at people's homes, helping them go ahead and file their claims. again, i believe this is the most rapid response by the federal government in the history of the united states of america and we need it. and we are really grateful for it. and then michael will go over a few other things here in a minute. new pieces out today, and i have a lot of pieces of paper here that i will work through them the best i can. i'm ordering flags to half staff in honor of those lost and those suffering from this tornado. to allstate office buildings will be lowered to half staff nr one week in honor of people who were killed or severely impacted. they should be lowered beginning at sunrise tuesday and remain until sundown monday. i'm asking other states to join us in the recognition of our kentuckyians struggling so badly. next update some potential good news from the candle factory in mayfield that we are actively working to confirm this information. all of this is being reported by the business. we pray that it's true. but we are working to confirm it. so according to the business, 110 individuals, 94 are alive and have been accounted for. again we're working to confirm that. eight are dead. we found eight bodies. and eight are missing. we feared much, much worse. again, i pray that it is accurate. but with no phones, with 15 plus feet of wreckage that had a dozen backhoes trying to pull things off of it, there was no way at the time to know how many individuals made it out. we very much hope that that is true. we have opened up our state parks for housing, for impacted families. penny rile is already full. we have 100 plus adults and a lot of kids that are out there. we'll guarantee at least two weeks of stay. there may be other options by the end of that but we aren't going to let any of our folks go homeless. we currently have distressed families at ken lake and kentucky dam village. currently we have some openings. i'm working with the county judge, judge perry in graves county to move people from warming center or shelter to these rooms. we have at least 58 rooms open at. kentucky dam village we have 30 open if we can get power. to lake barkley we'll open up 50 more. we do need a little bit of help. we need some volunteers to help us staff the state park. it will be things like washing dishes and washing clothes but we could really use that help. so if you are looking for a place to be of assistance, you can contact director andy cassett. 502-418-3581. his email andy.kasitz @ ky.gov. i hope he is flooded with calls and emails and we can put as many people to work helping our people out as possible. just a few more facts about those we've lost. 18 are still unidentified. of the ones that we know. the age range is 5 months to 86 years and six are younger than 18. help keeps pouring in from all over the country. thank you. thank you to everyone. we feel your love here in kentucky. the team kentucky team western kentucky tornado relief fund now 31,279 donations over $4 million raised into it thus far. do we have a website? those that would like to help us that's team wky relief fund. this is a fund associated with the state. fully transparent on how it is spent. there will be no administrative fees taken out of it. all of it will go to help these families. today we're announcing the first expenditure from that. we will be providing $5,000 in burial expenses for each family that has lost a loved one. we are going to ask the funeral home or group helping out to not charge the families beyond that $5,000. we are in grief together and no one will have to apply. we'll work with the vital statistics group for everyone who has been identified and reach out and contact those families directly. right now we think we have about 30,000 kentucky homes that are without power. significant debris removal going on right now. but there is a mountain of waste. it is going to take a significant amount of time. we've got significant livestock dead in all of the areas. there is ongoing cleanup with that, too. department for community-based services in mayfield suffered damage, cannot serve the public at this time. a mobile unit is in process to get down there so it can provide those continuing needed services. those that have needs for the department for community-based services can call 1-855-306-8959, or applying for help online through the connect site. walgreens in mayfield is the only pharmacy that has been open. starting today wal-mart plans to open for prescription fulfillment in mayfield. it helps if you can bring your medication bottles if you need a refill. the pharmacy recognizes you probably don't have them. if you have a list of your medications, that would be helpful, too. mayfield nursing and rehab has been closed due to storm damage and will need to rebuild. all residents have been relocated. kentucky state police is asking especially in the graves county area for any family members of missing loved ones you should report to the office building of his house ministries to provide a reference to standard -- reference standard to law enforcement for identification purposes. it is located at 1250 ky 303 in mayfield. if you need assistance to get there call 859-267-7775. they are using -- any family members of missing loved ones come to that building to get dna so they can match. kentucky state police are working to verify the information on the candle factory. i know like the folks in western kentucky i'm not doing so well today. i'm not sure how many of us are. i was working on getting the confirmed deaths this morning and realized i was writing on the back of notes that one of my kids took from school. and here is what it is. it's notes on inertia. an object in motion will stay in motion. so we'll keep putting one foot in front of the other and push through this. everybody out there get the help you need, take care of yourself and we will continue to provide updates. to people of western kentucky, we aren't going anywhere. we'll be with you today, we'll be with you tomorrow and we're going to be there with you to rebuild. this is one state. people that love one another and i -- everybody in the country is standing with you. with that i'll turn it over to director dossett. >> thank you, governor, good morning. i'm going to give you an overall update of operations, the date doc is in operation at level 3. we have an extraordinary compliment of state and federal personnel probably numbering 80 to 100 right now. these folks will be on duty each and every day including the weekends to answer the requests from our counties and to render assistance. so we have representatives from the kentucky transportation cabinet, national guard, forestry, law enforcement energy sector, red cross and have a command and control section to survey the damage. so now going to some of the power numbers. the governor has been some good news within the last 10 minutes. the numbers dropped again. we're at 28,000 -- 28,531 outages as of this moment. this is a remarkable outcome when you look at the damage that has been impacted across our commonwealth. so approximately 95% of potentially impacted power lines have been assessed. that's a big thing. in most of these events, the power companies can't get to the lines even to perform the assessments. 95% have been completed. there is some bad news with the good news. there are still 29 transmission lines, the lines that feed from the power plants. if you recall in the ice storm you saw collapse of these massive towers that run across our state. we have had that. and the restoration will be weeks to months for these. so we'll have a small number that feed off these transmission lines that are still out. we have at least 97 power structures damaged. several local power companies have extensive damage to their own distribution systems. and they are underway certainly. mutual aid crews from across other states are arriving daily. we have -- this is just an estimate of three companies and we have a number of them and i'll go through them. we have 8,000 power poles, threes the ones in your neighborhood, that are down. they have to be dug, replaced, wires strung. it is a massive effort. eight of the most impacted local power companies west kentucky, rural electric cooperative, lexington, electric. nashville electric. memphis light gas and water. murray electric, bowling green municipality, and mayfield electric. so we have water systems also impacted. three systems currently not operational with 10,400 customers. 11 system currently with limited operational capabilities for about 17,000 customers. these are boil water advisories. we're certainly familiar with those in other impacts. the division continues to coordinate with all municipal utilities. we are delivering generators as we speak. we are administrator will speak to some of the generation opportunities and things they are bringing over target here in a second. in graves, in mayfield, they are experiencing overload in some circuits and that is to be expected because of the level of power that they are trying to restore. generators arrived at the mills nursing and rehabilitation this morning and they've restored heat. we're coordinating with fema, the u.s. corps of engineers to provide water. water is in high demand in mayfield and in other communities. we are bulk drop shipping water, bottled water to command centers across the state in the impact area. we have requested and received -- and again folks, i can't stress the amount of federal support that came so quickly. i can tell you from just being a veteran of now 17 disasters, it takes time to get wheels rolling. we had federal urban search and rescue teams on the ground before i had finished submitting the request. just overnight they approved three additional teams to do wide area searches. we're doing the known impact and now we have to search all of the areas. the forward elements of those teams arrived last night when they were requested yesterday. pulling out all the stops. in hopkins, we're assisting and providing generation to dawson springs independent school. that's a key issue. it was assessed last night and we'll have something on the way. in dawson springs obviously electric is still down and water is being reestablished. verizon also set some mobile cellular units in place last night. so with that, restoration is ongoing. this again is not going to be a week or a month operation, folks. this will go on for years to come. this is a massive event. the largest and most devastating in kentucky's history. i will close with saying the key here is our thoughts and prayers and our hearts go out to all of the victims, to all of the families and to the families of those who are still missing. this is a horrific event and prayers will help. now i'll introduce gracia. she was with the governor and i yesterday as we toured the area with the secretary of dhs alejandro mayorkas. it is always a challenge to pronounce the secretary's name and also gracia's immediate boss, the fema administrator, dan criswell. i spent the day with them. the governor was with them. they get it and they care. and gracia in syncing with administrator criswell and secretary mayorkas had our application all the way to the white house with approvals waiting for the signed document. that's how quick this thing moved. thank you gracia and please update us on fema. >> governor, director dawson. thank you. yesterday meant so much to the secretary, to the administrator, to really see and as they said the pictures didn't do anything what we saw on the ground. such an impact and as director dawson said our hearts and prayers and thoughts go to the families. for the families who lost loved ones, for the families who suffered such incredible damages from what we saw. and last night as you heard, the president did declare a major declaration. this included eight counties and i'll read those counties off. it is for caldwell, full ton, graves, hopkins, marshall, mullen berg, taylor and warren counties. that's just the beginning. we'll work with the state on identifying other counties to get them added on. what this means is that there is assistance for individuals, for homeowners, for renters. they need to apply for fema assistance. the administrator did say yesterday the first line of defense is insurance. make sure if you have insurance that is -- you've already called them. but we also encourage everyone to apply for fema assistance. and that comes in various ways. and i know we've given the slide to the governor's office so we'll make sure that gets out there and to the media. you can go to -- you can apply online at disaster assistance.gov. one word disaster assistance.gov or call 1-800-621-fema. 3362. >> bill: a lot of information there really coming out on this monday morning. if you are looking for good news, i would point to the 94 people accounted for at the candle factory that held quite a bit of drama for human life. the bad news 64 confirmed dead, 105 unaccounted for. however, in that mix of people, when they try to track them down all the phone lines are down and if you are using a land line or a cell tower, we hold out hope that of the 105, they will be discovered very soon alive. >> dana: the governor was quite emotional during that press conference said he was holding it together but today he found it very difficult. one of the things he mentioned the state through a fund that he is establishing at the state level will provide $5,000 in burial expenses for each family and he will ask the funeral homes not to charge those families anything more than that. >> bill: i thought one of the other numbers that really stood out was the number of power lines that are down. 8,000 need to be dug up and replaced. that will take a very, very long time. >> dana: also a problem of a lack of water. a couple of the water tanks were -- water towers were taken down and so michael with the state emergency service said they are dropping water to these places. the other thing that the governor said and something to remember, this is a rural area. there are a lot of places that have livestock for their living and that livestock most likely is lost. >> bill: one of the areas getting the most attention rightfully so is mayfield, kentucky in the county of graves, which is on the southwestern corner of kentucky near the tennessee border. steve harrigan has been reporting from there all morning and want to get back to him now. i don't know what you heard and something that caught your ear or eye perhaps where you are standing in mayfield. >> the governor nailed it when he said the phrase a mountain of waste we still have to clean up. they are really attacking that mountain, some giant tree stumps they're trying to cut up and move out of the way. we have some buildings on the road, too. buildings lifted up and placed on the road. you can imagine if what we're seeing here just a few square feet and also down the street here, imagine 200 miles of this trying to clean it up. the governor said it will be a years-long process and it certainly looks that. they're getting at it. this is the physical damage. something you can see and something they're working on and you can see clear improvement. it is the emotional damage we've been bumping into talking to people. so many people here you can go up and down the street. on friday night they went through a life or death situation. they woke up, if they were alive, with their houses gone and, you know, they are stressed out. they are emotional, they are sad. the physical damage here we're seeing on a sunny day tremendous efforts and progress. but there are thousands of people here who went through a life or death situation and they are really suffering. the real quick effort will be to get housing. the governor said they opened up state parks to try to house people. he said finally this will be a years' long process. when you look at the scope of the effort heavy machinery from giant cranes and backhoes down to little bobcats down to chain sauce and down to just a man pushing a shovel. so really an all-out effort here to at least clear the way for more help to come. bill, back to you. >> bill: that happened on friday nie. it is now monday morning. did they allow the residents from these homes if you can still hear me, steve. did they allow them to go through the pile of debris that was left to look for photos or medicine or -- how is that managed there in mayfield? >> if you can show some of this destruction over here. interesting, usually when you get on the scene of a tornado immediately people are back there and they are looking for photos above all. that was not the case here. because conditions were so hard, no electricity, cold, no power, streets blocked, power lines down, it is such a disaster people were slow to start to come back. they are coming back now and what they are trying to find in addition to photos are medicine, insurance, pets, food stamps, things like that to get through day-to-day. so they are coming back but they are trying to put a bright face on it but even the governor is breaking down in tears. he is the leader. his hometown was crushed. his father's house is gone. so there is a lot of people here wondering is this town of mayfield going to be off the map or will they be able to come back? right now you can look a whole 360 degrees when you turn around, it is cranes but it is flat. it is just piles of rubble. if you just pan around and around and around this entire downtown. it was a 3/4 of a mile wide, destruction. >> bill: remarkable to see. steve harrigan, thank you. mayfield, kentucky where they are busy at work already. thank you. >> dana: we have grady trimble in mayfield, kentucky. i understand you were able to talk to the ceo of the candle factory. >> yeah, just about a mile down the road and well get to him in a moment but show you the human impact here. the woman you see there and the gentleman, they lost a sister and aunt here respectively and they are going through her belongings looking at family photos that they can find. they just were going through a drawer with all of her jewelry in it. and sadly, this is what so many families are going through right now. here in mayfield. i am with troy, the ceo of the candle factory down the road here. i'm sorry, i didn't expect this to happen to me but i can only imagine what you guys are going through as well. >> i mean, it's -- it's so sad to be a part of this and it has been so real and it is raw and my prayers go out to the family behind us. this is what unfortunately a loot of families in this community and other communities in kentucky are going through. my heart bleeds for the families within my own company and as a boy that grew up here my heart bleeds for these people behind us as well. it is just a raw example of the reality and the gravity of the situation here in mayfield, kentucky. >> bill: as we look at this i know you also have first responders and search and rescue crews at the candle factory up the road. what is the late oeft there? >> we met with the command center this morning. they're bringing in large equipment. as of now it is still a rescue mission. we are grateful for that. we are grateful for fema and the first responders keeping it that way at the moment. they wouldn't be keeping it that way if they didn't believe it. however, we must understand the reality and gravity of the situation that it has been below freezing for two nights in a row. but we do have eight casualties. we mourn for those families. but the number of what was missing is down to six. and without that casualty number increasing. so what happened is a lot of people were able to get out or was not in the building and our teams have worked through the night tirelessly to find them and we hope and pray those next six will be found the same way. we do know that a lot of the people that were there are in hospitals. we don't know where. it was chaotic and we're trying to understand how people are stable, how many critical and we don't have any idea what that number is. we'll work throughout the day to figure it out to provide assistance for that. >> even the hospitals extremely close to here are without water in some cases and they're working on restoring power to them. that's a challenge in itself is treating the people who need it. you mentioned this is where you grew up. this is your hometown. you are already talking about coming back from this which is hard to imagine as we look at what is going on here. you have to focus on that. >> we are. trying to compartmentalize and responsible for what we're responsible for as a company and community member. our mayor's leadership has been great through this. i applaud her. our local responders have been incredible. we are a strong community. we are people from kentucky and all been this way and we'll get through this. i don't know if we know how yet. it will take a lot of energy, effort, prayer and a lot of money and i know that people will help us. we're an incredible country and a country in a time of need unity is a great thing. >> the county has set up a fund for the victims and their families and survivors. the state has set up a fund and you have also set up a fund and your family has personally donated for your employees impacted. >> of course, you know. listen, all the funds are great and red cross is great. let me not leave them out either. the red cross has been phenomenal to work with and everybody needs those things. i know the funds that get to mcp kentucky.com will touch the fingertips of our employees and this community so i 100% know that and i'm sure the other ones a great, too. everybody is trying to do the best they can in uncharted waters. >> i want to point out what we're looking at behind us here. these are people who are coming to the home of a family that they lost in the tornado here in mayfield for the first time and as we just got those updated numbers on the death toll, want to remind people that for every one of those numbers, there is a family that's going through this very same thing. going through the debris. we saw christmas ornaments, decorations, reminder it happened at such a terrible not. that there is ever a good time to go through this but the town of mayfield has been irrepably damaged and almost wiped off the map in terms of infrastructure. it is devastating everywhere you look. >> dana: it is remarkable to see the family behind you going through their lost relatives' belonging and the children pitching in to help and they must be so upset and they don't have school. the schools were destroyed as well. one question and maybe you already asked this. given the weather forecast that we had from thursday and friday, was there ever a consideration of closing the factory for that night even though it was a busy christmas and they had a lot of orders to fill? >> i'm sure you have been asked this already, troy. was a consideration ever there to close the factory with the forecast you had about severe whether or did you think about it and decide not to because you had so many orders the fill and think we're in a big warehouse and will be okay? >> first of all, there is never an order worth taking any risks, let's start there. we take these into consideration all the time. every other large employer in this community was open. at the time we had people through the tornado drills. you would believe it would be much safer in our factory in a concrete walls, steel roof, than you would be in a home and what's to say it didn't happen to this family behind us, right? i think everybody made the best decision with the facts they had at the time. we had employees that left, right, and we do not -- if an employee wanted to leave, they left. and, you know, in that particular case we've all been told not to get in our car. in this case i'm grateful they did. but it's tragic and i know we all play the hindsight what ifs. and our heart -- my heart just breaks for those people. >> bill: ours do, too. our condolences with all of your employees and families like these. >> dana: we will be in touch with you all day. >> bill: think about the thousands of people affected by this and just that image behind grady, a family of four, mother, father, daughter, son, going through a dresser in the middle of a field that used to be their home and their property trying to find pictures or mom men tow and whatever can be salvaged. it comes down to that. a landscaper is helping with the cleanup. ryan, thank you for your time. you had a big day yesterday. what can you tell us about what you are trying to do to help? >> it's devastating. it didn't get real to me until i seen my buddy's grandma and we walked if her home and what was left of it. trying to salvage some of her things and it's just sad. our prayers are out to these families. they lost everything during this holiday time. a local contractor we did business with, she lost her home and she has kids 14, 11, 9 who lost everything right here two weeks away from christmas and it is just going to be hard for people to rebuild from this. >> dana: when you start to think about cleanup, i have been looking at this and wondering the question is where do you begin? how do you decide where to start? >> it starts and make sure everybody is found. it's hard to see everything that is just missing, stuff that should be there is no longer there. main thing is keeping people out of the downtown area so people helping can get access to driveways and get the trees out. we'll start taking a lot of stuff out of the town of mayfield. it will go on after the news crews leave. it will be a long process. we lost our history. family has lost everything they ever had and we just don't know where to start. >> bill: you own a landscaping company and you can help where maybe others cannot. your buddy's home yesterday, his grandmother's home you cleared a path to figure out whether or not you could rescue some of her medicine which had she lost that medicine, who knows her condition. did you find the medicine? what are you doing with your equipment? >> they recovered some of it. we recovered her deep freeze with a lot of food in it. the poor woman lost everything and as a kid i remember her house burning down. this is the second time she has lost everything. fortunate she made it out alive and she is doing good. we enjoyed her company last night. there are a lot of families here that won't get to see loved ones and it is so sad. >> bill: we've heard a lot of tough stories today and yesterday, and saturday. i know yesterday was your birthday. that's a date that you will never forget. 12-12-21 but yet it was 12-10-21 friday night where your life and so many other lives have been changed, ryan. i just -- can you find a silver lining in all this destruction that you said you know, okay, i see that now. i've got hope for the future. have you come across that story, ryan? >> yes, sir. our community is so strong. the local deisel mechanic shop, they're helping people clean up. the amount of people willing to donate what they can and think we'll rebuild from this. i think it will be hard. our town is strong and what it looks like now hopefully sooner than later we'll have it back and going strong. i know everybody in this community would help anybody out if the roles were reversed. we will get it and i appreciate everybody that is helping. the hardest thing right now is organizing everything for the help, that's a great problem to have like people have said. just keep sending their prayers and whatever you have to spare, even if it's just your time. come down, food trucks come down, feed the workers. we want to stay on top of this and get our town back. >> bill: we have a country pulling for you. thank you, ryan. >> dana: a fine young man, ryan, happy birthday to you. thank you. >> bill: ryan there. on the candle factory that is getting a lot of attention. apparently there was a duck and cover order that went out to those working there. i guess there was a room where they can go 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show you this horrible crash. this happened saturday afternoon down in the rio grande valley in mission, texas. the drone team over the aftermath. texas dps said law enforcement was chasing an 18-year-old human smuggler loaded with illegal immigrants. he t-boned a vehicle with the innocent mom and daughter. tragically they both passed away ages 59 and 22. take a look at the photos given to me by a source from the scene of that crash showing how violent it was. one of the migrants was launched through the windshield of that smuggler's vehicle. he was okay. none of the migrants passed away. only the mother and daughter. horrible situation there. we're told the smuggler is an 18-year-old u.s. citizen. we'll keep you posted when we hear on that possible arraignment and his charges. in the rio grande valley we saw a raft dropping off 11 illegal immigrants in texas. these were the runners you. you'll see they are dressed in all black and take off into the brush. they don't want to be caught and evading law enforcement. man on the mexican side of the river with a hope to pull the raft into mexico. border patrol responded to the area but didn't physically see them caught. we talk about del rio sector where we are. look at this video we shot last nie. go out late into the night with texas dps. working the branches. it is remote, brushy area where illegal immigrants, runners come across the border about 10 miles inland trying to get further into texas. texas dps trying to hunt them down. also people who do not want to be caught. are not turning themselves in and only texas dps is out there patrolling these areas. it is not border patrol. back live we talk about how busy del rio sector is in the last two months dhs source telling me since october 1 more than 70,000 apprehensions. the numbers up 235% compared to last year at the same time. >> bill: bill, thank you. numbers don't lie. he is in eagle pass in the state of texas. >> dana: whether you shop for groceries or filling 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