help keep pouring in from all over the country. thank you. to everyone. we feel your love here in kentucky. >> i'll speak with kentucky's lieutenant governor about the monumental and delicate search and rescue operation under way. dozens of tornadoes friday night into saturday also killed at least 16 people across illinois, tennessee, missouri, and arkansas. president biden will travel to kentucky to survey the damage on wednesday. in mayfield, kentucky, one of the hardest-hit areas, at least eight people working at a candle factory were killed and eight more missing. one woman and her children were feet apart inside that factory when the tornado to her right through them. she glanced away for a moment and when she looked back, he was gone. she's somehow found the strength to share their story. i'll speak to her in just a moment. joining me now, though, from mayfield, kentucky, is nbc news correspondent kathy park. kathy, every time i look at the screen and see the devastation around you, my breath is taken away, and that's me looking from afar. what is it like to be there? >> reporter: katy, no matter where you look, you see destruction and devastation practically everywhere. we're in the heart of mayfield right now. this is the business district and there are barely any structures left standing. in fact what you're looking at right now is what used to be a drug and alcohol intervention facility. you might actually see the sign of the business right in front of you. the walls have collapsed. you see just mountains of debris. you see a combination of office supplies mixed in with cinder blocks. i was told by the business owner a few moments ago there were several clients inside this building on friday night, actually having a meeting when they got alerted that a storm was headed this way. fortunately everyone got out in time. everyone is doing okay. but that business owner, when she came back, she saw this. this was her reaction. take a listen. >> it just looked like a battle zone. you didn't even recognize where you were on the street and what building was what. the only reason we knew this was ours is because of the post office. otherwise we wouldn't have recognized it. it was devastating. i broke down. it was heartbreaking. my husband and i, we put our lives into the business. we'll make it one day at a time. >> reporter: and katy, that was diane cobb. she is obviously heartbroken. she's crushed, but she is taking it day by day. you might hear a lot of background noise, there is a lot of cleanup under way today, a lot of heavy machinery, literally picking you want pieces. katy, just about two miles away from where we are is the candle factory that's been in the headlines all weekend long. 100 people inside the factory when that tornado blew through. you mentioned earlier, eight people confirmed dead, several unconcluded for. i was there shortly after the tornado hit that building and i was told by firefighters they're literally walking on top of that facility right now, combing through the rubble to see if they can potentially find any more people. it's really so heartbreaking to see this up close. the devastation is just so widespread. block after block, you see homes and businesses completely leveled, katy. >> kathy, we're days away from the storm now. we know there were storm warnings, there were tornado warnings, this was forecast. there were warnings there could be nocturnal tornadoes so make sure you can hear them. what are officials saying about the warning system and what are officials saying about why in the world people were working inside a candle factory overnight when this was forecast? >> reporter: yeah, so i was here in mayfield, i also visited bowling green, kentucky, about 2 1/2 hours east from here. i presented that question to a lot of these officials and they said that the alert systems were working. there is a protocol they follow. but they were warned. they had about 20 minutes of warning. and the warning signals were blasted throughout the community. so they said that people were warned that the storm was headed this way. as far as that candle factory, that business owner, the ceo, said that he didn't want people to go out in the middle of the storm. he thought it was best for people to hunker in place. they had the protocols, the safety protocols in place if there was ever a disaster like this. so he told us that that's what they did. so it certainly is something that we are going to be following up on. but as far as our conversations go, they said that they followed all the protocols that are currently in place to alert folks when there is a tornado headed this way. >> it's just amazing to see the twisted metal being hauled off behind you and that doesn't even put a dent in the destruction. kathy, thank you so much. autumn kirks was working the night shift at the candle factory with her boyfriend when the tornado hit it. she survived, she did not. autumn, i'm so, so sorry. i'm so, so sorry for what's happening to you and what's happening to your children. tell us about lannis and who he was. >> he was just a loving person. he didn't really have a hatred for anybody. i mean, he loved his kids. he loved me. he loved his family. i mean, he would do anything in the world for us, as long as he was able. and it's just devastating now. i've talked to his kids, i've tried to explain it. my 3-year-old just keeps asking to talk to joe and i don't know what to tell her. >> what could you possibly tell her? what happened inside that factory? >> we heard the sirens going off. i am a team lead so of course i had my walkie-talkie and it came across the radio to get our teams and get to the back hallways. that's exactly what we did. and i'm pretty sure the vast majority of us made it to that hallway. but anything short of an underground bunker would not have saved us from going through this. i mean, it happened in a matter of seconds. they're like, take cover. i jumped under the closest thing, pulled my safety goggles down, put my hands over my head. seconds later, i looked up, where there was once a ceiling i'm seeing dark skies and lightning and clouds. it was just -- it was scary. and i had so many of my team trying to figure out what was going on, and i'm trying to keep them calm. and i was more so just trying to keep myself calm but trying to keep them calm and they were helping me to stay calm. >> where was lannis? >> he was about ten feet from me in that same hallway when they said take cover. >> the company has said this is a family-owned company, that all their employees are like family and they're devastated right now, and i understand that. i'm wondering, though, what were you guys doing in there overnight when there were tornadoes forecast? what were you doing in there when the weather was turning so bad? >> well, there's rumor going around that we were going to get fired if we didn't come in. i never heard that, i never seen that. i was there because, like i said, i'm a team lead, i feel an obligation to the company. i loved working there. they are good to us. i mean, it's one of the best places i have worked. and a lot of people did go home after the first tornado warning at about 7:30. so, i mean, i just -- my devotion to the company was what kept me there. >> gosh. we're looking at the images of the factory now, and, i mean, the fact that you made it out alive is amazing. i know that they're still trying to figure out how many people might still be there. what can you tell us about how many people, do you know how many people were still working and how many people were able to leave before? >> i don't know how many people left before. i know at the start of shift at 5:00, there was between 2 and 300 of us there. and that included some of the day shift. and i know they left, and i know that some of the night shift left after the first tornado warning at 7:30. so i don't have an accurate number as to how many were actually there when it hit. >> what do you think of that rumor that people felt like they were going to lose their jobs if they left? i know you said you didn't feel that, but hearing that, i guess, what did you think? >> i don't -- i don't see the company putting out anything that said that. they care too much about their employees. i mean, they did ask us to come in. but, i mean, it was not forced on us, our jobs were not threatened if we did not come in, or at least not that i have seen or that i have heard. nothing like that was ever said to me. i mea -- >> back to lannis for a second, how are you? what are you going to do now? is your house okay, are the rest of your family okay, do you have what you need? >> we have what we need. luckily our house was not touched. so we still have power, we still have heat. and we still have groceries. personally we don't really need anything. but our community needs a lot. sorry, my daughter is trying to play in my face. >> i understand. go give her some love, and we're so sorry for your loss. we wish you the best of luck. i know that's nothing in a time like this. thank you for coming on, and telling us the story and helping to keep lannis' memory alive. good luck, autumn. >> thank you. with me now is kentucky lieutenant governor jacqueline coleman. lieutenant governor, thank you so much for being here. a broad question to you first, what do you need? >> i don't know where to begin. i hear stories like autumn just told about her boyfriend. and i have a 22 months daughter at home. i see that little girl crawling on her lap to see what she's doing on the screen like my daughter does and it just breaks my heart that these families are struggling right now. i will tell you that as devastating as the destruction is, and i know we'll talk about that, what i am so moved by, and i think the only thing that rivals this level of destruction, is the level of community and support that we've seen in these towns from places across kentucky. and honestly, places from across the country. it is remarkable to me, the level of support and volunteers and just kindness that is being extended to people in our state who need it now more than ever. and we will never forget that. >> you know, you can't stop these storms from coming. they're getting more dangerous, more deadly, it seems, by the year. what you can do, though, is try to build safe spaces, safer shelters and bunkers to try and ride these things out. what is the state looking at or considering right now to make sure that the people of the state, a, get the warning, even in the middle of the night, if there's a tornado coming, and this one have a safe place to go to ride out that storm? >> what i can tell you is the communities that i have been in across the western part of the state, we have heard of community buildings, churches, neighbors, family members, inviting others into their home when they knew they had a safe space that they could house folks in and quite frankly it can save people's lives. this morning i was in campbellsville, they had 70 houses destroyed. we're not even talking about the images you're showing here in the places farther out west. i spoke to a gentleman who he and his wife had gone up the road to check on his mother-in-law and they stayed there. the mother-in-law's house is not in great shape but it's still there. their house is completely destroyed. he hasn't even been back to it yet. so when i think about the close calls that people had and how that neighbor helping neighbor saved so many lives, it makes me so grateful to be a kentuckyian. >> we don't know the strength of the tornado yet officially although it will likely be up there. what do you make of the fact that there were still people working inside of a factory like the candle factory even after the tornado warnings went out? >> that's certainly one of the questions that continues to be raised. and we have lots of questions that we definitely want to and need to get answered. but i have to tell you that first and foremost, our responsibility and our top priority is recovering as many people as we can and helping these grieving families through the process. and this is going to be a very, very long process. but we will get our questions answered in due time. >> lieutenant governor, thank you so much for joining us, and good luck. our viewers know that you guys are in need and that there are a number of organizations out there that are helping including the red cross. lieutenant governor, thank you so much. >> thank you. osha is now investigating the collapse of an amazon warehouse. part of the building in edwardsville came down when a tornado hit friday night. six people were killed there. joining me now from edwardsville is nbc news correspondent meagan fitzgerald. meagan, the same question i had to kathy, to autumn, to the lieutenant governor, what in the world were those workers doing inside that factory when there were tornadoes forecast. >> reporter: it's a good question. amazon just held a press conference moments ago with the governor here of illinois. they were told about this osha investigation. they said they welcome it. amazon says they're investigating, the state of illinois is also investigating. what they're telling us is in the minutes leading up to this tornado, alarms were going off. sirens were blasting. they told folks to stay inside, they didn't want folks leaving, thinking it would be better if they sheltered inside. so they had them in the north end of the structure which is just behind me here and in the south end, unfortunately, friday at 8:30, that tornado just ripped through the south end of the structure, killing six people, critically injuring another person. we now know among those six employees who lost their lives, their ages ranged from 26 years old to 62 years old including two veterans who lost their lives. one of them is 46-year-old larry burden. he went to iraq and served there, his family telling us he was prepared to die for his country in iraq, never imagining he would lose his life at work on friday. i want you to listen to how they remembered his life. >> he was our hero. anybody that knew him could tell you that whatever you needed, whether it was the shirt off his back or just, you know, somebody to scream at when everything goes wrong, he was that person. he was somebody that come hell or high water i knew was going to be there for me. he always gave me the advice to stay grounded when something happened, to always keep your feet on the ground. >> reporter: a lot of families now mourning the loss of these six individuals, an entire community here hurting days before christmas. we know that amazon has launched their own investigation. they're telling us they're taking care of people, they'll be paying them to be off. they're providing rental cars. crews behind me right now are picking you want debris and starting the process of rebuilding. of course that's something that will take several months, katy. >> meagan fitzgerald in illinois, thank you very much. ahead, more coverage of the deadly tornadoes that caused so much damage. you'll hear the stories of those who survived. >> i heard the sound, it sounded like a train. i started screaming to my daughter, it's a train, it's a train. i thought we were going to die. i thought this was it. ahead, the january 6th committee is set to hold another trump aide in contempt, this time a former congressman who used to serve alongside of them. and tidal wave. the new warning from the british prime minister as the omicron variant spreads really fast. seriously? 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>> it's a great question, katy. what they have are hundreds of documents and hundreds of interviews of people who if they were not at the shoulder of meadows in the days leading up to january 6th and the attack on the capitol, they were on the receiving end of his phone calls or on the receiving end of his texts and emails. you may remember meadows has claimed that because the president says -- the former president says there is executive privileged material in here, he can't discuss it. but of course he has a lot of people he discussed it with beforehand via text, via email, via conversation, and those people are cooperating with the committee. the committee has a lot of evidence that meadows was a chief enabler of then president trump's strategy to block biden from receiving peacefully this transfer of power, from being certified officially, and, again, peacefully as the next president as the elected deemed, as voters chose. meadows was, one, talking to a lot of trumbull allies about how they could reject in different states the results in key swing states. he was an encourager of the idea of choosing new state electors, saying in one correspondence, "if they can get new electors, i love it," kind of a don jr. moment. mark meadows was conferring regularly with allies of the president who were trying to, quote, unquote, stop the steal. these were people outside the administration who were considered a bit of hot heads and also people that weren't telling the truth and claiming conspiracy theories as fact. meadows was talking to them regularly about what do you need, what do you need to help prove your case. one of them, a man, a former retired colonel who was arguing a lot of different ways they could try to prove foreign interference in the election. just a dose of reality for a moment, katy, of course we all know there was no foreign interference in the election results. and in fact it was one that meadows' own government, that trump's own government asserted repeatedly was one of the most free and fair and carefully monitored elections in history. >> i'm still just surprised at how willing people were -- how far people were willing to go to perpetuate this lie, and the aftermath, overturning electors, it's not a democracy. it's still surprising to me. in talking to the legal strategy from meadows, i am confused, cynthia, but how he was cooperating at one point and then decided not to cooperate. was he under the impression -- i mean, i know you don't know this, but it seems like maybe he was under the impression that the committee wasn't going to subpoena his records. >> it does seem that way, because as a legal strategy it's irrational. when they started and asked him questions and he turned over 2,000 pages of documents, he basically said goodbye to executive privilege. and i'm sure he knew that. and there must have been a reason why he did that. he must have thought that he could get away with them not finding out about all these emails and about his personal phone that he was using and his personal phone that he was using for texts. and of course we all tell our teenagers, everything you put on the internet always comes out. and then when it came out, and the house committee was subpoenaing his personal phone records, all of a sudden he clammed up and changed his tune and wanted to claim executive privilege and he sued nancy pelosi. but the suit to nancy pelosi will fail because, one, his first claim that the house committee isn't properly constituted is never going to work, because it is. and two, that he has executive privilege. but that's imploded, because he's waived all that by producing all these documents and by talking about it in his book. so it's not a coherent legal strategy. it's more sort of a grab bag of how can i postpone and what can i do to help president trump and what does president trump want to do for me. it isn't -- it's not -- it doesn't make any sense and that's why you're struggling with it. >> it doesn't make any sense at all. carol, cynthia, thank you very much. coming up, kentucky congressman james comer joins us on what his state needs right now and how you can help. pad that protects differently. with two rapiddry layers. for strong protection, that's always discreet. question your protection. try always discreet. before nexium 24hr, anna could only imagine a comfortable night's sleep without frequent heartburn waking her up. now, that dream... . ...is her reality. nexium 24hr stops acid before it starts, for all-day, all-night protection. can you imagine 24 hours without heartburn? 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emergency. when the shaking started happening, i held on to the trim on the closet. then we started feeling pressure. i don't know how to explain the pressure. >> i can't even get out of the house, debris is everywhere. i had a neighbor up here, somebody had a flashlight outside, he came out, i thought he was a fireman but he was really my neighbor, i don't think fire ever came over here. he came over and helped me out. >> reporter: you were stuck in your home? >> i was stuck, he helped me. >> i thought we were going to die, i thought this was it. >> folks in bowling green, kentucky describing moments they'll never forget. now with the town leveled, people are trying to figure out what's next. where are they going to live, how will they rebuild, when will they get the money they need, what will it take? joining me now is nbc's ellison barber and nbc's wendy woolfolk. ellison, it is utter devastation where you are, it's utter devastation where wendy is as well. when people are going back and looking and picking through the remains of their homes, how are they processing what to do next? >> reporter: one woman told me as she was picking through things, the only word to describe all of this is devastation. in this county alone, hopkins county, the coroner tells me they have had 13 people die, all of them here in dawson springs. this is a community of only about 2,700 people. the woman who lives in this house has lived here with her husband for 31 years. she was not in this house when the storm came through. she was across the street in her neighbor's basement when they started to hear the storm, the tornado, everything coming through. you can see the devastation on this street alone. but if we go across the street to the house where she was hiding, you can see that all that's left is a stairwell leading to the basement. she told me that she heard all of the noise, felt things moving around her. when she looked up from the basement where a kitchen should have been, all she saw was complete darkness. her name is anita black. again, she's lived here with her husband for some 31 years. never experienced anything like this. listen to what she told me. >> we got there just before it hit and it was over in seconds. it was the most incredible thing i've ever been through. and we just -- we are blessed, god protected us. we prayed, you know, before it all happened. and in just seconds it was over. and so that's the hardest thing probably to get your head wrapped around, is that everything is gone so fast. we're just grateful. god's good. >> reporter: now, when anita made it out of her neighbor's basement, she ran across the street, katy, went in her house and grabbed her pocketbook because she had keys to the bank she works at down the street. she started looking for her neighbors at the next house. she and her neighbors pulled people out from the window of their basement, out from underneath the rubble. all of them ran to the bank because it was the only place they could get shelter. they stayed there for the night. today she went back to work because she said she thought other people might neat some sort of help so she opened up the bank in case anyone needed change, katy. >> incredible, ellison barber, thank you. and wendy, we've seen a little bit of mayfield. you're going to show us some more of it. i imagine that it's hard to take it all in, considering that every corner of that town looks like it's in piles of rubble. >> reporter: indeed, katy. when i say it's no exaggeration that everywhere you look in this town, especially here in downtown, there is a story to tell and it's utter devastation. you've got to look behind me. we've talked to each of the people who used to live in downtown mayfield. the people in this first house, he was trying to pull books out of his dresser a few minutes ago. thankfully the four people in the house made it out alive. but they did survive the storm with their two dogs. down the street a little bit further we went through with a homeowner, she walked us through and showed us where they hovered in the hallway and dirt and everything just came around them and she said she's never experienced anything like that in her life. she held on for the three to five minutes during that tornado, to her 18-month-old granddaughter, and they all survived. listen to have been she had to say. >> you can see like a dirt silhouette from where we were sitting. i was there, he was there. >> reporter: oh, the shadow. >> yep. but all the doors blew away. we have a place to stay. everybody's fine. i'm still shaking, i haven't stopped shaking in three days. >> reporter: you really can't grasp the destruction here. there's no camera lens. there's no angle that you're going to be able to take this all in. i feel for all these people who are now coming back to literally start trying to find each and every thing they can salvage from their homes. in all of this, katy, what i'm struck by the most is all they care about is they made it out alive. you can replace property but you can't replace people. despite all of this, they're going to rebuild. it's going to take some time but they'll do it. >> it clarifies what matters. what's also remarkable about that home you just walked us through is there was a straw hat hanging on a doorway and it was totally fine. it's amazing how parts of the home, most of the home can be completely leveled and then one little corner is okay and it's so lucky that that family was able to shelter in a corner of that home. and make it crew. wendy, thank you very much. joining me now is congressman james comer of kentucky. he represents the district that includes mayfield. congressman, thanks so much for being here. i mean, it's hard to even ask, where do you begin. there are people who have family and friends they can stay with but others don't have anywhere to stay. what are you doing about shelter? >> well, the churches have stepped up big time. all the churches in the neighboring communities that were unharmed by the tornado have opened their doors. many schools are the primary sources of shelter in an emergency. the friends and neighbors have opened up their homes. the governor opened up the state parks. there are about four state parks within the area, pretty close to mayfield and dawson spring. i think that everyone that needs a place to stay in the very short term has found a place. but we've got a long process to go to bring in temporary shelters before these homes are rebuilt. >> that is my question, long term, what are you going to need from the federal government to make sure people have what they need for however long it takes to rebuild? it's going to be a matter of many months at least. >> many months and probably years, unfortunately. but we met with the fema director yesterday and secretary mayorkas. we met with the mayors, county executives, and first responders in each of the counties in west kentucky affected by the tornado. everybody has a fema contact number, my office, we're all in the office to try to help the federal -- the local governments navigate the federal bureaucracy. the immediate needs now are to get the power back on and you're dealing with about 16 different utilities. we're dealing with many water plants that were destroyed because the water tanks were destroyed. we've got three cell towers that were completely demolished. there's a lot of basic communication infrastructure, basic water, sewer, and of course the electricity is out in counties that weren't even affected by the tornado. so there's a lot of people without power in west kentucky right now and the temperatures are in the 20s at night. >> it is cold. listen, i know tornadoes are hard to predict. i know that they are not usually in december. i also know it's the christmas rush and so people are working overtime. i know people have to work overtime because they need to make ends meet. that being said, there were places of business open during these storms, during this tornado. people lost their lives. is there anything that you can do as a lawmaker to keep workers safe in times of crisis, when there is the threat of a deadly tornado? >> it seems like there are a lot of tornado watches throughout the year. and, you know, we have tornadoes touch down. but the size and width of this tornado is unprecedented. the speed, the weather service said it was an e-3. i mean, it seems like it would be worse than that compared to the other tornadoes that i've been witness to in my lifetime. so i know that the local tv station, paducah tv, they did a tremendous job. they cut their broadcasting and went straight to warning people about the tornado. the local radio stations did a great job. the importance of the rural media in these small towns really stepped up. the city had tornado siren alarms that went off. it's just hard to imagine that a tornado is going to go right through your factory building or your house. 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