south late friday and early saturday morning. now, most of the damage was concentrated in these six states. in kentucky alone, governor andy beshear says at least 80 people were killed. homes and businesses now torn to pieces. governor beshear is opening state parks to help house families left homeless and in shock. gone. we have glass broken. all the furniture is torn up. broken. just sad. over the weekend president biden signed a federal emergency disaster declaration for kentucky and fema has sent a housing expert to help work out how to help those in need. in kentucky, just over 26,000 homes and businesses are still without power today. in the southern illinois city of edwardsville, six people died in the collapse of this huge amazon distribution center. that s where we find cnn s polo sandoval live for us this morning. polo, good morning. are authorities still searching for survivors at this hour? bring our viewers up to speed. good morning. reporter: good morning
roof there is just gone. and that s what it looks like in mayfield as you go block to block. there is destruction like that across the state of kentucky and across the region. it all started friday night with the first twister touching down in arkansas and striking a nursing home. one person died. the governor called incident a miracle as the swarm of twisters tore a path 20 miles across kentucky. a candle factory was leveled with 110 people working a night shift. it s unclear how many were inside at the time. rescuers crawled over the dead to get to the living, a disaster scene. and we know it smelled like scented candles. eight confirmed dead. eight unaccounted for. in dawson springs, kentucky, the death toll stands at 13. there are still 100 people missing there. home after home destroyed. the mayor estimates 75% of the town is gone and described the scene in one word, chaos. right now more than 50,000 kentucky residents are without power. 18 counties are reporting damag
the luhansk region is now in russian hands. a ukrainian official says russian forces opened fire on a car filled with civilians trying to escape the town, killing four people. a top official is pleading with residents in luhansk to leave now saying there are no safe places left in the region. and ukraine is desperately trying to hold on to the port city mariupol amid intense shelling and fighting. russian forces are expected to close entry and exit to that city. they re going to do that today, according to that official as they introduce a pass system to restrict movement. president zelenskyy says several thousand children were taken from mariupol and nobody knows where they are. in an exclusive interview with my colleague jake tapper, president zelenskyy reiterated he will not give up any part of ukraine to end the war. translator: ukraine and the people of our state are absolutely clear. we don t want anyone else s territory, and we are not going to give up our own. let
city. now any semblance of security here is gone. and in the east the barrage of bombs relentless. video of this skyline shows buildings igniting upon impact. overnight, the town of kreminna officially fell to russian forces. but in mariupol, it s still a bloody and extremely brutal fight to the end. ukrainian forces are refusing to surrender. one ukrainian commander is now begging pope francis to help. describing the horrors in that port city as hell on earth. president zelenskyy says talks with moscow will end if russia makes good on its threat to eliminate ukraine s last troops there. let s begin in lviv. that s in western ukraine. matt rivers is there with us. matt, lviv, for the most part, has so far escaped the worst of the violence. but now we have this deadly strike just miles from where you are. what s the latest? yeah, and that s exactly right, ana. for as compared to other cities in ukraine, lviv has generally gone unscathed. but that kind of peaceful lull wa
history. welcome, everybody. i m neil cavuto. a busy day for the world s richest man. and let s get the latest from kelly in l.a. kelly? hey, good to see you, neil. we re about to see a battle of the tech titans. you have twitter lawyering up and elon musk saying that he can determinate the agreement due to the number of fake accounts. even with the confidence he showed in a tweet, hey, this is an interesting roller coaster here. transaction lawyers say it s difficult to prove that twitter is lying about user data. musk will say the platform withheld that data. some say he waved under the right to close the deal quickly. he claims that doesn t mean he waived the right to see it. musk said that company refused requests for two months. now, twitter won t be going down without a fight. they hired a team of merger heavyweights. many analysts think it s a ploy to get a discount with the stock closing 40% below his offer. some say that twitter will break not wanting to reveal tha