to put on its primetime show after their presidential nominee, he pulled off a big surprise with the 11th hour reveal of his running mate, senator jd vance of ohio. vance making his debut as trump s vp pick just a short time ago on the convention floor for his formal nomination. and welcome to all to this special edition of outfront. i m erin burnett along with wolf blitzer and his post over overlooking the convention floor and wolf, it s been only two days since president trump s survived that terrifying assassination attempt. and but he did not go late to the convention. he made it clear it must go on and it is going on. erin big time. we saw the gop officially hand. donald trump his historic third presidential nomination and now they re getting ready to drive home. his agenda leading off with the issue then uppermost in the minds of many voters of course, the u.s. economy headlines speakers tonight include one of trump s most loyal allies of the u.s. senate. and in the afr
cleanup efforts under way after this weekend s powerful storms. the heads of homeland security and fema are traveling to the region today, bringing much needed resources to the devastated communities. storms unleashed more than 30 tornadoes late friday and into early saturday, destroying buildings and claiming lives across six states. one twister may be responsible for damage along a 250-mile stretch from arkansas to kentucky. officials fear as many as 80 people may have lost their lives. and here in edwardsville, authorities say a recovery effort could take three days, as we look at what s left of this amazon warehouse. at least six people killed here after a tornado carved through the building. 11-inch concrete walls, imploding, the roof collapsing. roughly 45 people made it out, but getting an exact number of how many were in the warehouse at the time has proved difficult for officials. they made the distinction yesterday, search and rescue operations shifting into sea
much-needed resources to the devastated communities. storms unleashed more than 30 tornados late friday into early saturday, destroying buildings and claiming lives across six states, and one twister, just one, may be responsible for damage along a 250-mile stretch from arkansas to kentucky. officials now fear as many as 80 people may have lost their lives. here in edwardsville, authorities say a recovery effort could take three tase days, as we look at what s left of this amazon warehouse behind me. at least six people died after a tornado just carved through the building. 11-inch concrete walls falling in. the roof collapsing. roughly 45 people made it out, but getting an exact number of how many were in the warehouse at the time has proved difficult. these were shift workers, a lot of people coming and going. rescue and search and cries operations i should say have shifted into search and recovery operations. officials not expecting to find anyone else alive underneath
When you go further north to edwardsville, illinois where boris sanchez is, an amazon warehouse partially hit by the tornado. you can see where it was hit. that part of the building completely collapsed. six people were killed as a result. that candle factory in mayfield, kentucky, now in complete ruins. emergency crews rescued a number of employees trapped under that debris there on the the right. but we are told dozens were killed when that building came down. those recovery efforts are ongoing. it s not clear yet exactly how many people have been injured by the tornados. dr. brad houseman is vice president and chief medical officer of baptist health paducah. doctor, thank you so much for joining us. first of all, i just want to start with those images in mayfield of the candle factory, and it really is astounding to look at those images and to
From illinois, people have come from other states to come just to help out because it will be all hands on deck in this town of mayfield for quite some time. boris? definitely hour cue leen effort. appreciate that report, nadya r romero, thank you. we want to show you before and after images that reveal the true scale of destruction from friday night s deadly tornadoes. take a look on the left, you can see drone footage of the county courthouse in mayfield, kentucky, where nadya is before the storm. on the right, the same area completely destroyed. in monette, arkansas, you can see what used to be a nursing home, it s no longer recognizable. the entire area, the building has been wiped out. then further north in edwardsville, illinois, where boris sanchez is, an amazon warehouse was partially hit by the tornado, at least two people were killed when the building completely collapsed. we re talking about 11-inch