drama dramatically. what has access for health care been for many of these survivors, many who have been injured? officials in dawson springs, i think that s where not dawson springs, but we ve been seeing the images and how neighborhoods have been wiped out and we were told the closest hospital to dawson springs is about 20 miles away. has that hampered any efforts to help the injured? we were able to mobilize forces throughout the region and so we were able to get care for the folks that needed it. so to this point, all the surrounding health care facilities have done a great job of caring for the folks in this community. so there s no issues with power or damage to any of the health care facilities? i can t speak for the hospital there in mayfield. certainly here in paducah we
south of mayfield, and we watched this storm for many i guess a few hours just on radar as it was coming, heading our way. my family is safe. i mean, we are blessed. you know, everything is fine with us. that being said, after the storm, watching the weather and the radar after it moved on through our city, and then that s when i went ahead and went into actually downtown mayfield, that s where i went to because that s where they had concentrated with a lot of the talking about the debris and when i got there, it s what is at hand now, so and jesse, have you had any communication with the rescue workers, with officials near that candle factory?
behind before and after images like this. it continued to track and we were tracking it for roughly four hours friday night. it went over mayfield as well, same system that left behind before and after images like this in neighborhoods in mayfield. absolute destruction. not only did that quad state tornado potentially track more than 200 miles, but we could have potentially seen two tornadoes track more than 200 miles. the national weather service has to assess the damage and do some research here to make sure that the two did track more than 100 miles. so that s something that we ll have to confirm a little later down the road. what we have seen here and the national weather service has sent out crews to begin surveying the tornado damage to determine the intensity of these tornados, just from aerial views here in kentucky, we have seen ef-3 level damage. once we get on the ground and start assessing the damage, it could be possible that some of those tornadoes in kentucky are
storms hit. nadia, yesterday you were speaking to people that rushed to that scene of the candle factory looking for loved ones. they were very emotional, very distraught by the destruction that they saw. have you spoken to them? have they connected with their loved ones? what are you seeing now? yeah. boris, it s so sad to have to report this, but, you know, it s been since about 3:00 a.m. yesterday morning since first responders were able to pull out a survivor from that rubble over the at the candle factory not far from where we are right now in mayfield. we interviewed a man named ivy williams, who really spoke from his heart a broken heart, speaking about his missing wife, janine williams, who was working at the candle factory trying to get some overtime, trying to get those orders out, as we are just about two weeks from the christmas holiday and her and her coworkers were in that factory when the building collapsed. it came down during that
mayfield looks like this. you can see the rubble behind me. it really does look like a bomb went off all throughout this town, not just in that one area. as you go through the town, we re on the corner of eighth and broadway, right next to the courthouse here, but you can hardly tell that s where we are because every corner looks the same. you just have these downed poles everywhere and trees and debris, and this is the power line here. there s no power anywhere in this city. that is a big problem because it is so cold. that means people don t have heat. if you are still in your house and buried under all of this, how can someone find you and hear your cries and get you out. that s what makes this storm so dangerous, so deadly, specially this time of year. we spoke with a woman who was in her home in mayfield when the tornadoed happened, and this is her story of survival. this was my home until last