will need to discuss the mark meadows con temple referral before it goes to the full house. this after the january 6th committee voted unanimously to hold meadows in contempt for revealing shocking evidence he did share with them when still cooperating. and that is where we start this morning with those two texts. liz cheney read publicly first time last night. be aware, some of them include profanity. the text proved that no matter what they said after the fact, everyone from the host at fox news to republican lawmakers to don jr. himself knew exactly what donald trump was the one who could stop the insurrection on january 6th and they were begging meadows to do something. quote, mark, the president needs to tell people in the capitol to go home. this is hurting all of us. he is destroying his legacy, laura ingraham wrote. please, get him on tv. destroying everything you have accomplished, ryan killmy tebsed. can he make a statement? ask people to leave the capitol, sea
a number that s expected to rise. the storm touched in mississippi, arizona and illinois. in illinois, edwardsville, at least six people were killed when the amazon location were hit. the state with the most widespread damage or at least eight people were killed while working in a candle factory. the people of america there is no lens big enough to show thank you the extent of the damage here in graves county or kentucky. nothing is standing in the direct line of this tornado is still standing. joining us now from kentucky, dasha burns, what can you tell us. reporter: good morning, it s 30 degrees right now so you can imagine what it s like for the people at home right now. getting here from our crew is difficult. it s pitch black and there is so many debris. i would walk around to show you but it s not safe right now of the condition here. every corner you turn there is more devastations and destructions and harrowing stories of residents here. stories of people hiding i
now having to push through the pain of devastating tornadoes that have brought death and destruction at what should be the most joyous time of the year. towns like bowling green, kentucky. that s what you see there on your screen. they have been flattened. and there are desperate searches through rubble and thrown debris to find people who are missing at this hour, including eight people at a candle factory in mayfield. right now dozens are dead across at least five states. kentucky s governor just said it could be a week before there s a final count for the number of lives lost. he just spoke about who we ve lost so far. 18 are still unidentified. of the ones that we know, the age range is five months to 86 years. an understandably emotional governor who also said that president biden will come to the state in the near future. and any moment now president biden will be briefed on the federal response to these tornadoes which will bring you once it happens. these are torn
families outside of the facility desperate for news about their loved ones. i ve been looking for her ever since 10:30 tonight. please help me. in illinois, an amazon warehouse partially collapsed. i have no idea what s going on. we re worried sick. we want to know if he s okay. president biden offers federal support. this is one of those times when we aren t democrats or republicans. sounds like hyperbole, but it s real. we re all americans. we stand together as the united states of america. and so i say to all the victims, you re in our prayers. announcer: this is cnn breaking news. i m pamela brown in mayfield, kentucky, the epicenter of the deadliest december day for tornados on record. more than 70 people are feared dead from a devastating spring of tornados across a half dozen states. the death toll climbs, sunlight fades, temperatures are dropping as rescuers now battle darkness, the cold and the clock. winds ripped apart an amazon warehouse in western
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