go hand in hand. we ll explain why this year s miss universe competition is dealing with just that. we begin with the astonishing damage from one of the deadliest tornado outbreaks in the u.s. in decades. at least 84 people are feared dead after a series of powerful tornadoes ravaged six states and officials say the death toll is likely to rise above 100. it s feared many of those deaths happened inside this candle factory that collapsed in mayfield, kentucky. more than 100 people were inside when the storm hit. just 40 have been pulled from the rubble. dozens more are unaccounted for. cnn spoke with one man who raced to the factory where his wife had been working. he managed to pull people two people out, but his wife is still missing and the wait for answers is agonizing. i want to find my wife. i want to find and know if he s still somewhere safe. i hope she s somewhere safe. baby, please call me as soon as we get connected. please call me. i m looking for you, baby. w
across the regions shattered by the storms. plus we re live in italy where emergency teams are searching for survivors after several buildings collapsed many a reported gas leak explosion. we begin with the staggering damage from one of the deadliest tornado outbreaks in the u.s. in decades. at least 84 people are feared dead after a series of powerful tornadoes ripped through several states. the worst of the devastation was in kentucky. the governor says at least 70 people likely died in his state, alone, and it s feared many of those deaths happened inside this candle factory that collapsed in the town of mayfield. more than 100 people were inside when the storm hit, just 40 have been pulled from the rubble. dozens more are unaccounted for. in all, more than 30 tornadoes were reported across six u.s. states from friday night into saturday morning and cnn meteorologists say a single long-track tornado may have stayed on the ground for more than 250 miles, carving a path of
the heads of homeland security and fema are in the region today bringing with them the much-needed federal resources. mayfield, kentucky is seeing many so of the worst of the damage. a few buildings left standing in the town of roughly 10,000. rescuers sifting through a collapsed candle factory where more than 100 people were working and then that tornado came through an so far only 40 people have been rescued from that wreckage. and new video shows what s left of an amazon warehouse in edwardsville, illinois. at least six people died when the building collapsed during a violent tornado there. many more are feared dead in dawson springs, kentucky, a town of just 2,700 people. the governor saying this morning devastation is something his state has never seen before. it s going to take us time. i mean, you think you go door to door to check on people to see if they are okay. there are no doors. the question is somebody in the rubble of thousands upon thousand of structures? i
through eight states. entire towns leveled in the blink of an eye is a the storm swept through friday night. officials say one single tornado actually carved a path of destruction more than 200 miles long and they fear more than 80 people may have been killed. search-and-rescue teams are working around the clock for survivors who may be trapped under mountains of debris. the heads of homeland security and fema are in the region today bringing with them much-needed federal resources. mayfield, kentucky is seeing some of the worst of the damage. a few buildings left standing in the town of roughly 10,000. rescuers sifting through a collapsed candle factory there where more than 100 people were working and so far only about 40 people have been rescued from the wreckage. and new video shows what s left of an amazon warehouse in edwardsville, illinois. at least six people died when the building collapsed during a violent tornado there: people are considered dead and the scale of d
disaster declaration for kentucky and directing federal resources to help the hardest-hit state. the fema director and dhs secretary will assess the damage on the ground. they ll be joining governor beshear for an update in just a couple of hours this afternoon. this comes as recovery efforts are underway across kentucky where more than a hundred people are believed to be dead. crews are digging through the rubble of a collapsed candle factory where dozens of people remain unaccounted for. this thing is like something we ve just never seen before, the level of devastation. when it hit a house, it didn t tear the roof off, it destroyed every single bit of those homes. we ve got entire towns wiped out. the candle factory in mayfield. 110 people working in it when it hit, and we ve been able to rescue 40. but it s been about 27 hours since we ve rescued a live person. and that was even a couple of hours ago. also in illinois, six people died at an amazon warehouse torn apa