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Rescued yesterday afternoon and are still in the hospital. again, there have been countless numbers of jurisdictions of emergency responders poring over that debris. yesterday, the kentucky governor said the only way will find a survivor, somebody else alive in this place, is a miracle. the coroner along with family and along with people who have grown up here and along with the entire nation, we are praying and hoping that that indeed occurs here. that s the latest from downtown mayfield, kentucky. yasmin, back to you. it looks like if you look at that before and after photo let s bring that up, guys, so folks can see the candle factory. it looks as if it has been put through a shredder from where it was before to where it is now. ....
You have heard before that housing will be a tremendous need as we continue to go forward. power, water, fuel, all of these things to help the community start their rebuilding process. because housing, we know, is going to be such a tremendous need, we are sending in one of our housing experts that will be here tomorrow to begin the strategy of how we will be able to help with the long-term housing needs and the recovery of these communities. part of that is we also did receive a request from the governor just moments ago, too, for a major disaster declaration. as you heard the president approved an emergency declaration yesterday that allowed us to move resources and start with the initial response efforts, but the emergency declaration will help individuals. you can find the type of assistance that will be available once the declaration is available. it s also going to allow us to help with the long-term repair of all of the critical infrastructure that has been damaged by this storm ....
To hear some of the impacts they re having and some of their shortfalls. the things we are hearing are housing, housing is going to be a tremendous need as we continue to go forward. power, water, fuel, all of these things to help the communities start their rebuilding process. because housing we know is going to be a such a tremendous need, we are sending in one of our housing experts that will be here tomorrow to begin the strategy for how we re going to be able to help with the long-term housing needs and the recovery of these communities. part of that is we also did receive a request from the governor just moments ago for a major disaster declaration. as you heard the president approved an emergency declaration yesterday, which allowed us to really move resources in quickly to start with those initial response efforts. but the major disaster declaration is going to begin to help individuals. you can go to disasterassistance.gov, and you can find the type of assistance that will be ....
0 nbc s wendy joins us from there. it s good to talk to you again. what are you hearing from folks in these ongoing efforts to rescue as many people as possible? yasmin, good afternoon to you. good to speak to you again. it s incredible, the outpouring of help and support that you are hearing, and seeing people come out in the downtown area. wherever you look there seems to be destruction, and everywhere you turn there seems to be a story, and people sometimes think we are exaggerating that thing, but i m not kidding you, you can walk one block and find a store yeah then walk another block and find somebody who has drove here, and we just spoke to somebody who drove from nashville that happened upon a law firm that was decimated by the storm, and started moving things and cutting out wires, and it was incredible. you ask them why they are doing it? the community needed help. then we have another wife and husband, and that was his law firm completely destroyed in the storm and all the ....
Another five-point out plus earthquake coming our way, coming to that ridgecrest area. i believe they said the aftershocks from this are going to last for years. they said this is pretty muc the norm. we been living in a bit of a lala land is what she was sayin because we re not used to havin these earthquakes even though w should be. she said basically something six-point above or six-point, not necessarily seven-point one should be happening, but this is something we should see abou every three years. now, as i mentioned, we are getting every level of government involved all at the same time seemingly and we are hearing now we have a press conference in ridgecrest at their city hall that we are going to get up here momentarily . the mayor there as we ve seen from social media has been in touch with the governor she signed that emergency declaration yesterday, the ....