history. the governor now speaking. let s listen in. to the worst tornado event in the history of our commonwealth. our state was hit by at least four tornadoes. one stayed on the ground in kentucky for at least 200 miles devastating anything in its path. thousands of homes are damaged if not entirely destroyed. and it may be weeks before we have final counts on both deaths and levels of destruction. we lost lives in at least eight counties and at least 18 counties suffered damage. as of this morning, our best count for confirmed deaths, the most accurate count we have as of this morning, 64 kentuckians. remember this is fluid and the numbers will change and sometimes they have thank god gone down, other times they have gone up. it breaks down as follows. 20 in grace, 13 in hopkins, 11 in mulenburg, i think that was reported at 12, but we believe 11. 12 in warren. four in caldwell. one in marshall. one in taylor. one in fulton. and one in lyon. undoubtedly there will be m
the potential bombshell of an email on the capitol riot probe. plus winter is coming. icus maxing out again. hospitalizations among children reaching record highs. are we in for another long, cold covid winter? welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. the national lead today, the heartbreaking, unimaginable loss of life and destruction from tornadoes that tore through eight states friday night. officials fear the death toll may reach triple digits but cannot say for sure right now because the damage is just that bad and rescue efforts difficult. and ongoing. the governor of kentucky today got emotional as he confirmed 65 lives lost so far in the bluegrass state alone. 18 are still identified. of the ones that we know, the age the age range is 5 months to 86 years. and six are younger than 18. any moment now we expect to hear from governor andy beshear of kentucky who also told me this may be the worst tornado in ken condition s history. the national weather service
still without electric and the overnight temperatures are dropping into the freezing digits. dana: destruction spans more than 200 miles from arkansas to kentucky and the bluegrass state bearing the brunt of the damage. bill: look at these satellite images. this is above mayfield, kentucky, the town basically wiped off the map. meanwhile we re hearing stories from survivors that say all it happened to them in the blink of an eye. i ve never been through anything like that in my life. we got stuck downtown and all the rubble i went through. i don t know it was like a war zone or something. it was so awful. my apartment and my car, people say live in the apartment with me lost everything, too. i don t have anything. i ve been through the town a couple of times and saw everything but it is just it s upsetting to know that s the town that you grew up in and everything and you know, memories are all gone. bill: just story after story. to help us through that story
be addressing reporters later this hour as well as fema giving up an update where things stand and the emergency aid that the president has promised for all, half dozen states, affected by this. they include kentucky, arkansas, tennessee, illinois, missouri. we heard of damage in ohio and mississippi and indiana as well. let s go right now to governor beshear of kentucky with the very latest. wrecked, destroyed. so many of our communities. the newest estimates of deaths from coming from emergency management that may differ from the coroner, there s one of these that we re checking on, we re now up to 74 kentuckians that we have lost. one additional one in graves. four additional in hopkins, this is one we re checking right now. i have 14. emergency management came back with 17. 14 i hope. three in warren county and one here in franklin county where an individual actually coming to work at this very complex that we re broadcasting from was pushed off of the road in the storm
beshear. he is holding his news conference. tornado event in the history of our commonwealth. our state was hit by at least four tornadoes. one stayed on the ground in kentucky for at least 200 miles, devastating anything in its path. thousands of homes are damaged, if not entirely destroyed, and it may be weeks before we have final counts on both deaths and levels of destruction. we lost lives in at least eight counties and at least 18 counties suffered damage. as soft this morning, our best count for confirmed deaths, the most accurate count we have, as of this morning, are 64 kentuckyians. remember this is fluid, and the numbers will change and sometimes, they have, thank god, gone down. other times, they ve gone up. it breaks down as follows. 20 in graves, 13 in hopkins, 11 in muilenburg. i think that s been reported as 12. we believe it is 11. 12 in warren. 4 in caldwell. 1 in marshall. 1 in taylor. 1 in fulton. and one in lyon. undoubtedly, there will be more. we be