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
thank you, alex with, as always. my good friend. and a good saturday morning to you, if you ve been following along, there s been exclusive coverage by msnbc of the coronation of king charles iii. i am katie phang. it s been a very busy news morning, as we mentioned, the world continues to watch london. hours ago, king charles the third, and now queen camilla, were officially crowned in a two-hour ceremony in westminster abby. you saw it all life during our coverage on msnbc this morning. we re going to go in-depth on a royals expert this morning but first, another major story we are on top of this morning. an msnbc exclusive, president biden on the record. the 11th hour host, stephanie ruhle goes, on an on with president biden in an exclusive interview that covered a lot of ground, from the debt ceiling show down to the presidents reelection bid for 2024. here s some of that interview. as president, what are you going to do to help us avoid default? look, not a single
Physical and mental health are right now? i have been slowly improving, so that s the good news. it has been a long road of trauma of emotional trauma and physical as well. it has taken its toll, but at the same time there is recovery and hope. you know, mylissa i want to stay with you for a second, because i want to viewers that are tuning in right now to understand, this is a pregnancy that you wanted, a pregnancy and a baby hoe to be able to bring into and create a family. the fact that you kept on literally getting turned away repeatedly by medical providers, when you asked them why, what were the excuses that were given to you? the first hospital that i went to in freeman, in joplin, was that the law was not clear enough because i had a positive fetal heartbeat, that they could not intervene. the second time, when we went
as we show you drone video, you get a picture for how the destruction goes on further than the eye can see with this unique tornado. the governor says the death toll is 74 with 108 or so missing. one of the things that we saw with the candle factory, people are not just missing as they re out of town. cell towers and land lines are down. people worry about their immediate problems as opposed to getting in touch with others. so hopefully the amount of people missing, hopefully they re unaccounted for. one of the things i have to tell you, i covered a lot of tornadoes, i covered an f-5 in joplin that parked itself for a long time. i ve never seen anything like this one. generally a tornado will bounce along. you can see the beginning and the end of the destruction. here we had one that went to the
A separate storm killed three people yesterday and listen to this, it was eight years to the day after that monster tornado killed more than 160 people in joplin, i still remember those images these years later. we are joined on the phone by brett powell jr. he just lived through a long harrowing night on the outskirts of jefferson city there. i want to show you now some video he shot in the midst of i it. whoa. that s the power lines, right? yeah. joined now by brett powell. brett, so you live in the town of eldin close to jefferson city. you heard those sirens, we heard them there on the video you shot. tell us what the first sign of trouble was and did you have enough time to get to safety? good morning. well, we were aware that the storms were coming through, i had been tuned into what was going on in joplin and carl s