their loved ones. i ve been looking for her since 10:30 tonight. please help me. president biden offers federal support. this is one of those times when we aren t democrats or republicans. it sounds like hyperbole, but it s real. we re all americans. we stand together as the united states. i say to all the victims, you re in our prayers. emergency crews searching for survivors. it doesn t happen in your town until it happens in your town. announcer: this is cnn breaking news. i m pamela brown in mayfield, kentucky, the epicenter of the deadliest december day for tornados on record. 70 people are feared dead. and this is what remains of the candle factory in town, leveled by a tornado. some 40 people were rescued from this wreckageage but dozens remain missing. in all, more than 30 tornados raked across six states. cnn metrologists say one single track twister may have ripped a 250-mile swath of damage from arkansas to kentucky. that would be a record. winds, rip
much-needed resources to the devastated communities. storms unleashed more than 30 tornados late friday into early saturday, destroying buildings and claiming lives across six states, and one twister, just one, may be responsible for damage along a 250-mile stretch from arkansas to kentucky. officials now fear as many as 80 people may have lost their lives. here in edwardsville, authorities say a recovery effort could take three tase days, as we look at what s left of this amazon warehouse behind me. at least six people died after a tornado just carved through the building. 11-inch concrete walls falling in. the roof collapsing. roughly 45 people made it out, but getting an exact number of how many were in the warehouse at the time has proved difficult. these were shift workers, a lot of people coming and going. rescue and search and cries operations i should say have shifted into search and recovery operations. officials not expecting to find anyone else alive underneath
a flight is michael strahan, but what i found interesting is the eldest daughter of alan shepard. he was the first american to fly to space back in 1961. i didn t know this. he actually eventually walked on the moon in the apollo 14 mission about ten years later. let s listen in. we re about 15 seconds from takeoff. 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5 main engine start 2, 1 [ we are now watching blue origin s new shepard s spacecraft with a successful liftoff of its 19th flight, hovering more than 62 miles above earth, it hits speeds a total of an 11-minute flight. now it s just hovering just on the edge of space. imagine what it s like to see that view in that person. zero gravity, it looks like they have entered. this is astounding to watch live. let s bring in cnn s rachel crane live at the launch site, and colonel hatfield. rachel, you are there on the ground. what was it like when it took off? reporter: you guys i m sorry to cut you off. i just get so excited. this
underway right now. in arkansas a tornado decimated a firsting home. in kentucky, the governor issues a state of emergency. we re seeing things we have never seen before. the damage is indescribable. it s changing the landscape of the city we know here in mayfield. president biden was briefed on the destruction, calling it an unimaginable tragedy and pledged full support for governors dealing with the disaster. allison chinchar is tracking the ongoing stores. first, to you, nadia, where we see things just flattened behind you, the destruction, tell us how people are coping. yesterday, summer-like temperatures, now it feels like december, winter-like weather. today, yesterday this building behind me up and running. overnight working on overtime. they were trying to get prepared for the christmas holiday that s just two weeks away. many more people in some 100 inside this candle factory. you really can t see anything but rubble and debris. one man described it to me, sa
of debris looking for survivors. president biden briefed on the situation earlier today directing resources to help in the situation. cnn s reporter is on the ground there in mayfield, hard-hit mayfield, kentucky. what is happening right now? reporter: well, fredricka, what we re seeing right now is different emergency response teams coming in from different cities and counties all throughout kentucky. coming right here to what they re calling ground zero after the tornadoes last night p you see behind me a slew of vehicles out here and different construction crews that come to use heavy equipment to lift the debris and try to find as many people as possible. we know more than 100 people were working here at this candle factory last night. they were working overtime trying to get the holiday orders out just two weeks before the christmas holiday. i spoke with one man. his name was ryan, worked at the factory. said i didn t feel like working overtime. was working a lot. deci