the state s new election law is dividing those who believe it s a way to stop the black vote and those who believe it protects everyone s vote. georgia is the flash point for the nationwide battle over voting rights. natasha chen in atlanta with the growing anger over the new law president biden calls jim crow in the 21st century. natasha? reporter: about 150 people gathered outside atlanta city hall to oppose this georgia voter bill and also to stand with georgia representative park cannon, who was arrested for knocking on the door of the governor s office to try to witness him signing this bill. a lot of the signs we re seeing say i stand with park, stop suppressing our votes. a lot of strong, passionate opinions here about protecting people s access to vote. i spoke with one person who was actually there witnessing park cannon arrested that day. she was knocking on the door. it happened right in front of me and for it to end with her being taken away, it was horrif
you ve lost your job. the governor tells you we will help you. to file for unemployment. you file. and nothing. the pandemic exposing the problems with the unemployment insurance program in states like kentucky. it s that mainframe that dates back to the 1970s. there are people suffering. they were intentionally making it more di for people to access the system. there were e-mails that went unread. forcing insiders to speak out. there were already tens of thousands of backlogged claims. just to be clear. that was before the pandemic. that was before the pandemic. after that, wear hit chaos. chaos and tragedy. he testified the governor s team cut corners. i knew this was going to be the most important thing i would ever do in my life. there s nights i cry to myself, can t provide for my kids. i worked so hard to get to where i am told. i don t want to end up homeless. this is a cnn special report the price we paid-the economic cost of covid
minutes. at least eight co-workers did not sur vooi. a similar scene 160 miles away in illinois where the roof and walls of an amazon factory crashed down. six people there were killed. take a look at this side by side image showing a nursing home in northeastern arkansas. residents were not able to evacuate before the building was hit. amazingly you one perhap was killed there. i want to get to the scene on the ground where we find dasha burns in kentucky. dasha, talk us through what you see on the ground there 48 hours after the storm. reporter: yeah. good morning. 11 people have died here in bowling green. what i m hear aing from residents is every time the sun comes up they see this and get hit all over again. this where i m standing right now used to be a garage. the woman that lives here said it was filled with her children s toys. it was just lifted up and gone now. scattered all over the neighborhood. if you look behind me here there used to be an auto zone here and
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