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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 ....
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 ....
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. ....
collapsed candle factory in mayfield where they remain unsure how many people are missing or dead. in neighboring illinois six people are dead after 20 to destroyed in amazon facility, officials to operations have shifted to a recovery mission. meantime the governor of arkansas said two people died in the state one in a nursing home in one side in a dollar general store. in tennessee for deaths are reported to be a fox team coverage from across the region beginning with c. live in mayfield kentucky. under tremendously hard conditions officials say they re trying to do the basics to find and identify the death and reunite families with one another and feed and shelter everybody. officials say the storm that hit here the tornado was in ef three wind speeds of 165 miles per hour could have been higher. the death toll not exactly clear roughly 80 dead in kentucky but that number is likely to rise considerably and abrupt onset page after page of names on list of people who ....
few minutes. and in western kentucky scenes of destruction are beginning to emerge. the governor says more than 50 deaths are likely from the storm. he s expected to hold a news conference any moment. and we ll bring it to you you when it happens. meanwhile in arkansas at least two people have been killed. one at a dollar general store. and another at a nursing home where 20 others were rescued. and in illinois, emergency crews are searching for people feared trapped inside a damaged amazon warehouse. some family members of those who worked there waiting on word from loved ones. yeah. it was lightning bad. you know, we lost power for about two hours now. and then my phone died. so i have no idea to get ahold of them. i have idea what s going on. we re just worried sick. we just want to know if he s okay. all right. let s bring in meteorologist derek van dam. derek, let s get right to it. what s the latest? all right. these are the nights as a meteorologist you tha ....