destruction. the national weather service out of paducah now says in places that path of destruction is a mile wide in some spots. most places is 3/4 miles wide. investigators are looking at indications that we have of multiple vortex tornado. that means a tornado within the tornado. the inner tornado end up stronger. they have three teams on the ground. the official rating is taking a long time simply because there s so much destruction and so much ground to cover. the death toll stands at 74 with search and rescue crews still calling this a search and rescue because there s some hope of finding survivors. with 100 people still missing, governor beshear anticipates more bad news. we re in rescue and recovery. we have people missing. i still expect we ll find some more bodies. there s just so much destruction. almost 600 national guardsmen
view. these pictures from aptn, associated press television news. just incredible to look out over the landscape there. you wonder what it was like at cudjoe key, once you get there, you re almost to key west. you can almost taste mallory square by then, see the cat lady walking by and waiting for that perfect sunset at mallory square. i wonder, key west on the drier side of the storm, on the best side of the on the west side of the storm when it went by. it ll be interesting to see what everything looks like there. i can tell you one thing, they ll fix it up and get right back after it. they always have. can t imagine that changing. now they re dealing with it in names. and the in naples. and the storm is headed north toward the fort myers area. let s listen. incredible.
thing, the multiple vortex tornado, these very small, mini tornadoes that spin around the main, parent tornado. and the eye sometimes of these strong hurricanes, you can get these mini vortices, and you can get stronger winds as those pass by. it s not a question of we could be looking at that situation there where you get these little spins that spin around the entire eye and create even stronger winds from the ambient winds, i guess, within the eye wall. so it s a very frightening experience because they come up on you really quickly, they produce shepard: live coverage with what looked like a picture in the parking lot. fort myers, of course, north of naples. the storm bearing down on naples now. we think the eye s going to cross over there soon, and we ll get back to our steve harrigan who s on scene. first, let s get to carlos who s riding out the storm near names. where are you and allow are you? good, thanks, shep.
shepard: we ve been watching if you look real closely, you can see a flag in there or what s left of one. this has been one of our live looks for much of the day, and the flag had been held up hasn t held up too well. i m guessing somebody will get out there and replace that thing as soon as the weather allows. the sights and sounds of a powerful category three storm coming ashore and just tearing through the community. listen to this. [background sounds]
way. thank you. we appreciate it. as you heard the governor say, more storms are on the way with a potential for spawning more tornadoes there. weather channel meteorologist vivian brown brings us the latest. we have a roof that just flew through the air. this is serious. life or death. we have a large multiple vortex tornado on the ground that was the video earlier from one of the storm chasers who was following that storm. we hope to get an update later in the hour. still to come we re tracking the potential of the 2015 hurricane season getting started three weeks early. the system is forming off the coast of south carolina at an air force reconnaissance flight is investigating to determine any development. a live report from south carolina later in the hour. and another developing story we re watching that affects your privacy and the national security agency s power. a federal appeals court says the nsa s bulk collection of phone data is illegal and exceeds the scope o