The potential bombshell of an email on the capitol riot probe. Plus winter is coming. Icus maxing out again. Hospitalizations among children reaching record highs. Are we in for another long, Cold Covid Winter . Welcome to the lead. Im jake tapper. The National Lead today, the heartbreaking, unimaginable loss of life and destruction from tornadoes that tore through eight states friday night. Officials fear the death toll may reach triple digits but cannot say for sure right now because the damage is just that bad and rescue efforts difficult. And ongoing. The governor of kentucky today got emotional as he confirmed 65 lives lost so far in the bluegrass state alone. 18 are still identified. Of the ones that we know, the age the age range is 5 months to 86 years. And six are younger than 18. Any moment now we expect to hear from governor andy beshear of kentucky who also told me this may be the worst tornado in ken conditions history. The National Weather service is surveying the damage
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. Lets 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, theres one of these that were checking on, were now up to 74 kentuckians that we have lost. One additional one in graves. Four additional in hopkins, this is one were 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 were broadcasting from was pushed off of the road in the storm and lost his life
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