comparisons to this level of destruction and human loss maybe the simplest way to put it is children will be telling their children and grandchildren about that awful day in december, 2021 our reporters are across the region to tell the stories. but we start here in mayfield tonight, it is hard to put into words. utter destruction, immense loss as far as you can see. more than 100 people still unaccounted for here in kentucky alone and efforts to find them going on around the clock. there was i believe a men s shelter down here, that was a dentist office in front of us. how long do you think it took for this damage to occur? 30, 45 seconds tops i met mayfield fire chief and ems director jeremy creasen is there a sense hope is gone for those still unaccounted for? i don t think so. we never want to give up hope. the catastrophic damage
were on tranquilizers or drugs. as a profiler and investigator, you look at the last person with the victim. who was the mother s boyfriend. this is the guy who was accused of walking past her bedroom at night, standing at the door staring in. he s also the guy who said he got fired from his job the day the victim disappeared, but his boss said he didn t get fired. he came to work and quit and walked away. all of that is behavior to law enforcement that says we need to take a hard look at this guy. we do, perhaps. let s talk about overall with both these cases, police have been searching for weeks and how many times have we spoken about how the most critical time in finding people is at the very beginning, and that as more time passes, do you get a sense hope is running out? three-quarters of a mill or more are reported missing in the united states every year. most of those people are found. they re walk-aways or run-aways or were gone for a couple of hours. in both cases these are