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before the attack raising new questions. good evening, everyone what happened here friday is a story of loss and salvation. these houses in downtown mayfield, kentucky are still standing but all uninhabitable. in each, there were residents holding on for dear life as everything around them was destroyed. stories of survival are fueling hope, even a the death toll in kentucky rises. we are learning from the governor that at least 74 are dead 109 still unaccounted for. we also know that friday s onslaught involved as many as 60 tornados tonight as crews try to erase the scars carrying away the rubble they re struggling to find 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 ....
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. ....
potential kidnapping story in gatherberg. now to this, the missing bobcat still out there on the run from the national zoo. first we were told there was really no harm or concern for humans but the search goes on. and we re in one of the neighborhoods near where the zoo is searching hard for this cat. reporter: listen. the chance of a bobcat attacking a person or kid extremely low. still john eaten elementary school one of 13 schools put on a partial lockdown because ali the bobcat is still missing somewhere out there. it s kind of a bummer, the kids aren t going outside right now. we don t really know what s going on. it sounds like the bobcat made a home in the woods somewhere. the after school programs all locked inside. we re going to tough it out at the park and see what happens. dogal alert. hopefully we don t run into it. 25 pounds, stubby tail, perhaps in the woodly park or cleveland park sections of the city. do you see a p bobcat? i m mostly ....
after this hour dan is going to be breaking down how we behave, what we did. you end up not feeling very good. dan: now i m self-conscious. vonnie: good morning. france preparing to extend the state of emergency that was declared after last friday s terror attacks. the french parliament begins voting on the measure today that allows the government to ban public demonstrations and carry out searches without warrants. statevideo, islamic threatens to attack times square. police say there is no specific threat. since the attacks in paris, new york has employed extra police across the city. when it comes to who has a better temperament to be president, republicans pick ben carson over donald trump hadbut ,when asked to can get something done, can fix immigration and manage the economy. those responses were from the latest bloomberg politics national poll trump was the first choice of 24% of republican survey. marco rubio third with 12%. you can get more on these and other b ....
this plunge kicks off the friday morning. julie: we have some breaking economic news. the university of michigan january numbers come in ahead of estimates. up 92.9. we see an increase from december. so, just one data point. earlier, we got retail sales coming in line with estimates for the client. the most eye-popping data point is empire manufacturing in the new york area in january down 19.37%. a -19.37. the negative sentiment has recurrent returned. we are back down once again. as you look at the brett of the decline, it is broad. all industry groups, all subgroups are trading lower. energy is leading the plunge. along with technology, the nasdaq is showing the upside when we are moving up. a big cap on technology after a strong 2015. financials were also lower despite estimated numbers from citigroup and wells fargo. financials are also lower. energy is doing the worst. oil prices are selling off. belowe crude oil trading $30 per barrel. since late lowest 2003. ....