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devastated by last weekend s tornadoes. the president is meeting with local officials on the ground and expected to tour a neighborhood in hard hit mayfield just a short time from now. welcome. i am sandra smith and trace great to with you. i am trace gallagher in for john roberts. clean up efforts under way across several states. as families are putting their lives back on track. kentucky s donation fund collected $10 million for more than 6,000 people 66,000 people. state officials are asking people to donate toys for kids who are homeless just weeks before christmas. sandra: so sad. alexis is on the ground in mayfield at a church helping collect donations. god bless them. so much help is needed and so many kids 2 weeks before christmas are left with nothing. they don t even know where they will go later this afternoon or get their next meal. what the church is doing is so important in mayfield, kentucky. we are inside in this warehouse inside a church. mayfield ....
it sounded evil. it was the scariest moment of my life. harris: you re watching outnumbered. i m harris faulkner. join today on the couch on my cohost emily compagno, kayleigh mcenany joins us from tampa, florida. please bring us some sunshine. cohost of fox & friends weekend and coauthor of all-american christmas, rachel campos-duffy. in the center virtual seat on this fine monday, his first time ever on outnumbered, legal advisor to a georgia sheriff s office, former police officer and former assistant d.a. philip holloway. welcome. we ll begin in the middle part of the country. a new danger in the twister zone with survivors now without heat, water, electricity. it is very cold there right now. crews are working to repair thousands of downed power lines. that will take time. this admitted jaw-dropping pictures of damage. take a look at the satellite view of one part of arkansas before the tornadoes were through. this is the image after paid farm buildings wer ....
united states of america. we need it and we are really grateful for it. 18 are still unidentified. of the ones that we know, the age range is 5 months to 86 years and six are younger than 18. it s just horrific. the national guard is on the ground working with state and local officials to find dozens of residents still not accounted for. while thousands of people who live and work in towns like may field and dawson springs brace for this long road ahead. we had no water within the city limits. all the power was cut just for safety reasons after everything fell. so there s no power within the city limits, and the natural gas has been turned off because of so many leaks. so we have no resources to that. i didn t think anybody knew what happened. i didn t know if they knew that we were hit, and i needed them to know so that somebody could come so they could send people to come and get us because, i mean, look at it. we were under that. it was horrible. it was rea ....
survivorsre in there now. i survived this. honey, listen, i m humbling and i m forever grateful. the head of fema and secretary of homeland security both headed to kentucky to help in the recovery effort. the death toll there expected to rise. this event is the worst, most devastating, most deadly tornado event in kentucky s history. a so-called quad-state tornado that was on the ground for hundreds of miles could set new records. that and the time of year have people asking how much did this have to do with climate change? we all know everything is moreow intense when the climates warming, everything, and obviously it has some impact here. plus in washington, we could just be hourssh away from seein the contempt report for mark meadows. what we could look from the commercial committee owes vote tomorrow. good morning. it is sunday, december 12th. i m lindsey reiser. in the central u.s. recovery efforts from the devastating tornadoes continue today. in kentu ....
the tornadoes were spread. they covered a great deal of land across the midwest. about 30 tornadoes known to have touched down. spanning six states. one lone tornado, at least what we think of one lone tornado took a path through four states, covering 250 miles of countryside, including here where i am in western kentucky. according to nbc news, as of this morning, 15 people are confirmed dead in kentucky, but state officials say the number is probably upward of 70. and the majority of those deaths are likely occurring or have likely occurred at the nearby candle factory. it s a place caused mayfield consumer products, it s about eight minutes from where i am right now. there were roughly 110 people working in that factory at time of the storm, at night. the factory, by the way, had been working 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, to meet christmas demand. only 40 of those 110 who were thought to have been in that building have been located so far. we ll be speaking to one o ....