the ones around me to rubble. while leaving over 200,000 people without power across six states. governor andy bashir spoke about the loss of life in his latest press briefing. we will be north of at least 70 lives lost here in kentucky. i think we will have lost more than a hundred people, and i think it could rise significantly in those numbers. now, the majority of the deaths that he s talking about are right here in mayfield, kentucky. there is a candle factory. it s about eight minutes from where i am right now. it collapsed. they believe that there were 110 people inside the factory at the time. about 40 people were rescued on saturday. i just spoke a few moments ago to kyanna parsons-perez. she was one of the ones rescued. but if you do the math on that, you know that 70 people are not accounted for yet. that doesn t mean that 70 people are in there. but we do not know what the situation is. in nearby bowling green, kentucky, there are 12 confirmed deaths from stor
authorities say at least one tornado touched down in the wichita area yesterday damaging homes, cars and at least 50 to 100 buildings. frightening images there. the worst damage happened in the town of andover where authorities say most of the roads are closed. but the fire chief says it will take a little longer to figure out the damage in his city. we know that there was a direct tornado strike that started sedge wick county and traveled into andover. we had many buildings in andover take very tough damage. total in the path there were 966 buildings, we believe. we do not have a damage assessment on how many of those were damaged. cnn meteorologist allison chinchar joining us now with more. allison, that image we saw is really terrifying. we know at least 14 tornadoes were reported across kansas and nebraska. and we heard there from the official that we don t know the extent of damage just yet, but what do we know right now, allison? the key thing is the damage th
tornado touched down in the wichita area yesterday, damaging hopes, cars and at least 50 to 100 buildings there. the worst damage happened in the town of andover where authorities say most of the roads are closed. with the sun now up in kansas, authorities will be able to get a much more detailed and closer look at the damage. last night, andover s fire chief laid out the tough task ahead. we know that there was a direct tornado strike that started in sedgewick county and travelled into andover. we had many buildings in andover take very tough damage. total in the path there were 966 buildings, we believe. we do not have a damage assessment on how many of those were damaged. all right. cnn meteorologist allison chin c char joining us now. we know at least 14 tornadoes were reported across kansas and nebraska. the threat is not yet over. what do we know? yeah, that s right. the same system is continuing to move on. it s been a very active past 24 hour. as you mentioned
wow. those images, unbelievable. hard to imagine it taking place, but it did. live. right in the middle of the day. in wichita, dozens of buildings were levelled. amazingly only a few people were injured. allison, it seems the more recent system of tornados, it just seems to be more outlandish than the next. hard to believe it s happen ng the middle of the day and hard to believe that they are happening in these clusters like this. it s a good point that you make because april and march are both above average in terms of total numbers of tornados. you feel like it s deja vu all over again. it s been a very active past 24 hours. 15 tornado reports, over 80 wind reports and 60 hail reports. this wasn t just small hail. some reports were baseball-sized and softball-sized hail. one of the problems today in terms of clean up is that you ve got high wind warnings and advisories out so as people are trying to clean up, they re going to have to contend with 30, 40, 50 mile an hour
started in sedgwick county and traveled into andover. we had many buildings in andover take very tough damage. total in the path, there were 966 buildings, we believe. we do not have a damage assessment on how many of those were damaged. i mean, the video is extraordinary. so far, only a handful of injuries are reported. more on this story in a moment. but first, we re watching new developments over seas in ukraine. ukrainian forces withstanding russia s mercyless shelling in lieu luhansk and donetsk. new video shows a submarine firing cruise missiles at ukrainian targets. this as we re seeing new images showing the devastation at a steel plant in mariupol. it s where a last stand of ukrainian soldiers and civilians are hunkered down, surrounded. and there s also this just in to cnn just moments ago. city officials in mariupol say there may be a possible breakthrough in the evacuation negotiations. for more on that, let s go to scott mcclain live for us in lviv. what are yo