few minutes. and in western kentucky scenes of destruction are beginning to emerge. the governor says more than 50 deaths are likely from the storm. he s expected to hold a news conference any moment. and we ll bring it to you you when it happens. meanwhile in arkansas at least two people have been killed. one at a dollar general store. and another at a nursing home where 20 others were rescued. and in illinois, emergency crews are searching for people feared trapped inside a damaged amazon warehouse. some family members of those who worked there waiting on word from loved ones. yeah. it was lightning bad. you know, we lost power for about two hours now. and then my phone died. so i have no idea to get ahold of them. i have idea what s going on. we re just worried sick. we just want to know if he s okay. all right. let s bring in meteorologist derek van dam. derek, let s get right to it. what s the latest? all right. these are the nights as a meteorologist you that don
And fatalities are coming from across the state, specifically, communities and counties, by chance? well, certainly, graves, i think we re going to see them in hopkins, warren, and then i think we will see several other counties, i will be surprised if we don t lose people in at least five or more counties, marshall also some fatalities reported to us. again, this is a widespread weather event. and i think that we re especially at daybreak going to see that number of counties and the number of people grow. alan watts, wkdz radio. all right. we ll move on to wdrb.