![]() Right now, there are still dozens of people missing. It’s a 24 hour operation and this time of year, there are a lot of orders for candles. 110 people were working there over on the late shift on Friday night. You talked about the candle factory, I want to tell you about that. I have to tell you, I’ve covered probably more than a dozen tornadoes over my career and Chuck, I have never seen a town, a city, flattened like this, just block after block. Yeah, Chuck, it’s almost indescribable, I can’t even put in words how devastated the city is. I imagine being there in person is even more impressionable. ![]() She is reporting on the ground from the hardest hit area there, of Mayfield. I'm going to talk to Governor Beshear in a moment, but first we're joined by my colleague Kate Snow. The overall death toll is unclear at this point, but Kentucky's governor Andy Beshear says as many as 100 are feared dead in his state alone. Louis, Missouri, when an Amazon warehouse took a direct hit. and then we did a rock rock rock, boom, and everything fell down on us.Īt least six people were also killed in Edwardsville, Illinois, that’s just outside of St. And the worst of the damage occurred in the Kentucky town of Mayfield, where a twister hit and destroyed a candle factory that was being used as shelter by scores of people. ![]() Most of that journey was in hardest-hit Kentucky. One tornado alone was said to be on the ground for an estimated record 200-plus miles, cutting a shocking path of destruction through several states. All told, these tornadoes touched down in six states in the nation’s midsection. A series of tornadoes, more typical in the Spring, very rare in December, erupted overnight on Friday, causing horrific damage and loss of life. We’re going to of course get to the spike on Covid cases, the battle over mandates, my interview with the secretary of state about Russia and Ukraine in a moment, but we’re going to begin with the terrible tornado damage in Kentucky and some neighboring states. ![]()
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