permanent building, whereas previously, we have done this in portakabin that are manned by police. i don't know how many times people actually brick buildings in festivals, but i can't think of one. so your main problem is that you are happy to have an approved tester, but it is the infrastructure associated with it?- but it is the infrastructure associated with it? what we have said is with _ associated with it? what we have said is with the _ associated with it? what we have said is with the timing, _ associated with it? what we have said is with the timing, let - associated with it? what we have said is with the timing, let us - said is with the timing, let us carry on in—house testing this season, as we have done for the last decade, and then we will sit sit down with you at some point in september or october, so if we have to pay for licences, we don't have a problem with that, but let's be realistic. not many festivals have permanent brick buildings, so if it is a portacabin that we have used before, and we pay for police to be in there, then fine, we can operate that way, but let's work together, because as it stands now, with no on—site tobacco pulse testing, it
also made their way through eastern iowa with residents there spotting at least nine twisters much of the damage was to a town called coralville and that's where we find fox weather nicole valdez with the latest on the damage there. hey, nicole. reporter: griff, i'm not sure if you can hear the sound of crunching metal behind me as emergency crews try to pick up the pieces of the damage that they faced overnight. you mentioned we are in coralville north of iowa city, suburb, 22,000 people called this area home and i'm going step out of the way to give you a better view of what kind of damage we are looking at. you're looking at pieces of metal roofs, i mean, siding of buildings, brick buildings even and over to the right, a mangled car that was picked up and tossed and flipped on its side during the cheer force of that storm that made its way through the suburb of iowa city yesterday. we know there are several people
for 20 miles. that was powerful enough to flip cars, uproot oak trees and knock down brick buildings. here is what one resident said. >> it went from very calm and quiet to chaos very quickly. where i was, downtown two blocks from the first damage. we got heavy winds. we knew a tornado was on the ground but trying to get to an outside shelter. the wind was blowing too hard to open the door. >> terrifying afternoon and night for many people. death toll now stands at seven and could go up as more bodies are found. much of those dead around montgomery, alabama in rural areas, killed by trees falling on mobile homes. some rescued and had to cut through the trees to get to them. 12 hospitalized. at its peak 150,000 people without power. the number is dropping quickly with crews out now. >> bill: thanks on the ground 40 miles south of atlanta in griffin, georgia.
>> julie: a fox weather alert. rescue and recovery efforts are underway. at least seven people were killed in deadly storms. 30 report evidence tornado leaving a trail of destruction. one of the areas hardest hit is griffin georgia, south of atlanta where the roof of this hobby lobby store completely collapsed where we find steve harrigan joining us live. >> a steady rain in griffin as people try to pick through the destruction. soave -- some houses destroyed and states of emergency declared in parts of georgia and alabama. southern alabama hit hard. one tornado on the ground for 20 miles that flipped cars and uprooted trees, knocked down brick buildings. some people in selma say they feel lucky to be alive. >> you can't cry over spilled
are, steve? >> john, just a mess here. signs of destruction, some houses are gone, roofs missing as well. selma, alabama, one tornado touched down in selma, went for about 20 miles, including through the center of town. uproot oak trees and knocked down brick buildings as well. 20 miles on the ground and enough to throw debris up in the air 10,000 feet. when you talk to people who lived through it, they say it was just an afternoon and a night of real terror. >> you could hear the roar, and you could hear the wind, and right over our head. >> we had to go back into a glass front building and hope the pressure did not take the glass out. you could feel the pressure of what was happening but no damage, thank god, for where we were. >> one of the hardest hit areas, rural alabama around montgomery,
in tonight's "eye on america" we travel to the hardest hit state kentucky where the devastation was so widespread the cleanup alone could take another two months. cbs's jonathan vigliotti reports on the long road to recovery. >> reporter: december's unprecedented spread of tornadoes card out destruction 260 miles long through arkansas, missouri and tennessee before bearing down on kentucky. >> and what you're seeing used to be brick buildings, historic landmark buildings. >> reporter: the road to recovery is long one for towns like mayfield. fema and the army corps of engineers invited us to see the many hurdles ahead. >> what we've got here is one of our self-loading trucks. >> reporter: george dominguez directs debris removal. how much are we talking about. >> 2 million cubic yards r of debris across the county. >> reporter: that's on scale for the cleanup after 9/11.
touch down here in the blue grass state. that label is ef-4. one notch down from the most powerful rating for a tornado. the number of dead has been adjusted to 71. possibly more significantly the number of missing has dropped from around 100 to 59. and the reason is because a lot of unaccounted for was simply due to poor communication. on a day when president biden toured some of the damage. stopping in mayfield, kentucky where the downtown took a direct hit. brick buildings were toppled or. steel. apocalyptic landscape where the house standing and livable. the president promised the federal government would pick up 100 pierce of the tab for everything from search and rescue to debris clean up. even police overtime for the first 30 days. >> keep the faith we're going to get this done, i promise you the governor is not walking away.
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to do, and again, i remind you, it's warm now because the sun is up. it went down to 23 degrees last nights, so there are still people they believe are trapped and need rescuing, and they have already spent one very cold night out there. hopes are high they will continue to be able to rescue people, but there's a lot of fear and a lot of devastation here, alex. >> and lots still missing. ali, let me ask you about what we do see still standing. i was talking to somebody else in mayfield yesterday, a storm chaser. there's a tall building behind you. it looks like it's made of brick. are brick buildings the ones that are mostly still intact? i mean, suffering severe damage, yes, but it looks like red brick. >> let me show you. look at the roof. look at the roof of that red brick building over there. it's gone. so the brick buildings, beyond that, there's another building, the roof is gone because it's wooden, but the building is brick. it's standing. i can look through and see brick and stone buildings in which