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Me, feed my girls and we got to safety because of him. >> reporter: disaster declarations have now been approved for tennessee and illinois. a disaster declaration was approved for eight counties in kentucky. carley: thank you. todd: pointing fingers at democrats and soft on crime policies for a nationwide surge in crime. carley: the biden administration has a different explanation as brazen couples go unpunished. jackie ibanez has more on this front. carley: >> reporter: critics say liberal cri...

A disaster proclamation grants the State of Illinois the ability to expedite the use of state resources, personnel, or equipment, and allows the Illinois Emergency Management Agency (IEMA) to procure

Epicenter of an explosion site. it is just simply stunning what people are having to go through. they have literally been going through all of these shreds of debris looking for whatever belongings they can salvage at this point. that is what many residents here have spent the day doing. laura? >> ed, thank you for that. as all of this is happening, president biden has approved a disaster declaration for kentucky to get federal aid to people dealing with the aftermath of these tornadoes. later t...

Their family members survived the travesty. its just an extraordinary level of devastation. but at the presidents direction, its also an extraordinary federal response. as the governor and local officials said yesterday, they have never seen the federal government respond so quickly at the presidents direction. an emergency declaration was issued on saturday immediately following the friday evening tornado. overnight, last night, a disaster declaration. the president approved allowing us to prov...

>> reporter: just the shock, absolutely absorbing what happened. it looks -- you cant even accept that this is reality. it looks like a movie set. theyre still in shock. but it is setting in. its just a couple weeks before christmas. the temperatures are dropping now. how are they going to get through the next days, weeks and months? they are feeling reassured by the governor, by the president, saying resources are comeing. the president has accepted kentuckys disaster declaration, that means fe...

Residents that we only lost one there. >> reporter: now, we are seeing federal response here, fema, department of homeland security, we have state and local officials, people coming from all around to help here in kentucky. certainly the storm did rip through six different states, more deaths in illinois. it will take take weeks to get the power back on, months, perhaps years to even recover. carley and ashley, back to you. carley: caroline, thank you. ashley: in washington, president biden appr...

Good day, everyone. this is "andrea mitchell reports" in washington, were tracking new revelations from the january 6th investigating committee on why they do plan to hold former trump chief of staff mark meadows in contempt of congress tonight. plus, the nation marking a grim pandemic milestone of 800,000 u.s. covid deaths, but of course our big focus today, the disaster in the wake of historic tornados and the desperate search for survivors in kentucky. president biden at this hour approving...

Linking this particular storm directly to climate change, the president said he has no doubt that recent severe weather events are related to the climate crisis. >> what is certain, it is one of the worst tornado disasters weve had in the country and the second thing is certain is that it is unusual. it is unusual how it happened, how many places it touched down and the length of the path. >> reporter: the president did overnight sign a disaster declaration for kentucky. hell be doing so for ill...

Team. this disaster declaration will allow us to bring the entire federal together to provide the much-needed support for today and the duration of the recovery governor you have my commitment to make sure were giving you everything that you need to help with this long recovery that you will be faced with. >> i want to think the secretary in the administrator this is the fastest emergency declaration that ive ever heard of they had resources on the way even before it lies process, is everything ...