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The tornado that traveled into tennessee originated. its at least an ef-3. this city is 20 miles from the nursing homes where 1 person was dead. 20 miles from the dollar general with the other confirmed death happened. we want to show you drone video of what this city looked like this morning. look at something that has to do with the infrastructure. this is the main point we are hitting. focussing on mayfield and those bigger cities in kentucky, bringing the focus to the smaller cities that are...

Tells me that they now know that at the time this tornado struck, there were 46 workers inside this massive warehouse, about the size of a football field. as you mentioned, that death toll now sitting at six people. and they say that everyone else at this point in time is believed to have been accounted for. they do not anticipate the death toll rising here in edwardsville, but we are learning more about the moments prior to this tornado striking thats now been categorized as an ef-3. an incredi...

Devastation everywhere. it is expansive. hundreds of miles or hundreds of yards i should say of scattered debris in this immigrant community, very much so an international community, family members that weve started to see have started to come back and make their emotional return to salvage their belongings and for some that ive spoken to say its almost retraumatizing having flashbacks of living through the storm that ripped through here, the ef-3 tornado that hopscotched through the neighborhoo...

Have you ever seen something like this in the month of december? >> not this far north. tornadoes happen in december. but they are usually down around the gulf coast where it is warm. but guess what, the afternoon before the tornadoes began, memphis, tennessee got up to 80 degrees. since the 1870s when they have been keeping track, only three other years that any date in any december has ever been that warm. so is it a very odd thing? yes. absolutely. to get that kind of heat in the wrong places...

Community. thank you. >> thank you so much. about three hours north to edwardsville, illinois, where a tornado ripped through an amazon facility bringing part of the roof crashing down and find nbcs morgan chesky. great to see you this morning. thank you for joining us. give us the latest on that building and the people that were inside. >> reporter: yeah. absolutely brutal past 48 hours for everyone impacted by the tornado thats an ef-3. the warehouse is still standing. the one ajace ent is n...

A blessing. i want to go to polo sandoval at the scene of the amazon warehouse collapse. >> you have to see some of the images that were shot over the weekend to get a true sense of what happened here. you see how the ef-3 tornado cut through the amazon shipping center. you know dozens escaped alive. six of them did not. a 20-year-old navy veteran named clayton cope, he served his country honorably for six years and return to southwest illinois to work alongside his father as a maintenance mecha...

Now, its up to other weather service offices to say exactly how long it was. the record is 219 miles. so this is already 124 and is going to go up higher. this easily may be the longest tornado in our countrys history weve observed and yes, in december. ill get more to that in a second. we dont know the intensity. its rare to get ef-4 and ef-5. its at least an ef-3 in mayfield. a couple more, the one that hit the amazon facility in illinois. on the scales, it goes up to five. thats the highest. ...

Kentuckys had at least 64 deaths. this one already is the third deadliest tornado in kentuckys history. look at all the other months, may and march dates are on that list. we dont yet know how strong the one tornado was that went through mayfield. theyve out doing the damage surveys. you can imagine they have to go along the entire 200 mile path and try to see what the peak was because thats what theyll rate it. the one that hit the amazon facility was rated at ef-3, 165 miles per hour winds. th...

But at this hour, it is still not clear how many people may have been in that warehouse when the ef-3 tornado hit there. a shift change was happening at the time, officials say. and right here in kentucky, where i am from here in mayfield, to bowling green and beyond, we are seeing the disaster grow worse as well. there is just so much heartache all around. at least 70 people are feared dead in this wonderful state. the governor warns that number could top 100. children are among the 12 known de...

Church. what i have shown you so far this morning is so far one block. i can tell you this goes on throughout the entire town. were in kind of the downtown area of mayfield and i have not seen a single building at least in downtown mayfield that survives this, probably i dont know repair. if you go a mile from here, there are some areas, residential areas that look completely untouched. if you go in the other direction we havent been able to get to just yet, those houses are wiped off down to ju...