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You need to document everything that you can. survivors that cannot stay in their homes, were taking in to state parks. i will give the update on that. do not touch power lines. these are all things that people know. stay safe while youre cleaning up. couple of additional points. for outside donations for things like food, supplies, et cetera, if youre doing that for grace county, the contact is grace county emergency management, 270-727-5114. volunteer signup, to we have the website? there you ...

Have, so many people want to help. its overwhelming many of our first responders that need to be out doing other things. this will help. please be patient. a lot of people that want to help. paducah police department has volunteered to accept food and supplies as well to help out, grace county. the number is 270-444-8590. physical address, 1400 broadway, paducah, kentucky. 42003. okay. this is really important. again, were working on verifying the information from the candle factory. right now i...

Enforcement. working with the chief medical officer to assist with victim identification. update from our cabinet of health and family service was. grace county senior center and the community action building has been damaged so extensively, no way to prepare meals for seniors. thats how mean this weather event was. but also shows how incredible our people are. so we sounded the afarm and within 20 minutes over 2,300 shelf stable meals were committed. theyre being transported from senior center ...

Dark funnel clouds roared across six states in four hours at a speed of 220 mph, obliterating everything in their path. this small town of mayfield in kentucky has been hit hard. workers on christmas shifts at this candle factory were buried by several tornadoes that came hurtling in the dark. it is thought up to 110 people were inside. a0 have made it out. this has been the most devastating tornado event in our states history. and for those that have seen it, what its done here in grace county ...

Than 200 miles in kentucky, hitting the small town of mayfield hard. workers on christmas shifts at a candle factory were buried by several tornadoes that came hurtling in the dark. its thought up to 110 people were inside. a0 have made it out. this has been the most devastating tornado event in our states history, and for those that have seen it, what it has done here, and in grace county, and elsewhere, its indescribable. a state of emergency has been declared in kentucky, as a huge rescue ope...

Neighborhood this afternoon, pamela, all of the power out, this is a sea of darkness all around us. its quiet. there are dozens of cars stacked on top of each other. the back half simply sheared off. it was a devastating scene here and this is hopkins county. we were told that ten people were killed in this county. and this is the worst-hit area of this county. you can imagine that a lot of the deaths occurred in this area -- in this neighborhood that we are in. so many people left homeless toni...

Nomia iqbal reports. the scale of the destruction has been extraordinary. in the dead of night, dark funnel clouds roared across six states in four hours at a speed of 220 mph, obliterating everything in their path. this small town of mayfield in kentucky has been hit hard. workers on christmas shifts at this candle factory were buried by several tornadoes that came hurtling in the dark. it is thought up to 110 people were inside. a0 have made it out. this has been the most devastating tornado e...

To organize because knew there would be a tornado in this area, but no one expected the magnitude and devastation that it caused. right now, we have pretty much all hands on deck. different emergency crews from all across this city, county and the whole state really that have shown up, even the national guard. you mentioned president biden talking about here in kentucky and other places that have been impacted and sending those federal resources and so much is needed for people not just here imp...

Administrator, and we will bring that to you as soon as it gets started. theres the governor now. lets take a listen. >> good afternoon, everybody. this is kentuckys most devastating tornado event in our history. we have lost far too many of our brothers and sisters. the damage is devastating. an entire blocks -- more than one block with nothing standing. to the people of america, theres no lens big enough to show you the extent of the damage here in grace county or in kentucky. nothing that was...

Live here and their house is not there anymore. >> [inaudible] >> so electricity coming on in some places faster than others. it depends on the damage. i know marshall county is coming up a little bit faster. here in grace county, its a work in progress. it really ends up depending on how many lines are down, how significant -- [audio difficulty] is really moving. on the water side, it depends on what exactly has been damaged and what it takes to operate it. i know in dawson a generator was able...