our crews are spread out across the affected communities. nbc s wendy wol folk is in main field, more chan chesky is in more gansville and ali velshi is on the ground in may field as well. ali, i know you got there yesterday after your show. what have you seen so far? reporter: kind of remarkable, lindsey. tornado destruction is not like hurricanes. it hits these isolated places. so ten minutes from here there will be no damage. there s no power anywhere around us in may field. we re due south of paducah. we re in southwestern kentucky. take s a look at this, this cit hall over the area. trees completely stripped. this is poll, we re talking about power being down. in a tornado nay snapped. these are household goods, a
continue here in may field. they continue to be search and rescue efforts, not recovery, meaning they re still looking for people who could be trapped alive. there are a lot of people unaccounted for. we have all sorts of help in here. fema has been activated here. we ve got the national guard in and around kentucky. there areen other sites in kentucky that have been hit like arkansas and illinois. but the bottom line is the search continues, and it is desperate right now because of, the temperature. you hearder from the president. he s spoken to the governor of kentucky two times already in the last 24 hours and keeps on saying, whatever you need, we will send. the federal government stands ready to help. right nowad it s a matter of finding the people who might be buried under the rubble. i remember your interview with the survivor of the candle factory. she said they were digging through the drywall trying to get out. 20 degrees in places where there is no power, just devastating.