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MAYFIELD — One Mayfield church held its first service Sunday after the flood, wind and rain from last Wednesday.

Out there work, just to stay out of down can town mayfield because this is a lot of traffic for people thats trying to get everything clean up and debris out of the way. eric: united way and other folks, ryans townsfolk and residents, they need help in mayfield, folks. >> [inaudible] just■2hope for the best. thats about all we can do. eric: hope for the best as we see and witness and you undergo the worst. ryan, the president about to speak. thank you. arthel? arthel: yeah. eric, we are told t...

The western part of the state. some of the worst damage at a candle factory in mayfield. 110 people were inside as the twister hit and the roof collapsed. the governor estimates dozens were killed at that site alone. steve harrigan is live in mayfield now with more. steve in. >>■ç reporter: arthel, this is where the candle factory was, right behind me here. at peak efficiency 250 people working there. overnight more than 100, roughly 110 people working overtime late at night trying to make so...

Before christmas is vast, extensive and heartbreaking. the suspected tornado destroyed a nursing home in arkansas, killed one person there, then trapped 20 others at that facility as you can see just collapsed around them. meanwhile, up north illinois was also hit hard. search and rescue crews combing through rubble at an amazon warehouse in edwardsville which was partially collapsed by the tornado, almost completely, as you can see there. that roof just i destroyed, no walls. devastation everyw...

Really with a yellow legal pad just taking names out on the list there. this becomes more of a recovery operation. this might be the most intense point here from these storms when you talk about concentration of death. but when you drive in here and you drive in through the heart of mayfield, if you pan over there a little bit, you start out a few miles from the town and you see, okay, some trees are down. then you■ç get a little closer d some roofs are down, and then you come into the town i...

Especially people in this part of the country pick up and just move on. they say everythings going to be okay. its going to take them a while, but theyre going to be okay. eric: hunter, its a wonderful testament to the dedication of the doctors, nurses and workers to throw themselves over the patients for whom they care. and certainly lucky that the death toll at that site wasnt even worse. hunter davis at the nursing home, thank you. arthel? arthel: well, eric, president biden says that he will...

Kentucky, they had a tower over 100 feet with 500,000 of water in it, it was crumbled like a dixie cup last night, and thats just one visual. eric: the power and destruction and nature of these storms and tornadoes just almost unimaginable. so sering. we see that in the pictures that are coming out of there. amy, thank you. and speaking of mayfield, kentucky, lets go back to mayfield. that is a city that has been largely destroyed. as you can see, block after block blown apart. it is the site of...

>> reporter: hi, eric. dozens are areed■ç dead and more than 330,000 customers from texas to indiana are without power after a severe line of storms carved out a deadly path of destruction through the south and midwest. the city of mayfield, kentucky, one of the hardest hit. drone video shows downed power lines, flipped-over vehicles and buildingsen pancaked to the ground for blocks. overnight first responders worked frantically to rescue more than 110 workers who were trapped inside this can...