Tornado damage at the Pfizer plant in Rocky Mount means delays in the availability of some products made there, including drugs used in IV infusions and those injected under the skin or into patient muscles.
100 homes and structures. here is what one survivor had to say. me and my sister and my mother were looking out the window. there was a debris field that started coming over the trees. this massive pfizer plant was really good to do, especially the warehouse area. this is a plant that produces one quarter of the sterile injectables for all of the u.s. these are basic medicines like antibiotics. at this point, it is too early to assess the damage and whether this destruction could lead to more medicinal shortages in the near term. we are still wait-and-see mode as pfizer will assess the damage and the impact. here this is something hospitals already have infrastructure to manage. it is a matter to see. one pfizer employee said the lights went out and it sounded like a bomb exploded the next 60 seconds. despite the destruction, no employees were injured. they were able to get to a safe
at the baseball stadium for the last decade stealing lots of hearts while keeping the mice population under control. and there are already a lot of adoption applications rolling in because who wouldn t want to adopt that little guy right there? steve: yeah, how many times has that cat been on television? carley: yeah. probably around the same amount as you, which is a lot. steve: this cat, that cat. carley, thank you very much. carley: you re welcome. steve: 11 minutes before the top of the hour and janice dean joins us. do you know what, janice, we are hoping today is a nice day. janice: here across the east expecting more thunderstorms in the forecast. that s the way it s been over the last several weeks. and we had severe weather strike kentucky yesterday. let s take a look at the storms. we also had a tornado report for the north carolina area, ef 3 which, of course, we have been reporting on, damaged a pfizer plant. kentucky rain totals close to a to the of rain. this
triple-digit temperatures outside. they had to call in medical teams and oxygen. the stunning images tonight. that powerful tornado in north carolina, tearing through homes and businesses, hitting at lunch hour. multiple people hurt. and the twister slamming into a pfizer plant, sustaining major damage. in kentucky tonight, the governor there declaring a state of emergency. widespread flooding. and we re learning more about the nightmare on board that delta plane. passenger and crews spending more than an hour on the tarmac. the outside temperature reaching 110. rob marciano standing by with the tornado concerns still at this hour and the storms and heat. we also have new reporting tonight in the defection of an american soldier to north korea. his mother making a desperate plea tonight. the new image of that soldier at the dmz just moments before authorities say he ran into north korea on his own. a witness describing the moment. where he is right now and what do authorities belie