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Illinois going back 64 years ago. so how can this happen in december? well, if you've been paying attention to the weather this month, it hasn't felt like december. i mean, we've had a lack of snow, a lack of cold. i'm talking record highs each and every day. on friday before the storms hit, it hit 80 degrees in memphis. we didn't have december weather. the atmosphere could care less what time of year it is. it felt like it was october. we had an october severe weather outbreak. the only climate connections we really can relate to this is the possibility that tornado alley is moving a little b...

Your employees, your community? >> exactly. the building was just a building. we're focused on our people, on our community at large, but it gets over a thousand people without homes right now, no electricity, no heat for thousands in our overall community. the people need basic supplies, you know, we've been hunkered down, real chilly. other than that we're great. before we focus on the restaurant, we're going to focus on our community and the people around us and do everything, every moment of the day to help those people hurting and suffering, and struggling just to survive. >> inspirationa...

Community since the '50s, and he joins us now. thank you so much for being with us. how are you, your family, your staff doing today? >> my family and i, we were safe and doing as well as we can. the whole town has no power or heat. water is trying to be restored. they're trying as fast as they can. i talked with all my staff, we got with them that night to make sure everybody was safe, you know, and we had more discussions today. several of them lost their homes, lost -- >> it looks like daniel's shot obviously has frozen. we will try to get back to him if we can. in the meantime, let's take ...

Daniel carr, a restaurant co-owner in mayfield, kentucky. daniel, you probably can't even think about rebuilding right now. you're probably still processing what happened in your town and your restaurant here in mayfield. >> it was totally devastating. we really haven't been able to think about rebuilding yet. and we spent last night, my family, in the basement. we got up early this morning and made our way downtown through all the debris and rubble and just saw, you know, a flattened complete downtown. building after building, block after block. my first thought was about our staff and people...

I'm going to come to carr's steakhouse. daniel carr's family owns carr's steakhouse. there is also destruction in southern illinois, outside of st. louis, 25 miles northeast, in edwardsville, illinois. morgan chesky is there now. morgan, what have you got? >> reporter: ali, good afternoon. we're hearing from officials today who have just released the names and ages of the six victims killed inside this amazon warehouse behind me when that tornado hit late friday. that death toll was increased last night. and officials wanted to make one thing clear. they are continuing to go through the debris...