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The largest tornado was on the ground. it was two hours. the national weather service is still surveying the damage, but it could potentially be the one of a kind tornado in american history. >> the monster tornado just classified as an ef-4 with winds up to 190 miles an hour. today kentucky's governor announced the number of those missing has dropped dramatically to more than 100. now the missing appears to be down to 16, and that is good news. >> on the ground, almost 700 army and air national guard members are distributing supplies, removing debris and searching for the missing. >> the dyna...

>> reporter: what's truly remarkable to see from the air is how far it was on the ground, for more than two hours. the national weather service is still assessing the damage. but it's said to be the longest trek in american history. it was classified as an ef-4 with winds up to 190 miles an hour. the number of those missing has dropped dramatically from more than 100 -- >> the missing appears to now be 16. that's good news. >> reporter: on the ground, almost 700 air and army national guard members are searching through the debris for the missing. >> the dynamic is everybody knows everybody. so...

A worker at the candle factory in Mayfield was pulled from the rubble and rushed to Vanderbilt University Medical Center. She now lives to tell the tale.

90-plus-mile-per-hour winds already. you can see the severe line cutting into iowa. we've got wind and snow alerts across a wide area, over 100 million americans under the gun right now. and we've got that big heat. that's what's triggering the severe weather. 34 degrees above average. that wind energy goes up into canada tomorrow. but the front itself lays down across the ohio, tennessee and mississippi river valleys for several days. this is right over the tornado-ravaged zone. heavy rain over two and three days is not what they need. david? >> that is certainly the truth. rob, thank you. ...

Touch down here in the blue grass state. that label is ef-4. one notch down from the most powerful rating for a tornado. the number of dead has been adjusted to 71. possibly more significantly the number of missing has dropped from around 100 to 59. and the reason is because a lot of unaccounted for was simply due to poor communication. on a day when president biden toured some of the damage. stopping in mayfield, kentucky where the downtown took a direct hit. brick buildings were toppled or. steel. apocalyptic landscape where the house standing and livable. the president promised the federal ...