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They're still doing the surveys and there are still dozens more missing. this will go down as the deadliest tornados in kentucky history and look at the dates from all the previous ones. we are talking about the early 1900s and late 1800s. we know we had six what we called ef-3 tornados that's severe damage including that amazon warehouse in illinois, kentucky will be at least ef-4. as far as the storms in the west coast, we don't like to have bad weather but we needed this for the water supply. they got three inches of rain in san francisco, the mountains received four feet of snow. it's goin...

Universeity, what do you think, is this really going to be the new normal? >> great to be with you , pamel, now not under these circumstances. this was one for the ages, one may say jgenerational, historic. words come to mind. as the surveys are done, nearly 250 mile path length, ratings ef-4, ef-5 in damage. i think the president, his remarks yesterday were almost spot-on. >> reporter: yeah, help us understand, because you just laid out just the historic nature of this, potentially one of the largest tornados on record. is this a result of climate change? can you say that definitively? help u...

Tornado and were told the parsonage wouldn't withstand a hit like that so came to the church because it's a stone structure with steel frame and went into the basement, the history room, properly, got into a closet there and it was the worst minute and a half we experienced. terrible. >> reporter: what happened in that minute and a half. >> we felt the storm coming, the building receive the strength of the storm. the glass door we had come in shattered. some furniture in that small foyer area was blown around and we heard the humping and a larger humping we found out later was the roof caving ...

Unseasonably mild through parts of the northeast. bill karins, great to see you. hope you have had a great weekend. tell us about the rest of the country. >> tell you first about the tornados and the set up and then the warmth. one of the reasons that we had this incredible tornado outbreak in the middle of december is because it's been like october. it's been so warm and we haven't had the snow and that's one of the reasons why. so, when you see all these pictures out there, you know, the enhancement of the scale is how we rate tornadoes. we can tell by estimate by how much the trees are dama...

Country you had to go back to 2013. it's been a long time since we had one that strong. it's possible this one could get there, but most likely an ef-4. and the last time, by the way, we had an ef-5 tornado it happened in december, but all the way back in 1950. you have to go back to illinois in sunfield, illinois, in december. so, it has happened in december that we had an outbreak like this, but it's been over 60 years since we've seen anything like this. the ingredients for the big set up. it was, obviously, 70s. 80s right before the outbreak happened and a record high in memphis of 80 degr...