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Program, as well as individual assistance. people who have lost their homes. the extra counties that we have asked for on public assistance include boyle, breckenridge, bullet, casey, christian, edmondson, grayson, green, harden, hart, hickman, livingston, logan, lyon, merion, monroe, ohio, shelby, spencer and todd as the same counties we've asked for the individual assistance as well. that is how widespread the damage from this event is when what i think will be an f-4 or f-5 tornado touches down and stays on the ground for 200 straight miles in a state with 120 counties, you have this many c...

Now, it's up to other weather service offices to say exactly how long it was. the record is 219 miles. so this is already 124 and is going to go up higher. this easily may be the longest tornado in our country's history we've observed and yes, in december. i'll get more to that in a second. we don't know the intensity. it's rare to get ef-4 and ef-5. it's at least an ef-3 in mayfield. a couple more, the one that hit the amazon facility in illinois. on the scales, it goes up to five. that's the highest. we haven't had a five in almost eight and a half years. we have had significant ef-5's befor...

Contrast of temperatures, 80 in memphis, 30 in minneapolis, that's where you see this very volatile weather pattern. let's show you a rewind of the radar last night. in all my years doing this, i've never seen a tornado outbreak quite as destructive as this. we saw about 150 tornado warnings right across this area. you can see the map painted in red, and those are all the tornado reports. 38 tornado reports. one tornado in particular could have been on the ground, possibly, we're going to get an assessment on that, 240 miles, which would break the record for the tornado on the ground for the l...

Disasters. the national weather service will go out and individually investigate each tornado that touched down to determine how strong it actually was. some of the preliminary reports showing winds in excess of 250 kilometers per hour. that makes it what is called an ef-3 tornado. that is an enhanced fujita scale. that is a scale that we use to show the destruction of the wind associated with tornados. but believe me, it actually goes higher than ef-3. you can see ef-4 to ef-5, which obviously corresponds to devastating to catastrophic damage with winds in excess of 322 kilometers per hour. a...

Confirmed at a higher level, maybe an ef-4, ef-5. going into edwardsville and defiance in illinois, we also have ef-3 damage possible here as well. when i say more than ef-3, we're talking ef-4, ef-5, which is devastating to incredible damage and winds in excess of 200 miles possibly. 200 miles per hour. >> wow. yeah, that is very powerful. tyler malden, thank you so much. after the break, we will get an update from kentucky emergency manager michaels doss with the latest on the recovery efforts. umpirere: ball! good eye! good eye! eyes are good for lots of thingsgs. like reading! be the bes...