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Coverage with the federal response. ashley, this is personal to you as well. reporter: i will not lie, being from that area, growing up, being there, you don't recognize any of it. now the president approving a emergency declaration saturday. it aims to provide federal funds to the hardest hit states of kentucky and do the same for others. take a listen. >> i made it clear if they request emergency declarations. i also request fema offer additional federal resources including help with temporary housing where homes have been wiped out or too badly damaged to live in. reporter: president biden ...

Areas. this is 30 miles from paducah, about 20 miles from paducah, about 30 minutes where they have two medical certains and two hours from nashville. so it's not close to a bunch of stuff. we talked to a state trooper who got -- i'm trying to get a confirmation on whether that's happened and i suspect with this multi-state incident the emergency declarations will be on the way and fema will be put into place through the course of today if they haven't deployed already, but these images, these images that we've got on the screen i want you to help with us this because, bill, 90% of the stuff w...

Everything, everything it can possibly do to help. i've spoken several times today with the head of fema and the federal emergency management agency, as well as the director of fema, who's already been deployed -- already deployed emergency response personnel to these states, search and rescue teams, water and other supplies, and fema's on the groundworking with each of the states to assess the damages and focus on federal support where it is needed most and how we can get it there most rapidly. i also, and apparently it's just been announced, but i also approved the emergency declaration that...

Couple _ declaration that was requested a couple of— declaration that was requested a couple of hours ago, by the governor of kentucky — couple of hours ago, by the governor of kentucky. that will accelerate federal — of kentucky. that will accelerate federal emergency assistance for kentucky— federal emergency assistance for kentucky right now when it is urgently— kentucky right now when it is urgently needed. i stand ready to do the same _ urgently needed. i stand ready to do the same for the governors of other states— the same for the governors of other states and _ the same for...

Where the emergency response is coming from and the hospital rooms are being used because of what happened overnight. >> yeah. it's bad in western kentucky. mayfield, kentucky is probably the worst, but there are plenty ever areas that were defer stated and we are getting reports of loss of life from at least three different counties thus far and it is just amazing to see the work that the first responders have been doing all night from the middle of the night until this present time as we speak. they're continuing to pull bodies out and we're having success stories of people that have been tr...