her extended family was forced to take her off life support today. susan kand ycandiotti is standi in indiana where she s been following the developments and spoke exclusively to the man who found her. she s going to join us moments away. in the meantime, this has been a day of taking stock for victims of that deadly rash of tornadoes that hit 11 states. many of them lost everything. the extreme weather now has claimed at least 39 lives in kentucky, indiana, ohio, and georgia. this is west liberty, kentucky. it seems that no corner of this small town was spared. homes annihilated. trees plucked out of the ground. there are scenes like this all over the midwest and south today. the death toll from friday s storms, it has risen to 21 in kentucky, but despite extensive damage, we re hearing remarkable stories of survival. jim spellman is in the town of west liberty. jim? reporter: on the outskirts of west liberty, kentucky, tornado survivors return home. this was your hous
i m don lemon. thank you for joining us. we re going to start with breaking news just into cnn. her story was one of the most amazing and the most tragic that you re going to hear from the tornado zone. a toddler named angel babcock loses her entire family yet somehow she s found alive in the middle of a field possibly carried away for miles by a twister. with 38 people dead in a rash of killer tornadoes, she has become a symbol of hope in the destruction. but her hold on life was just too delicate. we have learned that her extended family was forced to take her off life support and now baby angel has died. susan candiotti standing by live for us in indiana where the girl was found. susan, so sad to hear this news. you have gotten a chance and you have spoken exclusively to the man who found her as we were getting this sad information. reporter: it is, indeed, so sad, especially because this really is a case and a story that captured everyone s heart. i think everyone that