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And would you say seven traumatic injuries. tell us about the injuries. do you have an update on that? >> we definitely know that injury number will climb significantly. we addhad a couple of significa requests for strike teams. they are needed to evacuate more people than they are able to did so. so we've add couple of those requests already. we know the numbers will climb significantly. we don't have the names of the patients who came into the hospital in peoria, but we expect the numbers to climb. >> jonathan monken is the director of the illinois emergency management agency. mr. monken is ...

Estimated with that washington county tornado, don, and everything flat yebed. it is horrific. and like you said, didn't really know what was coming. a lot of these tornadoes are rain-wrapped. now it is dark. so it has been especially traumatizing. as i mentioned, they will go out and assess the damage. and let us know, right now, 76 tornadoes reported. >> 76. and as jonathan monken said, they'll probably wake up tomorrow to more damage, more injuries and hopefully not more deaths. thank you, karen. we can confirm for you on cnn, a heavy heart, three people now dead in this line of storms maki...

>> look at that. this is st. louis as the storm hit. with at least 19 million people in the direct path of the worst parts of the storm. cnn has mobilized all of its resources to bring you the very latest information. jonathan monken is a director of the emergency management agency. we have him on the phone. we spoke to you about an hour ago. what is the latest information. you confirmed two deaths. what do you know now? >> caller: i can confirm we have a third death associated with the storm. this is in the town of washington. so somebody unable to get down to the basement in time and was pul...