henryville. we know that ef-4 tornado destroyed dozens of homes and left a high school there heavily damaged and survivors describing what it was like as a twister dropped out of the skies. my kids, i was the adult. we were in the closet and peeking out and huddled together and put pillows on our heads. my daughter and i were in the school and i was substitute teaching for the he 6th grade and the part of the building i was teaching in is completely gone. a similar situation in kentucky, people are picking through what s left of their homes to see what maybe can be salvaged at this point. mike tobin is live in the hard hit area in kentucky and the late breaking news headline, we have lost angel. reporter: yeah, and little angel babcock, the girl found alone in a field separated from her family, we have learned that she has been taken off life support, she
tears streaming. hallelujah for the dead and the homeless. at main street almost every building condemned. the town hall, bank, courthouse, police station. the dozens staying at this shelter could be here for weeks, both young and old. these elderly men with stickers on their backs reminding caretakers not to let them out. because they keep trying to go home. reporter: there s so much debris, so much wreckage here that officials tell us they haven t yet begun to compile the statistics on the number of homes destroyed. they also don t know if there are any others here missing. matt gutman, abc news, west liberty, kentucky. and now a sad follow-up note to all that tornado damage. a toddler from southern indiana who was found in a field after a tornado destroyed her family s mobile home has died. angel babcock was taken off life support just hours ago. in fact, her father, mother, and two siblings were killed in that storm as well. angel s grandmother describes her final moments.
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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
and then i could also see like the stuff spinning in the air outside of the windows. reporter: in west liberty, kentucky a woman prayed fervently that the approaching menace would go away. take this up away from our home. it was coming up over the hill and it began forming and you could see the funnel. knocked the porch right off. i watched it go. reporter: her house was spared. so much of the town was not. in pekin, indiana little angel babcock s mom, dad, and two siblings died in the storm not far from the field where she was found. sadly, doctors later took her off life support. i reached for her hand and was holding her hand. and i don t know what made me let go. but she went and picked her arms straight up. she was a daddy s girl. so daddy picked her up and took her. reporter: and amidst the rubble, heartache and tears.