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To continuing coverage of the devastating tornadoes that we have been following for the last few hours and really throughout the day here on msnbc. i want to bring in meteorologist michelle grossman who's been tracking these major weather events since yesterday. the overarching question is how the heck does this happen, michelle? it seems like every one of these events gets worse with more loss of life. >> yeah. you know, and i think that's going to be the bigger weather question. it's going to be the climate change, it's going to be the warming planet. but i think right now we have to focus o...

40 years witnessing storms in the area, he's never seen this scale of damage and death. just a short time ago, kentucky governor andy beshear gave an update on the continued search and rescue efforts in his state. take a listen. >> this event is the worst, most devastating, deadly tornado event in kentucky's history. i believe that by the end of today or tomorrow, we will be north of at least 70 lives lost here in kentucky. i think we will have lost more than 100 people and i think it could rise significantly in those numbers. about 1:00 this morning, i was at the state emergency operations ce...

Emergency management directors and judge executives, that rescue and search efforts are ongoing. even before the winds stop blowing as thunderstorms are going through, we had teams out there, local teams, so thank you for your efforts in all of the impacted counties. the track for this tornado event is over 200 miles just in kentucky. and it may eclipse the 1925 record, tristate track for the longest tornado. it appears that this is going to be a quad-state event. all out of the same system. originating in arkansas, through missouri, tennessee and into kentucky. it is a significant, massive di...

Mark. >> this will be for anybody at the site search and rescue. how difficult is the search and rescue at the factory and that people may be still alive. >> i'll turn it over for those who have been there overnight. i just came from there. we're going to lose a lot of lives in that facility and i pray that there will be another rescue. i pray that there'll be another one or two, but it's a dire situation at this point. seeing it, i think it was absolutely incredible the number of people that were safe. but i know it's really hard given the number of people that were in it. i think the largest...

At this point and it may end up being the largest loss of life in any tornado event in a single location again in the state's history. jacqui: kentucky governor andy bashir on the major loss of life with the tornado overnight. and president biden has been briefed on the tornados impacted southern and central states and he's sending them to the ones with the immediate need. >> hi, jacqui, the president is in wilmington, delaware for the weekend, but received a full briefing as you mentioned from his team in delaware, including the fema administrator, and the president putting out a tweet and a ...