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The amazon founder, jeff bezos, pledged to offer support. the governor here in kentucky says this is the deadliest tornado event the state has ever had. president biden has signed a federal emergency disaster declaration to help this state and others ravaged by the storms. nomia iqbal, bbc news, kentucky. jonathon gregg is the senior multimedia journalist for spectrum news. he's been on the ground in mayfield for the last two days, interviewing survivors and volunteers. hejoins us live. we just look at the images and they are astonishing but i guess that is nothing compared to the impact of se...

Beshear. he is holding his news conference. >> -- tornado event in the history of our commonwealth. our state was hit by at least four tornadoes. one stayed on the ground in kentucky for at least 200 miles, devastating anything in its path. thousands of homes are damaged, if not entirely destroyed, and it may be weeks before we have final counts on both deaths and levels of destruction. we lost lives in at least eight counties and at least 18 counties suffered damage. as soft this morning, our best count for confirmed deaths, the most accurate count we have, as of this morning, are 64 kentucky...

After this break. first steven romo is here with the headlines. >> mehdi, thanks. much of the central and southern u.s. still reeling tonight after a chain of tornadoes ripped through that area. dozens of people have already been confirmed dead. the death toll only expected to rise in coming days. arkansas, illinois, kentucky, mississippi, missouri, and tennessee all pummeled by the severe weather. but kentucky appears to have faced the brunt of the storms. kentucky's governor andy brashear declared a state of emergency early saturday morning describing the disaster as the deadliest tornado ev...

At least 34 reported tornadoes tearing through at least 8 states. several dead here in kentucky. late today, the governor describing the historic nature of this disaster. >> this is kentucky's most devastating tornado event in our history. we've lost far too many of our brothers and sisters. the damage is devastating. entire blocks, more than one block with nothing standing. to the people of america, there is no lens big enough to show you the extent of the damage here. >> here in mayfield, kentucky, their downtown devastated. taking a direct hit. large buildings gutted. the first presbyterian...

Known to have been killed, with more than a hundred others still missing. president biden has called it, "one of the largest" storms in american history, and has declared a majorfederal disaster in kentucky. lebo diseko has this report. picking up the pieces of their lives. homes, businesses and whole towns reduced to rubble. it's horrible, it's the definition of hell on earth. i can't... people have lost everything and it's just, it's terrible, it's horrible. this is what was left of one home. its owner says it tookjust four minutes to do this. everything stopped. i stuck my head out and look...