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Impacting airlines staff and bands of relentless severe weather lashing the country from coast to coast. 11 million in the south at risk of hail, powerful winds and possible tornados by tomorrow like what may have touched down in alabama after it tore through the region. we ve got a lot of structure damage we ve got windows blown out. we ve got roofs that are in the middle of the street. reporter: and a massive winter storm is making its way east, expected to dump several inches of snow from denver to detroit, right in time for the holiday weekend. a guarantee that this year s travel nightmare is also next year s steve patterson, nbc news and we ll be right back in 60 seconds with what president biden told vladimir putin during their critical phone call today. ....
There is now lens big enough to show you the extent of the damage here in graves county or in kentucky. nothing that was standing in the direct line of this tornado is still standing. let s go live now to dawson springs, kentucky, where nbc news correspondent ellison barber is on the ground, tracking developments. ellison, where do things stand at this hour? alicia, about 2700 people live in dawson springs. when you first come off of the highway into this community, there are parts, areas where you think, oh, maybe they were spared. it doesn t look like there was a massive tornado that came through here, but then you keep driving and that s when you start to see the homes, the neighborhoods, almost entirely gone. there are homes without roofs. windows blown in. cars scattered all about, that have been moved, turned over, flooded from the storm. ....
If you then area, canal and kemp, there are bucket trucks, they will be ready to go tomorrow, but going nowhere tonight, we have seen a couple dozen line men watching the storm, local electric company said that buckets cannot go up until winds drop to 30 miles per hour, we re a long way from that. you know, carolyn s longstanding tradition in new orleans even during worst weather some of the businesses, and bars would remain open, have you in your journey seen anyone who is still open at this hour? reporter: we just on camp street, a bar we hinge out at, hung out at. maybe with you after katrina hads windows blown in. i have not seen a single place open, most places closed at noon yesterday, losing powers was big, up and down there are thousands of tourists who did not do ....
Prela prelandfall emergency which freed up federal funding and assistance as we prepare for irma. 100% focused on making sure that floridians and visitors have timely information and monitor hurricane irma and issue updates throughout the next few days. we cannot stress this enough. get prepared. know your this is your responsibility. know your evacuation zone. listen to your locals. this storm has the potential to devastate our state and you have to take this very seriously. now, i ve gone through a variety of tragedies we went through hospitals that we evacuated and evacuated hospital south because we thought the storm would go one path and moved and directly hit that hospital and it was devastated. all the windows blown in. understand that even though we have seen the latest path and moves a little bit further to the east, this thing can still go anywhere. there s still a great chance it ....
Before the storm hit and told them to get out of the house which they did. good thing. because their house has been obliterated. the roof is blown off. all windows blown in. other people told us how they survived the storm. here s what they had to say. just when i was looking for a mattress sounded like a freight train like they say. i backed off in there, huddled over them. felt like a good while but i m sure it wasn t too long. and i woke up. got out there was. couple of leaves thinking oh, another texas storm window down until i started walking around and looked no power, no sounds, silent. still warm. it was crazy. but glad we all survived. our neighbor had called us and said take shelter now. we were in our house. and we just heard a tornado. we hunkered down in both our bathrooms. ....