Severe Midwest weather and tornadoes wreaks havoc, kills at least 25

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An unstable spring weather system spawned powerful tornadoes in the US Midwest and Ohio River Valley, killing at least 25 people in Kentucky and Missouri and causing widespread damage to homes and property.  WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00We were, she got scared, so we went to the hallway, and we were in there maybe, what,

00:23two minutes, because that's the close-in areas we have, and then my husband and my son come running in,

00:30and we pretty much jumped on top of her, because you could feel the air and everything sucking,

00:35and it sounded like a tree, and then we saw stuff falling, and the next thing we knew,

00:39he said most of the house was gone.

00:42So what happened after the tornado hit?

00:45Well, nobody had shoes on, so they went looking for shoes, and they went out across the street.

00:51There's people injured, um, because we didn't, we searched for car keys.

00:56This was the only car we could find keys to, and it's almost destroyed, but it started,

01:01and so now we're just trying to get out to get across town to my mom's basement.

01:05But we're, my family's okay, and I don't know where else, but.

01:21Luckily, nobody got killed, but we got a lot of damage.

01:29Well, the state and the regional emergency managers will be the first line of defense.

01:54We'll be setting up those relief centers and relief agencies.

01:582-1-1 is the number that people should call if they need help,

02:01and so those, that timeline will happen immediately.

02:03Does that mean in the next half hour, the next five hours?

02:06I don't want to get stuck in that timing.

02:08But that will be the first line of defense, and as we mentioned,

02:12the assessment effort is part of the process that we have to do to turn in assistance to the feds.

02:16The governor and I just got done surveying some of the hardest-hits areas here.

02:22The devastation is truly tremendous.

02:25We've also, we've gathered folks here today, but, you know, as I said,

02:29we are just a city that's really grieving.

02:30We know as of right now the death toll is unfortunately at five,

02:35but we know that that hasn't changed since last night.

02:37That's a good thing.

02:38We know that the devastation is truly tremendous.

02:43We are estimating right now about 5,000 buildings have been impacted,

02:48and we do have our building department, our inspectors are out there making sure

02:52that we are first and foremost assessing the damage to be condemning buildings

02:57and moving through demolition and other security as we go through this.

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