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Deadly tornadoes claim at least 100 lives
At least 100 people are feared dead after a weekend of tornados swept across multiple states.
About 50 tornados hit Arkansas, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri, Ohio and Tennessee, the Storm Prediction Center said.
The storm system had the longest tornado track on record, covering about 250 miles.
US President Joe Biden declared Kentucky a major disaster zone.
Biden called it ‘one of the largest’ storms in US history.
Kentucky’s governor confirmed 64 people dead and that will ‘undoubtedly’ increase.
"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," Gov. Andy Beshear said.
Danville-Boyle County Airport in Kentucky resembled a war zone with three hangars and more than a dozen private planes destroyed. Plane wreckage was shown strewn across the airfield.
"The airport was hit by a tornado this morning. Three of our T-Hangars are leveled. Luckily no one was injured," the airport posted on Facebook.
"It’s really disheartening you know you put your heart and soul into this airport, and it becomes almost like your child and especially when you have an aircraft here that’s mangled up in all this rubble," Nick Barker, airport operations manager, told media.
"This is going to be our new normal. And the effects that we’re seeing from climate change are the crisis of our generation," FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell told CNN.
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