00:00I was working on getting the confirmed deaths this morning and realized I was writing
00:06on the back of notes that one of my kids took from school.
00:20We are now on day three of responding to the worst tornado event in the history of our
00:28commonwealth. Our state was hit by at least four tornadoes. One stayed on the ground in Kentucky
00:37for at least 200 miles, devastating anything in its path. Thousands of homes are damaged,
00:46if not entirely destroyed, and it may be weeks before we have final counts
00:52on both deaths and levels of destruction.
01:05I know like the folks in western Kentucky, I'm not doing so well today, and I'm not sure how
01:12many of us are. I was working on getting the confirmed deaths this morning and realized I
01:19was writing on the back of notes that one of my kids took from school, and here's what
01:27what it is. It's notes on inertia. It means that an object that's in motion will stay
01:35in motion. So we're going to keep putting one foot in front of the other and push through this.
01:42Everybody out there get the help you need. Take care of yourself and we'll continue to
01:48provide updates to the people of western Kentucky. We're not going anywhere. People of western
01:54Kentucky have gone through an unspeakable trauma. I mean it's traumatic being there helping.
02:02You go from grief to shock to being resolute, span of 10 minutes, and then you go back.
02:12It's hard to understand how something like this or why something like this happens. It is just awful.
02:22And the people who lost everything but are still here with us, it's hard to think of them as lucky,
02:28but this is really hard, but we're going to make it. We put one foot in front of the other,
02:39make sure we have the inertia, and we'll rebuild. There's going to be grief,
02:46there's going to be cleanup, but then we're going to make sure that everybody gets back on their
02:51feet. We do have a lot of support out there. I mean the whole country is calling and trying to
02:56help. Actually one of the biggest challenges we have in these counties is too much in many ways.
03:02How to coordinate an unprecedented amount of goods and of volunteers,
03:11but there's a lot of love out there.
