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At least 28 people have been killed after powerful tornadoes ripped through Missouri and Kentucky, leaving a trail of destruction and widespread power outages across the central United States since Friday (May 16).

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00:00At least 28 people have been killed after powerful tornadoes ripped through Missouri
00:14and Kentucky, leaving a trail of destruction and widespread power outages across the central
00:19United States since Friday.
00:22The storms began forming in western Missouri early Friday evening, with a single supercell
00:27traveling over 800 kilometers and spawning multiple tornadoes, including in southeastern
00:33Kentucky, overnight.
00:36Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear confirmed on Saturday that 14 people had died in his state
00:42and warned the toll could rise as rescue operations continue.
00:46Writing on X, he said Kentucky remained in an active rescue phase, with more than 100,000
00:52people still without electricity.
00:55Five counties in the state have declared a state of emergency.
00:59In Missouri, seven people were reported dead, five in the St. Louis area and two in southeastern
01:05Scott County, according to NBC News.
01:08St. Louis Mayor Kara Spencer said the city suffered extensive damage, with five people killed,
01:1438 injured and more than 5,000 homes affected.
01:17Please, we encourage you to just be very, very careful, this is an unstable environment, we
01:22know that, please stay away from any down wires, please, we are working to get that stabilized,
01:28but it's important that you take your personal safety very seriously.
01:32This is going to be a long recovery because the destruction is truly phenomenal.
01:40You can see all of our city departments are still working around the clock.
01:44As you all know, we declared a state of emergency a Friday night.
01:48That's why you see refuse.
01:50That's why you see all of our city departments out working 12 hour days.
01:54We did focus on making sure that our building division is still inspecting buildings, making
02:01sure that we are identifying those that are at least safe.
02:04It's so overwhelming, this is a pain like I can't describe and I can comfortably say I have
02:17never fathomed for anybody much less myself.
02:23So no, I don't know, no, I don't know, I don't have any idea.
02:32Tornado sightings were also reported in Illinois and Colorado as the severe weather system continued
02:37to sweep across the region.
02:40More than 700,000 homes and businesses across 12 states have lost power as a result of the
02:46storms.
02:53Let's do this place.
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