12-10-2021 KSDK St Louis Area Tornado Coverage

T CONCERN FOR US TONIGHT ESPECIALLY SINCE WE'VE ALREADY HAD REPORTS OF DAMAGING WINDS OVER 70 MILES PER HOUR IN A FEW PLACES. SO WITH THIS 70 MILE PER HOUR WINDS, WE'VE ALSO HAD REPORTS OF DAMAGE WITH THIS IN PARTS OF NEAR AUGUSTA. SO INTO THE DEFIANCE AREA. ALSO A REPORT TAKEN AT ABOUT 11:00 HERE FROM ST. CHARLES COUNTY, A THUNDERSTORM GUST OF ABOUT SIXTY EIGHT MILES PER HOUR. SO SOME VERY STRONG WINDS EVEN IF THAT'S NOT ASSOCIATED WITH ONE OF THOSE WITH THAT TORNADO TORNADIC ROTATION, THAT'S STILL ENOUGH TO DO QUITE A BIT OF DAMAGE AS WE MENTIONED, THERE ARE MULTIPLE POWER OUTAGES ACROSS THE ST. LOUIS AREA AS THIS HAS COME ACROSS INTO ST. CHARLES AND IT LOOKS LIKE THEY'RE ALREADY DOING PRETTY GOOD. THEY'VE RESTORED AT LEAST POWER TO FIVE THOUSAND PEOPLE BECAUSE CUSTOMERS WITHOUT SERVICE HAS GONE UP FROM ABOUT 15 THOUSAND THAT I CHECKED ON EARLIER TO ABOUT TEN THOUSAND. SO THIS IS COMING ACROSS VERY QUICKLY AND CURRENTLY MOVING THAT CELL THAT WE WERE TALKING ABOUT THAT IS OF INTEREST THAT WE'RE CERTAINLY KEEPING A CLOSE EYE ON WITH A BIT OF THAT ROTATION IS TOWARDS THE SPANISH LAKE AREA CROSSING OVER INTO EDWARDS VILLE HERE VERY QUICKLY ALL EVERYONE IN THIS CURRENT TORNADO WARNING AREA I WOULD EXPECT YOU TO BE HEARING YOUR SIRENS. NOW IS THE TIME TO TAKE ACTION AND GET TO THAT SAFE AREA IN YOUR HOME WHETHER THAT'S A ROOM WITH THE MOST WALLS BETWEEN YOU AND THE OUTSIDE AS WELL AS A BASEMENT. SO LET ME GO AHEAD AND I'LL BROADEN YOU OUT A LITTLE BIT AND GO AHEAD AND JUST SHOW YOU WHERE THIS IS HEADED AS IT CONTINUES TO MARCH RIGHT ON THROUGH THE FIVE ON YOUR SIDE COVERAGE AREA JUST A VERY BROAD BAND OF STORMS. THIS IS JUST A FIFTH A 15 MINUTE LOOP HERE FOR YOU AS THIS COMES THROUGH AND IT SOUNDS LIKE WE HAVE A BIGGER PICTURE TO SHOW YOU AS WELL OF SOME HAIL SO SMALL BUT STILL SOME HAIL THAT WE HAD OUT THERE JUST SHOWING YOU THAT THESE STORMS HAVE BEEN MAKING QUITE A MESS OUT THERE BETWEEN HAIL, STRONG WINDS, WIND GUSTS UP TO 70 MILES PER HOUR AND THEN WE DO HAVE THOSE DAMAGE REPORTS. OF COURSE IN THE LIGHT OF DAY WE'LL HAVE A LITTLE BIT MORE INFORMATION ON WHAT CAME THROUGH, WHETHER THAT WAS STRAIGHT LINE WIND DAMAGE OR WHETHER THAT WAS INDEED THAT TORNADO DAMAGE WHICH WE DO EXPECT FROM THAT DEFIANCE AREA. BUT TORNADO SURVEYS ARE DONE THE NEXT DAY THEY'RE DONE IN DAYLIGHT. SO WE WILL HEAR MORE REPORTS FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AS THEY CAN DO SURVEYING THE DAMAGE TOMORROW SCOTT. ALL RIGHT. SO MACUGEN COUNTY AND MADISON COUNTY IN ILLINOIS THAT'S OUR MAIN CONCERN RIGHT NOW FOR THE POTENTIAL OF TORNADOES. THAT'S WHERE WE HAVE OUR TORNADO WARNING. YES, IT DOES STRETCH BACK INTO NORTHERN PORTIONS OF ST. LOUIS COUNTY, THE NORTHERN PORTIONS OF THE CITY OF ST. LOUIS. BUT IT DOESN'T LOOK LIKE THERE'S ANYTHING IMMINENT IN THOSE AREAS RIGHT NOW. IT LOOKS LIKE IT WOULD BE MORE ALONG TO 70 JUST WEST OF EDWARDSVILL AND YOU KNOW, REALLY JUST EAST OF THE CHAIN OF ROCKBRIDGE MOVING TOWARDS EDWARDSVILLE AND THEN THAT AREA UP TO THE NORTH A COUPLE OF CELLS THERE'S JUST A COUPLE OF CIRCULATION EMBEDDED IN HERE. ONE WILL BE MOVING CLOSER TO START IN ILLINOIS EVENTUALLY THESE ARE GOING TO RACE OFF TO THE NORTHEAST AND GET OVERPASS AND EAST OF INTERSTATE 55 HERE AS YOU GO NORTHEAST OUT OF ST. LOUIS. THE ROTATION STILL AS WE'VE BEEN MENTIONING CLOSE TO THE CHAIN OF ROCKBRIDGE AND THAT'S HEADED NORTHEAST. SO THAT TAKES IT OVER ALONG TO 55 POLK ROAD THERE AND THEN UP TOWARDS EDWARDSVILLE. SO IT INCLUDES THE ROTATION WOULD LIKELY BE PASSING PRETTY CLOSE TO SIUE E SO YOU KNOW, IF YOU'RE IN THOSE AREAS WE DEFINITELY WANT YOUR SAFE PLACE AND WANT YOU THERE NOW BECAUSE THE ROTATION IS STILL THERE. NOTHING CONFIRMED ON THE RADAR THAT WE CAN SEE RIGHT NOW ALTHOUGH IT LOOKS LIKE THERE MAY BE A LITTLE BIT OF A DROP OUT ON THE CITY SCANNED BUT I CAN'T SAY FOR SURE WHETHER THAT WOULD BE ASSOCIATED WITH SOME KIND OF DEBRIS. BUT IT'S VERY POSSIBLE AND IF THAT IS THAT WOULD BE A PROBLEM AGAIN FOR YOU FOLKS HEADING TOWARDS EDWARDSVILLE AND OVER TOWARDS ONE FORTY ONE MOVING TOWARDS EDWARDSVILLE GLEN CARBON RIGHT ALONG THE NEW POPE ROAD THERE. SO THAT'S THE AREA TO WATCH HERE JUST PROBABLY SOUTH OF SOUTH LOUISIANA AND MOVING NORTHEAST ABOUT. SO YOU NEED TO BE IN YOUR SAFE PLACE IN THESE AREAS RIGHT OUT BECAUSE IT DOESN'T LOOK LIKE THERE IS A BIT IF YOU FLIP OVER TO MAX TO SEAN, YOU CAN GET A LITTLE BIT OF A GLIMPSE AT THAT . WHAT WE'RE LOOKING AT HERE WITH THIS AREA, IT'S IN THAT SHADED AREA OF GREEN. IT LOOKS LIKE THERE'S A BIT OF A DROP OUT THAT WOULD INDICATE THAT POTENTIALLY SOME DEBRIS IS HERE AND THIS IS JUST NORTH OF 270 ONCE YOU GO JUST PAST ROUTE THREE JUST NORTH OF THE 255 270 INTERCHANGE THERE. SO THERE'S A TRUCK STOP OVER IN THAT VICINITY JUST TO GIVE YOU SOME KIND OF A REFERENCE THERE AND THAT IS MOVING NORTHEAST BOUND. SO IF I KIND OF ZOOM BACK OUT ON THIS AND JUST PUT A TRACK ON THAT MOVING TOWARDS THE EAST AND NORTHEAST, YOU KNOW, AND I'LL GIVE IT A LITTLE BIT OF A A A BROADER PERSPECTIVE BUT THAT'S GOING TO BE IN EDWARDSVILLE WITHIN THE NEXT THREE TO FIVE MINUTES. IT'S MOVING THAT FAST. SO YOU KNOW, YOU SHOULD BE IN YOUR SAFE PLACE IN THE EDWARDSVILLE AREA RIGHT NOW. THIS IS WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE ON THE RADAR DOESN'T LOOK OVERLY SUSPICIOUS BUT THERE IS JUST A LITTLE BIT PERHAPS OF A HOOK HERE APPROACHING THE EDWARDSVILLE AREA. SO THIS IS WHERE WE WOULD ANTICIPATE THERE BEING SOME CIRCULATION AND IT'S MOVING RIGHT TOWARDS EDWARDSVILLE RIGHT NOW. AND SO YOU NEED TO BE IN YOUR SAFE PLACE AND SEEKING SHELTER AT THIS POINT WE'RE GOING TO TRACK THESE STORMS NORTHEAST BOUND AGAIN. THEY'LL MOVE RIGHT THROUGH EDWARDSVILLE AND THEN ONTO THE NORTHEAST FROM THERE AS THEY DO RACE NORTHEAST, THEY'RE STILL MOVING INTO AN ENVIRONMENT THAT CONTINUES TO BE FAVORABLE FOR DEEP CIRCULATIONS AND TORNADO PRODUCTION. NOW WE'LL SEE WHAT WHAT THEY END UP DOING BUT THEY'RE STILL CAPABLE OF THAT AND THAT'S ONE OF THE REASONS WHY WE HAVE STAYED WITH YOU. WE DO HAVE A NEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING THAT INCLUDES MUCH OF THE REST OF THE METRO AREA BASICALLY FROM ABOUT WILDWOOD, SOUTH PACIFIC DOWN TOWARDS CEDAR HILL OVER ARNOLD MELVILLE OAKVILLE AND INTO SOUTH CITY BACK TO CREVE CORE. SO WE CONTINUE TO TRACK THOSE THAT WOULD BE I WOULD SUSPECT TORNADO POSSIBLE SCENARIO PLAYING OUT TO SIMPLY BECAUSE YOU'RE LOOKING AT THE THE SPIN IN THE ATMOSPHERE BEING PRIMED AS IT IS FOR THAT POTENTIAL SO JUST BE PREPARED TONIGHT BECAUSE EVERYTHING IS PRETTY MUCH I WOULD SAY, TRACY, EVERYTHING'S PRETTY MUCH ON THE TABLE HERE WHEN IT COMES TO SEVERE WEATHER THIS IT CERTAINLY IS. WE'VE HAD ALL THE INGREDIENTS FOR IT. THAT'S WHY WE HAD YOU KNOW, WE HAD WE WERE UNDER A RISK WELL IN ADVANCE OF THIS SYSTEM AS WE KNEW THAT THE INGREDIENTS WOULD BE JUST RIGHT FOR THIS KIND OF AND ESPECIALLY A VERY DISORGANIZED SYSTEM. SO THIS IS AND THIS IS COMING ACROSS THIS COMES ACROSS VERY FAST. WE DO HAVE VIDEO NOW SHOT BY ONE OF OUR PHOTOGRAPHERS IN CHESTERFIELD. CHESTERFIELD WAS ONE OF THOSE AREAS THAT HAD WIND GUST REPORTS OF UP TO 70 MILES PER HOUR AT THE SPIRIT AIRPORT. SO THAT'S IN THE CHESTERFIELD VALLEY. YOU CAN SEE SOME LIGHTNING AND THOSE TREES SHAKING AROUND OUT THERE AND CERTAINLY A LOT OF WATER ON THE ROADWAY IF YOU ARE IN ANY OF THESE AREAS IN YOUR DRIVE HOME PERHAPS OR JUST MAYBE YOUR DRIVE IN THE MORNING ,THESE AREAS CAN QUICKLY OVERWHELMED WITH EVEN JUST A LITTLE BIT OF RAINFALL ESPECIALLY NEAR THE WILDHORSE CREEK AREA AND THEN SOME OTHER SPOTS IN THOSE LOW LYING AREAS OF THE CHESTERFIELD VALLEY. SO YOU'RE GOING TO WANT TO BE AWARE OF SOME PONDING ON THE ROADWAYS AS WELL AS THE POTENTIAL FOR SOME WATER ON THE SOME WATER ON THE ROAD. OK, SO AS YOU CAN SEE THERE'S THAT TORNADO WARNING THAT WE ARE STILL DEALING WITH. WE ARE WATCHING THE SYSTEM THIS IS MOVING KIND OF NEAR THE CHAIN OF ROCK AREA QUICKLY INTO EDWARDS VILLE EDWARDSVILLE. YOU'RE JUST STARTING TO GET INTO SOME OF THAT HEAVIER RAINFALL AND POSSIBLY SOME OF THOSE VERY STRONG WIND GUSTS AND A BIT OF ROTATION OUT THERE AS WELL THAT WE HAVE BEEN MONITORING NOW FURTHER DOWN TO THE SOUTH WE ALSO HAVE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING. SO IF YOU ARE IN THE AREA OF WILDWOOD PACIFIC, YOU WERE ALREADY HIT THE FIRST TIME AS THIS SYSTEM CAME THROUGH AND THEN WE HAVE SOME OF THAT RAINFALL COMING IN BEHIND IT. A BROADER VIEW BECAUSE NOT LEAVING IT AND LEAVING YOU OUT IF YOU'RE FURTHER DOWN TO THE SOUTH, IT'S JUST THAT YOU'RE NOT BEING AFFECTED RIGHT NOW BY THIS THE WAY SOME OTHER PARTS ARE SO FARMINGTON YOU'VE KIND OF GOTTEN TONIGHT YOU WERE UNDER THAT TORNADO WATCH EARLIER. RIGHT NOW THINGS ARE LOOKING PRETTY GOOD FOR YOU. WE ARE CONTINUING TO WATCH ANOTHER LINE THAT'S NEAR TOWARD IT'S DOWN TOWARDS ZARELA AREA, ANOTHER SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING THAT'S JUST STARTING TO COME TO PHELPS. THIS IS WHERE ALL THIS DEVELOPED KIND OF EARLIER AS IT MAKES ITS WAY AS THESE STORMS USUALLY DO RIGHT UP ALONG INTERSTATE 40 FOR QUITE A BIT OF LIGHTNING OUT THERE. THIS HAS BEEN PUTTING ON A SHOW FOR SURE WE HAVE REPORTS OF DAMAGE IN SOME AREAS AS WELL. LET ME GO AHEAD AND POP UP THAT DAMAGE MAP FOR YOU AND GO OVER SOME OF THE DAMAGE REPORTS WE LET'S GO BACK TO THE GO BACK TO RADAR BROOKSVILLE STORM. YES. OK, HERE WE GO. I'M GOING TO ZOOM IN ON THE OTHER SERVICES UPGRADING THIS TO A CONSIDERABLE DAMAGE POTENTIAL BECAUSE THEY CAN SEE THE DEBRIS HERE AND AGAIN WE SAID NEWPORT, RHODE, THERE'S WESTERN UNION STREET. HERE'S EDWARDSVILLE 159 NORTH AND SOUTH THROUGH EDWARDS FIELD. THERE'S 157 AS WELL. SO THIS IS ROLLING RIGHT ON IN TOWARDS THE EDWARDSVILLE AREA TOWARDS GLEN CARBON . THE CIRCULATION IS GOING TO SPREAD IN ACROSS THIS AREA AND THERE IS AN INDICATION OF DEBRIS WITH THIS. SO THAT'S TELLING US THAT YES, THERE IS SOMETHING HERE ROTATE AND CAUSING PROBLEMS IN THIS AREA. SO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE UPGRADING THAT TORNADO WARNING TO A CONSIDERABLE DAMAGE TORNADO WARNING AS THIS STORM REALLY IS ITS HOOKING AROUND AND APPROACHING MOVING THROUGH EDWARDSVILLE IT LOOKS LIKE I WOULD BET THE CIRCULATION IS PRETTY CLOSE TO EDWARDSVILLE RIGHT NOW BUT THERE MAY BE A SECONDARY CIRCULATION BACK HERE TO THE WEST BUT IT'S MOVING THROUGH NOW GOING TO BE SLIDING THROUGH THAT INCLUDES ESSAWI, ALTHOUGH I'D BET ON THE CIRCULATION BEING A LITTLE BIT FARTHER TO THE NORTH. EVEN SO, YOU NEED TO BE IN YOUR SAFE PLACE. STURDY BUILDINGS, LOTS OF WALLS BETWEEN YOU AND THE OUTSIDE. SO WE HAVE THE CONFIRMED LARGE AND DANGEROUS TORNADO RIGHT OVER EDWARDSVILLE GETTING THAT LARGE DEBRIS SIGNATURE RIGHT NOW AND THAT WARNING ACTUALLY IS EXTENDED OVER TAKING THAT STORM OVER TOWARDS GREENVILLE, ILLINOIS. WANT TO GO OVER TO MAX TO AND WE'RE GOING TO PUT THE SCAN ON HERE. YEAH, YOU CAN SEE WHAT WE GOT ACTUALLY A COUPLE OF AREAS THERE THAT ARE SUSPICIOUS BUT THERE'S THE ONE NEAR EDWARDSVILLE WHERE YOU'RE BASICALLY LOOKING AT THIS THAT'S A DEBRIS SIGNATURE ON THE RADAR. SO THE RADAR IS CONFIRMING A TORNADO ON THE GROUND TOUCHING DOWN HAVING LOFTED UP DEBRIS INTO THE AIR. THIS WAS RUNNING ALONG TO 70 EAST OF THE CHAIN OF ROCKBRIDGE AND NOW THIS IS GOING TO BE SLIDING OVER PAST EDWARDSVILLE AND SLIDING ON TO THE EAST GOING BASICALLY ALONG RIGHT ALONG INTERSTATE 70 HERE GOING OVER TOWARDS GRAND FORKS POTENTIALLY IMPACTING THE AREAS AROUND ALHAMBRA. SO THE WARNING IS EXTENDED ALL THE WAY OVER INTO BOND COUNTY AS WELL. GREENVILLE IN THE PATH OF THAT THE IMMEDIATE PATH OF IT WOULD BE HAMO ILLINOIS AND THIS AREA REALLY BETWEEN HAMMIL AND I WOULD SAY LET'S GO BETWEEN HAMMIL AND EDWARDSVILLE WHERE WE REALLY HAVE THAT CIRCULATION IN HERE GRANEY, PENNOCK, OMARION, ILLINOIS, A TOWN YOU MAY HAVE HEARD OF BUT AGAIN FROM KLANK CARBON UP HIGHWAY 159 UP INTERSTATE 55 143 RUNS ACROSS HERE TO YOU ALL NEED TO BE IN YOUR SAFE PLACE AT THIS POINT THIS IS A TORNADO ON THE GROUND, TORNADO MOVING INTO OR THROUGH EDWARDSVILLE AT THIS POINT AND I'M GOING TO SEE IF WE CAN GET OUR EDWARDSVILLE CAMERA UP. I CAN TAKE CARE OF THAT FOR YOU, SCOTT. I JUST POPPED YEAH. WE'LL SEE WHAT HAPPENS. CHANGES. SO WE'RE JUST BRINGING UP A CAMERA RIGHT NOW THAT SHOWS YOU THE STREET OF EDWARDSVILLE. WE'LL SEE IF WE CAN BRING THAT. THERE YOU GO. THANK YOU SO MUCH. OUR DIRECTOR IN THE BACK. I APPRECIATE THAT HELP. SO THERE'S JUST THAT CAMERA VIEW OVER EDWARDS AND YOU KNOW, IT LOOKS LIKE IT'S A STATIC PICTURE WHICH COULD HAVE TO IT COULD BE WITH A COMPUTER. IT COULD BE THAT WE LOST THE SIGNAL. WE DON'T KNOW BUT IT'S GIVING US A STATIC PICTURE RIGHT NOW AND SO IT MAY BE THAT THE POWER IS ABOUT READY TO GO OUT OR JUST WENT OUT AND THAT'S THE LAST FRAME THAT IT SHOWED US. BUT CERTAINLY APPEARS THAT THOUGH THERE IS A LARGE DAMAGING TORNADO IN THE VICINITY OF EDWARDSVILLE RIGHT NOW AND YOU SHOULD BE IN YOUR SAFE PLACE. IN FACT, THERE'S A COUPLE OF DROPOUTS HERE. ONE IS RIGHT OVER AND JUST SOUTH OF DOWNTOWN EVANSVILLE LOOKS LIKE THAT'S PRETTY CLOSE TO MOST OF THE UNIVERSITY THERE . ALL RIGHT. SO MOST OF SOCIETY LOOKS LIKE THAT DROP OUT IS SO YOU COULD HAVE SOME DEBRIS FALLING OUT THERE AND THEN THERE'S ANOTHER AREA A LITTLE FARTHER TO THE EAST ALONG ROAD AND THAT'S A LONG ONE. FIFTY SEVEN THAT TOO IS SHOWING SIGNS THAT THERE WAS SOME DEBRIS PERHAPS LOFTED INTO THE AIR THERE AND EVEN MORE AREAS UP TO THE NORTH A LITTLE MORE BECOMES A LITTLE MORE NEBULOUS AS YOU GO FARTHER NORTH. BUT THE BOTTOM LINE IS THERE ARE DEBRIS SIGNATURES LOCATED IN HERE. THERE IS ROTATION LOCATED IN HERE. WE HAVE STRONG WINDS IN HERE. THESE ARE DANGEROUS STORMS AND THEY'RE RIGHT OVER YOU IN EDWARDS FIELD RIGHT NOW AND OFF TO THE EAST AND NORTHEAST OF EVANSVILLE. SO YOU NEED TO BE IN YOUR SAFE PLACE RIGHT NOW TO BE SAFE. YES. AND AS FAR AS THIS GOES, WE ARE GETTING REPORTS OF OUTAGES OUT THERE. SO I DO WANT YOU TO BE SAFE TRADE EVERYWHERE ON THE GROUND AS IF IT WAS LIVE. WE ARE CONTINUING TO TRACK THIS STORM ESPECIALLY THIS AREA OF ROTATION IN EDWARDS BILL WITH A CONFIRMED TORNADO ON THE GROUND WITH DEBRIS IN THE AREA. THIS IS NOT SOMETHING TO BE OUTSIDE. THIS IS SOMETHING TO BE INSIDE. WE REALLY DO WANT YOU TO BE SAFE AS THIS TRACKS THROUGH SO YOU CAN SEE ON DECK NEXT THIS WILL COME RIGHT ALONG A KIND OF TRAVELING ALONG INTERSTATE 70. SO THAT'S AN EASIER MARKER FOR YOU AS CONTINUED KIND OF UP INTO THE NORTHEAST. LET ME PUT THIS INTO MOTION JUST TO SHOW YOU HOW FAST THIS TERRY ABOUT THAT IS ZOOM IN AND OUT ON ME BUT A VERY FAST SYSTEM. SO THIS IS MOVING AT QUICK PACE HERE. THIS ONE TOWARDS EDWARDSVILLE IS OF CONCERN FOR US. WE'VE SEEN SOME VERY STRONG WINDS WITH THIS AND A CONFIRMED TORNADO IN THIS AREA WITH DEBRIS. LET ME GO AHEAD AND PUT A TRACK ON THIS FOR YOU ARE JUST ROUGHLY OVER THE AREA OF EDWARDSVILL WHERE WE EXPECT US TO MOVE ON. SO I'LL HAMMER YOU'LL BE UP NEXT HERE WITHIN ABOUT THE NEXT 10 MINUTES. OLD REPLICA WILL BE UP IN THE NEXT 20 MINUTES. NOW IS THE TIME TO TAKE ACTION AND GET IN A SAFE AREA. THERE'S ALSO QUITE A BIT OF LIGHTNING AROUND THESE STORMS AS WELL. CERTAINLY PUTTING ON A SHOW FOR US TONIGHT. I'M GOING TO BROADEN OUT JUST A LITTLE BIT MORE SO YOU CAN SEE OUR OTHER TORNADO WARNINGS BECAUSE WE DON'T WANT TO FORGET ABOUT THOSE OTHER AREAS AS WELL. BUT YOU CAN SEE WE STILL HAVE THAT WARNING OVER PARTS OF JERSEY AND INTO THE COOPERNOOK COUNTIES TONIGHT AND THEN THIS IS JUST FURTHER DOWN TO THE SOUTH. WE ARE A BIT MORE IN THE CLEAR AS YOU CAN SEE. SO I'M NOT FORGETTING ABOUT YOU. THIS IS JUST THE AREAS THAT ARE BEING AFFECTED RIGHT NOW BY THESE DAMAGING STORMS. SO ONCE AGAIN WE HAVE THAT TORNADO THAT HAS MOVED TOWARDS THROUGH EDWARDSVILLE REALLY NOW AS THAT CONTINUES MOVING RIGHT ALONG INTERSTATE FIFTY FIVE MAKING ITS WAY VERY QUICKLY. THESE ARE FAST MOVING STORMS. THEY'VE BEEN MOVING AT ABOUT 60 TO 65 MILES PER HOUR. SO ROUGHLY THEY'RE GOING SPEED LIMIT ON THOSE ROADS OUT THERE AS THEY MAKE THEIR WAY TOWARDS THE NORTHEAST OR EXCEEDING THE SPEED LIMIT THAT ONE RIGHT NOW IT LOOKS LIKE BETWEEN WELL BETWEEN EDWARDSVILLE AND ALHAMBRA, THE AREA AROUND HAMMIL, ILLINOIS IS GETTING POUNDED WITH HEAVY RAIN AND GUSTY STRONG WINDS RIGHT NOW. AGAIN, THAT CIRCULATION IS SHOWING UP HERE AND YOU KNOW YOU NEED TO BE IN YOUR SAFE PLACE IF YOU'RE ANYWHERE ALONG HIGHWAY 143 GOING OUT OF EDWARDSVILL AND OFF TO THE EAST. BUT YOU'VE GOT TIME NOW GOING INTO BOND COUNTY. THESE STORMS ARE GETTING READY TO CROSS THE BORDER INTO BOND COUNTY. THE TORNADIC THUNDERSTORMS PROBABLY GOING TO STAY JUST TO THE NORTH AND WEST OF GREENVILLE, ILLINOIS. SO AGAIN ALONG IT NORTH OF 70 AS YOU WORK YOUR WAY ONTO THE ILLINOIS THROUGH MADISON COUNTY, OVER INTO BOND COUNTY, THIS IS WHERE WE'RE LOOKING AT ROTATING DANGEROUS TWISTING WINDS IN THE STORM TORNADO POTENTIAL. NOW ONE OF THE THINGS WE'RE LOOKING AT HERE IS ON THE VARIOUS SCANDALS THAT WE SEE WE KIND OF GO BACK AND FORTH LOOKING AT TO SEE IF WE CAN FIND THE DEBRIS AND YOU'VE KIND OF GOT THAT ON MAX TOO RIGHT NOW AND YOU CAN SEE THE AREA THAT WAS PRETTY INTENSE THERE WITH THE DEBRIS SOUTH OF EVANSVILLE SEEMS TO HAVE LET UP A LITTLE BIT. SO MAYBE THE TORNADO TOUCHED DOWN, LOFTED SOME DEBRIS AROUND EDWARDSVILLE AND HAS WEAKENED A BIT AND LIFTED NOW OFF TO THE EAST TOWN. EITHER WAY, WE'RE STILL LOOKING AT A LOT OF WIND IN THIS AREA 50 TO 60, MAYBE 70 MILE PER HOUR WINDS. WE'VE HAD SOME 70 MILE PER HOUR WIND GUSTS WITH THESE STORMS TONIGHT AS THEY ARE PUSHING OFF THE EAST. AND THE THING THAT'S IMPORTANT TO NOTE TONIGHT THERE IS A SETUP IN THE ATMOSPHERE WHERE ALL THE INGREDIENTS NECESSARY FOR THUNDERSTORMS TO PRODUCE TORNADOES SEEMS TO BE IN PLACE . ALL THOSE INGREDIENTS THEY SEEM TO BE COMING TOGETHER FROM ST. LOUIS EAST AND SOUTH OF TOWN RIGHT NOW. THAT'S WHY WE HAVE THESE TORNADO WARNINGS IN EFFECT AND THE MAIN AREA THE STORM GOING JUST EAST OF EDWARDSVILLE LIKELY TO TRACK TO THE NORTHWEST OF GREENVILLE. THAT WARNING IS IN EFFECT LET'S SEE UNTIL ABOUT 9:00 15. WELL FOR MADISON AND MADISON AND MACON COUNTY UNTIL 9:00 15. SO YOU KNOW, WE'VE GOT MULTIPLE CIRCULATIONS HERE ANYWHERE WITHIN THIS CLUSTER OF STORMS. YOU KNOW, IT'S JUST SAFE TO STAY IN YOUR SAFE PLACE UNTIL THESE ALL PASS THROUGH BECAUSE WE GOT ANOTHER ONE FROM A COUPON AND MADISON COUNTY AND WE ALSO HAVE THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING DOWN IN SOUTH ST. LOUIS COUNTY AND INTO NORTHERN JEFFERSON COUNTY AND THAT'S YOU KNOW, YOU MAY HAVE SOME 50 60 MILE PER HOUR WINDS ALTHOUGH THOSE STORMS RIGHT NOW AS THEY'RE DOWN AROUND 40 FOR AND DOWN AROUND HIGHWAY 30 APPROACHING HIGHWAY 30 THERE, THEY DON'T LOOK AS IMPRESSIVE AS SOME OF THE OTHER STORMS WE'VE SEEN THIS EVENING. SO THAT'S THAT'S A GOOD THING. SCOTT, WE DO HAVE A STORM REPORT HERE FROM ST. LOUIS COUNTY IN THE WESTERN SPRING AREA, ABOUT 20 VEHICLES WITH DEBRIS DAMAGE THAT WAS EASTBOUND OF SIXTY FOUR ALONG THE BOONEN BRIDGE THERE JUST EAST OF THE BOOM BRIDGE JUST GOING INTO THE VALLEY AND THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN WITH THAT TORNADO THAT WAS LIFTING THROUGH THERE. WE'RE ALSO LOOKING AT LET'S SEE LET'S GO UP HERE TO THIS STORM UP INTO MACON COUNTY. WELL, OLIVE AND SOUTH OF GILLISPIE GILLISPIE, ILLINOIS. SO LET'S KIND OF GET UP IN THIS AREA HERE AND SEE WHAT WE SEE. SO THIS TORNADO WARNING HERE, PERMAX TO WHERE YOU GOT I-MAX ONE'S GOT WORK ON NEXT ONE THINK THAT STORM IT'S JUST SUCH A MESSY IT REALLY IS A DIFFICULT AREA TO TRACK TONIGHT . IT'S A MESSY SITUATION BUT IT DOES LOOK LIKE THERE'S THERE'S SOMETHING JUST TO THE WEST OR SOUTH OF MOUNT OLIVE IN GILLESPIE, ILLINOIS, SOUTH OF THE WEST AND WEST OF MOUNTOLIVE. IT LOOKS LIKE THERE WAS A LITTLE OF A DROP OUT NEAR THE WILSONVILLE SAWYER MILE AREA. YEAH. AND SO YOU KNOW, WE STILL HAVE YOU HAVE SO MANY CIRCULATIONS EMBEDDED WITHIN THESE THUNDERSTORMS RIGHT NOW WHEN THEY TAKE ON THE SUPERCELL CHARACTERISTIC, THAT'S WHEN WE GET REALLY CONCERNED THAT THEY'RE GOING TO BE LONG TRACK OTHERWISE THEY'RE GOING TO BE FAIRLY ISOLATED. BUT WE ARE ABOUT READY TO GET A NEW TORNADO WARNING BEING DRAWN UP RIGHT NOW THAT'S LIKELY GOING TO TAKE IT OVER INTO MONTGOMERY COUNTY IN ILLINOIS HERE I WOULD THINK IN JUST A FEW MINUTES. BUT YOU ALREADY HAVE THE TORNADO WARNINGS THERE FOR SOUTHEASTERN PORTIONS OF OCCUPIED COUNTY BOND COUNTY IN THE MADISON COUNTY. THE NEW TORNADO WARNING IS FOR FAYETTE MAKE-UP AND MADISON AND MONTGOMERY COUNTY'S OK, SO THAT'S NEAR PALANI TONIGHT. SCRAT WITH THAT ONE. YEAH, THAT STORM SOUTH OF GILLISPIE TOWARDS BENILDE AND THEN MOVING TOWARDS MOUNTOLIVE. THAT'S WHERE THE CIRCULATION WAS AND SO THAT IS PRESSING OFF TOWARDS THE EAST. SO THIS ONE'S GOING TO GO TILL NINE THIRTY SO THAT'S ONLY 45 MINUTES FROM NOW. THAT'S HOW FAST THESE STORMS ARE MOVING RACING OFF TO THE EAST NORTHEAST. SO IF YOU'RE IN THIS AREA RIGHT NOW WITH THIS NEW TORNADO WARNING INTO HICCUPING COUNTY, THE FAR NORTHWEST CORNER OF FAYETTE COUNTY, THIS IS NORTHWEST OF RAMSEY, OK, SO IT'S FAR NORTHWEST PORTIONS OF FAYETTE COUNTY. BUT IF YOU'RE IN THIS AREA AND IT'S A VERY RURAL AREA INCLUDES LEITCHFIELD REST STOP RIGHT THERE, REST STOPS. GOOD PLACE TO STOP AND GET INTO SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER IF YOU'RE IF YOU HAVE FRIENDS TRAVELING ALONG INTERSTATE 55 RIGHT NOW THESE STORMS ARE RACING NORTHEAST. THEY'RE RACING NORTHEAST AT ABOUT 55 TO 60 MILES PER HOUR. SO THEY'RE NOT STAYING IN ANY ONE PLACE FOR ANY LENGTH OF TIME BUT THEY ARE RACING NORTHEAST BOUND PRODUCING WIND GUSTS 60 TO 70 MILES PER HOUR AND OCCASIONALLY WE'RE GETTING THE TWISTING OF THE WINDS. WE'RE GETTING THAT ROTATION AND WE'VE SEEN RADAR CONFIRMED TORNADOES AT NIGHT AND WE'VE HAD A FAIR NUMBER OF REPORTS OF DAMAGE NOW COMING OUT OF ST. CHARLES COUNTY, DEFIANCE IN PARTICULAR DOWN ALONG HIGHWAY 94 WITH SOME SUBSTANTIAL BUILDING DAMAGE THERE. OBVIOUSLY THE CARS, THE DAMAGE TO THE CARS AS THAT STORM WENT ACROSS HIGHWAY 40 60 FOR THE CHESTERFIELD VALLEY JUST EAST OF THE BRIDGE AND NOW YOU SEE THESE STORMS HERE OFF TO THE EAST AND NORTHEAST OF ST. LOUIS THIS IS THE ONE THE LITTLE KINKS IN THE LINE THAT WE KEEP WATCHING HERE. THIS ONE VERY CLOSE TO ALHAMBRA MOVING OFF TO THE EAST, ANOTHER ONE UP AROUND MT. OLIVE THAT'S MOVING OFF TO THE EAST NORTHEAST. SO THESE TWO AREAS HERE EAST AND NORTHEAST OF ST. LOUIS, THOSE ARE THE SPOTS THAT WE ARE WATCHING AT THE MOMENT FOR CIRCULATIONS THE POTENTIAL THAT WE WILL SEE A TORNADO DROP OUT OF THE GROUND. SO YOU NEED TO BE IN YOUR SAFE PLACE. YOU NEED TO PAY ATTENTION TO THESE POLYGONS IF YOU'RE INSIDE THE POLYGON. IF YOUR PHONE WENT OFF LIKE OURS DID A LITTLE BIT AGO THAT SAYS YOU'RE IN THE POLYGON, THAT MEANS YOU'RE CLOSE ENOUGH TO THAT STORM THAT IT'S A THREAT TO YOU AND YOU NEED TO TAKE IT SERIOUSLY AND YOU NEED TO BE IN YOUR SAFE PLACE. WHERE IS YOUR SAFE PLACE THAT'S GOING TO BE IN YOUR BASEMENT IF YOU DON'T HAVE A BASEMENT OR PUTTING AS MANY WALLS BETWEEN YOU AND THE OUTSIDE AS POSSIBLE, YOU'RE GOING TO A CENTER ROOM. YOU'RE GOING TO A BATHROOM, YOU'RE GOING TO A CLOSET. YOU'RE GOING TO WEAR YOUR SHOES . YOU'RE GOING TO TAKE SOMETHING TO COVER YOUR HEAD. YOU GOT A BICYCLE HELMET. GREAT. IF YOU HAVE A PILLOW THAT'LL WORK TO SOMETHING TO PROTECT YOUR NOGGIN. OK, SO WE GOT ANOTHER TORNADO WARNING HERE GOING BACK TO THE SOUTHWEST. TRACY, I GUESS I WAS JUST READING ABOUT THAT ONE FOR FRANKLIN GASCONADE. WE'RE UP AGAIN. SO ANOTHER CIRCULATION HERE. YEAH, THESE ARE COMING OVER THE SAME SPOTS THAT ALREADY HAVE HAD ROUNDS OF ROUGH WEATHER. SO THIS ONE THIS IS A ROTATION THAT WE'RE SEEING NOT CONFIRMED BY RADAR AT THIS POINT BUT A RADAR INDICATED ROTATION VERY CLOSE TO OWENSVILLE. SO THE SOUTHERN PORTION HERE OF GASCONADE COUNTY MOVING NORTHEAST BOUND. SO THAT'S GOING TO PUT IT AGAIN INTO PARTS OF FRANKLIN COUNTY. SAME DRILL AGAIN FOR YOU FOLKS OUT HERE TO THE SOUTHWEST OF ST. LOUIS. YOU NEED TO BE IN YOUR SAFE PLACE AS THESE STORMS ARE ROLLING ON TO THE NORTH AND NORTHEAST. THEY'RE FAST MOVING STORMS. THEY COULD SPIN UP A TORNADO AT ANY MOMENT. IT LOOKS LIKE THE NOTCH WE'D BE WATCHING HERE JUST SOUTH OF OWENSVILLE IF I PUT JUST A LITTLE TRACK ON THAT, I'M GOING TO DO THAT ON MAX TO JUST A LITTLE TRACK ON WHERE THAT NOTCH IS AND JUST KIND OF RUN IT OFF TO THE NORTHEAST. PETERS FORWARD IS A SPOT THAT WOULD BE IN THAT AREA NOW IT'S JUST MOVED OFF. LET'S ADDRESS THAT AND WE'LL GO BACK. I WANT TO GO BACK AND CLEAR THAT OFF BECAUSE IT LOOKS LIKE I'M GOING TO BROADEN THIS OUT A LITTLE BIT. THAT ROTATION KIND OF MAYBE SHIFTED OR AND IT'S GOT THERE'S A DAMAGE REPORT I WANT PEOPLE TO KNOW ABOUT HERE. THERE'S A TRACTOR TRAILER THAT'S OVERTURNED ON 270 WESTBOUND THAT'S NEAR MILEPOST SEVEN WHICH I'LL HAVE TO LOOK TO SEE WHERE THAT IS. BUT I NEED YOU TO BE VERY CAREFUL IF YOU HAVE SOMEBODY ON THE ROAD TONIGHT AND LET THEM KNOW CABLES ARE ACROSS THE ROADWAY WITH THAT PARTICULAR ACCIDENT. SO THIS IS A THIS IS JUST A STORM THAT'S REALLY PRODUCING SOME DAMAGE. THE ILLINOIS STATE POLICE SO 70 WESTBOUND, 270 WESTBOUND THAT'S GOING TO BE SEVEN MILES FROM THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER EAST OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER ON TO 70. SO SO I WOULD GUESS I WOULD THINK THAT IT ROAD WOULD BE CLOSE TO SO THE ROTATION AND GASCONADE COUNTY THAT'S GOING TO BE PUSHING UP UNION YOU'RE GOING TO BE IN THE PATH OF THAT EVENTUALLY. SO WE'RE GOING TO BE DEALING WITH THIS TO GET THESE STORMS ARE GOING TO MOVE TOWARDS ST. LOUIS AND GUESS WHAT? WE REALLY DIDN'T GET A CHANCE TO WORK OVER THE ATMOSPHERE. WE STILL HAVE SOME GUSTY WINDS OUT THERE. THOSE WINDS ARE OUT OF THE SOUTH. THEY'RE PUMPING IN THE MOISTURE . THE HUMIDITY LEVELS ARE UP SO WE STILL HAVE ANOTHER COUPLE OF HOURS THAT TORNADO WATCHES IN EFFECT STILL FOR MOST OF THE AREA UNTIL 11 O'CLOCK TONIGHT. I THINK THEY MAY HAVE LET IT GO FARTHER NORTH AND WEST OF US. BUT BRING UP THAT MAP RIGHT NOW FOR YOU ON ONE OF OUR TORNADO TORNADO WATCH LOOKS LIKE IT'S STILL IN EFFECT. YEAH, I THINK I SAW HIM CANCEL A COUPLE OF COUNTIES FARTHER NORTH AND WEST BUT THEY'VE STILL GOT IT FOR US AND YOU SEE ALL THE HIGHLIGHTED AREAS THERE THAT HAD THE TORNADO WARNINGS IN EFFECT. I MEAN WE HAVE A LARGE NUMBER OF TORNADO WARNINGS IN EFFECT RIGHT NOW. LAST NIGHT FOR US HERE IN ST. LOUIS AREA, THIS IS THE LATEST ONE IN FRANKLIN GASCONADE IN WARD COUNTY IN EFFECT UNTIL NINE THIRTY TONIGHT. THOSE STORMS TOO ARE GOING TO PUSH RIGHT BACK TO ST. LOUIS. SO DON'T LET YOUR GUARD DOWN AROUND THE ST. LOUIS METRO AREA . WE STILL HAVE ANOTHER HOUR, HOUR AND A HALF TWO HOURS BEFORE WE'RE GOING TO BE IN THE CLEAR WITH THIS. SO THIS IS A TORNADO WARNING IF YOU'RE IN FRANKLIN COUNTY, EVEN SOUTH OF INNSBRUCK IN WARREN COUNTY ALONG THE MISSOURI RIVER, YOU SHOULD BE IN YOUR SAFE PLACE RIGHT NOW AS THESE STORMS ROLL TOWARDS YOU IF YOU'RE ON THE ILLINOIS SIDE IN MADISON, MCCALPIN MONTGOMERY, FAYETTE COUNTY AND BOND COUNTY IN THE NORTHWEST CORNER FAYETTE COUNTY THESE THIS IS A MESSY COMPLEX OF THUNDERSTORMS UP HERE. YOU NEED TO BE IN YOUR SAFE PLACE IN THESE AREAS AS WELL AS WE CONTINUE TO TRACK THE THUNDERSTORMS THERE THIS EVENING. SO LET'S SEE WE'RE GOING TO ALSO QUITE A FEW REPORTS OF POWER OUTAGES WE EXPECT THAT TO CONTINUE THROUGH THE EVENING HERE. SO WE HAVE THESE ARE STORMS THAT YOU NEED TO BE AWARE AWARE OF TONIGHT. WE'VE ALREADY HAD REPORTS OF DAMAGE VEHICLES DAMAGE ON THE ROADWAY. WE'VE HAD REPORTS OF A BUILDING COLLAPSE IN THE DEFIANCE AREA SO NEAR AUGUSTA AND THOSE AREAS THESE ARE STORMS THAT ARE GENERATING THESE A STRONG WIND GUSTS. WE'VE HAD A REPORT 70 MILE PER HOUR WINDS AT THE AIRPORTS HERE SO STRONG WIND GUSTS SOMETHING YOU WANT TO BE INSIDE FOR, SOMETHING YOU WANT TO STAY WITH US OR CHECK IN WITH US THROUGHOUT THE NIGHT FOR WE DO EXPECT THIS TO CONTINUE FOR AT LEAST THE NEXT TWO HOURS AS THIS DRAGS THROUGH AFFECTING A GOOD PART OF THE FIVE ON YOUR SIDE COVERAGE AREA. WE HAVE THAT CLUSTER OF STORMS THAT IS CAUSING SOME PROBLEMS FOR PARTS OF ILLINOIS AND THEN WE HAVE THAT SOMEWHAT RECENT AREA OF A SEVERE OF THE TORNADO WARNING FOR FRANKLIN GASCONADE AND WARREN COUNTIES THAT'S EXTENDING THROUGH NINE 30 NOW IF YOU'RE IN SOME PARTS OF ILLINOIS, YOU'RE WARNING ALSO CONTINUES THROUGH NINE 30 WITH A TOTALLY SEPARATE SYSTEM WITHIN THEIR FURTHER FURTHER BACK BOND IN MADISON. YOU'LL BE UP NOW UNTIL ABOUT NINE 15 IS WHAT WE EXPECT WITH THAT WITH THAT LINE OF STORMS AS IT STARTS TO LIFT UP AND OUT OF THE FIVE ON YOUR SIDE COVERAGE AREA. WE'VE HAD THOSE DAMAGE REPORTS . WE'VE HAD RADAR INDICATED ROTATION AND WE'VE HAD CONFIRMED TORNADOES TONIGHT. SO PLEASE DO TAKE THIS SERIOUSLY AND MAKE SURE THAT YOU ARE READY TO HEAD TO YOUR SAFE SPACE IF ONE OF THESE AREAS IS COMING TOWARDS YOU, THAT WOULD BE YOUR BASEMENT OR AN AREA WITH THE MOST WALLS BETWEEN. I KNOW THEY'RE STARTING A LITTLE BIT LATER NOW BUT IF YOU MIGHT HAVE A FRIEND ON THE ROAD ,GIVE THEM A CALL, MAKE SURE THEY KNOW TO HEAD TO A GOOD SPOT A REST STOP PERHAPS A LOCAL BUSINESS. I'VE ALREADY HAD SOME PEOPLE SEND IN PICTURES OF SHELTERING IN PLACE AT A BARREL AND A SO I'M HAPPY TO SEE THAT PEOPLE ARE TAKING THIS SERIOUSLY TONIGHT AS WE HAVE HAD REPORTS OF DAMAGE AND WE WANT TO KEEP EVERYBODY SAFE TONIGHT. YEAH, AND WE'VE STILL GOT THE TORNADO WARNING. WE STILL HAVE THE ROTATING THUNDERSTORMS SO THE POTENTIAL THERE CAUSING SOME DAMAGE. WE HAVE SOME ILLINOIS POWER OUTAGE NUMBERS HERE IN MADISON COUNTY CLOSE TO 8000 CUSTOMERS ARE WITHOUT POWER RIGHT NOW. THAT SEEMS TO BE ABOUT THE HARDEST HIT SO FAR MADISON COUNTY WHICH WOULD MAKE SENSE BECAUSE THAT STORM MOVED ACROSS IT ALONG TO 70 AND THEN ROLLED INTO THE EDWARDSVILLE AREA AND NOW THAT STORM POTENTIALLY WITH ITS TORNADIC CIRCULATION IS MOVING OUT OF MADISON COUNTY AND INTO PORTIONS OF BOND COUNTY. AND WE LOOK TO THE NORTH WE HAVE THAT STORM THAT'S NOW CROSSING OVER 55 AND WE'VE GOT THE CIRCULATIONS IN THERE AS WELL. LOOKS LIKE MAYBE NOT AS WELL DEFINED AS WHAT WE WERE SEEING EARLIER BUT FROM JONESBORO TO NICHOLAS ON THE ILLINOIS SIDE, YOU NEED TO BE IN YOUR SAFE PLACE RIGHT NOW AS THESE STORMS CONTINUE TO MOVE THROUGH. THEY ARE PRODUCING WINDS TO AROUND 70 MILES PER HOUR AND THEY'VE ALSO BEEN LOOKING AT WE'VE ALSO BEEN LOOKING AT SOME REPORTS OF HAIL BUT IT'S REALLY THE WIND GUSTS AND THE FACT THAT WE'VE HAD SOME CIRCULATIONS AND POTENTIALLY SOME TORNADOES TOUCHING DOWN TONIGHT THAT'S REALLY GIVING US PAUSE. IT'S NOT AS CLEAR CUT AS YOU WOULD EXPECT FOR SOMETHING LIKE THIS. IT'S DECEMBER. YOU DON'T THINK OF SEVERE WEATHER IN DECEMBER BUT THE INGREDIENTS ARE MORE SPRING LIKE THAN THEY ARE DECEMBER LIKE AND AS A CONSEQUENCE TONIGHT THESE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE BEEN PRODUCING DAMAGE AS THEY'VE BEEN ROLLING THROUGH THE AREA THAT ONE GUST TO 70 MILES PER HOUR IN THE CHESTERFIELD VALLEY WE HAD DAMAGE REPORTED OUT OF DEFIANCE THAT SCATTERED REPORTS OF TREE DAMAGE IN SEVERAL PLACES AND UNFORTUNATELY I DON'T THINK WE'RE DONE AS WE LOOK BACK TO THE SOUTHWEST. WE STILL HAD THE TORNADO WARNING HERE FOR THIS LINE OF STORMS THAT'S ACROSS WELL IT'S COMING OUT OF GASCONADE COUNTY MOVING INTO FRANKLIN COUNTY RIGHT NOW. IT'S OFF TO THE WEST OF UNION ABOUT READY TO MOVE INTO NEW HAVEN. GERALD, YOU'RE GETTING THE HEAVY RAINFALL RIGHT NOW AND IT STRETCHES ON DOWN TO THE SOUTH TOWARDS OAKHILL. SO THIS IS ROLLING ON TO THE EAST AND TO THE NORTHEAST AND WE'VE GOT A NEW TORNADO WARNING THAT WAS JUST ISSUED NOW AND THAT'S A RADAR INDICATED ONE FOR BONFANTE AND MONTGOMERY COUNTY IN ILLINOIS, BASICALLY THE SAME ONE THAT WE WERE JUST LOOKING AT THE CELLS THAT WE WERE JUST LOOKING AT HERE, THE ONE THAT'S PRETTY CLOSE TO SHOW CREEK THAT'S GOING TO BE RACING OFF TO THE NORTHEAST THIS TIME . RAMSEY, YOU WERE OUT OF THE MORNING A FEW MINUTES AGO. WELL, YOU'RE IN THIS ONE SO THIS IS NORTH EVANGELIA NORTH OF INTERSTATE 70 HERE ON THE ILLINOIS SIDE THAT WE'RE LOOKING AT A TORNADO WARNING BONFANTE AND MONTGOMERY COUNTY REALLY THE AREA TO BE CONCERNED ABOUT LOOKS LIKE SHOAL CREEK AND KIND OF GOING FROM SHOAL CREEK ON TOWARDS THE EAST AND TO THE NORTHEAST THERE DONALSON COFFEE IN ILLINOIS PHILLIMORE AREA BALSER TO EVENTUALLY INTO RAMSEY IF THAT STORM MAINTAINS ITS ROTATING STRENGTH AND IF IT ALSO CONTINUES TO TRACK THE SAME WAY THAT IT HAS BEEN TRACKING THOSE ARE BIG IFS IN THE ENVIRONMENT THAT WE LIVE IN TONIGHT. SO WE CLEAR THAT OFF OF THERE FOR YOU AND WE'LL GO BACK LOOK AT THE OK, GO BACK HERE AND AGAIN LOOKING AT THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING THERE THAT THAT ONE'S GOING TO EXPIRE DOWN IN SOUTH ST. LOUIS COUNTY BUT WE'LL SEE IF WE DON'T GET ANOTHER ONE HERE BACK TO THE WEST AND SOUTHWEST OF ST. LOUIS AS TIME GOES ON, THAT STORM DOES FILL IN A LITTLE BIT MORE THAN WHAT THE RADAR IS SHOWING THERE RIGHT NOW AREAS EAST OF ST. LOUIS. SO SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING THE NEWEST ONE FOR THAT CIRCULATION THAT'S APPROACHING DONALSON RIGHT NOW. YOU SHOULD BE IN YOUR SAFE PLACE JUST NORTH OF SUGARCREEK. THIS IS OVER NORTHERN PORTIONS OF BOND COUNTY MOVING THROUGH SOUTHEASTERN PORTIONS OF MACUGEN COUNTY. IT IS GOING TO MOVE OVER INTO PORTIONS OF FAYETTE COUNTY SO AGAIN, YOU'RE SAFE PLACE IS THE LOWEST SPOT IN YOUR HOME. THAT'S THE BASEMENT. THAT'S GREAT IF YOU DON'T HAVE A BASEMENT THEN YOU'RE GOING TO A CLOSET OR A BATHROOM AND THE LOWEST LEVEL OF WHATEVER BUILDING YOU'RE IN, YOU'RE PROTECTING YOUR HEAD. YOU'RE WEARING YOUR SHOES AND YOU'RE GOING TO STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS AND DOORS AS WE KIND OF WATCH THESE THUNDERSTORMS ROLL THROUGH AND THE POTENTIAL OF THE DAMAGE THEY COULD CAUSE THE TORNADO WARNING BASICALLY IF YOU WERE EAST OF ST. LOUIS AS WE CONTINUE WITH OUR TORNADO WARNINGS, YOU'RE OUT ALONG THE NORTH OF INTERSTATE 70 BOND COUNTY UP TO MONTGOMERY COUNTY, SOUTHEASTERN PORTIONS OF MACUGEN COUNTY OVER TO THE NORTHWEST CORNER OF FAYETTE COUNTY. THERE ARE MULTIPLE ROTATING THUNDERSTORMS IN THESE AREAS SO YOU SHOULD BE TAKING THEM SERIOUSLY AND BE IN YOUR SAFE PLACE METRO AREA GETTING A LITTLE BIT OF A BREAK. BUT HERE'S THIS NEXT WAVY LINE OF THUNDERSTOR OUT TO THE WEST THAT'S MOVING OUT OF GASCONADE COUNTY INTO FRANKLIN COUNTY AS IT DOES SO IT'S GOT SOME NOTCHES IN THERE, SOME ROTATION CAPABLE OF PRODUCING THUNDERSTORMS OR TORNADOES OUT OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS COULD HAPPEN AT ANY MOMENT WITHOUT MUCH WARNING. SO THAT'S WHY THE TORNADO WARNING IS IN EFFECT BECAUSE EVEN THOUGH WE CAN'T CONFIRM IT, THE CIRCULATIONS ARE SHOWING UP ON THE RADAR SCREEN. YOU TWO NEED TO BE IN YOUR SAFE PLACE HERE THIS MORNING WHICH DOES EXTEND UP INTO SOUTHERN WARREN COUNTY IS IN EFFECT UNTIL NINE 30. THIS LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS MOVING NORTHEAST IS GOING TO GO ACROSS A GOOD CHUNK OF JEFFERSON COUNTY BACK ACROSS ST. LOUIS COUNTY AND THEN ACROSS PARTS OF ST. CHARLES COUNTY AS WELL. SO WE'RE NOT OUT OF THE WOODS YET. WE GOT TO GET THIS LAST LINE THROUGH. I THINK ONCE WE GET THAT LINE THROUGH THEN THE FOCUS REALLY IS GOING TO SHIFT FARTHER EAST AND FARTHER SOUTH OF ST. LOUIS. NOW YOU'RE SAYING IT'S LATE AT NIGHT. THIS IS NOT SPRING. THIS IS NOT SUMMER TIME. IT'S NOT THAT WARM AND HUMID BUT YOU EVEN THOUGH IT'S KIND OF MARGINAL ON THE HUMIDITY LEVELS AND THE WARMTH AND THE INSTABILITY, YOU GOT TO REMEMBER THE JET STREAM IS A LOT STRONGER THIS TIME OF YEAR AND YOU DON'T HAVE TO GO VERY FAR UP IN THE CLOUDS BEFORE YOU'RE FINDING 80, 90, 100 MILE AN HOUR WINDS WHIPPING OVERHEAD ESSENTIALLY ACTING LIKE A VACUUM CLEANER WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS AND UP THE AIR FROM THE GROUND AND HELPING TO FUEL THESE STORMS. THAT'S GOING TO BE WITH US FOR THE NEXT FEW HOURS. IF THE WINDS HAVEN'T PICKED UP AT YOUR HOUSE, THE WINDS ARE GOING TO BE HOWLING HERE AS WE HEAD THROUGH THE OVERNIGHT HOURS ON INTO TOMORROW MORNING WE SHOULD SEE SOME GUSTS THEN. THIS DOESN'T INVOLVE THUNDERSTORMS. WE SHOULD SEE SOME GUSTS AROUND 40 TO 45 MILES PER HOUR ON THE BACKSIDE OF THIS SYSTEM AS IT PULLS AWAY. SO YOU KNOW, THAT'S SEPARATE FROM THE THUNDERSTORMS THAT'S GOING TO LAST INTO TOMORROW MORNING AND WE'LL BE DEALING WITH THOSE WINDS AND THE POTENTIAL THAT IF WE'VE HAD SOME DAMAGE FROM SOME OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS, GUSTY WINDS THAT STICK AROUND THROUGH TOMORROW MORNING COULD CERTAINLY AGGRAVATE ANY DAMAGE WE HAVE FROM THE THUNDERSTORM OR IF BRANCHES WERE KNOCKED LOOSE BECAUSE OF THE THUNDERSTORMS THEY HAVE A CRACK BUT JUST DIDN'T FALL. YOU GOT A 40 OR 45 MILE PER HOUR WIND LATE TONIGHT, EARLY TOMORROW THAT COULD RESULT IN ADDITIONAL POWER OUTAGES AND SOME DOWNED POWER LINES, DOWNED TREES AND BRANCHES. AND ONE THING WE'VE GOT TO REMEMBER IF YOU COME ACROSS A DOWNED POWER LINE TREAT IT AS A LIVE WIRE, ANY LINE IT'S DOWN. YOU DON'T KNOW IF IT'S A CABLE LINE OR TELEPHONE LINE, A POWER LINE TREAT TREATED AS A LIVE WIRE AND IT'S HARD TO SEE THAT AT NIGHT. SO YOU DON'T WANT TO BE OUT PUTZING AROUND IN THE DARK IF THERE'S POWER LINES DOWN IN YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD. SO JUST TREAT EVERYTHING AS A LIVE WIRE. LET THE POWER COMPANY COME AND FIGURE IT OUT. YOUR ELECTRIC COOPERATIVES AMEREN, ILLINOIS AND MISSOURI THEY'RE VERY GOOD AT ASSESSING DAMAGE AND FIXING IT ONCE THEY GET THAT ASSESSMENT THEY'VE ALREADY DISPATCHED CREWS ACROSS THE AREA TONIGHT THEY'VE MOVED STORM TRAILERS INTO POSITION TO BE PROACTIVE AND READY TO REACT . DON'T GO OUT AND MESS WITH ANY LINES TONIGHT THAT ANY CABLES OR LINES THAT ARE DOWN TREATED AS A HOT WIRE. WE DON'T WANT ANYBODY TO HAVE ANY PROBLEMS WITH THAT. WE CERTAINLY HAVE HAD SOME OF THOSE REPORTS AS WELL. SCOTT. WE'VE HAD AN OVERTURNED TRACTOR TRAILER IN ILLINOIS WITH SOME LINES DOWN AROUND IT AND CURRENTLY LET ME GO OVER A COUPLE OF OUR REPORTS FOR YOU IN WENTZVILLE. WE HAVE ABOUT TWENTY THREE HUNDRED PEOPLE WITHOUT POWER RIGHT NOW. TWENTY THREE HUNDRED CUSTOMERS. TWENTY EIGHT HUNDRED IN THE O'FALLON AREA. AND THEN AS WE GET CLOSER INTO THE CITY OF ST. LOUIS, IT GETS A LITTLE LESS ABOUT SIX HUNDRED IN THE MARYLAND HEIGHTS AREA, LITTLE LESS FOR ST. CHARLES AT ABOUT NINETY ONE IT SEEMS LIKE THEY ARE ABLE TO RESTORE POWER IN SOME OF THESE AREAS QUICKLY. ABOUT THREE THOUSAND OUTAGES RIGHT NEAR EDWARDSVILLE. SO I WAS EXPECTING TO SEE SOME BIGGER OUTAGES IN THIS AREA BECAUSE WE HAD THAT CONFIRMED TORNADO SIX THOUSAND PEOPLE IN THE IMMEDIATE AREA OF EDWARDSVILL AND AS YOU GET CLOSER TOWARDS 270 AND THEN GLEN CARBON YOU HAVE ABOUT ANOTHER TWO THOUSAND OR SO AND THEN THAT JUST KIND OF CONTINUES ON WITH THOSE OUTAGES SO THEY ARE WORKING HARD TONIGHT TO RESTORE POWER AFTER THIS HAS COME THROUGH KNOW WE CONTINUE TO SEE THIS STORM AND MORE DEVELOPED WASHINGTON WILL BE UP HIT YET AGAIN. THAT WAS ONE OF THE AREAS THAT HAD THIS KIND OF AREA OF STRONG ROTATION COME THROUGH WITH THOSE STRONGER WIND GUSTS THAT THEN MOVED INTO AUGUSTA AND DEFIANCE WHERE WE HAD THOSE STORM REPORTS. I CAN GO OVER SOME OF THOSE STORM REPORTS FOR YOU OR I COULD PASS IT BACK OVER TO SCOTT. THAT'S TO YOU, SCOTTIE. JUST LET ME KNOW. BUT SOME STORM REPORTS THAT WE ARE SEEING RIGHT NOW YOU COULD SEE WIDESPREAD OUT THERE LOOKS LIKE WE DO HAVE A REPORT OF DAMAGE OVER A LONG IN ILLINOIS. THIS DOES NOT SURPRISE ME RIGHT NOW. SO LET'S SEE WHAT WE HAVE. WE HAVE THAT TRACTOR TRAILER OVERTURNED ON 270 WESTBOUND WITH CABLES ACROSS THE ROADWAY. SO THAT'S NEAR PONTOON BEACH. SO 270 WESTBOUND WITH A TRACTOR TRAILER OVERTURNED. WE HAVE THAT BUILDING COLLAPSE THAT I'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT IN THE AUGUSTA AREA WITH MULTIPLE HOMES DAMAGED AND DEBRIS IN THAT AREA AS WELL. WE HAVE REPORTS OF STRONG WIND GUSTS AS WELL. CHESTERFIELD WE HAD WIND REPORTED ABOUT FORTY FIVE MILES PER HOUR AND LOOK JUST A LITTLE BIT CLOSER THERE FOR AND SPRING HEIGHTS. YOU KNOW THIS IS THE SPIRIT OF ST. LOUIS AIRPORT THERE IN THE CHESTERFIELD VALLEY. GUSTAV ABOUT 70 MILES PER HOUR THAT WAS GENERATED WITH THAT STORM. WE THINK THAT WAS THE STORM THAT CAME THROUGH WITH THAT TORNADO DAMAGE THAT IMPACTED THE AREA RIGHT AROUND DEFIANCE. SO THAT'S KIND OF LIKE THE DEFIANT REJUVENILE AREA AS YOU CAN SEE MORE REPORTS JUST SOME REPORTS OF HAIL HAIL HASN'T BEEN A PARTICULARLY LARGE THREAT THIS EVENING. THOSE HAIL REPORTS HAVE BEEN SOMEWHAT SMALL BUT ABOUT AN INCH THAT'S QUARTER SIZE IN MURTHA'S BILL AND THEN MY OLD STOMPING GROUNDS OF WINCHESTER REPORTED ALSO ABOUT ANOTHER EDGE OF A QUARTER SIZED HAIL AS WELL. SO CERTAINLY SOME REPORTS OF DAMAGE OUT THERE THAT I WANT YOU TO BE AWARE OF ESPECIALLY AS YOU HEAD AND WE GET INTO THE FIRST LIGHT TOMORROW. SOME AREAS COULD BE WAKING UP WITH QUITE A MESS OUT THERE. LET ME GO AHEAD AND GO OVER THOSE WARNINGS FOR YOU TONIGHT AS THIS SYSTEM ONCE AGAIN WE'RE BACK ON DECK WITH THIS SYSTEM THAT IS CURRENTLY MOVING THROUGH GASCONADE AND FRANKLIN COUNTY. SO THIS IS CURRENTLY THROUGH NINE 30. YOU'RE UNDER A TORNADO WARNING SO THROUGH NINE 30 ANOTHER TWENTY FIVE MINUTES WITH THAT WARNING. WE DO EXPECT THIS JUST LIKE ALL THE OTHER ONES WE DO EXPECT THIS TO BE CONTINUED AS IT MOVED CONTINUES TO MOVE UP INTO THE NORTHEAST AND WE'RE STILL NOT DONE WITH THAT RATHER MESSY SYSTEM THAT'S UP INTO ILLINOIS RIGHT NOW. SO I'LL GO AHEAD AND ZOOM IN ON THESE AREAS. YOU CAN SEE WE DID CANCEL ONE OF THOSE WARNINGS SO THAT IS SOME GOOD NEWS THERE. AND IF WE POP IT OVER TO MAX TO LOOKS LIKE WE'RE GETTING A BIT OF A SIGNAL HERE OF A TORNADO DEBRIS SIGNATURE THAT WOULD BE AS I KIND OF FLIP IT BACK AND FORTH BETWEEN THE LINCOLN RADAR AND ST. LOUIS RADAR. THIS IS NORTH OF LAGRANGE, SOUTH OF EAST FOR THIS AREA HERE THAT IS UNDER THE TORNADO WARNING. SOUTHEASTERN PORTIONS OF MCCALPIN COUNTY ACTUALLY MONTGOMERY COUNTY AND THE NORTHEAST CORNER OF IT LOOKS LIKE BOND COUNTY INTO THE NORTHWEST PORTIONS. FRANKLIN COUNTY VERY CLOSE TO COFFIN . THAT'S WHERE THAT'S SHOWING UP AND YOU SEE IT JUST KIND OF DROPPED OUT EVEN A LITTLE BIT MORE, WENT DOWN TO THAT BLUE SHADING. THAT'S AN INDICATION TO US THAT WE HAVE A TORNADO ON THE GROUND THAT IT'S BEEN CONFIRMED BY THE RADAR BECAUSE THE RADAR IS SEEING SOMETHING BESIDES ALL THE UNIFORM RAINDROPS. IT'S SEEING THINGS OF OTHER SHAPES AND SIZES AND BECAUSE OF THAT IT TELLS US DEBRIS HAS BEEN LOFTED INTO THE AIR. SO THIS IS THE AREA THAT'S JUST WEST OF SOUTH FILLMORE AND FILLMORE AND IF I KIND OF BROADEN THIS OUT, WE JUST SWITCH RADAR VIEWS WHICH IS THAT'S JUST FINE. POP IT BACK ON THE REFLECTIVITY HERE JUST TO GIVE YOU A LITTLE BIT OF A TRACK ON THIS, LET'S GO AHEAD AND GIVE IT KIND OF A WIDE TRACK OFF TO THE EAST AND NORTHEAST. THIS IS THIS IS GOING TO TAKE US OVER TOWARDS RAMSEY, ILLINOIS AND OVER TOWARDS US FIFTY ONE WHICH RUNS NORTH AND SOUTH THERE. SO THIS IS A CONFIRMED TORNADO CONFIRMED BY RADAR RIGHT NOW AND I'M GOING TO POP THIS SO WE'VE MOVED TO A GOOGLE CHAT WITH THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SINCE WE'VE HAD ISSUES WITH THE OTHER STUFF SO IT'S ALL GOOD AND WE'RE ALL FOLLOWING THE SAME THING. BIG TEAM OF METEOROLOGISTS TONIGHT IN ST. LOUIS ALL COORDINATING TOGETHER TO TRACK THIS STORM. AND THE OPERATIVE THING HERE IS WE NEED YOU TO STAY SAFE AND THAT MEANS RIGHT NOW WE NEED YOU TO GET INTO YOUR SAFE PLACE BECAUSE WE HAVE THE SIGNATURE ON THE SCREEN AND I'LL BACK IT BACK UP HERE SO IT SHOWS UP A LITTLE BIT BETTER. I JUST CHANGED A LITTLE BIT. BUT THAT AREA THAT'S NOW MOVING IN TOWARD SOUTH FILLMORE WAS WHERE WE ARE SEEING DEBRIS THAT'S BEEN LOFTED INTO THE AIR AND OFF TO THE EAST NOW OF COFFEE IN ILLINOIS. SO IT'S MOVING INTO THE NORTHERN NORTHWESTERN PORTIONS OF FAYETTE COUNTY. SO AGAIN, YOU FOLKS IN NORTHWESTERN FAYETTE COUNTY WE'VE BEEN SAYING THIS THROUGH THE EVENING HOURS TIME TO GET TO YOUR SAFE PLACE. NOW THESE STORMS ARE MOVING AT 55 TO 60 MILES PER HOUR. SO THEY ARE FAST MOVING STORMS AND IT DOESN'T TAKE VERY LONG FOR THEM TO PRODUCE ROTATION AND TO DROP THAT OUT OF THE SKY IN A BIG HURRY. SO WE ARE DEFINITELY SEEING THE ROTATION. IT'S JUST OFF TO THE EAST OF COFFEE RIGHT NOW IT IS ROLLING TOWARDS THE NORTHEAST FILLMORE RAMSEY, ILLINOIS. IT WOULD BE REALLY SEEM LIKE RAMSEY, ILLINOIS WILL BE IN THE DIRECT PATH OF THAT IF THIS STORM CONTINUES TO MAINTAIN ITS CURRENT TRACK AND INTENSITY AND THEN WE TURN OUR ATTENTION BACK TO THE SOUTHWEST AND LOOK TO THIS NEXT AREA THAT'S ONCE AGAIN APPROACHING FROM THE SOUTHWEST AND WE'RE FIGHTING THE AREA FROM AROUND INNSBROOK OVER TO ABOUT WASHINGTON AND DOWN TOWARDS SULLIVAN HERE IN MISSOURI. WELL, THAT NOW HAS PROMPTED THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TO ISSUE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING WHICH INCLUDES MOST OF ST. CHARLES PRETTY MUCH INCLUDES ALL OF ST. CHARLES COUNTY, THE CITY OF ST. LOUIS, ST. LOUIS COUNTY, NORTHERN PORTIONS OF JEFFERSON COUNTY BACK INTO EASTERN PORTIONS OF FRANKLIN COUNTY AND MUCH OF THE REST OF WARREN COUNTY. THAT IS A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING UNTIL NINE 45. IT IS FOR THE POTENTIAL OF STRONG WINDS PERHAPS THERE SOME HAIL IN HERE BUT STRONG WINDS AND THE POSSIBILITY THAT WE COULD SPIN UP A TORNADO HERE. THIS IS GOING TO MOVE RIGHT ACROSS THE ENTIRE METRO AREA ONCE AGAIN THIS LINE IF IT DOES NOT FALL APART, IT'S COMING ACROSS THE ENTIRE METRO AREA FROM WENTZVILLE DOWN TO WASHINGTON TO PACIFIC EUREKA PROBABLY INTO CEDAR ARNOLD RIGHT INTO THE CITY. OK, AND THERE'S THE POTENTIAL IT COULD PRODUCE A TORNADO AS WELL. SO FAR WE HAVEN'T HAD ANYTHING CONFIRMED OUT THAT WHAT WE HAVE HAD PERIODICALLY WITH THIS CLUMP OF THUNDERSTORMS OFF TO THE NORTHEAST OF ST. LOUIS THROUGH THIS EVENING HAS BEEN SEVERAL CONFIRMED BY RADAR TORNADOES BECAUSE OF THE DEBRIS SIGNATURES AS THEY'VE BEEN PRESSING OFF TO THE EAST AND TO THE NORTHEAST. SO THESE STORMS RIGHT NOW AGAIN WINDS ARE A BIG THREAT ON A WIDESPREAD BASIS. WE'RE TALKING 50 TO 60 MILE PER HOUR WINDS EASILY PERHAPS A LITTLE BIT HIGHER THAN THAT AT TIMES. AND WE'RE ALSO TALKING ABOUT WINDS THAT COULD BE GUSTING AS HIGH AS 70 MILES PER HOUR NOW EMBEDDED WITHIN THESE CIRCULATIONS. WE'RE ALSO FINDING, YOU KNOW, SOME TORNADOES THAT HAVE TOUCHED DOWN. WE CAN CONFIRM THAT BY THE RADAR WE HAVE NOT HAD ANY SPOTTER REPORTS. WE HAVEN'T BEEN ABLE TO SEE THEM. TORNADOES ARE HARD TO SEE AT NIGHT. IT'S ALSO DANGEROUS FOR SPOTTERS TO BE OUT THERE DURING THE NIGHT CHASING THESE STORMS BECAUSE YOU CAN'T SEE AND YOU KNOW THERE'S TREES, WE HAVE TREES, WE HAVE HILLS AND THOSE ARE PROBLEMS WITH CHASING. THIS IS NOT KANSAS. SO WE HAVEN'T HAD ANY CONFIRMED REPORTS BY VISUAL SOMEBODY SEEING IT BUT WE HAVE HAD THE RADAR CONFIRMING FOR US THAT THE DEBRIS HAS BEEN LOFTED BY TORNADOES INTO THE AIR. THEREFORE WE KNOW THE TORNADOES HAVE BEEN ON THE GROUND. WE KNOW THEY'VE DONE DAMAGE. WE'VE SEEN THE REPORTS COME OUT OF THE AREA AROUND DEFIANCE DOWN TOWARDS AUGUSTA ALONG HIGHWAY 90 FOR A BUNCH OF CARS HAD DEBRIS DAMAGE FROM DEBRIS JUST CROSSING OVER THE BRIDGE RIGHT INTO THE CHESTERFIELD VALLEY WHEN THAT STORM WAS LIFTING THROUGH AND WE'VE SEEN THE DEBRIS SIGNATURES OFF TO THE EAST OF ST. LOUIS. SO THESE STORMS ROLLING IN YOU NEED TO STAY IN YOUR SAFE PLACE IF YOU'RE UNDER THESE WARNINGS RIGHT NOW INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS AND DOORS, YOU KNOW IF YOU'VE GOT A TORNADO WARNING IN YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD WHICH RIGHT NOW THAT INCLUDES THE PORTION OF THE BOND COUNTY, THE NORTHWESTERN CORNER OF FAYETTE COUNTY ESPECIALLY IN AND AROUND THE RAMSEY AREA AND THE SOUTHEASTERN PORTIONS OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY ALL IN ILLINOIS OFF TO THE EAST AND NORTHEAST OF ST. LOUIS. YOU'RE GOING TO WANT TO BE ON THE SAFE SIDE AND BE STAYING IN YOUR SAFE PLACE WITH THOSE STORMS RIGHT NOW THESE ARE THE ONES THAT HAVE HAD CONFIRMED TORNADOES WITH THEM SLIDING OFF TOWARDS THE NORTHEAST RAMSEY, ILLINOIS. THAT POTENTIAL CIRCULATION IS ABOUT READY TO SLIDE IN YOUR GENERAL DIRECTION. IT'S SOMEWHERE JUST OFF YOUR WEST NOT TOO FAR FROM FILLMORE RIGHT NOW WE'VE SEEN THAT AREA RIGHT AROUND FILLMORE WHERE WE'RE SEEING THAT WE'VE SEEN A FEW TIMES TONIGHT SOME DEBRIS SIGNATURES AND HERE THAT APPEARS TO BE WHAT WE'RE LOOKING AT HERE. YOU KNOW, IT'S SPREAD OUT A LITTLE MORE. IT'S NOT AS WELL DEFINED AS IT WAS BUT THERE'S STILL ITEMS READ THAT LEAVES REED THAT YOU KNOW, PARTS OF TREES, BUSHES, WHATEVER LOFTED UP INTO THE SKY THAT THE RADAR IS SEEING AND IT KNOWS IT'S NOT RAINDROPS AND THAT TELLS US THAT THERE'S DEBRIS. SO JUST LOOKING AT THIS, YOU KNOW WHERE THAT CIRCULATION IS RIGHT NOW AND WHERE IT'S GOING OFF TO THE EAST AND NORTHEAST OF ST. LOUIS. THIS IS GOING OUT OF BOND AND MONTGOMERY COUNTIES AND HEADED OVER INTO THE NORTHWEST CORNER OF FAYETTE COUNTY. SO YOU CAN SEE FILLMORE IT'S RIGHT ON YOUR DOORSTEP RIGHT NOW. YOU SHOULD BE IN YOUR SAFE PLACE. RAMSEY YOU'VE GOT ABOUT ANOTHER 10, 12 MINUTES OR SO AND IT'LL BE THERE. SO THESE ARE THE AREAS OFF TO THE NORTHEAST OF ST. LOUIS WHERE THAT TORNADO WARNING IS IN EFFECT RIGHT NOW AND THAT TORNADO WARNING I BELIEVE IS UP TO NINE FORTY FIVE FOR THESE AREAS OFF TO THE NORTHEAST OF ST. LOUIS. THESE STORMS HAVE BEEN PRODUCING DAMAGE COME BACK INTO THE METRO AREA RIGHT NOW. A FEW SCATTERED STORMS FROM TROY THROUGH EVANSVILLE TO HANNIBAL, ILLINOIS. THEY'RE NOT SEVERE AT THE MOMENT. HERE WE ARE BACK WITH THIS AREA. STILL HAVE THAT TORNADO WARNING FOR A LITTLE WHILE LONGER BUT NOTHING CONFIRMED OUT OF THAT HERE BACK WEST OF ST. CLAIR. BUT THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING WITH A TORNADO POSSIBLE HAS BEEN EXTENDED FROM THE STORM NORTHEAST BOUND TO INCLUDE THE EASTERN PORTIONS OF WARREN COUNTY INTO ALL OF ST. CHARLES COUNTY, ALL OF ST. LOUIS COUNTY, THE CITY OF ST. LOUIS, NORTHERN JEFFERSON COUNTY AND INTO THE NORTHEASTERN QUARTER OR THE NORTHEASTERN HALF OF FRANKLIN COUNTY. AND THESE STORMS AGAIN ARE RACING TO THE NORTHEAST TIMING ON THEM TO PUT THEM INTO THE METRO AREA HERE. LET'S LET ME GET THAT WE'LL PULL THIS DOWN. YOU KNOW, THIS IS GOING TO BE A ROUGH TIMING ON THESE BUT THEY'LL GET INTO ST. LOUIS. WENTZVILLE, YOU'RE TALKING YOU KNOW, MOMENTARILY THEY JUST FEEL BADLY ABOUT 930 ALZATE ABOUT 957 EDWARDSVILLE ABOUT 10 15. OK, SO THAT'S THAT'S THE TIMING ON THESE STORMS AT THIS POINT. ALL RIGHT. SO THAT'S SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING THERE IS FOR THE METRO AREA. YOU KNOW, WE'RE JUST BUSY WITH STORMS TONIGHT. WE HAVE WE'VE GOT WE'VE GOT EVERYTHING THAT UNDER THE SUN RIGHT AT THIS POINT ACROSS THE BAYSTATE REGION WITH SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS, POSSIBLE TORNADOES ALL OF THIS STUFF SLIDING RAPIDLY OFF TOWARDS THE NORTH AND NORTHEAST. I'M JUST KIND OF CLICKING SOME OF THESE ICONS OFF SO THAT WE CAN GET THEM OFF ALTHOUGH I THINK THEY MIGHT HAVE ISSUED JUST ANOTHER WARNING IF YOU'RE IN RAMSEY, ILLINOIS RIGHT NOW. WELL, LET'S JUST GO BACK TO LET'S SEE IF IT'LL GO BACK AS I DID. I JUST WENT BACK TO MAKE SURE SOME OF OUR CREWS ARE IN SAFE AREAS RIGHT NOW BECAUSE WE HAVE A CREW HEADED TO DEFIANCE. WE HAVE ANOTHER CREW THAT IS HEADED TO AN AMAZON WAREHOUSE WHERE WE HAVE REPORTS OF SOME DAMAGE THOUGH THAT'S RIGHT ALONG WHERE WE WERE TRACKING THAT TORNADO EARLIER. SO WE DO HAVE CREWS IN THERE ARE WORKING RIGHT NOW TO GET US SOME SCENE FROM ON THE GROUND AND THEN WE ARE GOING TO KEEP AN EYE ON THAT AS WELL. BUT MAKING SURE THAT THEY ARE SAFE TONIGHT AS WELL BECAUSE THAT'S VERY IMPORTANT THAT OUR CREWS ARE SAFE AS THEY MAKE THEIR WAY OUT WHEN WE TRACK THESE SYSTEMS IN THE DARK AS WELL. I WOULD LIKE SWITCH OVER TO THE NEXT ONE. THERE YOU GO. SO AS YOU CAN SEE THERE'S THAT STORM SYSTEM. WE HAVE THAT SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING AND THEN WE ALSO HAVE THAT TORNADO WARNING THAT IS IN EFFECT RIGHT NOW IS COVERING SOME PARTS OF WASHINGTON. SO COMING RIGHT OVER THE AREA THAT WAS HIT EARLIER THAT WE HAD REPORTS OF DAMAGE AND THIS IS TRACKING VERY FAST RIGHT NOW. SO ANY AREAS THAT HAVE DAMAGE YOU'RE KIND OF HEADED FOR ROUND TWO RIGHT NOW. SO SEEK SHELTER AND BE SAFE TONIGHT SCOTT. YEAH. AND YOU KNOW, WE'RE STILL TRACKING THAT CONFIRM THAT RADAR CONFIRMED TORNADO. IT IS APPROACHING RAMSEY, ILLINOIS. IF YOU WERE IN THE PATH OF THAT YOU NEED TO BE IN YOUR SAFE PLACE RIGHT NOW. THAT STORM IS WORKING OUT. IT WENT THROUGH THE COFFIN AREA OVER TOWARDS THE FILLMORE AREA . NOW IT'S APPROACHING RAMSEY, ILLINOIS. THAT'S IN NORTHWEST PORTIONS OF FAYETTE COUNTY. SO YOU NEED TO BE IN YOUR SAFE PLACE AS THAT STORM IS APPROACHING RIGHT NOW. THAT INCLUDES THE AREA PERHAPS AROUND BINGHAM IN ILLINOIS TOO . SO FROM FILLMORE OVER TO BINGHAM REALLY GETTING YOU SHOULD BE SEEING YOU KNOW, I DON'T WANT YOU TO GO OUTSIDE DO THIS BUT THERE SHOULD BE SOME DEBRIS LITERALLY FALLING OUT OF THE AIR IN THESE AREAS RIGHT NOW BECAUSE OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS AS THE TORNADO HAS BEEN ON THE GROUND. WE CAN CONFIRM IT BEING ON THE GROUND. OK, OK, SO WE DO HAVE YEAH. TRACY JUST MENTIONED THAT WE HAVE IT'S EDWARDSVILLE OR PONTOON BEACH THE AMAZON WAREHOUSE. WE DON'T KNOW EXACTLY HOW MUCH DAMAGE THERE MIGHT BE BUT THERE IS A RESPONSE THERE. LET ME FLIP THIS. THERE WE GO. OK, SO WE CAN GO BACK OVER TO MAX TO NOW WE'VE GOT IT BACK UP AND HERE'S OUR TORNADO WARNING THAT STORM AROUND RAMSEY AND JUST WEST OF RAMSEY. YOU KNOW IT'S WE'VE GOT INTO A MESSY MODE HERE TONIGHT A VERY MESSY MODE WITH THESE STORMS AND IT'S HARD TO DETECT THE TORNADOES BUT WE ARE SEEING JUST WEST AND NORTHWEST OF RAMSEY, ILLINOIS THE POTENTIAL WELL WE CAN TELL YOU THERE'S DEBRIS ON THE RADAR SCREEN SO THAT'S A CONFIRMED A RADAR CONFIRMED TORNADO. IT IS MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST THAT'S GOING TO TAKE IT NOT TOO FAR FROM RAMSEY. BUT IF YOU'RE UP ALONG HIGHWAY 51 GOING NORTH OUT OF RAMSEY, ILLINOIS, IT LOOKS LIKE IT'S PRETTY CLOSE TO COUNTY HIGHWAY I CAN'T READ THAT NUMBER BECAUSE I'M GETTING OLD AND WE'RE ON OUR BACKUP COMPUTER SYSTEMS HERE COUNTY HIGHWAY TWENTY EIGHT 50 SO YOU'RE REALLY THIS IS SOUTH OF HANDSON IN ILLINOIS AND NORTH OF RAMSI. THAT'S WHERE WE HAVE OUR DEBRIS SIGNATURE SHOWING UP NORTHWESTERN PORTIONS OF FAYETTE COUNTY. SO THAT'S WHERE WE DEFINITELY HAVE DEBRIS AND HAVE YOU KNOW, A TORNADO THAT'S BEEN ON THE GROUND CAUSING DAMAGE THERE. SO THE TORNADO WARNING CONTINUES FOR THAT AREA. THE OTHER AREA THAT WE'RE WATCHING IS BACK OF COURSE TO OUR SOUTHWEST IN THE AREA THAT IS NOW STARTING TO PUSH INTO THE WESTERN PORTIONS OF THE METRO AREA THAT'S MOVING THROUGH ST. CHARLES COUNTY AND THROUGH PORTIONS OF FRANKLIN COUNTY. IT'S ABOUT READY TO MOVE INTO ST. LOUIS COUNTY SO THIS STORM AND WEATHER SERVICE IS ACTUALLY ANALYZING IT. IT LOOKS LIKE RIGHT NOW AND WE CAN SEE YOU THERE SOME GUSTY WINDS WITH THIS THAT LOOKS TO BE THE MAIN THREAT. THE QUESTION IS THESE STORMS THAT ARE NOW FROM WENTZVILLE INTO LAKE ST. LOUIS DOWN TO NEW DELHI DOWN TOWARDS AGUSTA THEN STRETCHING DOWN JUST WEST OF PACIFIC DOWN TOWARDS ST. CLAIR. THE QUESTION IS WILL THESE STORMS BEGIN TO HAVE ROTATION WITH THEM? IT'S CERTAINLY A POSSIBILITY THE ENVIRONMENT IS FAVORABLE FOR THAT. SO IT'S CERTAINLY A POSSIBILITY WE HAVE ONE TORNADO WARNING THAT STILL REMAINS IN EFFECT. WELL, TECHNICALLY TWO WE'VE GOT ONE FOR PORTIONS OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY AND THEN THE NORTHWEST CORNER OF FAYETTE COUNTY ON THE ILLINOIS SIDE. SO THOSE ARE TWO TORNADO WARNINGS WE CAN CONFIRM IF YOU WANT TO GO OVER TO WHEN IT'S GOING TO LOOK LIKE IF I GET IT BACK THIS WAY IF YOU WANT TO GO OVER TO NEXT TO SEAN, YOU CAN SEE THIS AREA NORTH OF RAMZI AND THIS IS THE AREA WE'VE BEEN WATCHING. SO THAT AREA NORTH OF RAMSEY, THAT'S THE DEBRIS SIGNATURE. SO WE KNOW WE'VE HAD DEBRIS LOFTED UP HERE, THAT ONE OVER BINGHAM THAT WAS COMING OUT OF COFFEE IN ILLINOIS. SO WE CAN ANTICIPATE FOR SURE WE KNOW WE'VE HAD DAMAGE IN THIS GENERAL VICINITY HERE AND THAT'S UP AROUND HANDSON ILLINOIS RIGHT NOW. SO IT'S MOVING OUT OF OUR VIEWING AREA BUT IT WENT OVER BINGHAM AND IT WAS BACK HERE TOWARDS COFFIELD. SO THAT'S THAT'S WHAT WE'RE LOOKING AT HERE AT THIS POINT. THAT'S DEBRIS ON THE RADAR FROM A TORNADO. SO IF YOU'RE IN RAMSEY AND NORTH OF RAMSEY, I'D STILL SAY STAY SHELTERED BECAUSE YOU'RE GETTING INTO THE THICK OF THE STORM RIGHT NOW AND THERE'S POTENTIALLY, YOU KNOW, MORE ACTIVE WEATHER BACK HERE TO THE WEST, MORE ROTATION BACK TO THE WEST. IT'S A VERY MESSY, VERY MESSY SIGNATURE. THERE'S THE RADAR SIGNATURE AND A CIRCULATION SHOWING UP THAT'S RIGHT ALONG ABOUT READY TO CROSS OVER HIGHWAY ONE AND THAT WOULD BE VERY CLOSE TO JUST NORTH OF RAMSEY UP TOWARDS HANDSON ILLINOIS ALONG US FIFTY ONE AGAIN THE NORTHERN PARTS OF FAYETTE COUNTY IN ILLINOIS. YOU NEED TO BE IN YOUR SAFE PLACE NOW HERE'S A BROADER PERSPECTIVE OF WHAT WE'RE DEALING WITH. WE HAVE QUITE THE NUMBER OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE REGION. WE HAVE ANOTHER BIG BATCH PUSHING INTO THE METRO AREA RIGHT NOW THAT HAS A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING WITH A TORNADO POSSIBLE AND THIS INCLUDES ST. CHARLES COUNTY, ST. LOUIS COUNTY, THE CITY OF ST. LOUIS AND BACK INTO FRANKLIN COUNTY. SO THESE ARE THE AREAS WHERE WE HAVE THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING. WE WILL CONTINUE TO TRACK THESE STORMS RIGHT NOW THERE'S NO IMMINENT TORNADO THREAT THERE BUT THE TORNADO IS GOING TO GO BACK TO MIGHT BE DEALING WITH BATTERIES THAT ARE DYING SINCE WE HAVE BEEN ON SO LONG WITH YOU TONIGHT WE HAVE THAT WARNING FOR FRANKLIN COUNTY HAS EXPIRED AND THEN AS YOU CAN SEE ,WE STILL HAVE THAT TORNADO WARNING TOWARDS LITCHFIELD RIGHT NOW THAT WE ARE CONTINUING TO TRACK THROUGH WITH THIS PARTICULAR STORM SYSTEM. SO AS YOU CAN SEE, WE DO HAVE THAT WARNING THAT WAS EXPIRED. WE STILL HAVE ANOTHER ONE THAT'S JUST FURTHER DOWN TO THE SOUTH AND A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING THAT IS UNDER MOST OF THE WEST SIDE OF THE ST. LOUIS AREA. SO WENT TO ST. CHARLES AND ST. LOUIS COUNTIES. THESE ARE STORMS WE NEED YOU TO BE CAREFUL ABOUT. WE WANT YOU TO PAY ATTENTION TO THEM. WE HAVE HAD REPORTS OF DAMAGE. WE HAD A REPORT OF AN OVERTURNED SEMI TRUCK. WE HAVE A REPORT OF A DAMAGE ON AMAZON WAREHOUSE RIGHT NOW. SO THESE ARE DANGEROUS AND WE WANT YOU TO BE AWARE OF THEM. WE'RE NOT GOING TO BE IN THEM TOO MUCH LONGER HERE BUT ABOUT YOU KNOW, AFTER MIDNIGHT I THINK WE'LL BE IN THE CLEAR FROM ALL THIS. SO AS YOU CAN STILL SEE, WE ARE TRACKING THIS SYSTEM TONIGHT. SOME REPORTS FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INCLUDE WIND GUSTS UP TO 70 MILES PER HOUR ASSOCIATED WITH THESE STORMS. SO SOME VERY STRONG STORMS. WE'VE ALSO SEEN SOME LARGER HAIL ABOUT AN INCH IN SIZE FOR SOME SPOTS IN THE WEST COUNTY AND THEN UP INTO ILLINOIS. SO THIS CONTINUES TONIGHT HERE AND YOU CAN SEE WE STILL HAVE THAT WARNING. SO THAT AREA THAT'S OVER WASHINGTON RIGHT NOW COMING UP THROUGH AND BREAKING INTO PARTS OF ST. LOUIS COUNTY NOW THAT IS ALL GOING TO CONTINUE TO MOVE UP INTO THE NORTH SO ANY AREAS THAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN AFFECTED BY DAMAGE EARLIER WE WERE GOING TO GET HIT AGAIN WITH THIS AREA. IT'S A THINNER AREA THAN THE FIRST ONE AT LEAST FOR NOW. WE COULD SEE THAT COULD PICK UP A LITTLE BIT OF MOMENTUM AS IT CROSSES OVER THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER. BUT CURRENTLY THAT THINNER AREA OF STORMS A SMALLER LINE BUT GENERATING SOME VERY STRONG WINDS WITH THIS I'VE SEEN SOME BOTH IN THE RADAR INDICATE SOME VERY STRONG WIND GUSTS TONIGHT OUT. SO AS FAR AS THIS STORM SYSTEM GOES, LET'S GO AHEAD AND TAKE A LOOK AT THIS ONE HERE WHERE WE HAD THAT SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING THAT'S IN EFFECT FOR ABOUT THE NEXT 20 MINUTES FOR PARTS OF CALHOUN, FRANKLIN, ST. CHARLES AND ST. LOUIS COUNTIES. WE HAVE THAT TORNADO WARNING THAT'S GOING TO EXPIRE HERE IN ABOUT THREE MINUTES SO WE DON'T HAVE TO WORRY TOO MUCH ABOUT THAT ONE ANYMORE AS THIS CROSSES OVER. NOW THAT LINE OF STORMS THAT WE STILL HAVE TORNADO WARNINGS ON JUST ABOUT TO CROSS OUT OF THE FIVE ON YOUR SIDE COVERAGE AREA, WE STILL HAVE SOME TORNADO WARNINGS THAT I WANT YOU TO BE AWARE OF IF YOU ARE IN THESE COUNTIES IN ILLINOIS. SO THIS IS GOING TO CONTINUE ON HERE. THIS IS ALMOST OUT OF THE FIVE ON YOUR SIDE COVERAGE THOUGH FAYETTE AND MONTGOMERY COUNTY COUNTY'S THIS IS GOING TO THIS TORNADO WARNING IS GOING TO EXPIRE AT ABOUT NINE 30. IT HAS BEEN EXTENDED OUT OF THE FIVE ON YOUR SIDE COVERAGE AREA INTO SHELBY COUNTY WITH THE WARNING THAT GOES THROUGH ABOUT 10 15 TONIGHT AND THEN A WARNING THROUGH ABOUT NINE. FORTY FIVE IS JUST ON PARTS OF FAYETTE COUNTY THERE AS YOU CAN SEE HIGHLIGHTED IN THE RED. THESE STORMS PUTTING ON QUITE A SHOW TONIGHT, LOTS OF LIGHTNING AND SOME HEAVY RAINFALL AND WE JUST HAD ALL THE AGREE WE'RE RIGHT FOR THIS TODAY WE HAD SOME WARM AIR THAT WARM ALWAYS HELPS THESE STORMS GROW TO BE SEVERE AND THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT WE'RE SEEING. LOTS OF STRONG WINDS THIS TIME OF YEAR. SCOTT HAS BEEN MENTIONING AND SOME OF THE UPPER PARTS OF THE ATMOSPHERE SO SOMETHING YOU WOULDN'T EXPERIENCE CLOSE CLOSE TO THE GROUND BUT SOMETHING THAT YOU CERTAINLY WOULD PERHAPS IF YOU WERE UP A PLANE. BUT HERE WE GO AS I JUST WANT TO SHOW YOU A BROADER VIEW OF THIS SYSTEM. YOU CAN SEE AFFECTING SOME PARTS OF PADUCAH, KENTUCKY, VERY ACTIVE TONIGHT. SO A WIDE AREA OF STORMS THAT'S AFFECTING THE MIDWEST TONIGHT. SOME SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNINGS BUT THOSE TORNADO WARNINGS OK, WE HAVE A VIEW OF PONTOON BEACH HERE. WE HAVE A CREW THAT HAS HEADED OUT THERE THAT'S IN ILLINOIS. WE HAVE REPORTS OF THIS WAREHOUSE WITH A COLLAPSED ROOF. LOOKS LIKE THEY'RE PLANNING IT TO WHERE THAT IS. BUT SO EMERGENCY CREWS ARE ON THE SCENE OF THIS WAREHOUSE WHERE WE KNOW THAT THE ROOF HAS COLLAPSED TONIGHT. SO IT LOOKS LIKE THEY'RE JUST GETTING SET UP. YOU KNOW, THE EMERGENCY CREWS ARE ILLUMINATING OUT RIGHT NOW AND CLEARLY THERE'S A LARGE PRESENCE THERE. THIS IS AN AMAZON WAREHOUSE AND OF COURSE THIS IS THE BUSY TIME OF YEAR FOR BUSIEST TIME OF YEAR FOR AMAZON. SO WE HAVE THIS IS PONTOON BEACH. THIS WOULD BE EARLIER THIS EVENING. WE DON'T KNOW IF ANYBODY'S HURT OR NOT. OBVIOUSLY WE'RE WATCHING LIVE PICTURES THERE. 24 HOUR OPERATIONS ARE NOT BUT I WOULDN'T BE SURPRISED IF THEY WERE FOR THIS TIME OF YEAR TIME OF YEAR ESPECIALLY YOU CAN SEE THIS MORE FIRST RESPONDERS ARRIVING HERE TO THE SCENE. ROBERT TOWNSEND WILL HAVE A LIVE REPORT HOPEFULLY COMING UP FOR US TONIGHT AT 10:00. REMEMBER THIS WAS PART OF THE STORM IN PONTOON BEACH. THAT PART OF THE STORM WAS THE ONE THAT'S NOW OVER THERE. IT WENT THROUGH EDWARDSVILLE AND THEN WORKED ITS WAY OVER INTO BOND COUNTY AND NOW IT'S PART OF THAT SAME LITTLE AREA THAT'S UP THERE IN NORTHERN PORTIONS OF FAYETTE COUNTY AND WITH THOSE CREWS THAT ARE ON THE SCENE NOW THERE THERE'S GOING TO BE ANOTHER BATCH OF THUNDERSTOR THAT ARE GOING TO COME THROUGH RIGHT THROUGH THAT AREA AGAIN CURRENTLY THERE'S NO TORNADO WARNING OR WE'RE NOT DETECTING ANYTHING WORTHY OF A TORNADO WARNING BUT WITH THAT WE'RE GOING TO HAVE SOME HEAVY RAIN AGAIN IN THOSE AREAS THAT HAVE BEEN IMPACTED BY THIS STORM. SO THAT'LL BE DIFFICULT FOR OUR FIRST RESPONDERS. CERTAINLY DO NOT LEAVE YOUR HOMES TO GO OUT AND SURVEY FOR DAMAGE, LEAVE THE ROADS OPEN FOR THOSE FIRST RESPONDERS THAT NEED TO RESPOND TO EMERGENCIES LIKE THAT WAREHOUSE THE COLLAPSE IN PONCEY. AND AGAIN, WE DON'T KNOW THE DETAILS ON ALL OF THAT AT THIS POINT. WE JUST KNOW IT'S HAPPENED AND THERE ARE LOTS OF FIRST RESPONDERS THERE. WE'RE LETTING THEM DO THEIR JOB. WE'RE NOT GOING TO GET A LOT OF INFORMATION FROM THEM RIGHT NOW. THIS IS WHAT WE WE TEND TO HAVE TO WHEN WE GO THROUGH A STORM SCENARIO THAT PLAYS OUT LIKE THIS. WE'VE SAID THIS BEFORE TONIGHT THE DAMAGE REPORTS COME IN LATER AFTERWARDS AND YOU CAN'T REALLY BOTHER THE FIREFIGHTERS AND THE FIRST RESPONDERS BECAUSE THEY'RE LITERALLY TIED UP RIGHT NOW DOING WHAT THEY DO. SO WE DON'T ALWAYS GET THE DAMAGE REPORTS RIGHT AWAY. NOW I DID HEAR FROM AMRON ILLINOIS. THEY'VE ACTIVATED A REGIONAL COMMAND CENTER TO ASSESS THE DAMAGE IN MADISON COUNTY AND TO THE EAST SO THERE'LL BE MORE INFORMATION ON THAT. THEY'VE ALREADY PREPOSITIONED SOME OF THE STORM TRAILERS THAT AMEREN HAS AND WE'RE IN ILLINOIS AND MISSOURI HAVE STORM TRAILERS THAT ARE PRELOADED WITH PARTS THAT YOU WOULD NEED TO RESTORE POWER AND SO THEY PREPOSITIONED THEM WHEN THEY CAN IN A IN A SPACE WHERE THEY CAN RESPOND QUICKLY BUT THEY TOO HAVE TO ASSESS THE DAMAGE, TREAT ALL OF YOUR POWER LINES, ANY CABLE, ANY LINE YOU SEE, TREAT IT AS A LIVE WIRE. LET IT BE DON'T MESS WITH THEM. WE DON'T WANT ANYBODY TO HAVE PROBLEMS WITH ELECTRICITY TONIGHT IF YOU'RE OUTSIDE WITH THE LIGHTS WITH POWER LINES DOWN, THAT'S A VERY DANGEROUS THING. LEAVE IT TO THE POWER COMPANY. THIS WILL GO FOR LATER TONIGHT INTO TOMORROW MORNING IF THERE'S DAMAGE FROM THESE STORMS THE NIGHTTIME HOURS IT'S HARD TO SEE AND SOME DANGER. YES AND DANGEROUS. SO TREAT ANY LIVE CABLE OR ANY CABLE OR POWER LINE EVEN THOUGH IT MAY BE A PHONE LINE OR MAYBE A CABLE LINE, YOU DON'T KNOW TREAT IT AS A HOT WIRE, A LIVE POWER LINE STAY AWAY FROM IT AND LET THE POWER CREWS DO THEIR THING HERE AS WE GO THROUGH THE NIGHTTIME HOURS TONIGHT STILL WATCHING THIS LINE OF STORMS HERE OUT TO THE WEST AND SOUTHWEST OF ST. LOUIS STILL OUT THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING CENTER COUNTY INTO ST. LOUIS COUNTY, NORTHERN PORTIONS OF JEFFERSON COUNTY KIND OF ZOOMING IN IN THAT AREA HERE. THIS IS RIGHT DOWN 44 HIGHWAY 40 SOME AREAS THAT HAVE ALREADY BEEN POUNDED QUITE A BIT. WE ARE SEEING SOME PRETTY STRONG WINDS EVIDENT WITH THIS . I THINK THAT'S PROBABLY THE GREATEST THREAT. THERE'S NOT A LOT OF REALLY TIGHT CIRCULATIONS IN HERE THAT WE'RE FOLLOWING THAT DOES LOOK LIKE THINGS ARE FINALLY STARTING TO SETTLE DOWN A LITTLE BIT OUT THIS GOOD? YES. THIS MAY BE OUR OUR LAST BIG EFFORT HERE FROM THIS TONIGHT BUT YOU KNOW THAT ONE STORM THAT WAS UP IN FAYETTE COUNTY WE NOW WENT NORTH OF RAMSEY OR VERY CLOSE TO RAMSEY FROM COUGHING OVER HERE IN EASTERN PORTIONS OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY AND REALLY THAT WAS THE ONE THAT WAS PART OF THAT COMPLEX OF WHAT HAS GONE THROUGH FROM PONTA BEACH ONTO THE NORTHEAST THAT'S GOING TO HAVE A PRETTY SUBSTANTIAL AMOUNT OF DAMAGE ASSOCIATED WITH IT. I WOULD THINK SO IT'S NOT IMPACTING BEACH. IT'S THE EDWARDSVILLE AREA IS WHERE THIS IS. SO LET'S GO WE'VE GOT THAT LIVE PICTURE RIGHT NOW AND WE'RE OFF IN THE DISTANCE HERE. OUR VIDEOGRAPHERS ARE BEING SAFE BUT THERE IS THE AMAZON. THIS IS AN AMAZON WAREHOUSE. THERE'S BEEN SOME TYPE OF ROOF COLLAPSE. DON'T KNOW IF IT INVOLVES THE WALLS. YOU JUST KIND OF WE'RE LOOKING AT THIS TOGETHER AND WE'RE LOOKING AT IT LIKE YOU CAN SEE THE LARGE FIRE PRESENCE THERE AND THIS IS THIS IS GOING TO BE A MUTUAL AID SITUATION. THERE ARE FIRE DEPARTMENTS FROM MULTIPLE AGENCIES CLEARLY IN THIS AREA. SO THIS IS AN AMAZON ROOF WAREHOUSE. CERTAINLY A BUSY TIME OF YEAR THAT WE EXPECT IN THIS THIS AREA I EXPECT WITHIN ABOUT THE NEXT MAYBE 30 MINUTES OR SO TO BE IN THAT SEVERE THUNDERSTORM THAT'S COMING THROUGH. SO WE DEFINITELY ARE HOPING FOR THE BEST WITH THOSE FIRST RESPONDERS THAT ARE ON THE SCENE A VERY LARGE WHAT LOOKS LIKE A STEEL STRUCTURE THERE YOU CAN SEE ROOF THAT HAS COLLAPSED AND FIBERGLASS WIRES THAT ARE HANGING FROM THE CEILING LOOKS LIKE THE FIRE DEPARTMENT HAS THERE. THAT'S EDWARDSVILLE FIRE DEPARTMENT WITH THEIR LADDER TRUCKS DEPLOYED TRYING TO GET A BETTER HANDLE ON THIS SITUATION. BUT YOU CAN SEE JUST A VERY LARGE AREA OF THIS BUILDING THAT HAS COLLAPSED AND WE'RE STARTING IN PARTS OF THE BUILDING THAT ARE STILL STILL STANDING. BUT YOU CAN SEE THAT FULL PART OF THE ROOF AND PART OF THE DUCTWORK THERE ABOUT THAT SILVER REFLECTION THAT YOU'RE SEEING THAT'S DOWN ON THE GROUND POLICE THAT'S THERE AS WELL THEN YOU'RE STARTING TO GET IN SOME THE AREAS WITH THE BAYS WHERE THE TRUCKS ARE PARKED THAT LOOK LIKE THEY ARE DOING JUST FINE. THEY CURRENTLY DO NOT HAVE ANY REPORTS OF INJURIES. WE WILL CONTINUE TO BRING YOU UPDATES OUR REPORTER ROBERT TOWNSEND IS HEADING THAT WAY. WE OF COURSE ARE STAYING OUT OF THE WAY OF THOSE FIRST RESPONDERS WHILE THEY WORK. LOOKS LIKE THERE'S MULTIPLE AMBULANCES WITH THEIR DOORS OPEN READY TO GO FOR ANYONE WHO MAY HAVE BEEN INJURED IN THIS COLLAPSE. THIS WAS AN AMAZON WAREHOUSE. WE DO NOT HAVE ANY CONFIRMED REPORTS RIGHT NOW BUT OF COURSE WE ARE LETTING THOSE FIRST RESPONDERS WORK RIGHT NOW SO WE WILL NOT HAVE THOSE REPORTS FOR A LITTLE BIT UNTIL WE CAN GET INFORMATION BACK FROM THEM. THEY ARE CURRENTLY VERY BUSY OBVIOUSLY AND I SEE THOSE FIREFIGHTERS ARE DEPLOYING SOME WATER ON THE SCENE AS WELL, POTENTIALLY PUTTING OUT ANY HOT SPOTS THAT COULD BE AN ISSUE AFTER A BUILDING COLLAPSE LIKE THIS. THAT'S SOMETHING THAT'S A VERY IMPORTANT THAT THEY GET ON WITH THAT WORK. YOU CAN REALLY SEE A LOT OF THAT STEEL STRUCTURE THERE WITH THAT ROOF COLLAPSE. YEAH, AND I THINK WHAT WE'RE GOING TO BE DEALING WITH HERE IN THE NEXT YOU KNOW, IT'S MORE OF A CLEANUP MODE RIGHT NOW, ESPECIALLY IN THAT AREA WE STILL HAVE THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING ALONG THE MISSOURI RIVER HERE IN ST. CHARLES COUNTY, WESTERN PORTIONS OF ST. LOUIS COUNTY, NORTHWESTERN PORTIONS OF JEFFERSON COUNTY BACK INTO EASTERN PORTIONS OF FRANKLIN COUNTY. SO WE'RE BASICALLY ONCE THIS GOES THROUGH AND THERE COULD BE SOME CIRCULATIONS DEVELOPING IN THIS TO THERE'S ONE AREA HERE THAT'S JUST SOUTHWEST OF BRIDGETON THAT IS ESPECIALLY SUSPICIOUS. I WANT TO ZOOM IN ON MAX TOO IF YOU WOULD. AND WE'VE GOT THAT KIND OF HONED IN IN THIS AREA JUST TO THE WEST OF 270 HERE IN MARYLAND HEIGHTS KIND LOOKING AT A SUSPICIOUS NUB THERE. I'M GOING TO POP THE VELOCITY. IT LOOKS LIKE THERE IS SOME ROTATION THERE FOR SURE. I DON'T SEE ANYTHING THAT STANDS OUT DRAMATIC HERE AND I'M NOT SURE THAT IT'S A REAL TIGHT ROTATION. BUT NONETHELESS, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING. IT INCLUDES ST. LOUIS COUNTY AND IT ALSO IS A TORNADO POSSIBLE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING WHICH MEANS THESE CIRCULATIONS ARE EVIDENT. THE ENVIRONMENT, THE ATMOSPHERE IS RICH AND YOU KNOW THE ENVIRONMENT IS READY TO CREATE BAD WEATHER. I MEAN THAT'S JUST THE REALITY OF IT. THE ATMOSPHERE IS IS PRIMED TO CREATE NASTY THUNDERSTORMS TONIGHT AND WE'VE SEEN SOME YEAH, THAT'S RIGHT. I THINK WE'RE GOING TO SEE A FEW MORE ROLLING INTO THE MARYLAND HEIGHTS AREA AND UP TOWARDS THE AIRPORT AND ST. AND IN EDMONTON NORTH COUNTY I THINK YOU'RE STILL GOING TO BE LOOKING AT ANOTHER BATCH OF 50 TO 60 MILE PER HOUR WINDS WITH THESE STORMS AS THEY COME ON THROUGH AND WE DO HAVE A REPORT FROM EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT THAT SAYS THEY ARE WORKING PEOPLE ARE TRAPPED IN THAT AMAZON BUILDING RIGHT NOW. SO THAT'S WHY THERE'S SUCH A LARGE EMERGENCY PRESENCE AT THAT SCENE AS THEY WORK TO HELP THOSE PEOPLE OUT. SO REPORTS FROM AN EMERGENCY MANAGER IN THE AREA THAT PEOPLE ARE TRAPPED IN THIS BUILDING COLLAPSE AT AN AMAZON WAREHOUSE IN EDWARDSVILLE. THIS SYSTEM WE TRACKED IT HAD A LITTLE WE HAD SOME LEEWAY ON IT. IT DID HAVE A TORNADO WARNING FOR SOME TIME OVER AND YOU CAN SEE JUST THIS BUILDING COLLAPSE THERE'S THE ROOF APPEARS TO BE DOWN ON THE GROUND. LOTS OF LOTS OF CREWS ON THE SCENE. THERE'S THE FIRE EDWARDSVILLE FIRE DEPARTMENT IS PUTTING WATER MOST LIKELY TO MAKE SURE THAT A NO FIRES DO HAPPEN WHICH SOMETIMES THEY DO AFTER SITUATIONS LIKE THIS MOST LIKELY CONTAINING SOME ELECTRICAL ISSUES. WE'VE SEEN MULTIPLE REPORTS OF POWER LINES DOWN WITH THESE STORMS TONIGHT. WE ALSO HAVE MULTIPLE AMBULANCES ON THE SITE OF THIS AMAZON WAREHOUSE COLLAPSE. THIS IS IN EDWARDSVILLE. WE HAVE REPORTS FROM EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT THAT PEOPLE HAVE BEEN TRAPPED. I SEE SOME FIRE CREWS WORKING AROUND SOME THE DEBRIS THAT HAS FALLEN AS WELL AS SOME WATER THAT'S BEEN PUT ON THE SCENE. THERE'S THOSE AMBULANCES ON STANDBY. SO STAY OUT OF THIS AREA, PLEASE. MAKE SURE THAT THESE EMERGENCY CREWS HAVE ROOM TO WORK TONIGHT . SO STAY OUT OF THAT AREA AND LET THOSE THOSE CREWS DO THEIR WORK. WE WILL HAVE SOME SLOW UPDATES THROUGHOUT THE EVENING MOST LIKELY WITH THIS AS WE WILL CONTINUE TO WATCH THIS AND STAY OUT OF THEIR WAY AS THEY WORK TO HELP THE PEOPLE WHO ARE TRAPPED INSIDE THIS AMAZON BUILDING RIGHT NOW WE HAVE NO WORD ON HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE INVOLVED BUT THAT IS WHY THERE IS SUCH A LARGE PRESENCE THERE. THIS WAS CONFIRMED BY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AND WE HAVE A NEW TORNADO WARNING NOW THAT INCLUDES NORTH ST. LOUIS COUNTY AND IT'S GOING TO INCLUDE VERY CLOSE TO THIS AREA NEAR EDWARDSVILLE. SO AS WE WERE JUST LOOKING AT A FEW MINUTES AGO IN TRACKING THESE STORMS REALLY THIS ONE IN THE BRIDGETON AREA, WE'RE GETTING THAT LITTLE NOTCH IN ONCE AGAIN. AND SO THIS IS A TORNADO WARNING THAT IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 30 FOR MAKEUP AND MADISON AND ST. CHARLES COUNTY. IT'S A NORTHEASTERNER EASTERN PORTIONS OF ST. CHARLES COUNTY EAST OF ST. CHARLES AND GOING UP TOWARDS WEST ALTON AND INCLUDES THE ALTON AREA. IT INCLUDES SPANISH LIKE IT INCLUDES THE SAME AREA ALONG THE CHAIN OF ROXBURY WHICH THEY DREW THE WARNING SO IT DIDN'T REALLY INCLUDE THE CITY OF ST. LOUIS BUT WE GOT A COUPLE OF CIRCULATION RIGHT NOW RUNS RIGHT OVER IT LOOKS LIKE CNN. SO THAT'S GOING TO BE DARN CLOSE TO GOING STRAIGHT OVER LAMBERT AIRPORT RIGHT NOW WHERE WE DO HAVE A WEATHER OBSERVER SO WE MAY HEAR SOMETHING FROM THEM SHORTLY. THE GUSTS OUT WEST ST. WITH COUNTY HAVE BEEN JUST UNDER 50 MILES PER HOUR. BUT AGAIN, IF YOU'RE IN NORTH ST. LOUIS COUNTY I'M REALLY IN THIS AREA HERE. I'M FROM ABOUT THE AIRPORT OVER A LONG 270 FERGUSON NORTH OF OVERLAND I WOULD SUSPECT. BUT OVERALL YOU'RE TECHNICALLY STILL IN THE POLYGON BELLMORE DELBRIDGE FERGUSON INTO JENNINGS BELLEFONTAINE NEIGHBORS THIS WHOLE AREA HERE FROM LAMBERT ON TO THE EAST AND REALLY EITHER SIDE IS 70. WE NEED YOU IN YOUR SAFE PLACE RIGHT NOW. YOU'RE IN THE IMMEDIATE THREAT AREA AS THERE'S A POTENTIAL TORNADO VERY CLOSE TO LAMBERT AIRPORT RIGHT NOW WE'RE SEEING THAT CIRCULATION ON THE RADAR SCREEN, VERY INTENSE ROTATION IN THERE NOW WE EXTEND THIS OUT A BIT AND WE'RE GOING TO PUSH THIS OUT AND THAT TORNADO WARNING EXTENDS OFF TO THE EAST AND IT GOES ALL THE WAY OVER TOWARDS ALHAMBRA. IT GOES UP INTO SOUTHERN PORTIONS OF MACUGEN COUNTY. SO IT INCLUDES STOCKTON IT LOOKS LIKE IT JUST SKIPS BY BRIGHTON, ILLINOIS AND IT'S JUST WEST OF LITCHFIELD. BUT BASICALLY THE AREA WHERE THEY'RE DEALING WITH THE SITUATION IN EDWARDSVILLE AT THE AMAZON WAREHOUSE THAT SAME AREA IS NOW UNDER WE'RE VERY CLOSE TO YET ANOTHER TORNADO WARNING THE CIRCULATION WITH THIS AND I'LL PUT A TRACK ON IT. THE CIRCULATION WITH THIS IS VERY CLOSE TO THE AIRPORT SO JUST MOVING AT EAST AND NORTHEAST AND THAT FANS OUT A LITTLE FLORISSANT YOU SHOULD BE IN YOUR VICINITY PRETTY CLOSE TO YOUR VICINITY NOW BUT WITHIN THE NEXT MINUTE OR TWO YOU SHOULD BE IN YOUR BASEMENT. YOU'RE IN FORCETT IF YOU'RE IN BLACKJACKS SPANISH LAKE SAFE PLACE IS IN THE BASEMENT IF YOU DON'T HAVE A BASEMENT AS MANY WALLS BETWEEN YOU AND THE OUTSIDE AS POSSIBLE, WE'RE STAYING AWAY FROM WINDOWS, STAYING AWAY FROM DOORS. WE'RE NOT GETTING SOMETHING TO PROTECT OUR HEAD. YOU'VE GOT A BICYCLE HELMET USE THAT GOT A PILLOW GRAB THAT YOU WANT TO PROTECT YOUR HEAD. OK, THIS CROSSES THE RIVER GOES OVER INTO ALTON WOOD RIVER. THE RIALTO HANDLE AND EVENTUALLY OVER TOWARDS ST. IF IT STAYS TOGETHER IT COULD VERY WELL BE IN A HAMARA IN THE NEXT HOUR OR SO. SO AGAIN THIS IS A TORNADO WARNING RADAR INDICATED TORNADO . WE GOT THE CIRCULATION VERY CLOSE TO LAMBERT AT THIS POINT IT CONTINUES TO ROLL RAPIDLY OFF TO THE NORTHEAST. ALL OF THESE STORMS ARE MOVING RAPIDLY NORTHEAST AND AS THEY DO MOVE RAPIDLY NORTHEAST THEY'VE BEEN CREATING WINDS AND CAUSING DAMAGE. A LOT OF POWER OUTAGES IN ILLINOIS ACTIVATED THEIR EMERGENCY CENTER TO ASSESS THE SITUATION, PARTICULARLY IN MADISON COUNTY. WE HAD A TORNADO PRETTY CONFIDENT ON THE GROUND EASTERN PORTIONS OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY IN ILLINOIS OVER TO NORTHERN PORTIONS OF FAYETTE COUNTY. THAT'S SINCE GONE UP SOUTH OF SHELBYVILLE WE DON'T KNOW IF THIS IS A TORNADO ON THE GROUND BUT THE ROTATION IS CERTAINLY THERE HERE IN NORTH ST. WAS COUNTY. SO WE'RE TALKING IN THE FLORISSANT AREA AND BLACKJACK YOUR AREA, NEWHALL FERRY ROAD, YOU KNOW ALL OF YOUR MAIN THOROUGHFARES HERE WASHINGTON STREET, WASHINGTON, ELIZABETH THE EXIT YOU KNOW 270 IS UNDER CONSTRUCTION AND IT'S JUST A BIG MESS UP HERE. SO YOU KNOW, ALL ALONG 270 BUT YOU FOLKS HERE CALVERTON, POINTE PARK, CASTLEPOINT ALONG CHAMBERS' ROAD ANYWHERE PARK ROAD ANYWHERE UP THREE SIXTY SEVEN HERE AS YOU GO BY CHRISTIAN NORTHEAST HOSPITAL YOU NEED TO BE IN YOUR SAFE PLACE. WE'VE GOT THAT CIRCULATION SHOWING UP HERE. THIS IS A TORNADO WARNING CIRCULATION HAS LOOKS LIKE OUT OF THE LAMBERT AREA NOW MOVING INTO FLOOR ALONG TO SEVENTY LET'S SAY BERKELY UP TOWARDS FLORISSANT AND SLIDING ONTO THE EAST AND THERE MAY BE MORE THAN ONE CIRCULATION IN HERE. THERE'S A LOT OF STRONG WINDS ON THIS LEADING EDGE. THE ENVIRONMENT IS SUCH IN OTHER WORDS THE AIR THAT THIS IS MOVING INTO THE WINDS ARE SUCH THAT ROTATING AND SPINNING THUNDERSTORMS AND CREATING TORNADOES IS CERTAINLY WITHIN THE REALM OF POSSIBILITY. OK, SO WE NEED YOU TO BE SAFE. WE NEED YOU IF YOU'RE IN NORTH ST. LOUIS COUNTY ESPECIALLY ALONG 270 TO GET INTO YOUR SAFE PLACE. NOW THAT NOTCH IS RIGHT ALONG NORTH OF TUCSON. IT'S MOVING JUST EAST OF FLORISSANT, DOWNTOWN FLORISSANT AND IT WILL BE MOVING TOWARDS BLACK JACK STILL A POTENTIAL CIRCULATION A COUPLE OF THEM ONE FOR FLOOR, ONE DOWN TOWARDS FERGUSON. SO THESE ARE ALL MOVING NORTHEAST AND THEN THEY'RE GOING TO ROLL ACROSS THE RIVER AND GO INTO MADISON COUNTY. ALL RIGHT. SO THIS IS NORTH ST. LOUIS COUNTY AND I'M GOING TO BROADEN THIS BACK OUT A LITTLE BIT HERE. THIS IS OUR LATEST TORNADO WARNING ON TOP OF THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING THAT LOOKS LIKE THEY MAY HAVE LET THAT ONE EXPIRE ON THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING. THAT'S NOT TO SAY THAT WITH THIS WE MIGHT NOT HAVE HAIL OR DAMAGING WIND GUSTS WITH AN ASSOCIATION WITH THIS BUT THE TORNADO WARNING IS SOMETHING MORE PREVALENT WITH THIS ONE. WE HAVE TOLD OUR CREWS OUT IN THE FIELD TO SEEK SHELTER AS THEY ARE UNDER THIS TORNADO WARNING RIGHT NOW. SO WE DO NOT HAVE LIVE SHOTS TO PROVIDE YOU WITH RIGHT NOW FROM THAT AMAZON WAREHOUSE COLLAPSE. BUT WE ARE TOLD THAT PEOPLE ARE TRAPPED, WHICH IS WHY IS SUCH A LARGE PRESENCE ON THE SCENE THERE. WE'RE TRACKING THIS STORM AS YOU CAN SEE THAT IS IT IS DOES INCLUDE PARTS OF EDWARDSVILLE IN THIS CURRENT TORNADO WARNING BOX THOUGH THAT MAIN THREAT IS CURRENTLY RIGHT NOW IN FLORISSANT. SCOTT. YEAH. AND YOU KNOW, JUST TO NOT LEAVE OUT OUR FIRST SOUTHERN COUNTIES ,WE'RE ALSO LOOKING AT SOME OF THESE STORMS DOWN ACROSS WASHINGTON COUNTY, MISSOURI IRON COUNTY INTO RUNNELS COUNTY THERE STRONG. THEY DON'T LOOK SEVERE AT THIS POINT WHICH IS A GOOD THING BUT THEY ARE STRONG AND THEY'RE ALSO IN THAT ENVIRONMENT THAT'S FAVORABLE FOR ROTATION. BUT WE COME BACK INTO THE METRO AREA AND OF COURSE OUR BIGGEST CONCERN UP INTO NORTH COUNTY RIGHT NOW WHERE WE CONTINUE TO TRACK THAT STORM, IT LOOKS LIKE THE STRONGEST WINDS ARE PUSHING TOWARDS BLACKJACK AND HEADING TOWARDS SPANISH LAKE. YOU KNOW, THIS IS PRETTY CLOSE. IT'S GOING TO BE UP ALONG PARKER ROAD. IT TAKES YOU UP ALONG LIMBURG WHERE YOU MEET UP WITH 67 GOING UP ACROSS THE MISSOURI RIVER OLD HAWKESBURY ROAD UP HERE. THAT'S WHERE OUR CIRCULATION THIS IS WHERE WE'RE SHOWING THE STRONGEST WINDS RIGHT NOW ESPECIALLY HERE, YOU KNOW, OLD JAMESTOWN, THE JAMESTOWN JAMESTOWN MAULS UP HERE. IT'S PRETTY CLOSE TO THAT RIGHT NOW. IT'S NOT FAR FROM THAT AT ALL. OUR CIRCULATION THAT COULD BE PRODUCING A TORNADO. SO IF YOU'RE IN THIS AREA HERE ALONG TO 70 AND ESPECIALLY NORTH OF 270, YOU NEED TO BE IN YOUR SAFE PLACE. THAT'S WHERE WE'RE ANTICIPATING THIS BEING TRACKING THIS POTENTIAL TORNADO AS IT SLIDES OVER INTO PORTIONS OF ST. CHARLES COUNTY AND WE'RE TALKING THE AREA AROUND WEST ALTON AND THEN OVER TOWARDS ROXANNA AND BUFFALO, MAYBE INTO ALTA, MAYBE JUST SOUTH OF ALTON. THAT CIRCULATION MAY GO. BUT ONE THING ABOUT THESE CIRCULATIONS OF THESE STORMS EVEN THOUGH THE OVERALL STORM ITSELF, THIS LINE OF STORMS IS MOVING NORTHEAST, THE CIRCULATIONS CAN EVOLVE AND EFFECTIVELY DISSOLVE AND THEN REFORM SOMEWHERE ELSE. AND SO THAT'S SOMETHING ELSE WE HAVE TO WATCH FOR ALONG THIS LINE. SO NORTH ST. LOUIS COUNTY YEAH. WE'VE SEEN THAT CONTINUOUSLY THROUGHOUT THE NIGHT NORTH ST. LOUIS COUNTY OVER INTO MADISON COUNTY, SOUTHERN PORTIONS OF MACON COUNTY, SOUTHEASTERN PORTIONS OF MACUGEN COUNTY ESPECIALLY SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING OR TORNADO WARNING I SHOULD SAY YOU SHOULD BE IN YOUR SAFE PLACE NOW THERE'S A LOT OF NASTY WIND OUT THERE ALONG 270 ESPECIALLY GOING JUST NORTH OF CASTLEPOINT CALVERTON PARK AND OVER AN AREA THAT WE'VE ALREADY HEARD ABOUT SOME DAMAGE IN THOSE AREAS CERTAINLY YOU COULD HAVE TREES DOWN, POWER LINES DOWN. SO STAY INSIDE AND MAKE SURE YOU ARE IN A SAFE AREA RIGHT NOW. YOU KNOW, I THINK WE'RE LOOKING AT 60 TO 70 MILE PER HOUR WINDS HERE IN NORTH ST. LOUIS COUNTY WHICH IS ON PAR WITH WITH SOME REPORTS WE'VE SEEN ALREADY TONIGHT FROM SPIRIT AIRPORT EARLIER IN THE NIGHT AS THAT SYSTEM THAT WENT THROUGH DEFINERS THAT A TORNADO THAT WENT THROUGH THE DEFIANCE AREA PASSED OVER SO SOME VERY STRONG WINDS WITH THAT I JUST WHICH MY BATTERY'S ABOUT 15 MINUTES AGO I JUST SWITCHED THEM ABOUT 50 MINUTES. NO, NOT IN THE IP AREA MAKING SURE SCOTT HAD BATTERIES IN HIS MICROPHONE SO YOU CAN CONTINUE TO TRACK THIS STORY. I GOT THE MIKE FOR YOU TONIGHT. OK, SO THAT STORY THAT PARTICULAR AREA WE'RE WATCHING IS IN SPANISH LAKE. WE EXPECT THIS TO CONTINUE TO MOVE THROUGH AND TO THE NORTH HERE WE'VE BEEN KEEPING AN EYE ON THAT. WE HAVE A CREW I TOLD THEM TO GO AND SEEK SHELTER AS WE WAIT FOR THIS LINE TO PASS. BUT THEY WERE AT THAT EDWARDSVILLE AMAZON WAREHOUSE COLLAPSE AND I TOLD THEM TO SEEK SHELTER SO THEY ARE SEEKING SHELTER BUT THE MINUTE IT'S SAFE THEY'LL BE BACK OUT AND THEY CAN PROVIDE SOME MORE UPDATES ON THAT. BUT WE ARE TOLD THAT THERE ARE SOME PEOPLE TRAPPED INSIDE THAT AMAZON WAREHOUSE. THIS LINE OF STORMS THAT RIGHT NOW THAT WE ARE WATCHING THROUGH THE MAIN AREA IS YEAR IS KIND OF COMING ALONG INTERSTATE 70. IT'S JUST CROSSED OVER TO SIXTY SEVEN TO SEE IS KIND OF A JAGGED LINE HERE. THAT'S WHAT WE'RE WATCHING. BUT WE ARE GOING TO SEE KEEP AN EYE ON THIS. IT'S GENERATING SOME STRONG WINDS. WE EXPECT WINDS WITHIN THIS TO BE ABOUT 60 TO 70 MILES PER HOUR. THAT HAS BEEN ENOUGH TO KNOCK DOWN POWER LINES. WE ALSO HAD REPORTS OF AN OVERTURNED SEMI TRUCK IN ILLINOIS RIGHT ALONG TO 70 AS WELL. SO THESE ARE WINDS STRONG ENOUGH TO CAUSE SOME DAMAGE OUT THERE. WE WANT YOU TO CONTINUE TO BE SAFE AND WE ARE KEEPING AN EYE NOT ONLY ON THIS AREA BUT ON THE SURROUNDING AREA OF THE FIVE ON YOUR SIDE COVERAGE AS YOU CAN SEE OF SOME STORMS THAT ARE FURTHER DOWN TO THE SOUTH. BUT THAT MAIN AREA RIGHT NOW THAT WE'RE DEALING WITH WAS JUST HIT BY A LINE OF STORMS THAT WAS PRETTY STRONG EARLIER . SO THAT TORNADO WARNING CURRENTLY UP FOR PARTS OF MCCALPIN MADISON, ST. CHARLES AND ST. LOUIS COUNTIES THOUGH REALLY THAT THREAT IS STARTING TO CROSS OVER NOW THROUGH INTO SPANISH LAKE. SO THAT IS UP TONIGHT UNTIL 10 30. SO WE HAVE ANOTHER ABOUT 40 MINUTES WORTH OF THIS TO BE TRACKING. YOU KNOW, AND I DON'T I DON'T KNOW THAT WE'RE GETTING ANY REPORTS OUT OF NORTH SABLE'S COUNTY BUT THE RADAR IS ESTIMATING THAT THE WIND SPEEDS ON THESE STORMS AT LEAST THE RAINDROPS ARE BEING BLOWN AROUND BETWEEN 70 AND 80 MILES PER HOUR IN THIS AREA RIGHT ALONG 270 SPANISH LAKE IS GETTING IT. IT'S JUST EAST OF DELLWOOD GLASSCO VILLAGE. YOU KNOW, AS YOU APPROACH 367 AND GO EAST OF 367, WE'RE TALKING UP HERE THERE'S A POST OFFICE UP HERE LILAC YOU GOT CHAMBERS ROAD DONE ROAD ALL OF YOUR NORTH COUNTY AREAS HERE AS YOU GO EAST ALONG 270 APPROACHING THE CHAIN OF ROCKBRIDGE WE'RE TALKING ABOUT MAYBE 65 TO 75 MILE PER HOUR WINDS AND I WOULDN'T BE SURPRISED IF THERE AREN'T SOME GUSTS A LITTLE HIGHER THAN THAT . IT CERTAINLY IS SHOWING UP. YOU KNOW, I GOT A COUPLE OF LITTLE SPECKLES IN THERE SHOWING UP AROUND 80 MILES PER HOUR JUST NORTH OF SPANISH LAKE. SO THESE ARE SERIOUS STORMS AND THERE IS A TORNADO WARNING FOR THIS AREA. YOU KNOW, THEY MAY NOT THIS MAY NOT BE A ROTATION THIS MAY JUST BE FLAT OUT STRONG THUNDERSTORM WINDS WHICH OFTENTIMES CAN BE CONFUSED. THE DAMAGE FROM THUNDERSTORM WINDS CAN BE CONFUSED FOR TORNADO DAMAGE BECAUSE THEY ARE THAT STRONG STRONG AND CAN BE ENOUGH TO TAKE OFF ROOFS OF BUILDINGS CAN KNOCK OVER TREES SO THEY CAN BE VERY DANGEROUS AND WE'RE ALREADY SEEING STRONG WINDS. WE EXPECT TO SEE SOME DAMAGE IN THESE AREAS. WE ARE GOING TO SEE A CONTINUATION OF THE DAMAGE AND THE PREVIOUS STORMS MORE LIKELY TO NOT HAVE WEAKENED SOME TREE BRANCHES. AND IN DOING SO, YOU KNOW, NOW WE END UP WITH YOU KNOW, WE BASICALLY END UP WITH A SITUATION WHERE YOUR YOUR YOUR PREVIOUSLY DAMAGED TREE BRANCH IS NOW THE ONE THAT ACTUALLY FALLS WITH THIS NEXT GUST OF WIND. SO WE'RE CONTINUING TO MONITOR THESE STORMS AGAIN. THE WORST OF IT LOOKS LIKE IT'S RIGHT ALONG 270 AND IT'S ABOUT READY TO CROSS OVER THE RIVER HERE GOING TOWARDS GRANITE CITY AND THAT AREA SOUTH OF WOOD RIVER YOU MAY MISS THE STRONGEST WINDS OUT OF THIS. THEY MAY GO JUST TO YOURSELF BUT UNFORTUNATELY THIS BOLCH THAT WE'RE LOOKING AT HERE THIS BOLCH MAYBE IF WE CAN POP OVER TO MAX TO FOR A HOT MINUTE HERE THIS BULGE THAT'S GOING OVER EASTERN PORTIONS OF THE NORTHEAST CORNER OF ST. CHARLES COUNTY AND THE EASTERN PORTIONS NORTHEAST PORTIONS OF ST. LOUIS COUNTY, THAT BULGE IS GENERALLY HEADED UNFORTUNATELY VERY CLOSE TO EDWARDSVILLE AND THIS IS THE AREA WHERE WE ARE SEEING THE STRONGEST WINDS RIGHT NOW. THE WINDS IN THIS AREA ARE SHOWING UP IN VICINITY OF 70, 75 MILES PER HOUR. SO THERE'S SOME INTENSE WIND GOING ON HERE. THIS AREA IS ALSO UNDER THE TORNADO WARNING. SO WHETHER THERE'S A TORNADO OR NOT, WE KNOW THERE'S SOME SERIOUS WINDS IN HERE. YOU SHOULD BE IN YOUR SAFE PLACE RIGHT NOW AND YOUR SAFE PLACE IS IN THE LOWEST LEVEL OF WHATEVER BUILDING YOU'RE IN. IF YOU HAVE A BASEMENT THAT'S FANTASTIC. IF YOU DON'T HAVE A BASEMENT THEN YOU GO TO THE LOWEST LEVEL OF WHATEVER BUILDING YOU'RE AND YOU PUT AS MANY WALLS BETWEEN YOU AND THE OUTSIDE AS POSSIBLE AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS AND DOORS. THESE THE STORMS TRACKING THROUGH THE METRO AREA. THIS MAY BE THE LAST OF IT AS WE HEAD THROUGH THE EVENING HOURS. I'M HOPEFUL THAT THIS IS THE LAST OF THE SEVERE WEATHER THAT WE HAVE TO DEAL WITH. CERTAINLY OUR HOME STILL BACK TO NORTH AND WEST. WE WERE IN THE UPPER 60S CLOSE TO 70 DEGREES IN ST. LOUIS AND WE'VE BACKED OFF A LITTLE. ONE DEGREES RIGHT NOW IN ST. THIS AREA, SCOTT. SO WITH THIS YOU KNOW, AS YOU CAN SEE WE STILL HAVE THAT TORNADO WARNING THAT'S IN EFFECT UNTIL ABOUT 10 30 TONIGHT. NOW AFTER THIS IS ALL SAID AND DONE, WE ARE STILL GOING TO BE DEALING WITH SOME VERY STRONG WINDS TO SOME VERY STRONG WINDS WITH THIS. SO INTO THE EARLY MORNING HOURS AND OVERNIGHT. SO EVEN THOUGH WE WON'T HAVE LIKE A TORNADO WARNING OR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TO DEAL WITH, WE'LL BE DEALING WITH VERY GUSTY CONDITIONS THROUGH MIDNIGHT ALL THE WAY INTO THE EARLY MORNING HOURS YOU CAN SEE HERE THIS IS A FUTURE CAST OF WHAT WE EXPECT THOSE WIND GUSTS TO BE SOME AREAS EVEN HIGHER THAN THIS. I COULD SEE WIND GUSTS UP TO 40 MILES PER HOUR. SO CERTAINLY WITH POTENTIAL DAMAGE THAT WE ALREADY HAVE OUT THERE THAT WE'VE SEEN IN SOME AREAS THOSE STRONG WINDS ARE NOT WHAT WE NEED. SO SEEK SHELTER, MAKE SURE YOU STAY OFF THE ROADS AND LET OUR EMERGENCY CREWS DO THEIR WORK AND THEN AS THINGS SETTLE DOWN LATER ON IN TOMORROW AFTERNOON, I EXPECT TO SEE MUCH CALMER CONDITIONS AS FAR AS WIND GOES . THE GOOD NEWS FOR TOMORROW THOUGH AS WE WILL BE DRY SO PLENTY OF PLENTY OF DRY WEATHER TO CLEAN UP AFTER THESE STORMS . LET ME GO AHEAD AND SHOW YOU THAT SATELLITE AND RADAR OF YOU AGAIN. WE'RE TRACKING THAT STORM SYSTEM THAT'S CURRENTLY MOVING VERY QUICKLY THROUGH THE ALTON AREA UNDER THAT SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING TONIGHT WATCHING THAT AREA OF INFLOW HERE. SO LET ME ZOOM IN AND SHOW YOU WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT. SO SPANISH LAKE GLASSCO VILLAGE ALL DEALING WITH THAT CURRENTLY RIGHT NOW AND SOME PRETTY STRONG LIGHTNING STRIKES OUT THERE. THIS HAS BEEN PUTTING ON A SHOW THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE NIGHT TONIGHT. YEAH. AND WE STILL HAVE A TORNADO WARNING IN PARTICULAR NOW IT LOOKS LIKE THAT CIRCULATION IS MOVING ACROSS THE RIVER AND INTO MADISON COUNTY, ILLINOIS. SO ESPECIALLY FOR MADISON COUNTY AND INTO THE SOUTHERN PORTIONS OF MACUGEN COUNTY, THIS TORNADO WARNING IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 30 TONIGHT. NOW IN ABOUT A MINUTE OR SO WE'RE GOING TO PAUSE FOR JUST A SECOND TO START OUR 10:00 SHOW . BUT I JUST WANT YOU TO KNOW IN THE CONTROL ROOM WE'RE GOING TO COME RIGHT BACK OVER TO WEATHER AFTER WE START THAT 10:00 SHOW AND RESET THINGS. WE STILL HAVE OUR TORNADO WARNING HERE AND YOU SEE THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOOKS LIKE I JUST TRIMMED IT UP SO THAT IT IS NOW FOR MADISON AND MACUGEN COUNTY EVEN AS WE SPEAK AGAIN, THESE ARE VERY DANGEROUS STORMS. THIS ONE DOES NOT HAVE TO GO IT LOOKED LIKE IT WAS PRODUCING 70 TO 80 MILE PER HOUR WINDS WHETHER THAT'S GETTING TIGHT ENOUGH TO CREATE A CIRCULATION REMAINS TO BE SEEN BUT WE ALSO KNOW IT'S MOVING INTO THE EDWARDSVILLE AREA AND WE'VE HAD A SITUATION IN EDWARDSVILLE INVOLVING THE AMAZON WAREHOUSE WAREHOUSE THERE WHERE WE'VE HAD A PARTIAL BUILDING COLLAPSE OR PARTIAL ROOF COLLAPSE. WE CAN'T REALLY TELL. ALL WE CAN DO IS WHAT WE CAN SEE AND RIGHT NOW WITH THIS APPROACHING SEVERE THUNDERSTORM HEADING INTO THAT AREA AND THE STRONG WINDS WE HAVE OUR PHOTOGRAPHER AND OUR REPORTER, OUR CREWS, WE HAVE TOLD THEM TO SEEK SHELTER AND THEY ARE IN A SAFE PLACE BECAUSE WE'RE NOT JEOPARDIZING OUR PEOPLE'S LIVES. WE DON'T WANT YOU TO JEOPARDIZE YOURS. YOU NEED TO BE IN YOUR SAFE PLACE IN A BASEMENT AND AWAY FROM WINDOWS AND DOORS. YOU ARE WATCHING FIVE ON YOUR SIDE. THIS IS FIVE ON YOUR SIDE AT 10 WE'RE GOING TO GET BACK TO WTHR OF COURSE IN JUST A SECOND. THIS IS OUR BREAKING NEWS. THIS IS HAPPENING RIGHT NOW. THIS HAS BEEN A VERY SERIOUS SITUATION IN EDWARDSVILLE, ILLINOIS OVER BOPIS COLLAPSE THE AMAZON WAREHOUSE IN EDWARDSVILLE. WE DO HAVE REPORTS OF PEOPLE TRAPPED. WE DO NOT HAVE ANY INJURY REPORTS AS WE ARE FOLLOWING THE STORY BUT WE HAVE HAD A CREW ON THE SCENE THERE. THEY DID HAVE TO GET TO SAFETY BUT THIS WAS TAKEN JUST MINUTES AGO. WHEN WE LOOK AT THESE IMAGES, IT'S REALLY HARD TO TELL WHAT WE'RE LOOKING AT BUT IT LOOKS LIKE A BUILDING A WALL TO THE ROOF THERE WE SEE IT HAVE BEEN BLOWN AWAY AND A LOT OF YOU IN THAT AREA HAVE ACTUALLY BEEN TEXTING US VIDEOS AND INFORMATION. WE WILL TRY TO GET THOSE ON THE AIR IN JUST A BIT. BUT OF COURSE WEATHER TOP OF MIND AND STILL ONGOING. THANK YOU FOR JOINING US ON THIS LATE FRIDAY EVENING. IT'S 10:00. OF COURSE WE ALWAYS HAVE THE NEWS AT 10:00 BUT IT HAS BEEN SUCH A VERY BUSY EVENING. LET'S GO AHEAD AND GET TO OUR WEATHER DEPARTMENT HAS BEEN VERY BUSY, SCOTT. I KNOW THAT THIS NIGHT HAS JUST OFFERED NO BREAKS FOR SO MANY PEOPLE. NO, IT'S BEEN A VERY LONG NIGHT. TRACY INSTAD AND I HAVE BEEN TRACKING THESE STORMS FOR YOU THIS EVENING AND WE HAVE TRACKED SOME TORNADOES THROUGH THE AREA. WE'VE HAD REPORTS OUT OF DEFIANCE OF DAMAGE. WE'VE HAD REPORTS OF CARS ON HIGHWAY 40 64 JUST CROSSING THE BOOM BRIDGE INTO THE VALLEY HIT BY DEBRIS REPORT FROM ONE OF MY FRIENDS SAID THAT THEY SAW A CAR LIFTED OFF THE GROUND IN FRONT OF THEM POTENTIALLY DRIVING THROUGH A TORNADO. NOW WE HAVE THE EVANSVILLE DAMAGE THAT YOU JUST SAW AND WE HAVE A TORNADO WARNING IN EFFECT FROM A CUPITT MADISON COUNTY AND THAT'S WHERE WE'LL GO RIGHT NOW. BUT I DID WANT TO TELL YOU DOWN IN IRONTOWN REYNOLDS COUNTY THERE'S A NEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FARTHER TO THE SOUTH TOO. BUT DOESN'T LOOK LIKE IT'S ANYTHING LIKE WHAT WE'RE SEEING HERE. WE'VE HAD A LOT OF WINDS GOING ACROSS NORTH ST. LOUIS COUNTY. I HAVE NOT SEEN A BIG UPDATE OR UPTICK IN POWER OUTAGES IN NORTH COUNTY BUT THAT'S VERY POSSIBLE ONCE WE GET A NEW REPORT IN HERE RIGHT NOW ST. LOUIS COUNTY IS A LITTLE OVER A THOUSAND CUSTOMERS GOING TO MADISON COUNTY. WE'RE UP OVER 10000. THAT'S FROM THE EARLIER STORMS. THIS BATCH IS PUSHING IN TOWARDS EDWARDSVILLE RIGHT NOW AND SLIDING TOWARDS THE NORTHEAST. SO REALLY FROM SOUTH ROXANA OVER ONE FBE3 TO EDWARDSVILLE YOU'RE LOOKING AT STRONG WINDS AND THEY'RE BULGING OUT HERE FROM SOUTH OF BUFFALO HEADING TOWARDS HSMO, ILLINOIS POTENTIAL WE COULD SEE SOME ROTATION IN HERE AND THE POSSIBILITY THAT THERE IS A TORNADO. SO TORNADO WARNING IN EFFECT HERE THAT IS UNTIL 10 30. THAT WARNING STRETCHES UP TO INCLUDE STRONG IT STRETCHES AS FAR EAST AS ALHAMBRA, ILLINOIS AGAIN THROUGH MUCH OF MADISON COUNTY FOR THAT CLUSTER OF STORMS AS THEY MOVE OFF TO THE EAST AND THE METRO AREA. THESE ARE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN ST. LOUIS BUT THEY'RE NOT SEVERE AT THE MOMENT. AND THEN WE GO FARTHER SOUTH FROM FESTUS DOWN THROUGH FARMINGTON POTOSí AND THEN ONCE YOU GET SOUTH OF LESTERVILLE DOWN TOWARDS ELLINGTON, WE'RE PICKING UP THAT SEVERE THUNDERSTORM THAT'S GOING TO TAKE US OVER INTO THE SOUTHERN PORTIONS OF IRON COUNTY AS WE GO THROUGH ABOUT THE NEXT 45 MINUTES. KEEP IN MIND THIS ENVIRONMENT HERE ACROSS SOUTHEAST MISSOURI HAS NOT REALLY BEEN DISTURBED BY THUNDERSTORMS ALTHOUGH THERE WERE THUNDERSTORMS FARTHER SOUTH INTO ARKANSAS AS WELL AS INTO PORTIONS OF TENNESSEE AND KENTUCKY THAT HAVE BEEN STRONG TO SEVERE TONIGHT. SO THEY MAY BE ROBBING SOME OF OUR MOISTURE BUT THE INGREDIENTS HAVE BEEN THERE THIS EVENING FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS AND WE HAVE SEEN THOSE STORMS SLIDING THROUGH THE REGION THIS EVENING PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS OCCASIONALLY A BIT OF HAIL, SOME HEAVY RAIN AND LIGHTNING. BUT IT'S BEEN THOSE TWISTING WINDS, THE DANGEROUS TWISTING OF THE WIND AND THE TORNADOES THAT WE COULD CONFIRM BY RADAR AND THE AREAS OF DAMAGE THAT WE HAVE SEEN SO FAR. IT SEEMS TO HAVE SPARED MUCH OF THE METRO AREA BUT WE DON'T KNOW THE FULL EXTENT OF THE DAMAGE BECAUSE OFTENTIMES THE DAMAGE REPORTS LAGBAJA KIND WHAT WE SEE ON RADAR AND WHAT WE ARE ABLE TO TELL YOU ABOUT. SO PUT UP A SIX HOUR LOOP FOR YOU, SCOTT, SO YOU CAN SEE THAT SYSTEM AS IT'S COME THROUGH AND THEN THAT SECOND BATCH THAT IS CURRENTLY TRACKING THROUGH EDWARDS BILL WHERE WE HAVE THAT TORNADO WARNING. YEAH. AND WE ARE LOOKING BACK TO THE WEST AT A COLD FRONT THAT WILL BE THROUGH HERE BEFORE THE EVENING IS DONE AND THAT'S GOING TO BRING AN END TO OUR SEVERE WEATHER THREAT. WE HAVE TORNADO WATCHES IN EFFECT FOR MOST OF THE AREA STILL FOR ANOTHER 45 MINUTES OR SO AND IT COULD GET EXTENDED EAST AND SOUTHEAST OF ST. LOUIS. I THINK IT'S THIS BATCH IS COMING THROUGH THE METRO AREA RIGHT NOW. WE ARE PRETTY MUCH LOOKING AT THINGS STARTING TO SETTLE DOWN TO THE WEST OF ST. LOUIS. SO WE SHOULD BE MAKING SOME PROGRESS ON THAT END AS THESE STORMS MOVE THROUGH. BUT THIS IS THE LAST BATCH TORNADO WARNING RIGHT NOW IN MADISON COUNTY AND UP INTO SOUTHERN PORTIONS OF MACKLIND COUNTY. WE ARE NOT SEEING THE WINDS QUITE AS STRONG AS WHAT WE WERE SEEING EARLIER BUT WELL, I TAKE THAT BACK. THERE'S STILL SOME SURGING HERE 70 TO 75 MILE AN HOUR WINDS. IT'S BEEN UP AND DOWN THROUGHOUT THE DAY. WE'VE HAD A BREAK AND THEN IT PICKS RIGHT BACK UP AGAIN. IT'S GOT KIND OF A BIT OF A DISORGANIZED PATTERN TO IT REALLY A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING THAT'S JUST BEEN ISSUED FOR PARTS OF MADISON ST. CLAIR AND THE CITY OF ST. LOUIS. I'LL ZOOM OUT SO WE CAN GET A BETTER VIEW ON THAT. THAT'S THAT'S THE WARNING. THIS IS THE SOUTHERN PART OF THAT LINE. COULD THERE BE A TORNADO POSSIBLE WITH THIS? YOU KNOW, WE'RE IN THAT ENVIRONMENT WHERE YOU COULD SPIN SOMETHING SO YOU'RE CERTAINLY ABLE TO SPIN SOMETHING UP IN THIS AREA RIGHT NOW. OUR MAIN THREAT WOULD BE FROM THE GUSTY WINDS BETWEEN 50 AND 60 MILES PER HOUR, PERHAPS A LITTLE STRONGER AT THE MOMENT. THE STRONGEST WINDS ARE SHOWING UP MOVING INTO THE EDWARDSVILLE AREA. UNFORTUNATELY FOR THOSE FIRST RESPONDERS THAT COULD REALLY COMPLICATE THINGS IF THEY GET 65 OR 70 MILE AN HOUR WINDS ON STUFF THAT'S ALREADY BEEN DISCOMBOBULATE A LITTLE BIT AND NOT IN A STATE OF , YOU KNOW, SECURE STEADY STATE STRUCTURE. SO WE'RE CERTAINLY A LOT OF CREWS ON THE SCENE THERE. SO HOPEFULLY THEY ARE SAFE AS THEY CONTINUE TO WORK. THAT THOUGH ABOUT 60 MILE AN HOUR WINDS POSSIBLE IN THAT AREA. LET ME GO AHEAD AND ZOOM IN TO THE EDWARDS AREA, GIVE YOU A CLOSER VIEW OF THAT AREA SO THAT IS AN AMAZON WAREHOUSE IN EDWARDSVILLE AREA THAT WE HAD A CONFIRMED TORNADO EARLIER ON THE RADAR WITH DEBRIS SIGNATURE THAT WE WERE TRACKING. SO CURRENTLY A VERY HEAVY RAINFALL IN THE AREA, CERTAINLY POSSIBLY SOME STRONG WINDS AND IT IS CURRENTLY UNDER A TORNADO WARNING FOR THE NEXT 30 MINUTES. THE MAIN PART OF THAT SYSTEM IS CURRENTLY MOVING THROUGH AND WILL BE A DEPINHO JUST ABOUT NEXT WHICH IS NOT QUITE IN THAT TORNADO WARNING BUT IT IS PART OF THAT SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING. HAMMIL ALSO INCLUDED IN THAT AS WELL. YEAH, WE'RE GOING TO BE TRACKING THESE STORMS HERE FOR THE NEXT HOUR OR SO AND THEN THEY SHOULD BE MOVING OUT OF AT LEAST THE METRO AREA. OF COURSE WE'LL STICK WITH YOU AS WE HEAD THROUGH THE EVENING HOURS. BUT THESE STORMS, YOU KNOW, THEY HAVE PRODUCED DAMAGE TONIGHT. THEY HAVE PRODUCED THEY HAVE PRODUCED STRONG WINDS AT LEAST 70 TO 80 MILES. WE'VE SEEN THAT OBSERVED AND WE'RE STILL SEEING THAT RIGHT NOW. SO I THINK WE'RE GOING TO GET TO JESTINA IN A FEW MINUTES BECAUSE SHE'S BEEN TRACKING SOME OF THIS DAMAGE. WE'VE HAD CREWS ALL AROUND THE AREA TONIGHT AND JESTINA, YOU WERE WE'RE TRYING TO GET OUT TO WHERE WE HAD SOME OF OUR EARLIEST DAMAGE. DID YOU GET OUT THERE? AND THAT'S OUR GOAL WITH THE HEAD OF THE DEFIANT. WE'RE SEEING THAT DAMAGE. BUT OF COURSE BECAUSE OF YOU AND TRACY, YOU WARNED US THAT THE AREA MAY BE UNDER WARNING AGAINST DOING SO IT WITH UNSAFE. SO WE TURN AROUND AND THIS JUST SHOWS IMPACTING THE HARD WORK THEY ALL ARE DOING. SO NOW LET'S TAKE A LOOK AT SOME OF THE DAMAGE LEFT BEHIND. YOU COULD SEE THAT ON YOUR SCREEN. SO ABOUT EIGHT FBE3 A LITTLE OVER AN HOUR AGO ST. CHARLES COUNTY POLICE, FIRE AND EMS RESPONDED TO A HOME ON HIGHWAY F THAT HAS HAD THE ROOF REMOVED FROM HIGH WINDS AFTER THE HOUSE SHOOK. NOW MULTIPLE CALLS ARE COMING IN FOR PROPERTY DAMAGE AND AGAIN, AS YOU CAN SEE ON YOUR SCREEN OR A LITTLE BIT MORE OF THE VIDEO, THERE HAS BEEN DAMAGE LEFT BEHIND AND WE HEARD DOWN THE STREET FROM THERE ALSO THERE WAS MORE DAMAGE LEFT BEHIND SEVERAL HOMES DAMAGE. A ROOF ALSO BLEW OFF. SO WE ARE JUST HEARING SOME OF THAT DAMAGE LEFT BEHIND AND OF COURSE WE JUST ARE THANKFUL FOR THE METEOROLIGST AND ALL THE HARD WORK THAT Y'ALL ARE DOING AND WE'RE GOING TO TOSS IT BACK TO SCOTT FOR A LITTLE BIT MORE INFORMATION ON WHAT WE'RE SEEING. ALL RIGHT. SO WE STILL HAVE THE POTENTIAL OF SEVERE WEATHER HERE AS WE HEAD THROUGH THE REMAINDER OF THE EVENING ESPECIALLY IN THE METRO AREA, EAST AND NORTHEAST OVER THE COURSE OF THE NEXT HOUR OR SO AS WE HAVE OUR SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR THE STORM THAT'S OVER DOWNTOWN ST. LOUIS AND SPREADING EAST INTO THE NORTHERN PORTIONS OF ST. CLAIR COUNTY AND THE SOUTHERN PORTIONS OF MADISON COUNTY IN ILLINOIS. AND THEN YOU HAVE THE PART OF THE STORM THAT IS SO INTENSE ACROSS MADISON COUNTY THAT HAS BEEN PRODUCING INTENSE WINDS. WE'RE ESTIMATING AT TIMES, YOU KNOW, 60 TO 70 MILES PER HOUR, MAYBE EVEN HIGHER THAN THAT. THE RADAR HAS BEEN SHOWING AT TIMES THE WINDS BEING A BIT STRONGER AND CIRCULATIONS IN HERE. SO THE POTENTIAL'S THERE THAT WE ALSO ARE LOOKING AT, YOU KNOW, A POSSIBLE TORNADO DEVELOPING. CAN'T SAY THAT FOR SURE. SO WE HAVE VIDEO I'M TOLD OF A POSSIBLE TORNADO IN EVANSVILLE AND IT IS HARD TO SEE BUT THAT DOES CERTAINLY DOES LOOK LIKE SOMETHING'S TOUCHING DOWN AND WOULD BE ON THE GROUND AND CAUSING PROBLEMS AND WE KNOW WE'VE HAD WE COULD SEE THE CIRCULATION. WE KNOW WE HAD A TORNADO THERE CONFIRMED AND HERE IT IS AGAIN BECAUSE WHEN TORNADOES PICK UP DEBRIS AND IT'S LOFTED INTO THE AIR, WE CAN SEE THAT ON THE RADAR SCREEN IT SHOWS UP IS SOMETHING THAT'S ODD SHAPED OR DIFFERENT SIZE AND SHAPE ITEMS THAT'S ALREADY IN THE AIR. IT'S NOT RAINDROPS WHICH YOU KNOW, THEORETICALLY A RAINDROP IS BASICALLY GOING TO LOOK THE SAME TO THE RADAR. AND WHEN YOU GET ALL THIS OTHER DEBRIS IN THERE THEN YOU WOULD HAVE PROBLEMS. SO THAT'S FROM EDWARDSVILLE AND FROM A VIEWER PHOTO THAT WAS AT 270 AND 157 NEAR EDWARDSVILLE, ABOUT EIGHT FORTY FIVE TONIGHT. OK, SO THAT WAS A 45. SO THAT'S WHEN THIS THIS STORM THE INITIAL STORM WENT THROUGH THAT CAUSED SO MANY PROBLEMS. MICHELLE LEE MANNING THE NEWS DESK TONIGHT. YEAH, I DON'T THINK WE'RE GOING TO HAVE SPORTS PLUS TONIGHT I THINK WE'LL LET YOU SLIDE. THAT'S THAT'S SORRY WE STILL HAVE A TORNADO WARNING IN EFFECT HERE OFF TO THE EAST UNTIL 10 30. WE STILL HAVE A LOT OF DAMAGE TO ASSESS. SO AHMAD AND I, WE'RE GOING TO SEND A MODERN HANNAH BACK TO THE SPORTS OFFICE AND LET THEM SETTLE DOWN FOR THE EVENING AND WE'LL CONTINUE TO TRACK THESE STORMS. I THINK WE STILL HAVE THAT SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FURTHER DOWN THE SOUTH. I DON'T WANT TO FORGET ABOUT MY FRIENDS AND REYNOLDS ION COUNTIES SO WE STILL HAVE THAT SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING. THERE COULD BE SOME HAIL AS WELL AS SOME STRONG WIND DAMAGE . THE CONDITIONS ARE JUST RIPE FOR THIS. BUT OUR MAIN CONCERN RIGHT NOW IS THAT AREA THAT IS STILL UNDER THE TORNADO WARNING WHERE WE DID HAVE THAT VIDEO JUST RIGHT THERE FROM EARLIER CURRENT BUT EARLIER THAT THE AREA DID HAVE A TORNADO COME THROUGH AS WE SAW THERE ON THE VIDEO AND THAT WAS PART OF THE SAME LINE THAT WORKED ITS WAY ONTO THE EAST INTO THE NORTHEAST OVER PORTIONS BOND COUNTY AND INTO PORTIONS OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY AND NORTHERN FAYETTE COUNTY NORTH OF RAMSEY, ILLINOIS. WE HAD CONFIRMED TORNADO BY THE RADAR THAT WE COULD SEE THERE. SO YOU KNOW, WE STILL A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING CITY OF ST. LOUIS. IT'S POURING IN DOWNTOWN ST. USSIE RIGHT NOW AND THAT'S STRETCHING OFF TO THE EAST OF TOWN ALONG 270 HERE AND GOING OUT INTERSTATE 70 AND THEN JUST NORTH OF THAT IS WHERE WE HAVE OUR TORNADO WARNING WHICH INCLUDES AT THIS POINT, YOU KNOW, THE REST OF MADISON COUNTY IF YOU WILL. NOW WE HAVE NOT CONFIRMED ANY TORNADOES WITH THAT BUT WE HAVE SEEN CIRCULATIONS FROM TIME TO TIME MOVING THROUGH THIS AREA SO THESE ARE THE STORMS THAT WE CONTINUE TO TRACK TONIGHT. THEY HAVE THE POTENTIAL OF CAUSING DAMAGE. THIS SHOULD BE THE LAST OF IT. AND AGAIN, AS YOU GO DOWN INTO SOUTHERN PORTIONS OF JEFFERSON COUNTY, ONCE YOU GET SOUTH OF FESTUS HEADING DOWN TOWARDS BONTA INTO FARMINGTON AND THEN ON DOWN TO IRON COUNTY FOR THE MOST PART THOSE ARE STRONG STORMS, THE ONES IN PARTS OF REYNOLDS IRON COUNTY SHOWING SOME SIGNS OF PERHAPS BEING SEVERE BUT NOT TORNADIC AT THIS POINT WE'RE NOT SEEING THAT AND PERHAPS THE STORMS THAT WERE A LITTLE FARTHER SOUTH THAT WERE SO INTENSE EARLIER OUTSIDE OF OUR AREA MAYBE ROBBING OUR SOUTHERN COUNTIES OF THE NEEDED INGREDIENTS FOR SEVERE WEATHER . BUT AGAIN, WE LOOK INTO MADISON COUNTY RIGHT NOW AND IT'S REALLY ALONG AND NORTH OF INTERSTATE 64 THROUGH ST. CLAIR COUNTY AND GOING NORTH UP INTERSTATE 55 WHERE WE'RE LOOKING AT THE WORST OF THIS STORM RIGHT NOW. THIS IS WHERE WE HAVE SEEN WINDS GUSTING 50 TO 70 MILES PER HOUR THIS EVENING AT LEAST ON THE RADAR WE'VE BEEN SEEING 70 TO 75 MILE PER HOUR WINDS ON THE RADAR SCREEN AND I'M PRETTY SURE SOME OF THAT'S BEEN REACHING THE GROUND BECAUSE WE'VE HAD OBSERVATIONS WITH THOSE HIGH WINDS REACHING THE GROUND WIND US IN THE VALLEY MEASURED AT SPIRIT OF ST. LOUIS EARLIER THIS EVENING OF OVER 70 MILES PER HOUR. SO THESE ARE NOT THESE ARE NOT RUN OF THE MILL THUNDERSTORMS. THESE ARE INTENSE STORMS THEY'VE BEEN ROTATING TONIGHT. THEY'VE CAUSED DAMAGE TONIGHT POTENTIALLY STILL CAUSING DAMAGE ESPECIALLY IN THIS AREA OF THE METRO EAST JUST EAST AND NORTHEAST OF THE ARCH HEADING ALONG 55. THE WORST OF IT SEEMS TO BE EAST OF EDWARDS RIGHT NOW. HOPEFULLY OUR FIRST RESPONDERS THAT ARE AT THAT SIDE OF THE AMAZON WAREHOUSE BUILDING FAILURE COLLAPSE. WE DON'T KNOW EXACTLY ROOF COLLAPSE. LOOKS LIKE THE WALLS WERE COLLAPSED BUT WE DON'T REALLY KNOW BECAUSE WE'RE NOT REALLY THERE. BUT WE KNOW THE FIRST RESPONDERS ARE ON THE SCENE. WE HAD OUR CREWS THAT WERE THERE SEEK SHELTER ONCE THE STORM. YEAH, THIS IS VIDEO FROM EARLIER AND ONCE WE HAVE ONCE IT'S SAFE FOR OUR CREWS TO BE LIVE, WE WILL GET SOME MORE INFORMATION FROM THEM. WE DO HAVE A NEW TORNADO WARNING. LET'S POP BACK OVER TO MAX TO THOSE STORMS FAR SOUTH OF ST. LOUIS ARE GETTING A LITTLE BIT ON THE THE TORNADIC SIDE IT LOOKS LIKE STARTING TO SPIN A LITTLE IT HERE ACROSS SOUTHEASTERN PORTIONS OF REYNOLDS COUNTY DOWN BY ANAPOLIS IN IRON COUNTY AND THEN THAT'S GOING TO GO ACROSS INTO MADISON COUNTY, MISSOURI. SO NOW WE'RE GOING TO HAVE MADISON COUNTY, MISSOURI AND MADISON COUNTY, ILLINOIS BOTH WITH TORNADO WARNINGS. SO AGAIN, THIS IS A VERY LOW POPULATED AREA HERE TO THE SOUTH OF US, THE SOUTHERN ISLAND COUNTY AND OVER INTO MADISON COUNTY SOUTH OF FREDERICK TOWN. BUT POTENTIALS THERE FOR A TORNADO WE HAVE ROTATION SO WE NEED YOU TO BE IN YOUR SAFE SPOT IN THESE AREAS TO THE SOUTH OF ST. LOUIS. WE'LL TRACK ON HERE ESPECIALLY FOR OUR FOLKS HERE IN IRON COUNTY BECAUSE WE KNOW WITH THE DISH AND THE CABLE YOU FOLKS DOWN HERE WOULD NEED TO GET THAT INFORMATION FROM US AND WE'RE GOING TO GIVE IT TO YOU RIGHT NOW. THIS IS WHERE THE MOST CONCERN WOULD BE FROM ABOUT ANNAPOLIS OVER TOWARDS MINIMUM AND INTO JEWITT. THIS IS VERY, VERY ROCKY HILLY TERRITORY. ST. FRANCIS MOUNTAINS DOWN HERE. SO YOU'RE NOT GOING TO GET A GOOD VIEW OF ANYTHING BUT YOU NEED TO BE IN YOUR BASEMENT IF THAT STORM IS IMPACTING. ALL RIGHT. SO WE'RE GOING TO THAT'S SOUTH THAT'S SOUTHERN PORTIONS OF BYRON COUNTY OVER INTO REALLY THE SOUTHERN TWO THIRDS MADISON COUNTY IN MISSOURI AND PART SMALL PART OF REYNOLD'S COUNTY. WE FOLLOW THAT LINE OF THUNDERSTOR BACK UP INTO THE METRO AREA AND WE STILL HAVE OUR TORNADO WARNING FOR THE METRO EAST FOR MADISON COUNTY INCLUDING ALONG INTERSTATE 55 THROUGH STOCKTON, ILLINOIS SOUTH THROUGH HSMO ALL THE WAY OUT TOWARDS TROY. NOW WE'VE SEEN WINDS IN THIS 60 TO 70 MILES PER HOUR AND OK, SO THE WEATHER SERVICE TRYING TO GET US BACK TO NWS CHET. SO IT SEEMS A LITTLE MORE STABLE AT THE MOMENT. SO THESE STORMS HERE ARE OFF TO THE EAST OF ST. LOUIS ESPECIALLY MADISON COUNTY. THEY'VE BEEN SHOWING SOME SIGNS OF ROTATION SO IF YOU COULD YOU KNOW, IF YOU'RE IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS AND REALLY IT'S EAST OF INTERSTATE 55 NOW YOU SHOULD BE IN YOUR SAFE PLACE. AND MICHELLE, WE'RE GOING TO BE MOVING BACK OVER TO YOU AND NEWS AND A LITTLE BIT HERE TO GET MORE ON WHAT'S GOING ON WITH THAT AMAZON ONCE WE FIND OUT THE AMAZON WAREHOUSE SITUATION, WE KNOW IN DEFIANCE WE THE PICTURES FROM DEFIANCE EARLIER JUST KIND OF GETTING AN UPDATE ON THE POWER OUTAGES IN MADISON COUNTY, ILLINOIS. WE HAVE 10000 ABOUT TEN THOUSAND NINE HUNDRED CUSTOMERS. FAYETTE COUNTY HAS ABOUT 450 FBE3 AND A MACKLIND COUNTY HAVE 538 CUSTOMERS WITHOUT POWER. THAT'S FROM THE RECENT STORMS ST. CHARLES AND LINCOLN COUNTY SEEM TO BE HARDEST HIT ON THE MISSOURI SIDE. ST. CHARLES HAS ABOUT 700 CUSTOMERS WITHOUT POWER IN LINCOLN COUNTY IT'S ABOUT 25 FRANKLIN COUNTY ABOUT FOURTEEN HUNDRED GASCONADE COUNTY 210 96. AND THE REASON I TELL YOU THOSE NUMBERS IS BECAUSE THAT'S A GOOD INDICATION OF HOW MUCH DAMAGE ONE WOULD HAVE SEEN WITH THE THUNDERSTORMS AS THEY ROLLED THROUGH THE AREA. THOSE NUMBERS GO UP AS THE DAMAGE REPORTS COME IN. SO THAT'S WHAT WE'VE SEEN TONIGHT. THIS IS THE LAST OF THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS RIGHT NOW REALLY THIS ONE IN THE ONE FAR TO THE SOUTH DOWN INTO SOUTHERN PORTIONS OF IRON COUNTY. BUT TORNADO WARNING HERE FOR THIS PART OF MACKLIND AND MADISON COUNTY OFF TO THE EAST OF ST. LOUIS AND THEN THE TORNADO WARNING A LITTLE FARTHER SOUTH DOWN HERE INTO MADISON AND ION COUNTIES DOWN FARTHER TO THE SOUTH OF ST. LOUIS. IT'S HARD FOR US TO REALLY GET A GOOD INDICATION OF WHAT'S GOING ON DOWN THERE AND WE MAY HAVE ANOTHER SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING THAT WAS JUST ISSUED. SO IT LOOKS LIKE WE DO SO WE HAVE A NEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING. I'M GOING TO MOVE THAT BACK HERE KIND OF A BIG ONE TO GET THAT ONE OFF. SO BOND FAYETTE MARKUP AND MADISON AND MONTGOMERY SO BASICALLY ALONG THIS WHOLE LINE THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IS ISSUING A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING THAT'S GOING TO TAKE US UNTIL ABOUT 11 15 TONIGHT. AND HERE'S ANOTHER ONE FOR THAT CELL THAT'S JUST SOUTH OF FESTUS. SO THAT'S THE SOUTHERN SOUTHEASTERN PORTIONS OF JEFFERSON COUNTY OVER TO MONROE COUNTY, ILLINOIS. AGAIN, THERE ARE SOME STRONG WINDS IN HERE. THEY'RE NOT QUITE AS STRONG AS WHAT WE WERE LOOKING AT EARLIER. OK, SO YES, THEY'RE STRONG. YES, THEY'RE SEVERE STORMS. YES, THERE'S SOME ROTATION IN HERE BUT IT'S NOT QUITE TO THE EXTENT THAT WE HAD EARLIER. THE PROBLEM IS THE ENVIRONMENT THAT THESE STORMS ARE IN IS ONE THAT IS CONDUCIVE TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS AND THE POTENTIAL FOR THEM TO DEVELOP TORNADOES AND THAT'S THAT'S THE BIGGER PROBLEM ON A BROAD BASIS HERE THAT THESE STORMS ARE AN ENVIRONMENT WHERE THEY CAN SPIN WHERE THEY ROTATE AND WHERE THEY CAN CAUSE PROBLEMS. SO THAT'S WHAT WE'RE DEALING WITH AS THESE STORMS CONTINUE TO TRACK ONTO THE EAST. THE THREAT LOOKS TO BE OVER WEST AND NORTHWEST OF ST. LOUIS, EAST AND SOUTH. IT LOOKS LIKE THIS THREAT IS GOING TO CONTINUE FOR ANOTHER HOUR OR TWO UNTIL WE GET THIS LINE OF STORMS TO MOVE ON OFF TOWARDS THE EAST. AND YES, AS YOU GO DOWN HERE INTO NORTHERN PORTIONS OF ST. GENEVIEVE COUNTY AND SOUTHERN PORTIONS OF JEFFERSON COUNTY, THERE IS SOME WIDE BROAD ROTATION WITH SOME OF THOSE THUNDERSTORMS. IT'S NOT TIGHT, DOESN'T LOOK LIKE IT'S AN IMMINENT TORNADO BUT THERE IS SOME BROAD ROTATION IN AND THERE'S CERTAINLY THE POTENTIAL THAT WE COULD SEE SOME STRONGER WINDS WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS AS THEY CONTINUE TO TRACK ON TOWARDS THE EAST. SO THE TORNADO WARNING CONTINUEING OVER INTO MADISON COUNTY. THE POSSIBILITY OF A TORNADO THERE NEAR SORENTO MOVING NORTHEAST AND AGAIN VERY SMALL AREA. IT LOOKS LIKE THEY JUST FINALLY TRIMMED THAT UP. SO THAT IS JUST NOW EXPIRED. IT LOOKS LIKE OR THEY CANCELED IT BUT THEY TOOK THAT OUT. BUT THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING CONTINUES OUT ALONG INTERSTATE 70 AND THEN DOWN TO THE SOUTH AS WELL. YOU TREAT ALL OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS AS IF THEY MIGHT PRODUCE A TORNADO BECAUSE THE ENVIRONMENT IS FAVORABLE FOR THAT. SO WHAT THAT MEANS IS AND FOR SOME REASON IT DOESN'T YEAH. YOURS IS LIT UP UP THERE. I CAN'T TELL ON THAT MONITOR FOR WHAT THAT MEANS IS EVEN IF YOU DON'T HAVE A TORNADO WARNING, YOU TREAT THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING AS IF IT COULD BE A TORNADO OR IF IT'S GOING TO HAPPEN QUICKLY. YOU STILL WANT TO FOLLOW THE SAME RULES. YOU WANT TO BE AWAY FROM WINDOWS, YOU WANT TO BE AWAY FROM DOORS INSIDE, YOU KNOW, IN THE CENTER PART OF YOUR HOME AND IN A STURDY BUILDING AND THE OTHER THING IS WE DON'T WANT YOU RUNNING AROUND TONIGHT LOOKING FOR STORM DAMAGE THAT THAT CAN BE DANGEROUS IN AND OF ITSELF TONIGHT. SO IF YOU'VE HAD IF YOU'VE HEARD REPORTS, YOU KNOW, IF YOU'VE GOT TO GO DOWN THE STREET TO HELP YOUR NEIGHBOR, THAT'S ONE THING. BUT TO GO OUT SPECIFICALLY LOOKING AND LET'S DO IT THAT'S DEFIANCE. THIS IS A VIEW FROM DEFIANCE. THIS IS THIS A LIVE YOU KNOW THIS IS ST. CHARLES COUNTY AMBULANCE DISTRICTS CLOSE TO THIS OK AND IT LOOKS LIKE THE DAMAGE TO A HOME THERE I DON'T HAVE ANY REPORTS OF ANY INJURIES. THAT WAS AT FIRST FIRST LINE THAT CAME THROUGH WITH SOME VERY STRONG WINDS. WE HAD WINDS WITH THAT STORM THAT WE WERE TRACKING ABOUT 60 TO 70 MILE PER HOUR WIND GUSTS WITH THAT STORM THAT CAME THROUGH FROM THAT AREA. LET'S DO A QUICK RUNDOWN OVER THE STORMS. THE CURRENT SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THAT WE ARE TRACKING. SO FIRST OFF, WE ARE GOING START FROM THE NORTH AND THEN MOVE DOWN TO THE SOUTH. WE STILL HAVE THAT SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR PARTS BOND FAYETTE, MADISON AND MONTGOMERY COUNTY'S THROUGH 11 15. SO A LITTLE WHILE LONGER ON THAT ONE. WE ALSO HAVE THAT JUST THE REMNANTS OF THAT TORNADO WARNING FURTHER DOWN TO THE THAT'S LET ME ZOOM IN ON THAT ONE FOR YOU SINCE IT WOULDN'T CLICK ON BUT 10 30 TONIGHT THROUGH MADISON THAT'S JUST FOR THE NEXT SIX MINUTES OR SO. MOVING ON DOWN TO THE SOUTH WE HAVE MONROE, RANDOLPH, ST. CLAIR AND ST. GENEVIEVE THROUGH 11 O'CLOCK WITH A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING. TAKE THESE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING SERIOUSLY BECAUSE AS WE HAVE SEEN THROUGHOUT THE NIGHT WE HAVE HAD A TORNADIC ACTIVITY POP UP VERY QUICKLY WITH SOME OF THESE STORMS. WE ALSO HAVE A TORNADO WARNING IN EFFECT RIGHT NOW THROUGH 11 O'CLOCK. SO OVER THE NEXT THIRTY SIX MINUTES, FOUR IRON MADISON AND PARTS OF RENALD COUNTY THERE SCOTT. SO THIS LONG LINE OF STORMS. THE GOOD NEWS HERE AS I ZOOM OUT JUST A LITTLE BIT MORE, THIS DOES LOOK LIKE IT WILL BE THE END OF IT ONCE IT CROSSES OUT THE FIVE WONDERLIGHT COVERAGE AREA. OK, AND THAT'S GOOD BECAUSE WE NEED A BREAK HERE THE WEST OF ST. LOUIS. WE'VE HAD ROUND AFTER ROUND OF THESE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS AND NAUERT SOME STRONG WINDS WITH ALL OF THE STORMS POTENTIALLY THAT TORNADO THAT TOUCHED DOWN IN THE DEFIANCE AREA AND MOVED INTO THE AREA AROUND WELDEN SPRING OR THE WESTERN PORTIONS OF THE CHESTERFIELD VALLEY AND THEN KIND OF ON UP TOWARDS EARTH CITY AND THEN THOSE STORMS AS THEY CONTINUE TO MOVE EAST, THERE WAS ADDITIONAL AREAS ROTATION WE KNOW AROUND EDWARDSVILLE WE HAVE DAMAGE AT THAT AMAZON WAREHOUSE. WE'RE HOPEFUL THAT WE GET TO HEAR FROM OUR CREWS OUT IN THE FIELD BEFORE WE LEAVE YOU TONIGHT BECAUSE WE'RE PROBABLY GOING TO GO A LITTLE LONGER THAN USUAL BECAUSE THE WAY THINGS ARE GOING HERE UNTIL THESE TORNADO WARNINGS AND THE TORNADO THREAT GOES AWAY, OBVIOUSLY WILL BE STAYING WITH YOU. SO WE DO KNOW THAT THERE ARE POWER OUTAGES ACROSS THE AREA. WE KNOW THAT THERE ARE SCATTERED REPORTS OF TREES DOWN . THE BIGGEST DAMAGE WE'VE HEARD ABOUT HAS BEEN IN EVANSVILLE WITH THE AMAZON WAREHOUSE. WE WERE ABLE TO CONFIRM EARLIER THAT THAT WE WE HAD A TORNADO ON THE GROUND AROUND BETRAYAL BECAUSE WE WERE LOOKING AT THE DOPPLER. IT SHOWED THAT TO US. WE ALSO COULD CONFIRM TORNADO ON THE GROUND DOWN TOWARDS DEFIANCE OR BETWEEN AUGUSTA NORTHEAST OF AUGUSTA. WE COULD SEE IT ON THE RADAR SCREEN. SO WE HAD WE HAD THOSE INDICATIONS THAT WE COULD CONFIRM A TORNADO AS WE SAW THAT VIDEO JUST A LITTLE WHILE AGO FROM A VIEWER OVER IN EVANSVILLE NEAR EDWARDSVILLE, WE HAD VIDEO OF THE TORNADO TOUCHING DOWN NEAR THE EDWARDSVILLE AREA. SO WE HAVE A NEW TORNADO WARNING NOW. SO LET'S GO BACK TO THAT AND THIS IS GOING TO INCLUDE THAT AREA ANOTHER TORNADO WARNING FOR SOME OF THE SAME AREAS THAT HAD IT EARLIER IF YOU CAN BELIEVE THAT, TRACY, THIS INCLUDES BONFANTE MONTGOMERY COUNTY, ILLINOIS. YOU'VE GOT ANOTHER SEVERE THUNDERSTORM HERE AND WE CAN SEE THE CIRCULATION HERE, YOU KNOW, ON THE RADAR SCREEN AND THAT CIRCULATION IS PUSHING VERY CLOSE IT LOOKS LIKE TO HILLSBOROUGH AND COUGHING ONCE AGAIN AND IS GOING TO HEAD UP TOWARDS THE RAMSEY AREA. LOOKS LIKE IT MIGHT BE JUST SOUTH OF HILLSBOROUGH. LET ME POP ON THE VELOCITY HERE AND SEE WHAT SHOWS UP AND YOU CAN SEE A LITTLE CIRCULATION IN THERE JUST SOUTH OF HILLSBOROUG LET'S SEE IF WE FLIP RADAR SITES WHAT RADAR SITE WE ARE. SO THIS TORNADO WARNING CURRENTLY OVER PARTS OF BONIFAY MONTGOMERY HAS A MINUTE TO WORK HERE. THIS IS IN EFFECT FOR THE NEXT FORTY FIVE MINUTES THIS TORNADO WARNING THIS IS A GOOD EXAMPLE OF WHY WE SHOULD TAKE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING SERIOUSLY BECAUSE THIS ONE WE TRACK THERE'S A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM. IT STARTED TO HAVE SOME OF THAT ROTATION. THEY POP THAT TORNADO WARNING ON TOP OF IT. SO THAT'S WHY YOU ALWAYS TAKE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNINGS SERIOUSLY AND HAVE NOT FORGOTTEN ABOUT SOME OF OUR COUNTIES FURTHER DOWN TO THE SOUTH AS WE ARE STILL TRACKING POTENTIAL TORNADO WARNING FOR KYREN MADISON AND REYNOLDS COUNTY THROUGH 11 O'CLOCK TONIGHT. BUT IT DOES SEEM LIKE THOSE STORMS THAT HAVE BEEN TO THE NORTH HAVE BEEN PRETTY POWERFUL AS THEY'VE COME THROUGH GENERATING SOME VERY STRONG WINDS 60 TO 70 MILE PER HOUR WINDS HAVE BEEN CONFIRMED THROUGH SOME OF THESE AREAS THAT THESE STORMS HAVE CROSSED THROUGH. LIKE WE HAVE MENTIONED, THIS DOES APPEAR TO BE THE LAST OF IT BUT WE STILL HAVE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNINGS KIND OF ALL SCATTERED ALL ACROSS THE FIVE ON YOUR SIDE COVERAGE AREA NORTH AND TO THE SOUTH OF ST. LOUIS SCOTT. SO THE TORNADO WARNING FOR REYNOLDS COUNTY HAS NOW EXPIRED AS THE STORM HAS MOVED EAST OF THERE STILL FOR SOUTHERN IRON AND INTO SOUTHERN MADISON COUNTY, MISSOURI AND THEN WE COME BACK INTO THE METRO AREA. WELL, YOU'VE GOT YOUR SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING ON THE WAY UP AS YOU GO NORTH OF FARMINGTON, NORTH OF ST. GENEVIEVE. WE'RE ABOUT IN ST. GENEVIEVE AND IN THE SOUTHERN PORTIONS OF MONROE COUNTY AND THEN WE HAVE THE LARGE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING THAT STRETCHES FROM MADISON COUNTY OVER THROUGH BOND AND FAYETTE COUNTIES AND NOW THE TORNADO WARNING THAT IS IN EFFECT FOR A CHUNK OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY NORTHWESTERN PORTIONS OF FAYETTE COUNTY, FAR NORTHERN PORTIONS OF BOND COUNTY AND THEY MAY BE TRIMMING THAT UP A LITTLE BIT AS TIME GOES ON THIS EVENING. BUT THE BOTTOM LINE IS WE'RE STILL LOOKING AT THESE STORMS ROTATING. THEY'RE STILL MOVING INTO AREAS THAT FAVOR TORNADO DEVELOPMENT AND WE'VE HAD DAMAGE OUT THERE TONIGHT, FOLKS. YOU KNOW, WE KNOW PEOPLE WERE TRAPPED IN THE AMAZON WAREHOUSE. WE DON'T KNOW IF ANYBODY'S INJURED BUT WE KNOW PEOPLE WERE TRAPPED. AT LEAST THAT'S WHAT WE WERE TOLD AND WE HAVE ROBERT TOWNSON THERE NOW AND NOW THAT THESE STORMS HAVE PUSHED FARTHER EAST OF EDWARDSVILL, HOPEFULLY WE CAN GET THEM BACK UP AND AND OUT THERE AND WE'RE TOLD WE WILL JOIN HIM IN A FEW MINUTES. BUT THIS IS THE SAME BATCH OF STORMS THAT WE SENT HIM TO SHELTER FOUR THAT WENT RIGHT OVER THAT AMAZON WAREHOUSE AGAIN WITH STRONG WINDS AND TORRENTIAL RAINS AND A LOT OF LIGHTNING AND NOW THE POTENTIAL THAT YES, WE COULD HAVE ANOTHER TORNADO ON THE GROUND GOING ACROSS PORTIONS OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY, NORTHWEST PORTIONS OF FAYETTE COUNTY AND NORTH OF GREENVILLE IN BOND COUNTY REALLY NORTH OF LEGRANGE IN BOND COUNTY. IF YOU'RE IN THESE AREAS AND IMPACTED BY THESE STORMS, THEY'RE APPROACHING, YOU NEED TO BE IN YOUR SAFE PLACE AND YOUR SAFE PLACE IS AWAY FROM WINDOWS AND DOORS. THE LOWEST LEVEL OF THE BUILDING THAT YOU'RE IN AND THE BASEMENTS BEST BUT YOU DON'T HAVE THAT'S FINE. YOU GO TO A CLOSET, YOU GO TO A BATHROOM, YOU'RE WEARING SHOES AND YOU'RE TAKING SOMETHING TO COVER YOUR HEAD. BE AT A BASEBALL CAP OR BASEBALL HELMET. ONE OF THOSE BATTING HELMETS OR BIKE HELMET OR A BLANKET OR A PILLOW OR SOMETHING ALONG THOSE LINES SOMETHING TO PROTECT YOUR HEAD. THESE ARE ALL STORMS THAT ARE ROTATING AND THEY'RE IN AN ENVIRONMENT THAT'S FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE WEATHER TO DEVELOP. SO WE'VE GOT TO KEEP YOU SAFE TONIGHT. WE'RE TRACKING THESE STORMS THROUGH THINKING NOW NORTH AND WEST OF ST. LOUIS THE SEVERE THREAT IS OVER BUT SOUTH AND EAST OF TOWN UNTIL THIS LINE CLEARS THE AREA WE'VE GOT TO CONTINUE TO MONITOR AND BE ON GUARD FOR THE ESSENTIAL THAT SOME OF THESE STORMS COULD SPIN UP TORNADOES HERE GOING THROUGH THIS EVENING AND CAUSE SOME DAMAGE. WE'VE HAD REPORTS OF DAMAGE AGAIN ACROSS THE AREA TONIGHT. THAT'S WHY WE'VE BEEN TALKING WITH YOU SINCE ABOUT SEVEN O'CLOCK TONIGHT OR A LITTLE BEFORE THE EVENING HAS GONE BY QUICKLY FOR THE WEATHER COMMUNITY AS WE'VE BEEN TRACKING THESE STORMS AND THE SPOTTERS HAVE BEEN IMMENSELY HELPFUL TONIGHT AND LETTING US KNOW WHAT'S BEEN GOING ON AS BEST WE CAN. SO WE STILL HAVE THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNINGS. WE STILL HAVE THE TORNADO STILL HAVE THE TORNADO WARNING HERE OFF TO OUR NORTHEAST AND AGAIN THE STORM BOWING OUT HERE TOWARDS COFFEE WHICH IS AN INDICATION THAT YOU MAY HAVE SOME WIND DAMAGE THAT'S GOING ON THERE AND THEN WE LOOK DOWN TO THE SOUTH AND TO THE SOUTHWEST AND AS WE GO DOWN THE LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS, THERE MIGHT BE SOME ROTATION HAPPENING WITH THIS STORM IN SOUTHERN PORTIONS MONROE COUNTY THAT'S HEADED OVER INTO NORTHERN PORTIONS OF RANDOLPH COUNTY AND SOUTHERN PORTIONS OF ST. CLAIR COUNTY, KSDK AND THEN WE GO DOWN A LITTLE FARTHER AND YOU CAN SEE WELL MY RADAR JUST DISAPPEARED THERE DID JUST DISAPPEAR TO YEAH. YEAH. STRAUGHTER DID NOT SURE WHERE WE'RE GOING WITH THEIR WBTS BACK. OK, GOOD. I'M GLAD YOURS IS. LET'S ROBERT TOWNSEND IF WE CAN HE'S OVER BY EDWARDS TRACKING WHAT'S GOING ON. HI, ROBERT. HEY THERE, SCOTT. LET ME TELL YOU THIS IS DEFINITELY A STORMY NIGHT HERE IN EDWARDSVILLE AREA. YOU CAN SEE ALL AROUND ME ODDLY ENOUGH THE RAIN HAS STOPPEBUT THE STORY HERE IS BACK THERE. LOOK AT THAT. YOU CAN SEE ALL THOSE FLASHING LIGHTS, LOTS OF EMERGENCY RESPONDERS HERE, FIRE POLICE VEHICLES, AT LEAST SEVERAL DOZEN HERE THEY ARE ALL HERE SURROUNDING THIS AMAZON DISTRIBUTION CENTER WHERE AGAIN I CAN TELL YOU WE'RE STILL WAITING TO TALK TO OFFICIALS BUT WE ARE HEARING IS THAT AROUND NINE THIRTY TONIGHT ONE OF THE BUILDINGS BACK THERE, A LARGE WAREHOUSE APPARENTLY JUST COLLAPSED AT THE HEIGHT OF THE STORM. WE ARE TOLD THERE WERE SEVERAL EMPLOYEES INSIDE THIS BUILDING AT THE TIME. AGAIN, INVESTIGATORS STILL HAVE NOT TALKED TO US ON THE SCENE. WE'VE BEEN TRYING TO TALK TO THEM BUT I AM HEARING THAT THERE ARE REPORTS THAT THERE ARE POSSIBLE FATALITIES HERE. AGAIN, THOSE FATALITIES MAY REACH AS HIGH AS 10 RIGHT NOW. THAT'S THE NUMBER THAT'S CIRCULATING RIGHT HERE AS REPORTERS AND PHOTOGRAPHERS ARE TALKING ABOUT THIS DAY. BUT AGAIN, YOU KNOW, WE WERE HEADING OUT HERE 45 MINUTES AGO AND IT WAS STORMY INDEED. THERE WAS LOTS OF RAIN, TORRENTIAL RAINS, LOTS OF WIND ,HAIL EVEN AND JUST HEAVY, HEAVY DOWNPOURS. IT GOT SO BAD AND OUT HERE I MEAN THE COMPLETE SKY WAS EXTREMELY DARK. PEOPLE WERE TALKING ABOUT A TORNADO HAD POSSIBLY HIT THIS AREA. MY PHOTOGRAPHER BOB AND I DID NOT ACTUALLY ACTUALLY SEE A TORNADO BUT I GOT TO TELL YOU IT GOT SO WICKED AND SCARY OUT HERE THAT WE ACTUALLY HAD TO HOLIDYA OUR NEWS VEHICLE AND JUST KIND OF RACED FOR COVER . WE STAYED INSIDE THE CAR ON STATE AS THIS BIG STORM PASSED OVER. BUT AGAIN BACK THERE I'VE REACHED OUT TO THE EDWARDSVILLE FIRE CHIEF THE POLICE CHIEF, THEIR CITY MANAGER, ALL OF WHOM I'VE NOT HEARD FROM ANY OF THOSE GUYS JUST YET. BUT THE STORY BACK THERE IS THAT WHAT WE'RE HEARING THAT AROUND 930 AT THE HEIGHT OF A REALLY NASTY STORM THAT BLEW THROUGH HERE, THAT BUILDING BACK THERE COLLAPSED AND WE ARE HERE THERE WERE EMPLOYEES WHO WORK THE EVENING SHIFT. THOSE EMPLOYEES WERE INSIDE AND SADLY ENOUGH AGAIN THE UNOFFICIAL WORD JUST THAT'S GOING ON AROUND HERE AS REPORTERS LINED THE INTERSTATE HERE WE COVERED WE ARE HERE THAT THERE ARE POSSIBLE FATALITIES. BUT AGAIN, THE NUMBER THAT I'M HEARING RIGHT NOW AT THIS EARLY HOURS THAT THAT NUMBER COULD HAVE REACHED AS HIGH 10. I MEAN IT'S JUST REALLY, REALLY OMINOUS OUT HERE. I MEAN THIS IS ITEAM ODDLY ENOUGH THAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT A STORMY NIGHT AND YET AS WE GO ON AIR RIGHT NOW, I GOT TO TELL YOU THAT IT'S COMPLETELY KIND OF TAPERED OFF SIGNIFICANTLY NO MORE RAIN BUT DEFINITELY THE WINDS ARE STILL PRETTY STRONG. NO MORE HAIL BUT THE WINDS ARE DEFINITELY STRONG AND TRAFFIC SEEMS TO BE MOVING PRETTY ORDERLY BACK THERE. OF COURSE WE'RE GOING TO STAY OUT HERE AS LONG AS WE CAN AND AS SOON AS WE GET AN UPDATE WE'LL PASS IT ON TOWN SURVIVE AND EDWARDS, GO BACK TO YOU GUYS IN THE STUDIO. THANKS, ROBERT. AND OF COURSE THAT'S THAT'S SOME SAD NEWS IF IN FACT THERE ARE FATALITIES AND WE DON'T KNOW THAT CONFIRMED YET BUT OBVIOUSLY THAT IS NOT THE NEWS THAT WE WOULD WANT TO HEAR TONIGHT AS WE TRACK THESE STORMS. WE DO HAVE STILL A TORNADO WARNING IN EFFECT RIGHT NOW FOR THAT AREA EAST OF EDWARDSVILLE. IT IS ACROSS PORTIONS OF NORTHERN PORTIONS NORTHWESTERN PORTIONS OF FAYETTE COUNTY AS WELL AS PORTIONS OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY IN ILLINOIS. THIS IS NORTHEAST, THE AREA OFF TO THE EAST OF COUGHING OVER TOWARDS FILLMORE KIND OF BULGING OUT. YOU ALL WENT THROUGH THIS EARLIER AND IT LOOKED LIKE THERE WAS A TORNADO ON THE GROUND IN THIS AREA EARLIER. SAME SCENARIO PLAYING OUT HERE AS WITH WHAT PLAYED OUT IN EVANSVILLE WHERE WE HAD A TORNADO THAT WE COULD CONFIRM BY RADAR AND THEN YOU HAD THIS AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS SLIDE IN BEHIND THAT PRODUCING ADDITIONAL WIND AND ADDITIONAL PROBLEMS AND JUST AGGRAVATING THE SITUATION. SO THIS IS UNTIL 11 15 TONIGHT THIS TORNADO WARNING AND AGAIN IT LOOKS LIKE BARELY INCLUDES BOND COUNTY. IT LOOKS LIKE THE MAIN PUSH FROM THIS IS GOING TO BE WINDS ABOUT 60 MILES PER HOUR AS THEY SLIDE OFF TOWARDS THE EAST AND TO THE NORTHEAST. SO VERY INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS HERE. YOU'VE GOT SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNINGS ALL THE WAY BACK INTO EASTERN PORTIONS OF MADISON COUNTY STRETCHING ALONG INTERSTATE 70 THROUGH GREENVILLE THAT MORNING GOES OVER INTO EVANGELIA AND BASICALLY YOU'VE GOT TO WAIT ANOTHER 15 TO 20 MINUTES BEFORE IT GETS THERE BUT THAT LINE OF STORMS IS GOING TO GET THERE. WE'RE ALSO WATCHING THIS AREA SOUTHERN PORTIONS OF ST. CLAIR COUNTY AND THE SOUTHEASTERN PORTIONS OF MONROE COUNTY AS WELL AS NORTHERN PORTIONS OF RANDOLPH COUNTY. THIS AREA THESE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING STRONG WINDS POTENTIAL THAT THERE'S SOME ROTATION IN HERE SO WE CAN CONTINUE WITH THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR THIS AREA MAYBE ABOUT 60 TO 70 MILE PER HOUR WINDS OUT OF THAT. AND THEN AS WE GO FARTHER TO THE SOUTH, YOU KNOW WHAT HAPPENED? I THINK THIS IS PADUCAH. THERE WAS PADUCAH RADAR THAT WENT DOWN BECAUSE THEY SWITCHED PADUCAH LOST POWER AND SO THEY'VE SWITCHED. SPRINGFIELD IS NOW ISSUING PADUCAH WARNINGS. SO IT'S BEEN ONE OF THOSE NIGHTS FOR THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. KEEP IN MIND OUR FRIENDS THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MELBOURNE'S SPRING HAD TO SEEK SHELTER TONIGHT. THEY HAD TO HAND OFF THE WARNING DUTIES TO KANSAS CITY BECAUSE THE TORNADO WAS APPROACHING THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE. ONE MORE TORNADO WARNING DOWN HERE SOUTHERN PORTIONS OF MADISON COUNTY AND SOUTHEASTERN PORTIONS OF IRON COUNTY. THIS IS FAR TO THE SOUTH OF ST. LOUIS AND THAT'S UNTIL 11 O'CLOCK TONIGHT. AGAIN, IF YOU'RE IN THE PATH OF ANY OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS, WHETHER IT'S A TORNADO WARNING YOU'RE UNDER OR A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING, TREAT IT AS IF IT'S A TORNADO WARNING. YOU WANT TO PUT AS MANY WALLS BETWEEN YOU AND THE OUTSIDE AS POSSIBLE. YOU'RE GOING TO THE LOWEST FLOOR THAT YOU CAN GET TO AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS AND DOORS PROTECTING YOUR HEAD, WEARING YOUR SHOES. YOU SEE DOWN ALONG THE OHIO RIVER ALL THE INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS THAT ARE ONGOING RIGHT NOW DOWN INTO PARTS OF KENTUCKY RIGHT ALONG THE ILLINOIS KENTUCKY BORDER AND THEN THE INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS THAT STRETCH INTO WESTERN PORTIONS OF TENNESSEE BACK INTO PORTIONS OF ARKANSAS. THERE'S A COUPLE OF SOLID LINES NEARLY OF THESE INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS THAT ARE SLIDING ACROSS THE AREA. WE'RE GETTING SOME REPORTS OUT OF JERSEY COUNTY THAT THEY DID HAVE SOME WIND DAMAGE UP THERE DAMAGE JUST SOME STREET SIGNS. THE SEVERE THREAT IS OVER FOR JERSEY COUNTY. IT'S OVER FOR GREENE COUNTY. IT IS HEADED FOR CALHOUN COUNTY . LET'S GET INTO THE METRO AREA IF YOU'RE WEST OF 270, THINK THE THE SEVERE WEATHER THREAT IS OVER NOW GOING WEST OF ST. LOUIS OUT ALONG THE MISSOURI RIVER DOWN TO THE SOUTH ONCE THIS LINE GETS THROUGH, THE ODDS OF ADDITIONAL SEVERE WEATHER GO WAY DOWN AND IT DOESN'T LOOK LIKE WE'RE GOING TO SEE A LOT MORE ADDITIONAL DEVELOPMENT BEHIND THIS LINE REALLY THESE TWO AREAS OF THUNDERSTOR THAT WE ARE TRACKING RIGHT NOW. SO WE START A TORNADO WARNING THAT'S IN EFFECT HERE NORTHWESTERN PORTIONS OF FAYETTE COUNTY AND WE HAVE SOUTHEASTERN PORTIONS OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY AND THEN WE HAVE OUR OTHER WARNING THAT'S DOWN IN MADISON COUNTY IN MISSOURI AND PART OF IRON COUNTY THAT'S KIND OF A NEBULOUS IT'S FAR AWAY FROM THE RADAR SITE SO IT'S HARD TO TELL. AND THEN IN BETWEEN WE'VE GOT A COUPLE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNINGS, ONE OF THEM STRETCHING ALONG INTERSTATE 70 ALL THE WAY FROM THE MADISON COUNTY LINE ALL THE WAY THROUGH FAYETTE COUNTY. SO THAT'S GREENVILLE AND THAT'S OVER INTO ANTALYA AND THEN THE OTHER ONE A LITTLE FARTHER TO THE SOUTH AS YOU BASICALLY ARE WATCHING THAT LINE OF THUNDERSTOR ADVANCE OFF THE EAST, THE LINE OF STORMS IS ROLLING INTO ER THAT CAN SUSTAIN ROTATING THUNDERSTORMS OR CREATE TORNADOES AND WE CONTINUE TO GET SOME MORE DAMAGE REPORTS OUT OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY IN MISSOURI, SOME DAMAGE NEAR MIDDLETOWN AND REPORTS OF A FUNNEL CLOUD NEAR HIGHWAY 161 AND ROUTE EIGHT THAT WAS MUCH EARLIER THIS EVENING. THAT'S WHEN WE WERE FIRST GETTING INTO REALLY THE ONSLAUGHT OF TORNADO WARNINGS FOR OUR AREA AND THAT STRETCHED UP INTO PIKE COUNTY IN MISSOURI AS WELL. SO REALLY THIS ONE STORM THAT'S BLOWING OUT HERE OVER INTO PORTIONS OF NORTHERN NORTHWESTERN FAYETTE COUNTY, EASTERN PORTIONS OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY IN ILLINOIS THAT ONESTO HAS SOME POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE A TORNADO. A TORNADO WARNING IS STILL THERE AND THEN GOING SOUTH INTO SOUTHEASTERN PORTIONS KYREN COUNTY AND MADISON COUNTY IN MISSOURI. THAT'S OUR OTHER TORNADO WARNING. BUT THESE STORMS THAT ARE ACROSS ST. CLAIR COUNTY MOVING OUT OF MONROE COUNTY, ILLINOIS INTO NORTHERN PORTIONS OF RANDOLPH COUNTY, THEY STILL HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO DO SOME ROTATING ALTHOUGH THEY DON'T LOOK QUITE AS STRONG AS THEY WERE AND IT'S DEFINITELY SOME GOOD NEWS FOR US TO WEAKEN ANY WEAKENING WE CAN GET IN THE WAY WE CAN GET IT STILL THAT BOEING AND THE RADAR KIND OF JUST PASCALINE AIR THAT ARE COFFEE IN THERE THAT'S INDICATING SOME VERY STRONG WINDS. SO YOU'RE STILL DEALING WITH THAT FURTHER UP TO THE NORTH WE'VE HAD WIND REPORTS TONIGHT UP TO 60, 70 MILES PER HOUR. SO CERTAINLY STUFF THAT CAN CAUSE DAMAGE OUT THERE STILL UNDER THOSE TORNADO WARNINGS FOR SOME OF OUR COUNTIES AND THEN THAT LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNINGS PUTTING ON QUITE A SHOW TONIGHT LOTS OF LIGHTNING, HEAVY RAINFALL AND THEN THOSE VERY STRONG AND DAMAGING WINDS AS WELL AS THAT TORNADO ACTIVITY THAT WE HAD IN BOTH THE DEFIANCE AREA AS WELL AS IN EDWARDSVILLE. NOW FOR US TOMORROW, IF YOU'RE WONDERING WHAT OUR FORECAST IS GOING TO BE LIKE, I EXPECT US TO BE MUCH COOLER AS WE HAVE A BIG PUSH OF COOL AIR THAT'S PUSHING IN. WE'RE GOING TO BE IN THE 40S. WE'RE ALSO IN A VERY BREEZY CONDITIONS THROUGHOUT MOST OF THE DAY GUSTS UP TO EVEN 40 MILES PER HOUR AT TIMES TOMORROW KIND OF POCKETS OF IT. MOST OF OUR WINDS WILL BE SUSTAINED AROUND 15 TO 20 MILES PER HOUR. YEAH, AND I THINK EVEN THROUGH THE OVERNIGHT HOURS DON'T BE SURPRISED AS THE COLD AIR STARTS RUSHING IN IF WE HAVE SOME 40 TO 45 MILE PER HOUR WINDS GUSTING HERE DURING THE OVERNIGHT HOURS. SO THAT'S MORE OF A MESS ON TOP OF THE MESS THAT SOME PEOPLE ARE PICKING UP. AND IF YOU'VE HAD SOME WEAKENED TREE LIMBS OR BRANCHES UP THERE THAT WEAKENED BY THESE PREVIOUS STORMS, THERE'S A CHANCE THAT YOU GET ANOTHER 40 OR 45 MILE PER HOUR WIND THAT YOU'RE GOING TO KNOCK THAT BRANCH THAT'S WEAKENED OUT AND YOU KNOW, THEN YOU START BACK OVER WITH SOME OF THE POWER OUTAGES. SO WE'VE GOT FOR A FEW MORE MINUTES WE HAVE OUR TORNADO WARNING THAT'S IN EFFECT FOR MADISON COUNTY, MISSOURI. WE ALSO HAVE THE ONE FOR FAYETTE AND MONTGOMERY COUNTIES IN ILLINOIS. THAT ONE'S RUNNING INTO 11 15 ALTHOUGH THE STORM MAY BE OUT OF THERE BY BEFORE THAT TIME. THIS FAST MOVING STORMS TONIGHT SCOTT. THAT'S FOR SURE. AND YOU KNOW, WHEN WE LOOK AT THE DAMAGE REPORTS, YOU KNOW, WE'RE STARTING TO SEE THEM COME IN RIGHT NOW. I DON'T EVEN KNOW IF I DON'T KNOW IF WE'VE ACTUALLY THEY DID FINALLY GET THE AMAZON. THEY MENTIONED THE AMAZON IN THERE. I DON'T KNOW THAT THEY IN THE THING THIS IS AN HOUR SO WE HAVE AN OPEN LINE OF COMMUNICATI WITH THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SO THAT WE CAN ALL WORK TOGETHER TO TALK ABOUT WHAT'S GOING ON IN THESE SURROUNDING STORMS. SO I'M GOING I'M GOING TO LOOK FOR THAT REPORT ABOUT THE AMAZON WAREHOUSE. THEY THEY HAD SOME COMMUNICATION WITH LAW ENFORCEMENT ABOUT THAT. SO THEY KNEW ABOUT IT. I DON'T KNOW IF IT ACTUALLY CAME OUT AS A STORM REPORT. I DID OR DID I HAVE I CAN BRING THAT UP RIGHT NOW FOR YOU, SCOTT. SO HERE'S A JUST A VIEW OF THE OFFICIAL STORM REPORTS WE'VE HAD FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALTHOUGH AS YOU CAN SEE WE ARE NOT ALONE. A LOT OF US HAVE BEEN AFFECTED BY THESE DIFFERENT STORMS. I'LL ZOOM IN TO WHERE THAT AMAZON SO WE HAVE TWO OF THOSE STORM TORNADO CONFIRMATIONS HERE. SO HERE'S THIS ONE. SO THAT'S THE THAT'S THE ONE CONCERNING THE AMAZON WAREHOUSE. SO EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT REPORTED THIS IS THE PARTIAL ROOF COLLAPSE WE'VE HAD OUR ROBERT TOWNSEND ON THE SCENE AND THEN THE REPORTS OF MULTIPLE MULTIPLE PEOPLE WHO WERE TRAPPED AT THE TIME THAT REPORT WAS AT EIGHT, 30 AND THEN ABOUT ANOTHER HOUR OR SO MAYBE A LITTLE LESS AFTER THAT WE HAD YET ANOTHER STRONG STORM COME THROUGH THAT AREA, NOT ONE WITH A CONFIRMED TORNADO BUT THAT AREA WAS UNDER A TORNADO WARNING AGAIN. SO HOPEFULLY OUR FIRST RESPONDERS WHO RESPONDED TO THAT SCENE ARE SAFE AND THAT THEY CAN CONTINUE THEIR EFFORTS. NOW THERE'S ALSO THAT SECOND TORNADO REPORT THAT WE HAD FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE THIS TIME OVER IN DEFIANCE. SO JUST A BIT NORTH OF AUGUSTA . SO THAT'S RIGHT ALONG THE KATY TRAIL THERE'S SOME SPOTS THERE LIKE GOOD NEWS BROUS IT'S A LITTLE CLOSER DOWN TO THE RIVER BUT SIGNIFICANT DAMAGE TO A HOME THERE AT HIGHWAY F INSTAD ROAD AND THEN WE ALSO HAVE THAT BUILDING COLLAPSE AS WELL AS REPORTS OF MULTIPLE HOMES DAMAGED AND DEBRIS IN THE AREA. THEY WERE NOT ALONE. THERE ARE MULTIPLE REPORTS OF DAMAGE IN SOME OF THOSE AREAS AND SOME VERY STRONG WIND GUSTS UP TO 70 MILES PER HOUR REPORTED AT THE SPIRIT AIRPORT THERE IN THE CHESTERFIELD VALLEY. SO SHOWING THAT BACK TO THE RADAR VIEW SO I COULD SHOW YOU WHERE OUR CURRENT WARNINGS ARE ALL THE WAY ACROSS THE FIRE ON OUR SIDE COVERAGE AREA WE STILL HAVE THAT WARNING THAT'S IN EFFECT FOR MADISON COUNTY FOR THE NEXT A LITTLE BIT LESS THAN 15 MINUTES HERE AND THEN FOR FAYETTE AND MONTGOMERY COUNTIES IN ILLINOIS THAT'S THROUGH 11 15. SO ANOTHER 30 MINUTES TO GO ON THAT ONE AND WE SAW THAT VERY KIND OF LARGE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNINGS ARE SOMETHING TO TAKE SERIOUSLY TODAY AS WE HAVE SEEN TORNADO WARNINGS SPAWNED FROM THOSE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNINGS, THOSE AREAS THAT WERE UNDER THOSE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNINGS JUST A PRIME PRIME ATMOSPHERE TONIGHT FOR THOSE TORNADOES. THAT ROTATION WAS REALLY SOMETHING WE'VE BEEN TRACKING THROUGH MOST OF THE NIGHT THOSE THAT SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR MONROE RANDOLPH AND ST. CLAIR AND OF COURSE THAT IS STARTING TO MOVE OUT OF THE MONROE COUNTY AREA AND MOREOVER INTO RANDOLPH AND ST. CLAIR. YEAH, IT'S BEEN IT'S BEEN A VERY BUSY NIGHT. IT DOES LOOK LIKE AS WE JUST KIND OF YOU KNOW, LOOK AT THIS FROM THE BROAD PERSPECTIVE THIS LINE CONTINUES TO ADVANCE ON TO THE EAST. THIS SHOULD BE IT FOR US. SO WE'RE NOT ANTICIPATING ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS TO DEVELOP BACK TO THE WEST NOW UNTIL THAT FRONT ACTUALLY GETS THROUGH. YOU KNOW, THERE STILL COULD BE A COUPLE OF SHOWERS THAT DEVELOP BUT I THINK WE'VE USED UP MOST OF THE ENERGY FOR SEVERE WEATHER AT LEAST WITH THESE TWO LINES OF THUNDERSTOR THAT YOU SEE ONES DOWN ALONG THE OHIO RIVER AND THE MISSOURI YOU KNOW, KENTUCKY BORDER AND THEN THE OTHER ONE THAT'S JUST EAST AND SOUTH OF ST. LOUIS RIGHT NOW THEY STILL HAVE SOME INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS WITH THEM. THERE'S STILL SOME ROTATION. THERE'S STILL CONTINUEING THE TORNADO WARNING NOW IT HAS EXPIRED FOR MONTGOMERY COUNTY BECAUSE THE STORM HAS PRETTY MUCH THE BOW OF THAT STORM HAS MOVED INTO FAYETTE COUNTY. SO YOU KNOW, IT'S NORTHERN PORTIONS OF FAYETTE COUNTY JUST TO THE NORTH OF RAMSI, THE SAME AREA THAT WAS UNDER THE GUN EARLIER. WE STILL HAVE THE TORNADO WARNING DOWN TO THE SOUTH THAT IS LOOKS LIKE THAT STRETCHES THAT'S A NEW ONE. IT'S STRETCHING ACROSS SOUTHERN PORTIONS OF PERRY COUNTY IN MISSOURI AND THAT'S REALLY JUST A LITTLE BIT OUTSIDE THE FIVE ON YOUR SIDE VIEWING AREA. WE HAVE SOME FOLKS THAT STILL WATCHES ARE ABLE TO GET OUR SIGNAL IN PARTS OF MADISON COUNTY AND PARTS OF PERRY COUNTY BUT NOT THAT PART OF PERRY COUNTY THAT'S FAR SOUTHERN PORTIONS OF PERRY COUNTY, MISSOURI. SO I'M PRETTY SURE OUR SIGNAL DOES NOT GET THAT FAR DOWN AND I THINK THAT WARNING IS ACTUALLY ISSUED BECAUSE PADUCAH IS OUT. SO I THINK THAT'S ACTUALLY ISSUED BY SPRINGFIELD AND BACK UP TODAY. OUR NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICES HAVE BEEN KIND OF WORKING WITH EACH OTHER TODAY AND HELPING EACH OTHER OUT WITH ALL OF THIS SO THAT'S THAT STORM THAT STILL IT'S JUST NORTHWEST OF CAPE GIRARDEAU REALLY THAT'S WHY THEY'VE ISSUED THAT WARNING. BUT YOU SEE I'M NOT GETTING IT ON THE RADAR BECAUSE THE PADUCAH RADAR SITE IS ACTUALLY OUT AT THE MOMENT. SO SO THAT'S WHAT WE'VE GOT WE'VE GOT THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING OFF THE EAST OF ST. LOUIS BONFANTE MONTGOMERY COUNTY. WE'RE ALSO SEEING AS WE OH, I THINK MY SCREEN JUST STARTED WHAT YOURS WAS DOING EARLIER. YOU CAN COME OVER TO MINE, SCOTT, IF YOU'D LIKE. I'LL FIX IT. OK, SO WITH THIS WE ARE STILL TRACKING THOSE STORMS AS YOU COULD SEE WE HAVE JUST JUST ON THE TAIL EDGE OF THE FIVE ON YOUR SIDE COVERAGE AREA AROUND FREDERICK TOWN AND PERRYVILLE, WE DO HAVE TWO TORNADO WARNINGS THERE THAT SCOTT WAS TALKING ABOUT. SO THAT TORNADO WARNING THROUGH FOR THE NEXT MINUTES FOR MADISON AND THEN THAT TORNADO WARNING IS BARELY ON THE EDGE OF THE FIVE ON YOUR SIDE COVERAGE AREA. BUT BOHLINGER CAPE GIRARDEAU PERRY IS UP NEXT FOR THAT ONE. WE ARE NEARLY OUT OF OUR SEVERE STORMS FOR THE NIGHT BUT WE'RE STILL TRACKING THIS CELL HERE. AS YOU CAN SEE, IT'S MOVING PRETTY FAST. IT'S ALMOST OUT OF THAT WARNING BOX NOW AS YOU CAN SEE THAT IS MOVING VERY QUICKLY EXPECTED. THERE'S THAT NEW WARNING THAT A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING IN EFFECT FOR THE NEXT 40 MINUTES FOR CLINTON, ST. CLAIR AND WASHINGTON WASHINGTON ILLINOIS COUNTIES. SO THAT'S YES, THAT'S BASICALLY TAKING THESE THUNDERSTORMS OFF TO THE EAST AND YOU LOOK AT THIS STORM THAT'S UP AROUND GREENVILLE, ILLINOIS UP ALONG INTERSTATE 70 THAT ACTUALLY HAS SOME ROTATION JUST SOUTHWEST OF GREENVILLE NEAR STUBBLEFIELD RIGHT NOW THAT'S MOVING ALONG INTERSTATE 70 TO THE NORTHEAST . SO THERE'S SOME ROTATION IN THERE. AGAIN, YOU WANT TO BE INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS AND DOORS AS THESE STORMS ARE RACING OFF TO THE NORTHEAST. OF COURSE WE HAVE OUR TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTHERN PORTIONS OF FAYETTE COUNTY RIGHT NOW. LOOKS LIKE THAT STORM HAS REALLY LOST THAT TORNADIC POTENTIAL BUT MAY STILL BE PRODUCING SOME 60 TO 65 MILE PER HOUR WINDS. AND THEN AS YOU GO FARTHER SOUTH ALONG INTERSTATE 70, THE POTENTIAL THERE THAT YOU'RE GOING TO BE LOOKING AT WINDS THAT COULD BE GUSTING 60 TO 70 MILES PER HOUR. SO STRONG WINDS. THERE IS SOME DANGEROUS TWISTING TRYING TO DEVELOP INSIDE SOME OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS AS A CONSEQUENCE ,YOU KNOW, WE'VE GOT TO TAKE THEM SERIOUSLY. WE'RE GOING TO STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS AND DOORS FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE EVENING UNTIL THESE STORMS GET OUT OF HERE. WE KNOW WE HAVE A VERY LARGE EMERGENCY RESPONSE OVER IN EDWARDSVILLE AT WHAT WE BELIEVE TO BE AN AMAZON WAREHOUSE. WE HAVE ROBERT TOWNSEND FIVE ON YOUR SIDE'S ROBERT TOWNSEND OUT THERE GATHERING INFORMATION TONIGHT. HE'S TALKING TO OFFICIALS. HE SAID HE WASN'T ABLE TO GET UP WITH THE MAYOR OR THE FIRE CHIEF. THAT'S BECAUSE THEY'RE BUSY RIGHT NOW DEALING WITH THE SITUATION AT HAND. AND AND JUST A QUICK NOTE FOR PEOPLE. PLEASE STAY HOME. DO NOT GO OUT LOOKING FOR DAMAGE. WE NEED THOSE ROADWAYS OPEN FOR OUR FIRST RESPONDERS, ESPECIALLY AROUND THAT SCENE OF THAT WAREHOUSE COLLAPSE IN EDWARDS FIELD. JUST AS YOU KNOW WE HAVE A ROOF COLLAPSE AND SOME PARTS OF THE BUILDING STILL STANDING THAT WE SAW EARLIER TODAY. SO MAKE SURE YOU STAY OFF THE ROADWAYS. THERE COULD ALSO BE IN SOME AREAS THERE COULD STILL BE POWER LINES DOWN AS CREWS WORK TO RESTORE THE POWER. I HAVE NOT CHECKED. LET ME TAKE A CHECK CURRENT CHECK AND SEE HOW WE'RE DOING AS FAR AS OUTAGES GO AND DO LOOK LIKE THINGS ARE GETTING A LITTLE BIT BETTER THERE IS STILL ABOUT TWO THOUSAND CUSTOMERS OUT OF POWER NEAR ST. CHARLES AND THEN WE HAD SOME BECAUE REPORT STRAUGHTER CHESTERFIELD BUT IT LOOKS LIKE THINGS ARE GETTING BACK UNDER CONTROL THERE STILL ABOUT FOUR THOUSAND CUSTOMERS WITHOUT SERVICE RIGHT NOW IN THE OFALLON WENTZVILLE AREA AND THEN A LITTLE CLOSER INTO WARRENTON AND WE HAVE ABOUT THIRTEEN HUNDRED CUSTOMERS WITHOUT POWER. SO STILL SOME POWER OUTAGES OUT THERE AND IT'LL TAKE SOME TIME TO GET THOSE BACK ON IN EDWARDS THOUGH. ELEVEN THOUSAND CUSTOMERS WITHOUT SERVICE RIGHT NOW. THAT DOES NOT SURPRISE ME WITH THE TORNADO ACTIVITY WE THAT CAME THROUGH THERE AND THESE STORMS YOU KNOW, THEY'RE STILL PRODUCING STRONG WINDS. THEY'RE STILL TRYING TO GO OUT AND BECOME INTENSE. SO WE'VE GOT THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NOW STRETCHING OVER INTO WASHINGTON PARTS OF CLINTON COUNTY, EASTERN PORTIONS OF ST. CLAIR COUNTY. IT LOOKS LIKE A LITTLE BIT AS YOU GET DOWN TOWARD SPARTA MAYBE THAT STORM HAS WEAKENED JUST A LITTLE BIT AND OTHER STRONG STORMS THAT ARE IN THE CHESTER AREA AND STRETCHING FARTHER SOUTH THROUGH ST. MARY AREAS THAT WERE HIT A MONTH AND A HALF AGO BY PRETTY INTENSE TORNADOES. THEY DON'T LOOK LIKE THEY ARE PRODUCING TORNADOES RIGHT NOW BUT THEY ARE PROBABLY PRODUCING AT LEAST SOME GUSTY WINDS AND THEN WE HAVE THAT TORNADO WARNING PARTS OF MADISON COUNTY, MISSOURI STRETCHING OVER INTO SOUTHERN PORTIONS OF PERRY COUNTY, MISSOURI. BUT I THINK MOST OF THE PEOPLE UNDER THAT WARNING THAT'S FAR ENOUGH SOUTH WHERE IT IS LITERALLY HARD TO GET OUR SIGNAL IN THOSE AREAS. SO WE'RE CONCENTRATING ON THIS AREA EAST OF ST. LOUIS RIGHT NOW, FAR EASTERN PORTIONS OF MADISON COUNTY STILL SOME RUMBLING GOING ON. THE WORST OF IT THOUGH IS COMING TO AN END. THIS IS THE BACK EDGE OF THESE STORMS AND WE EXPECT THERE TO BE A BREAK GOING WEST AND NORTHWEST OF ST. LOUIS. SO THEY DID PUT UP A NEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING JUST NOW DOWN IN MADISON COUNTY, MISSOURI. AGAIN AND THAT'S THE KIND OF REPLACES THE TORNADO WARNING THAT WAS IN EFFECT THERE. SO SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING DOWN IN MADISON COUNTY IN MISSOURI. I THINK THAT REPLACES THE TORNADO WARNING. I'M NOT TO BE HONEST WITH YOU, TRACY, THERE'S SO MANY WARNINGS GOING ON RIGHT NOW WE SHOULD ALL BE WARNED. BUT THAT'S FOR SURE IT'S BEEN A NIGHT AND YOU KNOW, SCOTT, WE ARE NOT ALONE AS I LOOK HERE ON THE SATELLITE VIEW AND THE RADAR VIEW WE HAVE, YOU KNOW, PARTS OF KENTUCKY AND TENNESSEE THAT ARE ALL UNDER TORNADO WARNINGS AND NOW THIS IS STARTING TO MOVE FURTHER NORTH INTO ILLINOIS AND CROSSING OVER INTO INDIANA STILL GENERATING SOME OF THOSE SEVERE STORMS. SO WE ARE JUST OUT AT THE TAIL END OF IT BEHIND IT AS YOU CAN SEE, THERE'S SOME SNOW UP TOWARDS NEBRASKA AND IOWA. NO, WE'RE NOT GOING TO GET ANY SNOW BUT WE ARE GOING TO GET SOME SIGNIFICANTLY COOLER AIR AND SOME VERY WINDY CONDITIONS TOMORROW THAT COULD ALREADY MAKE A BIT MORE OF A MESS THAN THE SITUATION WE ALREADY HAVE AFTER ALL THESE STORMS CAME THROUGH. I'LL BRING IT BACK IN HERE AND SHOW YOU THOSE STORMS THAT WE'RE CONTINUING TO TRACK TONIGHT. PUT ON THAT LIGHTNING FOR YOU. LIGHTNING HAS SIGNIFICANTLY DIMINISHED HERE WHICH IS SOME GOOD NEWS. THAT MEANS SOME OF THOSE STORMS ARE STARTING TO WEAKEN A LITTLE BIT AND YOU COULD SEE A LITTLE BOW IN THAT IN THAT ECHO THERE IN THAT RADAR FOR YOU THAT'S CLOSER TOWARDS WHERE THAT TORNADO WARNING IS. THAT TORNADO WARNING JUST FOR THE EDGE OF FAYETTE COUNTY FOR THE NEXT ABOUT 15 MINUTES OR SO BOPIS THE RADAR LIKE THAT WHEN YOU SEE IT KIND OF MAKE THAT LITTLE BACKWARD C SHAPE THAT MEANS THAT WE HAVE SOME VERY STRONG WINDS ASSOCIATED WITH THAT LINE OF STORMS ALREADY TONIGHT WE'VE HAD WIND GUSTS UP TO 70 MILES PER HOUR REPORTED THE SPIRIT OF ST. LOUIS AIRPORT IN THE ST. LOUIS. LAMBERT ALSO HAD SOME VERY STRONG AND WE HAD A SMALL FIELD UP IN ST. CHARLES GUSTED TO 68 MILES WITH ONE OF THE THUNDERSTORMS SO NOT UNCOMMON TO HAVE SOME STRONG WINDS AND THOSE NOT NECESSARILY ASSOCIATED WITH A TORNADO. BUT WE DO KNOW THAT WE'VE HAD DAMAGE ACROSS THE AREA TONIGHT . WE KNOW THAT PEOPLE HAVE BEEN IMPACTED AND WE CONTINUE TO TRACK THESE STORMS AND SEE IF WE CAN'T, YOU KNOW, WRAP UP THESE WARNINGS HERE IN THE NEXT HOUR OR SO, GET THEM EAST OF OUR AREA SO WE CAN GET ON WITH THE CLEANUP HERE AND GET THINGS BACK UNDER CONTROL BECAUSE THESE STORMS ARE STILL AT RISK OF ROTATING AND CREATING, YOU KNOW, DAMAGING WINDS AND POTENTIALLY ISOLATED TORNADOES. THAT STORM THAT'S JUST OFF TO THE SOUTHEAST OF GREENVILLE STILL LOOKS LIKE IT HAS SOME SPINNING GOING ON AND ALSO THAT AREA OVER BY VANDALIA. YOU KNOW, THERE'S A LITTLE NUB DOWN THERE AND WHENEVER YOU SEE THOSE, YOU KNOW, WE'RE ALWAYS IN THOSE AREAS KIND OF TRACKING THE POTENTIAL FOR SOMETHING TO SPIN UP. SO YOU KNOW, IF YOU'RE ALONG INTERSTATE 70 FROM MULBERRY GROVE UP TO VANDALIA, I'D DEFINITELY BE VERY CLOSE TO MY SAFE SPOT IF NOT IN YOU KNOW, YOU KEEP WATCHING TV OR WHATEVER BUT YOU KNOW IT'S CROSSING RIGHT INTO FAYETTE COUNTY OUT OF BOND COUNTY AS WE SPEAK AND IT IS A ROTATING THUNDERSTORM AND COULD PRODUCE SOMETHING IT COULD SPIN SOMETHING UP. THE ENVIRONMENT IS FAVORABLE FOR THAT. NOW IT LOOKS LIKE THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE THE STORM PREDICTION CENTER IS ISSUING A NEW TORNADO WATCH WHICH WOULD GO UNTIL 5:00 A.M. BUT WE DON'T EXACTLY KNOW FOR WHERE JUST YET. LET'S TAKE A LOOK. IT'S IT'S IT'S JUST BEEN THE BEING DRAWN UP RIGHT NOW. I WOULD IMAGINE IT'S GOING TO BE FOR AREAS TO THE EAST AND SOUTH EAST OF ST. LOUIS AND I WOULD ALSO IMAGINE THAT OUR AREAS WILL NOT BE UNDER THAT WATCH FOR THAT AMOUNT OF TIME. I THINK WE WOULD GET OUT OF IT ONCE THIS LINE CLEARS. BUT I SUSPECT YOU'RE GOING TO GET THAT WATCH THE PROBABLY EXTENDING OVER IN ILLINOIS AND INDIANA. THAT WOULD BE MY MY GUESS BUT WE'LL SEE. I JUST SAW THEM AND IT'S NOT COMING UP YET BUT WE KNOW THAT INCLUDES SOMEWHERE IN ST. LOUIS COUNTY WARNING AREA. SO PROBABLY EAST AND SOUTHEAST OF ST. LOUIS. SO HERE'S A LINE OF STORMS. THERE'S THE ONES THAT WE'RE MOST CONCERNED WITH MOVING EAST OF GREENVILLE MOVING TOWARDS VANDALIA. THEY HAVE SOME ROTATION. THERE'S A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING THERE. YOUR SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING STRETCHING OUT OF ST. CLAIR COUNTY AND GOING OVER INTO MADISON AND CLINTON COUNTIES I SHOULD SAY WASHINGTON AND CLINTON COUNTIES IN ILLINOIS YOU SOUTH OF CARLISLE LAKE AND ALONG THE KASKASKIA RIVER YOU HAVE SOME STRONGER STORMS GOING A LITTLE FARTHER SOUTH DOWN TOWARDS SPADA AND DOWN SOUTH OF ST. GENEVIEVE IN THROUGH CHESTER MOVING TOWARDS PERRYVILLE RIGHT NOW AND ALL OF THESE STORMS ARE RAPIDLY TRACKING OFF TO THE NORTHEAST. WIND AND ISOLATED TORNADOES HAVE BEEN THE MAIN THREAT AND WE HAD VIDEO FROM EARLIER SHOWING THAT TORNADO ON THE GROUND NEAR EDWARDSVILLE AND THAT'S WHERE WE'VE HAD OUR MOST SUBSTANTIAL DAMAGE OF THE EVENING. AND HERE'S THAT VIDEO THAT A VIEWER SENT IN DANIELLE SENT THIS IN. YOU CAN CLEARLY SEE THE TORNADO ON THE GROUND THERE AND SEE DEBRIS BEING LOFTED BY THAT WAS TAKEN FROM 270 NEAR THERE TAKEN FROM 270 A LITTLE EARLIER THIS EVENING. THAT'S THE STORM THAT MOVED OVER TO THE EDWARDS ASHEVILLE AREA AND IN EDWARDSVILLE IN THAT AREA NOW ASSESSING THE DAMAGE IS OUR ROBERT TOWNSEND AND HE HAS THE LATEST ON WHAT'S GOING ON IN EVANSVILLE RIGHT NOW ROBERT. HEY THERE, SCOTT. IT'S NOT A PRETTY PICTURE HERE WHATSOEVER. AGAIN, ALL THOSE EMERGENCY RESPONDERS HAVE BEEN OUT HERE. LOTS OF FIREFIGHTERS AND POLICE OFFICERS AND A NUMBER OF PARAMEDICS ALSO PULLED UP HERE AND LOTS OF AMBULANCES ALL OF THAT AS THIS DISTRIBUTION CENTER WE'RE TOLD AROUND 930 THE ROOF OF THAT WAREHOUSE BUILDING YOU SEE RIGHT THERE JUST RIPPED RIGHT OFF AT THE HEIGHT OF WHAT PEOPLE ARE DESCRIBING WAS IN FACT AN APPARENT TORNADO JUST MINUTES AGO SARA BIERMANN PULLED UP HERE CONCERNED ABOUT YOUR HUSBAND WHO TOLD ME THAT HE WORKS HERE. TELL US ABOUT IT. I TALKED TO HIM ABOUT EIGHT O'CLOCK TONIGHT A LITTLE BEFORE I TEXTED HIM AND HE WAS RETURNING TO THE WAREHOUSE TO DROP HIS VAN OFF AND I HAVEN'T HEARD FROM HIM SINCE I JUST HEARD THE NEWS AND WE LIVE IN EVANSVILLE. WE LOST POWER SO I DECIDED TO COME DOWN HERE TO SEE WHAT WAS GOING ON AND I HAD NO IDEA THE BUILDING LOOK THAT BAD AND I'M JUST I'M WORRIED SICK. I JUST WANT TO KNOW IF HE'S OK . YOU KNOW, I DON'T WANT TO TALK TO HIM AROUND 8:00. YES, HE WAS OK. HE WAS RETURNING AND GOING TO DROP IT OFF AND AND I HAVEN'T HEARD FROM HIM SINCE. WHAT HAPPENS TO ALL THE CELL PHONE? IT JUST GOES STRAIGHT TO VOICEMAIL. I MEAN WE CAN'T GET A HOLD OF ANYBODY NO MANAGERS, NOTHING. WE HAVE NO IDEA WHAT'S GOING ON. YOU TOLD ME THAT AT THE HEIGHT OF THE STORM YOUR ENTIRE NEIGHBORHOOD LOOKED LIKE YOU LOST POWER. TELL US MORE ABOUT THE IMPACT THERE. YEAH, IT WAS LIGHTNING BUT YOU KNOW, WE LOST POWER FOR ABOUT TWO HOURS NOW AND THEN MY PHONE DIED. SO IT'S LIKE I HAVE NO IDEA TO GET A HOLD OF THEM. I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT'S GOING ON AND I'M WE'RE JUST WORRIED SICK. WE JUST WANT TO KNOW IF HE'S OK TO BE IN OUR THOUGHTS. THANKS A LOT. THANK YOU. SO I'M THINKING ABOUT YOU GUYS. APPRECIATE. I GOT TO ALSO TELL YOU GUYS THAT I CALL THE MAYOR MAYOR ARDROSSAN BE ABOUT 30 MINUTES AGO HIS WIFE TOLD ME THAT HE IS AWARE OF WHAT'S HAPPENED HERE AT AMAZON AT THIS DISTRIBUTION CENTER AND THAT HE IS NOW HE'S STILL OUT OF TOWN. HE'S IN CHICAGO AND APPARENTLY IS STILL LIVING UP THERE. THE MAYOR WE'RE TOLD IS GOING TO TRY TO WAIT UNTIL IN THE MORNING TO GET BACK HERE OF COURSE EVANSVILLE TO REALLY ASSESS THIS UP CLOSE WITH LOTS OF CITY OFFICIALS AND EMERGENCY WORKERS. BUT AGAIN THE MAYOR IS AWARE I TRY TO GET SOME INFORMATION OUT OF HIS WIFE AND OF COURSE SHE DOES NOT FEEL COMFORTABLE SHARING THAT. BUT AGAIN, I GOT TO TELL YOU THAT LOTS FOLKS ARE DEFINITELY TALKING ABOUT WHAT'S HAPPENED HERE. IT'S JUST REALLY, REALLY A HORRIBLE SIGHT TO SEE UP CLOSE WHEN YOU LOOK BACK THERE AND YOU SEE THAT WAREHOUSE, THE ROOF IS COMPLETELY RIPPED OFF, THE SIDES ARE RIPPED OFF AND AGAIN EVERYBODY'S TALKING ABOUT AROUND 1930 OR TORNADO JUST BLEW THROUGH HERE AND AND JUST DEMOLISHED THAT PLACE AND RIGHT NOW WE'RE STILL WAITING TO GET THE OFFICIAL WORD FROM OFFICIALS. BUT WHAT WE'RE HEARING THAT AGAIN THE WORD THAT'S GOING AROUND HERE IS AS PEOPLE DRIVE BY AND THE REPORTERS TALK AMONG OURSELVES, WE'RE HEARING THAT THERE ARE IN FACT FATALITIES OUT HERE, POSSIBLY THAT NUMBER AS HIGH AS 10. OF COURSE WE'RE GOING TO STAY ON THIS THROUGHOUT THE NIGHT AND YOU COULD FOLLOW US ON THE AIR THIS MORNING AND OF COURSE THROUGHOUT THE NIGHT ON DOTCOM. I'LL SEND IT BACK TO YOU GUYS IN THE STUDIO AND WE'RE STILL WORKING TO CONFIRM THOSE NUMBERS AND IF THERE ARE ANY FATALITIES, OBVIOUSLY THAT'S WHAT ROBERT IS HEARING OUT THERE RIGHT NOW WE WOULD HOPE THAT'S NOT THE CASE. BUT WE JUST FLAT OUT DON'T KNOW . WE CAN'T CONFIRM IT AT THE MOMENT NOW WHILE WE WERE LISTENING TO ROBERT AND YOU KNOW, WE CERTAINLY HOPE THAT IF YOU'VE GOT FRIENDS OR FAMILY THAT WORK THERE AT THAT AMAZON WAREHOUSE, WE HOPE THAT YOU HEAR FROM THEM THAT THEY ARE SAFE. WE DON'T WE JUST DON'T KNOW. AND LIKE EVERYBODY ELSE, YOU TRY TO CALL AND NOT NECESSARILY GETTING THROUGH RIGHT NOW. BUT WE DO HAVE A NEW TORNADO WARNING AND THIS ONE IS FOR THAT STORM THAT WE WERE TALKING ABOUT AS IT WAS MOVING OUT OF BOND COUNTY IN THE FAYETTE COUNTY. A BIT OF ROTATION HERE AND SO IT'S TIGHTENED UP A LITTLE BIT AS IT'S APPROACHING THE VANDALIA AREA. SO IF YOU'RE IN THIS AREA ESPECIALLY ALONG AND SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 70 JUST WEST OF VANDALIA RIGHT ALONG CARLISLE ROAD RIGHT ALONG EIGHTH STREET RIGHT ALONG HIGHWAY 140. RIGHT. AND EVANGELIA HERE PRETTY CLOSE TO THE WAL-MART WHERE THE VANDALIA WAL-MART IS THAT AREA HAS A CIRCULATION ONGOING IN THE AREA IT MAY OR MAY NOT BE PRODUCING A TORNADO WE DON'T KNOW BUT WE KNOW THERE IS A PRETTY STRONG CIRCULATION IN THERE AND IT'S MOVING OFF TO THE EAST INTO THE NORTHEAST. SO THAT'S GOING TO TAKE VERY CLOSE TO BEING RIGHT OVER VANDALIA NOW AND SLIDING ONTO THE EAST RIGHT ALONG INTERSTATE 70 RIGHT ALONG U.S. 40 AS IT CONTINUES TO PRESS VERY QUICKLY NORTHEAST THESE STORMS ARE MOVING AT ABOUT 60 TO 70 MILES PER HOUR AT TIMES THEY ARE RACING TO THE NORTHEAST AND SO YOU'VE GOT TO ACT FAST IF IT'S CREEPING UP ON YOU, YOUR SAFE PLACE IS IN A BASEMENT. IF YOU DON'T HAVE A BASEMENT, YOU'RE GOING TO THE LOWEST LEVEL OF WHATEVER BUILDING YOU'RE IN PUTTING AS MANY WALLS BETWEEN YOU AND THE OUTSIDE AS POSSIBLE. THAT MAY BE A CLOSET. THAT MAY BE A BATHROOM. YOU'RE WEARING YOUR SHOES AND YOU'RE COVERING YOUR HEAD. YOU'RE TAKING BASEBALL BATTING HELMET OR A BICYCLE HELMET OR PILLOW SOMETHING TO COVER YOUR HEAD. SO YOU ALSO CONTINUE THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING OVER IN THE CLINTON AND WASHINGTON COUNTIES AS WELL. THAT'S JUST SOUTH OF THIS TORNADO WARNING AND THAT'S FOR THE AREA THAT'S JUST SOUTH OF CARLISLE LAKE AND STRETCHING DOWN JUST TO THE WEST OF NASHVILLE. THOSE ARE SOME PRETTY INTENSE STORMS. THEY MAY HAVE SOME ROTATION WITH IT LIKELY PRODUCING SOME GUSTY WINDS AND THE STORM SOUTH OF THAT THROUGH SPARTA DOWN TO ABOUT PERRYVILLE ARE LIKELY PRODUCING SOME WINDS TO AROUND 50 PERHAPS UP TO 60 MILES PER HOUR. BUT IT LOOKS LIKE THEY MIGHT BE JUST BELOW SEVERE LIMITS AND WE'RE NOT SEEING THAT MUCH IN THE WAY OF ROTATION IN THOSE STORMS WHICH THAT'S A GOOD THING. SO BUT YOU STILL HAVE THAT TORNADO WARNING FOR SOUTHERN PORTIONS OF PERRY COUNTY. BUT I THINK THAT'S JUST OUT OF WHERE WHERE WE CAN REALLY GET OUR SIGNAL DOWN THERE NOW AS WE LOOK BACK TO THE WEST AND ONCE YOU GET THROUGH THIS LINE, THIS APPEARS TO BE IT FOR THE REST OF THE NIGHT. THAT'S THE GOOD NEWS. YES, THANK GOODNESS THEY ARE. SCOTT, WE CERTAINLY HAVE HAD A VERY LONG NIGHT OF TRACKING THIS WITH OUR PARTNERS OVER AT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WHO DID HAVE TO TAKE COVER FOR A BRIEF PERIOD OF TIME TRANSFERRING OVER THE WARNING DUTIES OVER TO KANSAS CITY. SO WE STILL HAVE THAT TORNADO WARNING. THIS ENTIRE LINE OF STORMS IS STILL POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS AS WE HAVE SEEN SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING AREAS THEN HAVE A TORNADO WARNING BECAUSE THE CONDITIONS ARE RIGHT FOR US TO HAVE ROTATION OUT THERE AND AS AS WE'VE UNFORTUNATELY SEEN WITH SOME DAMAGE IN AREAS LIKE DEFIANCE AND THEN THAT WAREHOUSE COLLAPSE IN EDWARDSVILLE, WE HAVE HAD DAMAGING STORMS TONIGHT. SO IF YOU ARE IN ONE OF THESE AREAS, DEFINITELY PLEASE TAKE IT SERIOUSLY, GO TO THE SAFEST AREA IN YOUR HOME WHETHER THAT'S AN AREA BETWEEN YOU AND THE MOST WALLS THE OUTSIDE OR IT'S A BASEMENT THAT WOULD ALSO BE VERY GOOD TONIGHT. SO IF YOU ARE UNDER THAT WARNING RIGHT NOW IN THE AREA, JUST PASS VANDALIA NOW THROUGH ELEVEN FORTY FIVE TONIGHT THAT'LL BE OVER OVER THE NEXT ABOUT 30 MINUTES OR SO I'LL ZOOM INTO THIS AREA A LITTLE BETTER SO YOU CAN AN IDEA WHERE THE SYSTEM IS CURRENTLY HEADING WHILE YOU'RE LOOKING AT THAT WE CAN NOW CONFIRM THE STORM IN DEFIANCE DID KILL ONE PERSON AND INJURED TWO OTHERS. SO THAT HAS NOW BEEN CONFIRMED WITH SIGNIFICANT STRUCTURAL DAMAGE IN DEFIANCE. SO ONE PERSON DIED, TWO INJURIES. THAT'S WHAT WE WERE ABLE TO CONFIRM OUT OF DEFIANCE. NOW THAT'S CERTAINLY NOT THE NEWS ANY OF US WANT TO HEAR AND I'M AFRAID THE NEWS WILL COME OUT OF EVANSVILLE AND THE AMAZON WAREHOUSE IS NOT GOING TO BE NEWS THAT ANY OF US WOULD WANT TO HEAR EITHER. THESE HAVE BEEN TERRIBLE STORMS ROLLING THROUGH THE REGION TONIGHT OCCASIONALLY PRODUCING TORNADOES OUTSIDE OF THE TORNADOES. WE'VE HAD WINDS THAT HAVE GUSTED 60 TO 70 MILES PER HOUR AS THEY'VE ROLLED THROUGH CAUSING DAMAGE. THE IMMEDIATE AREA UNDER THREAT RIGHT NOW IS WHAT YOU'RE LOOKING AT AROUND VANDALIA AND JUST EAST OF ALONG INTERSTATE 70. IF YOU'RE IN THE PATH OF THAT STORM, YOU SHOULD SEEK SHELTER. YOU HAVE A NEW TORNADO WARNING TO JASPAN ISSUED FOR CLINTON, MARYLAND AND WASHINGTON COUNTIES SEEING SOME NEW ROTATION THERE NEAR BARTLESVILLE, ILLINOIS. SO THAT'S GOING TO, YOU KNOW, BASICALLY RIDE RIGHT ALONG THE KASKASKIA RIVER AND GOING TO THE NORTHEAST. SO AGAIN, IF YOU'RE IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS, YOU NEED TO BE IN YOUR SAFE PLACE THAT IS INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS AND DOORS IN THE BASEMENT IF YOU HAVE IT IF YOU DON'T HAVE THE BASEMENT, THEN GO INTO THE LOWEST FLOOR CENTRAL HALLWAY, A BATHROOM PUT YOURSELF YOU KNOW, WITH AS MANY WALLS BETWEEN YOU AND THE OUTSIDE AS POSSIBLE AND YOU'RE WEARING YOUR SHOES AND COVERING YOUR HEAD AND PROTECTING YOUR HEAD. AGAIN, THIS STORM IS GOING TO ROLL RIGHT ALONG THE KASKASKIA RIVER ROTATIONS PRETTY CLOSE TO WHERE IT SHOULD BE INTO THE HOFMAN AREA AND LOOKS LIKE IT WOULD BE ALONG HOFMAN ROAD AND 161 AND JUST KIND OF RIDING THE KASKASKIA RIVER EVENTUALLY THAT GETS OVER TOWARDS BROOKSIDE AND IF IT WILL HOLD TOGETHER LONG ENOUGH IT COULD VERY WELL END UP OVER INTO CENTRALIA OR SANDOVAL MAYBE INTO SALEM. WE'LL SEE HOW LONG THAT CIRCULATION CAN MAINTAIN ITS SPIN WITH THAT STORM BUT CERTAINLY WE'VE GOT ANOTHER ROTATING THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO EAST OF ST. LOUIS. A BUSY NIGHT FOR SURE, SCOTT. SO PLEASE EVERYONE WHO IS OUT THERE PLEASE TAKE THESE WARNINGS SERIOUSLY AS WE'RE CONTINUING TO WATCH THIS. THIS WILL BE THE LAST OF IT. AS YOU CAN SEE, THERE'S NOTHING OFF TO OUR WEST. SO THIS IS THIS IS KIND OF THE LAST A LITTLE BIT OF IT HERE. SO WE DO HAVE THAT AND IT'S A PRETTY LONG EXTENDED TORNADO WARNING THERE THROUGH CLINTON MERIAN AND INTO WASHINGTON COUNTY IN ILLINOIS. THIS IS EXTENDED THROUGH MIDNIGHT TONIGHT. SCOTT. SO AND IF THAT STORM HOLDS TOGETHER, IT WOULD MAKE IT OVER INTO CLAY COUNTY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OUT OF LINCOLN IS ALREADY PUT UP THE WARNING FOR EFFINGHAM COUNTY OUT AHEAD OF THAT STORM THAT IS NOW IN FAYETTE COUNTY. SO YOUR TWO TORNADO WARNINGS ARE TWO AREAS OF CIRCULATION THAT REALLY ARE OF CONCERN FOR US ARE THE ONES THERE IN FAYETTE COUNTY THAT IS OFF TO THE EAST AND SOUTHEAST OF V.A. AND IT'S RUNNING RIGHT ALONG INTERSTATE 70. SO THAT'S GOING TO GO OVER TOWARDS ST. ELMO AND THEN YOU HAD THE OTHER CIRCULATION THAT REALLY KIND OF TIGHTENED UP A BIT HERE WITHIN THE LAST HOUR OR SO NOT TOO FAR FROM BERTOLASO, ILLINOIS AND THAT IS WORKING ITS WAY ALONG THE CLINTON WASHINGTON COUNTY LINE AND EVENTUALLY COULD MAKE ITS WAY OVER TOWARDS CENTRALIA, SANDOVAL AND SALEM BEFORE THE EVENING IS DONE. SO IF YOU'RE IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS, YOU'RE SAFE. PLACE AGAIN IS IN A CLOSET BATHROOM IF YOU DON'T HAVE A BASEMENT WITH AS MANY WALLS BETWEEN YOU AND THE OUTSIDE AS POSSIBLE. WE'VE ALREADY HAD FATALITIES TONIGHT THAT'S BEEN CONFIRMED IN DEFIANCE. ONE PERSON DIED IN A TORNADO THERE. TWO WERE INJURED. WE DON'T KNOW THE EXTENT OF THEIR INJURIES. IT SOUNDS LIKE WE MAY HAVE HAD FATALITIES IN THE EDWARDSVILLE AMAZON WAREHOUSE. WE DON'T KNOW ANY REAL INFORMATION ON THAT. WE HAVEN'T BEEN ABLE TO CONFIRM ANYTHING BUT THERE'S A HUGE EMERGENCY RESPONSE FROM FIRST RESPONDERS THERE AND NOW WE HAVE THESE TWO ROTATING THUNDERSTORMS EAST OF ST. LOUIS MOVING FROM L.A. AND EAST. THE ROTATION IS ACTUALLY EAST OF L.A. AND IS SLIDING ALONG INTERSTATE 70 AND THEN WE HAVE ANOTHER STORM WITH ROTATION THAT'S DOWN HERE INTO CLINTON AND WASHINGTON COUNTIES IN ILLINOIS THAT'S HEADED TOWARDS MARION COUNTY. SO THESE STORMS, THEY'RE MOVING AT ABOUT ANYWHERE FROM 55 TO 65 MILES PER HOUR IT LOOKS LIKE IS HOW FAST THEY'RE MOVING AND WHEN YOU HAVE STORMS THAT ARE MOVING THAT FAST, THAT USUALLY MEANS THAT THE WINDS ALOFT ARE INTENSE AND STRONG AND THAT IS INDEED THE CASE THAT'S HELPING TO FUEL THESE THUNDERSTORMS AS THEY RACE OFF TO THE EAST INTO THE NORTHEAST. SO IF YOU'RE IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS, YOU NEED TO GET INTO YOUR SAFE PLACE NOW FOR THE METRO AREA BACK TO THE NORTH OF ST. LOUIS TO THE WEST OF ST. LOUIS, WE SHOULD BE OK FOR THE REST OF THE NIGHT. I THINK THE SEVERE WEATHER THREAT IS NOW OVER. BUT IF YOU ARE FAR TO THE EAST OF ST. LOUIS ALONG THAT INTERSTATE 57 CORRIDOR, WE STILL HAVE ANOTHER HOUR, MAYBE AN HOUR OR TWO TO GO BEFORE WE'RE GOING TO BE ABLE TO GET THESE STORMS COMPLETELY OUT OF THE FIVE ON YOUR SIDE VIEWING AREA. SO REMAIN ALERT. BE VIGILANT IF THESE STORMS IF THESE STRONG STORMS AND THE TORNADO WARNINGS ARE CLOSE TO YOU, IF YOUR PHONE GOES OFF, IF YOUR PHONE GOES OFF AND AND DOES THOSE TONES, THAT MEANS THAT YOU ARE CLOSE ENOUGH TO THAT POLYGON TO HAVE YOUR PHONE ACTIVATED. YOU NEED TO BE IN YOUR SAFE PLACE AND WE'VE CERTAINLY HAD THE PHONES GOING OFF FOR A LOT OF US TONIGHT MORE THAN ONCE WITH THESE STORMS ROLLING THROUGH INCLUDING US RIGHT HERE IN THE FIVE ON YOUR SIDE STUDIO WE ARE IN A BASEMENT THOUGH HERE SO WE DO NOT NEED TO DO ANYTHING ELSE TO PROTECT OURSELVES FROM STORMS SINCE WE ARE IN A BASEMENT. BUT IF YOU ARE IN THE AREA RIGHT AROUND CARLISLE, LET ME GO AHEAD ZOOM IN A LITTLE CLOSER. I DO WANT YOU TO TAKE SOME PRECAUTIONS AS WE TRACK THIS STORM CLOSER INTO YOUR AREA STARTING TO MOVE INTO SANDOVAL NOW LET ME GO AHEAD AND PAUSE THIS VIEW. AS YOU CAN SEE, CARLILE'S JUST STARTING TO GET PAST YOU SANDOVAL, SALEM, CENTRALIA ALL NEXT THIS LINE THAT IS CURRENTLY UNDER THAT NEW TORNADO WARNING. SO THIS IS A TORNADO WARNING THAT WAS SET TO EXPIRE AT MIDNIGHT TONIGHT. THESE STORMS ARE MOVING VERY FAST GENERATING SOME LIGHTNING AS WELL. I'LL PULL THIS THROUGH BACK A LITTLE BIT AND SHOW YOU WHO'S WHERE THIS IS HEADED NEXT SHOULD MOVE RIGHT ALONG 50 AND THEN KIND OF CROSS OVER FIFTY SEVEN AND THEN CONTINUE TO MARCH TOWARDS FLORA TONIGHT. NOW WE ALSO HAVE ANOTHER TORNADO WARNING THAT IS STILL IN EFFECT FOR THE RIGHT AROUND MARCHING RIGHT ALONG INTERSTATE 70 HERE. SO THIS WARNING IS GOING TO CONTINUE UNTIL IT GETS OUT OF THE FIVE ON YOUR SIDE COVERAGE AREA THROUGH ABOUT ELEVEN FORTY FIVE TONIGHT IS WHEN THAT WARNING IS SET TO EXPIRE. THERE IS ALREADY A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING THAT HAS BEEN ISSUED AHEAD OF THIS SYSTEM FOR PARTS OF EFFINGHAM COUNTY AND THEN INTO JASPER SHELBY AND CUMBERLAND WHICH ARE A LITTLE BIT FARTHER OUT. BUT THEY DO NOT GET OUR SIGNAL THERE. BUT WE'RE CONTINUING TO TRACK THIS AND KEEP YOU UPDATED ON EVERYTHING. THESE STORMS HAVE BEEN VERY DANGEROUS TONIGHT AND HAVE PROVEN DEADLY AS WE HAD THAT REPORT FROM DEFIANCE OF ONE PERSON DEAD, TWO OTHERS INJURED, MULTIPLE REPORTS OF POWER LINES DOWN AS I UNDERSTAND THE LIGHTS IN WINFIELD HAVE BEEN KNOCKED OUT AS WELL. SO THAT'S THE STREET LIGHTS HAVE BEEN BLOWN OVER IN TWO LOCATIONS. SO AND THEN MULTIPLE STREETLIGHTS HAVE BEEN BLOWN BLOWN OUT ACROSS THE CITY THERE . I EXPECT TO SEE MORE DAMAGE REPORTS LIKE THAT AS CREWS ARE SAFELY ABLE TO GO AND EVALUATE THE DAMAGE THAT'S LAW ENFORCEMENT TONIGHT. PLEASE STAY HOME AND STAY OUT OF THE WAY OF OUR FIRST RESPONDERS AS THEY WORK TO HELP THOSE WHO MIGHT BE AFFECTED BY THESE STORMS TONIGHT WE WILL HAVE UPDATES FOR YOU THROUGHOUT THE NIGHT AND THEN INTO TOMORROW MORNING AS WELL ON TODAY IN ST. LOUIS. REMEMBER THAT TORNADO WARNING IN EFFECT RIGHT NOW FOR PARTS OF CLINTON AND MARION COUNTIES THROUGH ABOUT MIDNIGHT TONIGHT. YEAH, THAT STORM STILL ROTATING AND SHOWING IMPRESSIVE ROTATION AT THAT AS IT APPROACHES SANDOVAL AND TRIES TO WORK TOWARDS HIGHWAY 51. YOU KNOW, YOU'VE GOT TO BE IN YOUR SAFE PLACE IF ANY OF THESE STORMS ARE CLOSE TO YOU. THAT'S JUST THE WAY IT IS TONIGHT. THESE ARE NOT STORMS TO MESS AROUND WITH. IT MAY OR MAY NOT PRODUCE SOMETHING AT YOUR HOUSE BUT IF YOU'RE CLOSE TO IT, ODDS ARE YOU'RE IN A SITUATION WHERE YOU'RE LOOKING AT STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS AND THEY HAVE HAD A HISTORY OF PRODUCING TORNADOES OR HAD A HISTORY OF PRODUCING WIND DAMAGE AND AS A CONSEQUENCE WE'RE SEEING PROBLEMS ACROSS THIS AREA TONIGHT. SO STILL LOOKING AT THAT TORNADO WARNING HERE FOR THE EASTERN PORTIONS OF FAYETTE COUNTY, EAST OF EVANGELIA STILL LOOKING AT SOME LITTLE NUBS ON THE SOUTH SIDE OF THAT RIGHT ALONG AND SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 70. IT MAY BE HAVING SOME SPINNING GOING ON WITH THEM AND AS WE LOOK A LITTLE FARTHER TO THE SOUTH FOR THOSE STORMS THAT ARE DOWN HERE INTO SALEM APPROACHING SALEM AND SANDOVAL AND THEN JUST EAST OF CARLISLE ,THOSE STORMS HAVE SOME ROTATION WITH THEM AS WELL AS THEY CONTINUE OFF TO THE EAST. NOW YOU KNOW WE'RE COMING UP IT'S 11 20 AT NIGHT AND YOU WOULD THINK, YOU KNOW, THIS IS ODD THAT YOU EVEN HAVE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AT THIS HOUR. IT'S NOT YOU KNOW, WE'VE LOST OUR HEAT OF THE DAY. WELL, ACTUALLY OUR HEAT OF THE DAY CAME THIS EVENING WITH THE WARMER AIR BEING DRAWN INTO THIS INTENSIFYING SYSTEM. WE MANAGED TO GET CLOSE TO 70 IN ST. LOUIS LATE THIS EVENING BEFORE THESE THUNDERSTORMS ROLLED IN AND THAT'S PART OF THE PROBLEM IN THESE STORMS CREATING THE SEVERE WEATHER THAT THEY WERE ABLE TO CREATE FOR THIS EVENING ALONG THAT LINE. SO THE AREA OF ROTATION WEATHER SERVICE FOLKS, WE'RE SEEING IT HERE TOO. BUT THE WEATHER SERVICE FOLKS ARE TELLING US THAT AREA OF ROTATION IN EASTERN PORTIONS OF CARLAW EAST OF CARLISLE IN CLINTON COUNTY NOT AS IMPRESSIVE AS IT WAS BUT STILL POTENTIAL FOR SOME ROTATION AND POTENTIAL FOR A TORNADO THERE. SO THE TORNADO WARNING DOES CONTINUE. SO RIGHT ALONG 50 AND 51 THAT ACROSS 57 EVENTUALLY AND AS IT TRACKS OFF TOWARDS THE EAST INTO THE NORTHEAST, IT'S GOING TO ROLL RIGHT OVER SANDOVAL AND THEN EVENTUALLY OVER VERY CLOSE TO SALEM. SALEM IS A HUGE INDUSTRIAL AREA AS WELL. A LOT OF WAREHOUSES, A LOT OF BUSINESSES MANUFACTURER BUSINESSES OVER IN THAT AREA AROUND SALEM, ILLINOIS AS WELL SINCE IT'S SO CONVENIENTLY LOCATED CLOSE TO INTERSTATE 57 AND INTERSTATE 64 AND IT'S GOT A DECENT AMOUNT OF LIGHTNING ACTIVITY THAT'S GOING ON WITH THIS STORM SYSTEM. SO CURRENTLY WE HAVE EIGHT STRIKES, THREE OF THOSE POSITIVE FIVE NEGATIVE TO SOME VERY STRONG CELLS WITHIN THIS. SO YOU CAN SEE THIS IS CONTINUING TO TRACK THROUGH VERY STRONG WIND GUSTS. WE DO HOPE THAT EVERYONE IN THESE AREAS STAY SAFE FOR THESE AS THESE STORMS HAVE PROVED DEADLY TONIGHT WITH THAT ONE FATALITY THAT DID THAT WAS CONFIRMED IN THE DEFIANCE AREA . SO IF YOU ARE IN THESE AREAS, WE WANT YOU TO STAY SAFE, GET TO YOUR BASEMENT OR PUT YOURSELF IN A ROOM THAT WITH THE MOST WALLS BETWEEN YOU AND THE OUTSIDE, OFTENTIMES THAT'S A BATHROOM. SOMETIMES IT'S A CLOSET. THOSE ARE YOUR SAFE OPTIONS. AND IF YOU HAVE SOMETHING TO COVER YOUR HEAD WITH, WE DEFINITELY WOULD RECOMMEND THAT AS WELL. SO THE GOOD NEWS IS IS AFTER THIS MOVES OUT THAT SHOULD BE THE END OF THIS AS THIS TRACKS THROUGH. AND SCOTT, YOU KNOW, YOU'VE BEEN WORKING IN ST. LOUIS FOR A WHILE NOW. IS THIS UNCOMMON TO SEE A SYSTEM OF THIS STRENGTH IN DECEMBER? WELL, WE'VE HAD SOME PRETTY INTENSE WINTER STORMS OR SEVERE STORMS DURING THE WINTER SEASON. SO YOU KNOW, IF YOU GO BACK A FEW YEARS TO THE GOOD FRIDAY, NOT THE GOOD FRIDAY, THE NEW YEAR'S EVE TORNADOES IN SUNSET HILLS, I MEAN THIS IS KIND OF A SETUP SIMILAR TO THAT WHERE IT'S VERY WARM AND YOU HAVE A LOT OF WIND AND YOU DON'T NEED IT TO BE AS WARM AS YOU WOULD GET IN THE SPRING BECAUSE YOU HAVE SO MUCH MORE WIND ALOFT IT'S ABLE TO REALLY DRIVE THOSE STORMS AND COMPENSATE FOR THE LACK OF HEAT AND HUMIDITY ALTHOUGH FOR DECEMBER DEW POINTS GOT INTO THE 60S TODAY THAT IS EXTREMELY HUMID FOR THIS TIME OF YEAR AND WITH TEMPERATURES CLOSE TO 70 THAT'S TWENTY FIVE DEGREES ABOVE AVERAGE. SO I MEAN WE ARE REALLY WE ARE REALLY ON THE EDGE OF THINGS WITH THIS KIND OF STORM SYSTEM AND YOU KNOW, AS IT'S BECOME EVIDENT IN THE LAST IT REALLY STARTED WITH THIS MORNING AND LAST NIGHT WITH A STORM PREDICTION CENTER AS IT BECAME EVIDENT THAT WE WERE GOING TO SEE THIS MOISTURE RETURNING AND HOW FAR NORTH IT WAS GOING TO GET. YOU KNOW, THE STORM PREDICTION CENTER RAMPED UP THE THREAT AREAS AS WELL AS THE MESSAGE THAT WE WERE SENDING OUT CONFIDENCE IS HIGH WITH THIS SYSTEM. IT BECOMES YEAH, IT BECOMES GREATER AND YOU HONESTLY DON'T KNOW EXACTLY WHAT YOU'RE GOING TO GET UNTIL THEY START FORMING. AND WE SAW TONIGHT AS THESE STORMS FORM THEY DID SO AN ENVIRONMENT THAT WAS VERY CONDUCIVE TO ROTATING STORMS AND POTENTIAL OF SEVERE WEATHER AND WE'VE SEEN THAT, YOU KNOW, REALLY FROM SOUTHWEST MISSOURI, IN MISSOURI, FROM LAKE OF THE OZARKS AND THEN RIGHT THROUGH OUR AREA THIS EVENING AND UNFORTUNATELY, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE WE KNOW OF AT LEAST ONE FATALITY IN DEFIANCE THERE ARE REPORTS THAT THERE MAY BE ADDITIONAL FATALITIES WITH THE AMAZON WAREHOUSE. THAT'S WHAT ROBERT IS HEARING THERE. BUT YOU'RE NOT GOING TO HAVE CONFIRMATION ON THAT FOR A WHILE I WOULD SUSPECT BECAUSE IT'S JUST HEARTBREAKING. SCOTT, WE'VE GOT THE BUILDING WHERE THE WALLS ARE GONE AND YOU WAREHOUSES ARE NOT WHILE THEY'RE BUILT STRUCTURALLY SOUND, THEY'RE NOT BUILT TO WITHSTAND TORNADOES. YOU KNOW, THEY'RE FRAMED. THEY HAVE VARIOUS FRAMES AND AND THEY'RE JUST THEY'RE BUILT TO WITHSTAND STRONG STORMS. BUT YOU KNOW, IF YOU HAVE A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF WIND AND THE WIND HITS SOMETHING THAT THE RIGHT WAY, THEN YOU'RE GOING TO YOU'RE GOING TO SEE A WAREHOUSE TYPE BUILDING, YOU KNOW, COLLAPSE OR THE WALLS OR THE ROOF FAILS AND THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE KNOW CAN HAPPEN. THAT'S WHY WE ALWAYS TELL PEOPLE, YOU KNOW WHY THE FOLKS IN WAL-MART AND SCHNOOKS TONIGHT WHERE YOU HAVE PICTURES OF PEOPLE THAT WERE SHELTERING THERE BACK IN THEIR SAFE SPOTS AND IN THE AREAS THAT ARE MORE CONCRETE, BRACED AND SURROUNDED BY SO WE HAVE THEM ARE READING A REPORT HERE OF TREES DOWN. THIS IS ALL NEAR THE SHOAL CREEK AREA. WE WERE TRACKING THAT EARLIER STYROFOAM AND DEBRIS SCATTERED THROUGH MANY PARTS OF THE COUNTY. SO THIS WILL BE SOMETHING THAT'LL BE WE'LL BE EVALUATING AS WE GET INTO THE LATE HOURS OF TOMORROW. WE CAN CERTAINLY SEE MUCH MORE WHEN ONCE THE SUN COMES UP. BUT I EXPECT TO SEE A LOT OF AREAS WITH WITH DAMAGE AS THAT CONTINUES. THERE ARE SOME GOOD IS HERE IS FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AS WE ARE WATCHING HERE AS WELL THAT THAT FAYETTE COUNTY STORM SYSTEM LOOKS LIKE IT HAS WEAKENED A LITTLE BIT. WE LIKE TO HEAR THAT IT'S BECOME UNBALANCED IS WHAT THE FORECASTER. I'LL TAKE IT. NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAYS AND IT IS AND THAT'S THAT'S GOOD. THE STORM TO THE SOUTH. IT ALSO HAS A TORNADO WARNING ON IT THAT'S APPROACHING SALEM AND THAT CIRCULATION THERE THAT IS MUCH BROADER THAN IT WAS WHICH IS GOOD NEWS. SO IT DOESN'T LOOK LIKE IT'S NEAR AS TIGHT AS IT WAS. SO YOU KNOW, I'LL TAKE THAT ANY DAY OF THESE STORMS WILL WEAKEN THAT WOULD HELP US OUT SOME AND STILL COULD SEE SOME VERY STRONG WINDS WITH THOSE. YEAH, THEY SAW THE POTENTIAL FOR SOME STRONG WINDS BUT IT DOES LOOK LIKE THERE'S AN OVERALL TREND MAYBE IN THE LAST 15 MINUTES OR SO WHERE THEY'RE NOT QUITE AS STRONG. THE ONLY PROBLEM IS THEY'RE STILL MOVING INTO THIS AREA WHERE WE HAVE STRONG WINDS ALOFT. YOU KNOW, THERE'S STILL THE ENERGY AVAILABLE FOR THEM AND SO THAT THAT IS THERE'S STILL AN ENVIRONMENT THAT'S YOU KNOW, IT'S NOT GOING TO BREAK THEM OUT. AND SO THAT'S THAT'S THE CONCERN WE HAVE AS WE STILL HEAD THROUGH THE NEXT COUPLE OF HOURS THAT YOU KNOW, THEY INGEST SOME EXTRA ENERGY EITHER GETTING IT FROM THE WINDS ALOFT OR YOU KNOW, THE HEAT AND HUMIDITY EVEN THOUGH YOU I SAY IT'S NOT HOT BUT IT'S STILL IN THE MID 60S HERE EAST AND SOUTHEAST OF ST. LOUIS. I MEAN WE'VE BEEN PULLING AIR THIS CLOSE TO 70 DEGREES UP AHEAD OF THIS SYSTEM SO AND THEN BEHIND IT FEEDING IT SOME MUCH COOLER AIR. I'LL POP UP THE TEMPERATURES HERE BRIEFLY FOR YOU JUST SO YOU CAN SEE WHAT'S KIND OF COMING COMING UP NEXT. SO CURRENTLY AT SIXTY TWO IN CHESTERFIELD, FIFTY NINE IN WASHINGTON BUT YOU PULL THIS BACK AND LOOK YOU'VE GOT THIRTY SIX IN KANSAS CITY. MUCH COOLER AIR IS ABOUT TO SETTLE IN OVER ALL THIS IN ST. LOUIS. WE ALSO HAVE SOME STRONG WIND GUSTS THAT WE EXPECT TO CONTINUE FOR TOMORROW GUSTS UP TO 40. FORTY FIVE MILES WE'RE NOT OUT OF THE QUESTION TOMORROW. I DO EXPECT THEM TO SETTLE DOWN THOUGH TOWARDS THE AFTERNOON AND WE'RE WATCHING THESE STORMS OFF TO THE EAST OF ST. LOUIS STILL THE ONE THE NORTHERN HALF OF MARION COUNTY RIGHT NOW. THIS IS NORTH OF SALEM UP TOWARDS MONDAY ALONG INTERSTATE 57 REALLY THAT CIRCULATION'S RIGHT ALONG HIGHWAY 51 BUT IT HAS WEAKENED A LITTLE BIT. BUT WE STILL HAVE THE TORNADO WARNING, THE ROTATION NEAR PATOKA AND MOVING EAST NORTHEAST THINK THAT SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING THAT'S STILL IN EFFECT FOR EASTERN PORTIONS OF CLINTON IN WASHINGTON COUNTY. WE'RE GOING TO BE ABOUT DONE WITH THAT IN JUST A MOMENT AND I THINK WE'RE GOING TO HAVE THIS WARNING UP IN FAYETTE COUNTY ONCE THAT STORM GETS OFF TO THE EAST. IT'S PRETTY CLOSE TO EXPIRING HERE AS WELL. THAT'S GOOD NEWS, SCOTT. THAT IS FOR SURE. YEAH, WE'RE GETTING WE'RE GETTING CLOSE TO THE END FOR THE FIVE ON YOUR SIDE AREA ON FORTUNATELY AS YOU'VE POINTED OUT, YOU KNOW NUMEROUS TIMES TONIGHT THESE LIKE THESE THE TWO LINES OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS STRETCH ALL THE WAY FROM INDIANA BACK TO THE SOUTH THROUGH PARTS OF KENTUCKY, TENNESSEE, LOUISIANA NOW GOING INTO MISSISSIPPI DOWN INTO TEXAS, VERY ACTIVE LINE OF STORMS TONIGHT. YEAH, A LOT OF WARNINGS, LOT OF THIS AND A LOT OF THESE STORMS ARE GOING TO STILL REMAIN PRETTY INTENSE THROUGH THE OVERNIGHT HOURS. AND SO AS A CONSEQUENCE WE'RE BASICALLY LOOKING AT THESE INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS, YOU KNOW, FOR AREAS TO OUR EAST AND SOUTHEAST THROUGH THE OVERNIGHT HOURS AND WE ALL KNOW THAT, YOU KNOW, PEOPLE GO TO BED, YOU KNOW, SOME OF OUR FOLKS HERE WEST OF ST. LOUIS HAVE ALREADY TURNED IN FOR THE NIGHT AND GOING TO BED. BUT YOU KNOW, THE FOLKS THAT ARE GOING TO BED AHEAD OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS, YOU KNOW, IT'S REALLY BAD TO HAVE NIGHTTIME TORNADOES. CERTAINLY NOT GOOD ONE FOR PEOPLE THAT I DO. AND WHEN I'M NOT ON WHEN I'M NOT WORKING OR MAYBE I MIGHT HAVE THE DAY OFF AND WE HAVE SYSTEMS LIKE THIS COME THROUGH IS ALL SET ALARMS ALL SET ALARMS FOR SOMETIMES IT'S EVERY 30 MINUTES DEPENDING ON HOW FAST IT'S LOOKING ON THE RADAR. SOMETIMES IT'S EVERY HOUR JUST TO GET UP AND CHECK AND MAKE SURE THAT I'M NOT GOING TO MISS ANYTHING AND MAKE SURE TO ON YOUR PHONE THAT YOU HAVE YOUR EMERGENCY ALERTS. YOU'RE THERE'S AN OPTION UNDER SETTINGS THAT YOU CAN HAVE YOUR WARNINGS STILL BE PUSHED THROUGH YOUR PHONE. IT KIND OF SOUNDS LIKE AN AMBER ALERT TONE. IT'S SIMILAR AND THAT IS FOR WARNINGS LIKE WHAT WE SAW TONIGHT. OUR PHONES ALL WENT OFF HERE AT THE WEATHER DESK HERE. FIVE ON YOUR SIDE. YEAH. AND THROUGHOUT THE NEWSROOM. SO YOU KNOW WE'RE GETTING CLOSE TO THE END OF THIS. I'M AFRAID THE NEWS ISN'T GOOD EVERYWHERE TONIGHT BECAUSE WE HAVE HAD DAMAGE ACROSS THE AREA. WE HAVE HAD ONE FATALITY CONFIRMED IN DEFIANCE, TWO INJURIES REPORTED. WE STILL DON'T KNOW THE EXTENT HONESTLY OF INJURIES AND DAMAGE OVER IN EDWARDSVILLE AT THE AMAZON WAREHOUSE DOES NOT LOOK GOOD OVER THERE AND MY THOUGHTS ARE WITH EVERYBODY THERE THAT'S AND ROBERT TOWNSEND IS ON THE SCENE AND THIS IS WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE RIGHT NOW AND YOU SEE THEY'VE GOT THE LADDER TRUCKS, AERIAL TRUCKS UP TRYING TO GET HELP MOVE STUFF AND IT LOOKS LIKE MAYBE THEY ARE BRINGING IN SOME LARGE EQUIPMENT TO HELP MOVE SOME THINGS OUT, TRY TO GET STUFF OUT OF THE WAY. IT'S A VERY DELICATE SITUATION WHEN THEY'RE DEALING WITH THIS AND THEY HAD THAT THIS WAS CAUSED BY A TORNADO. WE'RE PRETTY CONFIDENT THAT BECAUSE WE COULD TELL ON THE RADAR BUT WE ALSO THEY ALSO HAD ANOTHER INTENSE THUNDERSTORM THAT CAME IN AFTER THIS. SO YOU CAN SEE THEY HAVE SOME BIG EQUIPMENT IN THERE. FIRST RESPONDERS ARE ON THE SCENE. THEY ARE THEY HAVE THE AREA VERY WELL ILLUMINATED. THEY ARE DOING WHAT WOULD APPEAR TO BE A SEARCH AND RESCUE TYPE THING RIGHT NOW I SEE FIRE CREWS ON THE SCENE RIGHT NOW AS WELL AS WHAT LOOKS LIKE A CRANE SERVICE THAT'S WORKING THROUGH THAT WITH SOME STEEL BEAMS THAT ARE STILL IN PLACE. WE'VE HAD REPORTS OF INSULATION, THAT TYPE OF THING BEING THROWN AROUND IN THIS AREA. SO AND MICHELLE LEE IS HERE AND YOU'VE BEEN FOLLOWING THIS CLOSELY, MICHELLE. I'VE BEEN LOOKING AT THE AMAZON DISTRIBUTION CENTER OVERALL. I MEAN YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT A MASSIVE BUILDING POTENTIALLY EIGHT THOUSAND SQUARE FEET FOR THESE CREWS TO GO THROUGH TO LOOK FOR WORKERS SOMETIMES FIVE HUNDRED WORKERS WORKING AT A TIME IN THIS DISTRIBUTION CENTER WE ALL COVERED IT WHEN IT WAS HERE IN TWENTY SIXTEEN WHEN IT OPENED. NOW WE ALSO KNOW THAT THIS IS THE VERY BUSY TIME OF THE HOLIDAY RIGHT. SO THIS IS A WAREHOUSE THIS IS A DISTRIBUTION CENTER AND PEOPLE ARE WORKING 24 SEVEN. IN FACT IF YOU'RE WORKING OVERNIGHT OR LATE HOURS OR WEEKENDS YOU'RE GETTING PAID EXTRA. THAT'S AN INCENTIVE TO TAKE ON THESE HOURS. SO WE KNOW THAT THERE ARE A LOT OF PEOPLE TRYING TO ALSO EARN MORE MONEY BEFORE THE HOLIDAYS AND SO WE CAN ASSUME THAT THIS IS A VERY BUSY TIME FOR AMAZON . I HAVE BEEN TALKING TO SOMEONE TO A VIEWER WHO SAYS THAT THEY WORK AT ANOTHER AMAZON FACILITY AND THERE IS AN APP, AN INTERNAL THE EMPLOYEES USE TO KEEP TO KEEP ABREAST OF EVERYTHING THAT'S HAPPENING WITHIN THE COMPANY AND THIS PERSON SAID, YOU KNOW, THIS PERSON SAID THEY DIDN'T KNOW OF ANY ALERT SENT OUT BY AMAZON ABOUT THIS INCIDENT BUT THIS PERSON WOULD SAFELY ASSUME THAT THE EMPLOYEES GOT AN ALERT ON THAT ON THAT PHONE APP FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AND CONSIDERING THAT THEY WERE IN THE SHELTER AREA AT THE TIME THE TORNADO HIT THAT THEY THAT THIS PERSON ASSUMED THAT THEY WERE LIKELY INSTRUCTED TO DO THAT. SO THAT'S HOPEFULLY SOME GOOD NEWS. BUT WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE WAREHOUSE ITSELF, IT DOESN'T LOOK YOU HAD MENTIONED THIS THE MATERIAL DOESN'T REALLY LOOK STRONG LIKE WOULD WITHSTAND SOME HURRICANE FORCE OR MAJOR EF FIVE TORNADO WINDS. RIGHT. SO YOU'RE LOOKING AT LIKE POTENTIALLY SHEETMETAL OR OR SOMETHING A LITTLE BIT MORE WAREHOUSE TYPE AS YOU MENTIONED . WE'LL KNOW MORE WHEN WE SEE IT CLOSER BUT AND THE WEATHER SERVICE WILL GO OUT AND THERE IS A GUIDE FOR THESE TYPES OF BUILDINGS WHEN YOU HAVE WAREHOUSES, HOW THEY'RE BUILT, HOW THEY'RE STRUCTURALLY PUT TOGETHER AND WHAT TYPE OF WIND SPEED, YOU KNOW, IT TAKES TO CAUSE DAMAGE. BUT WE DO KNOW THAT THERE WERE REPORTS OF PEOPLE TRAPPED IN THAT AND PERHAPS WORSE WE DON'T KNOW WE HAVEN'T BEEN ABLE TO GET THAT MUCH INFORMATION AND LARGELY THAT'S BECAUSE ALL OF THE FIRST RESPONDERS AND THE PEOPLE WE WOULD TALK TO ABOUT THIS ARE PRETTY BUSY AND THEY'RE DOING WHAT THEY NEED TO DO RIGHT NOW TO TRY TO RESCUE ANYBODY, FIND ANYBODY, WHATEVER IS GOING ON IN THERE RIGHT NOW. BUT YOU HAVE A LARGE, LARGE NUMBER OF RESCUE WORKERS OVER THERE AT THE AMAZON WAREHOUSE. THERE WE GO IN OUR PHOTOJOURNALIS BOB HAINJE IS GIVING US A BETTER LOOK SOME OF THE DAMAGE AND ALSO THE BUILDING MATERIALS THEMSELVES. YEAH, AND YOU KNOW, IT'S THESE STEEL TRUSSES AND IT'S STEEL AND THEN YOU HAVE YOU DO IT'S A SHEET METAL KIND OF WRAPPING IF YOU WILL. AND IT IS STRUCTURALLY SOUND. IT'S BUILT TO WITHSTAND A CERTAIN INTENSITY OF STORM TONIGHT IT'S PRETTY CLEAR THAT THE INTENSITY OF STORM WAS STRONGER THAN WHAT THE WAREHOUSE WAS BUILT FOR. NOW YOU COULD ALSO ADD INTO THAT THAT YOU HAVE MAYBE A GARAGE DOOR OPEN BECAUSE THEY DO HAVE YOU ALL YOUR TRAILERS ARE THERE. THEY'RE LOADING TRUCKS. THEY HAVE GARAGE DOORS OPEN. YOU OPEN THOSE DOORS AND THAT ALSO CAN ALLOW WINDS TO ROLL AND CAN CREATE ADDITIONAL PROBLEMS THERE AS WELL. SO WE'RE STILL LOOKING AT A TORNADO WARNING JUST KIND OF REHASH OUR OUR WEATHER SCENARIO THAT'S PLAYING OUT NORTH OF SALEM UP TOWARDS MONDAY. THE STORM DOESN'T LOOK AS IMPRESSIVE AS IT DID. THERE ARE NEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNINGS THAT STRETCH FROM ABOUT MOUNT VERNON DOWN THROUGH PERRY COUNTY IN ILLINOIS AND THEN DOWN JUST WEST OF CARBONDALE. SO THAT'S MOVING OUT OF THAT AND THE STORM THAT'S ACTUALLY JUST WEST OF SALEM IS REALLY LOOKS LIKE IT'S TRYING TO GET A LITTLE MORE INTENSE AND MAYBE ROTATE A LITTLE ON ITS OWN AND THAT'S WHY THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IS STILL LEADING THAT TORNADO WARNING UP THE STORM. THE PART OF THE STORM THAT'S UP BY MONDAY IS A LITTLE LESS THAN IMPRESSIVE. BUT WHAT'S JUST WEST OF SALEM IS STILL PRETTY STRONG. SO YOU WE'VE HAD THESE STORMS TONIGHT, TRACY, AND THEY'VE BEEN INTENSE. THEY'VE CAUSED DAMAGE. WE'VE HAD LOSS OF LIFE WHICH WE HATE TO SEE WE HEARTBREAKING. AND SO THERE'S A LOT PEOPLE THAT WILL BE DOING A LOT OF CLEANING UP TOMORROW AND A LOT OF SORROW FOR SOME TOMORROW ESPECIALLY AT THIS TIME OF YEAR . SO THE BACK EDGE OF THIS LINE ONCE THAT LINE GOES THROUGH THE SEVERE WEATHER THREAT WILL BE OVER FOR US. SO ST. POINTS WEST, NORTH, SOUTHWEST WE'RE IN THE CLEAR FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE NIGHT YOU'LL GET GUSTY WINDS BUT THEY WON'T BE ASSOCIATED WITH ANY THUNDERSTORMS. PRETTY STRONG WINDS THOUGH. SCOTT GOES UP TO ABOUT 40 45 MILES. IT'S ALL GOING TO GET SIGNIFICANTLY COOLER OUT THERE. WE'RE GOING TO HAVE A COOL AIR ARRIVE IN TOMORROW. OUR TEMPERATURES ARE GOING TO MAKE IT INTO THE MID 40S FOR HIGH TEMPERATURE. SO THAT'S A BIG DIFFERENCE COMPARED TO WHAT WE HAD TODAY. NOW AS FAR AS THIS GOES, YOU CAN SEE WE ARE NOT ALONE. WE HAVE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNINGS EXTENDING ALL THE WAY FROM TEXAS UP INTO PARTS OF INDIANA AND THEN WE HAVE TORNADO WARNINGS CURRENTLY OVER PARTS OF TENNESSEE AND INTO KENTUCKY AND THEN WE OURSELVES ARE STILL UNDER THOSE SEVERE TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNINGS HERE. SO I'LL GO AHEAD AND ZOOM IN A LITTLE CLOSER HERE AND SHOW YOU WHAT WE ARE DEALING WITH CURRENTLY. SO WE STILL DO HAVE THAT TORNADO WARNING THAT IS IN EFFECT FOR SOME SPOTS OF MARION COUNTY. THIS IS IN EFFECT FOR THE NEXT 20 MINUTES. LET ME ZOOM IN A LITTLE BIT CLOSER SO WE CAN GET A BETTER IDEA OF EXACTLY WHERE THIS IS AND WHERE IT'S HEADING. WE'RE GOING TO CONTINUE TO TRACK THESE UNTIL THEY ARE COMPLETELY OUT OF THE WAY. THE FIVE ON YOUR SIDE AREA ALONE POSSESS THIS LITTLE CELL THAT'S KIND OF OVER FIFTY SEVEN ER IT'S JUST A LITTLE BIT WEST OF SALEM. THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE CERTAINLY WANT TO KEEP AN EYE ON AS THIS IS CONTINUING A LITTLE BIT OF ROTATION AND IT IS WHAT WE'VE BEEN WATCHING NOW I'LL ZOOM A LITTLE BIT OUT. YOU CAN SEE THAT NEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING THAT IS IN EFFECT JUST OVER MOUNT VERNON IN SOME SPOTS THERE. SO THIS WARNING IT WILL BE IN EFFECT THROUGH ABOUT 12 15 TONIGHT FOR SPOTS OF FRANKLIN JEFFERSON PARISH AND THEN WILLIAMSON COUNTY WHICH WILLIAMSON IS NOT PART OF THE FIVE ON YOUR SIDE AREA BUT JUST JUST OUT OF IT BY A LITTLE BIT BUT STILL A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNINGS THAT ARE OUT THERE RIGHT NOW AND CERTAINLY BEEN PUTTING ON THE SHOW. BUT IT DOES SEEM LIKE THAT LIGHTNING AT LEAST WHAT IS BEING DETECTED RIGHT NOW SEEMS TO BE A LITTLE BIT MORE LIMITED THAN WHAT WE SAW EARLIER TONIGHT. I'LL LOOP THIS AROUND, PUT IT IN A BIGGER VIEW FOR YOU HERE. I'LL BRING IT BACK TO THAT WIDE VIEW AND I'LL ZOOM IN JUST SO YOU CAN SEE AN OVERALL VIEW OF THIS SYSTEM SINCE WE HAD A GOOD LINE OF STORMS. AS YOU KNOW, IF YOU'VE BEEN WITH US THROUGHOUT THE EVENING WE HAVE BEEN COVERING THIS NOW FOR SOME TIME BUT THESE DEVELOPED PRETTY EARLY ON. LOOKS LIKE WE DO HAVE A NEW A JUST OUT OF THE FIVE WINTERSTEIN AREA. SO I'LL LOOP THIS OVER THE LAST SIX HOURS IT'S BEEN VERY AS YOU SAW THERE AT SEVEN O'CLOCK AS IT CAME THROUGH THERE 10 11. SO JUST REALLY A BUSY NIGHT FOR US HERE IN THE WEATHER CENTER. IT HIT THAT UNSTABLE AREA AND IT REALLY JUST KIND OF EXPLODED ACROSS ACROSS INTO WASHINGTON COUNTY THERE AND FRANKLIN AND THEN YOU COULD SEE THAT AS IT MOVED THROUGH AND INTO ILLINOIS . AND UNFORTUNATELY WE'VE HAD SOME REPORTS WE HAVE DAMAGE REPORTS OUT THERE. ONE DEATH THAT WAS CONFIRMED, THAT DEFIANCE AREA WHERE WE EXPECT THAT TO BE A MANDATORY AND THEN EDWARDSVILLE WE'RE WAITING ANXIOUSLY REALLY AWAITING NEWS THERE. YEAH. AND WE STILL HAVE THE ONE TORNADO WARNING FOR THAT STORM THAT'S BETWEEN SAY WILMINGTON ONE DAY RIGHT NOW THERE IS ONE THAT HAD SOME ROTATION NEAR CAME MONDAY AND THE STORM IS ACTUALLY MOVING INTO SALEM PROPER RIGHT NOW. IT ACTUALLY LOOKS LIKE, YOU KNOW, IT WANTS TO TRY TO ROTATE A LITTLE BIT SO WEATHER SERVICE KEEPING THAT UP JUST FOR A LITTLE BIT LONGER AND I THINK REALLY WHAT YOU'RE SEEING FROM MOUNT VERNON ON TO THE SOUTH, I THINK IT'S GOING TO GO CLOSER TO RED LAKE AND DOWN INTO PERRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS, WHICH ONCE YOU GET INTO PERRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS, YOU START LOSING OUR SIGNAL BUT DOWN HIGHWAY 51 THROUGH DECOYED AND THEN HEADING DOWN INTO CARBONDALE, THAT'S WHERE THAT SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING IS. SO THOSE ARE THE LAST TWO WARNINGS REALLY FOR ANY OF OUR AREA OUT IN EFFINGHAM AND HEADING OFF TO THE EAST. THOSE STORMS THERE CONTINUE TO PRODUCE SOME GUSTY WINDS. WE'LL SEE AS THESE STORMS GET CLOSE TO CLAY COUNTY WHAT THEY'RE ABLE TO DO. BUT THAT WOULD BE THE FLORIDA AREA, LOUISVILLE, ILLINOIS. SO WE'LL SEE WHAT THAT WHAT THAT'S ABLE TO DO AND JUST CONTINUING TO WATCH THIS THROUGH THE NIGHT HERE. LET ME GO OVER SOME STORM REPORTS FOR YOU THAT WE'VE SEEN JUST PRETTY SAD NEWS TONIGHT AND I EXPECT TO HAVE MORE STORM REPORTS AS WE GET INTO THE MORNING HOURS AND FIRST RESPONDERS ARE ABLE TO SURVEY THE SCENE AND RESPOND TO ALL THOSE CALLS THAT ARE OUT THERE. SO WE DID HAVE THAT TORNADO. THIS WAS THIS WAS IN THE DEFIANCE AREA ONE CONFIRMED FATALITY, TWO INJURIES. MULTIPLE STRUCTURES HAVE BEEN DAMAGED DEBRIS IN THAT AREA WITH THAT BUILDING COLLAPSE AS WELL. THAT WAS THE TIME OF THIS REPORT WAS AT SEVEN 40. SO THAT'S USUALLY A LITTLE BIT AFTER THAT STORM HAS COME THROUGH. SOME VERY STRONG WINDS HAVE BEEN REPORTED WITH THESE STORMS . HERE'S CHESTERFIELD WITH WINDS REPORTED AT ABOUT FORTY FIVE MILES PER HOUR. BUT THAT IS NOTHING COMPARED TO WHAT WE HAD A LITTLE EARLIER AT SPIRIT AIRPORT AT 70 MILES PER HOUR AND THEN WATCHING THAT AREA THAT'S IN EDWARDSVILLE. WE'LL ZOOM IN HERE SO YOU CAN SEE THOSE REPORTS AS WELL WITH THAT TORNADO REPORT JUST JUST NEAR THERE AND THIS WAS AT THAT AMAZON WAREHOUSE AND REPORTED EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT CALLS THAT MULTIPLE PEOPLE WERE TRAPPED AT THIS TIME. AND AS YOU CAN SEE THERE IS A MASSIVE ONGOING EFFORT THERE TO GET THOSE PEOPLE OUT. SO LET ME GO AHEAD AND SHOW YOU BACK TO THE SATELLITE AND RADAR OF YOU HERE AND WHERE THOSE STORMS THAT WE'RE CURRENTLY TRACKING ARE HEADED. SO WE STILL HAVE THIS TORNADO WARNING GIVEN BEEN GIVING US A LITTLE BIT OF GRIEF HERE AS IT IS TRYING TO GET A LITTLE BIT MORE ROTATION GOING TRYING TO GET A LITTLE BIT STRONGER. THIS WILL BE THROUGH THE NEXT 15 MINUTES FOR MARION COUNTY. WE'LL SEE IF THAT GETS EXTENDED OR NOT. NO WORD CURRENTLY IF THEY PLAN ON EXTENDING THAT OR NOT FOR COFFEE . I KNOW WE HAD TALKED QUITE A BIT ABOUT THIS AREA ILLINOIS TWICE TWICE WE WERE TALKING ABOUT IT AS THAT TRAJECTORY CAME THROUGH WITH TWO DIFFERENT TWO DIFFERENT STORM CELLS. BUT WE HAVE REPORTS OF TREES DOWN AND YOU KNOW, MATERIAL THAT HAS BEEN THROWN ABOUT IN THOSE AREAS. SO IT'S BEEN A IT'S BEEN A VERY BUSY NIGHT FOR THE FIRST RESPONDERS GETTING ALL OF THESE CALLS AND YOU KNOW, ALL THE STORMS YOU KNOW THEY'VE BEEN RESPONDING TO SITUATIONS, YOU KNOW RIGHT AT THE HEIGHT OF THESE STORMS OR RIGHT AFTER WHEN THE WEATHER STILL WAS NOT VERY GOOD WITH MORE STORMS COMING IN AFTER THE FIRST WAVE THAT CAUSED DAMAGE. SO IT'S BEEN A TOUGH NIGHT FOR OUR FIRST RESPONDERS ACROSS THE AREA AS WELL AND WE STILL HAVE SOME GUSTY WINDS TO GET THROUGH OVERNIGHT TONIGHT AND INTO TOMORROW MORNING. WE COULD HAVE SOME 40 TO 45 MILE PER HOUR WIND GUSTS NOT ASSOCIATED IN ANY WAY WITH THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH THE OVERNIGHT HOURS. SO THAT'S PARTICULARLY NOT HELPFUL ESPECIALLY FOR THAT RECOVERY EFFOR GOING ON IN EDWARDS HILL RIGHT NOW AT THE AMAZON WAREHOUSE. AND YOU KNOW, LOOKING AT THE POWER OUTAGES, WE STILL HAVE A FAIR NUMBER ACROSS THE AREA. ST. CHARLES COUNTY IS DOWN TO ABOUT 5500 LINCOLN COUNTIES DOWN TO 17 FRANKLIN COUNTIES IT'S ABOUT EIGHTEEN HUNDRED OR SO IN ST. LOUIS COUNTY. YOU KNOW, JEFFERSON COUNTY DOESN'T HAVE MANY ST. GENEVIEVE HAS 310. REYNOLDS COUNTY HAS 470 BUT THEY ONLY TRACK ABOUT 300. SO THAT'S ACTUALLY A FAIR PERCENTAGE OF THAT AREA. AND THEN WE LOOK TO ILLINOIS IN THE LARGEST BY FAR THE LARGEST OUTAGES ARE IN MADISON COUNTY WHERE WE STILL HAVE ELEVEN THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED CUSTOMERS WITHOUT POWER. BOND COUNTY HAS A COUPLE OF HUNDRED FAYETTE COUNTY HAS A LITTLE OVER 510. BUT SO FAR ST. CLAIR COUNTY, MONROE COUNTY YOU KNOW, WE'VE HAD PRETTY GOOD THUNDERSTORMS GO ACROSS THERE AND THEY LOOKED IMPRESSIVE BUT WE DON'T HAVE ANY POWER OUTAGES. SO THAT'S A GOOD SIGN THAT MAYBE THOSE STORMS, MAYBE THE WINDS EVEN THOUGH YOU KNOW, WE THINK THOSE WINDS ARE GETTING TO THE GROUND, MAYBE THEY DIDN'T MAYBE THEY STAY JUST ABOVE GROUND LEVEL AND SPARED SOME AREAS THAT COULD HAVE OTHERWISE SEEN SOME ROUGH WEATHER BUT THE AREAS THAT WERE NOT SPARED TONIGHT HAVE BEEN HIT AND IN SOME CASES IT SEEMS HIT FAIRLY HARD DRIVE AND HIT TWICE. YEAH, THERE THAT ONE LINE COME THROUGH AND THEN THAT SECOND ROUND THAT CAME THROUGH AS WELL. SO CERTAINLY IT'S BEEN A BUSY NIGHT HERE AND HERE'S THAT TORNADO WARNING UP FOR THE NEXT 15 MINUTES OR SO THROUGH AS WE LOOK AT THAT STORM, IS IT GOING THROUGH MARION COUNTY RIGHT NOW? IT ACTUALLY IS SHOWING SIGNS OF TRYING TO DEVELOP A DIFFERENT ROTATION HERE MAYBE JUST OFF TO THE WEST OF OMEGA OR NEAR BROOKS-BAKER AND SLIDING NORTHEAST FROM THERE. SO THAT'S KIND OF ROLLING UP TOWARDS THE AREA THAT'S ALONG LOOKS LIKE IT WOULD BE MEACHEM ROAD AND WILLIAMS ROAD, THAT AREA UP TOWARDS KINLOCH ROAD AND THAT'S GOING TO GO TO YOU KNOW, EVENTUALLY OVER TOWARDS CLAY COUNTY. SO THIS THIS AREA, YOU KNOW OF CLAY COUNTY WE MAY GET A WARNING FOR THAT IN A LITTLE BIT OUT OF LINCOLN, ILLINOIS. WE'LL SEE IF THESE STORMS HOLD TOGETHER. BUT WE HAVEN'T HAD ANY REPORTS ON THIS STORM AS IT'S GONE ACROSS INTERSTATE 57. BUT IT DOES SHOW SOME SIGNS OF AT LEAST SOME BROAD ROTATION AT THIS POINT MOVING NORTHEAST AND YOU KNOW THE DRILL BY NOW. YOU KNOW, IF THIS IS THE STORM, IF YOU'RE AT OMEGA ABUBAKER MEACHEM HERE IN MARION COUNTY, ILLINOIS, YOU NEED TO BE IN YOUR SAFE PLACE AWAY FROM WINDOWS AND DOORS LOWEST LEVEL BASEMENTS BEST BUT A CLOSET OR A BATHROOM INTERIOR ROOM WHERE YOU CAN BE AWAY FROM WINDOWS AND DOORS AND COVER YOUR HEAD, WEAR YOUR SHOES AND WAIT FOR THE STORM TO GET BY ONCE IT'S GONE, THAT SHOULD BE IT. THIS IS THE LAST BATCH OF STORMS THAT WE ARE DEALING WITH TONIGHT AND ONCE THEY CLEAR THE AREA WE WILL BE IN MUCH BETTER SHAPE OVERALL WEATHER WISE AND THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER WILL BE OVER. THESE HAVE BEEN VERY FAST MOVING STORMS TONIGHT. GOT IT MOVING 60 70 MILES AN HOUR AT TIMES. SO THEY ARE MAKING THEIR WAY ACROSS OUR AREA AT A VERY RAPID RATE FOR US TONIGHT. YEAH, AND THEY DID PUT UP A NEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OR A TORNADO WATCH THAT DID INCLUDE THE AREA JUST TO OUR SOUTHEAST ,YOU KNOW, BUT AND THAT WAS TILL 5:00 A.M. DOWN TOWARDS MT. VERNON TRYING TO INCLUDE SALEM. BUT THE REALITY IS ONCE THIS LINES OVER THE SEVERE WEATHER THREAT IS OVER AND SO THAT'S ALL THAT THERE IS WITH THIS. SO ONCE THAT'S DONE, WE'RE IN THE CLEAR FOR THE REST OF THE NIGHT AND SOME VERY HEAVY RAINFALL OUT THERE AS WELL. I ACTUALLY HAD SHE SHIPPED SHOPS FOR ME AND SHE MESSAGED ME SAYING THAT HER DRIVE HOME FROM THE FOX THEATER WAS RATHER HARROWING TONIGHT THAT VAN DEMENTOR THERE WAS A FLOOD UNDER THE OVERPASS BY IKEA AND YOU KNOW, THERE WERE LEAVES AND DIFFERENT THINGS THAT WERE DEBRIS AND BRANCHES THAT WERE IN THE ROADWAY AND SHE TOLD ME TO DRIVE CAREFUL AS I AS I HEADED HOME. SO JUST SOMETHING THAT WE DEFINITELY NEED TO BE AWARE OF BECAUSE IT WILL TAKE SOME TIME TO GET SOME OF THESE AREAS CLEANED UP AND BE CAREFUL ON THE ROAD. DEFINITELY HAVE YOUR EYES ON IT BECAUSE I EXPECT THAT THERE WILL BE SOME DEBRIS ON THE ROADWAYS OUT THERE AND I WOULD EXPECT SOME THAT RAPID PONDING THAT WE HAVE WITH SITUATIONS LIKE THIS PROBABLY HAS SUBSIDED THAT USUALLY TYPICALLY GETS OUT OF THE WAY PRETTY QUICKLY BUT STILL DEFINITELY AND THAT WE HAD ENOUGH WATER OUT THERE TO OVERWHELM SOME OF OUR ROADWAYS AS WELL, ESPECIALLY IF THEY'RE CLOGGED WITH DEBRIS, YOU KNOW, WITH THE FALL LEAVES IT'S REALLY EASY TO GET THE DRAINS KIND OF CLOGGED UP. SO THE ONLY TORNADO WARNING IS REALLY THAT LITTLE CELL GETS CLOSE TO OMEGA EAST MONDAY NOW AND IT HAS SOME BROAD ROTATION BUT DOESN'T LOOK OVERLY IMPRESSIVE AT THE MOMENT. HAVING SAID THAT, YOU WE STILL WANT TO PLAY IT SAFE BECAUSE IT'S BEEN SHOWING A LITTLE BIT OF POTENCY THERE TONIGHT. WE CERTAINLY CAN'T RULE ANYTHING OUT. AND IT'S GOING INTO CLAY COUNTY. SO THAT'S OUR LAST COUNTY IN OUR VIEWING AREA THAT WE WOULD HAVE TO DEAL WITH TONIGHT. SO YOU KNOW, GOING OFF TO THE EAST WE'RE LOOKING BACK THERE WAS THERE'S A COUPLE OF SEVERE THOSE THAT ARE SIMILAR TO TONIGHT'S SCENARIO WEATHERWISE AND RIGHT OFF THE BAT MY BRAIN IS KIND OF NOW WELL AFTER TALKING SINCE ABOUT SIX THIRTY TONIGHT SCOTT, THAT DOES NOT COME AS A SURPRISE. SO BUT BUT THIS IS NOT I WANT TO SAY IT'S NOT UNPRECEDENTED TO HAVE, YOU KNOW, SEVERE WEATHER LIKE THIS OF THIS MAGNITUDE THIS MUCH WIDESPREAD COVERAGE THIS TIME OF YEAR. IT'S HAPPENED BEFORE BUT IT DOES TAKE A SPECIFIC SET OF INGREDIENTS TO GET US TO THIS POINT AND UNFORTUNATELY TONIGHT THAT SET OF INGREDIENTS THAT WAS OVER THE ST. LOUIS METRO AREA WAS WAS A SET OF INGREDIENTS THAT PRODUCED SOME DAMAGE THAT HAS BEEN SIGNIFICANT INCLUDING A LOSS OF LIFE IN ST. CHARLES COUNTY, POSSIBLY THE LOSS OF LIFE IN MADISON COUNTY IN ILLINOIS. WE JUST DON'T KNOW. WE JUST LAST WE HAD OFFICIALLY WAS THAT PEOPLE WERE TRAPPED AND WE KNOW THERE'S FIRST RESPONDERS THAT ARE THERE IN HUGE NUMBERS IN MADISON ONLY AROUND EVANSVILLE AT THAT AMAZON WAREHOUSE AND THEN LOTS OF REPORTS OF POWER LINES, LIGHT POLES, TREE LIMBS, ACTUAL TREES DOWN. WE HAD AN OVERTURNED SEMI TRUCK ALONG TO 70 IN ILLINOIS EARLIER TODAY SO THE ROADS COULD CERTAINLY BE MESSY. YOU MIGHT WALK OUT OF YOUR HOUSE TOMORROW AND COME ACROSS QUITE A SCENE IN YOUR BACKYARD . JUST A REMINDER FOR EVERYBODY TONIGHT PLEASE DO NOT GO OUT AND TRY TO SURVEY DAMAGE, LEAVE THE ROADS OPEN FOR OUR FIRST RESPONDERS WHO ARE WORKING HARD TONIGHT AND SOME OF THOSE HARDER HIT AREAS AND WE SAW SOME DAMAGE EARLIER FROM THE ST. CHARLES AREA THAT LOOK LIKE PARTS OF A ROOF WERE DOWN AND THAT WASN'T EVEN PART OF THAT DEFIANCE THAT WASN'T EVEN FROM THE SCENE AND DEFIANCE. SO THAT WAS A FURTHER OUT IN ST. CHARLES WE HAD SOME VERY STRONG WIND GUSTS TONIGHT AND EVEN WITHOUT THAT TORNADO THREAT, JUST WIND GUSTS AS STRONG AS WHAT WE SAW TONIGHT CAN PRODUCE QUITE A BIT OF DAMAGE. IT OFTENTIMES LOOKS JUST LIKE TORNADO DAMAGE IF NOT A LITTLE BIT WORSE AT TIMES. AND REMEMBER, IF YOU HAVE POWER OUT, YOU KNOW, DON'T DON'T LINES OF ANY KIND SHOULD BE TREATED AS A LIVE HOTWIRE. YOU WANT TO LEAVE IT ALONE AND DON'T MESS WITH IT. LET THE POWER COMPANY COME OUT AND RUN YOUR ELECTRIC COOPERATIVES. THEY'RE GOING TO BE YOU KNOW, THEY'RE THE ONES THAT ARE TRAINED IN DEALING WITH ELECTRICITY AND IT CAN BE DANGEROUS ESPECIALLY YOU KNOW, HOT WIRES AND WET WEATHER DO NOT MIX WELL TOGETHER. SO STAY AWAY FROM ANY WIRES. TREAT THEM ALL AS HOT WIRES, BLAST TORNADO WARNING OF THE EVENING WE HOPE BUT WE CAN'T GUARANTEE IT STILL IN EFFECT FOR A FEW MORE MINUTES HERE OVER NORTHEASTERN PORTIONS OF MARION COUNTY IN ILLINOIS FROM ABOUT OMEGA AND THEN STRETCHING ON UP AND YOU SEE IT'S GOING TO BE TRYING TO SLIDE OVER INTO CLAY COUNTY WHICH IS THE NEXT COUNTY OVER AND YOU ALREADY HAVE SOME SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS IN AND AROUND THE FLORIDA AREA BUT THEY DON'T LOOK LIKE THEY'RE SEVERE AT THIS MOMENT. THEY'RE STRONG FOR SURE. BUT MAYBE JUST MAYBE THEY'RE OUTRUNNING SOME OF THE SUPPORT FROM SOME OF THESE STORMS. WE CAN SURE HELP THOUGH WITH THAT. STILL SOME PRETTY HEAVY RAINFALL THOUGH THAT LIKE YOU SAID WITH THOSE LEAVES OUT THERE COULD ISSUES FOR PEOPLE AND AND FLOODING AND THEY ARE GOING TO LET THAT WARNING EXPIRE AT MIDNIGHT IN MARION COUNTY. SO I DON'T KNOW IF SAM IS STILL IN CONTROL ROOM. SHE IS OK. SHE JUST STEPPED OUT FOR A MINUTE WILL PROBABLY DROP OUT. I'M JUST GOING TO LET THE CONTROL ROOM KNOW ONCE THAT WARNING EXPIRES UNLESS WE HAVE ANY OTHER LIVE REPORTS OR ANY ADDITIONAL INFORMATION. I MEAN WHAT DO YOU THINK? WELL, I THINK WE'RE JUST TRYING TO WAIT AND SEE WHAT THE SITUATION IS. OK, KNOW WITH FIRST RESPONDERS TRYING TO GET PEOPLE OUT OF THE WAREHOUSE IF THEY'RE GOING TO HAVE A NEWS CONFERENCE COMING UP, WE KNOW THAT THERE ARE PHOTOJOURNALIS ON THE SCENE. BOB HAINES SAID THAT HE SAW A HELICOPTER COME IN ALSO WE SAW SOME HEAVY EQUIPMENT DURING OUR LAST LIVE SHOT AND OUR LAST LIVE LOOK OUT THERE. SO THEY WE KNOW THAT THERE'S PROGRESS BEING MADE. WHAT KIND OF PROGRESS? WE DON'T KNOW. SO I THINK WE'RE TRYING TO WAIT AND SEE IF WE CAN GET ANY MORE NEW DETAILS AS THE NIGHT CONTINUES BECAUSE YOU KNOW THIS IS GOING TO BE ONE OF THOSE SITUATIONS THAT PEOPLE ARE GOING TO BE WORKING NOT ONLY THROUGH TONIGHT BUT LIKELY TOMORROW AND IF IT IS AS MASSIVE AS WE THINK IT IS, I MEAN WE'RE JUST LOOKING AT IT. YOU CAN TELL THIS AUTHORITIES HAVE SAID IT'S A MASSIVE CASUALTY EVENT NOT NECESSARILY MEANING FATALITIES BUT MEANING THAT THERE IS A MASSIVE RESPONSE HAPPENING RIGHT NOW THIS IS SOMETHING THAT'S GOING TO BE GOING ON FOR THE COMING DAYS, OF COURSE. YEAH. AND THAT IS THIS IS A LARGE AREA, A LARGE YOU WERE TALKING ABOUT EARLIER A VERY LARGE WAREHOUSE RIGHT. WE KNOW THAT IT'S AT LEAST EIGHT HUNDRED THOUSAND SQUARE FEET PLUS IT'S GOT EVERYTHING FROM I WAS READING IT'S GOT EVERYTHING FROM FLIP FLOPS TO CANDY TO ALL THESE DIFFERENT THINGS THAT PEOPLE ARE GETTING OUT OF THE AMAZON WAREHOUSE AND THIS TIME OF YEAR IS ESPECIALLY BUSY WORK JUST TWO WEEKS OUT FROM CHRISTMAS. SO EVERYONE AT THAT WAREHOUSE IS WORKING AROUND A CLOCK. IT'S A TWENTY FOUR SEVEN OPERATION AND PEOPLE ARE GETTING MORE MONEY AND BONUSES IF THEY'RE WORKING THOSE ODD HOURS OVERNIGHT WEEKENDS. SO A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE INCENTIVIZE TO WORK AT THIS TIME BECAUSE THEY'RE GOING TO MAKE MORE MONEY FOR THE HOLIDAYS. SO I HAVE BEEN TALKING TO SOMEONE WHO SAYS THAT THEY ARE AN AMAZON WORKER NOT AT THIS FACILITY BUT AT ANOTHER FACILITY IN THE AREA AND THEY SAY THAT THERE'S NO OUT IN THEIR MIND THAT PEOPLE WERE ALERTED ON THEIR PHONES. THERE WAS A STORM COMING. BUT WHAT DOES THAT MEAN? YOU WHAT DID THAT MEAN FOR THOSE WORKERS? AND WE WERE WATCHING ROBERT TOWNSEND INTERVIEW A WOMAN WHO SAID THAT SHE HASN'T HAD ANY CONTACT WITH HER HUSBAND SINCE THE STORM HIT. SHE'S BEEN TRYING TO CALL HIS CELL PHONE. HE'S NOT ANSWERING AND SO SHE SAID THAT THEY'RE JUST THEY'RE SICK, WORRIED ABOUT AND RIGHTLY SO. AND WE ARE TO YOU KNOW, WE TOO AS A COMMUNITY ARE SICK WATCHING THAT. SO WE WE WANT TO HOPEFULLY STICK AROUND AND TRY TO GET A LITTLE MORE INFORMATION AS YOU SEE SO MANY PEOPLE WORKING BUT OF COURSE THEY'RE WORKING THROUGH THE NIGHT. THEY KNOW MOST LIKELY A LOT LIKE A LOT OF US WE'RE WORKING 9:00 TO 5:00 AND THEN ARE WORKING OVERTIME BECAUSE OF THE STORMS OR WHATEVER. AND SO WE WE HOPE THAT PEOPLE WILL BE ABLE TO GIVE US SOME SORT OF AN UPDATE. BUT YOU CAN SEE THIS IS A VERY ACTIVE SCENE ON A VERY MASSIVE PIECE OF PROPERTY. YEAH, AND THE WAREHOUSE IS VERY ,VERY BIG WITH THAT WAREHOUSE BEING SO LARGE AS IT IS, YOU KNOW, AND WE DON'T KNOW THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE THAT WERE WORKING IN THERE. WE DON'T KNOW EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENED. WE DID HAVE SOME VIDEO OF THE TORNADO ACTUALLY TOUCHING DOWN NEAR WE CAN'T SAY IS THAT WAS THE ONE BUT RIGHT NEAR EDWARDSVILLE AT THAT TIME AND AS TRACY MENTIONED EARLIER WE HAD THE TRACTOR TRAILER THAT WAS BLOWN OVER BY NOT TOO FAR FROM THERE A LITTLE BIT BEFORE THIS ALL HAPPENED WHILE I WAS LOOKING AND READING SOMETHING THAT WE WROTE ABOUT THE AMAZON FACILITY WHEN IT OPENED IN TWENTY SIXTEEN AND IN SOME ARTICLES AFTERWARDS I MEAN YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT ANYWHERE BETWEEN FIFTEEN HUNDRED AND TWO THOUSAND PEOPLE WHO WORK AT THAT FACILITY DOESN'T MEAN THAT THEY WERE WORKING THERE ALL AT ONCE. OF COURSE I THE PERSON I WAS TALKING TO ONLINE WHO WORKS AT AN AMAZON FACILITY SAID THAT MOST OF THE TIME THERE'S ABOUT THERE ABOUT 500 PEOPLE WHO WORK IN THAT WAREHOUSE AT ONE TIME AND YOU WOULD THINK AT THIS POINT, YOU KNOW, WE'RE AT THE PEAK OF HOLIDAY SEASON ORDERING AND SHIPPING YOU WOULD THINK THAT NUMBER MIGHT BE A LITTLE BIT HIGHER EVEN ON A FRIDAY NIGHT BECAUSE AMAZON RUNS KIND OF 24/7. ABSOLUTELY. ABSOLUTELY. AND I JUST CAN'T HELP BUT THINK ABOUT NOT ONLY THE PEOPLE WHO WERE IN THERE BUT ALL OF THE ITEMS THAT WERE IN THERE, THOSE THAT WAREHOUSE IS MASSIVE AND PEOPLE ARE TRYING TO GET OUT PRODUCT WE COULD SEE ALL THOSE BIG TRUCKS AND THE AMAZON PRIME VANS. SO THEY'RE GETTING LOADED UP, YOU KNOW? YEAH, THEY WERE THEY WERE. AND OBVIOUSLY THIS IS GOING TO BE SOMETHING YOU KNOW, WE ARE OUR BIGGEST CONCERN WOULD BE FOR THE WORKERS IN THEIR AND FOR THEIR FAMILIES BECAUSE YOU KNOW, THEIR FAMILIES CAN'T GET A HOLD OF THEM AND THAT COULD BE FOR A NUMBER OF REASONS. IT COULD BE BECAUSE CELL SERVICE IS DOWN IN THE AREA THAT'S A POSSIBILITY. IT COULD BE BECAUSE THEIR PHONE LITERALLY YOU KNOW, THEIR PHONE THE BATTERY RAN OUT, YOU KNOW, AFTER A LONG DAY A LOT OF THESE AMAZON FOLKS WORK 12 AND 13 HOURS AND THEY WERE CAUGHT IN TWO STORMS. RIGHT? THEY HAD TWO STORMS. THEY HAD THE FIRST ONE THAT DID THE DAMAGE AND THEN A SECOND ONE THEY CAME THROUGH AFTER THAT AND THEN WE'RE STILL GOING TO HAVE SOME STRONG WINDS TO DEAL WITH TONIGHT WITH ALL THIS RECOVERY . YOU KNOW, YOU TALKED ABOUT A HELICOPTER OVER THE SCENE EARLIER. WE'RE GOING TO STILL HAVE GUSTS UP TO 40, 40, FIVE MILES PER HOUR. THAT'S GOING TO MAKE SOME OF THESE EFFORTS A LITTLE MORE CHALLENGING. YEAH, IT IS GOING TO BE A VERY CHALLENGING NIGHT OBVIOUSLY FOR THESE FIRST RESPONDERS THERE AND WHAT WE WOULD ASSUME TO BE RESCUE MODE RIGHT NOW AND THAT WILL CONTINUE FOR A WHILE AND THEY'LL LOOK FOR ANYBODY THAT THEY CERTAINLY CAN FIND AND YOU WHEN YOU GET DEBRIS AND RUBBLE YOU HAVE ALL OF THIS STUFF THAT'S BEEN BLOWN AROUND DROPPED OUT. THERE COULD BE PEOPLE THAT ARE STUCK UNDER STUFF. THAT'S WHAT WE HAD, YOU KNOW, REPORTED THE CALL CAME OUT AS PEOPLE TRAPPED AND SO WE'RE WORKING FROM THAT ASPECT OF IT AND OF COURSE ROBERT TOWNSEND IN THAT AREA AS WELL. I'M TRYING TO GET MORE INFORMATION TONIGHT. WE DO HAVE ROBERT RIGHT NOW. SO LET'S GO AHEAD AND TAKE A LOOK OR GET ROBERT ON THE SCENE HERE. ROBERT, IF YOU CAN HEAR ME, WE KNOW THAT THERE IS A LOT OF MUTUAL AID FROM SURROUNDING AREAS AND I UNDERSTAND THAT A LARGE CRANE JUST CAME TO ASSIST IN SOME LIFTING. CAN YOU GIVE US AN IDEA OF WHAT KIND OF PROGRESS IS BEING MADE ? WELL, I CAN TELL YOU THIS TOO. WE ALSO SAW OFFICIALS FLY OVER HERE. THEY LANDED HERE VIA HELICOPTER . I SAW AT LEAST MORE THAN A HALF DOZEN EMERGENCY RESPONDERS FROM ALL OVER THE ST. LOUIS AREA ROLL INTO HERE TO HELP THESE GUYS. THEY'RE OBVIOUSLY GOING TO BE HERE PRETTY MUCH A LONG TIME AHEAD HERE AGAIN, YOU'RE LOOKING AT A WAREHOUSE WHERE AROUND EIGHT 830 TONIGHT WE'RE HEARING THAT A TORNADO BLEW THROUGH HERE AND RIPPED THE ROOF RIGHT OFF THAT THING AND IT'S THE BUILDING THAT'S COLLAPSED THERE THAT WAREHOUSE AND INITIALLY WE HEARD PEOPLE WERE TRAPPED, WORKERS WERE TRAPPED AND SO YOU SEE A LONG LINE OF EMERGENCY RESPONDERS, POLICE OFFICERS, FIREFIGHTERS AND PARAMEDICS FROM ALL AROUND THE ST. LOUIS AREA. THEY ARE HERE MONITORING THE SITUATION OBVIOUSLY. YEAH, WE DID SEE ABOUT 30 MINUTES AGO IT LOOKED LIKE A PIECE A LARGE PIECE FELL FROM THE ROOF. NOT EXACTLY SURE WHAT EXACTLY THAT WAS BUT IT LOOKS LIKE AGAIN IT'S STILL A VERY SENSITIVE SCENE HERE. VERY SAD AS TO A FEW FOLKS HAVE ARRIVED. THEY WERE CONCERNED ABOUT THEIR LOVED ONES. YOU'VE GOT TO REMEMBER I TALKED TO SARA BIERMANN ABOUT 45 MINUTES AGO. HER HUSBAND WAS A DRIVER HERE FOR AMAZON AND SHE SAYS HEY LOOK TONIGHT 8:00 THEY LOST POWER. THEIR HOUSE THEIR COMPLETE NEIGHBORHOOD WENT DARK AND AT THAT TIME SHE WAS STILL WORRIED ABOUT HER HUSBAND. SHE HAD TALKED TO HER HUSBAND. HE'S WORKED OUT HE HAS A DRIVER. HE TEXTED HER AND TOLD HER, HONEY, I'M FINE, EVERYTHING'S FINE. AND THEN AROUND EIGHT THIRTY 45 SHE DID NOT HEAR FROM HIM ANYMORE AND SO SHE RUSHED TO SEE TEARS IN HER EYES AND WE TALKED TO HER BECAUSE OBVIOUSLY SHE'S WORRIED ABOUT HER HUSBAND RIGHT NOW AND HIS COWORKERS AND SHE JUST WANTS TO KNOW, HEY, EVERYBODY'S OK. WE'RE WAITING FOR WORD FROM OFFICIALS HERE. LIKE I SAID IT WAS FEELS MAYOR IS OUT OF TOWN. HE'S IN CHICAGO. WE'RE TOLD HE'S GOING TO BE BACK HERE TOMORROW GETTING THE VERY LATEST HERE. SO AT THIS POINT WE'RE STILL JUST WATCHING THESE EMERGENCY RESPONDERS ARRIVE EVEN AS I TALK NOW I SEE MORE COMING OFF TO MY LEFT. THEY'RE COMING HERE AND THIS IS A VERY SITUATION SERIOUS SITUATION HERE. PEOPLE TRAPPED WE UNDERSTAND. AND SO AS SOON AS WE GET MORE WE'LL DEFINITELY UPDATE ALL OF THAT INFORMATION ON OUR WEBSITE. BUT FOR NOW THAT'S THE VERY LATEST. YOU'RE LOOKING AT IT RIGHT HERE HERE IN EVANSVILLE. I'LL TOSS IT BACK TO YOU GUYS. ROBERT, BEFORE YOU GO, ROBERT, I'M WONDERING YOU KNOW I KNOW YOU TALKED TO SARA BIERMANN. SHE WAS WORRIED ABOUT HER HUSBAND WHO'S A DRIVER YOU JUST MENTIONED. WHERE ARE THESE FAMILIES RIGHT NOW? IS THERE A STAGING AREA AND ARE ANY FAMILIES GETTING ANY KIND OF WORD FROM THE AUTHORITIES ON THERE ON THE SCENE THERE? YEAH, THERE'S NO OFFICIAL STAGING AREA I'M GOING TO HAVE MY PHOTOGRAPHER I CAN JUST KIND OF SHOW YOU IT'S KIND OF A TOUCH AND GO SITUATION HERE BECAUSE OBVIOUSLY THERE'S A LOT OF TRAFFIC BUT THERE'S NO OFFICIAL STAGING AREA AS BEST AS WE CAN TELL. AGAIN, JUST LIKE WE'RE LYING HERE ALONG INTERSTATE 255 PEOPLE ARE JUST PULLING UP HERE ALONG INTERSTATE SITTING IN THEIR CARS. I SAW ONE LADY PRAYING. I SAW A LOT OF PEOPLE OBVIOUSLY ON THEIR CELL PHONES. THEY'RE CONCERNED ABOUT THEIR LOVED ONES, THEIR HUSBANDS, THEIR WIVES, ANY RELATIVES WHO WORK AT THIS PLACE. BUT AGAIN, NO OFFICIAL STAGING AREA AT THIS POINT. AGAIN, WE'VE BEEN OUT HERE FOR MORE THAN AN HOUR NOW AND YOU GOT TO REALIZE IS A VERY SENSITIVE TOUCH-AND-GO INVESTIGATION AND SO INVESTIGATORS ARE STILL TRYING TO PIECE IT ALL TOGETHER AND SO THAT'S WHY THEY HAVE NOT GIVEN US ANY OFFICIAL WORD EITHER VIA TEXT, EMAIL, NO KIND OF NEWS RELEASE. WE'RE JUST WAITING FOR WORD AND IT'S GOING TO BE A LONG WAIT BECAUSE I GOT TO TELL YOU AGAIN, THIS IS A MASSIVE SCENE OUT AS THESE INVESTIGATORS CONTINUE TO JUST TRY TO SENSITIVE LI INVESTIGATE AND TRY TO PIECE IT ALL TOGETHER AND REMEMBER JUST LOOKING AT WHAT WE'RE SEEING RIGHT NOW, DOES IT LOOK LIKE TWO THIRDS OF THE BUILDING IS GONE? AM I SEEING THAT CORRECTLY? OH, I THINK IT'S AGAIN BOB AND I HAVE BEEN TALKING ABOUT HERE YOU'VE GOT TO REALIZE THIS AS FAR AS WE KNOW THERE ARE TWO DIFFERENT DISTRIBUTION CENTERS WITHIN MILES OF EACH OTHER. I WENT TO THE FIRST ONE AND THAT WAS PROBABLY NORMAL. NOTHING THAT AFFECTED THE STORE AND THEN WE GOT TO THIS ONE WAS THAT THIS WAS OBVIOUSLY THE SITE. IT WAS CLEAR ONCE WE SAW ALL THESE EMERGENCY RESPONDERS YOU'RE LOOKING AT YOU CAN'T REALLY TELL BECAUSE IT'S SO DARK OUT HERE. BUT I'M LOOKING AT ABOUT FIVE TO SIX DIFFERENT BUILDINGS AND THAT ONE BUILDING THE CENTRAL BUILDING IS COMPLETELY JUST DESTROYED. I MEAN IT'S COLLAPSED AGAIN, THE ROOF IS OFF. YOU'RE SEEING THOSE SIDE WALLS. EVERYTHING'S JUST BLOWN AWAY AND RIGHT NOW IT'S CLEARLY DRY OUT HERE. NO MORE HAIL, NO MORE TORRENTIAL RAIN. IT'S NOTHING LIKE THAT. YOU KNOW, IT'S HARD TO BELIEVE ALL THIS HAPPENED JUST ABOUT A COUPLE OF HOURS AGO. AGAIN, WE'RE THINKING ANYWHERE BETWEEN EIGHT AND EIGHT THIRTY . WE'RE NOT SURE EXACTLY WHAT GOES ON IN THAT DISTRIBUTION CENTER. BUT AGAIN, PEOPLE WHO HAVE BEEN PASSING BY I HEARD ONE GUY WHO SAYS I CAN TELL YOU THIS MAN THAT WAS ONE BIG STORM AND SO WE'RE LOOKING AT THE DAMAGE THAT'S LEFT BEHIND. YEAH, IT'S JUST REALLY INCREDIBLE AND HARD TO BELIEVE BECAUSE WE KNOW LIKE YOU SAID, THIS IS GOING TO BE AN ONGOING SCENE, AN ACTIVE SCENE FOR SEVERAL HOURS IF NOT SEVERAL DAYS. RIGHT. I'M ALSO WONDERING ABOUT THE TRAFFIC BECAUSE I CAN HEAR TRAFFIC I THINK BEHIND OR IN FRONT OF YOU PROBABLY BEHIND BOB. CAN PEOPLE MAKE IT ON THE HIGHWAY OR THEY ARE ABLE TO DRIVE BY AND ALL THOSE THINGS OR OR SHOULD PEOPLE AVOID THAT AREA? NO, NO, NO. INTERSTATE 255 IS QUITE NORMAL OUT HERE RIGHT NOW. WE'RE IN A TOUGH SITUATION WHERE BOB CAN'T REALLY MOVE BUT I CAN JUST TELL YOU AS I LOOK AT TRAFFIC HERE, NO TRAFFIC IS FLOWING. SO THE ISSUE IS NO LONGER TRAFFIC INITIALLY. YES, WE GOT UP HERE AROUND EIGHT EIGHT THIRTY OR SO. I GOT TO TELL YOU THAT IT WAS A REALLY HORRIFIC KIND OF STORM SITUATION BECAUSE I SAW A BIG RIG IN THE MIDDLE OF ONE OF THE ROADS. YOU KNOW, DON'T KNOW HOW THE DRIVER WAS DOING BUT I MEAN THAT RIG WAS JUST LYING ON ON ITS BELLY AND IT HAD SNARLED TRAFFIC. BUT RIGHT NOW HERE JUST OUTSIDE THIS, ANDERSON DISTRIBUTION CENTER IT WAS BUILT RIGHT OFF I 254 I 255 270 TRAFFIC IS FLOWING NORMALLY. OK, AND I'M SORRY TO KEEP YOU GUYS BUT I'M ALSO LOOKING AT THIS IMAGE AND I CAN'T TELL I SEE ONE BLINKING LIGHT AND THEN ONE LIGHT THAT IS MOVING AND I'M WONDERING ARE THOSE HELICOPTERS WHAT WHAT IS THAT YOU'RE LOOKING AT A DRONE? YEAH, THAT'S A DRONE. YEAH. WE SAW AGAIN ABOUT 45 MINUTES AGO WE SAW SOME KIND OF EMERGENCY HELICOPTER HERE LAND PRESUMABLY DROPPING OFF MORE OFFICIALS. BUT FOR THE MOST PART IF YOU'RE SEEING LIGHTS FLYING OVER THIS THING, THOSE ARE PEOPLE FLYING THEIR DRONES. OK, SO IT JUST GIVES YOU A SENSE OF URGENCY THOUGH THAT MAYBE THEY ARE LOOKING FOR PEOPLE YOU JUST DON'T KNOW. I MEAN, AGAIN, I'VE NOT TALKED TO ANY AMAZON WORKERS. WE'VE NOT TALKED TO ANY OFFICIALS. WE CAN JUST TELL YOU THERE FOR THE LAST FEW HOURS NOW THIS HAS BEEN A DRAMATIC SCENE. LOTS AND LOTS OF EMERGENCY RESPONDERS LINED ALL ACROSS THE FRONT OF THIS BUILDING HERE AGAIN WE SAW A NUMBER OF AMBULANCES RUSHING HERE AND AGAIN RIGHT BEFORE OUR LAST LIVE SHOT I SAW EVEN MORE EMERGENCY RESPONDERS FROM IN ST. LOUIS AREA LOS ANGELES CITY, SABLE'S COUNTY ALL HERE TO HELP THEIR FELLOW RESPONDERS . WELL, ROBERT TOWNSEND AND BOB PAYNE, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR COVERAGE TONIGHT AS YOU WRAP UP, I JUST WANT TO SAY A FEW THINGS BECAUSE WE DO KNOW THAT GOVERNOR J.B. PRITZKER HAS ACTIVATED WHAT'S CALLED THE STATE EMERGENCY OPERATION CENTER TO RESPOND AND MONITOR SEVERE WEATHER THROUGHOUT THE STATE OF ILLINOIS. ALSO THIS IS COMING AS MULTIPLE JURISDICTIONS OF COURSE ARE RESPONDING TO STORM DAMAGE. THE DANGEROUS WEATHER, THE MULTIPLE UNCONFIRMED REPORTS OF TORNADOES AND THIS SITE THAT WE'RE SEEING LIVE IN EDWARDSVILLE RIGHT NOW WE DO KNOW THAT STATE AND LOCAL AUTHORITIES ARE ACTUALLY URGING THE PUBLIC TO AVOID THE AREA UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE. THEY'RE SAYING THEY JUST NEED TO ALLOW RESCUE CREWS TIME AND SPACE TO DO THEIR JOB. AND IF YOU'RE WATCHING THIS AND YOU HAVE FAMILY OR FRIENDS OR LOVED ONES THAT YOU WANT TO KEEP TABS ON, THEY'RE SAYING IF YOU HAVE SOMEONE WHO MIGHT BE IMPACTED BY TONIGHT STORMS OR THIS SITUATION, YOU ARE URGED TO SEND THEM A TEXT MESSAGE TO CHECK ON THEIR WELFARE BECAUSE THAT WILL SAVE THE PHONE LINES FOR EMERGENCIES AND FIRST RESPONDERS BECAUSE AS YOU KNOW, TEXTING GOES THROUGH THESE SITUATIONS MORE OFTEN THAN A PHONE CALL. YES, ABSOLUTELY. AND A DRONE THAT'S OUT THERE RIGHT NOW OVER THAT AMAZON FACILITY, I'M WILLING TO BET RIGHT NOW THAT THAT DRONE IS FROM THE EMERGENCY CREWS. THE SEARCH FOR RESCUE CREWS BECAUSE THEY HAVE THE DRONES AND THAT CAN GET THEM UP. THEY CAN GET AN AERIAL VIEW OF WHAT THEY'RE LOOKING AT AND WHAT'S INSIDE THE WAREHOUSE AND HOW THINGS HAVE FALLEN, HOW THE ROOF HAS BEEN RIPPED OFF WHATEVER THE DEBRIS FIELD LOOKS LIKE INSIDE THAT WAREHOUSE. SO THAT DRONE GIVES THEM A VIEW OF THAT AND THEREFORE WHEN THEY SEE THAT THEN THEY CAN DIRECT THE GUYS ON THE GROUND, THE MEN AND WOMEN ON THE GROUND. THEY CAN DIRECT THEM INTO THE AREAS TO GO TO OR WHERE IT MAY BE SAFE OR MAYBE NOT SAFE TO SEND SOMEBODY INTO. SO THEY USE THAT MANY OF OUR FIRST RESPONDERS HAVE DRONES NOW SO THAT THEY CAN USE THAT SPECIFICALLY FOR SEARCH AND RESCUE AND HOW TO DEAL WITH BIG SITUATIONS LIKE THIS. IT MAKES SENSE. I'M JUST WONDERING WHAT WERE THE WHAT WERE THE THE HIGHEST WINDS WERE THAT WERE REPORTED? DO WE HAVE ANY IDEA BECAUSE I KNOW WE TALKED ABOUT 70 MILE PER HOUR WINDS THOSE THE HIGHEST WINDS THAT WERE OBSERVED ANYWHERE. THE DAMAGE THAT WE'RE SEEING WOULD BE HIGHER THAN THAT. OK, YOU KNOW, FOUR WAREHOUSES IT'S DIFFERENT THAN HOMES DEFIANCE. YOU KNOW, THERE'S SEVERAL RESIDENCES, HOMES THAT AS FAR AS WE KNOW ARE STRUCTURALLY WELL BUILT OUT IN ST. CHARLES COUNTY. THAT'S ALL DAMAGE. SO YOU KNOW, THE ASSESSMENT WILL BE MADE TOMORROW IN DAYLIGHT. THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILL SEND TEAMS OUT AND WHAT THEY DO IS THEY LOOK AT THE TYPE OF DAMAGE THE THE TYPE OF BUILDING IT WAS WELL-BUILT IT IS AND THE DAMAGE THAT EXISTS TO THAT AND THEN THEY CAN CORRELATE THAT WITH THE ESTIMATED PEAK WIND SPEEDS FROM WHAT WE KNOW TO BE TORNADOES. AND THE REASON WE KNOW THAT THERE WERE TORNADOES WE ONLY HAD ONE VIDEO OF SOMEBODY NEAR EVANSVILLE SHOWING US A TORNADO THAT ACTUALLY IT LOOKED LIKE IT HAD HAD VISIBLE TORNADO THAT WE COULD SEE BUT WE COULD SEE ON THE RADAR THE DEBRIS LOFTED IN THE AIR. AND SO WHEN WE CAN SEE THAT EVEN THOUGH NOBODY YOU KNOW, IT'S DARK WOODED AREAS IN ST. CHARLES COUNTY, YOU'RE NOT GOING TO SEE IT. WE COULD SEE IT ON THE RADAR. AND SO WHEN YOU COULD SEE IT ON THE RADAR YOU CAN CONFIRM AND YOU KNOW WHAT HAPPENED. OK, I'M ALSO LOOKING BEHIND YOU. I STILL SEE A LOT OF RED AND YELLOW. YES, WE DO KNOW WE SHOULD NOT BE WORRIED THAT IS MOVING OUT OF OUR AREA. THAT IS A GOOD NEWS. IT IS SLIDING, YOU KNOW, EAST OF MOUNT VERNON NOW IT'S MOVING OUT OF CLAY COUNTY OUT OF EFFINGHAM COUNTY. IT'S STILL A PROBLEM FOR OUR FRIENDS FARTHER EAST AND SOUTHEAST BUT IT'S OUT OF THE FIVE ON YOUR SIDE VIEWING AREA THERE IS NO ADDITIONAL SEVERE WEATHER THREAT TONIGHT. THAT'S THE GOOD NEWS THAT WE HAVE MICHELLE. THERE IS NO ADDITIONAL SEVERE WEATHER TONIGHT. THERE WILL, HOWEVER, BE STRONG GUSTY WINDS OVERNIGHT WE COULD HAVE SOME 40 TO 45 MILE PER HOUR WINDS THAT LAST THROUGH THE OVERNIGHT HOURS AND EARLY TOMORROW MORNING AND THEN THEY'LL START TO SETTLE DOWN TOMORROW AFTERNOON AND OF COURSE IT'LL BE MUCH, MUCH COLDER TOMORROW. WE WERE IN THE 60S THIS EVENING IN FACT, WE'RE STILL AROUND 60 WHILE WE WAIT ON THAT COLD FRONT TO COME THROUGH ST. LOUIS. BUT THE SEVERE WEATHER THREAT THAT IS OVER AND THAT'S GOOD NEWS. SO THAT WOULD HELP WITH THE SEARCH IF THERE'S ANY MORE SEARCHING THAT NEEDS TO BE DONE IN THE MORNING. YEAH, YOU KNOW THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER IS OVER UNFORTUNATELY THOSE WINDS ARE NOT GOOD BECAUSE IN THE STORMS THAT WE HAD AND WE'VE SEEN THIS A FEW YEARS AGO WITH SOME OF THE STORMS THAT WE HAD WHEN WE HAD LARGER THUNDERSTORMS GO THROUGH, YOU WEAKEN SOME OF THE BRANCHES THAT ARE UP THERE NOW. YEAH, THEY DON'T NECESSARILY FALL BUT THEY MAY HAVE BEEN WEAKENED. THEY'RE CRACKED AND THEN YOU GET A 40 OR 45 MILE AN HOUR WIND GUST AND THEN YOU GET MORE BRANCHES COMING DOWN. SO THERE'S STILL THE CHANCE WE COULD HAVE A FEW ADDITIONAL SCATTERED POWER OUTAGES HEADING INTO TOMORROW. RIGHT NOW THERE'S A FAIR NUMBER OF PEOPLE ESPECIALLY IN MADISON COUNTY, ILLINOIS AND ST. CHARLES COUNTY IN MISSOURI. THOSE ARE OUR TWO LARGER AREAS POWER OUTAGES RIGHT NOW. OK, AND WE'RE THINKING OF SO MANY PEOPLE I ALSO WANT TO MENTION THAT GOVERNOR JAY PRITZKER OF ILLINOIS ALSO SENT OUT A TWEET AND WE CAN SEE RIGHT THERE SAYS MY PRAYERS ARE WITH THE PEOPLE OF EDWARDSVILLE TONIGHT AND I'VE REACHED OUT TO THE MAYOR TO PROVIDE ANY NEEDED STATE RESOURCE ARE ILLINOIS STATE POLICE AND READY ILLINOIS ARE BOTH COORDINATING CLOSELY WITH LOCAL OFFICIALS AND I WILL CONTINUE TO MONITOR THE SITUATION. AND OF COURSE WHEN ROBERT TOWNSEND WAS OUT ON THE SCENE EARLIER HE SAID THAT HE DID TALK TO THE MAYOR OF EDWARDSVILL WHO HAPPENED TO BE IN CHICAGO TONIGHT BUT TRYING TO GET BACK AND COULDN'T BECAUSE OF THE BAD WEATHER. BUT SCOTT SAYS THAT'S ALL HINDSIGHT THAT'S THAT'S BEHIND US NOW. SO YEAH. AND WE JUST GOT A REPORT FROM WAY DOWN IN REYNOLDS COUNTY WHICH IS THE FAR SOUTHERN PORTION OF OUR VIEWING AREA THAT AT LEAST TWO MOBILE HOMES WERE DESTROYED AND A PERMANENT HOME WITH ITS ROOF WAS LOST ON A COUPLE OF THE COUNTY ROUTES DOWN THERE AND THERE'S LARGE SWATHS OF TREES DOWN THROUGHOUT THE SURROUNDING FOREST THAT MAY BE SOME TORNADO DAMAGE AS WELL DOWN INTO CENTRAL SOUTHERN PORTIONS OF REYNOLDS COUNTY FROM A STORM EARLIER THIS EVENING. SO I WANT TO BE REALLY INTERESTING TO FIND OUT HOW MANY TOUCHDOWNS WE POTENTIALLY HAVE. IT'LL IT'LL TAKE A COUPLE OF DAYS TO DO THE SURVEYS, THAT'S FOR SURE. A LOT OF ROTATION ON THE RADAR SCREEN TONIGHT. ALSO I WANT TO GET TO THIS BECAUSE WE HAVE BEEN TRYING TO CONTACT AMAZON TONIGHT TO GET A STATEMENT AND SO HERE'S WHAT WE KNOW. AMAZON RELEASED A STATEMENT TONIGHT SAYING THE SAFETY AND WELL-BEING OF OUR EMPLOYEES AND PARTNERS IS OUR TOP PRIORITY RIGHT NOW. WE ARE ASSESSING THE SITUATION AND WE'LL SHARE ADDITIONAL INFORMATION WHEN IT'S AVAILABLE. SO THAT'S NOT EXTREMELY EARTH SHATTERING INFORMATION FROM AMAZON BUT BUT WE ARE HEARING FROM AMAZON FOR THE FIRST TIME TONIGHT AGAIN 12 18 I SHOULD SAY THIS MORNING. NOW AFTER SEVERAL HOURS OF THIS COVERAGE, THAT TORNADO WOULD HAVE TOUCHED DOWN FIRST IN EDWARDSVILLE WHAT AROUND EIGHT FORTY FIVE SCOTT THAT WAS SOMEWHERE AROUND EIGHT THIRTY EIGHT FORTY FIVE IN THAT BALLPARK. AND YOU KNOW, AGAIN THE STORMS HAD SO MUCH ROTATION AND SO MUCH WIND TO WORK WITH IN GENERAL TO SET WAS FAVORABLE FOR THAT. THAT'S ONE OF THE REASONS WHY WE STAYED WITH THE COVERAGE TONIGHT OF THE STORMS BECAUSE YOU KNOW, WE HAVE THIS BACK IN OCTOBER . THERE ARE CERTAIN ENVIRONMENTS WHERE YOU'RE MORE LIKELY TO SEE TORNADOES THAT CAUSE DAMAGE LIKE WHAT YOU'RE SEEING TONIGHT. AND SO, YOU KNOW, THIS WAS ONE OF THEM. IT DOES MAKE YOU WONDER THOUGH. I MEAN THERE ARE THINGS THAT WE HAVE TO GET TO THE MOST IMMEDIATE IMPORTANT WORK FIRST FINDING PEOPLE FINDING CONNECTING FAMILIES. BUT YOU KNOW, IT MAKES YOU WONDER, OK, HOW STRONG WERE THOSE WINDS? THAT BUILDING WAS BUILT SUPPOSEDLY IN TWENTY SIXTEEN. SO WE KNOW THAT IT'S NOT AN OLD BUILDING. RIGHT. AND I'M SURE IT'S BUILT TO WITHSTAND 100 MILE PER HOUR WINDS OR SO WHERE HOUSES IN GENERAL THOUGH BECAUSE THEY'RE OPEN SPAN, YOU KNOW THEY HAVE A BIG OPEN SPAN. THEY'RE NOT STRUCTURALLY SOUND AS YOUR HOUSE WOULD BE WHEN YEAH. AND THERE'S IF THE WIND CATCHES THAT BUILDING IN JUST THE RIGHT WAY AND YOU HAVE A VERY STRONG WIND OR YOU HAVE THE DANGEROUS TWISTING OF IT AND IT'S VERY POSSIBLE THAT THAT WAS THE TORNADO THAT WENT RIGHT THROUGH AS LARGE AS THIS WAREHOUSE IS THAT COULD BE THE WIDTH OF A TORNADO THAT WENT THROUGH. IT'S VERY POSSIBLE AND YOU DO THE TWISTING BIT OF THAT WIND AND IT GRABBED HOLD OF THE SIDES OF THE BUILDINGS AND THE ROOF JUST THE WAY IT HIT. YOU KNOW, THEY ARE BUILT TO CODE . I'M I CAN ASSURE YOU NO TO ANY STRUCTURAL CODE THAT THERE WAS BUT IT'S AN OPEN YOU KNOW, STEEL FRAME WAREHOUSE AND THERE'S A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF TOLERANCE THAT THEY HAVE A CERTAIN THEY'RE BUILT TO WITHSTAND A CERTAIN WIND SPEED AND THIS CLEARLY WAS A SITUATION WHERE THE WIND SPEED OR THE COMBINATION OF THE WIND SPEED AND THE TWISTING OF THE WINDS CREATED A SITUATION WHERE THE BUILDING FAILED. SO IF YOU'RE JUST JOINING US AT TWELVE 20 THIS MORNING, WE WANT TO GIVE YOU A RECAP. THIS IS A LIVE LOOK FROM AN AMAZON WAREHOUSE IN EDWARDSVILLE, ILLINOIS WHERE WE BELIEVE A TORNADO WENT THROUGH . YOU CAN SEE THAT A BIG PORTION OF THAT WAREHOUSE IS GONE. THIS IS A WAREHOUSE THAT COULD EMPLOY UP TO AT LEAST TWO THOUSAND PEOPLE BY SOME OF THE REPORTS THAT WE HAVE HAD OVER THE LAST FEW YEARS SINCE THE BUILDING OPENED IN TWENTY SIXTEEN. THIS IS ONE OF THOSE WAREHOUSES WHERE A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE SHIPPING GOODS ALL OVER THE COUNTRY AND ALL OVER THE WORLD BY REPORTS AND AT SOME POINT WE BELIEVE THAT THIS IS POTENTIALLY AN EIGHT HUNDRED THOUSAND SQUARE FOOT FACILITY AND IN TALKING TO SOME PEOPLE WHO TEXTED IN TONIGHT SOME PEOPLE WHO CLAIM TO WORK AT AMAZON FACILITIES IN THE AREA OF D.C. THAT TYPICALLY THERE ARE ROUGHLY FIVE HUNDRED PEOPLE WORKING ON ANY GIVEN DAY AT THIS OR ANY GIVEN SHIFT I SHOULD SAY AT THIS AMAZON FACILITY AND BECAUSE WE ARE TWO WEEKS OUT FROM CHRISTMAS, PEOPLE ARE GETTING PAID MORE TO WORK NIGHTS, WEEKENDS AND OVERNIGHT. SO THIS IS A TWENTY FOUR SEVEN HOUR FACILITY WHERE PEOPLE ARE WORKING TO MAKE MONEY FOR THE HOLIDAYS BECAUSE THEY ARE RESPONDING TO THAT HOLIDAY RUSH HOUR. ROBERT TOWNSEND HAS BEEN LIVE THERE TONIGHT ALONG WITH OUR PHOTOJOURNALIS BOB HAINE AND ROBERT TOWNSEND SAID THAT PEOPLE HAVE NOT HAD ANY HAVE ANY COMMUNICATION YET WITH AMAZON OR WITH LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS. SO IF YOU'RE GOING DOWN THE HIGHWAY AND YOU SEE THE AMAZON FACILITY, YOU WILL LIKELY SEE A LOT OF CARS PARKED ALONG THE HIGHWAY AS WELL. AND ROBERT TOWNSEND SAID THOSE ARE FAMILIES AND LOVED ONES WAITING FOR AUTHORITIES TO TRY TO GIVE THEM SOME SORT OF INFORMATION ABOUT THEIR MISSING PEOPLE. WE'RE NOT GETTING INFORMATION RIGHT NOW FROM AUTHORITIES BECAUSE THEY ARE WORKING. WE DON'T KNOW IF THIS IS A TIME OF THE ESSENCE SORT OF THING BECAUSE WE HAVEN'T HAD ANY INFORMATION FROM LAW ENFORCEMENT AND WE'RE STILL WAITING FOR SOME SORT OF NEWS RELEASE OR SOME SORT OF INFORMATION WE CAN ONLY IMAGINE THAT PEOPLE ARE VERY HARD AT WORK TRYING TO SIFT THROUGH ANY KIND OF DEBRIS OR DAMAGE OR LOCATE PEOPLE. BUT OF COURSE THIS IS A VERY FLUID SITUATION AND A VERY ACTIVE SCENE WHERE YOU CAN JUST SEE THAT THIS IS CONSIDERED A MASS CASUALTY EVENT AND THAT DOESN'T NECESSARILY MASS FATALITIES. IT JUST MEANS THAT THERE IS A MASSIVE RESPONSE THERE AND YOU CAN SEE THAT IN THE LIGHTS AND SIRENS. SO WE KNOW THAT THERE HAVE AT LEAST A HELICOPTER ON SCENE. WE KNOW THAT THERE HAVE BEEN LARGE CRANES ON ON SCENE AS WELL AND WE KNOW THAT NOW THE GOVERNOR OF ILLINOIS IS RESPONDING AS WELL AS AMAZON AND THEY ARE KEEPING AN EYE ON THE SITUATION, ALSO REMINDING PEOPLE TO NOT BE IN THAT AREA IF THEY DON'T HAVE TO BE AND TO REMIND PEOPLE THAT IF YOU ARE IF YOU'RE WATCHING RIGHT NOW AND YOU'RE TRYING TO GET IN TOUCH WITH A LOVED ONE, THE BEST OPPORTUNITY THAT YOU HAVE IS TO TEXT THEM IF YOU JAM A PHONE LINES WITH A PHONE CALL, YOU'RE PROBABLY NOT GOING TO GET THROUGH AND THAT ALSO KEEPS THE PHONE LINES OPEN FOR AUTHORITIES. SO AGAIN, IF YOU'RE WATCHING RIGHT NOW YOU'RE TRYING TO FIND OUT INFORMATION WHERE YOUR LOVED ONE IS AND THAT CAN BE ACROSS THE AREA NOT JUST AT THE AMAZON FACILITY IF YOU ARE IF YOU WERE IMPACTED BY ANY OF THE STORMS TONIGHT, MAKE SURE THAT YOU TRY TO TEXT YOUR LOVED ONE FOR THEIR WELL-BEING. WE'RE GOING TO KEEP AN EYE ON THE SITUATION. I BELIEVE THE BOPPIN GOING TO STAY OUT THERE AND OF COURSE WE'VE GOT MORE CREWS ON THE ON THE WAY OVERNIGHT AS WELL. BUT I THINK THAT IS GOING TO WRAP IT UP FOR OUR COVERAGE AT THE MOMENT. SCOTT, YOU'VE GOT NO I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE WE'VE GOT NO MORE BREAKING WEATHER NO MORE NO MORE SEVERE WEATHER FOR US. WE'LL HAVE SOME WIND GUSTS NO MORE SEVERE WEATHER. THE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DONE SO YES. WE'RE IN GOOD SHAPE FROM THAT END. OK, LET ME CHECK ONE MORE THING REAL QUICK BEFORE WE GO. YOU KNOW WHAT WE MIGHT I SAID THAT WE WERE GOING TO GO WE MIGHT STAY ON THE AIR JUST FOR A LITTLE BIT BECAUSE WE UNDERSTAND THERE MIGHT BE SOME SORT OF POLICE BRIEFING. OK, I TELL YOU WHAT, WHILE WE WAIT FOR THAT, IF YOU WANT TO LOOK AT THE STORM REPORTS I HAVE THE STORM REPORTS FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PULLED UP HERE ALL OF THE REPORTS THAT WE SAW TONIGHT WE HAD 20 CARS COMING ACROSS THE BOOM BRIDGE AS THAT TORNADO WAS WORKING ITS WAY UP ALONG THE MISSOURI RIVER. DEBRIS HIT ABOUT 20 CARS ALONG INTERSTATE 64 HIGHWAY 40 THERE JUST INTO THE CHESTERFIELD SIDE OF THE BOOM BRIDGE RIGHT THERE BY THE FACTORY OUTLETS. AND I HAD A FRIEND TEXT ME THAT SAID HER DAUGHTER LITERALLY SAW A CAR AHEAD OF THEM LIFTED OFF THE GROUND BY THE WINDS. SO A VERY SCARY NIGHT FOR THOSE FOLKS WE KNOW WE HAD A TORNADO IN DEFIANCE. WE HAVE HAD ONE DEATH REPORTED IN THE DEFIANCE AREA, TWO INJURIES WE HAVE BEEN TALKING ABOUT THE SITUATION OVER IN EDWARDSVILLE. WE HAVE SEEN VIDEO FROM THAT AREA THAT SHOWED A TORNADO TOUCHING DOWN THAT MAY VERY WELL HAVE BEEN THE ONE THAT WENT THROUGH THE AMAZON WAREHOUSE COMPLEX THERE. BUT THE DAMAGE WIND DAMAGE IS EXTENSIVE ACROSS THE REGION THERE ARE POCKETS WHERE WE'VE HAD DOWNED TREES AND POWER LINES DOWN, TREE BRANCHES DOWN. SO THAT'S WHEN THAT'S WHAT WE'VE BEEN DEALING WITH THIS EVENING AND NOW THAT THREAT FOR SEVERE WEATHER SHIFTING OFF TO THE EAST AND TO THE SOUTHEAST. SO THERE IS NO ADDITIONAL THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER FOR THE REST OF THE NIGHT THAT IS ALL MOVING OVER INTO EASTERN PORTIONS OF ILLINOIS OVER TO INDIANA, DOWN TO KENTUCKY, TENNESSEE STRETCHING BACK ACROSS ARKANSAS TONIGHT. SO OUR THREAT FOR SEVERE WEATHER IS OVER NOW YOU KNOW WHAT'S INTERESTING IS THAT WE WHAT I THINK IS INTERESTING IS THAT THE BIG HEADLINE OF COURSE ARE TORNADOES AND TWISTERS AND AND DOWNED TREES AND POWER LINES AND ALL THOSE THINGS. BUT WE HAD SO MANY REPORTS OF LOTS OF HAIL WE SAW PEOPLE JUST OUT TO GO OUT ON A FRIDAY NIGHT WITH THEIR FAMILIES BEING STOPPED AND ASKED TO TAKE SHELTER AT THE MOVIE THEATERS OR AT HIGH SCHOOLS. SO WHAT JUST AN INCREDIBLY WILD NIGHT FOR SO MANY PEOPLE AND THEN LIKE I SAID, LIKE THE HAIL THAT AND I THINK WE KNEW THIS WAS COMING THE THE WORD GOT OUT YOUR FOLKS THAT YOU KNOW, RUN THE SCHOOL OPERATIONS, RUN THEATERS, RUN YOU KNOW, ANY EVENT YOU KNOW YOUR LOCAL SCHNOOKS. ALL RIGHT. GROCERY STORES, THEY'RE ALL THEY HAVE A PLAN AND WHEN WHEN YOU HAVE THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS COMING IN, YOU KNOW JUST ABOUT EVERYBODY IN THE BROTHERS GOT A CELL PHONE AND FOR MOST OF US TONIGHT IT WENT OFF AND MADE THAT NOISE AND YOU LOOKED OUT AND IT SAYS TORNADO WARNING. AND WHEN IT DOES THAT PEOPLE WILL RESPOND AND YOU KNOW, IF YOU HAPPEN TO BE AT A STORE AND THAT STORE HAS A PROCEDURE AND MOST OF THE BIGGER LARGER STORES DO, YOU'RE GOING TO FOLLOW THAT PROCEDURE. THEY'RE GOING TO TELL YOU WHERE TO GO. THAT'S THEIR SAFE PLACE THAT THEY KNOW IS SAFE SO THAT THEY CAN KEEP YOU SAFE BECAUSE THEY WANT YOU TO COME BACK AS A CUSTOMER AND THEY WANT EVERYBODY TO STAY SAFE. AND THAT WAS THE NAME OF THE GAME TONIGHT AND UNFORTUNATELY WE HAD SOME CASUALTIES TONIGHT AND THAT IS IS A TERRIBLE THING AND THAT'S AT LEAST THE LAST THING WE WANT TO SEE. RIGHT. IT IS TERRIBLE AND UNIMAGINABLE ESPECIALLY SO CLOSE TO THE HOLIDAYS AS WELL. I MEAN ANY DAY YOU LOSE A LOVED ONE IS NOT A GOOD DAY. RIGHT. BUT I JUST GIVE A LOT OF PEOPLE WERE OUT TONIGHT DOING HOLIDAY FESTIVITIES. THEY WERE WITH THEIR FAMILIES IS DO YOU THINK THAT WE WILL SEE MORE SEVERE WEATHER BECAUSE WE'RE GETTING INTO THE 70S NEXT WEEK TOO? WE ARE BUT NEXT WEEK SYSTEM IS A DIFFERENT TYPE OF SYSTEM. DOESN'T LOOK TO HAVE ALL THE INGREDIENTS AT LEAST AT THIS POINT. YOU KNOW, WE COULD SEE THIS COMING TOGETHER OVER THE LAST COUPLE OF DAYS AS WE GET CLOSER TO WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY WE'LL SEE HOW IT COMES TOGETHER. BUT AT THIS POINT IT DOESN'T LOOK LIKE WE HAVE ALL THE INGREDIENTS IN PLAY THAT WE HAD TONIGHT. OK, THAT'S GREAT. I MEAN IT IS REALLY INTERESTING BECAUSE YOU KNOW, YOU WAKE UP TO A DAY LIKE TODAY OH MY GOSH . SO NICE. IT'S SO BEAUTIFUL AND IT ALWAYS COMES IT FEELS LIKE WITH A CONSEQUENCE AND WITH A BIG ONE WHEN YOU WHEN YOU WAKE UP AND IT IS MUGGY AS IT WAS THIS MORNING IN DECEMBER, YOU KNOW THERE'S THERE'S PROBLEMS. WELL, JUST TO RECAP, IT IS NOW 12 TWENTY NINE WE'VE BEEN ON THE AIR SINCE WHAT TIME TONIGHT SCOTT ROUGHLY ABOUT SIX THIRTY FIVE SIX FORTY. WE'VE BEEN ON THE AIR STRAIGHT FOR ABOUT SIX HOURS SO WE ARE OUR BIG TOP STORY OF COURSE IS THE WEATHER AND THIS DAMAGE AT THE EDWARDSVILLE AMAZON WAREHOUSE. I WANT TO SHOW YOU SOME OLD VIDEO THOUGH BECAUSE WE HAVE BEEN LOOKING AT THIS FACILITY TO TRY TO GIVE YOU AN IDEA OF WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE INSIDE. SO TAKE A LOOK AT THIS. THIS IS FILE VIDEO FROM US WHEN WE WERE ABLE TO GET A LOOK AT THIS WAREHOUSE IN TWENTY SEVENTEEN SO YOU CAN JUST SEE THE STACKS OF PRODUCT FROM FLOOR TO CEILING THE HEAVY EQUIPMENT, THE FORKLIFTS, THE PEOPLE THERE YOU KNOW WE WERE TALKING TO AN AMAZON WORKER OR SOMEONE WHO CLAIMED TO BE AN AMAZON WORKER TODAY AND THEY SAID YOU KNOW ANY GIVEN SHIFT YOU'RE LOOKING AT ABOUT FIVE HUNDRED PEOPLE WORKING IN THAT FACILITY AND ALL THOSE PRODUCTS GET SHIPPED EVERYWHERE THEY GET SHIPPED EAST COAST, WEST COAST, OVERSEAS AND PEOPLE THERE ARE WORKING 24 HOURS A DAY ESPECIALLY NOW THAT WE ARE JUST 14 DAYS OUT FROM CHRISTMAS. SO WHEN THAT STORM HIT THAT WAREHOUSE YOU CAN JUST IMAGINE ALL OF THE DEBRIS AND ALL OF THE EQUIPMENT THAT THAT WERE IMPACTED IN THAT STORM WE HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR SEVERAL HOURS TONIGHT TO HEAR FROM LAW ENFORCEMENT AND EVERY TIME THAT WE CHECK IN ON THAT SCENE WE CAN SEE THAT LAW ENFORCEMENT IS VERY BUSY. IT'S A VERY ACTIVE SCENE RIGHT NOW. SO WHEN WE TALK TO FAMILY MEMBERS WHO ARE LOOKING FOR THEIR LOVED ONES, THEY'RE TELLING US THAT THEY HAVE NOT BEEN ABLE TO GET ANY KIND OF NOTIFICATIO ANY KIND OF WORD FROM AUTHORITIES AND THAT'S BECAUSE WE'VE SEEN A HELICOPTER WE'VE SEEN DRONES, WE'VE SEEN BIG HEAVY MACHINERY, CRANES DOING SOME LIFTS TO TRY TO LIFT OUT SOME OF THE EQUIPMENT AND THE AND THE HEAVY MACHINERY THAT'S IN THE BUILDING. I WANTED TO CHECK AN EMAIL REAL QUICK BECAUSE OUR PHOTOJOURNALIS BOB HAINJE IS ON THE SCENE. HE'S THE ONE WHO'S BRINGING US THOSE LIVE PICTURES. HE SAID THAT THERE'S LOTS OF MUTUAL AID FROM SURROUNDING CITIES. ST. LOUIS, ST. LOUIS COUNTY, A LARGE CRANE ARRIVED TO ASSIST IN LIFTING. HE CAN SEE SEVERAL HEAVY LIFT TOW TRUCKS PICKING UP DEBRIS AND THAT'S WHAT WE CAN SEE NOW IF WE'RE TAKING A LIVE LOOK AT THE SCENE THERE AND ALSO AGAIN AT OUR HELICOPTER DOING WORK AS WELL. BUT THIS IS JUST IF I'M READING BOB'S INFORMATION CORRECTLY, THIS IS JUST ONE BUILDING THE SOUTH HALF OF THAT BUILDING HE SAYS IS DEMOLISHED AND WE'RE GETTING A LIVE LOOK NOW. IT LOOKS LIKE A LADDER FROM A FIRE TRUCK IS MOVING BUT I CAN'T SEE WHAT IT'S DOING. SCOTT, CAN YOU SEE IS IT JUST I CAN'T TELL IF THERE'S LIKE A CAMERA ON TOP OF THERE OR IF THEY'RE JUST TRYING TO. WELL, THEY PROBABLY DO HAVE YOU KNOW, WE CAN SEE A FIREFIGHTER HE'S CLIMBING. THEY PROBABLY ARE GOING TO TRY TO WELL, YOU DON'T KNOW THEY MAY HAVE TO MAKE SOMETHING SECURE BEFORE THEY DO ADDITIONAL AND THAT'S WHY THE DRONE WAS UP THERE. THE DRONE IS HELPING THEM ASSESS WHAT KIND OF DAMAGE SITUATION IS SO THAT THEY CAN BE SAFE WHEN THEY GO INTO THEIR SEARCH AND RESCUE SOMETHING. SO I WILL SAY I'VE HAD TWO AMAZON WORKERS, PEOPLE WHO CLAIM TO BE AMAZON WORKERS CONTACT US AS WE'RE ALIVE FOLLOWING THIS AND ONE AMAZON WORKER WHO SAYS ONE PERSON WHO SAYS THAT THEY ARE CURRENTLY AN AMAZON WORKER WORKING IN ANOTHER FACILITY, THAT THEY USE AN APP TO COMMUNICATE AND GET INFORMATION FROM AMAZON AND ALSO THAT THAT PERSON IS POSITIVE. I MEAN HE DOESN'T KNOW RIGHT. BUT BUT FEELS LIKE EVERYONE WOULD HAVE HAD AN ALERT ON THEIR PHONE THAT A STORM WAS COMING AND WOULD HAVE GOTTEN TO TAKE SHELTER. BUT I HAVE ALSO TALKED TO PEOPLE WHO HAVE WORKED AT AMAZON FOR A NUMBER OF YEARS AT THIS FACILITY AND WHEN THEY DID THEY DID NOT ALLOW CELL PHONES ON THE FLOOR SO THAT. SO THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE HAVE GOT TO FIND OUT, YOU KNOW, OBVIOUSLY AND IT ALSO MIGHT EXPLAIN IF A FAMILY MEMBER WAS TRYING TO REACH A LOVED ONE AND COULDN'T THAT MIGHT ALSO BE A SITUATION TO OF COURSE WHEN WE TALK TO ROBERT AND HE SAID THAT THERE WAS NO STAGING AREA USUALLY WHEN THERE'S SOMETHING THIS MASSIVE THERE'S SOME SORT OF STAGING AREA NEAR THE SCENE. SO THAT FAMILY CAN GET INFORMATION FROM LAW ENFORCEMENT OR FROM OR SO THAT THE MEDIA CAN GET INFORMATION JUST TO GET AN UPDATE. BUT WE HAVE YET TO RECEIVE ANY INFORMATION. ROBERT TOWNSEND SAID THAT NO FAMILY MEMBERS HAVE BEEN ABLE TO RECEIVE INFORMATION TO THAT'S WHY THEY'RE ALL LINED UP ON THE HIGHWAY WAITING FOR SOMEONE TO COME OUT AND GIVE THEM AN UPDATE. BUT WE CAN SEE SO MANY LIGHTS FLASHING AND SO MANY PEOPLE ACTIVELY WORKING THAT WE CAN IMAGINE THERE'S PROBABLY JUST NOT THAT TIME THAT PRIVILEGE TO WALK AWAY AND GET THAT INFORMATION BECAUSE YOU WOULD IMAGINE THAT IF NO ONE GIVING INFORMATION THAT TIME IS REALLY OF THE ESSENCE AND IT'S DARK. THEY WANT TO GET TO PEOPLE BEFORE. WELL, THAT'S RIGHT AND OBVIOUSLY THE POWER IS OUT IN THIS AREA TOO. SO THEY'RE TRYING TO GET FIND ANYBODY THAT THEY CAN FIND THAT THEY CAN GET OUT AND DO SO SAFELY BUT THIS IS YOU KNOW, BOB JUST KEEPS PANNING OFF AND THIS IS A VERY LARGE RESPONSE FROM EMERGENCY CREWS WHO HAVE COME FROM ALL AROUND THE METRO AREA INCLUDING A SEARCH OF RESCUE CREWS FROM BOTH SIDES OF THE RIVER. YOU SEE MORE RESPONSE ONGOING THERE RIGHT NOW AS ADDITIONAL EMERGENCY CREWS COME IN. SO THERE IS A TREMENDOUS AS IS THE CASE WITH ANY WHAT'S CALLED A MASS CASUALTY INCIDENT. ANY MASS CASUALTY INCIDENT IS SIMPLY WE NEED THE RESOURCES AND THE PEOPLE BECAUSE WE HAVE AN UNKNOWN NUMBER OF INJURIES OR WE HAVE AN UNKNOWN PEOPLE A NUMBER OF PEOPLE TRAPPED OR WHATEVER. IT'S A IT'S MORE OF A RESOURCE CALL. YEAH. AND SO THAT'S WHAT OUR FIRST RESPONDERS ARE DOING TONIGHT AND THEY'VE ALL CONVERGED INTO THIS INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX AT THIS AMAZON WAREHOUSE WHERE IT LOOKS LIKE THE ROOF AND THE WALLS WERE TORN AWAY FROM PART OF ONE OF THESE LARGE BUILDINGS HERE. YEAH. YOU KNOW, AND AS YOU WERE SAYING ALL THAT WE WERE HAVING BOB PAN OVER I MEAN YOU WERE TALKING ABOUT THE LAW ENFORCEMENT BUT I ACTUALLY HAD MY EYES SET ON ALL OF THOSE SEMI TRUCKS, ALL THOSE ALL THOSE SEMI TRUCKS CARRYING PRODUCT. JUST IMAGINE HOW MANY WE SAW IN THE BACKGROUND AND HOW MUCH PRODUCT BUILT THAT FACILITY. THERE'S A LOT OF WHAT WE KNOW FROM THE VIDEO WE HAD EARLIER, YOU KNOW THAT FACILITY IS STOCKED WITH A LOT OF STUFF. THERE'S A LOT OF THINGS YOU KNOW, AMAZON'S TRYING TO GET THEIR PRODUCT OUT QUICKLY AT THAT WAREHOUSE FULL OF GOODS AND YOU KNOW, A LOT OF A LOT OF THOSE TRAILERS ARE CERTAINLY THERE YOU SEE ANOTHER IT LOOKS LIKE AMBULANCE PULLING UP RIGHT NOW WITHOUT LIGHTS FLASHING. BUT THERE'S JUST YOU KNOW, THERE'S JUST A MASSIVE EMERGENCY RESPONSE AND THAT MAY BE THAT MAY BE PART OF I DON'T KNOW IF IT'S AN AMBULANCE OR MAYBE IT'S PART OF THE STATE'S EMERGENCY RESPONSE BUT THAT LOOKED LIKE THAT KIND OF THAT AREA WHERE WE JUST WERE WAS MAYBE THE SCENE OF THE COMMAND POST, IF YOU WILL. AND AGAIN, AMAZON DID GIVE US A RESPONSE PROBABLY ABOUT 20 MINUTES AGO SAYING THE SAFETY AND WELL-BEING OF OUR EMPLOYEES AND PARTNERS IS OUR TOP PRIORITY RIGHT NOW WE ARE ASSESSING THE SITUATION AND WE'LL SHARE ADDITIONAL INFORMATION WHEN IT IS AVAILABLE AND THAT'S THE THING. WE'RE JUST NOT GETTING ANY INFORMATION REALLY. I DON'T THINK ENOUGH PEOPLE KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON AND LOOK AT THAT BEHIND THE SHOT THAT WE'RE ON RIGHT NOW, SCOTT. RIGHT. THAT IS WHAT THE ROOF MAYBE ELEMENT IT LOOKS LIKE IT COULD BE THE ROOF OR IT COULD BE THE WALL KIND OF CAVED IN THERE OR MAYBE A COMBINATION OF BOTH. IT CLEARLY LOOKS LIKE THAT WAS A I MEAN I I HONESTLY CAN'T SAY FOR SURE BUT IT LOOKS LIKE THAT WOULD BE THAT THE STEEL BEAMS ARE THERE TO MAKE, YOU KNOW, A CORNER THAT WAS THE CORNER OF A BUILDING PERHAPS OR THE MIDDLE PART OF THAT BUILDING. OH BOB JUST TEXTED ME BECAUSE HE CAN HEAR US AND WE'RE TALKING THAT IT'S THE ROOF. OK, BUT AGAIN HE SAID IT'S ONE BUILDING AND THE SOUTH HALF THAT BUILDING IS DEMOLISHED. IT'S JUST MASSIVE. IT IS INCREDIBLY MASSIVE AND ALSO THE STEEL BEAMS HELD UP. YEAH, AROUND THE AROUND EDGES. YEAH. WELL AND AGAIN AS THE WIND CATCHES SOMETHING YOU KNOW, THE WIND HAS AN IMMENSE FORCE AND YOU KNOW, YOU CATCH SOMETHING THE RIGHT WAY WITH THE WIND AND IT'LL HIT IT AS A TREMENDOUS FORCE. WE DO HAVE SOMEONE WHO WAS INSIDE THE BUILDING I BELIEVE WHO WANTS TO TALK TO US SO WE ARE TRYING TO EFFORT THAT. OK, AS WE TRY TO WAIT THAT MUST SCARY IMAGINE THIS BEING INSIDE SOMETHING LIKE THAT WITH A TORNADO OUTSIDE IT LOOKS LIKE A FIRE DEPARTMENT THAT IS BUT I KNOW METRO WE HAD FIRE PERSONNEL FIRST RESPONDERS FROM THE MISSOURI SIDE OF THE RIVER ARE ASSISTING WITH THIS. I SAW YEAH I SAW I CAN'T REMEMBER IF IT WAS EDWARDSVILLE POLICE BUT THEY TWEETED OUT OR THEY SHARED ON FACEBOOK I CAN'T REMEMBER WHICH ONE THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE WOULD HAVE BEEN RESPONDING FROM MUTUAL AID AND THAT LIST WAS EXTREMELY LONG I WILL SAY EDWARDS POLICE DEPARTMENT, EDWARDSVILLE POLICE DEPARTMENT SENT OUT SOMETHING JUST PROBABLY ABOUT AN HOUR AGO JUST SAYING WE EXPERIENCED A WEATHER EVENT IN TOWN. THERE IS A WIDESPREAD POWER OUTAGE WITH DOWNED LINES AND IS WORKING TO RESTORE POWER WHICH WE KNEW PLEASE USE CAUTION WHEN TRAVELING IN TOWN. EDWARDSVILLE FIRE AND OTHER RESPONDERS ARE WORKING A SCENE IN THE GATEWAY COMMERCE CENTER AREA SO PLEASE STAY CLEAR OF THAT AREA. BUT AGAIN, AS WE KNOW A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE ARE OUT THERE. I DON'T THINK THEY'RE BEING LOOKY LOOS. I THINK THAT THEY'RE ACTUALLY TRYING TO GET INFORMATION FOR THEIR LOVED ONES. ACCORDING TO OUR REPORTER ROBERT JOHNSON WHO WAS OUT THERE. WELL, IT'S ONE OF THOSE THINGS WHERE YOU HEAR IT, ESPECIALLY WHEN YOU CAN'T GET A HOLD OF YOUR LOVED ONES WHEN YOU CALL THE CELL PHONE AND YOU DON'T GET AN ANSWER THAT SOMEBODY DOESN'T ANSWER YOUR TEXT. NOW IF THEY'RE NOT IF THE EMPLOYEES AT AMAZON ARE NOT ALLOWED TO HAVE THEIR CELL PHONES ON THE FLOOR WHILE THEY'RE WORKING, THAT WOULD BE AN ISSUE THAT WOULD BE A REASON WHY YOU WOULD BE ABLE TO GET TO IT BECAUSE YOU KNOW, THEY WENT TO SHELTER AND NOW THEY'RE ALL SOMEWHERE ELSE OR YOU KNOW, WHATEVER. BUT YOU DON'T YOU KNOW, IF THEY DON'T HAVE THEIR CELL PHONE ON A PERSON EVEN IF THEY WERE, YOU KNOW, SAFE, THEN YOU'RE NOT GOING TO BE ABLE TO GET TO THEM GET THROUGH TO THEM. BUT AGAIN, THIS WAS ANOTHER THING THAT THE GOVERNOR OF ILLINOIS, J.B. PRITZKER HAD SAID JUST ABOUT MAYBE TWO HOURS AGO IF YOU ARE TRYING TO REACH A LOVED ONE, IF YOU'RE TRYING TO REACH A LOVED ONE RIGHT NOW, TEXT THEM DO NOT CALL THEM. IT'LL JAM THE PHONE LINES FOR EMERGENCIES AND ALSO YOU'RE MORE LIKELY TO GET A TEXT THAT GOES THROUGH IN AN EMERGENCY SITUATION LIKE THIS. YEAH, TEXT USES MUCH, MUCH LESS BANDWIDTH SO TEXT IS THE WAY TO GO. BUT AGAIN, IF THE PERSON DOESN'T HAVE THEIR PHONE, YOU KNOW, OR THEIR PHONE IS DIED THEN YOU'RE NOT GOING TO GET THE IMMEDIATE TEXT BACK. BUT CLEARLY THAT'S AN EXPANSIVE THAT THAT WHOLE ROOF AND YOU KNOW, I'M GOING TO ASSUME IT INSIDE THERE ARE RACKS AND ROWS OF THINGS THAT ARE STACKED AND OR WERE PRIOR TO THE ROOF COLLAPSING ON IT. YEAH, IF YOU ARE JUST JOINING US IT IS ABOUT TWELVE FORTY FIVE ON SATURDAY MORNING. WE'VE BEEN LIVE ON THE AIR FOR SEVERAL HOURS BECAUSE OF BREAKING WEATHER AND TORNADIC ACTIVITY HAIL LOTS OF PEOPLE TAKING SHELTER TONIGHT. THIS IS A LIVE LOOK AT EDWARDSVILLE, ILLINOIS AND WHAT YOU'RE SEEING IS A MASS CASUALTY RESPONSE TO THE AMAZON WAREHOUSE IN EDWARDSVILLE, ILLINOIS AND JUST WANT TO REITERATE WHEN WE SAY MASS CASUALTY, THAT MEANS A MASS RESPONSE. IT DOESN'T NECESSARILY MEAN THAT THERE ARE FATALITIES. HOWEVER, IT IS A POTENTIAL. IT IS A POTENTIAL AND WE KNOW THAT THERE WERE A LOT OF PEOPLE WORKING IN THIS WAREHOUSE THIS FRIDAY NIGHT BECAUSE WE'RE TWO WEEKS OUT FROM CHRISTMAS. THIS IS THE DISTRIBUTION CENTER . WE KNOW THAT THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO ARE WORKING ON THE FLOOR, PEOPLE WHO ARE DRIVING AND THEY'RE GETTING THE GOODS OUT FOR THE HOLIDAYS AND WE ALSO KNOW THAT THEY'RE INCENTIVIZED TO WORK THESE LATE HOURS, WEEKENDS, OVERNIGHT OVERNIGHTS. TWENTY SEVEN THEY ARE INCENTIVIZED TO DO THAT WITH PAY BECAUSE OF THE BUSY SEASON, THE PEAK SEASON. AND WHEN WE LOOK AT THIS FACILITY, WHAT YOU'RE LOOKING AT IS JUST ONE PART OF THE BUILDING. THE SOUTH PART OF THIS BUILDING IS GONE AS YOU CAN SEE. YOU CAN JUST SEE THE STEEL BEAMS THERE. WE BELIEVE THIS IS ROUGHLY AN EIGHT HUNDRED THOUSAND SQUARE FOOT BUILDING. WE WERE COVERING IT WHEN IT OPENED IN TWENTY SIXTEEN. SO JUST A HANDFUL OF YEARS AGO AT THE TIME WE REPORTED THAT FIFTEEN HUNDRED WORKERS WORKED THERE AND I'VE READ ANYWHERE BETWEEN FIFTEEN HUNDRED AND TWO THOUSAND WORKERS SINCE IT OPENED IN TWENTY SIXTEEN. WHEN WE READ ABOUT THIS FACILITY WE SEE THAT YES MAYBE EIGHT EIGHT HUNDRED THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED THOUSAND SQUARE FEET BUT THEN POTENTIALLY ONE AND A HALF MILLION SQUARE FEET OF GOODS. WHEN WE WERE LOOKING AT SOME OF THE VIDEO THAT WE SHOT BACK IN TWENTY SEVENTEEN WE SAW GOODS FROM THE FLOOR TO THE CEILING AND AS YOU CAN SEE IN THOSE LIVE PICTURES IT IS A VERY TALL BUILDING AND AGAIN PEOPLE ARE JUST WALKING TWENTY FOUR HOURS A DAY AT THAT FACILITY RIGHT NOW THAT STORM HIT AROUND EIGHT FORTY FIVE AND THEN THERE WAS A SECOND ROUND OF STORMS AS WELL. SO WE'RE JUST SEEING THIS MASSIVE RESPONSE TRYING TO GET INFORMATION FROM THE POLICE DEPARTMENT. IN FACT, THAT'S WHY WE ARE STAYING ON AIR THIS LATE HOUR BECAUSE WE WERE TOLD THAT POTENTIALLY WE WOULD GET AN UPDATE FROM LAW ENFORCEMENT ON THE SCENE THERE. SO WE JUST WANT TO HANG TIGHT AND SEE IF WE CAN GET ANY NEW INFORMATION. THIS IS VIDEO FROM EARLIER TONIGHT WHEN OUR CREWS JUST GOT ON THE SCENE THERE. BUT IT HAS REALLY NOT CHANGED SINCE WE'VE BEEN THERE. LOTS OF LIGHTS AND SIRENS, LOTS OF RESPONSE, LOTS OF MUTUAL AID COMING TO THIS SCENE TO TRY TO FIND PEOPLE WE ASSUME WE'VE ALSO SEEN BIG CRANE TRUCKS AND HELICOPTERS TO WE BELIEVE THE CRANE TRUCKS AND THE TOW TRUCKS TO LIFT HEAVY EQUIPMENT. WE SAW IN SOME OF THE VIDEO FORKLIFTS AND AND OTHER THINGS ARE USED DAILY IN THAT FACILITY. SO WE HAVE HEARD FROM THE GOVERNOR ABOUT FROM AMAZON AGAIN, THIS IS A LIVE LOOK AT THE SCENE. YOU CAN SEE A LIGHT ABOVE THE BUILDING WE BELIEVE THAT IS A DRONE LOOKING FOR PERHAPS PEOPLE OR PEOPLE WHO MAY BE TRAPPED AT ONE POINT TONIGHT. AT ONE POINT TONIGHT WE HEARD ANYWHERE BETWEEN 50 AND ONE HUNDRED PEOPLE MAY HAVE BEEN TRAPPED INSIDE THAT FACILITY. SO WE DO BELIEVE THAT TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE FOR MANY OF THESE PEOPLE BECAUSE LAW ENFORCEMENT HAS NOT BEEN ABLE TO STOP AND GIVE US A REPORT. LAW ENFORCEMENT HAS NOT BEEN ABLE TO STOP AND GIVE FAMILIES AN UPDATE. WE KNOW THAT A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE JUST HANGING OUT ON THE SIDE OF THE ROAD WAITING FOR WAITING FOR INFORMATION ABOUT THEIR LOVED ONES. WE ARE ABLE TO TALK TO ONE WOMAN WHO HADN'T HEARD FROM HER HUSBAND SINCE 8:00 O'CLOCK TONIGHT AND FIRST SHE GOT A MESSAGE SAYING THAT HE WAS OK AND THEN SHE WAS NEVER ABLE TO HEAR FROM HIM AGAIN. SO THERE ARE STORIES LIKE THAT AND PEOPLE LIKE THAT WAITING TO HEAR SOME SORT OF INFORMATION. BUT THIS HAS BEEN A VERY ACTIVE DAY, A VERY ACTIVE NIGHT AND AS YOU CAN IMAGINE, THIS SCENE WILL BE ACTIVE FOR MANY HOURS AND MAYBE MAYBE LONGER. YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU COVER SOMETHIN LIKE THIS IT DOESN'T END IN A DAY. THIS IS SOMETHING THAT WILL GO ON FOR A WHILE. YEAH. AND I THINK AT THIS POINT, YOU KNOW, THEY'RE THEY'RE STILL IN THE RESCUE MODE HERE. YES. I WANT TO MAKE SURE THEY FIND EVERYBODY THAT THEY CAN AND GET THEM SAFELY OUT OF THAT DEBRIS AND EVERYTHING THAT'S FALLEN, YOU KNOW, ON TOP THAT WAREHOUSE FROM THE ROOF COLLAPSE. I DON'T WANT TO BE OMINOUS BUT YOU POINTED OUT THAT YOU ARE AMBULANCES WITHOUT LIGHTS. WELL, IF THEY LOOKED LIKE THEY WERE ARRIVING TO THE SCENE SO YOU KNOW, THEY MAY BE BRINGING IN EXTRA EXTRA MANPOWER TO AT THIS POINT EVERY AVAILABLE BECAUSE YOU'VE GOT INTO A MASS CASUALTY SITUATION. YOU NEED PEOPLE ON SCENE TO HELP TRIAGE. YOU KNOW, THERE'S A LOT GOING ON THERE FOR OUR FIRST RESPONDERS AND TO BE HONEST, WE CAN LOOK FROM AFAR AND WE CAN JUST ASSUME OR BASED ON WHAT WE SEE MAKE ASSUMPTIONS AND PRESUMPTIONS ABOUT WHAT THEY'RE DOING. BUT YOU KNOW, WE DON'T HAVE THE ABILITY TO TALK TO ANYBODY THERE RIGHT NOW AND THEY'RE TOO BUSY WITH SEARCH AND RESCUE TO TALK WITH US WHICH IS TOTALLY FINE. SO WE LET THEM AND YOU CAN SEE THE PEOPLE MOVING AROUND AND THEY'RE WORKING HARD BUT THEY'RE DOING IT METHODICALLY I'M SURE TO PREVENT ADDITIONAL DAMAGE OR YOU KNOW, WHATEVER THE DEBRIS IS THAT THEY'RE WORKING THROUGH, THEY NEED TO BE SAFE ABOUT THEIR METHODOLOGY. ABSOLUTELY. IT IS INTERESTING TO SEE THEM AT WORK. WE SAW A FIREFIGHTER CLIMB A LADDER, YOU KNOW, MAYBE TO LOOK DOWN AT THE FACILITY, YOU KNOW, TO GET AN OVERVIEW OF THE SHOT AGAIN. YOU KNOW, YOU'RE RIGHT, SCOTT. WE HEAR WE ARE MAKING OF ASSUMPTIONS BECAUSE WE DON'T HAVE THE ABILITY TO TALK TO LAW ENFORCEMENT. BUT THESE IMAGES ARE SO INCREDIBLE TO SEE FACILITY AS BIG AS THIS WAREHOUSE WAS TO JUST FALL FLAT OR PARTS OF IT ANYWAY. YEAH, IT JUST RIPPED OFF AND IN SOME CASES IT LOOKS LIKE THE ROOF WAS DEPOSITED INTO PART OF THE WAREHOUSE AND THOSE WALLS THAT ARE THERE ARE ALL GONE TOO. SO EVERYTHING IS GONE. AND TO GIVE YOU AGAIN AN IDEA OF WHAT THIS FACILITY LOOK LIKE ,WE ACTUALLY HAVE IT IN OPERATION. SO THIS WAS A LOOK BACK IN TWENTY SEVENTEEN WHEN THE WAREHOUSE HAD BEEN OPENED JUST FOR A FEW MONTHS AND YOU CAN SEE LOTS OF ACTIVITY THERE, LOTS OF BOXES, LOTS OF PRODUCT ,LOTS OF LOOK FROM THE FLOOR TO THE CEILING. WE ALSO SEE FORKLIFTS WE SEE JUST A TREMENDOUS AMOUNT OF BODIES AND BOXES AND EQUIPMENT WORKING THERE AND AT THIS TIME OF YEAR NONSTOP. SO THIS IS WHERE PEOPLE, YOU KNOW, GET THEIR GOODS. THESE THEY GO TO THE WAREHOUSE AND THEN THEY GET SHIPPED OUT EAST COAST, WEST COAST OVERSEAS AND ANYTHING I WAS READING ANYTHING FROM SHOES TO CANDY. SO THIS IS JUST A MASSIVE WAREHOUSE FULL OF TONS OF STUFF AND IT ALSO MAKES YOU WONDER ON TOP OF ALL THIS, RIGHT? BECAUSE WE'RE LOOKING AT THE HOLIDAYS IT ALSO MAKES YOU WONDER, OK, WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN TO EVERYONE'S GOODS THAT WERE IN THAT FACILITY? I'M SURE THEY'LL FEEL IT'S THE LAST THING YOU WORRY ABOUT. BUT WHAT I MEAN, YOU KNOW, WE'RE JUST SO CLOSE TO THE HOLIDAYS. PEOPLE WERE WORKING OVERTIME. THEY WERE WORKING ALL THESE HOURS TO GET THE JOB DONE. THIS IS THE PEAK SEASON AND YOU KNOW, THERE'S I'M SURE THERE'S SOME SORT OF BACKUP PLAN FOR ALL OF THAT. YOU WHEN YOU DON'T HAVE A WAREHOUSE. BUT IT'S THE REALITY IS RIGHT NOW, YOU KNOW, WE DON'T KNOW HOW MANY PEOPLE WERE IN THERE BUT YOU SAID YOU WOULD THINK IT WOULD BE AT LEAST 500 ACCORDING ACCORDING TO ONE OF THE WE'VE HAD A LOT OF PEOPLE TEXT IN AND WRITE AND SAY THAT THEY EITHER WORKED AT AN AMAZON FACILITY, WORKED AT THAT PARTICULAR FACILITY OR CURRENTLY WORK AT AN AMAZON FACILITY IN THE AREA AND THEY SAID TYPICALLY THEY BELIEVE THAT ABOUT 500 PEOPLE WOULD BE WORKING AT THAT FACILITY AT ANY GIVEN SHIFT. SO LONG ENOUGH A LOT OF PEOPLE IT'S A LOT OF FOLKS AND YOU WOULD THINK WITH THE HOLIDAYS AND YOU AMAZON AND UPS AND FEDEX EVERYBODY THAT SHIPS PACKAGES OR IS IN THAT, YOU KNOW, MODE OF COMMERCE, THEY'VE ALL BEEN LOOKING FOR EXTRA WORKERS NOW. SO YOU WOULD THINK THERE WOULD BE SOME MAYBE A NUMBER OF PEOPLE A LITTLE BIT HIGHER THAN AVERAGE. YEAH, AND I WAS EVEN LOOKING YOU KNOW, AMAZON HAD LIKE GIVEN I THINK IT WAS LIKE THREE THOUSAND SIGNING BONUSES FOR PEOPLE TO GET ON TO GET INTO THE WAREHOUSE TO WORK AND THEN ALSO PAYING EXTRA PAYING YOU DECENT WAGES TO PAY FOR THEM TO WORK THOSE HOURS AGAIN WE HAD HEARD FROM GOVERNOR J.B. PRITZKER FROM ILLINOIS. WE'VE ALSO HEARD FROM AMAZON AT THIS TIME. BUT THE STATEMENTS HAVE BEEN PRETTY VAGUE OTHER THAN TO STAY OUT OF THE AREA OR TO TEXT YOUR LOVED ONES IF YOU'RE TRYING TO REACH THEM AND GET INFORMATION THAT'S THE BEST OPPORTUNITY FOR YOU TO TO TRY TO REACH A LOVED ONE. AMAZON SAYS ITS PRIORITY RIGHT NOW IS SAFETY AND THE CONCERN FOR THE WORKERS. SO THEY'RE TRYING TO FIND MORE INFORMATION AND AND RELEASE THAT AND I'M JUST TRYING TO LOOK AND IF THERE'S ANY MORE INFORMATION I MEAN THAT'S REALLY ALL THAT WE'RE GETTING OTHER THAN TO AVOID THAT AREA IF YOU CAN AND AND THAT SEEMS TO BE THE MAJOR THINGS. SO RIGHT NOW WE ARE STILL TRYING TO WAIT AND SEE IF WE CAN GET SOME SORT OF INFORMATION FROM LAW ENFORCEMENT. WE WERE TOLD THAT THAT MIGHT BE HAPPENING WITHIN THE NEXT FEW MINUTES BUT WE ARE STILL GATHERING INFORMATION TO SEE WHAT WE CAN FIND OUT FROM ANYONE WHO MAY HAVE BEEN ON THE SCENE WHO MAY BE RESPONDING TO THE SCENE AS WELL. THE GOOD NEWS WITH ALL OF THAT IS THAT THERE IS NO MORE SEVERE WEATHER RIGHT. WE'VE BEEN WORRIED ABOUT SEVERE WEATHER ALL NIGHT LONG AND SCOTT SAYS THAT THERE SHOULD BE NO MORE WEATHER HAMPERING POTENTIALLY THE SEARCH EFFORTS THOUGH IT COULD BE WINDY. IT WILL BE WINDY ON. THAT'LL BE THE ONLY THREAT. YEAH, WELL THAT'S NOT BAD BUT I CAN SEE THE RADAR BEHIND YOU. IT'S LOOKING PRETTY. IT'S MOVING ON OUT. IT'S MOVING ON OUT. THE SOME OF THESE STORMS DOWN IN KENTUCKY HAVE REALLY CAUSED SOME PROBLEMS AND EIGHT TO ONE WENT FROM NEAR JONESBORO, ARKANSAS. IT'S REALLY PUSHING HISTORY WITH MAYBE ONE OF THE LONGEST TRACK TORNADOES, YOU KNOW, IN YEARS. IT MAY BE MORE THAN TWO HUNDRED MILES OF CONTINUOUS DAMAGE. THE WAY WE'RE LOOKING AT IT I DON'T I'M JUST READING SOME STUFF ON TWITTER AND SEEING SOME VARIOUS POSTS WITH THE TORNADO ROTATION TRACK AND ALL THE REPORTS OF DAMAGE WITH IT. BUT IT'S BEEN WARNED FOR AN AWFUL LONG TIME SO THERE'S A LOT OF OTHER PLACES THAT ARE ALSO DEALING WITH SEVERE WEATHER AND THE DAMAGE TONIGHT AND THE CLEANUP AND IT'S GOING TO TAKE A WHILE TO ASSESS THAT. I KNOW THE PADUCAH NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE. I DON'T KNOW IF THEY WERE HIT BY A TORNADO OR IF THEY JUST LOST POWER. BUT I DO KNOW IT STILL LOOKS LIKE SPRINGFIELD SPRINGFIELD, MISSOURI IS BACKING UP PADUCAH AND ISSUING ALL THEIR WARNINGS RIGHT NOW. SO THAT'S A SCOTT. DO WE KNOW HOW MANY STATES OR AREAS IN GENERAL HAVE BEEN TOUCHED TONIGHT BY STORMS? I KNOW ARKANSAS. I KNOW TEXAS HAD WARNINGS ARKANSAS, KENTUCKY, TENNESSEE. I DON'T KNOW IF WE HAD ANY REALLY IN OKLAHOMA BUT INDIANA HAS SOME WARNINGS NOW THEY'RE TRYING TO SPREAD TOWARDS OHIO AND THEN ON THE BACKSIDE OF THIS YOU HAVE, YOU KNOW, NEAR BLIZZARD CONDITIONS ACROSS PARTS OF IOWA AND UP INTO PARTS OF MINNESOTA. THE TWIN CITIES GETTING QUITE A BIT OF SNOW UP THERE. SO THAT'S ON THE COLD SIDE OF THE STORM WHICH WE ARE NOT ON THE COLD SIDE. SO YOU KNOW, IT'S AT LEAST WE'RE NOT DEALING WITH WINTER WEATHER. THE PRICE WE PAID FOR THE WARMER TEMPERATURES TODAY AND NOT BEING THAT IS A SEVERE WEATHER THIS EVENING. NOW WHEN YOU TALKED ABOUT WINDS POTENTIALLY TOMORROW, I MEAN THE GROUND BE SATURATED. WELL, THE GROUND IS WE'RE IN A WE'RE CLOSE TO AND IN SOME CASES IN THE METRO AREA WE'VE BEEN IN A MODERATE DROUGHT AND TO BE HONEST, TONIGHT'S RAINFALL WAS KIND OF FAST AND FURIOUS. SO JUST QUICKLY LOOK AT WHAT WE'VE GOT HERE AND WE LOOK AT THE RAINFALL TOTALS. WHEN I LOOKED EARLIER IT WAS PRETTY PATHETIC. OH REALLY? YEAH. I MEAN THEY WERE THEY WERE QUICK I THINK SOME SPOTS HAD MORE THAN A HALF AN INCH MAYBE AN INCH BUT THE GROUND IS SO DRY RIGHT NOW THAT IT'S IT'S LITERALLY ROCK SOLID AND A LOT OF PLACES ESPECIALLY ALONG THE MISSOURI RIVER SO THAT WATER NEVER GOT A CHANCE TO SOAK IN. I'M LOOKING AT PARKS AIRPORT DOWNTOWN. LOOKS LIKE THEY'VE HAD MAYBE THREE HUNDREDTHS OF AN INCH. I KNOW LAMBERT HAD A COUPLE OF GOOD STORMS GO OVER SO THEY'RE PUSHING NINE TENTHS. SO YOU GOT TO HAVE SOME SPOTS AHEAD CLOSE TO AN INCH. BUT FOR MOST AREAS YOU DIDN'T GET A LOT OF HEAVY RAINFALL. AND WHAT WE DID GET CAME FAST AND MOST OF IT WOULD HAVE RUN OFF INSTEAD OF SOAKING IT. SO AT LEAST THE GROUND IN ONE RESPECT IT'S GOOD THE GROUND ISN'T FLAT BECAUSE THE TREES WON'T BLOW OVER. BUT WE'VE PROBABLY HAD SOME BRANCHES IN THOSE TREES THAT HAVE BEEN WEAKENED BECAUSE OF THE STORMS TONIGHT AND THE ADDITIONAL WINDS OVERNIGHT AND INTO TOMORROW MORNING. THEY COULD GUST, YOU KNOW, 40 TO 45 MILES PER HOUR AT TIMES MAYBE ENOUGH TO YOU DROP A FEW MORE TREES CAUSE MORE SCATTERED POWER OUTAGES, THAT SORT OF THING. WHAT ABOUT HAIL TONIGHT? DID WE HAVE WIDESPREAD HAIL? WE HAD WIDESPREAD REPORTS. WE SAW SOME REPORTS BUT WE DIDN'T HAVE WIDESPREAD HAIL AND THAT REALLY WASN'T OUR BIGGEST THREAT. WE WERE CONCERNED OVER THE WINDS. WE DID GET A FEW REPORTS OF SOME HAIL. MOST OF IT WAS A SMALLER HAIL. SO YOU KNOW, YOU'VE GOT TO GET UP TO A QUARTER SIZE ONE INCH BEFORE YOU IT REALLY CAUSES ANY DAMAGE. YEAH, I ALSO OK, A COUPLE OF THINGS A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE WRITING IN TO US SAYING THAT THEY ARE GETTING DEBRIS FROM ALL OVER IN PARTICULAR STYROFOAM. SO A LOT OF PEOPLE THINK THAT MAYBE THAT MIGHT BE FROM THE WAREHOUSE. HONESTLY WE COULDN'T TELL THAT BUT WELL YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU HAVE SOMETHING THAT'S LIGHT, IF IT GETS CARRIED UP INTO A CLOUD, YOU KNOW, 15 OR 20 THOUSAND FEET UP IN A CLOUD, SOMETHING IS LIGHT THAT FLOATS EASILY WHEN YOU'RE FLYING UP INTO THE CLOUD IN THE WINDS UP THERE ARE RUNNING CLOSE TO 100 MILES PER HOUR OR HIGHER. YOU KNOW IT'S GOING TO GO A GOOD DISTANCE BEFORE IT EVENTUALLY SETTLES OUT. SO THAT'S NOT UNCOMMON TO SEE THINGS CARRIED FAR, FAR AWAY. DIDN'T YOU SAY THAT YOU HEARD A REPORT OF SOMEONE BEING LIFTED UPN THEIR CAR? YEAH, WE SAID I HAD A FRIEND THAT TEXTED ME AND SAID HER DAUGHTER WAS GOING INTO THE VALLEY AND THE CAR IN FRONT OF THEM LIFTED OFF AND THEY SAW HIM OFF THE GROUND AND THEY HAD DAMAGE TO BOTH OF THE WINDOWS ON THE SIDE WINDOWS FROM THE DEBRIS. THAT REMINDS ME JUST FOR FUTURE REFERENCE WHEN YOU'RE ON THE ROAD AND THERE'S A STORM COMING, WHAT ARE YOU SUPPOSED TO DO? WELL, YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO STOP BEFORE YOU GET TO THE STORM. YOU KNOW YOU'RE GOING TO STAY BEHIND IT IF YOU'RE FAR ENOUGH AHEAD OF IT. YOU JUST WANT TO GET TO YOUR PLACE WHERE YOU'RE GOING TO BE IN A SAFE SHELTER BUT YOU DON'T WANT TO BE DRIVING THROUGH A STORM AND I THINK THAT'S WHAT HAPPENED PROBABLY TO THE FOLKS DRIVING THROUGH THE VALLEY. YOU KNOW, THEY THEY KNEW THERE WAS A STORM SOMEWHERE AND THEY JUST DRIVE RIGHT INTO WHAT'S THE DEBRIS FIELD OF THAT TORNADO THAT WAS DOWN ALONG HIGHWAY 94. YEAH. AND WE SAW THAT OVERTURNED TRACTOR TRAILER AND WE HAD THE OVERTURNED TRACTOR TRAILER WHICH WAS THE PRECURSOR TO WHAT HAPPENED IN EDWARDSVILLE, I THINK. YEAH, SO ANOTHER THING WE STILL HAVE AND I KNOW YOU ADDRESSED THIS TONIGHT BUT WE'VE BEEN ON AIR LITERALLY FOR SIX HOURS ALMOST GOING ON SEVEN NOW YOU HAVE AT LEAST WE STILL HAVE PEOPLE WHO JUST CANNOT BELIEVE THAT WE HAVE TORNADOES IN DECEMBER. YEAH. AND YOU KNOW, IT'S NOT UNHEARD OF ANYTIME YOU GET WARM HUMID AIR THAT'S IN HERE AND YOU CAN GET A STRONG JET STREAM AND THE ENERGY TO COME OVERHEAD AND THAT'S WHAT WE HAD THE DAY WE PULLED ALL THE INGREDIENTS TOGETHER. WE WE HAD THE WARM HUMID AIR. IT WAS HUMID THIS MORNING. IT GOT WARM THIS EVENING AS THE WARM FRONT LEFT IT THROUGH LATER THIS AFTERNOON LIFTED NORTH OF ST. LOUIS AND THAT'S AT THE STAGE BECAUSE THEN YOU'RE SOMEWHAT UNSTABLE NOT AS MUCH AS YOU WOULD BE ON A WARMER DAY IN SPRING BUT FOR THIS TIME OF YEAR YOU'RE UNSTABLE AND THEN YOU TAKE REALLY STRONG WINDS UPSTAIRS. THEY ACT AS A VACUUM CLEANER AND LITERALLY JUST KIND OF THE AIR UP AND THAT CAUSES THE RISING MOTION AND ENHANCES IT AND YOU'VE GOT WINDS AT THE GROUND THAT ARE RUNNING OUT OF THE SOUTHEAST AND THEN THE ONES UP ALOFT ARE COMING SOUTHWEST. SO YOU ALREADY HAVE A TWISTING GOING ON PLUS YOU'VE GOT THE SPEED GOING ON SO YOU HAVE A LOT OF TWISTING THAT'S DEVELOPING IN THE STORM WHEN ALL THAT CAN COME TOGETHER IN JUST THE RIGHT WAY IN ANY OF THOSE STORMS IT CAN PRODUCE A TORNADO AND I THINK THAT'S WHAT WE SAW HAPPEN THIS EVENING DOWN ACROSS ST. CHARLES COUNTY, BACK AROUND THE DEFIANCE AREA, YOU KNOW, MAYBE NOT TOO FAR FROM AUGUSTA. WE SAW THOSE DEBRIS SIGNATURES ON THE RADAR WHERE ALL THE INGREDIENTS WERE COMING TOGETHER JUST SO IN EACH STORM AND TO CAUSE THE DAMAGE THAT WE SEE I DO HAVE SOMEONE FROM OUR ONE OF OUR SISTER STATIONS IN CINCINNATI SAYING THAT THEY'RE WATCHING OUR LIVE STREAM BECAUSE THEY'RE CONCERNED ABOUT THE WEATHER THERE. SO IS IT GOING TO THAW OUT OR IS GOING TO KEEP GOING? THEY'RE GOING TO HAVE SOME STRONGER STORMS BUT I DON'T THINK THEY'LL BE AS BAD AS YOU KNOW, WHAT WE'RE DEALING WITH HERE. AND YOU KNOW, WE'VE HAD SISTER STATIONS IN INDIANAPOLIS TONIGHT, OUR SISTER STATIONS IN MEMPHIS DOWN IN ARKANSAS, LITTLE ROCK AND DOWN INTO MEMPHIS. YOU MENTIONED MEMPHIS. YOU KNOW, WE'VE HAD SEVERAL OF OUR STATIONS OUR SISTER STATIONS HAVE BEEN VERY BUSY TONIGHT WITH THEIR COVERAGE. I SAW VIDEO AND I DON'T KNOW IF WE HAVE IT BUT I SAW VIDEO FROM JONESBORO, ARKANSAS TONIGHT THAT MADE KIND OF THE VIRAL ROUNDS. IT WAS LIKE A DOUBLE TWISTER THAT HAD COME DOWN. I MEAN OBVIOUSLY WE WANT TO CONFIRM THAT BUT I'VE SEEN IT ON SO MANY DIFFERENT PUBLICATIONS TONIGHT THAT THERE WERE TWO TORNADOES RIGHT IN FRAME. YOU KNOW THAT THEY WERE REALLY CLOSE TO ONE AND I DON'T KNOW IF THAT'S TRUE OR NOT BECAUSE YOU'VE BEEN BUSY. SO IT'S KIND OF A LITTLE BIT BUSY HERE TO TO DEAL WITH WHAT WAS GOING ON IN ARKANSAS. BUT YOU KNOW, SOME THAT WE HAVE TO FILTER THROUGH AND KIND OF CHECK BECAUSE PEOPLE DO RECIRCULATE VIDEO FROM TIMES PAST. BUT YOU KNOW, WE'VE BEEN ABLE WE WE'RE PRETTY CONFIDENT WHAT WE SHOWED YOU EARLIER FROM EVANSVILLE IS THE REAL DEAL FROM TONIGHT AND WE TRY TO DOUBLE CHECK THAT AND MAKE SURE OF THOSE THINGS BECAUSE PEOPLE DO CIRCULATE VIDEOS AND THERE'S SOME THINGS THAT JUST CLEARLY PEOPLE WILL GRAB A PICTURE FROM SOMETHING THAT HAPPENED A FEW YEARS AGO. IT'S JUST LIKE THE SHARK THAT YOU ALWAYS SEE SWIMMING. YOU KNOW, IT'S IT'S SOMETHING THAT SOMEBODY'S PHOTO SHOPPED OR THEY DID SOMETHING TO. BUT WE HAVE SEEN SOME HONESTLY TRUE PICTURES THAT ARE JUST A PRETTY DAMAGE AND I DON'T WANT TO MESS UP THE NAME OF THE PLACE IN KENTUCKY BUT THERE'S ONE COUNTY IN KENTUCKY WHERE THE COUNTY COURTHOUSE WAS HIT AND HIT HARD. OH REALLY? IT'S GRAVES' COUNTY MAYFIELD, KENTUCKY. OK, AND SO SOMEBODY POSTED A PICTURE THAT AND IT'S PRETTY DRAMATIC. SO I THINK THAT'S AUTHENTIC. IT LOOKS AUTHENTIC AND I KNOW THAT AREA HAD BAD STORMS. SO YOU KNOW, IT'S IT'S IT'S A NIGHT WHERE A LOT OF PEOPLE WILL REMEMBER THIS NIGHT FOR AN EXTENDED PERIOD OF TIME. OH YEAH. FOR THE WRONG REASONS. YEAH. UNFORTUNATELY HERE WE ARE. IT'S JUST FIVE MINUTES AFTER ONE O'CLOCK AND WE'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT STORMS. WE'VE BEEN KEEPING AN EYE ON THIS SITUATION IN EDWARDSVILLE, ILLINOIS BECAUSE IT IS A MASSIVE SCENE. IT IS ONGOING. WE DO HAVE A CREW ON THE SCENE. OUR PHOTOJOURNALIST PAUL PAYNE HAS BEEN SHOWING US THESE INCREDIBLE PICTURES WHILE ALSO TRYING TO SET US INFORMATION BACK BECAUSE WE KNOW THAT LAW ENFORCEMENT IS AND FIRST RESPONDERS ARE EXTREMELY BUSY RIGHT NOW. WE'VE SAID IT BEFORE. BUT JUST TO GIVE YOU A RECAP, IF YOU'RE JUST TUNING IN, AUTHORITIES HAVE NOT BEEN ABLE TO GIVE US INFORMATION AND THEY'VE NOT BEEN ABLE TO GIVE FAMILIES INFORMATION AND THAT'S BECAUSE PEOPLE ARE HARD AT WORK. SO WE'RE DOING WE ARE TRYING TO TALK TO SOMEONE IN LAW ENFORCEMENT WHO CAN GIVE US MORE INFORMATION. WE ALSO ARE GOING TO TALK TO PEOPLE WHO WERE INSIDE THAT BUILDING AND WE KNOW THAT ARE JUST YOU KNOW, CORNELL SHE IS OFFERING THAT AS WELL AND WILL HOPEFULLY BRING THAT TO US IN JUST A LITTLE BIT. BUT WHAT WE KNOW WHEN WE WERE TALKING EARLIER ABOUT A FIRE TRUCK LADDER AND A FIREFIGHTER CLIMBING UP THE LADDER THAT LADDER WAS REPOSITIONED TO CLEAR A GIRDER ACCORDING TO BOB PAYNE WHO'S OUT ON THE SCENE THERE. SO IT LOOKS LIKE THERE'S APPARENTLY SOME SORT OF LINE OR SOMETHING THAT IS MAYBE IN THE WAY YOU CAN'T REALLY SEE FROM WHERE WE ARE. WE ALSO KNOW THAT THE HELICOPTER THAT WAS WORKING THAT SCENE HAS LEFT IT LEFT EARLIER. NOT SURE IF IT WAS LOADED OR NOT, BUT WE DO KNOW THAT THERE HAVE ALSO DRONES AT LEAST A DRONE WORKING THAT SCENE AS WELL. A WORKER FROM THE NEIGHBORING WAREHOUSE SAYS THERE'S NO NOTIFICATION FROM AMAZON ABOUT IF THEY ARE WORKING OR NOT. EITHER IT WOULD BE HARD TO IMAGINE WITH AN INVESTIGATION ONGOING AND ALL THOSE THINGS IF THAT FACILITY WILL BE OPEN TO PEOPLE WHO WANT TO GO TO WORK NOW OR TOMORROW OR OR WHATEVER. AND I THINK THAT'S THAT'S GOING TO BE A PROBLEM. I MEAN YOU CAN'T IMAGINE THAT THEY'D BE ABLE TO, YOU KNOW, MAKE THAT FIX THAT VERY QUICKLY SO THOSE FOLKS THAT DO WORK THERE WILL PROBABLY NOW YOU DID MENTION THAT THERE'S MORE THAN ONE BUILDING IN THIS COMPLEX. THERE IS. AND SO WE HAD BEEN SHOWING YOU SOME VIDEO OF ONE OF THE FACILITIES WHEN IT HAD OPENED TWENTY SIXTEEN. WELL, WE ALSO HEARD THAT MAYBE THAT THAT THIS BUILDING IS POTENTIALLY A DELIVERY SITE BUT I'M NOT SURE EXACTLY WHAT THAT MEANS. I MEAN I CAN THERE'S A TREMENDOUS AMOUNT OF WAREHOUSE SPACE THERE IN THE METRO EAST SO AND I'M SURE THERE'S SOME OF IT THAT'S STILL I WOULD THINK AVAILABLE THAT MAYBE YOU KNOW WHAT STRIKES ME IS A COMPANY WHO WOULD QUICKLY BE ABLE TO ADJUST AND ADAPT SO THAT THE PEOPLE THAT DO WORK THERE ARE ABLE TO CONTINUE THEIR EMPLOYMENT BECAUSE YOU KNOW, THAT WOULD BE THE LAST THING YOU WOULD WANT IS RIGHT NOW TO NOT BE ABLE TO WORK. BUT OBVIOUSLY YOU'RE NOT GOING TO BE ABLE TO GO INTO THAT BUILDING. NO, ABSOLUTELY NOT. AND YOU MIGHT NOT EVEN BE ABLE TO GET ON CERTAIN PARTS OF THE PROPERTY ANYWAY. YOU KNOW, IT IS INTERESTING WE'RE GETTING A LOT OF PICTURES. I JUST WANT TO SAY FROM VIEWERS WHO ARE SENDING US IN STYROFOAM I MENTIONED WE'RE GETTING A LOT OF STYROFOAM. WE DON'T KNOW IF THE STYROFOAM IS FROM THE WAREHOUSE BUT APPARENTLY A LOT OF VIEWERS SEEM TO THINK THAT IT IS AND SOMEONE JUST IT A PICTURE SAYING THAT SOME STYROFOAM WAS FOUND NEAR AN APARTMENT COMPLEX UP 10 MILES AWAY FROM THAT AMAZON FACILITY. ADDITIONALLY, THEY WANTED TO TELL US THAT UNFORTUNATELY THEY KNOW A LOT OF STUDENTS AT ESSAWI WHO WORK AT THIS PARTICULAR AMAZON WHICH MAKES SENSE. YEAH. YEAH, BECAUSE OF THE LOCATION FOR SURE. SO IF YOU'RE JUST JOINING US, IT IS EIGHT MINUTES AFTER 1:00. WE ARE LOOKING LIVE AT THE AMAZON WAREHOUSE FACILITY IN EDWARDSVILLE, ILLINOIS. WE'VE BEEN BRINGING THE SCENE TO YOU THROUGHOUT THE EVENING BECAUSE IT IS A MASSIVE INVESTIGATION. IT IS AN ONGOING AND ACTIVE SCENE AND WE BELIEVE THAT AUTHORITIES ARE TRYING TO FIND WORKERS WHO MAY HAVE BEEN TRAPPED BECAUSE AT ONE POINT TONIGHT WE ARE TOLD THAT THERE COULD BE ANYWHERE BETWEEN 50 AND ONE HUNDRED PEOPLE TRAPPED INSIDE THAT AMAZON FACILITY WE HAVE THROUGHOUT THE EVENING TALK TO PEOPLE WHO WERE HOPING TO GET WORD FROM THEIR LOVED ONES. WE TALKED TO A WOMAN WHO SAID THAT SHE TALKED TO HER HUSBAND AROUND 8:00 O'CLOCK TONIGHT. I BELIEVE AND HE SAID EVERYTHING'S OK. I MEAN YOU WERE ON AIR STORMS THAT MORNING ABOUT STORMS AND WE KNOW THAT ABOUT EIGHT 30 ACCORDING TO THE EDWARDSVILLE POLICE DEPARTMENT THAT ABOUT EIGHT THIRTY THREE IN FACT THEY SAY THAT'S WHEN THE STORM HIT THAT BUILDING AND NOT ONLY DID THAT STORM HIT THE BUILDING, WE ALSO KNOW THAT ANOTHER ROUND OF STORMS CAME THROUGH. WE HAD SOME GUSTY WINDS, SOME HEAVY RAIN, A LOT OF LIGHTNING WHICH JUST COMPLICATES, YOU KNOW, THE RECOVERY , SEARCH AND RECOVERY AT THAT POINT BECAUSE YOU'RE TRYING TO GET PEOPLE FIND PEOPLE AND YOU HAVE ANOTHER MASSIVE THUNDERSTORM ROLL IN. SO THEY HAD TO DEAL WITH THAT. THE GOOD NEWS IS NOW THERE'S NO MORE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER. SO JUST GUSTY WINDS, NO RAIN. EVERYTHING IS DEVELOPING AND IT'S STILL ONGOING. AND EVEN JUST WITHIN THE LAST HOUR WE'VE HEARD FROM THE GOVERNOR OF ILLINOIS AND ALSO FROM AMAZON. WE WANT TO PULL UP AMAZON'S STATEMENT. THEY'RE SAYING THE SAFETY AND WELL-BEING OF OUR EMPLOYEES AND PARTNERS IS OUR TOP PRIORITY RIGHT NOW WE'RE ASSESSING THE SITUATION AND WE'LL SHARE ADDITIONAL INFORMATION WHEN IT'S AVAILABLE. AGAIN, AMAZON STATEMENT CAME IN I WOULD SAY WITHIN THE HOUR. IT JUST SEEMS LIKE A LOT OF PEOPLE DON'T KNOW MUCH HONESTLY. THAT'S WHAT IT SEEMS LIKE. THE EDWARDSVILLE POLICE DEPARTMENT HAS RELEASED INFORMATION TO BUT IT'S REALLY TELLING US AND REITERATING THINGS THAT WE ALREADY KNOW. FOR EXAMPLE, THEY SAID APPROXIMATELY EIGHT THIRTY THREE TONIGHT A SEVERE WEATHER EVENT OCCURRED ON THE WEST END OF EDWARDSVILL RESULTING IN THE AMAZON WAREHOUSE SUFFERING A PARTIAL BUILDING COLLAPSE. AND YOU COULD SEE THAT WHEN WE TAKE THOSE PICTURES A LIVE LOOK YOU CAN SEE THAT THERE WAS A ROOF COLLAPSE AND THEN ALSO THE WALLS WERE GONE BUT THE THE EDWARDSVILLE POLICE AND FIRE DEPARTMENTS RESPONDED RESPONDED TO THE SCENE ALONG WITH DEPARTMENTS FROM SURROUNDING AGENCIES. IT LOOKED LIKE DOZENS OF AGENCIES HONESTLY BUT A SEARCH AND RESCUE OPERATION WAS COMMENCED AND IS ONGOING AT THIS TIME. SO AGAIN, EDWARDSVILLE POLICE JUST POSTED THAT TWENTY FIVE MINUTES AGO SAYING THAT THE SEARCH IS ONGOING AT THIS TIME . WE'VE ALSO HEARD FROM THE GOVERNOR OF ILLINOIS, J.B. PRITZKER. HE HAS BASICALLY SAID THAT THEY ARE KEEPING AN EYE ON THE SITUATION AND THAT IF ANYONE WANTS TO TRY TO CONTACT ANY LOVED ONE WHO MAY BE IMPACTED BY THE STORMS NOT JUST THE AMAZON WAREHOUSE SITUATION BUT ANYONE IMPACTED BY THE STORMS AND THEY CAN'T REACH SOMEONE JUST A REMINDER THAT IT'S ALWAYS GOOD TO TRY TO TEXT RATHER THAN CALL BECAUSE TEXTING RIGHT NOW YOU'RE LIKELY TO GET THROUGH AS OPPOSED TO A PHONE CALL. SO WE ARE HEARING FROM THOSE AGENCIES, FROM LAW ENFORCEMENT FROM THE TOP PEOPLE IN THE STATE OF ILLINOIS. BUT AT THE SAME TIME WE'RE NOT LEARNING A LOT OF NEW INFORMATION. I HAVE A FEELING WE'RE GOING TO GET A LOT OF NEW INFORMATION AS THE HOURS GO ON BECAUSE WE STILL HAVE YET TO HERE AT LEAST ONCE FOR LAW ENFORCEMENT GIVING US AN IDEA OF WHAT'S HAPPENING ON THE SCENE WHEN OUR ROBERT TOWNSEND WAS THERE DOING A LIVE SHOT JUST A LITTLE WHILE AGO, HE WAS SAYING THAT PEOPLE WERE LINED UP ALONG THE HIGHWAY TO TRY AND WAIT TO GET INFORMATION . I KNOW THAT A LOT OF THE PEOPLE WHO WERE JUST INTERESTED IN LOOKING AT THE DAMAGE OUR PHOTOGRAPHER BOB HEYNE SAYS THAT MOST OF THOSE PEOPLE NOW HAVE GONE. HE DOES SAY HE JUST TEXTED ME AND HE'S RUNNING A CAMERA AT THE SAME TIME BOB SAYS IT LOOKS LIKE THERE'S ALSO NO POWER IN THE NEIGHBORING WAREHOUSES EITHER. SO IF THERE'S NO POWER TO GO TO WORK AS WELL, THAT'S ONE OF THE THINGS THAT MADISON COUNTY AND GENERAL THERE ARE ELEVEN THOUSAND SEVEN HUNDRED AND SEVENTY SEVEN CUSTOMERS WITHOUT POWER. MADISON COUNTY RIGHT NOW ONE OF THE HARDER HIT ALTHOUGH THERE IS ALSO SOME LARGER NUMBERS OR A FAIR NUMBER PEOPLE PERCENTAGE WISE LARGER NUMBERS BUT JUST LESS POPULATION UP INTO PARTS OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS. BUT MADISON COUNTY BY FAR IS REALLY LOOKING AT THE LARGEST POWER OUTAGES RIGHT NOW. IS THAT AN INDUSTRIAL AREA AREA THAT IS THERE'S A BIG WAREHOUSE AREA THERE. SO IT'S A COMPLEX SOMEBODY JUST TWEETED ME AND THEY TWEETED YOU. OH, I SEE. OK, YEAH. FROM THE WAREHOUSE WHICH IS TWO BUILDINGS DOWN AND SAID THAT THEY WERE WAITING IN THE BREAK ROOM AND DIDN'T EVEN KNOW WAITING IT OUT IN THE BREAK ROOM AND DIDN'T EVEN KNOW WHAT HAPPENED UNTIL THEY SAW THE REPORTS ON THE PHONE. YEAH. SO HMM. WE ARE GETTING MIXED INFORMATION TO YOU KNOW SOME PEOPLE SAID HEY I DON'T KNOW IF THEY IF THE WORKERS WOULD EVEN BE ABLE TO HAVE THEIR PHONES TO GET A WARNING AND THEN I HAD SOMEONE ELSE TEXT IN AND SAY OH THEY ABSOLUTELY WOULD HAVE HAD THEIR PHONES AND WOULD HAVE HAD A WARNING. SO I THINK THAT'S THE P AND G OK, PROCTER GAMBLE WAREHOUSE THERE AND THAT IS ALWAYS THE MOST FASCINATING THING ABOUT THE STORM. YEAH. YOU WANT SPOTS COMPLETELY WITH DEVASTATION AND ANOTHER NOTHING. YEAH. SO BUT CLEARLY THIS HAS BEEN A DEVASTATING NIGHT FOR THIS AREA AROUND EDWARDSVILLE AND IT SEEMS TO BE CONCENTRATED IN THIS AREA IN THE INDUSTRIAL PARK BECAUSE POLICE DEPARTMENT DID NOT HAVE ANY HAVE ANYTHING ELSE TO ADDRESS REALLY OTHER THAN THERE'S LOTS OF POWER OUTAGES THAT THIS WAS ONGOING. IT DOES LOOK LIKE WE'RE SEEING SOME MOVEMENT FROM SOME RESPONDERS. YEAH, THEY'RE PROBABLY SHIFTING SOME CREWS AROUND MOVING SOME MANPOWER. MAYBE THEY NEED SOME MORE LIGHT TOO SINCE THE POWER'S OUT. YEAH. AND THEN AGAIN THESE COULD BE PEOPLE THAT ARE ARRIVING THAT IT'S TAKEN BECAUSE YOU'VE GOT TO REMEMBER ST. CHARLES COUNTY RIGHT NOW I'M PRETTY SURE THERE'S NEW MELLEY PUT TO CALL A LITTLE WHILE AGO ABOUT FOUR HOURS AGO WHEN THE STORM WENT THROUGH ALONG HIGHWAY 94 AND HIGHWAY APH THAT THEY HAD MULTIPLE RESCUE EFFORTS UNDERWAY. SO I'M SURE YOU'VE YOU'VE HAD MULTIPLE LOCATIONS AROUND OUR AREA TONIGHT. THERE HAVE BEEN LARGE EMERGENCY RESPONSES TO THE DAMAGE. WE'VE GOT TO BE STRAPPED NIGHT, DON'T YOU THINK? YEAH. AND YOU KNOW YOU'RE SO YOU'RE HAVING CREWS COMING IN. THEY CAN HELP BUT THEY MAY BE COMING FROM AN HOUR AND A HALF OR TWO HOURS AWAY AND THEY THERE'S AN ORGANIZED WAY THAT THEY DO IT BUT IT IS SPREAD OUT OVER, YOU KNOW, A PRETTY GOOD DISTANCE AND A LOT OF THOSE FIRST RESPONDERS I THINK THEY MUST HAVE GOT DONE ON THE SCENE SHORTLY AFTER EIGHT 30. SO YOU'RE RIGHT ON BEING STRAPPED BUT ALSO A SHIFT CHANGE PERHAPS. YOU KNOW SOME OF THEM ARE TWENTY FOUR HOURS AND SOME ARE 12 HOURS AND SOME OF THESE FIRE DEPARTMENTS ARE STAFFED BY VOLUNTEERS. YOU KNOW, IT COULD BE THE GUY DOWN THE STREET FROM YOU. YEAH, THAT'S TRUE. THAT'S VERY TRUE. I'M TRYING TO LOOK AT WHAT'S GOING ON IN THAT AMBULANCE. YOU SEE THAT IN THE RIGHT CORNER? YEAH, MAYBE THEY'RE JUST WORKING. WELL, I SUSPECT THEY DO HAVE A TRIAGE AREA IF SOMEBODY HAS BEEN TRAPPED AND THEY'RE ABLE TO PULL THEM OUT BEFORE THEY THEY'RE GOING TO CHECK THEM OUT AND ASSESS WHAT KIND TREATMENT THEY NEED AND WHAT THEY NEED TO DO TO GO FROM THERE. I STILL FIND IT JUST INTERESTING THAT THERE HASN'T BEEN A STAGING AREA SET UP FOR MEDIA OR FOR FAMILY THAT WE KNOW OF AND THAT JUST TELLS ME THAT PEOPLE ARE REALLY WORKING . THEY'RE VERY BUSY AND I THINK THAT'S THAT'S PART OF THE RESOURCES THAT ARE COMING. YOU KNOW, THE DATA ARE COMING IN FROM THE STATE LEVEL TOO AND WE'LL SEE MAYBE SOME ADDITIONAL RESOURCES WHERE THE STATE EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT FOLKS CAN COME IN AND HELP OUT THE LOCAL FOLKS WHO ARE KIND OF AT THIS POINT REALLY USING ALL OF THEIR RESOURCES. LET ME ASK YOU WHEN PEOPLE COME IN AND THEY SURVEY THE DAMAGE, WILL THEY BE ABLE TO DO THAT TOMORROW WHEN THEY WILL TRY THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILL TRY TOMORROW AND I DON'T KNOW IF THEY'VE HAD A LONG NIGHT TONIGHT. YOU KNOW YOU DON'T KNOW WHO'S OUT OF TOWN. YOU KNOW THERE'S STILL OBLIGATIONS THAT THEY ALL HAVE TO PUT OUT THEIR FORECAST PRODUCTS. BUT YOU KNOW, ANY AVAILABLE PERSON THAT CAN WORK THE EXTRA TIME TOMORROW THEY WILL GO OUT AND SURVEY THE DAMAGE THAT THEY KNOW ABOUT. I'M SURE THERE'S GOING TO BE A SURVEY IN ST. CHARLES COUNTY. I'M SURE THERE'LL BE A SURVEY IN THIS AREA AROUND EVANSVILLE PRETTY CONFIDENT I SAY I'M SURE. NINETY NINE PERCENT SURE BUT AND I SUSPECT THEY WILL TRY TO GET TO IT TOMORROW GOING DOWN TO SOUTHERN REYNOLDS COUNTY THAT THAT MAY TAKE A LITTLE BIT LONGER BECAUSE IT'S SUCH A LONG DRIVE AND YOU KEEP IN MIND WE'RE AT THE SHORTEST DAYS OF THE YEAR. THIS IS THE SHORTEST AMOUNT OF DAYLIGHT WE HAVE RIGHT DURING THE YEAR FOR ABOUT THE NEXT THREE WEEKS. I DON'T THINK ANYBODY IS GETTING SLEEP. YOU KNOW, YOU KNOW WHEN YOU WERE SAYING THAT IF YOU WHEN PEOPLE WOULD BE OUT I WAS JUST LOOKING AT ST. CHARLES COUNTY THERE GOVERNMENT PAGE AND THE COUNTY EXECUTIVE STEVE COLEMAN AND ST. CHARLES COUNTY POLICE OFFICER BRIAN CLAY THEY BOTH WERE OUT SPEAKING TO RESIDENTS IN DEFIANCE TONIGHT AFTER THAT TORNADO TOUCHED DOWN IN THAT AREA AND WE KNOW AT LEAST ONE DEATH HAPPENED THERE BUT THAT WAS THAT WAS ALSO A BUILDING COLLAPSE, SO TO SPEAK. RIGHT. THAT WAS THE DAMAGE REPORT THAT WE HAD. I DON'T KNOW WHAT KIND OF BUILDING IT WAS THAT A HOUSE OR OR WHAT? WELL, I'M LOOKING AT SOME OF THE PICTURES AND I CAN SEE THE PICTURES I SEE NOW THAT WERE POSTED ON ST. CHARLES COUNTY, MISSOURI TRAFFIC FACEBOOK PAGE SHOWS ONE HOUSE THAT'S LOST ITS ROOF AND YOU KNOW, SO YOU'VE GOT THAT YOU KNOW, SUBSTANTIAL DAMAGE, RIGHT ? YOU KNOW THOSE THOSE WOULD BE WINDS GREATER THAN 100 MILES AN HOUR EASILY WHEN THEY'RE OVER 100. WHAT KIND OF WHAT POWERFUL STORM WHAT KIND OF STORM IS THAT? WELL, IT'S GOING TO BE BETWEEN AN EF ONE, EF TWO, MAYBE EF THREE WHEN YOU COMPLETELY IT DEPENDS ON HOW WELL THE BUILDING IS BUILT AND YOU KNOW, WE CAN'T TELL TONIGHT. SURE. BUT HOW WELL THE BUILDING IS BUILT AND WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE DAMAGE DEPENDING ON THE TYPE OF BUILDING AND WHETHER IT WAS CONSTRUCTED WELL OR NOT, THEN YOU CAN ASSESS, YOU KNOW, WHAT THE ESTIMATED WIND SPEED WOULD BE AND THAT'S WHAT THEY'LL DO WHEN THEY GO OUT FOR THE SERVICE NOW YOU KNOW, THEY'LL BE ABLE TO SAY THESE TREES WERE SNAPPED AND YOU GET INTO AN AREA WHERE THERE'S A FOREST AND THE ONLY DAMAGE YOU HAVE IS TREES SNAPPED. YOU KNOW, TREES WILL SNAP AT MAYBE 80 MILES AN HOUR LET'S JUST SAY SO YOU CAN'T RATE IT MUCH HIGHER THAN THAT BECAUSE I KNOW IT'S A TREE AND IT SNAPPED IT IT SNAPPED AT ADIENT. SO YOU'VE GOT A LIMIT ON SOME SOMETIMES THEY'RE STRONGER THAN WHAT THE DAMAGE IS BECAUSE THE DAMAGE TARGET ISN'T SOMETHING THAT THERE WASN'T ANYTHING ELSE THERE. RIGHT. RIGHT. KIND OF INTERESTING. WE WERE DOING MORE INTERVIEWS TONIGHT. WE'RE TRYING TO HEAR FROM LAW ENFORCEMENT ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED IN MANY AREAS BUT MOSTLY IN THIS AMAZON WAREHOUSE IN THE EDWARDSVILLE, ILLINOIS AREA. WE DID TALK TO ONE OF OUR VIEWERS. HER NAME IS LATOYA AND SHE SAID HER SON WAS INSIDE THE AMAZON WAREHOUSE WHEN THIS ALL HAPPENED. SHE TALKED TO HIM ROUGHLY A COUPLE OF HOURS THOUGH HE IS OK. SO THAT'S GREAT NEWS AND WE ARE STARTING A CONVERSATION WITH HIM. SO STAY TUNED FOR THAT. REALLY WANT TO JUST KEEP STAYING ON THE AIR BECAUSE YOU CAN SEE PROGRESS HAPPENING LIVE OVERNIGHT AND THIS IS SUCH A SUCH AN ACTIVE AND MASSIVE SCENE THAT WE WANT TO BE ABLE TO BRING SOME SORT OF PROGRESS REPORT AS THIS CONTINUES. AGAIN, IF YOU HAPPEN TO JUST BE JOINING US AND YOU WANT TO CHECK IN, WE HAVE BEEN ON THE AIR SINCE DINNERTIME TONIGHT TALKING ABOUT THE STORMS AND THIS AMAZON WAREHOUSE IN EDWARDSVILLE JUST SUFFERED A LOT OF DAMAGE. A BUILDING COLLAPSE LOOK LIKE A ROOF COLLAPSE AND SOME OF THE WALLS, THE WALLS, THE EXTERIOR WALLS ARE GONE. YOU CAN JUST SEE STEEL BEAMS ARE BOB HAINJE IS A PHOTOJOURNALIS WHO IS OUT ON THE SCENE. ROBERT TOWNSEND WAS ALSO ON THE SCENE JUST IN CORNELL WAS IT WAS IN DEFIANCE EARLIER TONIGHT. WE'VE BEEN OUT AS SAFELY AS WE CAN BUT EVEN ROBERT AND BOB WHEN THEY WERE OUT THERE IN THE BEGINNING OF TONIGHT AFTER AFTER WE HEARD THAT THIS HAD HAPPENED, WE ACTUALLY HAD TO PULL THEM BACK RIGHT BECAUSE OF THAT SECOND ROUND OF STORMS. SO YOU KNOW, THE NOCTURNAL TORNADOES ARE VERY FRIGHTENING. I THINK, YOU KNOW, ESPECIALLY ON FRIDAY NIGHT WHEN PEOPLE ARE JUST READY TO RELAX AFTER A LONG WEEK. I MEAN ANY TIME IT HAPPENS TO DARK, YOU KNOW, YOU CAN'T SEE YOU'VE GOT TREES AROUND HERE. SO IT'S IT'S DARK NIGHTTIME TORNADOES IN GENERAL ARE BAD. THEY'D BE ESPECIALLY BAD IF PEOPLE WERE SLEEPING AND I THINK THAT'S WHERE WE MAY MAYBE WE WERE OK TONIGHT IN THAT IT HAPPENED A LITTLE BIT SOONER AND EARLIER AND AS A CONSEQUENCE, YOU KNOW, WE WE'RE IN A SITUATION WHERE IT'S NOT IT COULD HAVE BEEN WORSE THAN IT WAS. YEAH, OBVIOUSLY. BUT THE DAMAGE IT'S BAD ENOUGH IT'S BAD ENOUGH. I JUST WANT TO SAY SOMETHING ON THE AIR BECAUSE WE'RE JUST NONSTOP SAM, IF YOU CAN HEAR ME ,I'M GOING TO POST SOMETHING APPARENTLY WE'VE GOT SOME DRONE VIDEO FROM ONE OF OUR VIEWERS WHO WAS NEAR THAT AMAZON SITE AND ACTUALLY BOB PAYNE WHO IS OUR PHOTOJOURNALIST ON THE SCENE SAID THAT THERE WERE A LOT PEOPLE WHO WERE COMING, YOU KNOW, NEAR THE PROPERTY TO GET A LOOK AT THE DAMAGE THERE. HE SAID THAT MOST OF THOSE PEOPLE ARE NOW GONE, WHICH IS PROBABLY GOOD NEWS FOR AUTHORITIES. WE KNOW THAT YOU KNOW, AUTHORITIES HAVE BEEN ASKING PEOPLE TO STAY OUT OF THAT AREA SO THAT LAW ENFORCEMENT CAN DO THEIR JOB. BUT WHEN YOU LOOK WHEN BOB ZOOMS OUT, YOU CAN SEE THAT THERE IS A BIG DISTANCE BETWEEN THE HIGHWAY AND THE WAREHOUSE. BUT YEAH, WE'RE JUST WAITING ON SOME SORT OF CONFIRMATION AS TO WHAT HAPPENED. I MEAN WE KNOW THAT A TORNADO OR A STORM HIT HIT THE WAREHOUSE. WE DO KNOW THAT AT ONE POINT IT WAS SAID THAT UP TO ONE HUNDRED PEOPLE WERE TRAPPED INSIDE. WE DO KNOW THAT A LOT OF FAMILIES WERE STILL LOOKING FOR SOME SORT OF RESOLUTION OR SOME SORT OF UPDATES. BUT WE KNOW THAT WE HAVE A LOT OF CREWS EVEN HERE IN THE NEWSROOM BEHIND THE SCENES OUT IN THE FIELD TALKING TO LAW ENFORCEMENT, TRYING TO GET SOME PIECES OF INFORMATION. OF COURSE EVERYONE IS REALLY BUSY RIGHT NOW BUT HOPEFULLY WE WILL HAVE SOME INFORMATION FROM LAW ENFORCEMENT VERY SOON. THIS IS THE MESSAGE THAT I'M GETTING FROM OUR PRODUCERS. SO WE DO WANT TO STAY ON AIR AS LONG AS WE CAN UNTIL WE CAN KEEP GETTING JUST AN IDEA OF WHAT HAPPENED. WHEN YOU SEE SOME OF THE IMAGES THERE, IT'S JUST INCREDIBLE. BOB SAID THIS IS THE SOUTH SIDE OF THE BUILDING THAT WE'RE LOOKING AT THAT'S DESTROYED. BUT YOU CAN SEE THE STEEL BEAMS. I MEAN THE STEEL BEAMS LOOK GREAT I KNOW FOR THE MOST PART. RIGHT? WELL, USUALLY YOU DO HAVE THE MOST OF THESE FACILITIES WOULD BE BUILT WITH YOU KNOW, PEOPLE ARE SAYING THEY'RE STYROFOAM THAT FLEW UP PROBABLY WAS YOU KNOW, STYROFOAM PANELS COVERED BY SOME SORT OF STEEL WALL TYPE THING WAREHOUSES. THEY TEND TO HAVE THAT SIMILAR APPEARANCE IN MOST CASES AND CLEARLY WE PEELED OFF THE ROOF OR MOVED THE ROOF OFF OF THIS. YEAH, YEAH. UM, WE ARE GETTING A LOT OF TEXT FROM PEOPLE WHO ARE GIVING US SOME IDEAS OF WHAT THEY THINK HAPPENED OR WHO THEY THINK HAS BEEN IMPACTED. BUT WE I JUST NEED TO SAY THAT WE CANNOT REPORT ANYTHING UNTIL WE HAVE A BETTER IDEA MAYBE SOME CONFIRMATION FROM THE AUTHORITIES. BUT NOW A LOT OF PEOPLE I'M SURE IN EDWARDSVILLE ARE SHARING INFORMATION. YOU KNOW, RUMOR HAS IT KIND OF THING NOW THAT WE'RE IN OUR SEVEN OF OUR COVERAGE TONIGHT. AGAIN, THIS HAPPENED AROUND EIGHT 30 TONIGHT. THIS WAS THE RESULT OF ONE STORM THAT CAME THROUGH EDWARDSVILLE AROUND EIGHT THIRTY THREE ACCORDING TO THE POLICE DEPARTMENT. AND THEN AS WE KNOW THERE WAS A SECOND ROUND SO TO SPEAK. AND SO THAT HAS HAMPERED A LOT OF A LOT OF THE SEARCH AND A LOT OF THE RECOVERY EFFORTS. BUT WE DO BELIEVE THAT AUTHORITIES ARE MAKING SOME SIGNIFICANT PROGRESS AND SO HOPEFULLY WE'LL BRING THAT INFORMATION TO YOU IN JUST A LITTLE BIT. I WANT TO SAY THAT I'VE BEEN OFF HERE LOOKING AT SOME INCREDIBLE DRONE VIDEO THAT CAME IN FROM ONE OF OUR VIEWERS AND IF WE HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO SHARE THAT WITH PEOPLE, IT IS INCREDIBLE TO SEE THE AMOUNT OF LOSS THAT YOU CAN SEE FROM THE VANTAGE POINT OF LOOKING STRAIGHT DOWN ON THIS BUILDING AND I'M SHARED ON SOCIAL MEDIA. I UNDERSTAND THAT IT WAS SHARED ON MY FACEBOOK PAGE AND THAT'S WHERE I'M ABLE TO SEE THIS. BUT HOPEFULLY TRY TO SHARE SOME OF IT WITH YOU. BUT I'M JUST LOOKING AT IT EARLIER THIS EVENING THERE WAS A LARGE TORNADO THAT RIPPED THROUGH THE CARUTHERSVILLE AREA. OH REALLY? YEAH. WHICH IS DOWN IN THE BOOTHEEL VERY LARGE TORNADO. SO SIGNATURE YOU WOULD NEVER WANT TO SEE ON THE RADAR SCREEN. THIS WAS FROM EARLIER TONIGHT WITH THE FIRE CREWS, SOME OF THE FIRST RESPONDERS SLIDING IN AND ARRIVING AT THE SCENE THERE. SO THE GOOD NEWS IS THERE'S NO MORE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER. YEAH, OUTSIDE OF EDWARDSVILLE THOUGH, DO YOU THINK THAT THAT WAS THE WORST I MEAN IN WELL, I THINK I JUST I MEAN WAS THAT JUST THE WORST BECAUSE OF WHERE IT HIT OR DO YOU THINK THAT THERE WERE OTHER PARTS OF THE OF OUR AREA THAT GOT HIT WORSE? WELL, I DON'T KNOW IF THEY GOT HIT WORSE. I THINK PARTS OF ST. CHARLES COUNTY HAVE SUBSTANTIAL DAMAGE SPECIFICALLY GOING SOUTH ALONG HIGHWAY 90, SOUTH OF 40 60 FOR THAT'S ONE AREA WHERE WE'RE PRETTY CONFIDENT THERE'S EXTENSIVE DAMAGE AND THEN YOU HAVE THE OTHER AREA THAT'S BEEN REPORTED DOWN IN RUNNELS COUNTY, THIS AREA OVER IN EVANSVILLE. SO THOSE SEEM TO BE THE THREE AREAS WHERE WE'VE HAD THE LARGEST REPORTS. AND I WONDER DEFIANCE PROBABLY WILL BE MUCH I MEAN IT'LL BE INTERESTING TO SEE DEFIANCE IN THE MORNING, RIGHT? WELL, WITH THE NIGHTTIME HOURS WE'RE NOT GOING TO BE ABLE TO GET THE FULL ASSESSMENT RIGHT. YOU KNOW, YOU CAN'T REALLY UNFORTUNATELY THAT AREA ALONG HIGHWAY 94 IS GENERALLY A RURAL AREA. THERE'S A LOT OF , YOU KNOW, NATURAL MISSOURI STATE PARKS AND YEAH, I'M NOT STATE PARKS BUT WELL THIS IS THE DAMAGE TONIGHT. TAKE A LOOK AT THIS IS THIS THIS IS THE BUILDING COLLAPSE WE MUST HAVE BEEN TALKING ABOUT THIS AND THE ROOF ROOF OFF THE HOUSE. IT LOOKS LIKE A VERY SIMILAR SHOT. SO THERE'S JUST A LOT OF BAD WEATHER HAPPENING. SO HERE'S THE EDWARDSVILLE TORNADO VIDEO THAT CAME IN THROUGH OUR TAX LINE TONIGHT. YEAH. SO IS THAT THE DEFINITION OF A TORNADO RIGHT THERE BECAUSE HE GOT TO TOUCH THE GROUND? OK, SO AND IT'S LOFTING DEBRIS AND YOU CAN SEE IT LOFTING DEBRIS AND THAT'S WHAT WE SEE ON THE RADAR AND THAT'S HOW WE CAN CONFIRM A TORNADO IS ON THE GROUND EVEN IF NO ONE SEES IT OR CALLS IT IN TO SEE WHEN I SEE THAT I'M NOT A WEATHER EXPERT SO I'M NOT TRYING TO BE BUT YOU KNOW, YOU SEE THAT AND GO OH, THAT LOOKS KIND OF WIMPY WELL AND WELL WE'RE FAR AWAY FROM IT. WE'RE FAIRLY FAR AWAY FROM IT HERE THAT'S OFF IN THE DISTANCE SO AND IT MAY ONLY BE YOU KNOW, MAYBE IT'S THE WIDTH OF A FOOTBALL FIELD, MAYBE IT'S 100 YARDS OR 150 YARDS WIDE IF THAT'S IF THAT'S WHAT WENT THROUGH THE AMAZON WAREHOUSE, YOU SEE WHAT KIND OF DAMAGE IT CAN DO. SURE. AND WHEN WE SEE THAT BIG THAT PIECE OF DEBRIS, IT'S PROBABLY MASSIVE, PROBABLY A BIG IT'S LARGER THAN YOU THINK. YES. YEAH. THAT IS JUST INCREDIBLE. AND HERE'S SOME DEBRIS IN ST. CHARLES. OH GOSH. YEAH, THAT'S FROM THE AMBULANCE DISTRICT. SO THE ST. CHARLES COUNTY AMBULANCE DISTRICT IN LOOK LIKE THIS WOULD BE IN PROBABLY A CROSS BETWEEN I'M SURE A GUST OF FIRE NORMALLY IN CONNELLSVILLE ALL WOULD HAVE ASSISTED ON THIS TONIGHT BECAUSE THOSE WOULD BE THE CLOSEST FIRE DISTRICTS IN THERE. THEY PROBABLY CALLED IN SOME MUTUAL AID FROM SURROUNDING AREAS. HMM. SO WE KNOW VERY ACTIVE NIGHT. JUST GOING TO SAY WE KNOW THAT SO MANY SO MANY AMRON WORKERS WERE DEPLOYED TONIGHT AROUND THE AREA IN ILLINOIS AND MISSOURI. YEAH. AND WE KNOW THEY'VE ACTIVATED THE EMERGENCY OPERATIONS CENTER OVER IN ILLINOIS TO KIND OF ASSESS THE OUTAGES ESPECIALLY IN MADISON COUNTY. SO ABOUT 11000 CUSTOMERS IN MADISON COUNTY WITHOUT POWER. YEAH, THERE'S A FAIR NUMBER IN ST. CHARLES COUNTY TOO. THOSE NUMBERS WILL FLUCTUATE AND AGAIN THEY HAVE TO ASSESS THE SITUATION AND YOU HAVE TO TREAT EVERY CABLE LINE, POWER LINE, WHATEVER LINE IS DOWN. IF IT'S DOWN AND YOU'RE OUTSIDE, YOU STAY AWAY FROM TREATED AS A LIVE WIRE. ABSOLUTELY. THAT'S GREAT ADVICE SINCE YOU MENTIONED ILLINOIS, I WILL TELL YOU WHAT GOVERNOR PRITZKER SAID BECAUSE HE ACTIVATED THE STATE EMERGENCY OPERATIONS CENTER TO ASSIST LOCAL JURISDICTIONS RESPOND TO A SEVERE WEATHER SITUATION AND THERE'S A TWEET THAT HE SENT ABOUT EDWARDSVILLE. HE SAID MY PRAYERS ARE WITH THE PEOPLE OF EDWARDSVILLE TONIGHT AND I'VE REACHED OUT TO THE MAYOR TO PROVIDE ANY NEEDED STATE RESOURCES. ARE ILLINOIS STATE POLICE AND READY ILLINOIS ARE BOTH COORDINATING CLOSELY WITH LOCAL OFFICIALS AND I WILL CONTINUE TO MONITOR THAT SITUATION AGAIN EARLIER. WE KNOW THAT THE EDWARDSVILLE MAYOR SPOKE TO OUR ROBERT TOWNSEND WHEN HE WAS ON THE SCENE TONIGHT AND THE EDWARDSVILLE MAYOR HAPPENED TO BE IN CHICAGO AND WAS TRYING TO GET BACK. BUT BAD WEATHER HAMPERED THAT TRIP. SO THE EDWARDSVILLE MAYOR WILL BE HOPEFULLY BACK IN THE CITY TOMORROW. BUT LET ME JUST TRY TO READ SOME WHAT GOVERNOR PRITZKER SAID. HE SAID AMONG THE HARDEST HIT AREAS HAS BEEN MADISON COUNTY, WHICH IS WHAT SCOTT WAS SAYING WHERE LOCAL AUTHORITIES ARE RESPONDING TO THAT PARTIAL COLLAPSE OF A WAREHOUSE NEAR PONTOON BEACH AMONG THE STATE AGENCIES OFFERING ASSISTANCE NOW ARE THE ILLINOIS EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY, THE ILLINOIS STATE POLICE, THE ILLINOIS DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION AND ILLINOIS DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH. SO A LOT OF AGENCIES ARE WORKING OVERNIGHT TONIGHT MULTIPLE MUTUAL AID ORGANIZATIONS INCLUDING MUTUAL AID BOX ALARM SYSTEM WHICH IS MATUS AND VOLUNTARY ORGANIZATIONS ARE ALSO RESPONDING TO THE SCENE. SO GOVERNOR PRITZKER ALSO JUST ENCOURAGE PEOPLE TO HELP STATE AND LOCAL AUTHORITIES DO THEIR JOBS RIGHT NOW AS WE'VE BEEN WATCHING AND PEEKING INTO THAT LIVE SCENE, THEY ARE WORKING VERY HARD AND IT'S AN ACTIVE SCENE. SO THEY'RE ASKING PEOPLE TO AVOID THE AREA UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE AND JUST STAY CLEAR OF ANY DAMAGE, ANY AREAS WITH DAMAGE AND ALLOW RESCUE CREWS TIME AND SPACE TO DO THEIR JOBS BECAUSE NOW PEOPLE ARE MORE THAN LIKELY TIRED. THEY'RE WORKING IN THE DARK, LIKELY JUST EXHAUSTED FROM BEING IN A SEVERE WEATHER SITUATION FOR SO LONG. BUT WE'VE SAID THIS TONIGHT MULTIPLE TIMES. BUT THE GOVERNOR REITERATED THAT IF YOU ARE TRYING TO REACH A LOVED ONE AT THIS HOUR AND YOU CAN'T REACH THEM, ALWAYS TRY TO TEXT FIRST BECAUSE TEXT USUALLY GO THROUGH ON A CELL PHONE. UM, IT ALSO JUST SAYS RESIDENTS ARE ENCOURAGED TO CONTINUE MONITORING WEATHER THROUGHOUT THE NIGHT. WE KNOW FROM SCOTT SAYING THAT WE'RE PROBABLY IN THE CLEAR WE'RE LOOKING PRETTY GOOD MIGHT BE SOME WIND FACTORED IN TOMORROW, RIGHT, SCOTT? JUST A LITTLE BIT. BUT OVERALL NO MORE SEVERE WEATHER WHICH IS GOOD, WHICH IS REALLY GOOD. YEAH, WE'RE JUST LOOKING GUSTY WINDS THAT COULD IMPACT THINGS. WINDS ARE GOING TO GUST PROBABLY TO AROUND 40, 45 MILES PER HOUR AS WE GO THROUGH THE OVERNIGHT INTO EARLY TOMORROW MORNING. BUT THAT'S THAT'S IT. IT'LL BE DRY. WE'LL HAVE SOME MORNING CLOUDS AND THE SUN COMES BACK TOMORROW AFTERNOON. SUN IS A BRIGHT SUNNY DAY AND WHILE WE'RE IN THE 40S TOMORROW AND IT'S GOT A WINTRY FEEL MUCH COLDER OBVIOUSLY IT WARMS BACK UP INTO THE 50S ON SUNDAY AND BY MONDAY AND TUESDAY WE SHOULD BE BACK ABOUT 60 DEGREES. THE NEXT ROUND THOUGH DOESN'T LOOK SEVERE WHEN WE GET OUR NEXT ROUND OF STORMS OR SHOWERS ALONG ABOUT YOU KNOW, WEDNESDAY OR THURSDAY. YEAH, THAT'S REALLY COMFORTING BECAUSE WHEN I SAW THE SEVEN DAY IS IT 70 THERE WAS A MINUTE OF JOY AND THEN THERE WAS ALSO LIKE THIS OH NO I CAN'T I CAN'T DEAL WITH BAD WEATHER AGAIN. THERE'S ALWAYS A BALANCE THIS IS PUSHING IT THERE. SO I JUST WANT TO REMIND EVERYONE TOO IF YOU'RE NOT WATCHING US ON AIR YOU CAN ALSO WATCH US LIVE ON FACEBOOK. WE ARE STREAMING LIVE PROBABLY I WOULD ALSO IMAGINE ON KSTP DOT COM ON THE APP AND ON FACEBOOK. SO I'M SEEING A LOT OF COMMENTS COMING THROUGH. I LIKE TO READ THROUGH SOME OF THOSE WHEN WE ARE IN A WALL TO WALL SITUATION JUST TO SEE WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING IF THEY HAVE ANY INFORMATION THAT MAYBE WE DON'T HAVE AT THIS TIME THAT WE CAN CHECK OUT. WE ARE I'VE SAID THIS SO I HATE REPEATING MYSELF BUT WE ARE GOING TO TALK TO LAW ENFORCEMENT. THAT'S WHY WE ARE STAYING ON THE AIR BECAUSE ONE SCENE IS JUST A MASSIVE ACTIVE SCENE AND WE HOPE TO GET SOME SORT OF INFORMATION WHETHER THAT BE TO THE FAMILIES OR WHETHER THAT BE BECAUSE WE FOUND SURVIVORS OR WHETHER THERE'S GOING TO BE A STAGING AREA WE NEED TO THE NEXT STEPS FORWARD GOING THROUGH THE NIGHT BECAUSE THIS IS GOING TO BE A BIG SCENE AND FOR QUITE A WHILE WE KNOW THAT IT'S JUST MASSIVE. SO SO WE'RE TRYING TO GET MORE INFORMATION FROM LAW ENFORCEMENT. BOB HEINIES, OUR PHOTOJOURNALIS WHO HAS REALLY EXCUSE ME BEEN SUCH A GREAT I MEAN REALLY A NEWS HERO FOR US. HE'S BEEN OUT THERE WORKING AND GETTING SO MUCH INFORMATION FOR YOU AS WELL. AND SO I KNOW HE'S EVER BEEN TALKING TO A POLICE OFFICER AND THEN JUSTIN CORNELL WHO ACTUALLY BEING IN DEFIANCE TONIGHT ENDED UP TALKING TO SOMEONE WHO REACHED SAYING THAT HER SON WAS INSIDE THAT AMAZON WAREHOUSE AND OK, SO THAT'S GREAT NEWS. BUT I KNOW SHE JUST WRAPPED UP AN INTERVIEW WITH HIM AND WE WILL BE BRINGING THAT TO YOU SHORTLY. BUT IT'S JUST INCREDIBLE WHEN YOU LOOK AT THIS FACILITY AND I MEAN WE'RE TALKING HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF SQUARE FEET HERE AND YOU CAN SEE JUST HOW THE ROOF COLLAPSED, THE WALLS CAVED IN AND YOU SEE THOSE STEEL BEAMS JUST RIGHT THERE. BOB, OUR PHOTOGRAPHER SAID THAT THAT WAS THIS IS THE SOUTH FILM OR THE SOUTH SIDE OF THE BUILDING. NOW I CAN'T REMEMBER BECAUSE IT'S BEEN YEAH, HE DID GIVE US A SHOT OF SOME OF THE OTHER BUILDINGS AROUND. WE LOOKED AT THAT'S ANOTHER WAREHOUSE THAT'S NEAR THAT AREA WORLDWIDE TECHNOLOGY IS JUST UP THE ROAD AS WELL. SO THERE'S A POTENTIAL THERE FOR A LOT OF DAMAGE, YOU KNOW, FOR A LOT OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS OF DAMAGE REALLY BECAUSE YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT THESE PRETTY BIG WAREHOUSES AND THEY'RE LOADED WITH ALL KINDS OF THINGS, ALL KINDS OF PRODUCTS AND MACHINERY. WE DO KNOW THAT A WORKER FROM ONE OF THE NEIGHBORING WAREHOUSES SAYS THAT THERE'S NO NOTIFICATION FROM AMAZON ABOUT IF THEY'RE WORKING OR NOT BECAUSE WE KNOW THAT OF COURSE THE WORK CONTINUES, RIGHT? WELL, THE WORK DOESN'T CONTINUE . THERE'S NO POWER AND ALSO AMAZON HASN'T GIVEN THAT WORD YET WHETHER PEOPLE ARE GOING TO GO BACK TO WORK I WOULD IMAGINE THEY'RE NOT GOING TO GO BACK TO WORK ON THAT PROPERTY BUT THEY'LL BE DOING CLEANUP. YEAH, THEY'VE GOT TO GET IT STRUCTURALLY FIRST THE SEARCH AND RESCUE HAS TO BE DONE AND THEN THEY'VE GOT TO GET IT STRUCTURALLY TO A POINT WHERE THEY CAN, YOU KNOW, GO BACK IN THERE SO THAT'S GOING TO BE AN EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT THING RIGHT NOW WORKING THROUGH THE SEARCH AND RESCUE FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE NIGHT. YEAH, AND WE SAW SOME THOSE YOU KNOW, THE FIRE TRUCKS USING LADDERS TO ASSIST THE AERIAL TOWERS UP. YEAH, YEAH. WE SAW CRANES. WE SAW CRANES. WE ALSO SAW TOW TRUCKS BEING USED. I MEAN SOME BIG EQUIPMENT TRYING TO MOVE WHILE YOU'RE MOVING A LOT OF METAL AND ROOFING MATERIAL AND IT'S COLLAPSED ON TOP OF YOU KNOW WHAT THEORETICALLY WE DON'T KNOW EXACTLY BUT THEORETICALLY WOULD BE, YOU KNOW, ROWS AND ROWS, AISLES AND AISLES OF STACKED GOODS OR HOWEVER YOU HAVE IT ARRANGED IN THERE AND I'M SURE THERE'S A LOT THAT'S YOU KNOW, IT'S BEEN DISCOVERED SINCE WE'VE BEEN ON THE AIR BUT THERE IS STILL A SENSE OF URGENCY AND A SENSE THAT TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE. THE WORK THAT WE'RE SEEING RIGHT NOW, THEY WANT TO MAKE SURE THEY ACCOUNT FOR EVERYBODY . YOU KNOW, IF THERE'S SOMEBODY STUCK IN THEIR THEY'RE TRYING TO GET TO THEM, YOU KNOW, HOPEFULLY WITH A GOOD OUTCOME. BUT THAT'S THAT'S WHAT THEY WANT TO MAKE SURE THEY ACCOUNT FOR EVERYBODY. WE'RE SEEING A LOT OF COMMENTS FROM PEOPLE SAYING PRAYERS TO ALL THE FAMILIES. A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE JUST WORRIED, YOU KNOW, TO SEE WHAT HAPPENS. WE HAVE TALKED TO FAMILY MEMBERS WHO'VE BEEN SEARCHING FOR THEIR LOVED ONES AND WAITING FOR AUTHORITIES TO REACH OUT AND SO THAT'S WHAT WE'RE WAITING ON. IT'S HARD IT'S REALLY HARD FOR US TO SURMISE WHAT'S HAPPENING BECAUSE WE'RE GETTING THE SAME VANTAGE POINT THAT YOU ARE WE'RE LOOKING AT THIS WITH FRESH EYES JUST AS YOU ARE AND WE'RE NOT ABLE TO TALK TO LAW ENFORCEMENT. SO WE'RE DOING OUR BEST TO GET AS MUCH INFORMATION AS POSSIBLE FROM PEOPLE ON THE SCENE. BUT A LOT OF PEOPLE ON THE SCENE RIGHT NOW ARE ARE YOU KNOW, JUST WAITING FOR LAW ENFORCEMENT TO GIVE THEM SOMETHING AS WELL. WE DO KNOW YOU KNOW, I SAID AUTHORITIES ARE ASKING YOU TO AVOID THAT AREA. WE DO KNOW THAT SOME PEOPLE ARE WAITING THERE TO TRY TO GET INFORMATION AS WELL. A LOT OF PEOPLE STILL OUTSIDE, YOU KNOW, IF ESPECIALLY IF THEY HAVEN'T BEEN ABLE TO FIND OR CONTACT THEIR LOVED ONES. YOU KNOW THAT NOT KNOWING IS ALWAYS A CHALLENGING THING. YEAH, I DON'T THINK YOU KNOW, WE'VE HAD SOMETHING THIS MASSIVE FOR A LONG TIME. RIGHT? YEAH, IT'S THIS IS THIS IS NOT ONLY FOR US WE CERTAINLY HAVEN'T HAD ANYTHING LIKE THIS RECENTLY IN THE METRO AREA. BUT THIS IS A LARGER STORM SYSTEM AND WHAT'S GONE ACROSS PARTS OF ARKANSAS, FAR SOUTHEAST MISSOURI INTO KENTUCKY TONIGHT THOSE STORMS HAVE CAUSED AN IMMENSE AMOUNT OF DAMAGE AND THERE'S A LOT OF LONG TRACK TORNADOES. ONE JUST WENT THROUGH BOWLING GREEN, KENTUCKY. SO AND THAT WAS ON THE GROUND AND IT LOOKED LIKE IT WAS DOING SUBSTANTIAL DAMAGE. SO I MEAN THERE'S GOING TO BE A LOT TOMORROW. THERE'LL BE A LOT TO WAKE UP AND SEE WHAT DAYLIGHT HOLDS BUT THERE'S GOING TO BE A LOT OF DAMAGE AND YOU YOU WERE ABLE TO TRACK THE STORM. HOW MANY DAYS OUT? I MEAN WE KNEW A COUPLE OF DAYS AGO THAT THERE WAS A POTENTIAL THAT SOMETHING WOULD HAPPEN AND THEN THAT POTENTIAL STARTED RAMPING UP. YEAH, AS YOU KNOW, AS IS THE CASE OFTEN TIMES WHEN WE SEE WEATHER SYSTEMS COMING OUR WAY THERE ARE INDICATIONS AND WE USE SOMETHING AND I'M SURE THE OTHER FORECASTERS DO TO ST. LOUIS UNIVERSITY AS AN ANALOG PROGRAM THAT WILL BASICALLY TAKE COMPUTER MODELS FROM SAY THIS MORNING AND LOOK AT THE OUTPUT FROM THOSE COMPUTER MODELS AND THAT WEATHER PATTERN AND WHAT HAPPENED A DAY LATER A COUPLE OF DAYS LATER YOU GO OUT TO TWO WEEKS AND WHERE THERE WERE REPORTS OF SEVERE WEATHER IN THIS CASE IT WAS HIGHLIGHTED FROM THE ST. LOUIS AREA ON TO THE SOUTH POTENTIAL THAT WE WOULD SEE SEVERE WEATHER IN A PATTERN LIKE THIS AND THAT REALLY STARTED TO BECOME EVIDENT IN THE LAST COUPLE DAYS. IT TOOK A COUPLE OF DAYS TO GET THERE. BUT YOU KNOW, THE INGREDIENTS ONCE THEY START TO COME TOGETHER THEN YOU GET THE IDEA OF WHAT'S AHEAD. YEAH, I JUST WANT TO SAY SINCE I AND I'M UNABLE TO TO LET EVERYONE KNOW MY BATTERIES HAVE DIED IN MY EARPIECE. OH, SO I'M LOOKING ALSO SCOTT. I MEAN JUST INCREDIBLE DAMAGE LIKE YOU MENTIONED IN KENTUCKY, TENNESSEE ONE OF OUR SISTER STATIONS JUST SAID THAT THREE PEOPLE HAVE DIED IN NORTHWEST TENNESSEE TONIGHT. THAT WOULD PROBABLY BE IN THAT STORM THAT WENT BY CARUTHERSVILLE AND WENT ACROSS AND ACROSS THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER INTO TENNESSEE BECAUSE THAT STORM I'VE SEEN SOME IMAGES ON THE RADAR OF IT AND THE RADAR DATA WAS JUST HUGE. JUST A MASSIVE, MASSIVE STORM. YEAH. SO YOU'RE LOOKING AT VIDEO NOW OF THE AMAZON WAREHOUSE OVER IN EDWARDSVILLE AND THE DAMAGE THAT EXISTS THERE. WHAT WE KNOW IS THAT SEARCH AND RESCUE OPERATIONS ARE STILL UNDERWAY IN THIS AREA TONIGHT. WE'VE HAD A MASSIVE RESPONSE FROM EMERGENCY RESPONDERS FROM ALL ACROSS THE REGION ON BOTH SIDES OF THE RIVER INTO THE EDWARDSVILLE AREA TO ASSIST WITH THE ONGOING SEARCH AND RESCUE EFFORTS. WE DON'T HAVE A LOT OF OTHER CONFIRMED INFORMATION AND THAT'S THAT'S KIND OF WHERE WE ARE AT THIS POINT. YOU KNOW ROBERT TOWNSENDS OUT THERE RIGHT NOW, JUSTIN CORNELL HAS BEEN TALKING WITH PEOPLE TONIGHT. OUR CREWS ARE THERE AND YOU KNOW BUT YOU'VE GOT TO REMEMBER YOU HAVE POWER OUT AND YOU KNOW, THERE ARE SOME ISSUES WITH TRYING TO GET AROUND AND TRAVELING AROUND TONIGHT. IN FACT THEREFORE WHILE WE YOU KNOW, OUR CREWS WITH THAT SECOND WITH THAT SECOND LINE OF THUNDERSTOR THAT WAS ROLLING IN AFTER THIS DAMAGE WITH ALL THE FIRST RESPONDERS STILL THERE AND WE HAD ANOTHER TORNADO WARNING FOR THAT AREA YOU WE HAD OUR CREWS MOVED TO A SAFE PLACE AND YOU SEEK SHELTER BECAUSE WE CAN'T WE CAN'T HAVE YOU KNOW, WE TRY TO PREACH WE TRY TO PRACTICE WHAT WE PREACH SO WE WANTED OUR PEOPLE TO BE SAFE JUST LIKE WE WANT YOU TO BE SAFE. SO BUT NOW YOU CAN SEE THOSE STORMS ARE OVER HERE THAT'S THAT ONE HERE IS OFF SOUTH OF CINCINNATI IN NORTHERN PORTIONS OF TENNESSEE. STILL GOING TO HAVE SOME STRONGER STORMS WEST OF NASHVILLE IS A WHOLE BUNCH OF WARNINGS RIGHT NOW BUT IT SETTLED DOWN FOR US SO WE DON'T HAVE ANY MORE SEVERE WEATHER IN ST. LOUIS BUT THE CLEANUP WILL GET UNDER WAY. CERTAINLY SOME OF THAT'S HAPPENING OVERNIGHT, MICHEL, BUT IT'LL REALLY PICK UP TOMORROW ONCE WE GET SOME DAYLIGHT. WELL, I THOUGHT IT WAS INTERESTING TOO THAT WHEN WE WERE LOOKING AT DEFIANCE THAT THE EMERGENCY SORRY THAT THE COUNTY EXECUTIVE FROM ST. CHARLES AND SOME POLICE WERE ALREADY OUT TALKING TO RESIDENTS OVERNIGHT, PROBABLY NOT DOING CLEANUP BUT AT LEAST COMFORTING AT LEAST THE CITIZENS AND TRYING TO GET AN INFORMATION WELL, THAT AREA MAYBE I DON'T KNOW IF THAT'S IMMINENT OR IF THAT'S A RIVER. YOU KNOW, THEY MAY HAVE THE POWER BACK ONTO THE AREAS THAT THEY CAN GET IT BACK ON PRETTY QUICKLY. IT JUST DEPENDS ON WHAT THEY HAVE TO CLEAN UP AND YOU KNOW HOW MANY POLES ARE OUT OR WHATEVER. SO THEY BUT THEY WORKED PRETTY QUICKLY EVEN AT NIGHT MITIGATING THE POWER, TRYING TO GET SWITCHES AND TURNING THINGS BACK ON. I REMEMBER EVEN DURING THE STORMS TONIGHT YOU WERE ON SAYING, YOU KNOW, THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE HAD LOST POWER AND THEN TRACY CAME ON AND SAID OH, BUT WE JUST SAW FIVE THOUSAND PEOPLE RESTORED POWER, YOU KNOW? SO I MEAN AMRON CREWS AND ALL THE UTILITY CREWS ARE REALLY WORKING. THE LINEMEN HAVE A VERY DANGEROUS AND NOBLE JOB. THEY WERE VERY HARD AT WORK TONIGHT. I'M SORRY. I'M I'M STILL LOOKING AT MY JUST MY COMPUTER TO SEE IF WE CAN FIND ANY MORE AND ANY NEW INFORMATION. AGAIN, WE ARE DOING TWO INTERVIEWS FOR YOU RIGHT NOW. I KNOW THAT ONE PERSON WAS INSIDE THAT AMAZON WAREHOUSE. HIS MOM ACTUALLY REACHED OUT TO US AND SAID OK, MY SON WAS INSIDE BUT HE'S OK AND WE'RE GOING TO SHARE WE'RE GOING TO SHARE THAT INTERVIEW WITH HIM JUST IN A POURNELLE IS TURNING THAT FOR US RIGHT NOW. SO I WOULD LOVE TO HEAR FROM HIM BECAUSE I CAN ONLY IMAGINE WHAT THAT EXPERIENCE WAS LIKE. I MEAN WE'RE TALKING ABOUT A FACILITY YOU SAW HOW MASSIVE IT IS. IT'S REALLY HARD TO TELL. IT DOESN'T REALLY GIVE IT JUSTICE. RIGHT WHEN YOU'RE LOOKING AT THE LANDSCAPE LIKE THAT. BUT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF SQUARE FEET TALKING ABOUT EVEN MORE SQUARE FOOTAGE WHEN IT COMES TO PRODUCT. BUT I'M BEING TOLD TO STAND BY THAT WE'RE GOING TO LOOK AT WE'RE GOING TO GET SOME OF THE INTERVIEW IN JUST A SECOND. NOW THIS IS A FACILITY AN AMAZON FACILITY THAT OPENED IN TWENTY SEVENTEEN. I'M NOT SURE IF THAT WAS THE ACTUAL FACILITY THAT GOT HIT TONIGHT BUT IT IS CERTAINLY ON THAT CAMPUS NEARBY. SO YOU CAN SEE I MEAN THERE'S A LOT OF EQUIPMENT. THERE'S A LOT OF PRODUCT. THERE ARE A LOT OF PEOPLE WE'VE HEARD FROM A LOT PEOPLE WHO SAID THAT THEY EITHER CURRENTLY WORK FOR AMAZON IN ONE OF THEIR FACILITIES LOCALLY OR USED TO AND WHEN WE REPORTED THAT THE AMAZON FACILITY OPEN UP IN TWENTY SIXTEEN EDWARDSVILLE WE SAID THAT THERE WERE ROUGHLY FIFTEEN HUNDRED PEOPLE WORKING THERE. YEAH IT WAS I READ ONE ONE ACCOUNT THAT SAID TWO THOUSAND YOU KNOW AND SO WE DID HAVE SOME PEOPLE SAY YOU KNOW ON A GIVEN SHIFT 500 PEOPLE WORK IN THAT WAREHOUSE FACILITY. GRANTED THERE ARE DIFFERENT WAREHOUSE FACILITIES. APPARENTLY THERE ARE DELIVERY FACILITIES AND DIFFERENT DISTRIBUTION DISTRIBUTION BUT WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE FACILITY WHEN WE WERE ABLE TO TAKE A LIVE LOOK, WE'RE NOT ABLE TO TAKE A LIVE LOOK AT THE MOMENT BECAUSE BOB IS TRYING TO EFFORT SOME SOUND FOR US. BUT WE SAW ALL THOSE TRUCKS REMEMBER ALL THOSE SEMI TRUCKS LINED UP. SO WHAT ARE THEY DOING TODAY DROPPING OFF OR ARE THEY PICKING UP? AND THEN WE ALSO KNOW THAT ONE OF THE THE WOMEN WE TALKED TO TODAY SAID THAT SHE WAS TRYING TO GET IN TOUCH WITH HER HUSBAND WHO WAS A DRIVER SO AND WASN'T ABLE TO HEAR FROM HIM AFTER ABOUT EIGHT O'CLOCK. AND WE KNOW THAT THAT STORM HIT AT 830. SO I'M HOPING THAT THAT HAS A GOOD OUTCOME. WE ALL ARE AND THAT'S AND THAT'S WHAT WE DON'T KNOW AND YOU KNOW, THAT'S WHERE THE PEOPLE THE FOLKS THAT ARE TRYING TO CONNECT WITH THEIR LOVED ONES AND THEIR FAMILY MEMBERS, YOU KNOW, IS A BIT DIFFERENT DIFFICULT BECAUSE YOU'RE NOT ABLE TO CONNECT WITH THEM OVER THE PHONE. YOU'RE NOT HEARING FROM THEM. YOU DON'T KNOW AND YOU'RE NOT HEARING FROM ANYBODY ELSE RIGHT NOW. WELL, THAT'S THE THING THAT WE'VE SAID TYPICALLY IN THESE MASS CASUALTY EVENTS AND YOU'VE HEARD US SAY THAT TONIGHT MASS CASUALTY JUST MEANS A MASS RESPONSE. IT DOESN'T MEAN ANYTHING ELSE. BUT THIS IS A BIG INVESTIGATION AND A BIG ACTIVE WELL TYPICALLY WHEN THERE'S A MASS CASUALTY EVENT THERE IS THIS STAGING AREA THAT'S NEARBY THE SCENE. SO SOMEWHERE BETWEEN THE GRASSY KNOLL, BETWEEN THE SAY THE WAREHOUSE AND THE ROAD YOU WOULD SEE A STAGING AREA FOR FAMILIES TO WAIT AND GET UPDATES AND INFORMATION. THE MEDIA USUALLY WOULD BE PARKED THERE TO GET INFORMATION AND THEY USUALLY SEND ONE LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENT TO COME AND JUST GET INFORMATION AND THAT HASN'T HAPPENED TONIGHT, WHICH I THINK JUST AS A JOURNALIST WITH 20 YEARS OF EXPERIENCE I THINK THAT IS ODD. THAT TELLS ME THAT PEOPLE ARE WORKING THAT TELLS ME THAT PEOPLE DON'T HAVE TIME TO GIVE THE UPDATES BECAUSE THEY'RE UNDER SOME SORT OF THEY'RE UNDER TIME TRYING TO GET PEOPLE TO MAKE SURE THEY WANT TO FIND WHOEVER'S IN THERE BECAUSE WE HAD REPORTS THAT PEOPLE WERE TRAPPED. SO YOU WOULD THINK THAT YOU'VE GOT TO MOVE IF THIS ROOF CAME DOWN IT'S VERY POSSIBLE THAT THERE ARE PEOPLE THAT WERE TRAPPED. BUT WE HEARD REPORTS I MEAN ROBERT JOHNSON SAID THAT AND THEN WE ALSO HAD YOU KNOW, OBVIOUSLY WE'VE HEARD SO MUCH TONIGHT BUT THERE WERE REPORTS OF ANYWHERE BETWEEN 50 AND ONE HUNDRED PEOPLE TRAPPED. SO AND YOU KNOW, YOU HAVE TO BE VERY GENTLY RIGHT. YOU KNOW, YOU HAVE TO MANEUVER WITH DEBRIS THAT THEY'RE IN AROUND SO AS TO NOT WELL ADDITIONAL DAMAGE. I WAS GOING TO SAY THAT THAT REMINDS ME, BOB, OUR PHOTOJOURNALIS ON THE SCENE SAID AT ONE POINT THERE WAS A LADDER THE LADDER TRUCK OF THE THE FIRE TRUCK. THE LADDER WAS REPOSITIONED TO CLEAR A GIRDER AND THERE WAS SOME SOMETHING THAT WAS GETTING IN THE WAY OF THAT. BUT THAT'S WHY I MEAN WE JUST SAW A LOT OF HEAVY EQUIPMENT. WE SAW TOW TRUCKS, WE SAW CRANES, WE SAW A HELICOPTER. I MEAN THAT'S NOT LIFTING BUT THAT WE SAW A LOT OF THEM. WE SAW THE HELICOPTER IN THE DRONE SEARCHING BY PUTTING THE LIGHTS DOWN TO SEARCH AND THEN WE ALSO SAW HEAVY EQUIPMENT TOO I GUESS TO LIFT UP OK. OK, I BELIEVE WE HAVE THE EDWARDSVILLE POLICE CHIEF ON THE PHONE. MICHAEL, ARE YOU THERE? MICHAEL, CAN YOU HEAR ME OK? I'M GOING TO SAY WE DON'T HAVE HIS AUDIO AT THIS AT THIS TIME . WE'RE GOING TO WORK ON IT AND WE'LL TRY IT AGAIN. LET ME TELL YOU THOUGH, THE EDWARDS POLICE DEPARTMENT HAS BEEN VERY HARD AT WORK TONIGHT . IN FACT, JUST A LITTLE BIT AGO THEY GAVE A STATEMENT JUST TO LET PEOPLE KNOW WHERE THEY WERE IN THE RESCUE OPERATION AND REALLY IT WAS A SHORT SENTENCE BUT THEY SAID A SEARCH AND RESCUE OPERATION WAS COMMENCED AND IS ONGOING AND SO THAT TELLS ME THAT THEY HAVE BEEN WORKING TO TRY TO FIND PEOPLE SINCE EIGHT THIRTY THREE P.M. WHEN THIS STORM HIT AGAIN THIS IS AT THE AMAZON WAREHOUSE WHICH IS THIRTY SEVENTY SEVEN GATEWAY COMMERCE CENTER DRIVE. IF YOU KNOW THAT AREA IT'S KIND OF IT'S KIND OF AN INDUSTRIAL AREA. PNG IS THERE WORLDWIDE TECHNOLOGY IS ALSO THERE AND WHEN BOB HAINE SHOWED US THE AREA WE ACTUALLY SAW YOU KNOW, JUST SPREAD ACROSS THE STREET WAREHOUSES WITH NO DAMAGE AND THAT'S HOW THESE STORMS ARE LIKE YOU CAN SEE YOU CAN GO DOWN ONE STREET TO SEE ONE SIDE COMPLETELY DAMAGED IN ONE SIDE THAT WASN'T AND UNFORTUNATELY THIS IS WHERE WE SAW THE DAMAGE TONIGHT AT THE AMAZON. OK, I JUST WANT TO LET YOU KNOW THIS IS WE'RE GOING TO HAVE TO CONFIRM THIS BUT I FEEL LIKE THIS IS OK TO SHARE. WE JUST GOT TEXT IN FROM A WORKER FROM AMAZON SAYING THAT STEEL FOR FULFILLMENT I DON'T THAT'S AMAZON LINGO HAVE NOTIFIED EMPLOYEES VIA TEXT NOTIFICATION THAT ALL DAY SHIFT PERSONNEL ARE TO REPORT FOR START OF SHIFT AT 12:00 P.M. TOMORROW. SO IT LOOKS LIKE PEOPLE WILL RETURN TO WORK TOMORROW AT LEAST STILL FOR AS FAR AS THE AMAZON FULFILLMENT BUILDING ACROSS THE STREET FROM THE COLLAPSED DLI FOUR BUILDING. SO IF YOU WORK FOR AMAZON YOU WOULD KNOW THIS LINGO. I THINK DLI MIGHT DELIVERY BECAUSE SOMEONE SAID THAT THAT WAS THE DELIVERY BUILDING SO IF YOU WORK AT AMAZON AND YOU WORK ACROSS THE STREET FROM THE COLLAPSED BUILDING YOU ARE TO REPORT TO YOUR SHIFT STARTING AT 12:00 P.M. TOMORROW. ALSO IT LOOKS LIKE WE CAN CONFIRM THAT THE BUILDING THAT WE'RE SHOWING THAT FULLFILLMENT WAREHOUSE VIDEO FROM TWENTY SEVENTEEN WAS ALSO THAT BUILDING ACROSS THE STREET. BUT IT STILL GIVES YOU AN IDEA A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THAT WAREHOUSE. JACOB, DID YOU WANT TO SAY SOMETHING? OH OK. YOU WANT TO TALK TO HIM ON SPEAKERPHONE? OK, SO WE'VE GOT JACOB IN HERE WE'RE WORKING ON THE PHONE WITH THE EDWARDSVILLE POLICE CHIEF AND I'M SURE THAT HE IS EXHAUSTED BUT WE'RE GOING TO WORK ON THAT. I KNOW THAT THE POLICE DEPARTMENT'S BEEN VERY HARD AT WORK TONIGHT AND I'M ALWAYS GRATEFUL FOR THE WORK THAT OUR FIRST RESPONDERS AND OUR LAW ENFORCEMENT DO, ESPECIALLY IN SITUATIONS LIKE THIS BECAUSE AGAIN, LIKE SCOTT'S BEEN ON OUR SINCE SIX THIRTY THIS AFTERNOON THIS EVENING AND HERE IT IS ALMOST TWO O'CLOCK IN THE MORNING. HELLO SIR. CAN YOU HEAR ME? YES, MA'AM. HI. CAN YOU TELL ME YOUR NAME PLEASE? I'M SORRY MY TOOLBOX WITH THE POLICE DEPARTMENT. OK, THANK YOU SO MUCH MIKE. I REALLY APPRECIATE YOU TAKING THE TIME FOR US. CAN YOU GIVE US AN IDEA OF WHERE WE ARE IN THE SEARCH AND RECOVERY RIGHT NOW AT THAT WAREHOUSE? YEAH, SO WE RESPONDED YOUR LAST NIGHT AROUND EIGHT THIRTY FOUR ABILITY COLLAPSE. WE'VE GOT MULTIPLE DOORS EVERY CIVIL JURISDICTION, INDIVIDUAL FIRE AND POLICE BUT WE ALSO HAVE MULTIPLE OTHER FIRE EMS AND POLICE DEPARTMENTS ON SCENE. THEY'VE BEEN WORKING SINCE THAT TIME OF ARRIVAL TO MAKE TO SECURE SITE TO WORK WITH THEM AND THE BEEN WORKING NOW ON THE PROCESS SINCE THEY WERE ABLE TO ACCOMPLISH THAT TO SEARCH FOR ANY ONE THAT'S LEFT IN THE BUILDING. SOME SOME PEOPLE WERE TRANSPORTED AND IDENTIFIED FROM FROM THE SCENE BY BUS AND REUNITED WITH FAMILY. BUT WE'RE STILL WORKING TO TRY TO ENSURE THAT EVERYONE THAT WAS WORKING AT THE TIME IS ACCOUNTED FOR. DO YOU KNOW HOW MANY PEOPLE WERE WORKING AT THE TIME? IT'S STILL KIND OF CONFLICTING INFORMATION AT THIS POINT. I KNOW THAT THEY'VE THEY'VE SPECULATED ON ON DIFFERENT NUMBERS SO I DON'T HAVE A FIRM COUNT. DO YOU THINK IT'S IN THE HUNDREDS FROM FROM WHAT I CAN TAKE IT DOES NOT APPEAR TO HAVE BEEN THAT MANY WORKING IN THE FACILITY. THAT'S OK. OK, THAT'S GOOD NEWS. WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT THE PEOPLE WHO WERE THERE? PEOPLE TRAPPED WERE THERE WE HAD REPORTS THAT BETWEEN 50 AND 100 PEOPLE WERE TRAPPED AT ONE POINT. IT DOESN'T APPEAR THAT THERE IS THAT MANY PEOPLE IN THE BUILDING THERE WAS THERE THERE WERE NUMEROUS PEOPLE THAT WE WERE ABLE TO ASSIST WITH GETTING TRANSPORTED TO A UNIFICATION CENTER IN BRIGHTON BEACH AND THOSE PEOPLE HAVE BEEN RELEASED AND REUNITED. IT DOESN'T APPEAR THAT WE WE EVER HAD IN THE HUNDREDS FROM WHAT I CAN CAN MAKE AT THIS POINT BUT WE'RE STILL WORKING ON THAT. OK, WELL THAT'S POSITIVE. THAT'S BETTER THAN THE OTHER WAY. WHAT ABOUT SURVIVORS? WERE THERE EVERYONE SURVIVE? WELL, AT THIS POINT I KNOW THAT THERE'S THERE'S BEEN AT LEAST ONE PERSON TRANSPORTED TO AN AREA HOSPITAL BUT I DON'T HAVE ANY INFORMATION ON ANY ADDITIONAL INJURIES OR ANYONE ACTUALLY LEFT TRAPPED. WE'RE WE'RE STILL WORKING ON TRYING TO ENSURE THAT EVERYONE'S ACCOUNTED FOR AND IN THE BUILDING WAS APPEARS TO HAVE TAKEN A DIRECT HIT AND THERE'S THERE'S QUITE A BIT OF DAMAGE. SO THAT'S BEEN KIND OF A SLOW PROCESS WITH WITH DEALING WITH WATER AND AND POWER AS WELL AS THE DEBRIS IN IT'S A LARGE WAREHOUSE. SO YOU HAVE TO SHORE UP SOME OF THE CONCRETE TO MAKE SURE THAT IT'S SAFE FOR THEM TO ACTUALLY GET IN THERE. FIRST RESPONDERS DID TO DO THE SEARCH. DO YOU KNOW IF THE PEOPLE WORKING THERE HAD TIME TO SEEK SHELTER? I DO NOT KNOW THAT INFORMATION AT THIS POINT. THE AS FAR AS I KNOW THE BUILDING THEY HAVE WHENEVER THEY IF THEY HAVE AN ALERT GO OFF, IT WOULD GIVE THEM AN OPPORTUNITY TO LOOK FOR ONE OF THEIR DESIGNATED STATE BUILDINGS. BUT I DON'T KNOW THAT INFORMATION AT THIS POINT AS FAR AS IF THEY HAD THAT INFORMATION AT THE TIME. OK, WELL I JUST WANT TO CONFIRM WITH YOU SO FAR YOU'VE HAD ZERO REPORTS OF DEATHS AT THIS POINT I DON'T HAVE ANY I WE HAVE ONE TRANSPORTED THAT I KNOW OF AND I DON'T HAVE ANY CONFIRMATIONS ON ANY ANY HOUSE AT THIS POINT. THAT IS WONDERFUL NEWS BECAUSE WE HAVE OBVIOUSLY SO MANY DIFFERENT CONFLICTING REPORTS. SO IT'S NICE TO HEAR THAT THAT'S THE BEST CASE SCENARIO IF THAT REMAINS TO BE TRUE, WHAT ARE THE BIGGEST CHALLENGES TONIGHT BECAUSE IT LOOKS LIKE YOU HAVE EVERY TIME WE TUNE IN WE SEE AN ACTIVE SCENE. WHAT ARE THE BIGGEST CHALLENGES TONIGHT? YEAH, WELL THE FIRST CHALLENGE IS YOUR IS A LARGE WAREHOUSE WITH A LOT OF A LOT OF PEOPLE COMING AND GOING. SO THAT'S ONE OF THE FIRST CHALLENGES WAS TRYING TO IDENTIFY WHO WAS SUPPOSED TO BE IN THE TIME THIS HAPPENED. WE HAD ANOTHER STORM COME IN SHORTLY AFTER WITHIN THE FIRST COUPLE ANOTHER STORM THAT CAME THROUGH WITH HEAVY RAIN AND WIND AND THAT PRESENTS A CHALLENGE. NOW WE'RE STARTING TO I BELIEVE GO INTO A WINDY DAY. I BELIEVE HIGH WINDS ARE OUR FORECAST AND WE'VE SEEN THAT WIND PICKED UP DOWN HERE IN THIS AREA SO A LOT OF UNSAFE AREAS WITH THAT DEBRIS WITH CONCRETE AND EVERYTHING THAT MAKES IT A CHALLENGE FOR FOR THE FIREMEN AND THE AMOUNT THAT'S IN THERE. SO YOU KNOW, AT THIS POINT THEY'RE GOING TO CONTINUE TO LOOK AND AND YOU KNOW, WE'RE NOT GOING TO LEAVE UNTIL WE KNOW THAT THE BUILDING IS IS EVERYONE'S ACCOUNTED FOR AND FOR NOW WE JUST HOPE AT THIS POINT HOPE AND PRAY THAT THAT YOU KNOW, THE EXTENT OF THE INJURIES ARE ARE MINIMAL. SO BUT UNFORTUNATELY WE DON'T KNOW EVERYTHING AT THIS POINT. SO WE YOU KNOW, WE CAN'T WE CAN'T SAY FOR CERTAIN WHY DON'T YOU HAVE THAT INFORMATION? ARE YOU NOT GETTING COOPERATION THAT YOU NEED OR IS IT JUST THE TIMING OF OK, IT'S JUST IT'S JUST THE TIMING OF A LOT OF A LOT OF TIMES YOU HAVE TEMPORARY WORKERS AND SHIFTS CHANGE THINGS OF THAT NATURE GOING ON AND TRUCKS THAT ARE DELIVERING THINGS ARE PICKING UP. SO KNOWING FOR CERTAIN WHO WAS HERE AT THE TIME, YOU KNOW, IT CAN BE CHALLENGING FOR THAT. BUT THE AMAZON MANAGEMENT IS DOWN HERE AND THEY ARE TRYING TO ASSIST US WITH ANY INFORMATION THEY CAN PROVIDE. IT'S UNFORTUNATE, YOU KNOW YOU KNOW, THERE'S JUST YOU DON'T KNOW AND AND THAT'S SO YOU KNOW, WE HAVE TO LOOK THROUGH EVERYTHING TO MAKE SURE THAT EVERYTHING IS IS ACCOUNTED FOR AND THAT'S THAT'S A SLOW PROCESS BECAUSE WE'VE GOT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE DO IT IN A SAFE MANNER SO WE DON'T CAUSE FURTHER INJURIES TO OUR FIRST RESPONDERS. ABSOLUTELY. DO YOU THINK THAT YOU'LL BE WORKING THROUGHOUT THE NIGHT? THIS WILL BE I'M SURE THE SAME THROUGHOUT YOU KNOW, THROUGHOUT THE REST OF THE MORNING PERHAPS AFTERNOON. WE'RE GOING TO BE ON SCENE WE'LL BE ON SCENE TRYING TO ACCOUNT FOR EVERYTHING AND THEN FIGURE OUT WHAT GOES NEXT, MAKE SURE THE BUILDING'S SAFE SO THAT THAT NO ONE ELSE IS INJURED. AND THAT'S ANOTHER THING THAT I WANTED TO JUST REITERATE. YOU SAID THAT SO FAR IT APPEARS THERE ARE NO REPORTS OF DEATHS. SO ONE PERSON WAS TRANSPORTED. DO WE KNOW OF ANY OTHER KNOWN INJURIES POTENTIALLY? NO, I DON'T DON'T HAVE THE INFORMATION THE ONES THAT WERE TRANSPORTED BY FORCE FROM WHAT I UNDERSTAND, A FEW MINOR INJURIES REPORTED BUT NOTHING THAT REQUIRED ASSISTANCE AND SO THOSE FOLKS HAVE BEEN REUNITED AND DID NOT GO TO THE HOSPITAL REUNITED WITH THEIR LOVED ONES. AND I WAS GOING TO ASK WHETHER ANY OF THEIR LOVED ONES STILL WAITING ON THE SCENE TO BE REUNITED WITH THEIR WITH THEIR LOVED ONES THERE THERE IS A FAMILY MEMBER THAT'S DOWN IN THIS AREA. SO RIGHT NOW WE HAVEN'T ACCOUNTED FOR AT ONE INDIVIDUAL AT THIS POINT BUT I SAID WE CONTINUE TO CHECK THERE'S THERE'S LOTS OF AREAS THROUGHOUT THAT BUILDING AND AND THAT SO WE HAVE TO HAVE TO MAKE SURE THAT WE CHECK EVERY EVERY PLACE THAT SOMEONE COULD BE SURE. I'M SORRY. I DON'T WANT TO TAKE ALL OF YOUR TIME. CAN YOU EXPLAIN TO ME WHAT THAT WAREHOUSE WAS? IT WAS A DELIVERY WAREHOUSE. WHAT DID IT DO OR WHAT WAS THE PURPOSE OF IT? YEAH, I BELIEVE IT'S AN AMAZON DISTRIBUTION CENTER. I BELIEVE SO I BELIEVE A LOT OF ITEMS BASICALLY ARE DELIVERED HERE AT TRANSPORTED OUT FROM HERE. I SAY OK, WELL LET ME ASK YOU ONE MORE QUESTION AND LET YOU GO. WHAT DO YOU NEED FROM THE PUBLIC TO HELP SUPPORT IN THIS EFFORT RIGHT NOW? I MEAN REALLY, REALLY AT THIS POINT WE'VE WE'VE GOT LOTS OF RESOURCES. WE JUST, YOU KNOW, ASKED FOR THE PUBLIC TO BE PATIENT WITH THE INFORMATION. I KNOW THAT, YOU KNOW, GOT REALLY A LOT OF INFORMATION HERE. SO BE PATIENT. IT IT'S A PROCESS THAT THAT HAS TO BE DONE. IT HAS TO BE DONE THE RIGHT WAY. SO YOU KNOW, WE DON'T INJURE ANY OF OUR OUR PERSONNEL AND DOING IT AND YOU KNOW, WE'D ASK HIM TO PRAY FOR THE FAMILIES, PRAY FOR YOU KNOW, THE PEOPLE INVOLVED AND YOU KNOW, STAY TUNED TO THE LOCAL NEWS WE HAD A LOT OF PEOPLE COMING AND GOING FROM DOWN HERE, FIRST RESPONDERS SO WE DON'T NEED ANYONE COMING DOWN HERE ASK THEM TO STAY AT HOME AND ALLOW ALLOW FOR THIS AREA FOR US TO BE ABLE TO GET IN AND OUT AS NEEDED. YEAH, OK, WELL THANK YOU SO MUCH CHIEF. I CAN'T TELL YOU HOW MUCH IT MEANS TO US AND ALSO TO OUR VIEWERS STILL WATCHING TO HAVE THAT UPDATE AND I HOPE THAT WE CAN MAYBE TOUCH BASE WITH YOU IN A FEW HOURS OVERNIGHT ALREADY. OK, WE'LL PROBABLY, YOU KNOW, HAVE MORE INFORMATION LATER IN THE MORNING. THE FIRE CHIEF CHIEF JAMES LIGHTFORD IS IS OVERSEEING THIS OPERATION. I'M ONCE ONCE THEY'RE ABLE TO GET THROUGH OUR BUILDING, WE'LL HAVE A LOT MORE INFORMATION, BE ABLE TO DETERMINE WHAT YOU KNOW WE'LL BE HOWARD THE EXTENT OF THE INJURIES AND EVERYTHING. OK, OK, GREAT. WELL THANK YOU SO MUCH. THANK YOU FOR YOUR FOR YOUR HARD WORK AND YOUR TIME. REALLY APPRECIATE IT. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU. OK, GOOD LUCK. ALL RIGHT BYE. THANK YOU. ALL RIGHT. SO AGAIN WE JUST HEARD FROM THE POLICE CHIEF OF THE EDWARDSVILLE, ILLINOIS POLICE DEPARTMENT AND REALLY GREAT NEWS CONSIDERING WHAT HE WAS ABLE TO TELL US SO FAR NO REPORTS OF ANY DEATHS THOUGH WE DO KNOW THAT ONE PERSON WAS TRANSPORTED ALSO DID NOT HAVE AN INJURY REPORT FOR US BUT PEOPLE HAVE BEEN WORKERS HAVE BEEN ABLE TO RECONNECT WITH THEIR FAMILIES NOT ALL OF THEM BUT A GOOD PORTION OF THEM. WE DO KNOW THAT ONE FAMILY MEMBER HAS BEEN WAITING STILL AT THE SITE BECAUSE THEIR LOVED ONE IS UNACCOUNTED FOR. SO BY ALL ACCOUNTS IT SEEMS TO BE A STORYLINE MORE IN THE POSITIVE DIRECTION THAN THE OTHER WAY AROUND BECAUSE WE CERTAINLY HAD HEARD AND REPORTED ON THE GAMUT OF THINGS THAT PEOPLE HAVE BEEN TELLING US SO BUT THAT IS THE BEST CONFIRMATION THAT WE HAVE. YOU JUST HEARD THOUGH FROM THE POLICE CHIEF THAT HE DOESN'T KNOW EVERYTHING AND HE IS ASKING FOR PATIENCE FROM THE PUBLIC AS THEY TRY TO GET OUT MORE INFORMATION AND HE YES, THERE THEY HAVE TO DO SEARCH AND RESCUE AND RECOVERY AND ALL THOSE THINGS BUT THEY HAVE TO DO IT THE RIGHT WAY. THEY DON'T WANT TO HAVE ANY INJURIES WITH THEIR THEIR FIRST RESPONDERS EITHER. SO IF EVERYONE CAN BE PATIENT, AVOID THE AREA, ALL THOSE THINGS THAT WOULD HELP THEM THE MOST BUT CERTAINLY A POSITIVE POSITIVE NEWS THAT WE WOULD LOVE TO HEAR AT TWO FIFTEEN IN THE MORNING WE DO WANT TO HEAR FROM JUSTIN CORNELL. SHE TALKED TO A MAN, AN AMAZON DRIVER WHO WAS NEAR OR IN THE BUILDING WHEN IT HAPPENED. SO LET'S GOT OH, I'M SORRY I GOT THERE FIVE MINUTES AFTER THE STORM. THERE WE GO. ALL RIGHT. SO LET'S LET'S LISTEN TO JESTINA INTERVIEW. YOU HAVE TO WORK AROUND LIKE NINE FIFTY AND WELL NOT THERE NOW FORTY BECAUSE I CHANGED THE TIMES UP BECAUSE BASICALLY PEAK SEASON IS STUFF LIKE THAT. SO I GOT THERE AROUND LIKE THIRTY NOSWORTHY LOADED UP OUR BASS AROUND LIKE NOT SAFETY AND HEADED OUT TO DELIVER PACKAGES SO I WAS OUT THERE EVER SINCE THEN UP UNTIL THE POINT I CAME BACK TO THE WAREHOUSE IS I DO WANT TO SAY AROUND LIKE TEN HOURS FIVE MINUTES AFTER THE STORM HAS PASSED AND HIT THE WAREHOUSE. SO BY THE TIME THAT I CAME THE POLICE IS HERE THE BUILDING WAS ALREADY TORN APART AND WHAT YOU SAW WHAT DID YOU SEE WHEN YOU PULLED UP THE BUILDING ITSELF? OH, THE FRONT PART THE FRONT CORNER OF THE BUILDING WAS STILL INTACT BUT THE BACK CORNER OF THE BUILDING ONTO THE RIGHT IT WAS CAVED IN. SO I WAITED IN MY VAN LIKE THIRTY MINUTES AND THEN THEY TOLD US TO COME INSIDE. IT'S LIKE A TORNADO SHELTER AREA AND FROM THE TORNADO CENTER AREA YOU COULD KIND OF SEE INTO THE WAREHOUSE. SO FROM THE POSITION I WAS IN THE BACK CORNER WHERE I USUALLY CHECK IN AND GRAB MY BAG AND STUFF LIKE THAT KEYS THAT WAS CAVED IN. IT WAS A BATHROOM OVER THERE SO THAT BATHROOM IS GONE. SO THAT WAS GONE TEN, FIFTEEN MINUTES LATER THEY TOLD US IT WAS GOING TO TAKE US TO PONSOLDT BEACH P.D. POLICE STATION AND I WAS BASICALLY JUST TRYING TO GO TO MY CAR SO THEY LET SOME PEOPLE WHO WAS IN THE FRONT AREA AND I THOUGHT THEY WERE TALKING ABOUT THE BACK AREA AS WELL BUT THEY DIDN'T. SO WHEN I WENT AROUND TO THE BACK AREA THAT WAS COMPLETELY DESTROYED IN LIKE SOMEBODY JUST BLEW OUT THE WHOLE BACK AREA. IT WAS DEBRIS ALL ACROSS THE LAKE. THE POWER LINES IS BACK. MAJORITY OF THE CARS ON THE AMAZON IS CLOSE TO A LAKE LIKE THIS MICROPHONE IN THERE AND IT WAS JUST COMPLETELY DESTROYED. IF WE ARE WE DON'T HAVE AN IDEA OF WHAT EVERYTHING IN AMAZON IS. WHAT IS THAT WHAT THAT AREA IS? WHAT WHAT'S IN THERE OR WHAT ARE WORKERS DOING IN THERE IS BASICALLY LIKE THIS IS A COMPLETE WAREHOUSE. A COMPLETE WAREHOUSE IS FILLED WITH MANY PACKAGES AND MINI VAN IS THE BACK AREA THAT WAS NEARLY DESTROYED. THIS IS WHERE MANY OF THE VENDORS ARE PART AND WHEN WE START OR WE DROP THEM OFF. SO IT'S AN AREA WHERE ALL THE BUSINESS PART AND THERE'S ANOTHER SECTION TO WHERE WE DRIVE IN SO TO GET OUR PACKAGES THAT WE LOAD UP FOR THE DAY AND DELIVER FOOD TO SO THE STAGING AREA THE PACKAGING AREA WAS COMPLETELY DESTROYED. THE WINDOWS BUSTED OUT, THE GARAGE DOOR WAS OPEN AND HONEST AND THE AREA OF WHERE THE BLAST APART THAT WAS COMPLETELY DESTROYED AS WELL. THE ROOF CAVED AND IT WAS A LOT DEBRIS EVERYWHERE ON A REGULAR SHELF. THIS IS SOMEWHAT THE START OF PEAK SEASON SO YOU WILL START TO SEE MORE PEOPLE TO BE IN THERE. BUT AROUND THE TIME THAT OF THAT ACCIDENT TOOK PLACE, NOT AS MANY PEOPLE AS USED TO BE THROUGHOUT THE DAY. SO I WOULD SAY PROBABLY CLOSE BY LIKE THIRTY OR FORTY PEOPLE THAT WAS IN THERE. I'M NOT SO SURE EXCUSE ME. IT ALL DEPENDS ON WHO CAME IN OR WHO WENT HOME BECAUSE EVERYBODY LEAVES IT GOES IN THERE AT DIFFERENT TIMES AND PLUS IS ALSO TILES TOO. I WANT TO SAY TWO DIFFERENT COMPANIES THAT WORKS IN THE SAME WAREHOUSE. SO FOR OUR COMPANY WE JUST DEAL STRICTLY WITH PICKING UP PACKAGES AND DROPPING THEM AND DROPPING OFF THE VAN SO THERE'S NOT TOO MANY OF OUR PEOPLE THAT WAS IN THERE. THANK GOD MOST LEFT HOME BUT SOMEONE LIKE ME THAT CAME AT THE TIME THAT DID WE JUST HAD TO REALLY WAIT IT OUT AND STUFF LIKE THAT. YEAH. YOU WERE TELLING WHEN YOU GOT THERE THEY PUT YOU RIGHT AWAY INTO A SHELTER LOCATION RIGHT? THEY ACTUALLY WAITED BY LIKE TEN FIFTEEN MINUTES AND THEN ONLY REASON WHY THEY MOVED US INTO THE SHELTER IS BECAUSE IT WAS TAKEN BY ANOTHER TORNADO THAT WAS SUPPOSED TO TELL US ABOUT WHAT SOME OF THE GUIDANCE YOU'VE GOTTEN SO FAR AND YOU SAID THAT THEY'RE STILL TRYING TO WORK THIS OUT. WE DID GET A STATEMENT FROM AMAZON BUT HAVE YOU ALL GOTTEN ANY SORT OF GUIDANCE WHAT MIGHT BE HAPPENING OR THOSE ARE YOUR FELLOW COWORKERS SO I CAN IMAGINE YOU ARE CURIOUS WHAT'S GOING ON YOURSELVES. YEAH, SO I TALKED TO ONE OF MY DISPATCHERS STILL AND HE'S STILL CONFUSED AS WELL. SO YOU DON'T EVEN KNOW ABOUT THEY GO FOR ONE IF HE'S SUPPOSED STILL TO BE PAID WHAT THIS TIME THAT'S HAPPENING WE DON'T KNOW ABOUT OUR VEHICLES. WE STILL HAVEN'T HEARD NOTHING ABOUT THE VEHICLES THAT WAS IN BACK DURING THE WRECKAGE. WE DON'T KNOW NOTHING WHAT YOU WERE TALKING ABOUT YOUR CAR I THINK YOUR MOM WAS SAYING YOU'RE TRYING TO GET YOUR CAR OUT. I MEAN WHERE WAS YOUR CAR DESTROYED OR WERE MULTIPLE CARS ARE DESTROYED? I WANT TO SAY I COULD SAY SOME WERE DESTROYED BUT THE AREA OF MY CAR WAS IN THAT'S WHERE THE FIREFIGHTERS WERE. IT WAS TRYING TO GET OUT OF THE DEBRIS LEFT. I'M PRETTY SURE MY CAR WAS HIT DURING THE TORNADO BUT I'M NOT TOO SURE I WAS ABLE TO SEE MY CAR. YOU KNOW, YOU GOT THERE YOU MISSED IT BY MAYBE FIVE MINUTES . I MEAN IS THAT KIND OF WILD TO THINK THAT YOU POTENTIALLY MISS THIS IS THE STORM THAT HAS POTENTIALLY INJURED SEVERAL PEOPLE? YEAH, I WAS ACTUALLY TALKED TO MY STEP ABOUT THAT ON THE WAY BACK BECAUSE I ACTUALLY DROVE TO A ROUTE THAT I HAVE ALREADY COMPLETED. I TOOK TWENTY MINUTES TO GET THERE IF I WERE TO USE THAT TWENTY MINUTES TO GO STRAIGHT BACK TO THE WAREHOUSE I PROBABLY WOULD HAVE BEEN ONE OF THOSE YOU KNOW, INSIDE IT WHILE IT WAS HAPPENING I COULD HAVE BEEN A VICTIM OF ANYTHING AND SAY WHAT EMOTIONS ARE YOU FEELING RIGHT NOW? WE DON'T KNOW. WE HAVE NOTHING CONFIRMED OF POTENTIAL FATALITIES YET BUT THERE MAY BE SOME I MEAN IT IS PRETTY CRAZY LOCATION THAT YOU WORKED AT THIS HAPPENED I MEAN ANY ANY TYPE OF EMOTION OR ANYTHING ELSE YOU WANT TO ADD IS PRETTY MUCH STILL LIKE DISBELIEF BECAUSE SOME OF THE PEOPLE THAT IS IN THERE THAT WAS TRAPPED IN THERE YOU TALK TO THEM OR YOU DEAL WITH THEM WHEN YOU DELIVER PACKAGES SO ME NO FACES I'M NOT READY TO WILL OF KNOWING FACES OR ANYTHING LIKE THIS. I HEAR IN THE NAMES I WAS LIFTED OFF AS I WAS TRYING TO GET A HEAD COUNT PEOPLE THAT WAS MISSING IS SO YOU JUST DON'T EVEN KNOW WHO WAS STILL IN THERE OR WHO HAD PASSED. SO IT'S KIND OF LIKE A LOT OF DISBELIEF OR YOU YOU'RE NOT REALLY TAKEN IT IN AGAIN THAT WAS JUST DANA CORNELL TALKING TO THOMAS DE WAAL WHO IS AN AMAZON DRIVER SHOWED UP ABOUT FIVE MINUTES AFTER THAT STORM EIGHT THIRTY THREE AT EIGHT THIRTY THREE HIT THE WAREHOUSE THERE SAID THE DAMAGE IF YOU JUST TO RECAP SO THAT THE MOST THE DAMAGE HAPPENED WHERE THEY FEEL THE PACKAGES I SHOULD SAY ARE ALL THE VANS WERE PARKED. HE ALSO BELIEVE THAT THE STAGING AREA WAS ALSO DESTROYED THERE AND TO HIS ACCOUNT BELIEVE THAT THERE WERE DOZENS OF PEOPLE INSIDE THE WAREHOUSE, JUST NOT AS MANY PEOPLE AS THERE NORMALLY WOULD BE MAYBE BECAUSE PEOPLE GOT OFF WORK AT THE TIMING. THE TIMING WAS JUST SO THAT MANY PEOPLE AS MANY PEOPLE WHO COULD THERE WEREN'T THERE EXCUSE ME BUT STILL WE DO KNOW THAT THIS IS CONSIDERED A MASS CASUALTY EVENT MEANING THAT THERE'S A MASSIVE RESPONSE. WE ALSO HEARD FROM THE EDWARDSVILLE POLICE CHIEF JUST MINUTES AGO. HE TOLD US SOME VERY POSITIVE NEWS IN THE SENSE THAT THERE WERE NO REPORTED DEATHS AT THIS TIME. HE DID SAY THAT ONE PERSON WAS TRANSPORTED FOR HELP BUT AGAIN POSITIVE NEWS, NO REPORTED DEATHS. MOST OF THE PEOPLE HAD BEEN CONNECTED TO THEIR FAMILIES THAT THEY'VE BEEN REUNITED WITH THEIR FAMILIES I SHOULD SAY HE DID THOUGH THE POLICE CHIEF DID SAY THAT ONE PERSON, ONE LOVED ONE WAS STILL WAITING TO FIND OUT THE LOCATION OF SOMEONE WHO WORKED IN THAT WAREHOUSE. SO THE POLICE CHIEF WAS JUST ASKING FOR PATIENCE AND UNDERSTANDING THAT THEY'RE GOING TO DO THEIR JOBS. THEY'RE GOING TO CONTINUE TO SEARCH AND AND LOOK FOR PEOPLE AND MAKE SURE THAT EVERYONE IS ACCOUNTED FOR. BUT IT CERTAINLY TAKES TIME. THIS IS AN EVENT THAT NOW HAS BEEN GOING ON FOR SEVERAL HOURS . AGAIN, IT STARTED AT EIGHT THIRTY THREE THIS EVENING YESTERDAY EVENING WHEN THE STORM HIT THERE WAS A SECOND ROUND WE HEARD SO MANY REPORTS FROM YOU ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED BUT WE JUST GOT WORD AGAIN FROM THE POLICE CHIEF THERE REALLY COULD BE GREAT NEWS CONSIDERING WHAT WE'VE BEEN THINKING AND CONSIDERING EXCUSE ME THROUGHOUT THIS WHOLE NIGHT. SO AS YOU KNOW, IT IS AN ACTIVE STILL AND THERE'S A LOT OF SEARCH AND RECOVERY GOING ON RIGHT NOW. BUT I THINK WE'RE GOING TO WRAP UP OUR COVERAGE TONIGHT. HERE IT IS THOUGH. IT'S TWO THIRTY IN THE MORNING. WE'RE GOING TO BE BACK ON THE AIR IN JUST A FEW NOT SCOTT OR MYSELF BUT TODAY IN ST. LOUIS WE'LL BE BACK AND OF COURSE WE'LL BRING YOU THE LATEST UPDATES. WE WILL HAVE PEOPLE OF COURSE IN OUR NEWSROOM WORKING AND THEY WILL BE LISTENING FOR UPDATES AS WELL. AND IF THERE'S AN IMPORTANT UPDATE, WE'LL BRING IT TO YOU RIGHT AWAY. WE WON'T WAIT FOR THAT. BUT IN THE MEANTIME, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR WATCHING TONIGHT. IT HAS BEEN A VERY LONG AND HARD NIGHT ACROSS THE ST. LOUIS AREA AND CERTAINLY WE DID NOT LEAVE UNSCATHED. WE KNOW THAT THERE WAS AT LEAST ONE DEATH IN DEFIANCE AND POTENTIALLY A LOT OF DAMAGE AND DESTRUCTION. SO WE'LL BRING YOU THAT UPDATE TOMORROW. IN THE MEANTIME, BE SAFE. TAKE CARE OF YOURSELF AND WE WILL SEE YOU FOR TODAY IN ST. LOUIS.

Channel: StormSpotterMike

Views: 1,891

Keywords: Tornado, Severe Weather, Amazon, Jeff Bezos, Radar, Dual-Pol, Disaster, Damage, Distruction, Twisters, KSDK-TV, St. Louis

Id: 0ljsREz4N_U

Length: 480min 14sec (28814 seconds)

Published: Mon Dec 13 2021