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At least 100 people are thought to have been killed in Kentucky after tornadoes ripped across the South and Midwest of the US on Friday.<\/p>

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Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear estimated the toll would exceed 100 after \u2018some of the worst tornado damage\u2019 the state has experienced \u2018in a long time\u2019.<\/p>\n

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\u2018It\u2019s been one of the toughest nights in Kentucky\u2019s history,\u2019 Beshear told a news conference early on Saturday.<\/p>

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A spokeswoman for the state\u2019s emergency management service said that rescue officials had not confirmed figures for deaths or injuries as of early Saturday.<\/p>

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Beshear added the town of Mayfield had been devastated and said the damage was \u2018some of the worst we\u2019ve seen in a long time.\u2019<\/p>\n

At least one person was killed and five were injured when a tornado shredded the roof of a nursing home in Monette in northern Arkansas and another person killed in Missouri.<\/p>

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A further three people were killed in the severe weather in Tennessee, Dean Flener, spokesman for the state\u2019s Emergency Management Agency said.<\/p>\n

Elsewhere, in Illinois, authorities said many people were trapped after a roof partially collapsed at an Amazon.com Inc warehouse near St. Louis late on Friday, after tornadoes and strong storms blew through the area.<\/p>

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Speaking at a press conference early Saturday morning, Beshear said: \u00a0\u2018As of 4:45am [CST] 56,854 Kentuckians are without power. I have been personally over at the emergency operations centre since about 1am overseeing our response and hearing and absorbing the difficult news in real time.\u2019<\/p>

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He said: \u2018Before midnight, I declared a state of emergency. I\u2019ve activated the national guard. We are deploying 181 guardsmen including search and extraction and debris clearing folks.\u2019<\/p>\n

He said search and rescue officials had been working through the night to pull people from the rubble.<\/p>\n

At least 100 emergency vehicles descended upon the Amazon warehouse near Edwardsville, Illinois, about 25 miles (40 kilometers) east of St. Louis, where a wall that was about the length of a football field collapsed, as did the roof above it.<\/p>\n

It wasn\u2019t immediately clear how many people were hurt, but one person was flown by helicopter to a hospital.<\/p>\n

Edwardsville Police Chief Mike Fillback said several people who were in the building were taken by bus to the police station in nearby Pontoon Beach for evaluation. By early Saturday, rescue crews were still sorting through the rubble to determine if anyone was trapped inside. Fillback said the process would last for several more hours. Cranes and backhoes were brought in to help move debris.<\/p>\n

\u2018Please be patient with us. Our fire personnel are doing everything they can to reunite everyone with their loved ones,\u2019 Fillback said on KMOV-TV.<\/p>\n

The Belleville News-Democrat reported that the Amazon fulfillment center in Edwardsville opened with two warehouses in 2016, with 1.5 million square feet of space. The warehouses are used to store items until they are shipped to mail-order customers.<\/p>\n

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\u2018The safety and well-being of our employees and partners is our top priority right now,\u2019 Amazon spokesperson Richard Rocha said in a written statement Friday night. \u2018We\u2019re assessing the situation and will share additional information when it\u2019s available.\u2019<\/p>\n

Three storm-related deaths were confirmed in Tennessee, said Dean Flener, spokesman for the Tennessee Emergency Management Agency. Two of the deaths occurred in Lake County, and the third was in Obion County \u2013 both in the northwestern corner of the state.<\/p>\n

In Tennessee, the severe weather killed at least three people, Dean Flener, spokesman for the state\u2019s Emergency Management Agency, said in comments reported by the Washington Post.<\/p>\n

A tornado struck the Monette Manor nursing home in Arkansas on Friday night, killing one person and trapping 20 people inside as the building collapsed, Craighead County Judge Marvin Day told The Associated Press.<\/p>\n

Five people had serious injuries, and a few others had minor ones, he said. The nursing home has 86 beds.<\/p>\n

Day said another nursing home about 20 miles (32 kilometers) away in Truman was badly damaged but no injuries were reported. The residents were being evacuated because the building is unsafe.<\/p>\n

Workers at a National Weather Service office had to take shelter as a tornado passed near their office in Weldon Spring, Missouri, about 30 miles (48 kilometers) west of St. Louis. One person died and two others were injured in building collapses near the towns of Defiance and New Melle, both just a few miles from the weather service office.<\/p>\n

The storms caused a CSX company freight train to derail in western Kentucky, although it said no injuries were reported, the New York Times said.<\/p>\n

Bill Bunting, operations chief at the Storm Prediction Center, part of the National Weather Service, said at least five states were hit by the tornadoes, naming them as Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Missouri and Arkansas, the Times reported.<\/p>\n

\u2018It happens quick but apparently there was a little bit of time with tornado sirens going off.\u2019<\/p>\n

Some residents were found in the basement \u2018and were prepared for this,\u2019 he said.<\/p>\n

Melissa Moon, a reporter with WREG3, tweeted a photo of the severely damaged Monette Manor nursing home, with what appeared to be a mangled bed in the parking lot.<\/p>\n

The exact speed of the tornadoes were not yet known on Friday night, and it was unclear how many there had been. CNN reported that there were 19 tornadoes that hammered the five state.<\/p>\n

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Some reports suggested that the record for the longest single tornado \u2013 219 miles \u2013 could have been broken, and that it had crossed four states, breaking another record.<\/p>\n

Observers speculated that many of tornadoes were at four or even five on the Enhanced Fujita (EF) scale.<\/p>\n

Wind speeds of between 136 and 165mph are found in EF4 tornados, and of 200mpg in EF5 tornados.<\/p>\n

\u2018This tornado is so powerful it literally broke Radarscope velocity,\u2019 tweeted @WxAtlantic.<\/p>\n

\u2018The delta velocity is so high that the couplet just folded over on itself.\u2019<\/p>\n

Almost 300 miles to the north of Monette, Southern Illinois Fire Incidents confirmed a \u2018mass casualty incident\u2019 at the Amazon warehouse in Edwardsville and said more than 20 units of emergency responders were attending the scene.<\/p>\n

\u2018About a third of the warehouse is torn down and damaged from either straight by line winds or tornado,\u2019 tweeted Jenna Rae, with Illinois\u2019s KMOV station.<\/p>\n

One woman said she was speaking to a family member inside the warehouse as the storm hit.<\/p>\n

\u2018He was on the phone with me while it was happening,\u2019 Aisha White told KMOV.<\/p>\n

\u2018The tornado was hitting the back of the building, the trucks were coming in, I told him to jump out the truck and duck.<\/p>\n

\u2018We watched the building go up, stuff hitting the cars, I told him I was on my way.\u2019<\/p>\n

J.B. Pritzker, governor of Illinois, tweeted: \u2018My prayers are with the people of Edwardsville tonight, and I\u2019ve reached out to the mayor to provide any needed state resources.\u2019<\/p>\n

Richard Rocha, an Amazon spokesman, said: \u2018The safety and well-being of our employees and partners is our top priority right now.<\/p>\n

\u2018We\u2019re assessing the situation and will share additional information when it\u2019s available.\u2019<\/p>\n

And in Kentucky, the town of Mayfield \u2013 home to 10,000 people \u2013 was hard-hit.<\/p>\n

Buildings were left without their roofs; large trees were uprooted; glass in store fronts was shattered, and debris scattered on the ground.<\/p>\n

The courthouse, built in 1888, was devastated, with the tower sheared off the building and the roof lifted off.<\/p>\n

The wall of a candle factory collapsed, trapping people inside and leaving them begging for help.<\/p>\n

\u2018We got hit by a hurricane \u2013 I\u2019m at work in Mayfield, and we are trapped,\u2019 said Kyanna Lou, broadcasting a Facebook Live from the dark, with a woman sobbing behind her and muffled shouts and moans.<\/p>\n

\u2018Please, y\u2019all. Get us some help. We\u2019re at the candle factory in Mayfield.<\/p>\n

\u2018Please, send us some help. The wall is stuck on me. Nobody can get to us, y\u2019all please. Pray for us.\u2019<\/p>\n

She added: \u2018We were all in the safe shelter place, the whole building fell. We are stuck.\u2019<\/p>\n

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