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At least 27 people are dead, such as noting storms from the heart to the eastern coast

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At least 27 people were reported in several states in a wide outbreak of harsh weather from the heart to the eastern coast – with strong storms in expectations on Saturday.

State officials reported that 18 people were killed in Kentucky, and seven people were killed in Missouri and two in Virginia.

Most of the deaths occurred in Kentucky in Laurel Province in the southeastern part of the state, about 130 miles southeast of Louisville.

Kentucky’s governor, Andy Bishr toured his term on Saturday, and told reporters during a press conference after that, “You can not only see the destruction, you can feel it.”

Bishr, who declared a state of emergency before storms, said he was the ruler of at least 13 disasters announced federally related to weather, and this storm was one of the worst in terms of loss in life and damage.

The ages of the dead in storms ranged between 25 and 76, with at least 12 deaths in the 1960s and 1970s, according to information issued by state officials.

Peshir said that one of the people who died were determined as Major Roger Leslie Lythman from the Laurel Fire Department, who was in public service for 39 years and “died do what the first respondents do every day, and they risk his life for our safety.”

Residents sail through debris

Some neighborhoods in London, the headquarters of Laurel Province, have witnessed complete destruction – homes in the middle of the night, as the population in the corridors and floors. On Saturday, with complete masses of homes, residents left the sea through the remaining homes.

In this photo released by London, Kentucky, mayor Randal Widel, the path of destruction appears from a hurricane that swept the area on May 16, 2025.

Mayor Randal Widel/Facebook

Lony Nantz, 78, said he was in bed with his wife when his daughters shouted that a hurricane was coming. They stick to each other in their gallery while the house around them collapsed. It was cut from his home spread throughout his courtyard and destroyed his vehicles by the debris.

The destruction appears after a hurricane via London, Kentucky, on May 16, 2025.

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On the street, Kyndra Foster was with 13 family members on the basement. She said she believed that they would die. The youngest child was only 4 months old. Her 8 -year -old daughter left bruises on her face, and she didn’t think she would go to. Foster was on a wheelchair on Saturday with a broken foot after a piece of debris hit him.

The destruction appears after a hurricane via London, Kentucky, on May 16, 2025.

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Weather service: was St. Louis Tornado EF-3

In the state of Missouri, Saint Louis was severely hit when a hurricane separated through the city’s neighborhoods on Friday afternoon, and the roofs of the houses and hit the buildings.

Residents are inspecting their home after a hurricane completely torn from the back wall of a two -storey house in Saint Louis, Missouri, May 16, 2025.

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National weather service He said on the update on Saturday The storm was at least an EF-3 hurricane, with winds up to 140 miles per hour, and width is one mile sometimes.

“I would like this to describe it as one of the worst storms,” ​​Saint Luis Kara Spencer’s mayor said on Saturday. “Certainly, the destruction is really traumatized, and let us not forget that people have lost their lives. We do not continue to make sure that we define all those who were injured, in addition to the huge amount of damage to the property that caused great losses.”

Spencer said five people in the city were killed and 38 were wounded.

In contact with the leaders of the states affected by storms.

She said: “We discussed the best of the emergency management led by the local authorities. We have strengthened that the Ministry of National Security is ready to take immediate measures to provide resources and support.”

More than 462,000 customers without salad across multiple states, extending from Michigan to Tennessee.

Finally, at least 26 hurricanes of storms were reported on Friday in Kentucky, Indiana, Missouri, Illinois and one of New Jersey.

The cold was reported in the size of the soft ball in Barlo, Kentucky, and near Sullivan, Indiana, where Hill has been reported larger than tennis size locally from Texas to Ohio.

In Virginia, two people died after the trees fell on their cars during the storms there on Friday.

The collapsed ceiling is located in the front courtyard after the hurricanes were separated, which destroyed the houses and the spread of debris across residential neighborhoods, in Santleh, Missouri, May 16, 2025.

Lawrence Bryant/Reuters

In total, 15 states reported damage to storms of cold, wind and hurricanes from Missouri to Michigan and went out to New Jersey as severe storms continued to track across the east in the center of the United States from Arkansas to Virginia.

The threat of harsh weather on Saturday

The harsh weather was more expected on Saturday.

The threat of the harsh weather that targets the center of the country began on Saturday evening, with a focus first on the southern plains.

The Tornado watch was released for parts of Oklahoma and Texas until 10 pm, including Oklahoma City and Witchita Fols, Texas. It can be destroyed wind storms, large cold and two hurricanes of any severe thunderstorms that move.

To the south, severe thunderstorms have been deployed across parts of the center of Texas, including the Dallas Fort Worth Metro. In these areas, the threat of the hurricane is less, with harmful wind storms and the possibility of very large cold in basic concerns.

Thunderstorms began to shoot and are expected to sweep the hours of the watch until Saturday night.

Strong thunderstorms continued across parts of the south early on Saturday morning, and extended from Arkansas to Carolinas.

These storms have already been reported.

In this fixed photo obtained by the Lorel Province Financial Court in Kentucky, locals are looking for the damage of the hurricane in Laurel Province near London, Kentucky, on May 17, 2025.

Laurel Provincial Financial Court via Getty Images

In the northeast, the highest threat is focused on parts of New York State, West Massachusetts, most Vermont and West New Hampshire, including Berlington, Vermont; Springfield, Massachusetts; And Albani, New York, with the basic risks that destroy the wind, the large cold and a few isolated hurricanes as well.

For the central southern plains, the highest threat focuses on parts of the center of Texas that includes Dallas and Arlington, Texas.

There is a greater threat, but it is less for other regions of Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, Auklaoma and Kandas, which includes Oklahoma City, Little Rock, Arkansas, Witchita, Kansas.

ABC News’ Luke Barr contributed to this report.

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