Death toll from Friday's tornadoes rises to 88

Communities successful occidental Kentucky and successful adjacent states volition resume rescue and betterment efforts Tuesday from past week's deadly outbreak of tornadoes that killed dozens of people.

Officials are inactive trying to measure conscionable however overmuch harm the storms afflicted erstwhile they blew done the portion precocious Friday night.

On Monday, Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear told reporters that 74 Kentuckians were killed arsenic a effect of the storms but noted that astatine slightest 100 radical are inactive unaccounted for oregon missing. The Associated Press reports that the storms killed 14 radical successful Arkansas, Illinois, Missouri and Tennessee, bringing the existent decease toll from the upwind events to 88.

Beshear connected Monday estimated that arsenic galore arsenic 1,000 homes had been destroyed successful Friday's storms, leaving an untold fig of Kentuckians homeless.

As of aboriginal Tuesday morning, PowerOutage.us reports that astir 23,000 customers successful the Bluegrass State are inactive without power. An further 2,000 radical are inactive without powerfulness successful neighboring states.

Beshear did study immoderate bully quality connected Tuesday, noting that officials person now accounted for each the employees who were moving astatine a Mayfield candle mill Friday erstwhile a tornado deed it. Though 8 workers mislaid their lives, officials initially feared the decease toll successful the mill would beryllium overmuch higher.

President Joe Biden volition question to Kentucky connected Wednesday. He is expected to sojourn Mayfield and Dawson Springs, 2 of the hardest-hit areas successful Kentucky.