Two Cats U S Political News
@twocatsvideoproduction·46.5K subscribers·11K videos
'Violent tornado' hits Missouri's capital, Jefferson City, after 3 killed in southwestern part of st
Posted
May 24, 2019
Views
20
May 24, 2019
20
Every word spoken in this episode is indexed. Type any phrase to jump straight to the moment it was said.
Type any word or phrase that may have been spoken. Click a result to seek the player to that exact moment.
Try a name, a topic, or a quoted line
1:18Now Playingwww.facebook.com/TwoCatsVideoProduction
At least 20 people were injured in the area around Jefferson City, with some reports of people being trapped.
A deadly storm system swept across Missouri on Wednesday, killing at least three people in the southwestern part of the state and causing extensive damage and injuring multiple people in the capital city.
The capital, Jefferson City, took a direct hit from a tornado shortly before midnight, marking the 7th straight day of tornadoes around the United States.
At least 20 people were injured in Cole County, where the city of 43,000 lies, and there are also reports of people trapped after the twister hit, authorities said at a news conference early Thursday.
"At this time, we are still trying to determine exactly how much damage we have," Jefferson City Police Lt. David Williams said. "We are still working very hard to identify any injured people and any places that we need to put more additional personnel."
Gov. Mike Parson said of the deaths in the southwestern part of the state near Joplin, "We are very thankful we didn't have any more fatalities than we did, but three is too many."
The National Weather Service issued a tornado warning for the Jefferson City area shortly after 11 p.m. and upgraded that to an emergency at 11:43 p.m. The tornado hit shortly after that, said Jim Sieveking, science and operations officer for the weather service’s St. Louis office.
"Violent tornado confirmed — shelter now!" the weather service tweeted.
The twister hit as the capital city area on Wednesday was bracing for a flood, with sections in the north ordered to evacuate.
The Missouri Department of Public Safety tweeted that extensive damage had been reported in some areas of the city, including downed power lines. It said that first responders were going door to door.
Some government buildings were damaged, including the Department of Labor which had roof damage, the Department of Public Safety said.
While there were no initial reports that homes or other buildings had collapsed, trees were down and roofs and other property had been damaged, Williams, the police spokesman, said.
"Materials are all over the roadway" he said. "There are power lines down all over this affected area.”
All firefighters were called in to assist, the Jefferson City Fire Department said on Facebook. "Please Pray for our Citizens," the department wrote.
Sentinel Indexing in Progress
Metadata and chapters are available. Claim extraction for this episode is pending.
All video content is delivered via YouTube embedded players in accordance with the YouTube Terms of Service. Sentinel provides research tools that promote discovery and accountability across political media.
