for more on the kentucky tornado damage and deaths, i spoke with liam niemeyer, assistant news directorublic radio. liam, if you can, tell me what the last 24 hours have been like for you and your community? >> it's been, i'd say, the city of mayfield, for example, is unrecognizable. its people are still in shock. the clean up, as they say to me, it just started today. and, you know, entire streets of homes, the entire downtown court square in mayfield is completely demolished. and there's also tornado damage in other small western kentucky communities, too, including benton, princeton, madisonville. you know, there is a report of a death that's coming out of also muhlenberg county, too. it's just been really, really traumatic. lots of families lost homes, and i spoke with individuals who lost friends, too. the city of mayfield is only 10,000 people, and it's a lot more than just, you know, physical homes or physical churches. >> sreenivasan: it's hard for people who have not experienced a tornado or are living in that part of the country to get a sense of the scale of the devastation h

for an update, i spoke with liam niemeyer, assisnt news director at public radio station wkms. it's been a week since we spoke, and i know you've been reporting the entire time about this crisis. tell me what you've seen in the last week in terms of relief efforts and trying to make people whole. >> a lot of that has been through grassroots efforts by the churches, but, increasingly, there has been national organizations that have been coming in and helping out. but also increasingly, we're also starting to see a federal presence, too. the other day, there was a-- a couple of mobile registration sites that fema had set up for people to start applying for fema aid, you know, and various information distributed on how to qualify, how to apply, things of that nature. because, just in the fact that fema hasn't been to this region, there hasn't been a major disaster in this region in quite some time, so the process is new for everyone. and so, there's still a large cleanup process going on, which, of course, president joe biden said that the federal government would cover the next 30