WATCH: Biden says Feds ‘not leaving’ Mississippi town hit by tornado until community is back on its feet It’s coming this way,” Red Padilla, a singer and songwriter in the band Red and the Revelers, said in the video. “Uh, no, that’s an actual tornado, y’all. Outside a Little Rock Guitar Center, five people were captured on video aiming their phones at the swirling sky. It got really quiet, then it got really loud,” Scott said afterward, as chainsaws roared and sirens blared in the area. She could hear glass shattering as the tornado roared past, and emerged afterward to find that her house was one of the few on her street that didn’t have a tree fall on it. Resident Niki Scott took cover in the bathroom after her husband called to say a tornado was headed her way. “Property damage is extensive and we are still responding,” he said. Mayor Frank Scott Jr., who announced that he was requesting assistance from the National Guard, tweeted in the evening that officials were aware of 24 people who had been hospitalized in the city but no fatalities at the moment.
Baptist Health Medical Center-Little Rock officials told KATV in the afternoon that 21 people had checked in there with tornado-caused injuries, including five in critical condition. The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Medical Center in Little Rock was operating at a mass casualty level and preparing for up to 20 patients, spokesperson Leslie Taylor said. In the evening, officials in Pulaski County announced a confirmed fatality in North Little Rock but did not immediately give details. WATCH: Large tornado plows through Little Rock, Arkansas It then crossed the Arkansas River into North Little Rock and surrounding cities, where widespread damage was reported to homes, businesses and vehicles. The Little Rock tornado tore first through neighborhoods in the western part of the city and shredded a small shopping center that included a Kroger grocery store. The destructive weather came as President Joe Biden toured the aftermath of a deadly tornado that struck in Mississippi a week ago and promised the government would help the area recover. There were more confirmed twisters in Iowa, damaging hail fell in Illinois and wind-whipped grass fires blazed in Oklahoma, part of a massive storm system threatening a broad swath of the country that is home to some 85 million people in the South and Midwest. There were reports of at least one dead and two dozen or more hurt, some critically.Īnother tornado hit the town of Wynne in the eastern part of the state near the Tennessee border, and officials reported widespread damage there including destroyed homes and downed trees. (AP) - A tornado raced through Little Rock and surrounding areas Friday, splintering homes, overturning vehicles and tossing trees and debris on roadways as people raced for shelter.
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