The official death toll did not ride overnight and remains at 74 confirmed fatalities.
Eight of the deceased remain unidentified or next of kin has yet to be notified.
The age range of those killed now ranges from 2 months to 98 years old.
Twelve of those killed were children
Currently there are 122 Kentuckians unaccounted for, as local, state and federal crews continue rescue and recovery efforts
The total number of Kentucky National Guardsmen supporting storm relief is 568.
79 soldiers and airmen completed search and extraction and fatality search and retrieval at factory site in Mayfield, with two chaplains serving for spiritual support.
Utility companies are continuing to work safely to restore power and repair water outages. The total number of customers without power is 24,000.
Damage assessments are ongoing, and major work continues to remove debris from roadways and restore or replace damaged traffic signals.
Blood donations are still needed. In response to requests from the community for blood donation information, the Red Cross has provided more than 40 blood products to hospitals in Kentucky. The Red Cross remains in touch with hospital partners throughout affected areas and sand ready to provide additional blood products as needed.
The Team Western Kentucky Relief Fund has accepted 66,829 donations totaling $9,894,603.18.
Kentucky State Parks are providing emergency shelters to distressed people affected by the tornado as well as the American Red Cross, utility crews, and first responders.
As of last night, Kentucky State Parks have provided 152 rooms for displaced residents and 67 rooms for first responders.
The World Central Kitchen (WCK) arrived to Western KY on Saturday and started providing meals that same day. Today, they are operating six sites with food trucks, including:
Hurrikane’s: Splitting time between First Baptist Church (960 Industrial Park Road, Dawson Springs KY) and Landmark Apostolic Holiness Church (590 Industrial Park Road, Dawson Springs KY).
Jus Burgers & Let’s Get Fried: Dawson Springs High School (317 Eli Street, Dawson Springs KY)
Chicago Jerk: Jenning’s Creek Elementary School (2617 Russellville Road, Bowling Green KY)
Rolling Smoke: East Marshall Baptist Church (6324 Moors Camp Hwy, Gilbertsville KY)
World Central Kitchen Food Truck, All Tied Up: Mayfield Fairgrounds (1001 Housman Street Mayfield KY)
Infiniti Farms: The Plaza by Lowe’s (1104 Paris Road, Mayfield KY)
WCK also has six community outreach teams who have crossed the affected paths of the tornados from Wingo up to Dawson Springs and Princeton.
There are 10 WCK employees on the ground with eight local volunteers coming today.
WCK is working closely with Chef Ed Lee, who operates the Lee Initiative, and Louisville-area food trucks to provide warm meals. They also have their own food trucks producing hot meals and delivering them into communities.
So far, they have done 2,000 meals and are ramping up – they expect to serve 1,200 to 1,500 meals today.
