City of Little Rock worst hit, with about 70,000 homes without power as storms move through midwest and southern US
, reported. Police officers helped take people to the hospital because there weren’t enough ambulances to respond to the wounded.reported that a hospital was treating at least 21 people for injuries, five of them in critical condition, according to a spokesperson for Baptist Health Medical Center.
Passengers and airport employees at Clinton national airport in Little Rock took shelter in bathrooms. And aerial footage showed several rooftops were torn from homes in Little Rock and nearby Benton. About 70,000 homes were without power in that region late Friday afternoon, according to WCAV’s report.
The president pledged that the federal government was not leaving until the area was back on its feet. In the close-knit community of Rolling Fork, Biden read aloud the names of each of the 13 residents of the small town killed in the storm after touring the wreckage. He acknowledged that the road to recovery will be long and hard, but said he was committed to helping them through it.
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