
Glimmer of relief amid deadly tornadoes' devastation
CBSN
At least eight people at a Kentucky candle factory were killed during a barrage of devastating tornadoes across several Midwestern and Southern states late Friday night into Saturday, but the death toll in that facility, at least, will be far lower than first feared.
The victims there were among dozens thought to have been killed across several Kentucky counties. The state was the worst-hit by far in the unusual mid-December swarm of twisters that leveled entire communities and left at least 25 people dead in Illinois, Tennessee, Arkansas and Missouri.
President Joe Biden declared a major disaster in Kentucky on Sunday night. He was to be briefed by Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell and others late Monday morning about the situation on the ground. Mayorkas and Criswell were among federal officials who viewed the twisters' aftermath on Sunday.

Federal regulators repeatedly granted appeals to remove Camp Mystic's buildings from their 100-year flood map, loosening oversight as the camp operated and expanded in a dangerous flood plain in the years before rushing waters swept away children and counselors, a review by The Associated Press found.