A series of tornadoes touched down in eight states from Texas to North Carolina, leaving at least 26 people dead.

The storms destroyed full neighborhoods, with damage particularly bad in the town of Monroe, Louisiana, some devastating scenes there of ravished communities.

ABC is Victor Kendo is on the ground in Louisiana with a closer look tonight.

Relentless storms slamming the Northeast in the middle of the Corona virus pandemic.

A family inside their home outside New York City.

When this tree fell and just came crashing through the ceiling, I was lucky to get out alive.

One of many families with damage tomes amid those shelter in place orders outdoor Corona virus testing facilities shut down across the region.

The high winds and driving rain made the conditions on safe for both visitors and health workers toe open today at that massive fields hospital treating cove in patients in New York's Central Park.

Officials confident that tens can withstand the wind, you can see it.

More than 50 tornadoes reported in the last 24 hours, including this one northeast of Jackson, Mississippi, in Lawrence County, Mississippi.

The Sheriff's Department mourning the loss of Deputy Robert Ames Worth and his wife, Paula writing Robert left this world a hero as he shielded Mrs Paula during the tornado.

Chattanooga, Tennessee.

Taking a direct hit from an E F three twister with winds of 145 miles per hour, the decision of whether open shelters amid the cove in 19 Pandemic faced across the region.

At the end of the day Life site, you had to persist over everything else.

And in Monroe, Louisiana, where hundreds of homes were damaged, a picture of me and my mother my mother died out a couple of years ago.

Alicia Thomas and her daughter Cynthia, now picking up the pieces they were trapped inside there, decimated home with three young Children until their neighbor Jared More came racing to the rescue.

What was your first?

I got a hip.

Gotta get a map.

We don't get him out there.

They're not gonna make it.

Everyone made it out safely.

Grateful to be alive.

And Victor Kendo joins us.

Now live with more Victor.

How is the response to this disaster impacted by emergency service's that are already dealing with the Corona virus pandemic.

Lindsay.

We ask that same question to Mississippi's emergency management executive director.

He told us that these storms could not have come at a worse possible time.

Resource is already stretched thin, and this would greatly impact their response.

Here in Louisiana, they're doing what they kind to start the cleanup process.

They're trying to get power back up and running and putting some tarps over some roofs that can still be salvaged for people who are displaced.

The Department of Homeland Security is actually moving families into local hotels instead of shelters that should help with social distancing.

Lindsey Talk about adding insult to injury.

Victor A.

Kendo.

Thank you so much for that.

Hi, everyone.

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