Todd, thank you so much.
Obviously, the weather is our tp
story in our top four it for to.
The storms have knocked out
power to a lot of people.
This afternoon we want to give
you a live look at the outage
map across East Tennessee.
Take a look at some of the numbs
we want to show you here there n
Knox County you're seeing more n
56,000 customers still without power.
In Jefferson,
more than 11,000 customers without power.
Also in Blunt you saw more than
9000 there in severe county,
also a high number more than 14.
Over on the western edge of our
viewing area in Cumberland Couny
earlier we saw more than 7000 people.
So we want to keep an eye
on that one as well.
Certainly lots of folks without power
were also getting reports of lof
trees down all over East Tennes.
Some were blocking I-40 at Western Ave.
also blocking I-40 earlier in Rome County.
These pictures are from
Tom Wilder in Sweetwater.
You can see several trees down in that area.
Look at that damage.
Just trees snacked off in those
high winds this afternoon.
Now take a look at this
video we want to show you.
It was taken by our 10
News producer Lindsay Long.
You can watch as a tree in
her own backyard falls.
My goodness.
Thankfully she was safe inside,
a little close to the window,
but certainly.
Wow,
look at that view of the tree just falling
right in front of the window th.
My goodness,
Now we want to give you another
look as live shot in Dandridge s
afternoon where you can see sevl
trees down there in downtown Dandridge.
Take a look,
you can see a big big portion of that
tree on the right side of your screen there.
Looks like it mostly avoided the
home you see there behind it.
So that is good news for the
folks who live in that home.
But you can see where it broke
off of that very large tree
perhaps came down in the yard.
There Certainly some damage like
this we are seeing repeated acrs
scenes across our coverage area
including in West Knoxville as .
And we also have some new
photos just into our newsroom.
Take a look at the damage at Lel
Crossings apartment in West Knox County.
If you look here you can see at
that area several roofs damaged.
Just look at the top side of your screen
and there take a look at this v.
Many,
many roofs damaged in that
area in West Knox County.
Certainly going to be a lot of
cleanup for folks there and
hopefully people are all safe.
We've not heard yet about any reports
of injuries coming into our newsroom.
So that's the one bright spot ts
afternoon as we've been covering
all of this damage for you.
Our 10 News Live anchor,
Katie Inman is out in West
Knoxville today checking some
of that damage for us.
She's live now from the level
Crossing Crossing apartments.
Katie, what can you tell us?
Hey, Brittany. I'm hoping our le
signal sticks around with all oe
damage of trees down, power lines down.
It's been a little spotty,
so bear with us. But I just want
to show you some of that damage.
You just saw some pictures,
but trees down,
all across the parking lot,
dozens of people displaced.
You can see people walking out
with some of their things.
I talked to some of the neighbo.
They said they don't really know
what the next steps are yet
down here in this bottom floor.
I spoke with one of the residen,
Joy Branch.
She said she was standing by tht
window that was blown out right before.
Did get blown out said
it sounded like a bomb.
It all happened so quick and jut
a glance around the level crossg
apartments here in West Knox Co,
you can not only see the roof ripped off
in multiple places, but also
those windows that have been
busted out by those strong wind,
those shutters that have been rd
off as well. And you can of course hear,
I don't know if you can
hear it from my microphone,
but we can hear those alarms going off.
Don't know if they're you know
smoke alarms or or what but bute
can hear that chirp of the
alarms going off and of course
crews working to clean this up.
Apartments out here. Knoxville .
Carnes Fire Department.
The Knox County Sheriff's Office is out
here and we've been told that there's
a roofing company here that is helping
out to try and repair some of t.
And I haven't seen them yet but
one of the neighbours told me tt
and it's it's just wild to to se
this pulling into the parking l.
You see the the roof ripped off
so many areas and people just
honestly wondering what is next.
So many of them are going to hae
to find places to stay tonight.
They're going to have to figure
out what is going to happen.
They're still waiting on those
details from the apartment comp,
from those first responders ande
don't know those answers yet ei.
They said that it honestly,
it was unlike anything that thed
ever seen and it happened so quickly.
We'll go ahead and send things k
to you in the studio, Brittany.
But out here,
I have to say it is very heartbreaking
to see the damage that these
storms caused and then also to w
that there are dozens at least,
that have been displaced alread.
All right. Thanks so much for tt
update, Katie. We appreciate it.