a narrow escape from the deadly
Nashville tornadoes a woman named Kaylee
tells a local news station that her
boyfriend woke her up just in time to
take cover I was dead asleep so he woke
me up and we turn on the news and just
saw that there's a tornado wasn't really
sure how serious it was and then they're
saying it was like coming towards East
Nashville the city of Nashville is
trying to pick up the pieces after
tornadoes ripped through its communities
in the middle of the night more than 20
people were killed but many were able to
escape with their lives the Governor of
Tennessee declared a state of emergency
dozens of buildings were destroyed and
many people were also unaccounted for
Kaylee says she was thankful to have
been spared my boyfriend is a true hero
honestly because I would have slept
through the whole thing it's my mommy
says sleep through anything and yeah I
almost slept through a tornado
celebrities with ties to the area
offered their sympathies
Dolly Parton was one of them we are all
with you and hope that your family is
okay and your properties you want to be
able to get mended pretty soon get your
lights back on but just wanted you to
know you've been thought of shelters
have been set up for people displaced by
the disaster meanwhile rescue teams are
searching for the missing as the people
of Nashville hold out hope for their
neighbors for Inside Edition dot-com I'm
Meryl Montalbano