Rescuers combed through debris left after tornadoes ripped through the central United States.
The severe weather left scores of people dead, flattening homes and workplaces.
Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear said at least 70 people were feared dead when a twister touched down for more than 320 kilometres in his state.
If early reports are confirmed, the twister “will likely go down perhaps as one of the longest track violent tornadoes in United States history,” said Victor Genzini, a researcher on extreme weather at Northern Illinois University.
The current death toll of 36 across five states includes 22 people in Kentucky, six people in Illinois, where an Amazon facility was hit; four in Tennessee; two in Arkansas, where a nursing home was
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