Two killed in East Nashville after tornado rips through downtown

tomorrow and Matthew, very heartbreaking news is coming in that two people have now been confirmed to have died in this

tornado

there, Heather, we heard it through you there in the newsroom, total shock to be honest, I think so far we've heard from people. injured, we even heard from Councilman Bret Withers, who at the time didn't believe anyone was seriously injured, but the fact that now that two people have been confirmed dead really makes this whole situation weigh heavily on him, but in the meantime, We are here on Main Street right in front of this real estate business where we currently have the business owner and his friends and just workers boarding up the windows right now, the cleanup effort is clearly already underway, they say this is Just a moment to protect your belongings.

Protect everything inside the window of this building was blown up and smashed and with me right now is actually the gentleman who owns this business, the first to be a broker, but yeah, how are you doing and what are you planning to do now? We're just trying to get this. We have broken windows, but this one is smashed. We are just trying to secure it so that we don't miss any files or have anything else damaged and prevent more weather elements from entering. there you told me before, this is the way East Nashville people are already meeting and trying to contact you to volunteer, sure Griffin is Travis is an agent here, but Griffin is a neighbor and a friend of mine and he immediately He got in this car and came here and brought the wood and said we're going to build a fence, so we're going to put this fence up real quick and we'll be protected, but that's how he took Willie away, that's one of the reasons why.

We like someone here and we live here. It is an eerie sight to see that there is no electricity. It's cut off here. The fact that two people have now confirmed it just adds to the seriousness of this whole situation. It's crazy and sad. Hear that, definitely keep those people in our prayers and just have gratitude for the fact that we're okay, the road looks like a war zone and it's not something we're used to seeing around here. It is very sad that there is so much damage. but we will come back from this. This side of town always does.

Thank you so much. I'm glad you're safe. Elec describes this is Main Street. It is normally a busy area of ​​East Nashville. The light just turned on here while we. I continued walking down the street, he described it as a war zone because really at this point the police and other teams have been blocking this off now compared to what it was maybe two hours ago when people were trying to get around all the mess, but I just want to keep walking towards

downtown

Jimmy here on Main Street, you can see as I carry this light just to point out all the damage that we've seen as we get closer down here.

I'm not clearly sure what it was. of this structure over here, but all the beams and all the metal parts have completely tangled and jammed right next to this hall again here on Main Street, right in front of Jim Fied again, the seriousness of this situation can be seen. how strong Mother Nature was and the strong winds just blew all of this down. I mean this was what looked like potentially a billboard of some kind as we go through or around here again, Councilman Bret Withers who we talked to earlier, especially on Woodland Street near the Five Points area, recommends people to stay away because of all the downed power lines, not as much as we're seeing here, but it's actually all the debris blocking the road, this is really the main concern right now, again, police.

I've been blocking this road, so it's a little empty now compared to two hours ago. It's disturbing as someone described it as an apocalypse. There's no one around here. It's dark and I want to point out this building here. It looks like it was an apartment building, you see that piece on that roof just collapsed, it just disappeared and if we cross the street Jamie, I go to gym five here on Main Street, we see some people cleaning, it looks like the windows are also They have burst. It seems like it's just when you take everything in it, it leaves you breathless and unfortunately not in a good way, so we have emergency equipment here.

I just want to point out that they are still blocking this path. Look at the backdrop of the city center there, they told us as they continue down, that's when things get pretty bad. This is one of the gems I hear on Main Street, are you guys okay, no one's hurt or anything right now, so that's what we've got? I've heard that at l

east

here on Main Street no one was hurt. I want to see if I can talk to this fire chief. Potentially, let's see if we can get some information out of this one. Hello Mr.

Matthew from Newschannel5, how are things going? We have heard that two people have been confirmed, yes, okay, I understood that well, thank you, I appreciate it. Okay, thanks again, as we get more information we will be sure to pass it on and send it back to you.