Tornadoes ripped across US state of Tennessee, shredding at least 40 buildings and killing at least eight people - officials
A resident photographs damage after a tornado touched down on March 3, 2020, in Nashville, Tennessee.
Schools, courts and transit lines were closed, and some damaged polling stations were moved only hours before Super Tuesday voting was set to begin.while visiting an emergency shelter early Tuesday. "You do have people at the hospital and frankly there have been fatalities." "Our community has been impacted significantly," the Mt Juliet Police Department tweeted. Multiple homes were damaged and multiple injuries were reported, the department said. Police officers and fire crews were responding to about 40 building collapses around the city, Metro Nashville police said.
Gerlock asked that the public avoid the airport until further notice and that the Airport Authority has activated its Emergency Operations Center to coordinate a response. Another showed the roof and walls gone from a building that still had what appeared to be boxes stacked on shelves. The American Red Cross of Tennessee opened a shelter for displaced residents downtown at the Nashville Farmers Market, just north of the state capitol, but a power outage there forced people to move again to the Centennial Sportsplex, the Tennessean reported.Nashville Electric tweeted that four of its substations were damaged in the tornado. Power outages as of 0900 GMT were affecting more than 44,000 customers, the utility company said.
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