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\"We had no idea that it would be this much damage that we're seeing right now at this point,\" Latricia Woodruff, a spokesperson for the Arkansas Division of Emergency Management, told ABC News Live Prime on Friday about the tornado activity in the state. \"There's a lot of homes that have been damaged, other structures. We heard about a fire station here in Little Rock that had some damage to it, as well.\"

Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders declared a state of emergency due to Friday's severe weather and activated the National Guard to assist state and local law enforcement. She said there was \"significant damage\" in central Arkansas due to the storm.

\"Arkansans must continue to stay weather aware as storms are continuing to move through,\" Sanders tweeted.

Sanders spoke with President Joe Biden on Saturday, saying Biden and Homeland Security have \"offered a tremendous amount of support.\"

\"Anything that Arkansas needs, they have assured us that those resources will be here and on the ground,\" she said during a press conference Saturday.

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PHOTO: A family evacuates their Walnut Ridge neighborhood on March 31, 2023, in Little Rock, Arkansas.
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1 dead after roof of Illinois theater collapses

In Illinois, a 50-year-old man died and dozens were injured after a roof collapsed at the Apollo Theatre in Belvidere due to a suspected tornado, officials said.

A tornado siren went off at 7:24 p.m. local time; at 7:47 p.m., there were reports of the roof collapse, according to Dan Zaccard, emergency management director for Boone County.

Hospitals received more than 40 patients from the incident, including 28 who were transported from the scene via ambulances, officials said.

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PHOTO: A house is damaged by fallen trees on West Hurlbut Avenue near where the roof of the Apollo Theatre collapsed during a tornado, on April 1, 2023, in Belvidere, Ill.
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In Crawford County, three people died after a residential structure they were in collapsed, a state official told ABC News.

Indiana: Sullivan 'like a war zone'

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PHOTO: People look at a destroyed decommissioned helicopter that that was displayed at the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) post 2459 the day after a tornado hit Sullivan, Indiana, U.S. April 1, 2023. REUTERS/Jon Cherry
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The mayor of Sullivan, Indiana, said midday Saturday that about 200 structures in Sullivan County were severely damaged, calling it \"mass devastation,\" as search-and-rescue efforts were ongoing after Friday's severe weather.

\"What this looks like, is a war zone,\" Mayor Clint Lamb said during a press briefing.

An area south of the county seat of about 4,000 \"is essentially unrecognizable right now,\" Lamb said earlier.

ABC News' Will McDuffie, Jianna Cousin, Matt Foster, Robinson Perez and Kenton Gewecke contributed to this report.

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