0 clark, two unstoppable entrepreneurs both driven to better their communities. that's what earns them a spot on the next list. i am dr. sanjay gupta. hope to see you back here next week. 3 p.m. on the east coast, noon out west for those of you just joining us. i am miguel marquez. tornados rip across the midwest leaving huge paths of destruction and reducing homes to piles of sticks. we're getting a sense of how bad the damage is. surveyors say ef-3 tornados hit illinois, missouri and oklahoma last night that. means wind speeds as high as 165 miles an hour. those strong enough to rip roofs off homes and toss heavy cars around like toys. in oklahoma nine people died including two children. this comes just as those communities struggle to recover and even bigger twister that touched down almost two weeks ago. >> oh, my goodness. oh, my goodness. >> more than 600 miles of terror, a massive storm system again sweeping through tornado alley from oklahoma all the way to indiana. in union city, oklahoma, storm chaser brandon sullivan caught a storm and maybe more than he bargained for. at least 17 tornados reported like this one in el reno, oklahoma, and then there is in in el reno, a double tornado turning into a single twister as people narrowly escape. even the weather channel's storm chaser, a heavy suv wasn't spared. a tornado found it and tossed it some 200 yards, only minor injuries for meteorologist mike betts and his team. in an area already traumatized by storms, flash flooding in oklahoma city turned streets into rivers. some drivers could only stand on their cars waiting for rescue. outside of oklahoma city cars flipped off freeways. this woman tried to out run the storm. a state trooper helped her check for debris lodged in her hand. you can see this road falling away. across a huge swath of the country power cut to hundreds of thousands. power lines like this in brinkton, missouri, on fire or knocked right over. even before the sun rose businesses took stock of damage and trucks and warehouses badly damaged in earth city, missouri. >> one of the tractor-trailer blew over, rolled over his car. we have four or five trucks damaged. >> driving in town or highways treacherous, not only flooding but lightning and debris on roads made for slow going across the storm's path. in gillespie, illinois, the high school badly damaged and the hope now no more tornados than a year where mother nature has been unrelenting. seems like oklahoma just cannot catch a break from the weather. two major storm cells with deadly tornados and less than two weeks and we keep hearing people there are tough and ed is live in union city for us. what are you seeing there on the ground? >> you mentioned in that piece just a short distance away from where it was toppled over here a short distance on the main road from the neighborhood we're in, and we just watched a crew cleaning up that car and taking it away, a wrecker service. what we're seeing in the neighborhoods is that process of cleaning up. have you a family over here and this is when people lean on family and friends the most, and ask myself often when you are in the situations how do you even begin to pick up the pieces here and you hear repeatedly from people that we talked to it is just one piece at a time. you have to start going through your homes and sifting out what you can salvage and figuring out what you have to leave behind at this point. that's what we're seeing a lot of people do, not just that family here but look this is a sparsely populated area. we are on the west side of oklahoma city, oklahoma city far that way, but several homes here in this area between union city and el reno and toppled homes off the foundations and this is where the families are at. from as we look here in the distance in this area where there is probably five or six, seven homes, you see families beginning the process of cleaning up and you see the same thing over and over again people bringing trucks and trailers, whatever they can to be able to salvage what they can from their homes and belongings and see what they can salvage and drive away with. now the long hard process of cleaning up and rebuilding begins. that's what we're seeing throughout many parts of oklahoma city. back in the city one of the things we're hearing about and what people are contending with as you get into the work week, a lot of businesses, especially in downtown oklahoma city dealing with flooding issues and cleanup involved with that. that will be a focus they're on extremely intensely today as they get ready for the work week beginning on monday. that will be something to watch out for as well, miguel. >> thank you very much. you mentioned flooding, ed. we have new pictures of flooding in oklahoma city. despite the fact that it is sunny weather today, the scope of the rain that fell from the storm system is beginning to be known. looks like an enormous field there with the oil service industry completely flooded out there near oklahoma city. in missouri two reported tornados. more teams from the national weather service say the damage in st. charles shows an ef-3 tornado and declaring a state of emergency. the latest word is more than 80,000 people are without power. several high schools were damaged forcing the cancelation of graduation ceremonies today. the damage from the system stretches into illinois. the town of gillespie, about an hour's drive northeast from st. louis is now starting the summer with a major cleanup at its high school. jennifer delgado is live to show us what happened there. what is it like. >> reporter: i am in gillespie, illinois b an hour and a half away from st. louis. they suffered their own storm damage last night as severe storms came through. what are you looking at behind me is what's left of the gymnasium. you see the bricks down on the ground. we're still waiting to hear whether the national weather service is going to say what type of damage this is. based on me looking at this, it looks more like straight line winds. you can see how the debris is all in one direction. when you talk about tornado damage you see more debris spread around, but residents here said they heard the tornado warnings last night. a lot of them took safety and rightfully so. a lot of damage here reportedly 70 homes were damaged and 7 to 10 of those were destroyed. luckily there were no injuries here. we do have mayor john hicks here. if you can step over and talk about you're a proud town here of gillespie. this is incredible seeing that you had a tornado pretty close to the state four years ago and very close to this spot. >> almost exactly the same spot just from a different direction. instead of southwest like it was this time, it was northeast last time. bad luck two times in the last four years. both did a lot of damage to the school both times. >> you're probably very thankful that school got out on the 24th. what is next for your city here? what are you going to do for the residents? >> we'll try to clean up the property for one thing. we want people to be safe, be careful out cleaning up and do not touch wires. assume every wire is live. don't touch it. if you need help getting rid of debris, give us a call. >> this building, this isn't a building just made a couple years ago. my parents say when the buildings come from the '20s and '30s they're well made buildings. that's a sturdy building. this is shocking. >> built in 1920 thst and they just spent a couple million dollars a few years back remodeling so it would be more up to date and it is a shame this is going to be lost now for the city. >> hopefully everybody in the city of gillespie will help you and get everything back together. right now i can tell you this. luckily things have quieted down here. we have a chance of showers and thunderstorms out here as we go throughout the day. luckily after tomorrow the weather is going to clear up and that means residents will be able to get out here and start to clean things up. >> do you know if the mayor was injured in this storm? >> no injuries. that's a great thing. that's a sign of the tornado sirens there. you also want to point out, you also have the tornado watches out there. when you hear that, that means get your plan together. don't wait around for the warning and looked like a lot of resident ds that here and that's why we're not hearing about injuries out here. >> jennifer, the mayor's arm, though, he is clearly in a cast of some sort. was he injured in the storm or the cleanup? >> no. the mayor apparently had a little accident with his arm. my anchor wants to know what's going on with your arm here. he is well. he is out here z. he driving right through the middle of a tornado outbreak. >> i will talk with this storm chase era head. check this out. it looks like a low budget scene from star trek. mr. spock, captain kirk, played by irs workers. this video cost taxpayers tens of thousands of dollars and many are asking why would they spend their money on this?

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