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Help with evacuations. residents cope with everything. >> there is just nothing left. im sorry. there is just nothing left. >> reporter: power companies are here trying to restore power. after yesterdays tornadoes. look over here. the cherry pickers, there is a worker going up now to try to restore some of these lines. we know that there are also heavy machinery, other heavy machinery here and on wait to try to clean up after what the sheriff says looks like a war zone. back here in granbury, te...

A deadly tornado outbreak in north texas. six people killed. live look at the devastation in the town of granbury. ten tornadoes touched down overnight. rescue crews searching for 14 people. overnight, terrifying funnel clouds bore down on granbury. most of the 120 homes there destroyed. victor blackwell there this morning. what can you tell us? what are they finding, victor? >> reporter: were finding a lot here. you saw the live pictures of the damage. the sheriff says it looks like a war zone....

Scene or they are going to actually try to peer inside. thats what they are doing right now. i think what they did was use one of the devices you talked about, set it off, and now they are going to look into the window and see what transpired, what happened. they are going in. they are going to look in the window right now. there is no smoking coming out at all which could be a good sign. we are now blocked out by the tree. we are a block away. we are up wind from where this is taking place. the...

People across five states and the district of columbia are still without power after severe storms ripped across the region. nbc tom costello reports. >> reporter: across the mid-atlantic the most dangerous jobs had to belong to the crews strapped into cherry pickers. working to untangle what looked like a spiders web of downed electrical lines and snapped poles. friday night much of the power grid was engulfed in violent closes. >> there were hot spots where there were flames shooting up from t...

Understand how it could knot be. in kentucky, death toll is rising. 22 people are confirmed dead. mike tobin has been all over this area. today we find him west liberty, kentucky. hi mike. >> reporter: hi, jenna. the resilience of this community can be resulted by three words of graffiti on the convenience store. we be back. a lot of credit goes to power crews. 125 guys in 10 different crews working round-the-clock. working through the driving snow, up on the cherry-pickers through the bitter co...

surveys with a team of people. the military has also moved in with search and rescue vehicles. in the south side of town in my live stream you can see theres four to five homes -- farms that had heavy damage and are gone. the tornado here was about 200 yards wide and it tracked through the city on the southeast side. everybody has been accounted for. most people are -- we do not have any injuries, just a couple injuries, no fatalities but marked damage on the south side of town. >> you...

park. police said, tear the structure down, get out. they are refusing. and so our athena jones is live there at the site of the protesters. number one, athena, why did they built it? earlier, you said they built it because of the cold weather and they wanted some place to go in and keep warm. now this. whats going on where you are? >> reporter: well, thats right. i just wanted to update you. we saw, as you said, a few minutes ago, someone somersaulted off the edge of this structure on...

No matter what political strive you are, clean up after yourself. >> you right wingers just cherry pick. we would never do something like this. i was at a tea party in dc. >> i apologize. i apologize. >> cherry pickers. >> gavin, 30 tons of trash, but was it really trash? >> it sounds like jaws of stomach. that sums up the tea party and occupy wall street. it is a movement made by moms so when the tea party is done they go, oh my gosh. it looks like mother natures dream. and occupy wall street i...

Strive you are, clean up after yourself. >> you right wingers just cherry pick. we would never do something like this. i was at a tea party in dc. >> i apologize. i apologize. >> cherry pickers. >> gavin, 30 tons of trash, but was it really trash? >> it sounds like jaws of stomach. that sums up the tea party and occupy wall street. it is a movement made by moms so when the tea party is done they go, oh my gosh. it looks like mother natures dream. and occupy wall street is teenagers in their room...

overshadowing the game -- on this "american morning." -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com and good morning, everyone. it is wednesday, november 30th. ali velshi is off im christine romans along with carol costello. good morning. >> good morning. the dismantling the occupy l.a. camp is under way right now. hundreds of riot police moving in. more police officers than protesters by some accounts. police issued several ten-minutes warnings throughout the night, that were pretty much ig...