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Excess of $2 billion. in a state that remembers all too well that tornado on may 3rd, 1999, and the difficult path of recovery. one person wholl be dealing intimately with that response is oklahoma representative tom cole. and he joins us now from moore, oklahoma. good afternoon, sir. >> martin, good afternoon to you. >> we learned earlier today that you yourself and your own home had been directly affected by this tornado. i have to ask, have they managed to get the power running at your home? ...

The situation remains tenuous in other parts of the city. bellevue hospital, the citys top trauma center, is now shut down. last night the hospital safely evacuated its remaining 300 patients after fuel pumps to the backup generators failed. it followed two days of round-the-clock work to get the power running. at one point, employees had a 14-floor human chain to get buckets of fuel up to the generators. but with major flooding still in the basement, officials say it could be two or three weeks...

and of course baritunde thurston who i said was a little fun-timidating, one of the most fun guys around but you really understand this world. for people who are watching this, before you change your channel because you dont know what south by southwest is or you dont care, why do we care that were here? >> we used to think of the internet as a separate space, as a different place. as a culture, distinct from the rest of the world. its too big for that now. the internet is not some oth...

what you may not have heard yet is its also probably the worlds biggest interactive digitalfest cal. foursquare got its kickoff a few years ago. twitter really exploded here at south by southwest. cnn has a presence here every year. im here with two guys when i really, really like. i tweeted that ive got a man crush on mario armstrong. i think i said it was a tech man crush. and of course baritunde thurston who i said was a little intimidating, one of the most fun guys around but you r...

Reactor number 3, one of the most seriously damaged, is being showered almost non-stop with sea water to keep it from overheating. youve seen that in recent days. more importantly, emergency power was restored early this morning to reactor number 6. the goal is to get power running to all of the six reactors at the site by tomorrow. electricity essential to pump water that cools the radioactive fuel rods and shields workers and the world for that matter from lethal radiation. >> john, when we co...

Crisis. the two countries dont see eye-to-eye on the danger. they urged american citizens leaving japan. americans are told to keep at least 50 miles from the fukushima nuclear plant. that is five times larger than the zone established for the japanese. at the plant, last-ditch efforts have begun. military helicopters and water canyons were used today to keep the reactors from overheating. they hope to get power running to the water pumps by the end of the day. people are now packing up and le...

U.s. virgin islands are st. croix, st. thomas and st. john. st. croix as we heard from the governor last night appears to have weathered the storm well. st. thomas less well and st. john appears to have weathered it not well at all. eyewitnesss in st. john estimate that three out of every five homes on st. john had the roof ripped off by the storm. were getting reports that none of the wooden homes on st. john are still standing, none of them. one nurse at the local hospital in st. john tells us...

Backup generators failed. we followed two days of around the clockwork to keep that power running. at one point employees made a 14-floor human chain to get buckets of fuel up to the generators. but with major flooding still in the basement, officials say it could be two to three weeks at least before bellevue is anywhere close to normal. but again, those evacuations were safe. directly across the river from manhattan in hoe beck boken, ne jersey, 150,000 people without power in and around the a...