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>> govern rauner said he was thankful more people werent hurt. take a look at the huge funnel clouds in the video in the top of your screens. they reduced dozens of homes and other structures to mere rubble. and now they are beginning the devastating task of cleaning up. and we are in illinois in the midst of all of the destruction, kevin. >> reporter: this is all that is left of a family home and business here in fairdale. and this is not typical compared to some of the buildings. they say some...

A restaurant collapsed. inside that restaurant 12 people found shelter in the basement and it took several hours to get them out. fortunately none of them had serious injuries. but the situation here in fairdale is dire today. it is a very small town. its a town that only has a volunteer fire department and today it is being volunteers across the state and several nearby counties and now they have the job of salvaging and somehow rectifying what has happened here overnight. kristen. >> kevin, th...

Investigators mark the debris field so the process of salvaging as much of the plane can begin. stephanie elam, cnn. with me now cnn analyst david gallo, the director of special projects for the woods hole oceanographic institution and cnn aviation analyst less ab bin. im glad youre here. right now searchers saw this shadow underneath the water oopsz. that probably means theyre not 100% sure theyve actually located the plane. so now theyre backtracking. what does that mean? >> sonar, it takes ...

Apart in air. >> maybe they tried to steer it out, maybe they had some luck, you dont know. and frankly if theyre telling you that they may have some indication for why theyre telling you that. they may not be telling you why theyre saying that but theres something leading them to believe that on the ground that we are not privy to. >> if the plane largely is intact under the water, how long will it take to bring it up? what will they have to do the bring it up. >> well, in a situation where a s...

Debris site if the pinger cant find it. this emits sound. >> reporter: like hydrophones, sonars work better in very deep water. but coleman says in shallow water, the search can move along more quickly. sonar is just showing us whats at the bottom, right? >> exactly. its emitting that sound. as the sound comes back off the bottom, its interpreting it to draw a 3-d image of whats on the sea floor. and it also generates a top-down image. >> reporter: that imagine will help investigators mark the d...

Field so the process of salvaging as much of the plane can begin. and brianna, it is a very slow process, to say the least. what they have to do they call it mowing the lawn. over the search area they go back and forth, slowly over it over it and over again so they can build up this image and increase it so they can find the debris field and hopefully, hopefully locate this plane. >> yeah that is a lot of work. stephanie elam thank you so much. with us now, cnn analyst david gallo who helped dis...

Hard-hit community. locals bent over salvaging what they could. this was michael wilsons home. >> the walls and the door, everything was still here. i grabbed them and just laid on top of them. within five minutes -- five seconds it was gone. >> reporter: now trying to dry out memories of better times. now wilson and his mother-in-law feeling blessed. >> going to be with me for christmas. cant ask for no more. >> reporter: these crews have been able to put in new power lines like that within 30 ...

A rescue team plans to work around the clock if necessary until all the bees are safely relocated. back to world cup fever now. team usa getting ready for its second match coming up on sunday against portugal. players had a light workout yesterday after mondays emotional victory over ghana. coach klinsmann is hopeful that jozy altidore can recover from that hamstring injury before the tournament ends, but thats far from certain at this point. meanwhile, lets hope that goal-scoring hero john br...

And thats changed putins calculation and i think were going to have a unified ukraine, which is what we want. >> are we indispensable in president obamas world view? >> no, i think hed like to have a world where we are dispensable, otherwise why would we get out of afghanistan? why doesnt he say im going to consult with the two candidates in 2016 and if they think its prudent to leave 10,000 troops there, ill let them make the decision what comes next. hes closing the door on the possibility of ...

>> reporter: this ominous sight is a wedge tornado, rolling in to northern mississippi. tupelo station, wtva was on the air when the tornado touched down. >> were still on the air. >> reporter: the twister left a trail of destruction. in arkansas, homes and lives were tossed upside down after a powerful tornado tore through on sunday. >> we need to go around the back. >> some residents returned to their neighborhoods where their homes once stood. families sifting through the debris, salvaging wh...