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Nephews body. >> what do you make of this because you look next door, and next door the homes are gone. i mean your home suffered some significant damage clearly. i mean were standing on parts of your home here. but what do you make of that? i mean the tornado spared most of your home while leveling your neighbors. >> yes. im glad. im thankful i still have my mother and my father and my family with me. my neighbors that have lost their homes are literally one house, two houses from me. its a tra...

>> chris, for the president who is about to meet as you mentioned with the secretary of homeland security, the fema administrator as well as his homeland security adviser, this is one of those moments at a time when this country is so divided politically, and where it can often seem in washington even the basics of government functioning can take a lot of work and effort and brinksmanship. its a moment where the president wants to highlight the ways in which government can work as its intended t...

Illinois going back 64 years ago. so how can this happen in december? well, if youve been paying attention to the weather this month, it hasnt felt like december. i mean, weve had a lack of snow, a lack of cold. im talking record highs each and every day. on friday before the storms hit, it hit 80 degrees in memphis. we didnt have december weather. the atmosphere could care less what time of year it is. it felt like it was october. we had an october severe weather outbreak. the only climate conn...

Storms hit, and then some now. how are the rescue efforts going? and to what extent are they being classified as recovery, when you look at the kind of devastation thats out there? >> of course we like to be hopeful. but as you said, its more than 24 hours in now. so we are still calling it rescue and recovery. were hoping for the best. but we are out here with teams at numerous locations and going door to door to certain residences that we received welfare checks at. >> when officers come into ...

Storms hit. nadia, yesterday you were speaking to people that rushed to that scene of the candle factory looking for loved ones. they were very emotional, very distraught by the destruction that they saw. have you spoken to them? have they connected with their loved ones? what are you seeing now? >> yeah. boris, its so sad to have to report this, but, you know, its been since about 3:00 a.m. yesterday morning since first responders were able to pull out a survivor from that rubble over the at th...

More than 30 tornados reported from arkansas, illinois, kentucky, missouri, mississippi, and tennessee, and more than ownersh 75 people are likely dead. brandon took the drone footage youre looking at now. damage in mayfield, kentucky, and he joins us now by phone. i want to start with, i first got a sense of this this morning when somebody sent me a link to your tweet. it says this about sums it up in 19 seconds. it was almost unbelievable. couldnt even describe what you were looking at. where ...

About, last night, that his station is destroyed. they had to extricate people from the fire station last night so they could respond when the storms hit. it is a truly devastating situation. i feel terrible to even try to put this into words, because these people just need our faith, they need our prayers, they need our hope that something good is going to turn out of this awful tragedy. these people are working their hearts out. theyre not leaving until the job is done. and hopefully, well hav...

The worst our engineers have seen in 14 years. for the overall network as a whole, its the worst that weve seen, and efforts from thousands of people across the country right now trying to reconnect those customers. just take us through the process of building and resilience, then — how do you prepare for winds of close to 100 mph? do you prepare for winds of close to 100 m rh? , ., , do you prepare for winds of close to 100m-h? , ., , ., 100 mph? there is lots of preparation _ 100 mph? there ...

In pittsburgh, i met a electrical worker who climbs up on those power lines in the middle of storms to transform us and keep the lights on when the storms hit. he calls himself 100% union guy. his job is dangerous. he said, "i dont want my kids growing up in a world where went the threat of climate change change of their heads." folks, we all have that obligation. in obligation to our children and grandchildren. the bipartisan infrastructure bill is most significant since weve built the highway ...

Happening? >> one, i think, more extreme weather events are going to happen more often. we know that already. the bottom line is that washington has been lagging or dragging its feet on this infrastructure bill. we need it done yesterday. this is about infrastructure investment and climate change. if were not taking drastic and bold stances on policies that can prevent this moving into the future, were going to continue to see more deaths. think about the communities most impacted when these sto...