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Thank you, mr. mayor. >> thank you so much, charlie. governor jay nixon telephoned me last night and assured me that the state was going to do everything it can to help with the effort. he indicated that they were working on a disaster declaration. we have with us this morning john brit, the director of public safety for the state of missouri. john? >> thank you, mayor. good morning. as the mayor mentioned, the governor was briefed on this most of all last evening, as late as 1:00 a.m. he has de...

Course, terminal one sustained the most damage, particularly concourse "c," as i said, its going to take some time to get concourse "c" back up and running. and the terminal two is -- has some limited damage. were going to hear from rhonda hammbergie on the specifics of the airport. but we are confident that we will make this airport as good as its ever been in terms of its conditions, as soon as were finished with all these things, and hope to have this airport up and running 100% capacity -- n...

North dakota and minnesota. take a look at this funnel cloud. right there in minnesota. incredible and remarkable on tape. ominous sight there. tornadoes flattened house and uprooted trees and downed power lines and even tore through a hog farm leaving pigs roaming the streets. and in neighboring north dakota, a skinny kind of funnel cloud here. it did a whole lot of damage. grand forks, small subdivision of mobile homes. took a major hit there. i guess we have to get used to it. we had crazy, n...

Gone from many homes in some of the neighborhoods. but from that we just heard and kind of the mayor in that press conference started out with kind of some surprising news when he used the word hes stund ned at how the airport looks, i was assuming at how bad the damage is, no, he was talking about how different it looks from last night to this morning. theyve been working around the clock to try to get it cleaned up. he said it doesnt look like how it did yesterday. the shocking and upside and ...

Also, the red cross is going to be centered in maryland heights, so that number is 211 if anyone needs shelter, it will be in maryland heights with the red cross. so, thats very, very important. also, we have assess the damage with helicopter. doing an outstanding job, making sure that we get all the assessed damage. we dont know the extent of the damage at this point, how it impacts st. louis county. but like i say, again, the best news is no one lost their life, and we still going to move forw...