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We just brought you the mayor of st. louis and the director of the airport to bring an update on things. we also have mike seidel standing by there on the ground. you heard them say, mike, in that news conference that just ended moments ago that they hope to have some flights operating tomorrow. that's pretty ambitious. >> reporter: 70% operational. they have to check in with airlines. they hope to have an idea from airlines sometime mid afternoon on how they are going to get some equipment back in. here's the bottom line. c concourse has taken some serious hits from this tornado. part of the ...

Concourse, that's about 70% of our total capacity here at the airport. we're going to have more of a struggle with the c concourse. the carriers on the c concourse are american, frontier, cape air, and i'm missing one. airtran. thank you. and with those carriers we're going to be working here after this press conference to try and relocate them. it's going to take a while before the c concourse can be functional. a good portion of the roof is absolutely gone. every window is out of that as well as extensive damage to a number of the actual restaurants on the concourse. we'll be working with al...

Here last night and saw the debris and saw all of it the rain pouring in and the glass everywhere, and look at it ten hours later, we have a lot to be thankful for employees that spent all night here last night from the airport, from the county, from the city from multiple organizations helping us to get prepared this morning just to be able to come and start preparing for reopening. we are grateful for those. as you heard the mayor say earli earlier, we believe where we are now with the assessment if the power is back up and running and we'll hear shortly that we can be at about 70% capacity ...