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Help with evacuations. residents cope with everything. >> there is just nothing left. i'm sorry. there is just nothing left. >> reporter: power companies are here trying to restore power. after yesterday's tornadoes. look over here. the cherry pickers, there is a worker going up now to try to restore some of these lines. we know that there are also heavy machinery, other heavy machinery here and on wait to try to clean up after what the sheriff says looks like a war zone. back here in granbury, texas, we know this is not the only community that was hit. claiborne and other community were hit. ...

A deadly tornado outbreak in north texas. six people killed. live look at the devastation in the town of granbury. ten tornadoes touched down overnight. rescue crews searching for 14 people. overnight, terrifying funnel clouds bore down on granbury. most of the 120 homes there destroyed. victor blackwell there this morning. what can you tell us? what are they finding, victor? >> reporter: we're finding a lot here. you saw the live pictures of the damage. the sheriff says it looks like a war zone. also seeing now some of the response. some of the help coming in from not just here in granbury, b...

Scene or they are going to actually try to peer inside. that's what they are doing right now. i think what they did was use one of the devices you talked about, set it off, and now they are going to look into the window and see what transpired, what happened. they are going in. they are going to look in the window right now. there is no smoking coming out at all which could be a good sign. we are now blocked out by the tree. we are a block away. we are up wind from where this is taking place. the firefighters, there are two of them. there is one firefighter and a bomb technician are being take...

People across five states and the district of columbia are still without power after severe storms ripped across the region. nbc tom costello reports. >> reporter: across the mid-atlantic the most dangerous jobs had to belong to the crews strapped into cherry pickers. working to untangle what looked like a spider's web of downed electrical lines and snapped poles. friday night much of the power grid was engulfed in violent closes. >> there were hot spots where there were flames shooting up from the power lines. >> reporter: with no power hundreds of traffic lights remain dark and intersection ...

Understand how it could knot be. in kentucky, death toll is rising. 22 people are confirmed dead. mike tobin has been all over this area. today we find him west liberty, kentucky. hi mike. >> reporter: hi, jenna. the resilience of this community can be resulted by three words of graffiti on the convenience store. we be back. a lot of credit goes to power crews. 125 guys in 10 different crews working round-the-clock. working through the driving snow, up on the cherry-pickers through the bitter cold. because of their work, about 95% of the grid is back online. 95% of the customers out here have ...