Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20110430:03:17:00
What's the scene there? >> reporter: it's absolute devastation. at least half the town is devastated or destroyed according to public officials. this is the post office. it's just one of many public buildings that were destroyed completely. right next door, city hall, wiped out. next to that is the train station, it too is wiped out. the only funeral home in town is gone. the only gas station in town is gone. the general store is gone, as is the only grocery store across the street, that too has been destroyed. so what you've seen is that the seat of government and basically the commercial hea...