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This video from early tonight. long story short, we had a lot of electrical and telephone poles that were standing along a road called st. charles rock road here. high winds knocked them all down and blew the lines over all four lanes of interstate 270 here so the interstate was closed for at least two hours and then it just kind of opened up in sections after electric crews were able to get those lines off of the highway. also, the ramp is closed for a little while and eastbound and westbound traffic on st. charles rock road opened eventually as well. there's still quite a mess here. modot cr...

Yes, i do. >> thank you very much, rhonda. alex, we'll send it back to you. >> talia, that's absolutely incredible. where were you during the tornado, because i'm amazed to hear the stories of where people are, and i also understand it was like 20 seconds that it t hit that airport and look at the damage that it did. >> reporter: the damage is unbelievable. we're told 750 homes are damaged, and as can you see here at the airport there is just really compelling damage. i actually was on the job, and i was stuck on an interstate. it was interstate 270. i was stuck there for about three hours and...

Area. they were saying near interstate 270, where this tornado touched down, that a portion of that had been closed. now, the airport is closed. i don't know if we still have some pictures of the airport from our affiliate kdsk, but they were saying that terminal one and concourse "c" were the most -- had the most damage. there were airplanes sitting at their gates, passengers reported that the planes got shifted around and bumped around. you can better believe that they are going to really investigate those planes to see if they've been dented, damaged, if the intake portion of the engines ha...

Was about it. a lot of property damage but minor injuries. >> is this a one incident or are there multiple trees down? are there roads blocked? what kind of situation in montgomery county are we looking at? >> it's a mess from silver spring down to clarksburg, we have power out, not only to residences, but to businesses, up in clarksburg at one point on clarksburg road, we had five power poles down. at about 7:30 we had trees down on interstate 270 blocking three of the five lanes on southbound rush hour traffic. it's been a busy morning. >> thank you, dan friz. this is part of a line of thund...