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Our crews are spread out across the affected communities. nbc's wendy wol folk is in main field, more chan chesky is in more gansville and ali velshi is on the ground in may field as well. ali, i know you got there yesterday after your show. what have you seen so far? >> reporter: kind of remarkable, lindsey. tornado destruction is not like hurricanes. it hits these isolated places. so ten minutes from here there will be no damage. there's no power anywhere around us in may field. we're due south of paducah. we're in southwestern kentucky. take s a look at this, this cit hall over the area. tr...

Continue here in may field. they continue to be search and rescue efforts, not recovery, meaning they're still looking for people who could be trapped alive. there are a lot of people unaccounted for. we have all sorts of help in here. fema has been activated here. we've got the national guard in and around kentucky. there areen other sites in kentucky that have been hit like arkansas and illinois. but the bottom line is the search continues, and it is desperate right now because of, the temperature. you hearder from the president. he's spoken to the governor of kentucky two times already in t...

>> i know deanne. she worked with me when i was at fema. i tell you, one of the first things you do when you go in, youth listen. you listen to the governor and localrn officials. what you want to hear is what they're asking for and make sure your resources are addressing that. what you want to make sure is there's no gaps or any differences between what they are trying to do and what yours team is doing. the first thing you do is listen to thosedo officials to make su you've got the proper match. as the president said, deanne has got the resources of the federal government. her job is going i...

Something not only of this magnitude, but at this time of year? >> it is remarkably rare to see a strong tornado strike as far north as illinois and kentucky in this time of early winter, very rare. yet we know that december was remarkably a mild winter about most of the united states, and we also know that warm, moist surface air was a factor in friday fueling and making these tornadoes more powerful. it's not the only factor, but it was one of the factors. >> parts of the country have been seeing unseasonably warm, maybe even record setting temperatures. it feels more like spring or fall rat...

James wants to depose trump in the civil investigation and the potential fraud with the trump organization. what kind of questions will be on the table and how do you dpoer see his legal team trying to avoid them. >> this is a real legal challenge for drum and his team. one of the things i expect tish james and her lawyers will do in a deposition is they will line up all of donald trump's public statements about how he ran his own organization, the trump organization. he sat atop that organization, it is his name sake. he bragged and boasted about how closely controlled every aspect of his com...