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Excess of $2 billion. in a state that remembers all too well that tornado on may 3rd, 1999, and the difficult path of recovery. one person who'll be dealing intimately with that response is oklahoma representative tom cole. and he joins us now from moore, oklahoma. good afternoon, sir. >> martin, good afternoon to you. >> we learned earlier today that you yourself and your own home had been directly affected by this tornado. i have to ask, have they managed to get the power running at your home? >> they have. so, i mean, our impact has been minor. we lost power and water for a couple days and ...

The situation remains tenuous in other parts of the city. bellevue hospital, the city's top trauma center, is now shut down. last night the hospital safely evacuated its remaining 300 patients after fuel pumps to the backup generators failed. it followed two days of round-the-clock work to get the power running. at one point, employees had a 14-floor human chain to get buckets of fuel up to the generators. but with major flooding still in the basement, officials say it could be two or three weeks at least before bellevue is anywhere close to normal. directly across the river from manhattan in ...

and of course baritunde thurston who i said was a little fun-timidating, one of the most fun guys around but you really understand this world. for people who are watching this, before you change your channel because you don't know what south by southwest is or you don't care, why do we care that we're here? >> we used to think of the internet as a separate space, as a different place. as a culture, distinct from the rest of the world. it's too big for that now. the internet is not some other thing. it's in all of us. and so this festival, which began as geek culture, that's now mass ...

what you may not have heard yet is it's also probably the world's biggest interactive digitalfest cal. foursquare got its kickoff a few years ago. twitter really exploded here at south by southwest. cnn has a presence here every year. i'm here with two guys when i really, really like. i tweeted that i've got a man crush on mario armstrong. i think i said it was a tech man crush. and of course baritunde thurston who i said was a little intimidating, one of the most fun guys around but you really understand this world. for people who are watching this, before you change your channel be...

Reactor number 3, one of the most seriously damaged, is being showered almost non-stop with sea water to keep it from overheating. you've seen that in recent days. more importantly, emergency power was restored early this morning to reactor number 6. the goal is to get power running to all of the six reactors at the site by tomorrow. electricity essential to pump water that cools the radioactive fuel rods and shields workers and the world for that matter from lethal radiation. >> john, when we come right back, our martin savidge is live from tokyo with the latest on the crisis in japan. >> off...