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>> govern rauner said he was thankful more people weren't hurt. take a look at the huge funnel clouds in the video in the top of your screens. they reduced dozens of homes and other structures to mere rubble. and now they are beginning the devastating task of cleaning up. and we are in illinois in the midst of all of the destruction, kevin. >> reporter: this is all that is left of a family home and business here in fairdale. and this is not typical compared to some of the buildings. they say some 71 structures were completely flattened by the storm. one woman lost her life. a 67-year-old woman...

A restaurant collapsed. inside that restaurant 12 people found shelter in the basement and it took several hours to get them out. fortunately none of them had serious injuries. but the situation here in fairdale is dire today. it is a very small town. it's a town that only has a volunteer fire department and today it is being volunteers across the state and several nearby counties and now they have the job of salvaging and somehow rectifying what has happened here overnight. kristen. >> kevin, that incredible scene of wreckage behind you tells the story very tragic story. thank you for that re...

Investigators mark the debris field so the process of salvaging as much of the plane can begin. stephanie elam, cnn. with me now cnn analyst david gallo, the director of special projects for the woods hole oceanographic institution and cnn aviation analyst less ab bin. i'm glad you're here. right now searchers saw this shadow underneath the water oopsz. that probably means they're not 100% sure they've actually located the plane. so now they're backtracking. what does that mean? >> sonar, it takes skill to interpret sonar images. i was a bit confused they said they saw a shadow. that's not t...

Apart in air. >> maybe they tried to steer it out, maybe they had some luck, you don't know. and frankly if they're telling you that they may have some indication for why they're telling you that. they may not be telling you why they're saying that but there's something leading them to believe that on the ground that we are not privy to. >> if the plane largely is intact under the water, how long will it take to bring it up? what will they have to do the bring it up. >> well, in a situation where a ship is largely intact or a plane is largely intact it's a lot of planning and then execution. s...

Debris site if the pinger can't find it. this emits sound. >> reporter: like hydrophones, sonars work better in very deep water. but coleman says in shallow water, the search can move along more quickly. sonar is just showing us what's at the bottom, right? >> exactly. it's emitting that sound. as the sound comes back off the bottom, it's interpreting it to draw a 3-d image of what's on the sea floor. and it also generates a top-down image. >> reporter: that imagine will help investigators mark the debris field so the process of salvaging as much of the plane can begin. stephanie elam, cnn. >>...