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Nephew's body. >> what do you make of this because you look next door, and next door the homes are gone. i mean your home suffered some significant damage clearly. i mean we're standing on parts of your home here. but what do you make of that? i mean the tornado spared most of your home while leveling your neighbors'. >> yes. i'm glad. i'm thankful i still have my mother and my father and my family with me. my neighbors that have lost their homes are literally one house, two houses from me. it's a tragedy. it's a tragedy. i'm thankful that god has blessed me and my family and all the families ...

>> chris, for the president who is about to meet as you mentioned with the secretary of homeland security, the fema administrator as well as his homeland security adviser, this is one of those moments at a time when this country is so divided politically, and where it can often seem in washington even the basics of government functioning can take a lot of work and effort and brinksmanship. it's a moment where the president wants to highlight the ways in which government can work as it's intended to do. that's why we saw the president on saturday speak to the american people while he was in del...

Illinois going back 64 years ago. so how can this happen in december? well, if you've been paying attention to the weather this month, it hasn't felt like december. i mean, we've had a lack of snow, a lack of cold. i'm talking record highs each and every day. on friday before the storms hit, it hit 80 degrees in memphis. we didn't have december weather. the atmosphere could care less what time of year it is. it felt like it was october. we had an october severe weather outbreak. the only climate connections we really can relate to this is the possibility that tornado alley is moving a little b...

Storms hit, and then some now. how are the rescue efforts going? and to what extent are they being classified as recovery, when you look at the kind of devastation that's out there? >> of course we like to be hopeful. but as you said, it's more than 24 hours in now. so we are still calling it rescue and recovery. we're hoping for the best. but we are out here with teams at numerous locations and going door to door to certain residences that we received welfare checks at. >> when officers come into contact with these people, what kind of stories are you hearing? >> terrifying ones. they're hear...

Storms hit. nadia, yesterday you were speaking to people that rushed to that scene of the candle factory looking for loved ones. they were very emotional, very distraught by the destruction that they saw. have you spoken to them? have they connected with their loved ones? what are you seeing now? >> yeah. boris, it's so sad to have to report this, but, you know, it's been since about 3:00 a.m. yesterday morning since first responders were able to pull out a survivor from that rubble over the at the candle factory not far from where we are right now in mayfield. we interviewed a man named ivy w...