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More than 30 tornados reported from arkansas, illinois, kentucky, missouri, mississippi, and tennessee, and more than ownersh 75 people are likely dead. brandon took the drone footage you're looking at now. damage in mayfield, kentucky, and he joins us now by phone. i want to start with, i first got a sense of this this morning when somebody sent me a link to your tweet. it says this about sums it up in 19 seconds. it was almost unbelievable. couldn't even describe what you were looking at. where were you when these storms hit? >> i was actually in arkansas. the storm developed just south of l...

About, last night, that his station is destroyed. they had to extricate people from the fire station last night so they could respond when the storms hit. it is a truly devastating situation. i feel terrible to even try to put this into words, because these people just need our faith, they need our prayers, they need our hope that something good is going to turn out of this awful tragedy. these people are working their hearts out. they're not leaving until the job is done. and hopefully, we'll have some good news to bring to you in the next hour or so. >> the governor, wendy, is speaking now. ...

The worst our engineers have seen in 14 years. for the overall network as a whole, it's the worst that we've seen, and efforts from thousands of people across the country right now trying to reconnect those customers. just take us through the process of building and resilience, then — how do you prepare for winds of close to 100 mph? do you prepare for winds of close to 100 m rh? , ., , do you prepare for winds of close to 100m-h? , ., , ., 100 mph? there is lots of preparation _ 100 mph? there is lots of preparation that - 100 mph? there is lots of preparation that goes - 100 mph? there is ...

In pittsburgh, i met a electrical worker who climbs up on those power lines in the middle of storms to transform us and keep the lights on when the storms hit. he calls himself 100% union guy. his job is dangerous. he said, "i don't want my kids growing up in a world where went the threat of climate change change of their heads." folks, we all have that obligation. in obligation to our children and grandchildren. the bipartisan infrastructure bill is most significant since we've built the highway system and won the space recent decades ago. this is about rebuilding the arteries of her economy....

Happening? >> one, i think, more extreme weather events are going to happen more often. we know that already. the bottom line is that washington has been lagging or dragging its feet on this infrastructure bill. we need it done yesterday. this is about infrastructure investment and climate change. if we're not taking drastic and bold stances on policies that can prevent this moving into the future, we're going to continue to see more deaths. think about the communities most impacted when these storms hit. people living in basements, that's all tied to the affordability crisis. we have to ensur...