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All right. 37 minutes past the hour now. missouri's governor has declared a state of emergency after a fierce storm tore through st. louis overnight. the national weather service expert there on the ground now, they are going to be looking at whether or not it was actually a tornado that hit. they have to go out and do their assessment before saying officially. but for all intents and purposes from some of the damage we're seeing, this was a tornado last night. winds blew out about half the windows at the main terminal of the international airport there, ripped off part of the roof at one conc...

Been on this since the onset, so anything we can do, we will provide it. thank you, mayor. >> thank you so much, john, for the state's help and support. now we'll hear from rhonda hambergi, the airport director. she'll tell us about the conditions of the operations and can answer a lot of questions as well about that. rhonda? >> thank you, mayor. good morning, everyone. as you look around and see some of the devastation that's still around, there are a number of things we can be very grateful for here at the airport. the first is i think we reported to you last night that we had taken four pas...

>> okay. you'll bring them up. and i'm here for questions. thank you. >> all right. thank you. thank you, congressman clay, we really appreciate your leadership and look forward to working with you. next we'll hear from county executive charlie dooley. before he speaks, i want to let charlie know our hearts and our thoughts are out to all of his residents. i know there was a significant amount of damage as well in various parts of st. louis county. be assured the city and the county are working together to address not only the issues here at the airport, but i've also offered the help of city ...

I was right next to the window, and i was concerned that blowing glass or something would be a reality. >> well, this was just an amazing statistic to hear today. 20, fewer than 20 people were hurt. all these described as minor injuries. the county executive telling us a short time ago in a live press conference that no one was killed. now, the airport is closed today, closed indefinitely, what they say. but they're hoping to have part of it operating tomorrow. they say they want to be back to 70% capacity even by tomorrow, maybe 100% capacity by the middle of next week. look at the neighborho...

On the ground, municipalities, everybody got involved. it was a team effort. and lessened the damage as best as we possibly could. i want to thank the st. louis department police department and the fire department of st. louis county. everybody did a fantastic job last night. there is still a lot of work to be done. nine municipalities was impacted by this. hundreds of houses were impacted. treasures in some families, as you saw this morning on the news, devastation across st. louis county. you think about the horror and you think about the channel rock bridge, draw a straight line, then a hal...