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Thank you, mr. mayor. >> thank you so much, charlie. governor jay nixon telephoned me last night and assured me that the state was going to do everything it can to help with the effort. he indicated that they were working on a disaster declaration. we have with us this morning john brit, the director of public safety for the state of missouri. john? >> thank you, mayor. good morning. as the mayor mentioned, the governor was briefed on this most of all last evening, as late as 1:00 a.m. he has declared a disaster for the state. he will be traveling over here this afternoon, weather permitting, ...

Course, terminal one sustained the most damage, particularly concourse "c," as i said, it's going to take some time to get concourse "c" back up and running. and the terminal two is -- has some limited damage. we're going to hear from rhonda hammbergie on the specifics of the airport. but we are confident that we will make this airport as good as it's ever been in terms of its conditions, as soon as we're finished with all these things, and hope to have this airport up and running 100% capacity -- not all the facilities open, but 100% capacity by the middle of the week, again, depending on the...

North dakota and minnesota. take a look at this funnel cloud. right there in minnesota. incredible and remarkable on tape. ominous sight there. tornadoes flattened house and uprooted trees and downed power lines and even tore through a hog farm leaving pigs roaming the streets. and in neighboring north dakota, a skinny kind of funnel cloud here. it did a whole lot of damage. grand forks, small subdivision of mobile homes. took a major hit there. i guess we have to get used to it. we had crazy, nasty, severe weather. now you see this region of the country, reynolds, with that kind of tornadic d...

Gone from many homes in some of the neighborhoods. but from that we just heard and kind of the mayor in that press conference started out with kind of some surprising news when he used the word he's stund ned at how the airport looks, i was assuming at how bad the damage is, no, he was talking about how different it looks from last night to this morning. they've been working around the clock to try to get it cleaned up. he said it doesn't look like how it did yesterday. the shocking and upside and all the damage and issues that they're having at the airport today, in fact, they hope to be up t...

Also, the red cross is going to be centered in maryland heights, so that number is 211 if anyone needs shelter, it will be in maryland heights with the red cross. so, that's very, very important. also, we have assess the damage with helicopter. doing an outstanding job, making sure that we get all the assessed damage. we don't know the extent of the damage at this point, how it impacts st. louis county. but like i say, again, the best news is no one lost their life, and we still going to move forward. but we realize that some families are devastated. there's no question about it. and our heart...