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quote, possible mass casualty event. the red cross is mobilizing support teams right now. in a moment we will speak with officials on the ground and let you know what they know about injuries and fatalities and of course where these storms are right now. there is new developments tonight in the case against former president trump, donald trump's lawyers are seeking security clearances as a federal judge who is overseeing this trial, a trump appointee, aileen cannon, gets the ball rolling. but what was donald trump's motive for taking those documents in the first place and will the prosecutors need to lay that out in order to get a conviction? we will discuss all of that. but we do want to begin with the breaking news tonight. so, a tornado has tracked down in perryton, texas, causing major destruction and anguish. a local hospital says that it is treating between 50 and 75 people. texas governor greg abbott mobilizing the texas deficit division of emergency management. joining us on the phone right now is brian, he is a storm

chaser. brian, tell us where you are and what you are seeing. >> yeah, i have been in paris tin most of the afternoon, i am now -- i did not want to be in the way as the search and rescue continues but, you, know the tornadoes cut right across the towns of those quite a bit of devastation all across perryton. >> what did you, did you see injuries, did you see people? were you just seeing homes? >> yeah, so, the worst thing is on the northwest part of town, right where the tornado touched down. those people would have had very little warning as the tornado formed very rapidly. there's a mobile home park there and at least a third, maybe as much of a half of the whole mobile home park, it's hard to tell because it is just piles of rubble. and even for a while, right after the tornado, it was on fire actually. and so with the short notice,

everyone made it out of there okay it would be a miracle. and the tornadoes continued across town, homes, businesses, it went right through the downtown area. and then into their industrial part of town so it literally hit the downtown and then the industrial part of town as well. >> oh my gosh, brian, we are looking at your video right now. we are seeing your video and we can see, obviously the turbulent sky but we can also see the mobile home park that you are talking about and it looks, as you say, completely devastated so i take it that you sent a grown-up to look at the mobile home park? >> yes, i could not actually get to the mobile home park on foot there was a gas lead and also downed power lines and trees. there is just no way to get to it. in fact i feel like it took for a while for emergency responders to get there as well,

whenever i was flying around it looked like people were just having to self rescue. people were climbing out of rubble, there was the fire nearby, it was just a really, really horrible scene. later on the day, though, on the other side of town i saw some really amazing sings. like there is a house in a road. and the road need to be cleared so it may be bulldozed and people rushing in, they're grabbing anything they could, they ended up making this pile of like 20 foot tall of all of these bags that people had salvaged from the homes that lay in the road. >> brian, we see what you mean. we can see people standing in the middle of the road just look at what we assume where their homes. you say there is not any warning. what do you mean? how quickly did this come up on them? >> well, the problem was that the storm in general, you know the weather surface does a great job with tornado warnings but the drug problem was that this time the storm developed very rapidly. from, it was really five minutes before the tornado, i

would not have actually believed if you told me it was going to be a tornado. the storm produced a cloud very quickly and then that tightened up very rapidly and then it just went to the ground very, very quickly. so there is not, a lot of times with a strong tornado there is a lot of leeway. a lot of time for people to prepare, but this time just because of how quickly the tornado developed i'm not sure there is a tremendous length of time for people to prepare. >> we are looking at the fire that you are talking about right now in someone's home. brian, if you can hold for just one second chad myers our chief weather castor, our meteorologist wants to ask you a question. go ahead chad. >> brian, i watched your video live on youtube. obviously you are streaming the entire event and i noticed that you put the drone up and got the pictures and you are a reporter for a bit for a few seconds. but then all of sudden you turned into a first responder. describe to our viewers how this happens all the time when

chasers chased to a town and the town is hit, they stopped chasing and they start responding. >> there's nothing really else that you can do. when you see a town -- i know what those moments are like and i know, in a normal situation, a first responder crews go to where they need to go. but in a situation like this, you know, the town is basically on its own for a while. there aren't too many things to respond to at once and so anything that i can do to help, which even includes showing the area and the country how bad it is so the necessary resources can come in. and by later today they were starting to get those resources. people risking reaming into town and hopefully, some of played a small part in that. >> brian, what time did this happen? the video that we are seeing

right now. >> you've got me on that. >> what time did it happen when you are taking that drone video? >> while the drone video was shortly after the tornado. as soon as it stopped hailing i basically had the drone in the air. so within ten or 15 minutes, it was around 6:00, so i think the tornado was a little after five and by six i already had the drone in the air actually for a little while. i would've added up sooner, i would've had it around the tornado but there is too much hail and obviously a lot of debris in the air. as soon as i saw the tornado touchdown you could tell that it was not a good situation with all the debris flying around. >> chat can you look at this video, it's shocking to see people who have survived digging through all of their stuff. chad what were you seeing today as you are watching these

storms? >> i was seeing that immediate development that brian was just talking about and seeing all of the people that were in mobile homes that, honestly, did not have time to go find a stronger structure. that's what we say, find a stronger structure. 100 mile per hour wind gust can knock over a mobile home. get out of the mobile home and go someplace stronger. many of them did not have that kind of time. >> brian we're also looking at what looks like downtown, were you able to survey that? >> yes, unfortunately it took a direct hit and while not every part of the downtown is destroyed, it is heavily damaged. basically all of the windows were blown out, parts of the roofs, parts of the buildings, so i found all of the residential's, and i was actually in the industrial area watching the tornado there.

so when i saw the downtown i was like, this is not a good thing. basically the heart of the town, the tornado went right through it. so it honestly made me really sad because there is no part of this town that was really okay. >> brian are you from here? no, i am from arkansas. >> so you knew that there was a tornado outbreak in texas? why did you happened to be positioned here at this hour? >> that is what i do. i have basically to full-time jobs. one is storm chasing and the other is using drones. so i was out here on my day off to document the weather. >> chad, what is it looking like in texas now? >> things have cleared in texas. there is still a storm that is south of sherman dennison that is still rotating. this is well south of the red river, nowhere near the storm hit earlier. that area has now completely cleared out, but tornadoes on the ground today in ohio, texas,

oklahoma, and even parts of alabama and florida. you cannot really get a larger area than that for severe weather and everyone was scrambling, chasing, trying to figure out where the next one was going to rotate. i will tell you what, i listen, a lot of them rotated. a lot more than we anticipated, i think. i expected to her three tornadoes, not seven or ten. >> chad, brian, standby if you would we want to bring in now on the phone coach cole underwood the athletic director and head football coach at perryton high school. that schools now providing children food for those hit by the storms. coach, thank you very much for taking the time. what is happening there at the school right now? >> absolutely. thank you all for having me. let me get this word out, we've got to bring people in here, we've got people with grilled cooking, we've got people bringing supplies. i envision that it will go into the night.

that is one of the coolest things about being in a small town at a time like this is that the way that town rallies around people who are in need. i am just very grateful that we responded so quick and that we were able to throw this together because the supplies and all of the stuff that has been incoming is incredible. >> coach, do you have any sense of what the damage is, let's start with human life? what do you have any sense of the injuries yet in your town? >> we no ma'am, i do not. i've heard rumors but i'm not gonna be one of those people that spreads those. i do not want to speak to anything that i do not have definite knowledge of. i just know that our community continues all of the prayers that could be sent to us right now. the devastation that i have seen pictures of, let her kids have sent me, and at -- the homes that are not standing anymore. it's unheard of and devastating for a town and for our kids.

all we are trying to do is be here for them and be here to help, just continue to pray for those that are missing and injured. >> how many people do you think you have in the school right now? >> i would say upwards of 200 and 50 to 300 just volunteers and people coming in and eating and just getting water and cleaning up. i have been advertising, we've got generators, fans, light bars, and we actually have a company who got in touch with, me easier younger than i am. he is going to bring in his broadband company and get wi-fi tower set up. it is a place for a safe roof over peoples head for as long as they needed and that is another thing about small towns is that we have the gym space and we have the capability to house the people who have lost everything. and we are more than willing to do that. >> so are some people still missing? are you trying to connect

people with family members there? >> trying to connect people with family members. i'm still trying to connect with some of our football players, our athletes. one of our big cell towers was damaged and torn down, so i am getting dial tones, straight to voice mail, and i've been on edge all day. but there are parts of town that i need to get to have been blocked off and some of our kids have been going and finding and hoping and getting in touch with me. i have just been so amazed at the level of camaraderie and love that this town has for each other and there is no doubt in my mind that it will continue and that we will find the people who need to be found and we will persevere through this thing. >> it sounds like you, will it is heartening into hear about your community even at this really tough time. and so, how many people do you think are going to have to spend the night there in the school? >> there is no telling. we have another building here

in town that has opened up. i am actually trying to get the word spread because i do not know how many supplies are at our county expo center. just because of the vast amount of supplies that we have had brought here. the whole northeast side of perryton it is devastating. it, we have two big basketball gyms, we have five, six locker rooms with showers available. and we're making it known that if people need a place to lay their heads and they are safe here. >> so coach, beyond fresh -- prayer is what you need right now? >> water, gatorade, canned drinks. food, pop-tarts, canned goods, really anything that you can think of. blankets, flashlights, candles, we would take anything and be grateful for anything that is donated. it is just, nothing can prepare you for a time like this.

sadly, there is not a list of things of things that you need on hand. but people lost everything today. clothes, diapers, baby formula, anything helps. the amount of goods that have already been dropped off and donate it is so encouraging and we have people contacting me from communities four and five hours away in the oklahoma panhandle and new mexico and going down further south into law mics and that is just really encouraging to let us know that people are behind us and we're gonna be okay. >> that's encouraging coach, thank you for sharing that message with us and taking the time to talk with us. we are thinking of you and praying for you and we will check back in to make sure that everything is okay there. >> thank you very much, i appreciate you all. >> we want to bring in now kelly judas -- judy i should say, she is in

the -- county hospital. i know it's a very busy night, so tell us what's happening at the hospital right now. >> right now we are just trying to clean up and get ready in case we have more patients come. in >> how many patients do you have? >> right now we do not have anybody in our emergency room, we have either transferred them out or they have been able to go home. today we have seen somewhere between 75 and 100. >> what kind of injuries were you treating? >> anything from minor lacerations to major traumas. >> when you say major traumas what does that look like? >> head injuries, collapsed lungs, broken legs, major lacerations. a little bit of everything. >> was there one particular part of town or the injured people were coming from? >>. as they were all coming from the north, northeast of town.

i have not left the hospital so i do not know the extent of the damage throughout the town. >> do you live in the town? >> i do. >> do you know what is happening with your family and your home? >> i live in the country and i believe that my home is just fine. >> kelly, have you seen any fatalities? >> we have not seen fatalities at our hospital. >> do you have word from other hospitals? >> no. all other hospitals in the surrounding communities actually came here to help us. a few of them took patients to their hospitals. most of the staff just stayed here and worked. we did have to send some critically injured patients to higher levels of care. >> so you have seen critically injured patients, but you do not know of any fatalities at this point? >> correct. >> what does your hospital need

now most? >> at some point we are going to need supplies. we are on a limited power. local grocery stores have provided water. they have been great. surrounding communities have brought us other things. our regional advisory council, the people that help us with our traumas, they actually brought in a whole task force of people to help us out. >> kelly are you on a generator? >> yes. >> so how long are you going to be able to operate? >> we can operate on each generator for a little over 72 hours. >> kelly, thank you for taking the time to talk to us. we are thinking of all the injured patients and all of you who are working through the night. we really appreciate your time and obviously we are praying for you guys there. >> thank you very much and thank you for having me on your show.

>> thank you. all right, we are joined now by the owner of chicago and midwest storm chasers curtis lerner. curators tell us what you are seeing. >> you want me to explain what i saw basically today? >> yes please. >> so basically around the south side of town there was a storm developing on the south southwest part of town. we are watching that slowly developed, to be honest, i did not -- but it had a funnel cloud about halfway off the ground, and then i started into my way closer to town. i pulled into the parking lot, and then i saw a power flash and i said i'm gonna get close to this and when i got downtown i noticed that there was power going out and i thought this tornado must be hitting somewhere at some point. i notice that there is a lot of debris and destruction in the downtown part. and then i instantly got out of

the vehicle and i did get into downtown to help as well. there are people in their cars with airbags deployed, cars flipped, and people screaming for help inside mobile homes. >> that is awful curtis. so what were you able to help with? >> we were able to help pull victims out of mobile homes, kick some doors and because the route trees flown into the mobile homes, there is a tree -- we had to break the door down to help an elderly lady out. and then there is another guy that was actually in the garage, he was in his start in the garage and then the whole garage caved in. so we had to help him as well. there is a couple of other victims that were stuck in a mobile home that was tipped over. they were stuck, all the walls had closed in on her. it took time for us to get her out. there is another victim that head trauma that had blood coming out of her head. so she needed to be transported

to the hospital immediately. there are a lot of people there that we were trying to help with all the same time. i jumped out of the vehicle after the tornado passed and i got, hit with -- for helping people and while there was still hail coming down but i'm just glad that we were able to account for most of the people that we checked in on the home and a lot of people walking around helping others as well. >> curtis, that's incredible. are you trained to do any of that stuff? life saving stuff? >> i have a couple training. i am certified at the fire department, but i do have some knowledge of helping people. but when it comes to the severity of it, probably not. i would leave it to the experts. >> where their emergency ems people who are able to get there? we heard that it was impossible for some emergency services to make it to some of these places? >> yes, so there was a lot of

power lines down throughout much of the neighborhood. basically where i parked my car i walked about a good quarter of a mile or half a mile into the neighborhood to help people, i could not really drive in today. there are so many power lines and destruction that was blocking most of the roads. i think that the fire department in town, they could not get their vehicles out because they're building collapsed on their vehicles. so they had emergency vehicles it coming in from all over the place, from different counties. i remember when i was finally leaving town they had a convoy of emergency vehicles coming in from the kansas border as well. liberal i believe, that is where i've got my hotel out as well. but they have mask cone voice of emergency vehicles coming in to help because there is just not enough. >> did you see any fatalities curtis? >> i cannot confirm. there are rumors that there are fatalities in town, but i do

not want to say a number because if it is not true i do not want to be that person. but i cannot confirm that it, i've just heard rumors that there is. but i do not want to confirm it. >> curtis, did your warning system on your phone go off? how much warning was there for these tornadoes? >> i believe on one of the videos in the beginning, when the tornado was just making it right into town i did have the alarm system go off on my phone. another case i heard a siren, but on the video you can obviously hear no sign. so i got the emergency alert on my phone, it would activate that siren going off but did not hear any sirens at the time. >> curtis lergner thank you for taking the time to talk to us and telling us about your incredible experience. it sounds like people will be very grateful that you were there to help tonight. so thank you for sharing although the video and the story with us. >> you are welcome.

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now to the latest in the criminal case against donald trump form his handling highly classified documents. your sources tell cnn that trump's attorneys are in touch with the justice department about getting security clearances after judge aileen cannon ordered all of the lawyers to start this process now. let's bring in our panel, we have got just to washington of the route with us. also republican strategist jason osborne. and former nixon white house counsel john dean. so, for all of the people who worried that justice cannon was going to slow roll this somehow or show some partiality to

donald trump, that is not happening right now. she has already set deadlines and in fact, the trump attorneys are complying with that. i think she gave them the deadline of tomorrow to have to already be in touch with the doj and get their security clearances. and so john dean let me start with you because i think that you know what this entails. how long will it take to get security clearances so that everybody will be able to deal with and talked about these highly classified documents and what will that process look like? >> well, the first thing that they will have to do is file a form that is the mother of all forms. it is a very sick document, about an inch and a half, maybe 3000 questions. it goes into their residents, where they have lived, all of their employment, all of their foreign travel, it really probes their life. that is the basis for the fbi or other investigative agencies for each of the intelligence agencies involved to look at their background and to investigated. so the first question that is asked, alison, is do you understand that making a false

statement on this is a crime? if they do not check yes they're not going to get very far in the clearance process. how long it will take? it's hard to tell. i suspect that in this case the fbi will try to expedite it given the stakes. >> jason, what do you think all of this, in terms of the time, the timeline of this and then it seems to be starting now as well as the other cases, as you know that are also gearing up against donald trump. what is all this going to do to the republican primary and the timeline for that? >> i think that the republican primary is going to continue to move forward. i think that the longer that we have this case drag out, i think you're going to see more and more republican candidates who are more oleg tricked who flirt with crossing that line of going against trump on this. >> we've not seen much of that yes. >> we've seen governor kemp, nikki haley, obviously chris christie and asa hutchinson, but i really look at governor kemp taking the lead on this

and saying, you know what, i think this is a distraction. instead of talking about the issues that are facing americans we are talking about a personality. and the longer that trump is in, this all we are going to focus on is the personality and what trump is going through. so i'm kind of torn on whether this, dragging this out benefits trump or, it certainly does not benefit the process. but i think that the longer that he is bogged down i do not think he's able to get out there and say anything about what he's going to do in the next turn. >> let's see if our other republicans got agrees. scott, your thoughts? >> it is possible that what jason said is true. on the other hand, trump could become even more of an avatar for a group of voters who just want to use elections to flip the bird to the government, the establishment, to the political elite, whatever you want to call it. and these indictments sort of continued to lend to that attitude. the truth is we do not know how that it's going to go just yet. there is no evidence in the polling yet that he is thinking,

in fact there's evidence in the polling that he has a firm grip on it. i agree that the more the republicans dig in with trump, the more likely it is that in a general election independent voters, people decide elections, would look at this and say are you crazy? we are not going to put to somebody who is facing four plus indictments in the white house. that is not. a republican vote primary voter might want to do that, but i doubt many independent voters might want to do that. of course, joe biden and the democrats know that. their entire strategy is to run against trump, that is what they want, it's what they're banking on, and i guess the only question is whether the republican party is going to oblige them or not? >> jessica that leads us to something else that we do not know yet, and that is the motive for this. why did donald trump take these hundreds of highly classified documents home? there have been all sorts of different series already floated from he likes to keep sakes to perhaps he wanted to lure them over somebody or sell them later.

when you look at the pictures of how he was dealing with them they were next to the toilet. they were next to the toilet and the guest bathroom that people go in and out of that are not locked. here's the toilet, here the classified documents in some of the boxes. and here they are spilled on the floor. the new york times has an interesting piece that some of his closest aides called this is a beautiful mind material, in reference to the character that russell crowe played in that movie who is schizophrenic but liked to keep stuff, hoard stuff and documents. he himself knew where it was, sort of cataloged in his own brain but not anywhere else. >> yeah, it is so hard i almost do not want to get inside donald trump's mind. but it -- we cannot know the true motive at this moment. maybe we'll never will. but it does almost seem like someone who did not want to let power slip away. i mean these are very important documents from the audio that

the prosecutors have presented inside of this indictment, the eu is showing it, people east talking about they made this special plan for me and i have it, it is mine. and that kind of language it does seem like i'm going to hold on this power and lorded over people. it seems personal and not political, necessarily. >> friends, thank you, thank you very much. obviously our segments are short because we have all of this breaking news. we really appreciate you guys, but we are keeping an eye on the breaking news because a tornado has devastated the town of perryton, texas. we'll show you the damage there and find out how everyone is doing in that town. also, former president obama says that republican presidential candidates are trying to downplay race and inequality in the u.s. and he did not stop there. his words next.

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former president obama talking about republicans and race. here is what he said on the axe files republic podcast like -- tim scott who evenings is downplaying racial inequality in the u.s.. >> if somebody is not proposing, both acknowledging and proposing elements that say no, we cannot just ignore all of that and pretend as if everything is equal and fair. we actually have to walk the walk and not just talk the talk. if they are not doing that, then i think people are rightly skeptical. there may come a time when there is somebody in the republican party that is more serious about actually addressing some of the deep

inequality that still exists in our society that tracks race, and is a consequence of a racial history. if that happens, i think it would be fantastic. i have not yet seen it. >> joining us now is a podcast host coleman hughes and -- michaelson, and just to washington engine osborne are back. okay colin, what do you think about what he said and how do you think republicans deal with race in general? >> oh so he is talking about talking the talk and walking the walk. obama talked a great game, his speech on race from 2008 maybe the best speech i've heard and he was politician gives acknowledging the past, and the issue. one top -- when it comes to walking the walk, did he support the kinds of policies that he is now may now be popular in the democratic party? obama did not support reparations, for example. so when he is calling out somebody like tim scott, is there a substantive policy

proposal that he is saying tim scott should support x policy, or is he saying that conservatives should talk about race more the way that obama does? and what does that talk really worth? >> jessica? >> i cannot say that obama has done everything perfect on race. i think that will be inaccurate. but what i can say is that this is a really good and important point that optimism is okay. optimism is break. being all -- about race in america is not. you cannot address problems that he refused even acknowledge, i think that is part of the problem. and yes, you can have policy disagreements that are important to have but you cannot even have these policy disagreements if we do not agree that there is a problem. >> jason, you worked for -- when he was running for president. i do think republicans deal with? race >> i think it's a very difficult subject, obviously to tackle. and one of the things that i found on the campaign and working for doctor carson is the amount of, just attacks against him for being a

republican as a black man. and that was hard to see. i do not know how, obviously not as a black person, i do not know how that feels to him. but, i do not necessarily think that tim scott and others like doctor carson are saying that there is not a problem. i think that they're putting themselves out there and saying, look what i have been able to accomplish and look where we have come. i understood exactly what obama was saying and i think that there is a later clip, and i do not know if that we are playing it tonight, where he did to talk about this dynamic where if you are not 100 percent with the folks on the democrat or progressive side of this issue then you're automatically labeled as racist. he, rightly so, said that that is, i'm paraphrasing, that that is counterproductive. if we're gonna be serious about this we need have a discussion where both sides listen and not accuse. >> it filled me with nostalgia listening to this real eloquence, which is so often

missing in our contemporary politics. it is interesting, there is discussion of the issue and there is the character of the issues. i think we saw just in that clip in the interview was a really eloquent analysis of the historical legacy of racism in this country and weight impacts actual inequality on the ground, health disparities and safety in schools, education, and so forth. but we have got this cartoon image now of woke-ism, would a word that was kind of kidnapped from far-right progressives and it just means whatever people want to make it mean. you should be ashamed of being white, or this, or that and is not what the term was originally meant to be. i wish that i agree, that we could return to the kind of eloquence and nuance that we see in that clip. >> coleman, what do you think about what jason was just talking about, that there is sometimes a feeling that if you are black you cannot be republican? >> of course, black conservatives get called horrible things uncle tom,

sellout, i've been called some of these things for some of the positions that i have taken. and there is this mentality that your blackness is a politics. if you are black you have to think this way, just because you are born black. god forbid you would use your brain and have an opinion that box the consensus. and a great obama quote is that there are as many ways to be black as there are black people. it is a great obama-ism and he really respects that and he exemplifies that. >> this is one of his favorite topics, he does not like a semantics around, he said it again that basically progressives can be two scolding, two finger wagging, that when you really criticize people for not using the right words it is counterproductive. >> i think that i see that on social media, i do not think i've ever seen it in realize. i've never been in a circle

where i have actually been around people and say we've actually gone too far. i've been in tons of circles where people are saying these things and no one is challenging it or i'm the only one challenging it. it is just so interesting that we have these conversations and we are so focused on twitter and the social media sphere and we have these conversations that are just not practical in real life. i do not think these are happening. thank you for drawing that distinction between twitter and real life. we're following big breaking news, tonight a tornado has devastated the town of perryton, texas. >> attorney just went through town. with more confidence. frfreestyle libre 2. try it for free at freestylelibre.us

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devastating tornado hitting perryton, texas. homes are flattened, at least three deaths reported, one official told cnn last hour that they were preparing for a, quote, possible mass casualty event, but we haven't gotten an update on the death toll. join me on the phone's storm chaser nicholas migo. nick, tell us where you are and what you are seeing. >> apparently i am about 65 miles south of perryton. it's completely clear now, not seeing too much, but heading into possibly assist if anything is needed. >> and so were you in perryton? have you seen some of the destruction there? >> i was actually just south. i saw a total of three tornadoes at one time, but no, i did not see any of the destruction. >> we had heard from folks who

were in perryton that there was basically no warning. no time for the folks in one particularly hard hit mobile home park to get out of the way or to seek cover. what about the tornadoes that you saw? >> the tornadoes i saw, they weren't warned right away either. i did send a video to national weather service to get them warned as soon as i saw them. it was the same way with what i saw going towards perryton i also sent that to the national weather service. >> okay, nick, standby if you would, because we just have the fire chief of perryton, paul dutcher. we want to bring in him the right. now chief, and it's a busy time for you, and i heard that the fire department took a direct hit from the tornado. tell us what it is like there. >> there's damage all across the north and east part of perryton and the center part of

the destruction is to block area of our downtown area and that is where our fire department is located. we took a direct hit. many of our trucks are pretty badly damaged. but we are still doing some search and rescue, looking for victims. as far as we know we have everybody accounted for, maybe other than one person, and so we are still doing some searching, seeing that we can find some infrared camera cameras on drones in parts of the areas, looking and so a lot of this area is probably a mile, a mile and a half long, at least, through the city that took the hit. >> and chief, do you know any of fatalities in your town?

>> i do currently know of three fatalities. >> and we're were those folks? >> one was on the northeastern part of town, in the trailer park, and then two in the downtown in the business district. >> do you know anything about those victims? >> no, i don't have any information on those right now. >> and chief, have you all been able to go out and perform emergency services with your vehicles destroyed and the fire department taking a direct hit? >> we have been able to get out. we did eventually get all of our units out of the station. so we are all running. but we have mutual aid partners, 15 and 20 miles away, that showed up and as far as getting emergency services and things into the community, it will

take us very long time. >> that's it incredible that you're able to do all that still, even under the circumstances, and how common is what happened there tonight? obviously texas is low stranger to tornadoes but if this worse than what you have normally seen. >> i've been on the fire department for 33 years in this is the first tornado that has done any type of major damage to the city. we've had some small ef0 touchdown and just maybe skirt the city do a bit of damage that absolutely nothing to this magnitude in the last 33 plus years. >> do you have any sense of how many homes have been destroyed? >> no. i'm going to guess probably 200. >> well chief, i know you're

busy. we appreciate the status report. thank you very much, and obviously we will check back in with the people of perryton throughout the night. thank you for being here. okay, we'll be right back.

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