very little warnings, because the tornado formed there rapidly. and there's a mobile home park. there and -- a third, maybe as much as half of the whole mobile home park -- it's hard to tell because it just piles of rubble. and even, for a while right after the tornado, it was on fire, actually. and so, it was -- the short notice -- everyone made it out of there okay, it would be a miracle. and the tornado continue to cross town. homes, businesses, it went right through the downtown area. and then into the industrial part of town, so it literally hit the -- the downtown, and then the industrial part of town as well. >> oh my gosh, brian enfinger, we are looking at your video right now. we are seeing we can see the turbulent sky but then we did just see the mobile home park that you were talking about, and it looks, as you say, completely devastated. so i take it you sent a drone up

to look over that mobile home park? >> yes. yes. i couldn't actually get to the mobile home park on foot. there was a gas leak, and with all the downed power lines and trees there was just no way to get to it. in fact, i feel like it took a while for emergency responders to get there as well because whenever i was flying around it looked like people were just having to self-rescue themselves. people were climbing out of rubble. you know, there was the fire nearby. it was just a really, really horrible scene. later in the day, though, you know, on the other side of town i saw some really amazing things. like there was a house in a road. and the road needed to be cleared. so it needed to be bulldozed and people were rushing in there, grabbing everything they could, putting it in bags. they ended up making this pile of like 20-foot-tall of all these bags that people had salvaged from the home that lay in the road. >> brian, when he see what you

mean. we can see people standing in the middle of the road just looking at what we assume were their homes. and you say there wasn't any warning. what do you mean? how quickly did this come up on them? >> well, the problem was just the storm in general. the weather service does a great job of tornado warnings but the problem was this time the storm developed very rapidly and from the -- really five minutes before it tornadoed i would not have actually believed if you told me it was going to tornado. the storm produced a wall cloud very quickly, and that wall cloud tightened up very rapidly. and then it just -- it went to the ground very, very quickly. so there wasn't -- a lot of times with a strong tornado there's a lot of leeway, a lot of time for people to prepare. but this time just because of how quick the tornado developed i'm not sure that there was a tremendous length of time for people to prepare. >> we're looking at the fire you were talking about right now in someone's home. brian, if you can hold for one second, chad myers, our, you

know, chief weathercaster -- our meteorologist wants to ask you a question. go ahead, chad. >> brian, i watched your video live on youtube. obviously you were streaming the entire event. and i noticed you put the drone up and got the pictures and you were a reporter for a bit. for a few seconds. but then all of a sudden you turned into a first responder. describe to our viewers how this happens all the time when chasers chase to a town and the town is hit they stop chasing and they start responding. >> well, i mean, there's nothing really else you can do. when you see a town -- you know, because i know what those moments are like and i know that -- you know, know normal situation a first responder can just go to where they need to go. but in a situation like this the town is basically on its own for a while. there's too many things to respond to at once. so anything i can do to help,

which even includes showing the area and the country how bad it is so that the necessary researchers can come in. and by later today they were starting to get those resources. there t streaming into town. and hopefully some of us that played a small part in that. >> hey, brian, what time did this happen? the video that we're seeing right now. >> oh, you got me on that. >> what time did it happen when you were taking that drone video? >> well, the drone video was shortly -- was shortly after the tornado. i mean, as soon as it stopped hailing, i basically had the drone in the air. so within 10 or 15 minutes. it was around 6:00 is when -- so the tornado was i think a little bit after 5:00. and by 6:00 i'd already had the drone in the air actually for a little while. i would have had it up sooner.

in fact, i would have had it around tornado but there was too much hail and debris in the air. as soon as i saw the tornado touch down you could tell it was not a good situation with all the debris flying around it. >> chad, when you look at this ridio, it's shocking to see people who have survived obviously picking through all of their stuff. chad, what were you seeing today as you were 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 didn't have time to go find a stronger structure. that's what we say. find a stronger structure. a 100-mile-per-hour wind gust can knock over a mobile home. get out of the mobile home. go someplace stronger. many of them didn't have that kind of time. >> yeah. brian, we're also looking at what looks like downtown. were you able to survey that? >> yes. unfortunately, you know, it took

a direct hit and while not every part of the downtown is destroyed it is heavily damaged. basically all the windows are blown out. parts of the roof. parts of the buildings. so once -- you know, i had found all of the residential and i was actually by the industrial area watching the tornado there. when i saw the downtown i was just like this is just not a good thing. i mean, basically the heart of the town, just the tornado went right through it. it really honestly just made me really sad because i was like there's no part of this town that was really okay. >> brian, are you from here? >> no. i am from arkansas. >> and so you knew that there was a tornado outbreak? texas? why did you happen to be positioned here at this hour? >> yeah, that's what i do. i have basically two full-time jobs. one is storm chasing and one is

using drones. and so i was out here on my day off to document the weather. >> chad, what's it looking like in texas now? >> things have cleared in texas. there's still a storm that's south of sherman dennison that's still rotating. this is well south of the red river. nowhere near where the storm hit earlier. that area has completely cleared out. but tornadoes on the ground today in ohio, texas, oklahoma and even parts of alabama and florida. you can't 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. and i tell you what, alisyn, a lot of them rotated. a lot more than we anticipated i think. you know, i expected two or three tornadoes, not seven or ten. >> yeah. chad, brian, stand by 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. and that school is now providing shelter and food for those who were hit by the storms. coach, thank you very much for taking the time. what's happening there at the school right now? >> absolutely. thank you all for having me and letting me get this word out. we have a bunch of people up here. we have people with grills cooking. we have people bringing supplies still. i envision that it will go into the night. that's one of the coolest things about being in a small town at a time like this, is the way that a town rallies around the people that are in need. i'm just very grateful that we responded so quick and that we were able to throw this together because the supplies and everything that were incoming has been incredible. >> and coach, do you have any sense of what the damage is? i mean to -- let's start with human life. do you have any sense of the injuries yet in your town? >> no, ma'am, i don't. i've heard rumors but i'm not going to be one of those people

that spreads those. i don't want to speak to anything that i don't have definite knowledge of. i just know our community could use all of the prayers that could be sent to us right now. the devastation that i've seen pictures of and that our kids have sent me and that players that i have personally that's homes aren't standing anymore is just unheard of and just devastating for our town and for our kiddos. all that we're trying to do is be here for them and be here to help. just continue to pray for those that are missing and that are injured. >> and how many people do you think you have at the school right now? >> i would say upwards of 250 to 300. just volunteers and people coming in and eating and just getting water, cleaning up. i've been advertising we've got generators, we've got fabz and light bars. we actually have a company, a former graduate of perryton got in touch with me. he's a year younger than i am. he's bringing his broadband

company is going to get us wi-fi towers set up. it's a place where it's a safe roof over people's head for as long as they need it. that's another thing about small towns, is we have the gym space and wref the capabilities to house people that lost everything and we're 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, some of our athletes. one of our big cell towers was damaged and torn down, and so i'm getting dial tones and straight to voicemail and i've been on edge all day but the parts of town that i need to get to have been blocked off and some of our kids have been going and finding and getting in touch with me. i've just been so amazed at the level of camaraderie and love

that town has for one another. there's no doubt we'll continue to find the people that need to be found and we'll persevere through this thing. >> it sounds like you will. that is really heartening to 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's no telling. we have another building here in town that's opened up. i'm trying to get the word spraez because i don't know how many supplies are at our county expo center just because of the vast amount of supplies we've had brought here. the whole northeast side of perryton is just -- it's just devast devastating. we have two big basketball gyms. we have five, six locker rooms that have showers available. and we're just making it known that if they need a place to lay their head that they're safe here. >> so coach, beyond prayers what do you need right now?

>> any water, gatorade, canned drinks, anything -- food, pop- pop-tarts, canned goods. really anything you can think of. blankets, flashlights, candles. we would take anything and be grateful for anything that's donated. it's just nothing can prepare you for a time like this. and sadly just there's not a list of things you can think about that you need on hand. people lost everything today. clothes, diapers, baby formula. anything helps. and the amount of goods that have already been dropped off and donated is so encouraging and we have people contacting me from communities four and five hours away in the oklahoma panhandle and the state of kansas and new mexico and going down further south into texas as far as lubbock. and that's just really encouraging to let us know here in perryton that people are

behind us and that we're going to be okay. >> that is really encouraging, coach. thank you for sharing that message with us and for taking the time to talk to us. we are thinking of you and praying for you, and we will check back in to make sure everybody's okay there. >> thank you very much. i appreciate y'all. >> you too. we want to bring in now kelly judas. she's the -- giudice i should say. she's the interim ceo of ogletree county hospital. she joins us on the phone right now. kelly, thank you. i know it's a very busy night. 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 don't 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. >> and what kind of injuries were you treating? >> anything from minor lacerations to major traumas. >> and when you say major

traumas, what does that look like? >> head injuries, collapsed lu lungs, broken legs. major lacerations. a little bit of everything. >> yeah. was there one particular part of town where the injured people were coming from? >> yes. they were all coming from the north -- north, northeast of tow town. i have not left the hospital. so i don't know the extent of damage throughout the town. >> do you live in the town? >> i do. >> do you know what's happening with your family and your home? >> i live in the country and i believe my home is just fine. >> so 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 be to their hospitals. most of the staff just stayed here and worked. we did have to send some critically injured patients to higher wl er levels of care. >> so you've seen critically injured patients but you don't know of any fatalities at this point. >> correct. >> so what does your hospital need right now most? >> at some point we're going to need supplies. we are on limited power. the local grocery stores have opened up, provided water. they've been great. surrounding communities have brought in other things. our regional advisory council, who is 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. >> yeah. and so how long are you going to be able to operate?

>> we can operate on each generator for a little over 72 hours. >> well, kelly, thank you for taking the time to talk to us. we're thinking of all the injured patients and all of you who are working through the night. we really appreciate your time, and obviously we're praying for you guys there. >> well, thank you very much. and thank you for having me on your show. >> thank you. all right. we're joined now by the owner of chicago and midwest storm chasers curtis lerner. so curtis, tell us what you're seeing. >> lerdner. >> lerdner. thank you. tell us what you're seeing. >> oh, you want me to explain what i saw basically today? >> yes, please. >> so basically we were on the south side of town. there was a super cell thunderstorm developing just on the west-southwest part of town. we were watching it slowly develop. to be honest i didn't think it was going to produce tornadoes in the town. but it had a funnel cloud hanging about halfway off the ground.

that's when i started to inch my way closer to town. i pulled into a parking lot, saw the funnel. then i saw a power flash. i'm like okay, i'm going to get closer to this. and when i got into downtown i noticed that there was power going out. i'm like okay, the tornado must be hitting something at this point. so when i rolled into town, i did notice there was a lot of debris and destruction in the downtown parts. and then i instantly got out of the vehicle and i did get into downtown to help with victims as well. there's people in their cars with air bags deployed, cars flipped, and then people screaming for help. they were inside mobile homes. >> oh, that's awful, curtis. that's awful. and so what were you able to help with? >> we were able to help pull some victims out of mobile homes, kick some doors in because there was trees actually thrown into the mobile homes, like the roof was taken off and then there was the tree blocking the door. so we had to break the door down to help the elderly lady out. and then there was another guy

that was actually in the garage. he took shelter in his car in the garage and the whole garage caved in. so we had to help him out as well. and then there was a couple other victims that were stuck in a mobile home that was tipped over. so she was stuck inside, all the walls there were kind of closed in on her. so it took time for us to get her out. and there was another victim that had head trauma, that had blood coming out of her head so, she needed to be transported to the hospital immediately. so there's a lot of people there we were trying to help with all at the same time. i jumped out of the vehicle instantly after the tornado pass sxid got -- it was some huge house. i have some welts all over my body from helping people while there was still hail coming down. but i'm just glad we were able to account for most of the people that we checked on the homes and there was a lot of people walking around helping others as well. >> kcurtis, that's incredible. are you trained to do any of that stuff, life-saving stuff? >> i have a couple training. i haven't been certified at the

fire department in some quite time. but i do have some knowledge of helping people. but when it comes to the severity of it, probably not. i'd probably leave it to the experts. >> were there people -- were there emergency, you know, ems people who were able to get there? what we've heard is it was impossible for some emergency services to make it to some of these places. >> yeah. 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 mile or half a mile into the neighborhoods to help people. i couldn't really drive them because there were so many power lines and destruction that was blocking most of the roads. and i think the fire department in town they couldn't get their vehicles out because their building collapsed on most of their vehicles. so they had emergency vehicles coming in from all over the place, from different towns and 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's where i got my hotel at as well. but they have mass convoys of emergency vehicles coming in to help. because there just wasn't e enough. >> did you see any fatalities, curtis? >> i can't confirm. there's rumors that there's fatalities in town. but i don't want to say a number because if it's not true i don't want to be that person if there is. but i can't confirm that yet. i just heard rumors there is. but i don't want to confirm it. >> i understand. and 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 cone tornado was just making its way into town i did have the warning system go off on my phone. another chaser on the other side of town said they heard a siren but on my video you can

obviously hear no siren. so unless i didn't hear them i got the emergency alert on my phone. so obviously it would activate the sirens going off in town but i didn't hear any sirens at the time. >> curtis lergner, thanks for taking the time to talk to us and tell 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 all the video and the story with us. >> you're welcome. >> all right. obviously we're going to be keeping an eye on that because this is the breaking news. that town of perryton has been devastated. so we will bring you all the updates from that. we want to take a quick break. we also have some new developments in the trump documents case. trump's lawyers making moves tonight. we'll tell you about that. we all need fiber for our digestive health, but less than 10% of us get enough each day.

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now to the latest in the kranl case against donald trump for mishandling highly classified documents. sources tell cnn that trump's

atoer attorneys are in touch with the justice department about getting security clearances after judge aileen cannon ordered all the lawyers to start this process now. let's bring in our panel. we have jessica washington of the root with us. also republican strategist jason osborne and former nixon white house counsel john dean. okay. so for all 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. so john dean, let me start with you because i think you know what this entails. how long will it take to get security clearances so that everybody will be able to deal with and talk about these highly classified documents? and what will that process look like? >> well, the first thing they'll have to do is file a form that is -- it's the mother of all forms, actually. it's a very thick document, about an inch and a half, maybe

3,000 questions. it goes into their residence, where they've lived, all their employment, all their foreign travel. it really probes their life. that's the basis for the fbi or other investigative agencies, for each of the intelligence agencies involved to take a look at their background, to investigate it. so the first question that's asked, alisyn, is do you understand that making a false statement on this is a crime? and if they don't 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 in this case the fbi will try to expedite it given the stakes. >> mm-hmm. jason, what do you think all of this will -- in terms of the timeline of this and that it seems to be starting now as well as there are 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? >> well, i think the republican primary's going to continue to move forward.

i think the longer that we have this case drag out i think you're going to see more and more republican candidates or more and more electeds kind of flirt with that crossing that line of going against trump on this. >> you do? though we've not seen much of that yet. >> we saw governor kemp. we saw nikki haley. we've seen obviously chris christie and asa hutchinson. i really look at kind of governor kemp taking the lead on this and saying you know what, i think this is a distraction and instead of talking about the issues that are facing americans we're talking about a personality. and the longer that trump is in this all we're 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 -- it certainly doesn't benefit the process. but i think the longer that he's bogged down he's not able to get out in and say anything about what he's going to do in the next term. >> let me see if our other republican scott agrees. scott, your thoughts. >> yeah, it's 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, you know, flip the bird to the government, to the establishment, to the political elite, whatever you want to call it. and these indictments sort of continue to lend to that attitude. the truth is we don't know how that's going to go just yet. there's no evidence in the polling yet that he is sinking. in fact, there's evidence in the polling that he has a firm grip on it. i do agree that the more the republicans dig in with trump the more likely it is that in a general election, you know, independent voters, people who decide elections would look at this and say are you crazy, we're not going to put somebody who's facing, you know, four-plus indictments in the white house. that's nuts. the republican primary voter might want to do that. i doubt many independent voters would want to do that. and of course joe biden and the democrats know that. their entire strategy is to run against trump. that's what they want. that's what they're banking on. and i guess the only question is

whether the republican party's going to oblige them or not. >> jessica, that leads us to something else we don't know yet, and that is the motive for this. why did donald trump take these hundreds of highly classified documents home? and you know, there's been all sorts of different theories already floated from he likes keepsakes to perhaps he wanted to lord them over somebody or sell them later. you know, 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 in the guest bathroom that people go in and out of that are not locked. here is the toilet. there are the classified documents in some of the boxes. "the new york times" -- and here they are spilled on the floor. "the new york times" has an interesting piece that some of his closest aides called this his "beautiful mind" material in reference to the character that russell crowe played in that movie who was schizophrenic but liked to keep stuff, hoard stuff

and documents. he himself knew where it was sort of catalogued in his own brain but not anywhere else. >> yeah. and it's so hard -- i almost don't want to get inside of donald trump's mind. but i mean, it does kind of almost -- obviously we can't know the true motive at this moment. maybe we never will. but it does kind of almost seem like someone who didn't want to let power slip away. these are, you know, very important documents from the audio that the prosecutors have presented inside of this indictment, you know, he's showing it to people, he's talking about oh, they made this special plan for me and i have it and it's mine. and that kind of language it does kind of seem like okay, i've got to hold on to this power, i've got to lord it over people. it seems very personal and not very political necessarily. >> all right, friends, thank you. thank you very much. obviously our segments are short because we have all of this breaking news. really appreciate you guys. we're keeping an eye, though, on this breaking news because a tornado has devastated the town of perryton, texas. and we'll show you the damage there and find out how everyone is doing in that town.

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former president obama talking about republicans and race. here's what he said on the ax files podcast about republicans like south carolina senator tim scott, who he thinks is downplaying racial inequality in the u.s. >> if somebody's not proposing -- both acknowledging and proposing elements that say no, we can't just ignore all that and pretend as if everything's equal and fair, we actually have to walk and not just talk the talk. if they're not doing that, then i think people are rightly skeptical. there may come a time where there's 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 our racial history. and if that happens i think that would be fantastic. i haven't yet seen it. >> joining us now is podcast host coleman hughes and january michaelson who clerked for attorney general merrick garland. jessica washington and jason osborne are back. okay, coleman, what do you think about what he said? and how do you think republicans deal with race in general? >> yeah, so he's talking about talking the talk and walking the talk, right? obama talked a great game. i mean, his speech on race from 2008 may be the best speech i've heard any u.s. politician give acknowledging the past, acknowledging the nuances of the issue. when it comes to walking the walk, did he support the kinds of policies that maybe now he is -- may now be popular in the democratic party? obama didn't support reparations, for example, right? so when he's calling out someone like tim scott, is there a substantive policy proposal that he's 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 is that talk really worth? >> yeah, i can't say obama's done everything perfect on race. i think that would be inaccurate. but what i can say is this is a really good and important point, that optimism is okay, optimism is great. being obtuse about race in america is not. you can't address problems you refuse to even acknowledge. i think that's part of the problem. yes, you can have policy disagreements that are important to have, but we can't even have these policy disagreements if we don't agree there's a problem. >> jason, you worked for ben carson when he was running for president. how do you think republicans deal with race? >> i think it's a very difficult subject, obviously, to tackle. one of the things that i found on the campaign and working for dr. carson is the amount of just attacks against him for being a republican as a black man. and that was hard to see.

and i don't know how -- obviously not as a black person. i don't know how that feels to him. but i don't necessarily think that tim scott and others like dr. carson are saying that there isn't a problem. i think they're putting themselves out there and saying look what i've been able to accomplish and look where we've come. and i do -- i understood exactly what president obama was saying, and i think there's a later clip, and i don't know if we're playing it tonight where he did talk about this dynamic where if you aren't 100% with the folks on the democrat or progressive side of this issue then you're automatically labeled as racist. and he rightly so said that that's not i think -- i'm paraphrasing. that's counterproductive. and i think if we're going to be serious about this we need to have a discussion where both sides listen and not accuse. >> jeff? >> it filled me with nostalgia listening to this real eloquence which is so often missing in our contemporary politics. and it was interesting.

there's discussion of the issues and there's the caricaturing of the issues. and i think what we saw from -- just in that clip in the wider interview was a really eloquent analysis of the historical legacies of racism in this country and the way that that impacts actual inequality on the ground, health disparities, income disparities, safety in schools, education and so forth. but we've got this cartoon image now of wokism, a word that was kind of kidnapped by the far right from progressives. and it just means whatever people want to make it mean. you should be ashamed of being white or you should this or you should that, which is not what the term was originally meant to be. and i wish -- i agree. i wish 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, which is there is sometimes a feeling that if you're black you can't be republican? >> oh, yeah. of course. black conservatives get called horrible things. uncle tom, sellout. i've been called some of these things for some of the positions

i've taken. and there is this mentality that your blackness is a politics, if you're black you have to think this way. just because you're born black, god forbid you would use your brain and have an opinion that bucks a consensus. riot? and a great obama quote is there are as many ways to be black as there are black people. right? that's a great obamaism. and i think he really respects that and he exemplifies that. >> one of the funny things, and i've heard him say this before, this is i think one of his favorite topics, he doesn't like all the semantics around -- he thinks that -- he said it again on the axe files that basically progressives can be too scolding, too finger wagging, that when you really criticize people for not using the right words it's counterproductive. >> yeah. and i think -- what's so interesting is i see that on social media. i don't think i've ever seen it in real life. i've never been in a circle where i've actually been around people and i've said oh, wow, we've gone too far.

you know, i've been in tons of circles where i'm like oh my gosh, people are saying these things and no one is challenging it or i'm the only one challenging it. it's just so interesting we have these conversations and they're so focused on kind of twitter and the social media sphere and we have these conversations that just aren't practical in real life. i don't think these are happening. >> thank you for drawing that distinction between twitter and real life. i think that is an important one to remind everyone of all the time. thank you all for the perspective. okay. so we're following breaking news tonight. a tornado has devastated the town of perryton, texas. we're going to speak to a storm chaser who is bringing victims to the hospital. next. >> tornado just went through town!

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we are back with our breaking news now. a devastating tornado hitting perryton, texas. tv station kmar is reporting at least three deaths. homes are flattened. much of the downtown has been

destroyed. one local official told cnn last hour they were preparing for a, quote, possible mass casualty event but we have not gotten an update on any death toll. joining me on the phone is storm chaser nick smigo. tell us where you are and what you're seeing. >> currently i'm about 65 miles south of perryton. it's completely clear now. not seeing too much. b but there to assist if needed. >> have you been to 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 yet. >> so we had heard from folks who were in perryton that there was basically no warning, there was 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 over to the national weather service to get them warned as soon as i saw them. it was the same way that i saw it move toward periwhy-ton. i often send it to the national weather service to get it warned as well. >> okay, nick, stand by if you would because we just got the fire chief of perryton, paul dutcher. we want to bring him in right now. chief, thank you very much. i know it's a busy time for you and i hear the fire department took a direct hit from the tornado. tell us what it's like there. >> well, yeah, there's damage all across the north and east part of perryton and the center part of the destruction is two-block area of our downtown area. and that's where our fire department's located. we took a direct hit. many of our trucks are pretty badly damaged, but you know,

we're 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 them. we've got some infrared cameras on drones out in parts of the area looking. so a lot of -- you know, this area's probably a mile, mile and a half long at least through the city that took the hit. >> and chief, do you know of any fatalities in your town? >> i do currently know of three fatalities. >> and where were those folks? >> one was on the northeast part of town in the trailer park, and then two in the downtown business district. >> do you know anything about those victims? >> no.

i don't have any information on those right now. >> yeah. 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. so as far as getting emergency services and things into the community it didn't take us very long. >> well, that's just incredible that you're able to do all that still, even under these circumstances, and so how common is what happened there tonight? i mean, obviously texas is no stranger to tornadoes. but is this worse than what you've normally seen? >> well, so i've been on the

fire department for 33 years and this is the first tornado that's done any type of major damage to the city. we've had some small f-0s touch down and maybe skirt the city or do a little bit of damage. but 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, we know that you're busy. we really appreciate you giving us a 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. >> all right. thank you. bye. >> okay. we'll be right back. that smell could be 8,000,000 odor causing bacteria.

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