. >> reporter: mason michael is a fire chief in horse cave, a small town in central kentucky.aced to rescue a couple stranded on top of their truck stalled out in floodwaters. >> we had ems here that had blankets on the heaters while we deployed the boat. we got them wrapped up, and then brought them back. >> reporter: a brutal winter storm system that thrashed much of the south this weekend left swaths of eastern kentucky underwater. >> we just got hit by one of the most significant natural disasters we have seen in our lifetime. and that's after seeing a lot. >> reporter: kentucky governor andy beshear towards pike county, one of the worst hit areas and warned residents that flooded roads can be deadly. among the dead, a mother and her 7-year-old daughter swept away after trying to cross this bridge in bonnieville. the hart county coroner tells cbs news that that flash flooding flipped the car trapping the two inside. we were there hours later when crews began rebuilding the bridge. at least 11 tornadoes touched down across five states. in atlanta, a tree tour through this h

. >> reporter: mason michael is the fire chief in horse cave, a small town in central kentucky. this morning, he raced to rescue a couple, stranded on top of their truck, stalled out in floodwaters. >> we had ems unit here. we had thick blankets on heaters while we were deploying the boat. we gave them the blankets. we got them wrapped up and brought them back. >> reporter: a brutal winter storm system that thrashed much of the south this weekend, left swaths of eastern kentucky under water. >> we just got hit by one of the most significant natural disasters we've seen in our lifetime. and that's after seeing a lot. >> reporter: kentucky governor andy bashear toured pike county one of the worst-hit areas and warned residents that flooded roads can be deadly. a mother and her 7-year-old daughter swept away after trying to cross this bridge in bonnieville. the hart county coroner tells cbs news that flooding flipped the car, trapping the two inside. we were there hours later, when crews began rebuilding the bridge. at least 11 tornados touched down across 5 states. in atlanta, a t

jeff mason is here from reuters. michael warren of the dispatch and cnn's priscilla alvarez. just to underscore what nick was saying about russia being giddy about what they are hearing just in the last few minutes, we saw a post on x from the rt, which is the russian information, um, state state information. trump destroys zelenskyy, the dictator doing a terrible job, leaving ukraine shattered with millions dead and 100 billion in u.s. taxpayer money missing. how long can zelenskyy now last? >> well. >> i mean, that underscores. >> a couple of different things. number one, president trump is clearly using some talking points from moscow in his own, you know, rhetoric, both with with reporters and on truth, social. and now russia is. >> basically thanking. >> him for that and amplifying it more. >> by praising. >> trump and using that same this cycle that has started. to to underscore the point that it has been making now. >> for a couple of years. >> and they. >> are i don't want to say they're working together, but the two things are helping each other out. they're both amp

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