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nearby, another survivor, bob wright, hoping to find pictures of his family members, who did not make it. >> i lost two, my brother's boy, his daughter, and that boy's, his boy's girlfriend. >> their mobile home tossed across the highway. hospitalized. including cynthia wright. >> how do you remember them? how do you hope people remember them? >> good old people. that's about all i can do, buddy. >> 31 reported tornadoes in two days. the path of destruction spreading over 550 miles. >> and i thought we were going to die last night. >> including through polk county, tennessee, where jennifer young, her husband and two sons ba there's a tornado coming. there's a tornado coming. get the kids, grab the kids. >> their neighbors, not so fortunate. two people killed. back in alabama, hope after a family of seven took shelter inside the day care center they own. the twister leaving nothing but the bathroom. the family recovering in a nearby hospital. the healing and the clean-up only just beginning. jacob rascon, nbc news, rosalie, sanders with our first up-close look at damage in gatlinburg,

former president and ceo bob wright is with us. mary fallon is here with us. all of that ahead.ump administration is taking shape. fox news is reported that the president-elect has chosen ryan ziggy as his interior secretary. one of the greatest and most skilled global business leaders of our time. made some of the greatest deals ever made in the oil industry. a great diplomat strongman a tough man. a man who has already earned an avalanche of growing praise from the top leaders. see that not all republican leaders are confident in the decision. this is what marco rubio said about taylor said. the next secretary of state must be someone that views the world. obviously will get a confirmation battle that's been set up when you make of his comment there. certainly i respect his comments and rex well had to go through that process and he will be asked each and every question and it will be a tough process but i think in the end he will have the respect of those senders may be an open and honest in answering those questions. the president-elect went to an amazing process and met wit

he and bob kahn got -- they were the wright brothers or something. he told me this story at dinner.s got to be true because it's not complimentary to one of the most important americans ever. he already built that thing so we could send signals around and all that. a guy came over from the u.s. senate who loved technology and said to him let me see that thing. vince showed it to him. he said that's the great est thing i have seen in my life. can i go back to senate and pass a bill and throw it out to commerce and see what they can do with it. what a conversation. you know what vince said back to him? fine with me but i don't see what value it will have to business. it's a lot bigger conversation than watson come here, i need your whatever. know who the senator was? huh? yeah. i'm the only guy in the world that tells a nice story about al gore, i think. think if al gore hadn't -- maybe he knew that. maybe he knew that that innovation had no value at all. what about $100 billion for that? until you have customers, boom, we got an explosion out of it. maybe when we build institutions o

he and bob kohn got the pacts to fly through fiber optics and that became the internet. they were the wright brothers or something. he told me this story at dinner, it's got to be true because it's not complimentary to vin and he's one of the most important americans ever. he already built that thing at darpa so we could send signals around and a guy came over from the u.s. senate who loved technology and said to him "let me see that thing." he showed it to him and he went "that's the greatest thing i've ever seen in my entire life, can i go back to the senate and pass a bill and throw it out to commerce and see what they can do with it?" what a conversation. what know what vince said back to him? "fine with me, but i don't see what value it will have to business." that's a lot bigger conversation than "watson, come here, i need you." or whatever. but you know who the senator was? yeah, it was -- i'm the only guy in the world that tells a nice story about al gore, i think. but think if al gore hadn't come over. maybe he knew that that innovation had no value at all. about $100 billion for th

wright is his spiritual mentor, bill ayres is economic guru. neil: remember bill clinton had the same thing, tax-and-spend liberal and bob reuben was the guy. >> bill clinton -- new democrats existed back then, though he was liberal, he was more conducive to -- neil: the early days are crucial to him to convince the ceos and the investment community he wasn't going to be -- >> right,ing and donald has the same -- i keep calling him donald. president-elect trump, jack welch said he can't support him because of the billy bush video. neil: then he came around. >> and said i'll support him. jamie dimon, you know, rumored that -- i don't know, can't remember what network reported that he was going to be treasury secretary. but jamie dimon privately said he despised donald trump, okay? didn't like his policies, trade policies, attacks on immigrants, so these people think in their heart of hearts that he is erratic. neil: these meetings have a pr value. >> yeah, and part of it is to teach the person to tell the business community, well, he's not insane. neil: really quickly, goldman, lot of goldman folks populating this cabinet. >> another possible o

he and bob kahn got the packets to fly through fiber optics and that became the internet. they were the wright brothers or something. he told me this story at dinner. it's got to be true because it's not complimentary to vin and he's one of the most important americans ever. he was doing his job. remember, had he already built that thing at darpa so we could send signal s around and a guy came over from the u.s. senate who loved technology and said to him "let me see that thing." he showed it to him and he went "that's the greatest thing i've ever seen in my entire life, can i go back to the senate and pass a bill and throw it out to commerce and see what they can do with it?" what a conversation. you know what wins said back to him? "fine with me, but i don't see what value it will have to business." that's a lot bigger conversation than "watson, come here, i need you." or whatever. but you know who the senator was? huh? yeah, it was -- i'm the only guy in the world that tells a nice story about al gore, i think. but think if al gore hadn't come over. maybe he knew that that innovation had no