have heard about this one hospital in town and they are getting word that a code d has been declared. this is the cullman regional medical center. d stands for disaster. the switchboard tells cnn that something hit them. we re hearing from the fire chief that people are trapped in home. this is a dire, serious situation. we have our weather folks working on this one and perhaps we can get someone else on the line to update us on the situation. but i want to move on to the other big talker of the day. donald trump and his visit to new hampshire has been in most of the major headlines today and as the state gets the first look at trump s first presidential bid, our chief correspondent, john king, is there in new hampshire and got a front row seat to trump on the stump. what a morning it was there, john. i mean, he took a little bit of credit there for getting the president to release the longer form birth certificate, didn t he? reporter: a little bit, brooke? a little bit.
back to our breaking news. back to cullman, alabama, it is a frightening, frightening situation for those people on the ground. look at this tree. obviously trees fallen, a mobile home twisted about. here s what we know. one of the hospitals or i should say the only hospital in this town has issued a code d, d as in disaster. they believe a tornado has hit them. we have now heard from the cullman police. obviously reporting some of the damage in the city. power crews are out trying to restore some of the power. they say the tornado came through right about 20 minutes ago. this is fresh stuff. we re hearing houses according to the police chief, houses like this one, this is a church, some businesses damaged. there were also gas leaks in the city. this is now waterloo, alabama. multiple storms in the path of this one tornado.
of a solution so everybody stays away. dean, thank you for coming on. thank you. and back to the weather story. i m getting word that a code d has been declared at the cullman regional medical center. d stands for disaster. the switch board operator tells cnn something hit them. it s a quote. something hit them. more on this after the break.