how are you all doing tonight? well it s pretty calm now. i have pretty much 100 percent of my manned and working with a lot of locals. we are trying to clear all the major roadways so we can start great cleaning up actually right now we have crew cleaning up the downed trees and power lines. it is very devastating right now. can you talk about the extent, it least as much as you ve seen, of the damage how much have been lost? normally, about a 15-minute ride, it took me four hours to navigate around power lines in trees, just to cover about a normal 15 minute drive. this is how bad it is. it s gonna take a while for us to get this cleaned up.
report on u.s. economic growth. the nasdaq is down almost 11 points dow jones about 26 points. we ll have a lot more on this later on today s broadcast. i want to move back to breaking news in the search for malaysian airlines flight mh370. more than a year after the boeing 777 mysteriously vanished without a trace, australia s deputy prime minister saying a piece of a part floating on the island is a major lead. investigators are trying to determine if it does indeed belong to mh 370. it was found by a crew cleaning off the southern tip of africa. australia has been leading the search for the plane that disappeared from radar in march of 2014. clearly, if this is wreckage from mh370, it s an important breakthrough particularly for families. the families who have been involved with this long long wait, for them to have some degree of closure would be a
treacherous, not only flooding but lightning and debris on roads made for slow going across the storm s path. in gillespie, illinois, the high school badly damaged and the hope now no more tornados than a year where mother nature has been unrelenting. seems like oklahoma just cannot catch a break from the weather. two major storm cells with deadly tornados and less than two weeks and we keep hearing people there are tough and ed is live in union city for us. what are you seeing there on the ground? you mentioned in that piece just a short distance away from where it was toppled over here a short distance on the main road from the neighborhood we re in, and we just watched a crew cleaning up that car and taking it away, a wrecker service. what we re seeing in the neighborhoods is that process of cleaning up. have you a family over here and this is when people lean on family and friends the most, and ask myself often when you are in the situations how do you even begin to pick up the
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we saw a crew cleaning that up and getting ready to place new boom down. they come out each day and they are looking for birds that are mainly oiled, birds that could be in poor condition. they have to weigh the oil impact on a bird because removing them from a breeding ground could further injury them and put them through a lot of stress. we kind of let nature take its course. after the bulk of the birds come off we look at individuals that are not doing so well, we ll take those. young, especially those, taking those birds to a triage or rehab facility, the chance of them surviving even if they are released into the wild are not that good. reporter: the number of oiled birds they are taking in to be rehabed slacked off recently but they anticipate that could very well pick up in the coming weeks especially as oiled birds leave off shore and come back in.