making stops in mayfield and dawson springs. as the president visits kentucky, search efforts are still underway for more than 100 people that are still unaccounted for, as the survivors pick up the pieces and begin the process of rebuilding their lives. with me now, nbc news national correspondent, gabe gutierrez in mayfield, kentucky. nbc news correspondent, ellison barber in dawson springs, kentucky, and nbc news white house correspondent, mike memoli in dawson springs, kentucky, covering the president s visit. thank you for being with me. gabe, what will the president see and hear from people in mayfield when he visits later today? reporter: well, hi, there, jose. good morning. the president will see scenes like this. this car picked up and tossed. this business just shredded. and you can see, jose, and we ve been seeing this for several days now, the devastation just extends block after block here. if we look all the way down there, you can see, there are some workers on top of
civil charges, if the justice department goes forward with mark meadows the way it has with steve bannon, that means there s a whole trial that has to happen before you get to the point where you might see some of the concession by the person charged. for instance, they have decided they re not having a trial for steve bannon until the middle of next year. that means that if he has any incentive to change his mind, we re many months off from that. mark meadows has filed a suit of his own against nancy pelosi saying they shouldn t be allowed to subpoena me in the first place. it s possible that gets adjudicated faster than a criminal complaint by the justice department would, if it were to proceed. but we ve seen again and again how long these things can take, and how congressional oversight and even impeachment proceedings have been frustrated by the lack of expeditious of resolution of these legal questions by the courts. gentlemen, thank you very much. we were able to reconnect w