that s what america is supposed to be. there s no red tornadoes or blue tornadoes. there s no red states or blue states when this stuff starts to happen. cnn s kaitlan collins is traveling with president biden in dawson springs, kentucky. what s been the message on the ground there today, not just from the president to these communities but also from the tornado survivors to president biden? well, he s been going and meeting with them individually, jake. you ve seen as he s been touring those neighborhoods. and that message there saying there s no red tornadoes, no blue tornadoes. this isn t a political aspect to this. you just see people coming together trying to help clean up debris, helping people look through the debris for these family mementos. and that s really been the aspect of it. how hard this community has been working in this just the days after this aftermath of this destruction to try to help fix it and clean it up just a little bit. just to try to make it a little
houses actually blew up. many were on fire and the flooding was so bad the fire department couldn t get to them. it was actually horrible. it looked in some ways like a third world country. we re not talking about mansions, we re talking about solid communities of solid, hard working people. they were devastated. you go to someone s house and the street and the lawn were strewn with family mementos, photos, paintings, toys, it was a terrible, terrible situation, yet the people never gave up, they fought hard and they re still fighting hard today. i never thought coming from the northeast that i would be in the middle of a storm like that. it s just not something we identify with. the pictures we re showing now, never got the media attention, but nothing like katrina got. we talked about katrina for months around in the media. and new york, the center of the world, never got the attention.
devastated. thousands of people were affected. we had whole areas under water, houses actually blew up. many were on fire and the flooding was so bad the fire department couldn t get to them. it was actually horrible. it looked in some ways like a third world country. we re not talking about mansions, we re talking about solid communities of solid, hard working people. they were devastated. you go to someone s house and the street and the lawn were strewn with family mementos, photos, paintings, toys, it was a terrible, terrible situation, yet the people never gave up, they fought hard and they re still fighting hard today. i never thought coming from the northeast that i would be in the middle of a storm like that. it s just not something we identify with. the pictures we re showing now, never got the media attention, but nothing like katrina got. we talked about katrina for
go on take the money and run go on take the money and run new yorkers know what it s like to have literally half of our possessions in r storage, and we trust those storage facilities to keep everything safe. there is a growing trend, though, thieves are now targeting those lockers and making off with some prized possessions. here s abc s paula farris. reporter: across the country, a growing problem. more and more storage units now under siege. take a look at this video. watch as a pair of thieves pull up to a missouri storage facility in broad daylight, take out a bolt cutter, clip off the padlock to an outdoor unit, and then begin loading their van with everything from family mementos to generators, even strapping a large leather couch to the roof of their van. it s gone. we ll never get it back. reporter: surveillance videos
through the debris for the precious family mementos. even though the checkpoints are down, there are plenty of police around. we have seen police, national guard, folks from the local air force base, tinker air force base taking their weekends off because they wanted to come out to volunteer and help the home owners sift through some of the rubble here. and they re encouraging everyone, though, to leave these neighborhoods before it gets dark. four people can killed in monday s tornado are being remembered at funerals and laid to rest today. and they include two of the smallest victims. 8-year-old kyle davis was in the third grade at plaza towers elementary. look at this face. he loved soccer. we re told he loved monster truck exhibitions. so this is kyle. and also 9-year-old nicholas mccabe. we re told he was into legos and loved country music. nicholas was among the children who died huddled inside the