In partnership with Heart of America and Central Consolidated School District, 24 families from Shiprock to Naschitti will receive electricity from installed solar panels at their residences.
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rent their house up and pack the kids and see the world. and at 5:00 a comic s take from the man called the new mr. las vegas. we start with this breaking story out of mexico. right now an explosion at a popular tourist hotel called the grand rivera rinse sees hotel in plaa del carmen mexico. that is just south of cancun. we ll bring you the latest on this breaking story as we get them. we re following another developing story. a british couple has arrived safely in kenya more than a year after being taken hostage by somalia pirates. the pirates released paul and rachel chandler earlier today. we re get new video of this couple now. david mackenzie is in nairobi. why were they released? reporter: finally, came down to one thing that was money. around $750,000, according to local elders of paid for the couple to be released after 388 days in captivity. by far the longest anyone in recent memory has been held by somalia pirates. they were taken from their yacht over a yea
he hid under his communion table. it s like he put his arms around me. everything else was swirling around. reporter: the storm ripped a path of destruction from missouri to louisiana, arkansas to alabama, killing nearly one dozen people, including three children. weather coverage continues with bernadette with more on the strength of the twister that touched down this weekend. this was a strong one, as you saw by the damage there. that is the damage scale used to measure tornados, and it came in as an e-4. take a look. that s almost the top level tornado we can get out there. winds were estimated with this particular tornado to be about 170 miles per hour. i want to show you how large this tornado was in addition to strength. at one point the width was 1.75 miles wide, and they ve measured it to be 97 miles for the path length and think it s going to go up because they haven t surveyed the entire land yet. we re live with the flooding and damage left behind. damage