main street to mobile homes completely flattened. total devastation. reporter: this cell phone tower snapped in half. transmission lines have sustained damage, and many power lines are down in the town, the energy company says. i kind of feel like it was almost a worst-case scenario. reporter: the weather service gives notice as quickly as it can, but one storm chaser on the ground said this storm didn t look particularly dangerous at first. i never heard sirens, and the reason why is when they issued the tornado warning, the tornado was already in town doing damage, and the power had obviously been cut to the town. reporter: excel energy says power was shut off for safety purposes. residents begin to pick up the pieces, including at the fire station, which took a direct hit but still has trucks assisting in the cleanup efforts. the loss is unthinkable. i don t think you can put it really into words. reporter: james tells us one of the victims was a local shelter volunt
that vehicle was flipped completely on its roof, slammed into the building. to mobile homes completely flattened. total devastation. reporter: this cell phone tower snapped in half. transition lines have sustained damage and many power lines are down in the town. the energy company said. i feel like it was almost a worst case scenario. reporter: the weather service gives notice as quickly as it can but one storm chaser said this storm didn t look particularly dangerous at first. i never heard sirens. and the reason why is when they issued the tornado warning, the tornado was already in town doing damage in the power had been cut to the town. xcel energy said the power facilities were shout off four safety purposes. residents begin to pick up the pieces. the red cross is offering support on ground an the local high school is opening its doors to help. we moved pretty quickly to try to make this a safe haven for people to get to. the loss is unthinkable.
reporter: this cell phone tower snapped in half. transmission lines have sustained damage. many power lines are down in the town, the energy company says. i feel like it was almost a worst case scenario. reporter: the weather service gives notice as quickly as it can. one storm chaser on the ground said this storm didn t look particularly dangerous at first. i never heard sirens. the reason why is when they issued the tornado warning, it was in town doing damage and the power had been cut to the town. reporter: they say the power facilities were shut off for safety purposes. residents begin to pick up the pieces. the red cross is mobile idesing t mobilizing teams. we moved quickly to make this a safe haven for people to get to. the loss sis unthinkable. i don t think you can put it into words. jamie tells us one of the woman who lost her life would have been out here helping in the recovery. she would help me carry groceries out.
obviously been cut to the town. excel energy says the city s power facilities were shut all for safety purposes. residents begin to pick up the pieces, including at the fire station which took a direct hit, but still has trucks assisting in the cleanup efforts. but losses unthinkable. i don t think you can put it really into words. james tells us one of the victims was a local shelter volunteer who was always kind to her. if she survived, she would have been among the first to help. she served people. friendly, hugging people. like me, who needed it so bad. so many good people in this town. and brianna, that s main street. this area taking a direct hit. cleanup crews have been out here all day moving the downed trees to overturn power lines, trying to bring this town back to some semblance of normal. but of course in the small community, with over 100 people homeless, dozens injured, three dead. among them now we re learning, an 11-year-old. the emotional scars will take a
amid this weeks anniversary of the russian invasion was the culmination of a top secret months long plan. before going on sunday, east coast time, president biden privately jetted out of d.c., with just a handful of aides and to reporters sworn to secrecy. the white house says they did notify russia about biden s travel plans several hours before his arrival in ukraine for safety purposes. but publicly, they maintained, as latest on the evening, that the president was still in washington. in fact, biden arrived in eastern poland that night where he boarded a train for a ten-hour journey across the border, and all the way right here to kyiv. john finer is the principal deputy national security adviser for the biden white house. and he joins me now. jon, thank you for being with us. let s talk about this. the president of the united states was in a war zone, where there are no active american military personnel, combat personnel. that s the first time in modern history that that s happen